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Author/Title	Research Type	Related Fields
He, Jianfeng. Minor Democracies: Reimagining Collectivity in Multiethnic Speculative Fiction. 2025. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	21st Century, African American, American, Asian American, Race and Ethnicity, Science Fiction
Frantece, Brittney. Imagine Another World: A Philosophical Approach to Black Speculative Arts and Literature. 2024. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	21st Century, Film/Cinema, Genre Theory, Race and Ethnicity, Visual Culture
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
Meany, Alexandra Lee. Urban Removal: Post-war U.S. Multi-Ethnic Literatures and Geographies of Struggle. 2024. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	History, Nonfiction Prose, Novel/Prose Fiction, Race and Ethnicity, Space/Place, Urban Studies
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
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
Lovett, Sara. Making Change, Changing Spaces: An Antiracist Writing Ecology for First-Generation College Students. 2022. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Education, Language, Language Pedagogy, Literacy, Multilingualism, Pedagogy, Race and Ethnicity, Writing Pedagogy, Writing Systems
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
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
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
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
Hitchman, Matthew Kastrup. Maritime Sensibility: Sentimentalism, Racial Capitalism, and a Critique of the American Maritime Genre. 2020. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	American, Genre Theory, Narrative Analysis, Nationalism, Race and Ethnicity, Transatlantic
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
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
Thu, Sumyat. Navigating and Responding to Raciolinguistic Ideologies: Refugee and Immigrant Students' Literacy Practices Across Contexts. 2020. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Critical Race Theory, Language, Literacy, Multilingualism, Race and Ethnicity, Transnational, Writing Pedagogy
Alan Williams. Queering the Transpacific: Race and Sexuality across the U.S. and Japanese Empires. 2020. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	20th Century, African American, Asian American, Critical Race Theory, Global Studies, History, Queer Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Transnational
Grimmer, Chelsea. Global Fluidity: Coalitional Worldbuilding in the Afterlife of Posthumanism. 2019. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	African American, American, Environment, Poetry and Poetics, Popular Culture, Queer Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Sexuality
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
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
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
Day, Leanne. Empire's Imagination : Race, Settler Colonialism, and Indigeneity in 'Local' Hawai'i Narratives. 2017. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	American, Asian American, Decolonial, Indigenous, Postcolonial, Race and Ethnicity
Wimberly, Meri. Zimbabwean Literature since 1980: Irrealist Style and Capitalist Modernization. 2017. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	20th Century, 21st Century, African, Postcolonial, Race and Ethnicity
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