| Candidate |
Year Defended |
Placement Status |
Dissertation Topic |
| Elizabeth Abele |
2003 |
Asst. Prof., SUNY Nassau Community College |
Go Home Young Man: The Domestication of the American Hero in Post-Regan Novels and Films |
| Dorothy Baer |
2001 |
Visiting Asst. Prof. Temple University |
Specters of Empire: The Servant/SlaveCharacter in Three British Novels |
| Donald Brasted-Maki |
2001 |
Visiting Asst. Prof., Temple University |
Competing Communities and Conflicting Discourses: Representations of Vagrancy in Early Modern Pamphlets and Plays |
| Tanya Clarke |
2004 |
Asst. Prof., Rowan College |
Quilting the Race: The Colored American Magazine, Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, and the African-American Family, 1900-1905 |
| Mary Conway |
2001 |
Asst. Prof. CC of Philadelphia |
Disorientations: Recovering the Aesthetic in Queer Studies |
| Joanna Cooper |
2005 |
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Gothic Impurity: Race, Sex, and the Uncanny in American Fiction, 1895-1905 |
| Clare Cotungo |
2001 |
Pew Foundation |
Form and Reform: Transatlantic Dialogues 1824-1876 |
| Suzanne Gittleman |
2004 |
Asst. Prof., Madison Area Technical College (Wisconsin) |
Exaltation and Lament: Edna Ferber’s American Jeremiads |
| Alicia Gribben |
2001 |
Towers Perrin Assocates, Philadelphia |
Jane’s Heirs: Hollywood (Re)Makes the Classics, 1930-1945 |
| Keith Gumery |
2001 |
Assistant Director, First-Year Writing, Temple |
The Phosphorescent Pool of Idealism and the Blinding Headlight of Realism: Henry Blake Fuller and Art in America |
| Katherine Hartman |
2005 |
Assistant Professor, Franklin & Marshall College |
“A New Band of Pilgrims”: Fin de Siècle British Women Writers’ Political Reformation of the Conversion Narrative |
| David Izzo |
2005 |
Associate Professor, Fayetteville State University, North Carolina |
The Great Yearning – The Perennial Philosophy as a Paradigm for Literary Theory: With Exmaples from Modern Literature |
| Gillian Johns |
2000 |
Asst. Prof., Oberlin College |
Going Southwest: American Humor and the Rhetoric of Race in Modern African-American Fiction and Authorship. |
| Eric Keenaghan |
2001 |
Asst. Prof., SUNY-Albany |
Making Flesh Word: Baroque Modernisms and Pragmatist Reconfigurations of Embodied Masculinities in Twentieth-Century United States and Cuban Literatures |
| Susan Levasseur |
2002 |
Editor, Houghton Mifflin |
Imaginary Revolutions: Frustrated Form in Women’s Poetry and Novels of the Romantic Period |
| Meta Mazaj |
2005 |
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Once Upon a Time There Was a Country: Nation and Cynicism in the Post 1990s Balkan Cinema |
| Elizabeth Mosimann |
2003 |
Visiting Asst. Prof., Temple |
Reading a Modernist Absolute: Philosophy and Psychology in May Sinclair |
| Michelle Myers |
2005 |
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Untying Tongues: Translation, Culture, and Identity in Asian American Literature |
| Brian O’Sullivan |
2001 |
Asst. Dir. Writing Program, Univ. of Rochester |
Raid[s] on the Inarticulate: Modernist Scenes of Rhetoric |
| Ben Railton |
2005 |
Asst. Prof., Fitchburg State College, MA |
Reconstructing the Past: Voice and Visions of History in American Literature, 1876-1886 |
| Jess Restaino |
2005 |
Assistant Professor, Montclair State College, New Jersey |
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| Esther Schwartz-McKinzie |
2002 |
Asst. Prof, Montgomery College, MD |
Play With Stories a Little While: Mobility of Mind in Short Fictions by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Kate Chopin, George Egerton and Sarah Grand |
| Kerry Sherin |
2003 |
Asst. Prof., Franklin and Marshall College |
Metic Masculinities: Constructions of Masculinity in T.S. Eliot’s Early Poems and Prose |
| Christine Swiridoff |
2005 |
Professor, Cerro Coso CC, California |
Writing for a Cause: The English Woman's Journal and Women's Work, 1858-1864 |
| Scott Warnock |
2001 |
Asst. Prof., Drexel University |
Subtle Technology and Student Writers: The Ambient Influence of Technological Myths on Communications. |
| John Wells |
2005 |
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The Dissonant Reconciliation of the Avant-Garde |
| Catherine Wiley |
2001 |
Visiting Asst. Prof., Temple |
Amphibious Creatures: Essayism and Transformative Play in Walter Pater, Vernon Lee, and John Addington Symonds |
| Megan Williams |
2000 |
Asst. Prof., Lafayette College |
Through the Negative: The Relationship between Photography and Literature in Nineteenth-Century America |
