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Author/Title	Research Type	Related Fields
Moon, Dan Bee. Reading the Right Way: Novel Education in the Nineteenth Century. 2025. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	19th Century, Women Writers
Taylor, Rebecca. Writing in the Margins: Critical Multimodal Literacies and Writing Pedagogies Across the Curriculum. 2025. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Pedagogy, Rhetoric and Composition, Writing in the Disciplines, Writing Pedagogy, Writing Systems
Alexander, Dorian Lucus. Barbarian + Wizard = Heretic: Evoking the Revolutionary Fantastic in Samuel R. Delany’s Nevèrÿon. 2025. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Affect, Decolonial, Genre Theory, History, Queer Studies, Sexuality
Chaturvedi, Avu. South by Southwest: Westerns and Postcolonial Resistance. 2025. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Film/Cinema, Global Studies, Nationalism, Postcolonial, Visual Culture
Little, Hunter. Students’ Engagement with Mental Disability Knowledge and Theory in the Writing Classroom: Implications for Transfer Research. 2025. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Disability, Language, Rhetoric and Composition, Writing Pedagogy
Pruett, Jacob. Uncovering the Face of Nature: Autopoietic Enactivism and a Systems View of Mind, Life, and Language. 2025. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Cognitive Science, Literature
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
Prihandita, Anselma Widha. Navigating Global Colonialities: Epistemic Translation and Transcoloniality in Knowledge Production Across Borders. 2025. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Decolonial, Education, Literacy, Translation and Interpretation, Transnational, Writing Pedagogy, Writing Systems
Bassett, Andreas Patrick. Surface Impressions: Drama and Book Buying in Early Modern England. 2025. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	17th Century, Shakespeare, Textual Studies
Baker, William JohnMorgan. Ralph Werther / Jennie June: A Critical Trans History, 1870-1925. 2024. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Gender, History, Sexuality
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
McCourt, Amanda. Futurist Folklore and Materialist Magic: New Wave Science Fiction in American Counterculture. 2024. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	20th Century, Affect, American, Culture, Genre Theory, Science Fiction
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
Butler, Megan. Writing the Refugee: Labelling, Literature, and the Shifting Imaginary of a Field. 2024. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	21st Century, American, Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing, Transnational
Dykema, Julie. First-Year Multilingual International Students’ Academic Socialization and Identity: Narratives of Personal, Social and Academic Development. 2024. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Education, Literacy, Multilingualism
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
Pinnata, Reuven. Totalizing Nusantara: On World Literature as Indonesian Literature. 2024. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Culture, Decolonial, Global Studies, History, Postcolonial
Jin, Ziqi. Crafting a Shared Universe: An Interdisciplinary Poetics of Narrative. 2024. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Literature, Narrative Analysis, Rhetorical Theory
Alharthi, Ahmad Abdulmajeed A. Breaking Away from Binaries: Teaching Writing with Critical Realist Sensibilities. 2023. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Multilingualism, Pedagogy, Rhetoric and Composition
Wilson, Joseph Anthony. Literacy's Displacements: Toward Transnational Orientations to Writing and/as Translation. 2023. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Global Studies, Language, Language Policy, Rhetoric and Composition, Sociolinguistics, Translation and Interpretation, Transnational
Oliver, Jacob Skylar. Judgment, Trust, and Common Sense in American Literature. 2023. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	American
Hankinson, Stephanie K. The Aesthetics of Catastrophe Time: Constructing Transhistorical and Artistic Archives of Disaster in Haiti and the Gulf Coast. 2023. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Archives, Caribbean, Culture, Decolonial, Environment, History, Media Studies, Narrative Analysis
Koh, Eun Ji. American Han. 2023. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Asian American, Creative Writing, English, Language, Transnational
Robertson, Carol. “Let Them Read”— The Protestant Invitation for New Communities of Readers and Hearers to Engage with Hard Ancient Texts in the English Reformation/Renaissance Era. 2023. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	16th Century, Culture, Ideology, Renaissance, Translation and Interpretation
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