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Author/Title	Research Type	Related Fields
Burgund, Nicole. Trying to Say the Whole Thing: Ludwig Wittgenstein and the Ethics of Autobiography. 2017. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing, Narrative Analysis, Nonfiction Prose, Philosophy
Burns, Gust Henry. Antiblackness and fundamental accumulation: an aesthetic ontology of prohibition and persistence through black arts. 2023. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Aesthetics, Race and Ethnicity, Visual Culture
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
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
Campbell, Lillian. Simulating Nursing: Rhetoric, Materiality, and Disciplinary Learning. 2016. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Language, Rhetorical Theory
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
Cardinal, Alison. How Literacy Flows and Comes to Matter: A Participatory Video Study. 2019. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Communication, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Literacy, Pedagogy, Rhetoric and Composition
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
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
Chang, Edmond Y. Technoqueer: Re/Con/Figuring Posthuman Narratives. 2012. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	American, Culture, Gender, Literature, New Media, Popular Culture, Queer Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Science and Technology
Chao, Roger. Navigation and Negotiation : Examining the Ecology of Service-Learning Composition Courses. 2017. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Pedagogy, Rhetoric and Composition
Chartudomdej, Sani. Antiheroes in the "Battle of the Sexes": The Anti-Heroic Mode and a Shift in the Meaning of Hegemonic Masculinity in World War I Fiction. 2017. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	20th Century, American, English, Gender, History
Chetty, Raj. Race Fundamentalism: Caribbean Theater and the Challenge to Black Diaspora. 2013. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Caribbean, Decolonial, Diaspora Studies, Political Science, Race and Ethnicity, Theater History, Transnational
Cohen, Sarah. School of Unlikeness: American Poetry and the Creative Writing Workshop. 2012. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	20th Century, American, Creative Writing, Education, Pedagogy, Poetry and Poetics
Concannon, Joseph. The Now Criticism: Vernacular Poetry Scholars from 1990-2005. 2021. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	20th Century, 21st Century, American, Community, Poetry and Poetics, Public Scholarship, Publics/Public Spheres
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
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
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
Daud, Sumayyah. The Demarcation Zone: The Victorian Search for a Global Past. 2020. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	19th Century, British, Global Studies, History, Postcolonial, Translation and Interpretation
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
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
DeBlassie, Maria. From the Philosophical Wanton to the Respectable Lady: Rewriting the Female Intellectual's Moral, Sexual, and Political Identities in the Courtship Novel, 1790-1850. 2012. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	18th Century, 19th Century, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Gender, Novel/Prose Fiction, Women Writers
DeBlois, Michael Anthony. To Lose Oneself in the Process: Form and Praxis in Contemporary Subject-in-Process Poetry. 2022. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Performance Studies, Poetry and Poetics
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