Recent Dissertations and Awards
Recently Defended Dissertations:
Dawn Lausa
Defense Date: March 16, 2009
Title:“Descartes' Daughters: Thinking-Machines and the Emergence of Posthuman Complexity.”
Advisor: Gregg Lambert
Committee: Donald Morton, Branka Arsic, Martha Gail Hamner, Gregory Thomas
Oral Examination Chair: Gerald Greenberg, Associate Dean, A&S
Nandini Sengupta
Defense Date: April 15, 2009
Title: “Representations of Colonial Intimacy in Anglo-Indian Narratives”
Advisor: Claudia Klaver
Committee: Romita Ray, Amy Aisen Elouafi, Carol Fadda-Conrey, and Michael Goode ORAL Eral Examination Chair: Ann Grodzins Gold, Religion
Sarah Russo
Defense Date: April 22, 2008
Title: Women's Self-Writing and Medical Science: Harriet Martineau, Charlotte Bronte, Harriet Jacobs, and Elizabeth Stoddard
Co-Advisors: Linda Shires and Amy Lang
Committee: Claudia Klaver, Susan Edmunds, Patty Roylance
Oral Examination Chair: Pat Miller, Religion
Beatrice Skordili
Defense Date: December 5, 2006
Title: "Destroying Time: Topology and Taxonomy in The Alexandria Quartet"
Advisor: Steven Cohan
Committee: Linda Shires, Gregg Lambert, Robert Gates, and Charles Watson
Examination Chair: Beverly Allen, Languages, Literature and Linguistics
Jonathon Butts
Defense Date: October 31, 2006
Title: Community and Social Justice in New Deal-Era Urban Literature"
Advisor:
Harvey Teres
Committee: Susan Edmunds, Crystal Bartolovich, Steven Cohan, Silvio Torres-Saillant
Oral Examination
Chair: Ann Mosher, Anthropology
Cindy Linden
Defense Date: October 26, 2006
Title: "An Element of Blank": Reading Silences in Post-World War
II American Narratives of Pain
Advisor: Gregg Lambert
Committee: Susan Edmunds, Monika Wadman, Lennard Davis (Univ
of Illinois at Chicago) Silvio Torres-Saillant
Oral Chair: Maureen Schwarz, Anthropology
Hyon-Joo YooMurphree
Defense Date: September 15, 2006
Title: Toward and accented Critique of Culture:
Theorizing Postcolonial East Asia
Advisor: Gregg Lambert
Committee: Steven Cohan, Roger Hallas, Priya
Jaikumar (USC), Naoki Sakai (Cornell)
Examination Chair: Susan Wadley, Anthropology
Katheryn M. Giglio
Defense Date: May 25, 2006
Title: Unlettered Culture: The Idea of Illiteracy In Early
Modern Writing
Advisor: Dympna Callaghan
Committee: Crystal Bartolovich, Christopher Kyle (History),
Michael Goode, Claudia Klaver Examination Chair: Susan Wadley, Anthropology
Christina M. Parish
Defense Date: May 8, 2006
Title: Gender Dissonance and the Bourgeois Woman in the
Victorian Novel
Advisor: Linda Shires
Committee: Claudia Klaver, Steven Cohan, Michael Goode, Michael
Davis (LeMoyne) ORAL Examination Chair: Diane Lynden Murphy, HSHP
Brinda Charry
Defense Date: June 17, 2005
Title: “”Threshold People – Representing Change and Exchange in the
Contact Zone”
Advisor: Dympna Callaghan
Committee: Crystal Bartolovich, Peter Mortenson, Silvio Torres-Saillant, and Christopher Kyle
Maik Nwosu
Defense Date: May 26, 2005
Title: “The Reinvention of Meaning: Cultural Imaginaries and the Life of the Sign”
Advisor: Michael Echeruo
Committee: Gregg Lambert, Susan Edmunds, Silvio Torres-Saillant, and Janis Mayes
Shelly Vye
Defense Date: March 24, 2004
Title: “Tourist Geographies: Spectatorship, Space, and Empire in England , 1830-1910”
Advisor: Linda Shires
Committee: Steven Cohan, Claudia Klaver, Mike Goode, Any Lang, and Priya Jaikumar
Corinne Zoli
Defense Date: October 29, 2003
Title: “The Modern Invention of ‘Culture': Empire, Globalism, and the Persistance of History, 1776-1876”
Advisor: Linda Shires
Committee: Claudia Klaver, Crystal Bartolovich, Silvio Torres-Saillant, and Christian Thorne
Karen Hall
Defense Date: September 11, 2003
Title: “War Games and Imperial Posture's: Spectacles of Combat in U.S. Popular Culture, 1942-2001”
Advisor: Steven Cohan
Committee: Priya Jaikumar, Crystal Bartolovich, Silvio Torres-Saillant, and Roger Hallas
Amy Vondrak
Defense Date: April 7, 2003
Title: “Strange Things: Hemingway, Woolf, and the Fetish”
Advisor: Susan Edmunds
Committee: Gregg Lambert, Claudia Klaver, Charles Watson, and Carl Eby
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Recently Defended Dissertation Prospectuses:
Tanushree Ghosh
Date:
February 29, 2008
Title:
"Social Detectives at Home and Abroad: British Constructions of Criminality"
Linda Shires, Director
Jonathan Singleton
Date:
February 19, 2008
Title: "Biblical Quotation in the Victorian Novel: Appropriations of Religious Authority and Transformations of Novelistic Form"
Linda Shires, Director
Michael Dwyer
Date:
February 7, 2008
Title:
"Back to the Fifties: The Retrospective Teen Films of the Reaagan Era"
Steven Cohan, Director
Obioma Iwuanyanwu
Date:
December 6, 2007
Title:
“The Name of the Father: Psychoanalytic Reading of Four South African Writers”
Michael Echeruo, Director
Rachel Collins
Date:
December 4, 2007
Title:
“Space, Social Relations, and American Fiction, 1890-1940”
Amy Lang and Susan Edmunds, Co-directors
Michael O'Connor
Date:
November 27, 2007
Title:
“To Form a More Perfect Ireland: Mary Anne Sadlier and Global Irishness”
Amy Lang , Director
Dawn (Del) Lausa
Date:
August 14, 2007
Title:
“Thinking-Machines and the Emergence of Posthuman Complexity”
Gregg Lambert, Director
Cristina Stasia
Date: October 13, 2006
Title: "Heroine Abuse: Feminism, Feminity and the Female Action Hero"
Advisor: Steven Cohan
Nandini Sengupta
Date: December 3, 2004
Title: “Representations of Interracial Mixing in the Literature and Culture of British India : 1835-1885”
Advisor: Linda Shires
Maik Nwosu
Date: April 19, 2004
Title: “The Reinvention of Meaning: Cultural Imaginaries and the Life of the Sign”
Advisor: Michael Echeruo
Jonathan Butts
Date: May 9, 2003
Title: “Community and Social Justice in the New Deal Era Urban Literature”
Advisor: Harvey Teres
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Awards won recently by Graduate Students:
Ph.D. Doctoral Prize
2007 - Beatrice Skordili
2006 - Brinda Charry
Ph.D. Research Grants
2009 - Jonathan Singleton
2008 -
Tanushree Ghosh,
Rachel Collins and
Soumitree Gupta
2007 -
Michael O'Connor and
Nandini Sengupta
2006 -
Sarah Russo
Elson Teaching Awards
2008 - Jonathan Singleton,
Honorable mention: Tanushree Ghosh
2007 - Sarah Russo
2006 - Cristina Stasia
2005 - Brinda Charry
2004 - Cindy Linden
Mary Marshall Prize
2008 - Jessica Kuskey
2007 - Jonathan Singleton
2006 - Jonathon Butts
MFA/CW Project Grants 2009
Brett Finlayson, Billy Templeton, Bridget Lowe, Santee Frazier, Katie Founds, Vinita Prabhakar, Mi Ditmar, Aaron Chambers, Eric Darby, Ashley Farmer, Nadxieli Mannello, Stacey Petrek and Natalie Rogers
MFA/CW Project Grants 2008
John Holliday, Lisa Levy, david Eye, Erin Gay, David Chan, Billy Templeton, Brett Finlayson, Alexander Yates, Maggie Queeney, Katie Founds, Tracey Levine, Bridget Lowe, Kelina Jones, Christopher Michel, Brook Barman, and Nadxieli Mannello
MFA/CW Project Grants 2007
Lisa Levy, James Gendron, Cheryl Gatling, John Colasacco, Tara Warman, Chelsea Fetzer, EC Osondu, Patrick Dacey, Matt Hotham, Ian Pollock, David Chan, david Eye, John Holliday, Ashwin Parulkar, Ivy Kleinbart, Daniel Torday, Brett Finlayson, Santee Frazier, and Billy Templeton
TA Summer Fellowships 2009
Sarah Lozo, Tracey Levine, Katie Founds, Alexander Yates, Bridget Lowe, Maggie Queeney, Billy Templeton, Kelina Jones, Laurel Ahnert, Elizabeth Porter, Rinku Chatterjee, Jessica Kuskey, Gohar Siddiqui, Sandeep Banerjee, CJ Dosch, Steven Doles, Jillian Sherwin, and Melissa Welshans
TA Summer Fellowships 2008
Christine Wells, John Holliday, Ashwin Parulkar, Aimee Pokwatka, Erin Gay, Chelsea Fetzer, John Colasacco, David Eye, Elizabeth Porter, Rinku Chatterjee, Jessica Kuskey, Charles Robinson, Gohar Siddiqui, CJ Dosch, and Steven Doles.
TA Summer Fellowships 2007
Ivy Kleinbart, Patrick Dacey, Celina Martinez, dan Torday, Tara Warman, Joseph Mishler, Iain Pollock, Emily Pulfer-Terino, Sarah Russo, Michael O'Connor, Rachel Collins, Michael Dwyer, Tanushree Ghosh, Jonathan Singleton, and Soumitree Gupta
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