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Author/Title	Research Type	Related Fields
Jin, Ziqi. Crafting a Shared Universe: An Interdisciplinary Poetics of Narrative. 2024. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Literature, Narrative Analysis, Rhetorical Theory
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
Postal, Caitlin. Stitching Time: Transtemporal Labor and Middle English Literature. 2022. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Digital Humanities, History, Literature, Medieval, Middle English, Textual Studies
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
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
Cuffman, Jennifer. Utopias in Unlikely Places: Literary Utopias, Race, and World-Building in the Present. 2022. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Decolonial, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Genre Theory, Literature, Race and Ethnicity, 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
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
Roberts, Daniel Elliot. Disordering Personality: Algorithmic Power, Criminal Profiling, and Diagnosis in Psychiatry and Forensic Investigation. 2021. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Disability, Literature, Psychology
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
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
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
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
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
Daniel, Krista. Sophistication and Speech in British Middlebrow Fiction, 1929-1952. 2020. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	British, Literature, Modernism, Novel/Prose Fiction
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
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
Schenold, Terrence E. The Poetics of Reflection in Digital Games. 2019. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Digital Humanities, Literature, Poetry and Poetics
Hushagen, Sam. Formal Prospects: The Long Poem After Milton. 2019. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Art History, Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Visual Culture
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
Milian, Patrick. Intermedial Modernism: Music, Dance, and Sound. 2019. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Literature, Media Studies, Modernism, Music, Poetry and Poetics
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
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
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