Dissertations

Author/Title Research Type Related Fields
Prasansak, Ram. Giving Ghana at the Edge of the Salt Water. 2011. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Graduate, Dissertations African, Novel/Prose Fiction, Political Science, Postcolonial
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
Read, Sarah. Network Rhetoric: A Network Ethnography of Knowledge Work of System Builders in Child Care and Early Learning. 2011. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Graduate, Dissertations Discourse Analysis, Education, Publics/Public Spheres, Race and Ethnicity, Rhetorical Theory
Fitzgerald, Andrew. Millenial Fiction and the Emergence of Posthuman Cosmopolitanism. 2011. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Graduate, Dissertations 20th Century, 21st Century, Literature, Novel/Prose Fiction, Science and Technology
Ahn, Tae youn. Second Language Learning in Language-Exchange Interactions: A Sociocultural and Discourse Analytic Study. 2011. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Graduate, Dissertations Discourse Analysis, Language Pedagogy, Performance Studies, Second Language Acquisition
Anderson, Donald Leonard. Power and Indeterminacy: The Noisy Networks of Foucault, Cage, Burroughs, and Delany. 2011. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Graduate, Dissertations 20th Century, American, Communication, Music, Philosophy, Postmodern
Lee, Jane J. Reading Matters: Liberal Discourse and the Democratization of Reading in Victorian Literary Culture. 2011. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Graduate, Dissertations 18th Century, 19th Century, British, Culture, Education, Law, Literature, Political Science
Jaussen, Paul. Abiding Song: Evolutions of the Life Poem. 2010. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Graduate, Dissertations American, British, Modernism, Poetry and Poetics
Mirpuri, Anoop. Slated for Destruction: Race, Black Radicalism, and the Meaning of Captivity in the Postwar Exceptional State. 2010. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Graduate, Dissertations 20th Century, African American, American, History, Law, Race and Ethnicity
Furrh, Douglass Madison. 'In the Midst of Prosperity': Free-Labor Republicanism, Labor Radicalism in the New York Press, and the Virtue of Suffering in Herman Melville's "The Piazza Tales" (1856). 2010. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Graduate, Dissertations 19th Century, American, Communication, Literature
Wygant, Christina D. "The Twice Told Tale": Colonial Love Plots, Slavery, and Racial Ideology in Editorial Versions of John Gabriel Stedman's "Narrative of a Five Years Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam". 2010. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Graduate, Dissertations 18th Century, British, Critical Race Theory, Gender, History, Ideology, Race and Ethnicity, Textual Studies
Rounsaville, Angela R. Figuring Transnational Literacies: Rhetorical Negotiations in a Global Paradigm. 2010. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Graduate, Dissertations 21st Century, Language, Language Pedagogy, Linguistics, Literacy, Pedagogy, Rhetoric and Composition, Transnational
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
Shapiro, Shawna. From Isolated Remediation to Collaborative Mediation: Confronting Institutional Isolation in University ESL Programs. 2009. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Graduate, Dissertations Education, Language Pedagogy, Language Policy, Multilingualism, Second Language Acquisition, TESOL/Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
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
Borlik, Todd Andrew. Green Pastures: Ecocriticism and Early Modern English Literature. 2008. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Graduate, Dissertations 16th Century, British, Ecocriticism, Environment, Poetry and Poetics, Renaissance
Keith Feldman. Racing the Question:  Israel/Palestine and U.S. Imperial Culture.  University of Washington, 2008 Graduate, Dissertations 19th Century, 20th Century, 21st Century, African American, Race and Ethnicity
Larkin, Lesley Alexandra. "And in this task we create the self": Reading Race and Twentieth-century American Literature. 2007. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Graduate, Dissertations 20th Century, African American, American, Critical Race Theory, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Postmodern, Race and Ethnicity
Holzer, Kellie D. Tying the Knot: A Conjoined Genealogy of Marital Fictions in Colonial India and Victorian England. 2007. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Graduate, Dissertations 19th Century, British, Culture, History, Law, Literature, Postcolonial
Reddinger, Amy. Domestic Inversions, Domestic Interventions: Mapping the Postwar Formation of Home, School, and Family. 2007. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Graduate, Dissertations American, Culture, Discourse Analysis, Gender, Literature, Nationalism, Race and Ethnicity, Rhetorical Theory, Urban Studies
Reddinger, Amy. Domestic Inversions, Domestic Interventions: Mapping the Postwar Formation of Home, School, and Family, University of Washington, 2007. Graduate, Dissertations American, Culture, Discourse Analysis, Gender, Nationalism, Race and Ethnicity, Sexuality
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
Easterling, Heather C. Parsing the City: Jonson, Middleton, Dekker, and City Comedy's London as Language. 2004. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Graduate, Dissertations British, Drama, History of the English Language, Language, Literary Criticism, Urban Studies
Walker, James Cody. O Ho Alas Alas: Poetry and Difficult Laughter. 2004. University of Washington, PhD dissertation, Graduate, Dissertations Poetry and Poetics