Dissertations

Author/Title Research Type Related Fields
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
Malone, Jennifer A. Encounters With the Modernist Food-Object. 2018. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Graduate, Dissertations Art History, British, Literature, Modernism
Bald, Emily. Affective Time: American Realism as Resynchronization, 1860-1910. 2018. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Graduate, Dissertations 19th Century, Affect, American, Literature
Schaumberg, Ned. Waterlogged: Narrating Hydroecologies in the Anthropocene. 2018. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Graduate, Dissertations Ecocriticism, Environment, Literature
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
Helterbrand, Ryan. Plastic/Explosive: Claude Cahun and the Politics of Becoming Otherwise. 2017. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Graduate, Dissertations Aesthetics, Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing, Literature, Visual Culture
Babbie, Raymond Tyler. Issues of Modernism: Editorial Authority in Little Magazines of the Avant Guerre. 2017. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Graduate, Dissertations 20th Century, Literature, Modernism, Poetry and Poetics
Jaccard, Erik. ‘Global Horizons: Scottish Literature and the Capitalist World System.’ Studies in Scottish Literature 43.1 (Spring 2017): 31-36. Book Chapters, Essays and Articles, Graduate, Dissertations 20th Century, British, Literature
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
Bashaw, Ashley. Mapping the Vagina: Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Scientific Specularity. 2016. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Graduate, Dissertations 19th Century, Gender, Literature, Sexuality
Graf, Rachel. Comics Explosion: Representations of Persecution in Graphic Narrative, 1995-2015. 2016. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Graduate, Dissertations Comics, History, Literature, Visual Culture
Laynor, Gregory. The Making of Intermedia: John Cage to Yoko Ono, 1952-1972. 2016. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Graduate, Dissertations Aesthetics, Art History, Communication, Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Queer Studies
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
Calavitta, John Paul. California: State of Light. 2015. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Graduate, Dissertations Ecocriticism, Literature
Campbell, Jessica A. Tradition and Transformation: Fairy Tales in the Victorian Novel. 2015. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Graduate, Dissertations 19th Century, Literature, Novel/Prose Fiction
Canton, Jessica. Classical Gothic: The Aristotelian Experience in the Gothic Reading Process. 2015. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Graduate, Dissertations 19th Century, Comparative Literature, Literature, Novel/Prose Fiction
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
Arvidson, Heather. Impersonality and the Cultural Work of Modernist Aesthetics. 2014. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Graduate, Dissertations 20th Century, Culture, Literature, Modernism
Caruso, John. The Poetics of Haunting and the Haunting of Poetics: Author and Reader as Uncanny Doubles in the Work of Edgar Allen Poe. 2014. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Graduate, Dissertations 19th Century, Literature, Philosophy, Poetry and Poetics, Psychology
Kae, Heyang Julie. Juvenile States: A Genealogy of Race, Gender and Delinquency in U.S. Culture, 1899-1967. 2014. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Graduate, Dissertations Culture, Film/Cinema, Law, Literature, Nationalism, Political Science, Race and Ethnicity
Mahmoud, Rania. Fictions of Revolution: Empire and Nation in Lawrence Durrell, Naguib Mahfouz, John Wilcox, and Bahaa Taher. 2014. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Graduate, Dissertations British, Comparative Literature, History, Literature, Nationalism, Postcolonial