Dissertations

Author/Title Research Type Related Fields
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
Abella, Dan Donovan. Foreign Forms: Modernism and Anglophone Philippine Literature. 2022. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Graduate, Dissertations Global English, Modernism, Narrative Analysis, Nationalism, Postcolonial, Transnational
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
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
Milian, Patrick. Intermedial Modernism: Music, Dance, and Sound. 2019. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Graduate, Dissertations Literature, Media Studies, Modernism, Music, Poetry and Poetics
Malone, Jennifer A. Encounters With the Modernist Food-Object. 2018. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Graduate, Dissertations Art History, British, Literature, Modernism
Youell, Ryan. The Architecture of Anti-Utopias: Critiques of Modern Public Housing from London to Orwell.  2018. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Graduate, Dissertations 20th Century, American, British, Modernism, Urban Studies
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
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
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
Zygutis, Linda. Critic, Reader, Fan: Modernism and Textual Poaching in H.D., Mina Loy and Gertrude Stein. 2015. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Graduate, Dissertations 20th Century, Modernism, Women Writers
Escalera, Gibran. 1848 Beyond the 19th Century: Border Fictions, Peripheral Modernities. 2015. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Graduate, Dissertations 19th Century, Chicana/o, Modernism, Narrative Analysis, Nationalism, Political Science, Postcolonial, Postmodern, Transnational
Arvidson, Heather. Impersonality and the Cultural Work of Modernist Aesthetics. 2014. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Graduate, Dissertations 20th Century, Culture, Literature, Modernism
Miller, Megan A. Modernism’s History of the Earth. 2012. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Graduate, Dissertations 20th Century, Modernism, Poetry and Poetics, Science and Technology
Zhang, Yifan. Asian American Forms: From Realism to Modernism. 2012. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Graduate, Dissertations Asian American, Diaspora Studies, Literary Criticism, Literature, Modernism, Transnational
Buttler, Tasha Marie. Learning the Languages of Nostalgia in Modern and Contemporary Literature. 2012. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Graduate, Dissertations Language, Literature, Modernism, Psychology
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
Terry, Sarah N. Modernist Literary and Musical Collaboration. 2011. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Graduate, Dissertations American, British, Literature, Modernism, Music
Welsh, Timothy J. Immersive Fictions: Modern Narrative, New Media, Mixed Reality. 2011. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Graduate, Dissertations Communication, Media Studies, Modernism, New Media
Jaussen, Paul. Abiding Song: Evolutions of the Life Poem. 2010. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Graduate, Dissertations American, British, Modernism, Poetry and Poetics
Gairola, Rahul Krishna. Queering Home: Neoliberal Biopolitics and Diasporic Reappropriations in the Cultural Texts of Michelle Cliff, Hanif Kureishi, Jessica Hagedorn, and Jackie Kay. 2009. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Graduate, Dissertations American, British, Caribbean, Culture, Diaspora Studies, Modernism, Postcolonial, Queer Studies, Space/Place, Transnational
Levay, Matthew Taylor. Modernism's Crimes: Violence, Degeneracy, and Detection. 2009. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Graduate, Dissertations American, British, Law, Literature, Modernism, Novel/Prose Fiction, Psychology, Transatlantic, Urban Studies
Golden, Amanda. Annotating Modernism: The Reading and Teaching Strategies of Sylvia Plath, John Berryman, and Anne Sexton. 2009. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Graduate, Dissertations American, Modernism, Pedagogy, Poetry and Poetics
Karl, Alissa G. Modernism and the Marketplace: Literary Cultures and Consumer Capitalism, 1915-1939. 2005. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Graduate, Dissertations American, British, Comparative Literature, Culture, Modernism, Transatlantic
Emmerson, Colbey Lani. Careless of Correctness: Modernism and the Mistake from Henry James to the Harlem Renaissance. 2003. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Graduate, Dissertations American, Literature, Modernism