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Dissertation titles and current positions of Ph.D. in Literature graduates
2026
- Jonathan Levitt (Literature), J.R.R. Tolkien’s Creation of the Modern Fantasy Genre as a Response to Modernity by way of a Return to a Past Inspired by the Middle Ages, as Revealed Through the Creatures of Middle-earth, Regarding Race, Gender, Empire, and Religion
Lecturer, Saint Anselm College - Cameron Netland (Literature), The Garden of the Machine: Simulated Wildness and Digital Domestication in American Literature 1970-2020
Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2025
- Elizabeth Davis (Literature), "She Wrote Too Much": Overproduction and the Canonicity of Victorian Women Novelists
- Michaela George (Literature), A Daughter's Inheritance: The Construction of Motherhood through Death
Lecturer, Georgia College & State University - Matthew Leo (Literature), Bandaged Bodies of Knowledge, Revenge, and Terror: The Mummy as an Enduring Representation of Popular Anglo-American Attitudes Regarding Egypt
2024
- Jess Flarity (Literature), The Splintered Man: Masculine Responses to Feminism in 20th Century Fiction
Adjunct Faculty, Renton Technical College and Lake Washington Institute of Technology
2023
- Leanna Lostoski-Ho (Literature), Modernism on the Edge of the Anthropocene: The Ecological Imagination of Forster, West, Warner, Woolf, and Eliot.
Part-Time Faculty in Composition, Franklin Pierce University - Daniel Lauby (Literature), Domestic Shakespeares in the Antebellum United States.
2022
- Melissa Kleinschmidt (Literature), Manual Culture, Women's Medical Practice, and English Health in Spenser, Shakespeare, and Wroth
Teacher of English, Founders Academy - Sherard Harrington (Literature), Othered Ambitions: The Conflation of Villainy and Homosexuality in 20th Century American Media.
Faculty, Boston University Academy
2021
- Andrew Stesienko (Literature), Seneca, the Humors, and Revenge Tragedys
Adjunct Faculty, University of New Hampshire - Stephen Roxburgh (Literature), The Rhetorical Function of Photography in Long-form Graphic Narrative
2019
- Mary Grace Elliott (Literature), Educating Early Modern England: Mapping Grammar School Practices in Shakespeare and Milton
Recipient of the Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Writing and Communication Program in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, Georgia Tech University. - Elizabeth Sheckler (Literature), No Lack of Beds: Sanitationism, Gender, and Hospital Spaces in the Victorian Novel.
Innovation Manager for UM Ventures, College Park - Jin Lee (Literature), Becoming "We": Disembodied Trauma and a Community of Globalized Reading in Contemporary Asian American Novels and Graphic Narratives
Assistant Professor at Myongji University
2018
- Matthew Cheney (Literature), Lessoning Fiction: Modernist Crisis and the Pedagogy of Form
Faculty and Interim Director of Interdisciplinary Studies, Plymouth State University
2015
- Lucas Dietrich (Literature), Across the Color Line: Race, Reception, and the U.S. Literary Marketplace, 1877-1920
Visiting Lecturer, Framingham State University and Adjunct Professor of Humanities, Lesley University
2014
- James Finley (Literature), 'Violence Done to Nature': Free Soil and the Environment in Antebellum Antislavery Literature
Associate Professor, Texas A&M University - San Antonio - Eden Wales Freedman (Literature), 'This Thing We Have Done Together': Witnessing Race, Gender, and Trauma in Postbellum American Literature
Vice Provost of Faculties and Academic Affairs and Associate Professor at St. Mary's University of Minnesota
2013
- Kimberly Dougherty (Literature), 'Of the Sky Above You Must Beware': Airspace and Airpower in Twentieth Century Literature
2012
- Katherine Gillen (Literature), The Most Matchless Jewel: Economic Anxieties and Representations of Chastity on the Early Modern Stage
Professor of English and Associate Chair of the Deepartment of Arts & Humanities, Texas A&M University - San Antonio - Matthew Hurwitz (Literature), 1960's Travel Fiction and Englishness During the Postimperial Turn
Dean of Liberal Arts, Middlesex Community College
2011
- Amy Manning (Literature), Raping the Raced Body: Trauma in Asian North American Women's Literature
Instructor of English at Southern New Hampshire University - Melissa Siik (Literature), "The Alien Within": Residual Catholicism and the Emerging National Identity of Post-Reformation England
- Jason Williams (Literature), Competing Visions: Women Writers and Male Illustrators in the Golden Age of Illustration
Associate Professor and Dean of the College of Language and Letters, Brigham Young University - Idaho
2010
- Nicola Imbracsio (Literature), Corpses Revealed: The Staging of the Theatrical Corpse in Early Modern Drama
Assistant Dean, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota
2009
- Christina Healey (Literature), Excavating the Landscapes of American Literature: Archaeology, Antiquarianism, and the Landscape in American Women's Writing, 1820-1890
Adjunct Instructor of English, Merrimack College - Christopher Scott Massey (Literature), Absent Meaning: Fascination, Narrative, and Trauma in the Holocaust Imaginary
2008
- Sally Hirsh-Dickinson (Literature), Dirty Whites and Dark Secrets: Sex and Race in Peyton Place
Associate Professor, Rivier University and Weekend Host, Saturday Mornings, at New Hampshire Public Radio - Sharon Kehl Califano (Literature), The Comradeship of the "Happy Few": Henry James, Edith Wharton, and the Pederastic Tradition
Director, General Studies Strategy at Western Governors University (Utah)
2007
- Laura Smith (Literature), Material Culture and Domestic Texts: Textiles in the Texts of Warner, Adams, Wilson, Sadlier, Stoddard, and Phelps
Senior Lecturer in English, University of New Hampshire
2006
- Keith Botelho (Literature), Rumor, gender, and authority in English Renaissance drama (Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson)
Professor of English, Coordinator of Internships, Gender and Women’s Studies, Kennisaw State University - Andrew Lopenzina (Literature), Red Ink: Native Americans Picking up the Pen in the Colonial Period
Professor of English, Old Dominion University
2005
- Emily Hinnov (Literature), Choran Community: The Aesthetics of Encounter in Literary and Photographic Modernism
Lecturer of Humanities at Boston University
2003
- Richard Walters (Literature), Performing Texts: Playing With Jazz Aesthetics
Assistant Professor and Chair, English Department, New Hampshire Community Technical College
2002
- Elizabeth Anderson (Literature), Excavating the Remains of Empire: War and Postimperial Trauma in the Twentieth-Century Novel
- Robert Herschbach (Literature), Gothic Economies: Global Capitalism and the Boundaries of Identity
Editor
2001
- Mary Doyle (Literature), Faith Positions: Re-Reading Gender, Race, and Christianity in Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Writing
Administrative Director of the Hamel Center for Undergraduate Research, University of New Hampshire - Heidi Kaufman (Literature), Semitic Discourse: English Identity and the Nineteenth-Century British Novel
Associate Professor of English, University of Delaware
2000
- Laurie Quinn (Literature), Reading for Class: Virginia Woolf, Rebecca West, and Sylvia Townsend Warner
Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at Granite State College - William Stroup (Literature), Shelley and the Nature of Nonviolence
Professor of English, Keene State College
1999
- Nancy Lecourt (Literature), Motherwork, Artwork: The Mother/Artist in Fiction by Parton, Phelps, Chopin, Woolf, Drabble, and Walker
Vice-president for Academic Administration at Pacific Union College - Erika Olbricht (Literature), Class in Seventeenth-Century British Drama by Women
Instructor & SAGES Instructional Coordinator, Case Western Reserve University - Nancy Von Rosk (Literature), Domestic Visions and Shifting Identities: The Urban Novel and the Rise of Consumer Culture
Associate Professor of English, Mount Saint Mary’s College (New York) - Carol Keyes (Literature), Language’s “Bliss of Unfolding” in and Through History, Autobiography, and Myth: The Poetry of Rita Dove
Assistant Professor of Liberal Studies, Hesser College
1998
- Jennifer Beard (Literature), Barbara Pym’s Narrative Intersections
Assistant Professor, Department of International Health, Boston University - Gretchen DiGeronimo (Literature), Transactional Bond in the Novels of Charles Brockden Brown
Associate Professor of English, Becker College (MA)
1997
- Paul McCallum (Literature), Public Poetry, Memory, and the Historical Present: 1660-1745
Director of Graduate Study and Professor of English, Pittsburg State University (Kansas)
1996
- Keith Jones (Literature), Education, Class and Gender in George Eliot and Thomas Hardy
1995
- Anne Downey (Literature), ‘The Art of Living’: The Aesthetics of Everyday Life in Dorothy Canfield Fisher’s Novels
Director of Studies at Shortridge Academy - Etta Madden (Literature), Bodies of Life: Shaker Literacies and Literature
Professor of English, Missouri State University - William Sayres (Literature), The Discourse of Gratitude in the Novels of Jane Austen, Lecturer in English
Adjunct in the Humanities Department, University of Maine at Farmington - Lisa Sisco (Literature), Emerging from the Crysalis: Isolation and Publication in Nineteenth-Century Literacy Narratives
Associate Professor, Communication, Johnson and Wales University (RI)
