UT-Austin English Ph.D. graduates and job placements

Doctoral Candidates Scheduled for Final Oral Examinations of the Dissertation

2012-13

Fall 2012

Ph.D. graduate	dissertation title and director	current location	position	link
Matthew Davies	"The 2nd Earl of Essex and the History Players: The Factional Writing of John Hayward, William Shakespeare, Samuel Daniel and George Chapman," Frank Whigham.	Mary Baldwin College	Assistant Professor
Jeremy Dean	"Multiplicities: The Infrastructure of African American Literature, 1899-1996," Philip Barrish	St. Stephen's School	Instructor
Dave Harper	"Curb'd Enthusiasms: Critical Interventions in the Reception of Paradise Lost, 1667-1732," John Rumrich.	United States Military Academy	Academy Professor
Donna Hobbs	"Telling Tales out of School: Schoolbooks, Audiences, and the Production of Vernacular Literature in Late Medieval England," Marjorie Woods and Elizabeth Scala.
Nicholas Myklebust	"Coleridge, Textual Revision, and the Metaphysical Method," Thomas Cable.
Lauren Nahas	"The Student's Experience of Multimodal Assignments: Play, Learning, and Visual Thinking," Lester Faigley.
Roger Reeves	"Black Western Thought: Toward a Theory of the Black Citizen-Object," Meta Jones and Matt Richardson.	University of Illinois, Chicago	Assistant Professor

Summer 2012

Ph.D. graduate	dissertation title and director	current location	position	link
Emily Bloom	"Air-borne Bards: Anglo-Irish Writers and the BBC, 1931-1968," Mia Carter and Elizabeth Cullingford.	Georgia State University	Assistant Professor
Kevin Bourque	"Blind Items: Anonymity, Notoriety, and the Making of Eighteenth-Century Celebrity," Janine Barchas and Lisa Moore	Southwestern University	Postdoctoral Fellowship
Matt King	"Identification beyond the Symbolic Frame: Don DeLillo, David Foster Wallace, and the Rhetorical Logics of Objects," Brian Bremen and Jeffrey Walker	St. Bonaventure	Assistant Professor
Sean McCarthy	"Relational Reinvention: Writing, Engagement, and Mapping as Wicked Response," Margaret Syverson	James Madison University	Assistant Professor
Susan Mendelsohn	"Rhetorical Possibilities: Reimagining Multiliteracy Work in Writing Careers," Lester Faigley and Joan Mullin	Columbia University	Writing Center Director
Matthew Reilly	"Pope's Double Mistress: Oriental Philosophy and the Scriblerian Dialectic," Lance Bertelsen	UT-Austin	Postdoctoral Fellowship
Anna Stewart	"Beyond Obsolescence: The Reconstruction of Abolitionist Texts," Coleman Hutchison and Michael Winship	Valparaiso University	Postdoctoral Fellowship
Alberto Varon	"Enacting Citizenship: A Literary Genealogy of Mexican American Manhood, 1848-1959," Gretchen Murphy and John Gonzalez	Indiana University	Assistant Professor
Aaron Zacks	"Publishing Short Stories: British Modern Fiction and the Literary Marketplace," Michael Winship

Spring 2012

Ph.D. graduate	dissertation title and director	current location	position	link
Kirby Brown	"Stoking the Fire: Nationhood in Early Twentieth-Century Cherokee Writing," James Cox.	University of Oregon, Portland	Assistant Professor
Jean Cannon	"Neither Poppy nor Mandragora: The Memorialization of Grief and Grievance in the British Literature of the Great War," Alan Friedman.	University of Texas at Austin	Literary Collections Research Associate
Lydia French	"Sonic Gentitud: Literary Migrations of the Listening Citizen," Domino Perez.	Houston Community College	Assistant Professor
Melanie Haupt	"Starting from Scratch: Community, Connection, and Women's Culinary Culture," Domino Perez.
Jason Leubner	"Renaissance Lyric, Architectural Poetics, and the Monuments of English Verse," Wayne Rebhorn and Frank Whigham.
Kevin Psonak	"The Long Line of the Middle English Alliterative Revival: Rhythmically Coherent, Metrically Strict, Phonologically English." Thomas Cable.	Georgia Southern University	Lecturer
Laura Ashley Squires	"Religious Healing in the Progressive Era: Literary Responses to Christian Science," Phillip Barrish and Brian Bremen.	University of Texas at Austin	Post-Doctoral Fellowship

Fall 2011

Ph.D. graduate	dissertation title and director	current location	position	link
Brad Irish	"Powerful Feelings: Emotional Practices of the Tudor Court in Early Modern Culture," Frank Whigham.	Arizona State University	Assistant Professor
Tyler Mabry	"Seizing the Laurels: Nineteenth-Century African-American Poetic Performance," Martin Kevorkian and Helena Woodard.	Austin Community College	Adjunct Professor
Noah Mass	"An Angle of Vision: American Southern Cosmopolitanism 1935-1974," Coleman Hutchison and Jose Limon.	Georgia Tech	Post-Doctoral Fellowship

Summer 2011

Ph.D. graduate	dissertation title and director	current location	position	link
Patricia Burns	"Testing the Seams of the American Dream: Minority Literature and Film in the Early Cold War," Brian Bremen.	Tulane University	Post-Doctoral Fellowship
Molly Hardy	"Imperial Authorship and Eighteenth-Century Transatlantic Literary Production," Matthew Cohen and Lisa Moore.	Southwestern University	Post-Doctoral Fellowship
Philip Leigh	"A Game of Confidence: Literary Dialect, Linguistics, and Authenticity," Phillip Barrish.	Kaohsiung High School, Taiwan	IB English teacher
Justin Tremel	"Tradition and the Individual Talents: Dylan, Eliot, and DeLillo," Brian Bremen.	University of Texas at Austin	Post-Doctoral Fellowship

Spring 2011

Ph.D. graduate	dissertation title and director	current location	position	link
Catherine Bacon	"Beyond Sexual Satisfaction: Pleasure and Autonomy in Women's Inter-War Novels in England and Ireland," Elizabeth Cullingford and Lisa Moore.	St. Edwards University	Assistant Professor
Katharine Beutner	"Writing for Pleasure or Necessity: Conflict among Literary Women, 1700-1750," Lance Bertelsen.	College of Wooster	Visiting Assistant Professor
Olga Herrera	"City of Myth, Muscle, and Mexicans: Work, Race, and Space in Twentieth-Century Chicago Literature," Jose Limon.	University of St. Thomas	Assistant Professor
Crystal Kurzen	'"Choosing Our Own Metaphors": Genre and Method in Contemporary Chicana/o Life Narratives,' Domino Perez.	Washington College	Post-Doctoral Fellowship
Jonathan Lamb	"Shakespeare's Writing Practice: 'Literary' Shakespeare and the Work of Form," Douglas Bruster and Wayne Rebhorn.	University of Kansas	Assistant Professor
Tera Maxwell	"Imperial Remains: Memories of the United States' Occupation in the Philippines," Ann Cvetkovich and Kimberly Alidio.
Jasmine Mulliken	"From Disentangling the Subtle Soul" to "Ineluctable Modality": James Joyce's Transmodal Techniques," Alan Friedman	Oklahoma State University	Visiting Assistant Professor
Dale Smith	"Rhetoric and Public Action in Poetry after 1960," Jeffrey Walker.	Ryerson University	Assistant Professor

Fall 2010

Ph.D. graduate	dissertation title and director	current location	position	link
Hyojin Han	"Sacred Bodies, Profaned Bodies: Psychology, Politics, and Sex in the Literatures of Sri Lankan Conflict," Hannah Wojciehowski.
John Jones	"Embodied Rhetoric: Memory and Delivery in Networked Writing," Margaret Syverson	West Virginia University	Assistant Professor
Jessica Kilgore	"Benevolent Failures: The Econommics of Philantropy in Victorian Literature," Carol MacKay and Elizabeth Hedrick.	University of Texas at Austin	Lecturer
Paul Neimann	"Mechanical Operations of the Spirit: The Protestant Object in Swift and Defoe," Katherine Arens and Lance Bertelsen.	Fordham University	Adjunct Professor
Kathryn Hamilton Warren	"American Callings: Humanitarian Selfhood in American Literature from Reconstruction to the American Century," Gretchen Murphy and Phillip Barrish.	University of Texas at Arlington	Senior Lecturer

Summer 2010

Ph.D. graduate	dissertation title and director	current location	position	link
Ingrid Devilliers	"Victorian Commodities: Reading Serial Novels with their Advertising Supplements," Carol MacKay.
Katherine Young Evans	"Staged Encounters: Native American Performance Between 1880 and 1920," James Cox	Westminster College	Assistant Professor
Brooke Hunter	"Chaucer's Poetry and the New Boethianism," Elizabeth Scala, Marjorie Woods	Villanova University	Assistant Professor
James Jesson	"Radio Texts: The Broadcast Drama of Orson Welles, Dylan Thomas, Samuel Beckett, and Tom Stoppard," Alan Friedman	La Salle University	Assistant Professor
Mary Amanda Moulder	""[T]hey Ought To Mind What a Woman Says": Early Cherokee Women's Rhetorical Traditions and Rhetorical Education," Patricia Roberts-Miller, James Cox	St. John's University, New York	Assistant Professor
Laura Smith	"After Rupture: Innovative Identities and the Formalist Poetry of Akilah Oliver, Sharon Bridgforth, and Alice Notley," Meta Jones, Lisa Moore	Stevenson University	Assistant Professor

Spring 2010

Ph.D. graduate	dissertation title and director	current location	position	link
Jill Anderson	"Re-Reading the American Renaissance in New England and in Mexico City," Evan Carton, Philip Barrish	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Postdoc
Teresa Jackqueline Cuevas	"To(o) Queer the Chican@s: Disrupting Genders in the Post-Borderlands," Ann Cvetkovich, Domino Perez	Syracuse University	Assistant Professor
Gregory Foran	""King Hereafter": MacBeth and Apocalypse in the Stuart Discourse of Sovereignity," John Rumrich	Nazareth College	Assistant Professor
Erin Hurt	"Selling Sisterhood: A Study of Contemporary Feminist Literatures, Communities, and Markets," Ann Cvetkovich, Domino Perez	West Chester University	Assistant Professor
Mary Elizabeth Jones-Dilworth	"The Role of the Poet: Poetry Performance at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century," Thomas Cable
Nathan Krueter	"Rhetorical Intelligence: The Role of Rhetoric in the U.S. Intelligence Community," Jeffrey Walker, Patricia Roberts-Miller	Western Carolina University	Assistant Professor
Miriam Murtuza	""Play Up, Play Up, and Play the Game": Public Schools and Imperialism in British and South Asian Diasporic Literature," Barbara Harlow, Mia Carter	St. Stephen's School, Austin	Instructor
Amy Root	"Inventing the Borzoi: Alfred and Blanche Knopf and the Rhetoric of Prestige in Modern American Book Publishing, 1915-1929," Michael Winship	Concordia University, Austin	Assistant Professor, Chair
Timothy Turner	"Torture and the Drama of Emergency: Kyd, Marlowe, Shakespeare," Jacqueline Henkel, Frank Whigham	Southwestern University	Post-Doctoral Fellowship
Caroline Wigginton	"Imagined Intimacies: Women's Writing, Community, and Affiliation in Eighteenth-Century North America," William Scheick, Lisa Moore	Rutgers University	ACLS New Faculty Fellow

Fall 2009

PhD graduate	dissertation title and director	current location	position	link
Erin Boade	The Limits of Civility in the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements: Three African-American Women's Autobiographies," Patricia Roberts-Miller	Drew University	Visiting Assistant Professor

Allison Layne Craig	""Quality is Everything": Rhetoric of the Transatlantic Birth Control Movement in Interwar Women's Literature of England, Ireland and the United States," Elizabeth Cullingford, Lisa Moore	Texas Christian University	Lecturer
Suzanne Penuel	"Generative Metaphor: Filiation and the Disembodied Father in Shakespeare and Jonson," Douglas Bruster	University of South Carolina-Lancaster	Assistant Professor
William Joseph Taylor	"That Country Beyond the Humber': The English North, Regionalism, and the Negotiation of Nation in Medieval English Literature," Daniel Birkholz, Elizabeth Scala	University of Alabama in Huntsville	Assistant Professor

Summer 2009

PhD graduate	dissertation title and director	current location	position	link
Rachel Hertz Cobb	"Marking Time: Temporality and Victorian Narrative Poetics," Lance Bertelsen, Adam Newton
William Rodney Herring	"Manners of Speaking: Linguistic Capital and the Rhetoric of Correctness in Late-Nineteenth-Century America," Patricia Roberts-Miller	University of Colorado-Denver	Assistant Professor
Elisabeth McKetta	"Asympotic Autobiography: Fairy Tales as Narrative Map in the Writing of Zelda Fitzgerald," Carol MacKay, Martin Kevorkian	St. Stephen's School, Austin	Instructor
Arlen Nydam	"Speaking Pictures: The Sacramental Vision of Philip Sidney," Hannah Wojciehowski, M. Kate Frost	Texas Lutheran	Lecturer
Rebecca Wilcox	"Cultures of Conquest: Romancing the East in Medieval England and France," Geraldine Heng, Daniel Birkholz	West Texas A&M University	Assistant Professor	link

Spring 2009

PhD graduate	dissertation title and director	current location	position	link
James Brown	"Hospitable Texts," Diane Davis	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Assistant Professor
Lena Khor	"Human Rights Discourses on a Global Network: Rhetorical Acts and Network Actors from Humanitarian NGOs, Conflict Sites, and the Fiction Market," Patricia Roberts-Miller, Katherine Arens	Lawrence University	Assistant Professor
Michelle Lee	"Renovating the Closet: Nineteenth-Century Drama Written by Women as a Stage for Social Critique," Carol MacKay, Lisa Moore	Daytona State College	Assistant Professor
Tracey Watts	"A Jungle of Anxious Desires: Representing New Orleans, 1880-2005," Mia Carter, Brian Bremen	Loyola University, New Orleans	Assistant Professor
Ivan Wolfe	"Arguing in Utopia: Edward Bellamy, Nineteenth Century Utopian Fiction, and American Rhetorical Culture," Jeffrey Walker	Kenai Peninsula College	Instructor

Fall 2008

PhD graduate	dissertation title and director	current location	position	link
Sylvia Gale	"Resisting Functional-Critical Divides: Literacy Education at Moor's Indian Charity School and Tuskegee Institute," Linda Ferreira-Buckley	University of Richmond, Bonner Center for Civic Engagement	Associate Director
Lee Anne Gallaway-Mitchell	"Words Survive: Death and Dying in Women's Letters", Carol MacKay, Samuel Baker	Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University	Adjunct Assistant Professor
Amara Graf	"Literary Translations: Telenovelas in Contemporary Chicana/o Literature," Domino Perez	SUNY Old Westbury	Assistant Professor

Spring-Summer 2008

PhD graduate	dissertation title and director	current location	position	link
Olin Bjork	"Interfacing Milton: The Supplementation of Paradise Lost," John Rumrich	University of Houston	Assistant Professor
Christopher Chung	"'Almost Unnameable': Suicide in the Modernist Novel," Alan Friedman	University of Texas Press
Zachary Dobbins	"Rhetoric's Emphathy: Deliberation, Narrative Imagination, and the Democratic Hope of Inquiry," Patricia Roberts-Miller	Eckerd College	Assistant Professor
Douglas Eskew	"Shakespeare on the Verge: Rhetoric, Tragedy, and the Paradox of Place," Wayne Rebhorn, Frank Whigham	Colorado State University- Pueblo	Assistant Professor	profile
Joseph Moser	"Patriarchs, Pugilists, and Peacemakers: Interrogating Masculinity in Irish Film," Elizabeth Cullingford, Neville Hoad	Fitchburg State College	Assistant Professor
Mitchell Harris	""Rise to Thought": Augustinian Ethics in Donne, Shakespeare, and Milton," Dolora Chapelle-Wojciehowski, Marjorie Woods	Augustana College	Assistant Professor	profile
Paul Minifee	"Roots of Black Rhetoric: African Methodist Episcopal Zion's Pioneering Preacher-Politicians," Linda Ferreira-Buckley, Joanna Brooks	San Diego State University	Assistant Professor	profile
Miriam Schacht	"Rootedness and Migration in Indigenous Literatures," James Cox and Barbara Harlow.	University of Wisconsin- Oshkosh	Assistant Professor	profile
Dan Seward	"Civic Voice in Elizabethan Parliament Oratory: The Rhetoric and Composition of Speeches Delivered at Westminster in 1566," Marjorie Woods, Linda Ferreira-Buckley	Franklin University	Assistant Professor
Sara Sliter-Hays	"Narratives and Rhetoric: Persuasion in Doctors' Writings about the Summer Complaint, 1883-1939; Patricia Roberts-Miller	Texas Lutheran University	Assistant Professor

2007

PhD graduate	dissertation title and director	current location	position	link
Lisa Avery	"Vulnerable London: Narratives of Space and Affect in a Twentieth-Century Imperial Capital," Ann Cvetkovich, Alan Friedman	University of California, Santa Barbara	lecturer	profile
Kristin Cole	"Rum, Ram, Ruf, and Rym: Middle English Alliterative Measures," Thomas Cable	Penn State York	assistant professor
Jeffrey Howard	"Heretical Reading: Freedom as Question and Process in the Postmodern American Novel and Technological Pedagogy," Anthony Hilfer	Dakota State University	assistant professor
Colleen Hynes	""Strangers in the House": Twentieth-Century Revisions of Irish Literary and Cultural Identity," Elizabeth Cullingford, Barbara Harlow	St. Stephen's School	instructor	profile
Thomas Nelson	""A" is for Archive": A Case Study in the American Long Poem. Brian Bremen and Kurt Heinzelman	Virginia Commonwealth	lecturer
Alison Perry	"Jay-walking in the City: Violence against Women, Urban Space, and Pedestrian Acts of Resistance," Ann Cvetkovich, Mia Carter	Hofstra University	assistant professor
Virginia Raymond	"Mexican Americans Write Toward Justice in Texas, 1973-1982," Brian Bremen	UT-Austin/ Texas After Violence	lecturer/ director
Jacqueline Kay Thomas	"Aphrodite Unshamed: James Joyce's Romantic Aesthetics of Feminine Flow," Charles Rossman and Lisa Moore	University of Texas at Austin	Technical Writer/Editor

2006

PhD graduate	dissertation title and director	current location	position	link
Susan Briante	"American Ruins: Nostaglia, Amnesia, and Blitzkrieg Bop," Ann Cvetkovich	University of Texas at Dallas	Assistant Professor	profile
Matthew Dolloff	"Meditating the Muse: Milton and the Metamorphoses of Urania," John Rumrich	Georgia Perimeter College	Assistant Professor
Kyle Edwards	"Corporate Fictions: Film Adaptation and Authorship in the Classical Hollywood Era," Thomas Schatz and Eric Mallin	Oakland University	Assistant Professor	profile
Jodi Egerton	"'Kush Mir in Tokhes!': Humor and Hollywood in Holocaust Films of the 1990s," Ann Cvetkovich and Mia Carter	St. Edwards University	Assistant Professor	profile
Jan Fernheimer	"The Rhetoric of Black Jewish Identity Construction in America and Israel: 1964-1972," Linda Ferreira-Buckley and Patricia Roberts-Miller	University of Kentucky	Assistant Professor
Kristen Hogan	"Reading at Feminist Bookstores: Women's Literature, Women's Studies, and the Feminist Bookstore Network," Ann Cvetkovich	University of Texas at Austin	Lecturer, Project Director
Veronica House	"Backward to Your Sources, Sacred Rivers: A Transatlantic Feminist Tradition of Mythic Revision," Elizabeth Cullingford and Lesley Dean-Jones	University of Colorado, Boulder	Lecturer	dept
Leigh Hunt	"Victorian Passion to Modern Phenomenon: A Literary and Rhetorical Analysis of Two Hundred Years of Scrapbooks and Scrapbook Making," Jerome Bump
Aimee Kendall	"The Meaning of Computer Simulations: Rhetorical Analyses of Ad Hoc Programming," John Slatin	University of Houston, Downtown	Assistant Professor	profile
Cathryn Meyer	"Producing the Middle English Corpus: Confession and Medieval Bodies," Elizabeth Scala and Marjorie Woods	Luther College	Visiting Asst Professor	dept
Alba Newmann	"'Language is not a Vague Province': Mapping and Twentieth-Century American Poetry," Thomas Cable and Wayne Lesser	Willamette University	Writing Ctr Dir, Asst Prof
Laura Padilla	"Land of Enchantment, Land of Mi Chante: Four Arguments in New Mexican Literature," José Límon	Colorado College	Riley Fellow/ Assistant Professor	profile
Judith Rosenberg	"The Rhetoric of Globalization: Can the Maquiladora Worker Speak?," Linda Ferreira-Buckley
Leona Rumbarger	"We Moderns: Women Modernists' Writing on War and Home," Alan Friedman	Vassar College	Writing Center Director/ Visiting Asst Prof	profile
Eliana Schonberg	"'Shadow Cast by Words': Anne Teyssiera's Golem, A Critical Edition," Elizabeth Richmond-Garza and Elizabeth Cullingford	University of Denver	Writing Center Director	profile
John Pedro Schwarz	"Between the Muses and the Mausoleum: Museums, Modernism, and Modernity," Alan Friedman	American University of Beirut	Assistant Professor	profile
James Warren	"Library Knowledge in the Reader: English Professors Processing Poetry and Constructing Arguments," Davida Charney	University of Texas at Arlington	Assistant Professor
Jennifer Williams	"Black Morning: Readings of Loss , Desire, and Racial Identification," Ann Cvetkovich and Helena Woodard.	Michigan State University	Assistant Professor	profile
William Wolff	"Faculty Learning Communities: Cultivating Innovation in Educational Technology Support Organizations," Margaret Syverson	Rowan University	Assistant Professor	dept

2005

PhD graduate	dissertation title and director	current location	position	link
Alexandra Barron	"Postcolonial Unions: The Queer National Romance in Film and Literature," Lisa Moore	St. Edward's University	Assistant Professor
Carol Blosser	"Making "English Eloquence:" Tottel's Miscellany and the English Renaissance," Frank Whigham	Regents School of Austin	English Instructor
Robert Brown	"The Rhetoric of Self-Promotion in Personal Statements," Lester Faigley	Temple University	Instructor
Victoria Davis	"Restating a Parochial Vision: A Reconsideration of Patrick Kavanagh, Flann O'Brien, and Brendan Behan," Charles Rossman	University of Texas Press	Senior Manuscript Editor
Jennifer Edbauer	"Everyday Intensities: Rhetorical Theory, Composition Studies, and the Affective Field of Culture," Diane Davis	University of Missouri	Assistant Professor	profile
Jeffrey Jaeckle	"Reading the Reiterative: Concordance Mapping and the American Novel," Martin Kevorkian	Michigan State University	Visiting Assistant Professor	profile
John Kinkade	"Samuel Johnson's Rambler and the Invention of Self-Help Literature," Elizabeth Hedrick	Centre College	Assistant Professor	profile
Lynn Makau	"Milk Matters: Contemporary Representations of Property, Breast-Giving, and the Self," Ann Cvetkovich	Michigan State University	Assistant Professor	profile
Casey McKittrick	"Juvenile Desires: The Child as Subject, Object, and mise-en-scene in Contemporary American Culture," Ann Cvetkovich, Janet Steiger	Western Michigan University	Associate Professor
Todd Onderdonk	"I, Modernist: Male Feminization and the Self-Construction of Authorship in the Modern American Novel," Phillip Barrish	St. Edwards's University	Assistant Professor
Vimala Pasupathi	"Playing Soldiers: Martial Subjects in Early Modern English Drama, 1590-1660," Frank Whigham	Hofstra University	Associate Professor	profile
Iris Ralph	"An Ecocritical Study of William Carlos Williams, James Agee, and Stephen Crane by Way of the Visual Arts,"	Tamkang University	Assistant Professor
Ashley Shannon	"Romantic Peripheries: The National Subject and the Colonial Bildungsroman in Edgeworth, Scott, Child and Hogg," Lisa Moore	Grand Valley State University	Associate Professor	profile
Marcela Sulak	"Ligatures of Time and Space: 1920s New York as a Construction Site for Modernist "American" Narrative Poetry," Adam Newton, Elizabeth Cullingford	Bar Ilan University	Program Director, Senior Lecturer	profile
Paul Sullivan	"Ludi Magister: The Play of Tudor School and Stage," Wayne Rebhorn, Frank Whigham	University of Texas at Austin	Associate Director	dept
Melanie Ulrich	"Victoria's Feminist Legacy: How Nineteenth-Century Women Imagined the Queen," Carol MacKay	Texas Education Agency	Technical Writer
George Waddington	"'Something More than Fantasy: Fathering Postcolonial Identities through Shakespeare," Eric Mallin

2004

PhD graduate	dissertation title and director	current location	position	link
David Barndollar	"The Poetics of Complexity and the Modern Long Poem," Adam Newton	The Potomac School	Instructor	profile
Beauty Bragg	"The Body in the Text: Female Engagements with Black Identity," Helena Woodard	Georgia College and State University	Associate Professor	dept
Peter Caster	"The Language of the Prison House: Incarceration, Race, and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century Literature," Evan Carton	University of South Carolina Upstate	Dept. Chair and Associate Professor	profile
Jason Craft	"Fiction Networks: The Emergence of Proprietary, Persistent, Large-Scale Popular Fictions," John Slatin, Adam Newton	Pearson Education	Senior Software Developer
Ellen Crowell	"Aristocratic Drag: The Dandy in Irish and Southern Fiction," Elizabeth Cullingford, Warwick Wadlington	Saint Louis University	Associate Professor	profile
Eve Dunbar	"The Crossroads of Race: Racial Passing, Profiling, and Legal Mobility in Twentieth-Century American Literature and Culture," Helena Woodard, Barbara Harlow	Vassar College	Assistant Professor	profile
Traci Freeman	"The Ethics of Representation and Response in Contemporary American Women's Autobiographical Writing," Jacqueline Henkel	University of Colorado at Colorado Springs	Writing Center Director	dept
Jeanette Herman	"Empire's Bodies: Images of Suffering in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century India and Ireland," Lisa Moore, Mia Carter	University of Texas at Austin	Assistant Dean, Lecturer	dept
Wendy Lym	"Interacting with King Lear- An Online Resource for Instructors of English Literature Survey Courses," Eric Mallin	Austin Community College	Associate Professor	dept
Christopher Pearce	"Terms of Corruption: Samuel Johnson's Dictionary in its Context," Elizabeth Hedrick, Sara Kimball	Boston University	Assistant Professor	profile
Stacey Peebles	""There it is": Writing Violence in Three Modern American Combat Novels," Wayne Lesser	Centre College	Assistant Professor
Julie Sievers	"Evidence of Wonders: Writing American Identity in the Early Modern Transatlantic World," William Scheick, Katherine Arens	St. Edward's University	Center Director/Asst Professor
Andrew Strycharski	""Stronge and Tough Studie": Humanism, Education, and Masculinity in Renaissance England," John Rumrich	Florida International University	Assistant Professor

2003

PhD graduate	dissertation title and director	current location	position	link
Juan Alonzo	"Derision and Desire: The Ambivalence of Mexican Identity in American Literature and Film," Jose Limon	Texas A&M University	Associate Professor	profile
Jonathan Ayres	"Foucault's Asceticism and the Subject of AIDS," Ann Cvetkovich	American College of Sofia	Chair	dept
William Burchenal	"Neo-Appreciation Pedagogy: The Pragmatics of Reading Aesthetic Affect in the Undergraduate Classroom," Evan Carton	University of Texas at San Antonio	Lecturer	dept
Darren Cambridge	"Techne in Action Online: Rhetoric and the Webcenter," Margaret Syverson	New Century College	Assistant Professor	profile
Elizabeth Dell	"When Mammy left Missus: The Southern Lady in the House Divided," Carol MacKay	Baylor University	Lecturer/Acad Advisor	profile
David Gold	"Never Mind What Harvard Thinks: Alternative Sites of Rhetorical Instruction in American Colleges, 1873-1947," Linda Ferreira-Buckley	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	Associate Professor	profile
Alyssa Harad	"Ordinary Witnesses," Ann Cvetkovich	University of Texas at Austin	Research Associate	profile
Adam Knowles	"Memories of England: British Identity and the Rhetoric or Decline in Postwar British Drama, 1956-1982," Elizabeth Cullingford		Information Science
Peter Larkin	"Translations of Empire and Identity in De Ortu Waluuanii: a Commentary upon the Text with a Translation and Substantial Introduction," Marjorie Woods	Houston	Independent Scholar
Julia Lock	"Waltz across Texas: Literary and Cinematic Articulations of Texas Country Music and Dance Culture," Jose Limon	St. Edward's University	Assistant Professor	dept
Eric Lupfer	"Houghton, Mifflin & Co. and the Emergence of American Nature Writing," Michael Winship	Texas Council for the Humanities	Director of Grants and Education	dept
Lynda Nuss	"The Politics of Presence: Stagecraft and the Power of the Body in the Romantic Imagination," Kurt Heinzelman	University of Texas Panamerican	Assistant Professor	profile
Susan Somers-Willett	"Authenticating Voices: Performance, Black Identity, and Slam Poetry," Kurt Heinzelman	Montclair State University	Assistant Professor
Malfalda Stasi	""Turning It into a Proper Business": The Fate of Complexity in Distance Learning Corporate Discourse," John Slatin, Margaret Syverson	Coventry University (UK)	Senior Lecturer
Chris Strickling	"Re/presenting the Self: Autobiographical Performance by People with Disability," Ann Cvetkovich	University of Texas at Austin	Research Associate	profile
Lynda Walsh	"The Rhetoric of the Scientific Media Hoax: Humanist Interventions in the Popularization of Nineteenth-Century Science," Davida Charney	University of Nevada at Reno	Associate Professor	profile
Laura Wilder	"Critics, Classrooms, and Commonplaces: Literary Studies as a Disciplinary Discourse Community," Davida Charney	SUNY-Albany	Associate Professor	profile

2002

PhD graduate	dissertation title and director	current location	position	link
Sharan Daniel	"Rhetoric and journalism as common arts of public discourse: A Theoretical, historical, and critical perspective," Rosa Eberly	Stanford University	Media and Publication Dir.	profile
Glenn Davis	"Perception and anxiety in Old English poetry," Mary Blockley	Saint Cloud State University	Assistant professor	dept
Shannon Dobranski	"Absent fathers in Shakespeare's middle comedies," Eric Mallin	Georgia Tech	Acad Professional Undergrad Coord.	dept
Rebecca Dyer	"London via the Caribbean: migration narratives and the city in postwar British fiction," Barbara Harlow	Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology	Associate Professor	profile
Julia Garbus	"Service and learning at the turn of two centuries: lessons from Vida Scudder," Linda Ferreira-Buckley	University of Northern Colorado	asst prof, coord of writ ctr	dept
Lois Kim	"Staging childhood and youth in early modern drama," Frank Whigham	University of Texas at Austin	Senior Program Coordinator	dept
Christopher LeCluyse	"Sacred bilingualism: code switching in medieval English verse," Mary Blockley	Westminister College	Assistant Professor	profile
Daniella Mallinick	"Unconventional views: the revolutionary work of the Romantic sublime," Andrew Cooper	Universityof Missouri- Kansas City	Assistant Professor	profile
Arthur Vanderveen	"Other minds other worlds: pragmatism, hermeneutics, and constructive modernism, 1890-1942," Philip Barrish, Warwick Wadlington	The College Board	Senior Director
Sarah Wakefield	"Folklore-naming and folklore-narrative in British women's fiction, 1750-1890," Carol MacKay	Prairie View A&M	Assistant Professor	profile
Vincent Woodard	"The Shapeshifter figure: A new cartography of sex and gender formation within radical black antebellum culture," Helena Woodard	Vincent Woodard passed away in 2008 as an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

2001

PhD graduate	dissertation title and director	current location	position	link
Richard Burniske	"Fostering exploratory discourse in global, telecollaborative learning projects," Lester Faigley	Richard Burniske passed away in 2006 as an Associate Professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Gregory Chaplin	"Milton and the end of Renaissance friendship," John Rumrich	Bridgewater State University	Associate Professor	profile
Brenda Dillard	"A Sample of technical writing from Trinity College, Cambridge MS 0.5.2.6 and its relation to Chancery Standard English," Ernest Kaulbach	Brazosport College	Associate Professor	profile
Fran Hawener Cook	"Diverse measures, diversely trod: Reading Sir John Davies' Orchestra in the Renaissance and beyond," Michael Winship
Samuel Kinch	"Quantum mechanics and modern fiction," Alan Friedman	Montgomery Bell Academy	English Teacher	profile
Natasha Morgan-Sinutko	"Passing on the melting pot: resistance to Americanization in the work of Gertrude Stein, Alice Corbin Henderson and William Carlos Williams," Mia Carter, Brian Bremen	Freescale Semiconductor	Marketing Communications Manager
Katherine Oldmixon	"Otherworlds/otherness: the cultural politics of exoticism in the Middle English "Breton" lays," Geraldine Heng, Thomas Cable	Huston-Tillotson University	Associate Professor/Writing Center Director
Andrew Osborn	"Admit impediment: the use of difficulty in twentieth-century American poetry," Kurt Heinzelman	University of Dallas	Associate Professor	profile
Susanne Paterson	"Exchanging blows and courtesies: status and conduct in Bonduca, a king and no king, and the nice valour," Frank Whigham	University of New Hampshire at Manchester	Assistant Professor	dept
D'Arcy Randall	""Adam and his mother": Maternal performance in late twentieth-century American women's poetry," Elizabeth Cullingford, Betty Sue Flowers	University of Texas at Austin	Lecturer	profile
Morri Safran	""Unsex'd" texts: history, hypertext and Romantic women writers," Kurt Heinzelman, Theresa Kelley
Sandra Soto	"Sexing Aztlan: Subjectivity, desire, and the challenge of racialized sexuality in Chicana/o literature," Ann Cvetkovich, Jose Limon	University of Arizona	Associate Professor	profile
Felicia Jean Steele	"Aelfric's Catholic homilies: Discourse and the construction of authority," Mary Blockley	The College of New Jersey	assistant professor	profile
Stanwood Walker	"The Classical-historical novel in nineteenth-century Britain," John Farrell	Manhattan College	Visiting Asst Prof	dept
Joanna Wolfe	"Pedagogical uses of annotations and annotation technologies," Davida Charney	Carnegie Mellon University	Teaching Professor and Director	profile

2000

PhD graduate	dissertation title and director	current location	position	link
Michael Chorost	"Designing online environments to facilitate classroom management and student collaborative work," John Slatin		Independent Scholar	profile
George Christian	"The friendly companion: toward a comic poetics in the nineteenth-century English novel," John Farrell	University of Texas at Austin	Adjunct Professor	profile
Jean Lee Cole	"Winnifred Eaton: guided by voices," Michael Winship	Loyola College in Maryland	Assistant Professor	profile
Michael Erard	"Inscribing language: Writing and scientific representation in American linguistics," Jacqueline Henkel		Writer and Editor	profile
Paul Gleason	"The Artist-hero novels of D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett and the transformation of aesthetic philosophy," Charles Rossman	Cardinal Stritch University	Assistant Professor	profile
Matthew Goldstein	"Theosophy, culture, and empire," Barbara Harlow, Elizabeth Cullingford	Laney College		profile
Mary Grover	"Fleshing out the Victorian public sphere of letters," Adam Newton, Carol MacKay	Wheelock College	Writing Prog Coordinator	profile
Robert Hornback	"After carnival: normative comedy and the everyday in Shakespeare's England," Elizabeth Richmond-Garza	Oglethorpe University	Associate Professor	profile
Laura Issen	"Expressions of socioeconomic and cultural complexities in works by Derek Wolcott, Jamaica Kincaid, and Michelle Cliff," Bernth Lindfors	St. Michael's Academy	English Teacher
Jeff Jackanicz	"Three gay New Yorks: the city as heuristic in the poetry of Allen Ginsberg, James Merrill, and Mark Doty," Kurt Heinzelman	University of California, Berkeley	Associate Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations
Johnny Lorenz	"Haunted cartographies: ghostly figures and contemporary epic in the Americas," Lisa Sanchez-Gonzalez	Montclair State University	Associate Professor	profile
Jennifer Mason	"Civilized creatures: animality, cultural power, and American literature, 1850-1901," Evan Carton
Jeanne McCarthy	"The children's companies: Elizabethan aesthetics and Jacobean reactions," Wayne Rebhorn	Oglethorpe University	Visiting Assistant Professor	profile
Thomas McGlamery	"Writing one's age: protest and the body in Melville, Dos Passos, and Hurston," Warwick Wadlington	University of Wisconsin, Madison	Associate Faculty Associate	profile
Kazel Morgan	"Not a ghost: liminal female identity and American women's supernatural fiction, 1870-1902," William Scheick	Austin Community College
Sri Mukherjee	"Truncated transgressions: fictions of female authorship by British women writers of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries," Elizabeth Cullingford, Carol MacKay	Duke University	Mellon Lecturing Fellow	profile
John-Michael Rivera	"Embodying the public sphere: the Mexican question and elite Mexican American literary and political culture at the turn of the century," Jose Limon	University of Colorado at Boulder	Assc. Prof, Assc Chair and Dir.Undergrad. Studies	profile
Lynn Rudloff	"The West that ever was: the argument with cultural gender expectations in Larry McMurtry's Old West novels," Linda Ferreira-Buckley, Betty Sue Flowers	St. Edward's University	Assistant Professor	profile
Paige Schilt	"Fables of authority: ethics, power, and authenticity in contemporary documentary film," Mia Carter, Ann Cvetkovich	Southwestern University	Interim Assistant Dean, Lecturer
Susan Schorn	""The merciful construction of good women": actresses in the marriage-plot novel," Carol MacKay	University of Texas at Austin	Program Coordinator
Ioannis Vassiliou	"Fictions of the middling sort: the myth of the middle class in early modern England," Wayne Rebhorn	San Antonio College		profile
Kathleen Vejvoda	"The dialectic of idolatry: Roman Catholicism and the Victorian heroine," Carol MacKay	Bridgewater State University	Associate Professor	profile

1999

PhD graduate	dissertation title and director	current location	position	link
Gregory Barnhisel	"New directions press and Ezra Pound's literary reputation," Michael Winship, Brian Bremen	Duquense University	Assoc. Prof, Dir 1st Yr Writing	profile
Bret Benjamin	"Documenting development: stories of sanitation, population, and information technologies," Barbara Harlow	SUNY-Albany	Assoc. Prof., Grad. Stud. Dir.	profile
Katherine Henninger	"Ordering the facade: photography and the politics of represenation in contemporary southern women's fiction," Ann Cvetkovich, Warwick Wadlington	Louisiana State University	Associate Professor	dept
Julie Hudson	"Family and national narratives in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon and Beloved and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude and The Autumn of the Patriarch," Helena Woodard	Huston-Tillotson University	Assistant Professor
Joseph McNicholas	"Corporate culture and the American novel: producers, persuaders, and communicators," Evan Carton	Loyola Marymount University	Director, Office for Research and Sponsored Projects	dept
Kathryn Sampson	"The Romantic literary pilgrimage to the Orient: Byron, Scott, and Burton," Elizabeth Fernea, Andrew Cooper
Gina Siesing	"Fictional democracies: the formation of lesbian-feminist literary publics," Ann Cvetkovich	Tufts University	Associate Director	profile
Jenneken Van Keppel	""To kiss the civil text of women's lips": social contracts and marriage contracts in eighteenth-century prose," Sue Heinzelman, Lance Bertelsen	St. Stephen's Episcopal School	English Instructor	dept
Ray Watkins	"The inexorable sadness of pencils: English language education and class in the American century," John Slatin, Margaret Syverson	Eastern Illinois University	Assistant Professor	dept

1998

PhD graduate	dissertation title and director	current location	position	link
Jennifer Bean	"Bodies in shock: gender, genre and cinema of modernity," Ann Cvetkovich, Sabrina Barton	University of Washington	Associate Professor	profile
George Boulukos	"The grateful slave: representations of slave plantation reform in the British novel, 1720-1805," Lisa Moore, Lance Bertelsen	Southern Illinois University	Associate Professor	profile
Scarlet Bowen	"The labor of femininity: working women in eighteenth-century British prose," Lisa Moore, Lance Bertelsen	University of Colorado at Boulder	Assistant Professor	profile
Tonya Browning	"The virtual palimpsest: the importance of hypermedia design for English studies," John Slatin	Visa	Group Director	profile
Stephanie Buchanan	"Counter-statements: modernist aesthetics and social change," Brian Breman
Sheila Contreras	"Blood lines: modernism, indigenismo and the construction of Chicana/o identity," Jose Limon	Michigan State University	Associate Professor	profile
Tamara Fish	"Feminist traces: women and feminism in college composition and communication, 1963-1992," Lester Faigley	University of Houston	Associate Professor	profile
Susan Harris	"Bodies and blood: gender and sacrifice in modern Irish drama," Barbara Harlow, Elizabeth Cullingford	University of Notre Dame	Associate Professor	profile
Mary Harvan Gorgette	"Writing resistance: representation of Ken Saro-wiwa and narratives of the Ogoni movement in Nigeria," Barbara Harlow, Bernth Lindfors	University of Dayton Paris Programme	Instructor	dept
Edward Hudson	"From nowhere to everywhere: suburban discourse and the suburb in North American literature," Evan Carton, Anthony Hilfer	Saint Mary-of-the-Woods-College	Asst Prof, Writing Director
Adam Kohlhepp	""Tis nature's law to change": the Earl of Rochester in the hands of his readers," James Garrison	The Berkshire School	Department Chair	profile
Luz Elena Ramirez	"Empire and Americanism: British representations of Latin America," Mia Carter, Charles Rossman	Cal State San Bernardino	Associate Professor	profile
Catherine Ross	"Rivals in the public sphere: Humphry Davy and Romantic poets," Theresa Kelley, Elizabeth Hedrick	University of Texas at Tyler	Assoc Prof, Grad Adviser	profile
JoAnne Shea	"Productive waste: rhetorical economies in Thomas Middleton's city comedies," Eric Mallin, Dolora Wojciehowski	University of Texas at Austin	Director	dept
Joseph Slaughter	"Protagonizing narratives: the role of the voice in literatures of trauma and human rights," Barbara Harlow	Columbia University	Associate Professor	profile
Jennifer Wenzel	"Promised lands: J.M. Coetzee, Mahasweta Devi, and the contested geographies of South Africa and India," Barbara Harlow, Mia Carter	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	Associate Professor	profile
Tomoyuki Zettsu	"Broken boundaries: Tennessee Williams and a poetics of American androgyny," Evan Carton	Tokyo Gakugei University	Associate Professor

1997

PhD graduate	dissertation title and director	current location	position	link
David Alvarez	""To learn how to speak with the voices of the land": rethinking resistance in South African cultural production of ther late apartheid period," Barbara Harlow, Bernth Lindfors	Grand Valley State University	Associate Professor	profile
Virginia Anderson	"Unpersuasive truths: critical theory, pedagogy, and democratic education," Lester Faigley	Indiana University Southeast	Assistant Professor	profile
Daniel Anderson	"The world wide classroom: literary hypertexts and the authority of student voices," John Slatin	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	Assoc Prof, Director of Undergrad Studies	profile
Jacqueline Bacon	""The humblest may stand forth": marginalized voices in abolitionist rhetoric," Linda Ferreira-Buckley	San Diego	Independent Scholar	profile
Vik Bahl	"The contemporary Indian novel in English: the middle class and dis/articulations of the nation," Ann Cvetkovich	Green River Community College		profile
Betsy Burow-Flak	"The new incarnation: saints, seventeenth-century English women devotional writers, and writing the textual body," Dolora Wojciehowski	Valparaiso University	Associate Professor	profile
Jonathan Carson	"Novae rediere in pristina vires: the new Augustinian poetics of Edmund Spenser," Kate Frost
Locke Carter	"Arguments in hypertext: order and structure in non-sequential essays," John Slatin	Texas Tech University	Associate Professor	profile
Susan Jaye Dauer	"Messianic elements in Piers Plowman, b-text: Piers, Messiah," Ernest Kaulbach	Valencia Community College, East	Associate Professor
Chidsey Dickson	"Writing and reading about social identity: first-year composition as cultural and rhetorical inquiry," Neil Nehring	Lynchburg College	Assistant Professor	profile
Sheryl Englund	""An excellent likeness of the author": gender and personality in the nineteenth-century literary marketplace," Michael Winship	Englund Literary Services	Editor
Nick Evans	"A literary semiotics of jazz, 1900-1930: race, modernity and cultural nationalism," Mia Carter, Jose Limon
Christina Friend	"Public voices, private lives: reconnecting rhetorical and ethical education in the postmodern writing classroom," Lester Faigley	University of South Carolina	Associate Professor	profile
Fredrick Hoerner	"Figures bearing sway: Milton, Romanticism, and poetic transmission," Theresa Kelley, John Rumrich	The Bentley School	Sophomore Dean, English Teacher	profile
Bryan Hopkins	"The modern ascent of the soul spiritual progress in the novels of Joyce, Beckett, and Nabokov," Thomas Staley
Kathleen Kane	"To Hell or Pine Ridge: legislative, literature, and the trans-Atlantic development of the reservation," Barbara Harlow, Ann Cvetkovich	University of Montana	Associate Professor	profile
Claire Miller-Colombo	""You all may boast the censor's art": censorship and authority in Romantic drama," Andrew Cooper, Theresa Kelley	Austin	Freelance Educational Writer
Ralph Rodriguez	"Chicana and Chicano fiction into the nineties: genre and contestation," Jose Limon	Brown University	Associate Professor	profile
Albert Rouzie	"At play in the fields of writing: play, technology, and communication in a university computers and writing course," John Slatin, Lester Faigley	Ohio University	Associate Professor	profile
Dene Scoggins	"Searching the stars for signs of God: divine semiotics in Dante, Rabelais, Shakespeare, and Milton," John Rumrich, Wayne Rebhorn
Robert Sulcer	"Ten percent: poetry, pathlogy, and literary study at the fin de siecle," Linda Ferreira-Buckley, Ann Cvetkovich	Hofstra University	Associate Professor	dept
Carl Toliver	"W.S. Merwin and the postmodern environment," Kurt Heinzelman	Missouri Southern State University	Assistant Professor	profile
Kimberley VanHoosier-Carey	"Not fitting the framework: gender performativity and narrative experimentation by British women writers, 1880-1930," Carol MacKay	Centenary College	Asst Prof, Dir of Acad Resource Ctr for Students	profile
Johanna Vondeling	""Shisters," fakes, and shams: modernist preoccupation with liars and lies," Mia Carter, Brian Bremen	Berrett-Koehler Publishers	Editorial Director	dept
Susan Warshauer	"The rhetoric of victimization in Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie: the development, performance and reception of Laura Wingfield's characterization," Mia Carter, James Kinneavy
Mark Womack	"Shakespearean delights: a poetics of pleasure," John Rumrich	University of Houston	Lecturer

1996

PhD graduate	dissertation title and director	current location	position	link
Jose Barrera	"From Cabeza de Vaca to Oscar Zeta Acosta: Chicano literature as mission in the American wilderness," Don Graham		Consultant
Alice Batt	"Victorian gesture: what does it signify? Or, the discourse of moving bodies in Victorian literature and culture," Linda Ferreira-Buckley, Carol MacKay	University of Texas at Austin	Lecturer	profile
Michael Davis	"The discourse of oratory: the new rhetoric and romantic writing," Linda Ferreira-Buckley, Kurt Heinzelman	Blekinge Institute of Technology	Assistant Professor	profile
James Dillon	"Educational novels, novelistic education: the case of the early republic," William Scheick
Stephen Dobranski	"The labor of book-writing: A critical and textual analysis of John Milton and the seventeenth-century book trade," John Rumrich	Georgia State University	Professor	profile
Laura Grossenbacher	"Besieged commitments: race, class, gender, and problems of collectivism in American war narratives," Wayne Lesser, Warwick Wadlington	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Dir of Technical Communication Program-College Engineering	profile
Jennifer Huth	""For I have tools to truss": women, work, and professionalism in late medieval literature," Leah Marcus, Marjorie Woods	St. Stephen's Episcopal School	English instructor	dept
William Jent	"Contesting the ties that blind: supranational insurgency in modern Irish drama," Elizabeth Cullingford	Austin High School	instructor
Mary Lenard	"Preaching pity: sentimentalism and the Victorian cultural discourse of social reform," Susan Heinzelman, Carol MacKay	University of Wisconsin-Parkside	Associate Professor	profile
Holly McSpadden	"Crossing racial borders: Nancy Cunard's political modernisms," Alan Friedman, Susan Heinzelman	Missouri Southern State University	Associate Professor	profile
Melinda Menzer	"Donatus Anglice: Aelfric's grammar and the making of the English language," Mary Blockley, Thomas Cable	Furman University	Associate Professor	profile
Alison Regan	"Promises, problems, and politics: the history of rhetoric, English studies, and writing instruction at the University of Texas at Austin, 1883-1994," Linda Ferreira-Buckley	University of Utah	Head, Technology Assisted Curric Ctr	profile
Susan Romano	"Committed to writing: a history of on-line pedagogy in early networked classrooms," Linda Ferreira-Buckley	University of New Mexico	Assoc Prof, Dir of Rhet-Writing	profile
Beth Rothermel	"Pedagogies of the multicultural: diversity and discourse education in Sweden and the United States," Susan Heinzelman, Lester Faigley	Westfield State College	Assoc Prof, Coord of Composition	profile
Karen Steele	"Rocking the cradle, rocking the system: the cultural representation of femininity in twentieth-century Ireland," Barbara Harlow, Elizabeth Cullingford	Texas Christian University	Associate Professor	profile

1995

PhD graduate	dissertation title and director	current location	position	link
Susan Carter	"Figures of difference: the visual and femininity in Sigmund Freud and D.H. Lawrence," Alan Friedman	Bowling Green State University	Associate Professor	profile
Catherine Eskin	"From the eloquence of silence to the singular lady orator: woman's voice in English Renaissance prose romance," Wayne Rebhorn, Marjorie Woods	Florida Southern College	Associate Professor	profile
Robin Hass Birky	"Naked truth, feminized language, and poetics: paradigms of feminity from the rhetoricians to Chaucer," Marjorie Woods	Robin Hass Birky passed away in 2008 as an Associate Professor and Associate Vice Chancellor at Indiana University Northwest.
Christopher Holcomb	"The rhetoric of humor in Elizabethan England," Wayne Rebhorn	University of South Carolina	Associate Professor	profile
Rachel Jennings	"The Union and its limits: histories, regions, and empires in the nineteenth-century British novel," Barbara Harlow, Elizabeth Cullingford	University of Texas at San Antonio	Lecturer
Mary Mathis	"War/narrative/identity: uses of Virginia Woolf's modernism," Jane Marcus, Thomas Staley	Northampton Community College	Assistant Professor	profile
JoAnn Pavletich	"The power of emotion: affect and literature in early twentieth-century United States culture," Brian Bremen, Jose Limon	University of Houston-Downtown	Assoc Prof, Director of Composition	profile
Nancy Peterson	"Passing as, passing through: literature-trained graduate-student writing teachers and the "we" of composition studies," Linda Ferreira-Buckley	Nancy Peterson passed away in 2008 as an Associate Professor at Moorehead State University.
Esther Quantrill	"Anthropological politics: poetry and British culture 1860-1914," Jane Marcus, Michael Winship	Blinn College		dept
Denise Sechelski	"Cultural stubble: unlicensed theatre and the negotiation of legitimacy in eighteenth-century England," Lance Bertelsen	Austin	Freelance Educational Writer
Rhonda Skillern	""From the land of unlikeness": ritual and resistance in Edith Wharton's fiction," Evan Carton
Mark Taylor	"Chaucer and the dialectics of love: transformation in the literary love tradition since Marcabru," James Wimsatt, Amelia Vanvleck	Berry College	Associate Professor	profile
Bart Z. Thornton	""Even writing was design": Don DeLillo and the construction of architectural space," Evan Carton	Collegiate School, Richmond, VA	Instructor
Gregory VanHoosier-Carey	""Builded from the Ruins": Southern literary expression and the discourse of English studies, 1865-1941," Wayne Lesser, Warwick Wadlington	Centenary College	Associate Professor	profile
Xianchun Vendler	"H.D.'s feminism in evolution," Elizabeth Cullingford		Attorney
Randi Voss	""American Women! Will you save your country?": Conduct literature, nationalism, and the domestic woman," Lester Faigley	University of Texas at Austin	Lecturer	profile
Denise Weeks	"A Documentary decade: 1930s British literature, culture, and film," Charles Rossman

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