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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
Pinnata, Reuven. Totalizing Nusantara: On World Literature as Indonesian Literature. 2024. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Culture, Decolonial, Global Studies, History, Postcolonial
Hankinson, Stephanie K. The Aesthetics of Catastrophe Time: Constructing Transhistorical and Artistic Archives of Disaster in Haiti and the Gulf Coast. 2023. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Archives, Caribbean, Culture, Decolonial, Environment, History, Media Studies, Narrative Analysis
Robertson, Carol. “Let Them Read”— The Protestant Invitation for New Communities of Readers and Hearers to Engage with Hard Ancient Texts in the English Reformation/Renaissance Era. 2023. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	16th Century, Culture, Ideology, Renaissance, Translation and Interpretation
Sobers, Janine H. Enchanted Modernisms: Global Literary Afterlives of the Spirit, 1922–1949. 2023. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	20th Century, Culture, Literature, Modernism, Queer Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Sexuality, Transnational
Yim Schlotfeldt, Rachel. Speculating on the Terms of “Small, Foreign, and Female”: Reimagining the Temporality of Technology Through Asian American Cultural Production. 2022. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Asian American, Culture, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Gender, Race and Ethnicity, Science and Technology, Science Fiction
Howard, Matthew. Race, Place, & Space: Historicizing Blackness & Mobility. 2022. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	African American, Culture, History, Novel/Prose Fiction, Race and Ethnicity, Space/Place
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
Bartley, Nancy L. Blind Bliss and the Reality of Others: How Consensually Validated Groups Contribute to the Development of Fascism. 2022. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	20th Century, Anthropology, Culture, Nationalism, Political Science
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
Heberling, Lydia M. California Indians Dreamin': Formal and Aesthetic Innovations in Pacific Coast Native Literatures and Arts. 2021. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	20th Century, 21st Century, Culture, Decolonial, Indigenous, Literature, Space/Place
Dinh, Thaomi Michelle. The Politics of Care: Historical Retrieval in Vietnamese American Cultural Production. 2021. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Asian American, Community, Culture, History, Race and Ethnicity, Women Writers
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
Kumler, David Ryan. Into the Seething Vortex: Occult Horror and the Subversion of the Realistic. 2020. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Critical Race Theory, Culture, Novel/Prose Fiction, Political Science, Popular Culture
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
De Vos, Laura M. Spirals of Transformation: Turtle Island Indigenous Social Movements and Literatures. 2020. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	American Indian/Native American, Culture, Indigenous, Literature, Space/Place
Baker, Judy-Gail. BTS' A.R.M.Y. Web 2.0 Composing: Fangirl Translinguality as Parasocial, Motile Literacy Praxis. 2019. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Applied Linguistics, Culture, Digital Literacy, Popular Culture, Publics/Public Spheres, Rhetoric and Composition, Translation and Interpretation, Writing Pedagogy, Writing Systems
Simon, Samantha. Black Nationalist Speculations: Empire, Gender, and Genre in 19th- and 20th-Century African American Literature. 2019. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	African American, Culture, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Gender, Nationalism, Race and Ethnicity
Roberts, Georgia May. Who Killed It: Toward a Hip Hop Theory. 2018. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	African American, American, Culture, Music
Baros, R. Allen. Queering La Familia: Charting Chican@ Consciousness in Cultural Politics. 2017. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Chicana/o, Culture, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Queer Studies, Race and Ethnicity
Shivers-McNair, Ann. Making, Marking, Mattering : What We Can Learn about Writing, Rhetoric, and Technology from a Makerspace. 2017. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Culture, Language, Rhetorical Theory
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
Singh, Balbir. Militant Bodies: Policing Race, Religion, and Violence in the U.S. Sikh Diaspora. 2016. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Culture, Decolonial, Diaspora Studies, History, Race and Ethnicity
Arteaga, Rachel. "Sorrow Brought Forth Joy": Feelings of Faith in American Literature. 2016. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Affect, American, Culture, Literature
Simons, Barbara. Tracing Hybrid Collectives of Illness, War, and Medicine in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Narratives of Illness. 2016. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	20th Century, 21st Century, Anthropology, Comparative Literature, Culture, Linguistics, Modernism