2009 Dissertations

Doctoral Dissertations 2009

Melissa Bender, Ph.D. 2009
     Dissertation: "Work Hard and Act Right": The Neoliberal Self-Made Individual in U.S. Memoir
     Dissertation Committee: Evan Watkins (dir), Elizabeth Freeman, Pam Houston

Gretchen Braun, Ph.D. 2009
    Dissertation: A Writing of Fire Within: Trauma, Transgression, and Gender in Victorian Fiction
    Dissertation Committee: Peter Dale (dir), Elizabeth Constable, Parama Roy

Karen Gonzalez Burchett, Ph.D. 2009
     Dissertation: Platform of Influence: The Power of Public Speaking in Nineteeth-Century American Fiction

Dissertation Committee: Linda Morris (dir), Evan Watkins, Don Abbott

Ann Pogue Jacobsen, Ph.D. 2009
Dissertation: The Poetics of Interiority: Emily Dickinson, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather and the Use of Interior Space
Dissertation Committee: Joanne Diehl (dir), Patricia Moran, Alan Williamson

Colleen Marie Pauza, Ph.D. 2009
     Dissertation: Mysticism and the Mind: Varieties of Subjectivity in British and Irish Fiction, 1860-1940 and Beyond
     Dissertation Committee: Patricia Moran (dir.), Elizabeth Constable, Peter Dale

Vanita Reddy, Ph.D. 2009
     Dissertation: Re-Modeling Minority: Mapping Critical Femininities in the South Asian American Diaspora
     Dissertation Committee: Bishnupriya Ghosh (dir.), Gayatri Gopinath, Elizabeth Freeman

Christopher Schaberg, Ph.D. 2009
     Dissertation: Airport Reading
     Dissertation Committee: Scott Shershow (dir), Caren Kaplan, Colin Milburn, Timothy Morton

Kendra O'Neal Smith, Ph.D. 2009
     Dissertation: Untimely Translatio In Fourteenth-Century British Literature
     Dissertation Committee: Claire Waters (dir), Seeta Chaganti, Margaret Ferguson

Melissa Strong, Ph.D. 2009
     Dissertation: A Taste For Charity: The Cultural Work of American Women's Benevolence Literature, 1850-1910
     Dissertation Committee: Elizabeth Freeman (dir.), Dianne Macleod, Catherine Robson

Kara Thompson, Ph.D. 2009
     Dissertation: A Romance with Many Reservatons: American Indian Figurations and the Globalization of Indigeneity
     Dissertation Committee: Elizabeth Freeman (dir.), Bishnupriya Ghosh, Desireé Martín, Juana Maria Rodriguez

Julie Ann Wilhelm, Ph.D. 2009
     Dissertation: The Funny Business of 19th-Century Sentamentalism
     Dissertation Committee: Elizabeth Freeman (dir.), Linda Morris, Michael Ziser

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