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Author/Title	Research Type	Related Fields
McCourt, Amanda. Futurist Folklore and Materialist Magic: New Wave Science Fiction in American Counterculture. 2024. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	20th Century, Affect, American, Culture, Genre Theory, Science Fiction
Butler, Megan. Writing the Refugee: Labelling, Literature, and the Shifting Imaginary of a Field. 2024. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	21st Century, American, Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing, Transnational
Oliver, Jacob Skylar. Judgment, Trust, and Common Sense in American Literature. 2023. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	American
Hotz, Alysse Jaclyn. Diversity, Temporality, Population: The Securitization of the Democratic Pastorate and the Rise of the Racial Liberal Security State. 2022. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	American, Culture, Education, History, Ideology, Race and Ethnicity, War and Terror
Janssen, Elizabeth C. Terms and Conditions: Cross-Cultural Reading and the Production of Literary Value. 2021. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	African, American, Literature, Race and Ethnicity
Concannon, Joseph. The Now Criticism: Vernacular Poetry Scholars from 1990-2005. 2021. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	20th Century, 21st Century, American, Community, Poetry and Poetics, Public Scholarship, Publics/Public Spheres
Reeves, Kathleen. Motherhood and Freedom in Women's Writing After 1970. 2021. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	20th Century, 21st Century, American, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Gender, Literature, Women Writers
Hitchman, Matthew Kastrup. Maritime Sensibility: Sentimentalism, Racial Capitalism, and a Critique of the American Maritime Genre. 2020. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	American, Genre Theory, Narrative Analysis, Nationalism, Race and Ethnicity, Transatlantic
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
Ebrahimzadeh, Navid. The Lowly Remains: Waste in Twentieth-Century American Fiction. 2020. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	20th Century, American, Culture, Novel/Prose Fiction
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
Knapp, Caleb. They Chose Instead Revolt: Slave Narratives, Sexual Violence, and the Black Radical Tradition. 2020. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	African American, American, Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing, Gender, History, Race and Ethnicity
Alzaroo, Lubna. Settler Colonial Infrastructure: Necropolitics and Ecology in the U.S. and Palestine. 2020. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	American, Decolonial, Ecocriticism, Environment, Literature, Political Science, Transnational
Fox, Nancy Ann. American Athena: A Feminist Sophistic Analysis of the Discourses of Women Servicemembers. 2020. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	American, Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing, Discourse Analysis, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Language, Narrative Analysis, Rhetorical Theory
Kim, Soh Yeun. The Familial Stranger: The U.S. Adoptive Kinship and The Question of Race. 2020. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	American, Asian American, Culture, History, Race and Ethnicity, Transnational
Barwise, Claire. It Girls and Old Maids: Satiric Wit and the Single Woman in the Anglo-American Novel (1918-1958). 2020. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	20th Century, American, British, Gender, Literature, Modernism, Women Writers
Grimmer, Chelsea. Global Fluidity: Coalitional Worldbuilding in the Afterlife of Posthumanism. 2019. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	African American, American, Environment, Poetry and Poetics, Popular Culture, Queer Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Sexuality
Smith, Alexandra V. Writing the Street: Discourses of Choice, Agency, and Mobility in Twentieth Century Street Lit. 2019. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	20th Century, African American, American, Jewish Studies, Literature, Race and Ethnicity, Space/Place, Urban Studies
Wirth, James Benson. Negative Masculinity: Theories of Freedom in American Literature after 1950. 2019. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	20th Century, 21st Century, American, Gender, Literature, Narrative Analysis
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
Grollmus, Denise. The Sacred Disease: Narratives of Addiction and the Making of the Post-Secular Self. 2019. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	American, Language, Linguistics, Literature
Youell, Ryan. The Architecture of Anti-Utopias: Critiques of Modern Public Housing from London to Orwell.  2018. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	20th Century, American, British, Modernism, Urban Studies
Bald, Emily. Affective Time: American Realism as Resynchronization, 1860-1910. 2018. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	19th Century, Affect, American, Literature
Roberts, Georgia May. Who Killed It: Toward a Hip Hop Theory. 2018. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	African American, American, Culture, Music