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Author/Title	Research Type	Related Fields
Gilbert, Alycia. (Re)Imagining the Nineteenth Century: Issues of Power and Process in Period Adaptation. 2023. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	19th Century, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Gender, History, Popular Culture, Race and Ethnicity, Visual Culture
Poland, Matthew. The Global Migrations of George Eliot and Charles Dickens: Books, Newspapers, Archives. 2022. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	19th Century, Archives, British, History, History of the English Language, Literature, Media Studies, Nationalism, Transnational
Gehrke, Laura. The Religious Lives of Women in the Novels of George Eliot and Charlotte Mary Yonge. 2022. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	19th Century, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Gender, History, Literature, Novel/Prose Fiction, Women Writers
Ghasedi, Sarah J. Medical Women and the Periodical Press: Sophia Jex-Blake, the Scotsman, and the Politics of Anonymity. 2021. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	19th Century, Archives, Culture, Gender, History, Intellectual History, Science and Technology, Women Writers
Chance, Maia Storm. "Objects on the Margins": How Things Make Persons and Worlds in Nineteenth-Century United States Writing. 2020. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	19th Century, American, Literature
Daud, Sumayyah. The Demarcation Zone: The Victorian Search for a Global Past. 2020. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	19th Century, British, Global Studies, History, Postcolonial, Translation and Interpretation
Savage, Phillip. 19th Century American Literary Naturalism and the Grotesque. 2020. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	19th Century, Aesthetics, American, Literature, Philosophy, Science and Technology
McCauley, Alex. Victorian Atlantis: Drowning, Population, and Property in the Nineteenth-Century Novel. 2020. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	19th Century, Ecocriticism, Environment, Literature, Novel/Prose Fiction, Urban Studies
Faulkner, Sarah Emilie. Jane Porter in the Margins: Paratext in the Romantic National Novel. 2020. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	19th Century, British, History, Novel/Prose Fiction, Romanticism, Textual Studies, Women Writers
Peters, Nicole. Rereading Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Reading Cultures. 2019. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	18th Century, 19th Century, History, Literature, Novel/Prose Fiction, Textual Studies
Morel, Eric Gilbert. Participatory Reading: Nature Writing and Response in the Wake of John Burroughs. 2019. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	19th Century, American, Ecocriticism, Environment
Lin, Hsinmei. The Poetics of Worlding: Nonhuman Cartographers and the Becoming of Histories. 2019. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	19th Century, 20th Century, American, Comparative Literature, Environment, Global Studies, Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Translation and Interpretation
Bald, Emily. Affective Time: American Realism as Resynchronization, 1860-1910. 2018. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	19th Century, Affect, American, Literature
Manganaro, Anthony. The Mirrors of Naturalism: Stephen Crane's Pragmatic Determinism. 2017. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	19th Century, American, Literature
Gutierrez, Brian. A Dark Ecology of Performance : Mapping the Field of Romantic Literary Celebrity through Gothic Drama. 2017. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	18th Century, 19th Century, History, Performance Studies, Romanticism
Sohn, Ilsu. Ageing and Imperial Mobility in the British Novel, 1845-1945. 2016. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	19th Century, 20th Century, British, Novel/Prose Fiction
Bashaw, Ashley. Mapping the Vagina: Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Scientific Specularity. 2016. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	19th Century, Gender, Literature, Sexuality
Mukherjee, Sharmila. Shakespeare and the Colonial Encounter in India in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. 2016. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	18th Century, 19th Century, British, Global English, Shakespeare, Transnational
Canton, Jessica. Classical Gothic: The Aristotelian Experience in the Gothic Reading Process. 2015. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	19th Century, Comparative Literature, Literature, Novel/Prose Fiction
Escalera, Gibran. 1848 Beyond the 19th Century: Border Fictions, Peripheral Modernities. 2015. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	19th Century, Chicana/o, Modernism, Narrative Analysis, Nationalism, Political Science, Postcolonial, Postmodern, Transnational
Marini, Melissa. Rocking the Boat and Sinking the Ark: The Humanist Novel as Vehicle for the Victorian Religious Crisis. 2015. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	19th Century, Ideology, Novel/Prose Fiction, Science and Technology
Campbell, Jessica A. Tradition and Transformation: Fairy Tales in the Victorian Novel. 2015. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	19th Century, Literature, Novel/Prose Fiction
Caruso, John. The Poetics of Haunting and the Haunting of Poetics: Author and Reader as Uncanny Doubles in the Work of Edgar Allen Poe. 2014. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	19th Century, Literature, Philosophy, Poetry and Poetics, Psychology
Dwyer, Anne. The Modern Animal. 2014. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	19th Century, 20th Century, Transatlantic
Pedersen, Alice Louise. The Romance of Solidarity: A Long History of Sentimentalism, 1861-2009. 2014. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	19th Century, 20th Century, 21st Century, American, Gender, Literature, Race and Ethnicity