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Author/Title	Research Type	Related Fields
Tavlin, Zachary. Glancing Visions: American Literature Beyond the Gaze. 2018. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	American, Art History, Communication, Literature, Modernism, Philosophy, Visual Culture
Van Houdt, Jennifer. Delenda Est: World and Belief in Apocalyptic Thought. 2018. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	American, Comparative Literature, Literature, Philosophy
Manganaro, Anthony. The Mirrors of Naturalism: Stephen Crane's Pragmatic Determinism. 2017. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	19th Century, American, Literature
Day, Leanne. Empire's Imagination : Race, Settler Colonialism, and Indigeneity in 'Local' Hawai'i Narratives. 2017. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	American, Asian American, Decolonial, Indigenous, Postcolonial, Race and Ethnicity
Chartudomdej, Sani. Antiheroes in the "Battle of the Sexes": The Anti-Heroic Mode and a Shift in the Meaning of Hegemonic Masculinity in World War I Fiction. 2017. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	20th Century, American, English, Gender, History
Costa, Stephanie. Freaks in Public : Reading the Freakish in Contemporary American Literature and Culture. 2016. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	20th Century, American, Culture, Disability, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Literature, Queer Studies
Arteaga, Rachel. "Sorrow Brought Forth Joy": Feelings of Faith in American Literature. 2016. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Affect, American, Culture, Literature
Sackschewsky, Leisl. Orientations in Time: Music and the Construction of Historical Narrative in 20th and 21st Century African-American Literature. 2016. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	20th Century, 21st Century, African American, American, Literature, Music
Shon, Sue. Making Sense: Race and Modern Vision. 2015. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	American, Literature, Philosophy, Race and Ethnicity, Science and Technology, Visual Culture
Warrior, Carol E. Baring the Windigo's Teeth: The Fearsome Figure in Native American Narratives. 2015. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	American, American Indian/Native American, Canadian, Literature
Mitchler, Sharon. Towards Using Critical Rural Pedagogy with Rural Community College Students in Undergraduate American Literature Classes. 2015. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	American, Education, Pedagogy
Murr, Jed. The Unquiet Dead: Race and Violence in the "Post-Racial" United States. 2014. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	American, Culture, Gender, Race and Ethnicity
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
Schmidt, Suzanne. "Crafting" the Race House of the Domestic Individual: Political Subjectivities, Hierarchy, and Value in the Crafting and Do-It-Yourself Labors of Domestic Fiction, 1850 - Present. 2014. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	19th Century, 20th Century, 21st Century, American, Culture, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Gender, Race and Ethnicity, Women Writers
Wachter-Grene, Kirin. Unthinkable, Unprintable, Unspeakable: Transgression in Postwar African American Literature. 2014. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	20th Century, African American, American, Gender, Literature, Race and Ethnicity, Sexuality
Morse, Jason H. Promiscuous Contextualities: Race, Sex, Gender, and the Problem of the Stereotype in the Politics of Representation. 2013. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	African American, American, Culture, Gender, Race and Ethnicity, Sexuality
Ravela, Christian. States of Dispossession: US Political Culture, State Form, and Race from 1930 to the Present. 2013. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	20th Century, American, Culture, Political Science, Race and Ethnicity
Rose, Andrew M. Towards a Postnatural Environmental Politics: Distributed Agency and Political Subjectivity in U.S. Literature and Culture. 2013. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	American, Culture, Ecocriticism, Environment, Literature, Political Science
Sudhinaraset, Pacharee. The End of Innocence: Women of Color Literature, Utopia, and the Cultural Politics of U.S. Cold War Racial Liberalism. 2013. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	20th Century, American, Culture, Gender, History, Nationalism, Political Science, Race and Ethnicity, Women Writers
Hisayasu, Curtis Toyo. Strangers in the City: U.S. Liberalism, Literary Realism, and the Politics of Illegibility. 2013. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	American, Culture, Ideology, Nationalism, Political Science
Cohen, Sarah. School of Unlikeness: American Poetry and the Creative Writing Workshop. 2012. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	20th Century, American, Creative Writing, Education, Pedagogy, Poetry and Poetics
Holmberg, David Thomas. Prying, Peeping, Peering: The Voyeuristic Gaze in Late-Nineteenth-Century American Literary Naturalism. 2012. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	19th Century, American, Gender, Literature, Sexuality, Visual Culture
Maestas, Nadine A. Calling Out the State: Postmodern American Anthropoetics. 2012. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	20th Century, American, Poetry and Poetics, Postmodern
Chang, Edmond Y. Technoqueer: Re/Con/Figuring Posthuman Narratives. 2012. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	American, Culture, Gender, Literature, New Media, Popular Culture, Queer Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Science and Technology
Bryant, Jennifer. Still Points, Turning Worlds: Memorial Dynamics and the Materiality of Memory. 2011. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	American, British, Communication, Film/Cinema, Literature, Modernism, Textual Studies