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Author/Title	Research Type	Related Fields
Moore, Sarah Rene Nickel. The (Absent) Pregnant Body in Late Medieval Romance. 2024. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Critical Race Theory, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Gender, Medieval, Middle English, Nationalism, Race and Ethnicity
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
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
Lundberg, Margaret. 'Inhabiting the Habitus': Identity, Belonging, and Becoming in the Narratives of Mature Women Returners at the University of Washington Tacoma. 2022. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Archives, Community, Education, Gender, Narrative Analysis, Urban Studies
Giffel, Kaelie. Women with Issues: Feminist Literary Criticism, Alienation and the University. 2022. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	21st Century, Affect, Education, Gender, Literature, Women Writers
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
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
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
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
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
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
Boulware, Taylor. Fascination/Frustration: Slash Fandom, Genre, and Queer Uptake. 2017. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Affect, Communication, Film/Cinema, Gender, Genre Theory, Queer Studies
Shajirat, Anna. The Gothic Fantasy of History: Fear and Loss in the British Long Eighteenth Century. 2017. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	British, Gender, History, Women Writers
Little, Mary. The Discourses of Sex Crimes. 2017. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Discourse Analysis, Gender, Language, Law, Linguistics
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
Bashaw, Ashley. Mapping the Vagina: Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Scientific Specularity. 2016. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	19th Century, Gender, Literature, Sexuality
Lim, Tae Yun. Female Exiles in Language: Reading for New Poetic Subjects in Modern and Contemporary Feminist Experimental Poetry. 2016. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Feminism and Feminist Theory, Gender, Poetry and Poetics, Psychology, Queer Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Sexuality, Women Writers
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
Wetzel, Ariel. Alienating Punishment: Prisons in Science Fiction. 2014. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Gender, Publics/Public Spheres, Science Fiction
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
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
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