Lydia Abedeen (MFA+MA)
MFA Thesis: “Half-Wife”
MA Thesis: “A Crack in the Mirror: How Horror Animation Invents a Genre of Trauma”
George Abraham (MFA+MA)
MFA Thesis: “When the Arab Apocalypse Comes to America”
MA Thesis: “Palestinian Spectrality: Unfiltered Forms and Haunted Excess in Contemporary Palestinian Novels”
Yẹmí Ajíṣebútú (PhD – CLS)
Dissertation: “Oríkì and Being: The Yorùbá Consciousness in Africana Diasporic Fiction and Art”
Kaitlin Browne (PhD)
Dissertation: “The Mark of Baptism: Character, Kinship, and Race-Thinking in Fourteenth-Century Romance”
May Dugas (MFA+MA)
MFA Thesis: “Book of The Unthought”
MA Thesis: “The Shape of Trauma: Objects Symbolic of the Unconscious in Story”
Philip Ellefson (PhD)
Dissertation: “Slum Stories: Rental Housing Architecture and Narrative Form in Urban U.S. Fiction, 1854-1954”
Harrison Graves (PhD)
Dissertation: “Dark Gardening in the Vertigo Cold: Black Masculinity and Ungendering in the Contemporary Literary and
Cultural Imagination”
Jinjia Hu (MA)
MA Thesis: “Medical and Un-medical Women: Analysis of Women’s Medical Authority and Representation in Geoffrey
Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales and Agatha Christie’s Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case”
Jackson McGrath (MFA+MA)
MFA Thesis: “Dear Thano: Letters from James Perry Wilson 1943-1963”
MA Thesis: “Minute Bodies”
Surya Milner (MFA+MA)
MFA Thesis: “The Far West: Essays”
MA Thesis: “A Long Halloo”
Jessica Ramirez (PhD)
Dissertation: “The Treatment of Blackness in Puerto Rican Literature”
Kate Scharfenberg (PhD)
Dissertation: “Nations Taking Place: Unsettling Geographies in Indigenous and American Literatures”
Cameron Schell (PhD)
Dissertation: “Violent Scenes and Glorious Prospects: Representations of the British Slave Trade in the Long Eighteenth Century”
Adam Syvertsen (PhD)
Dissertation: “A Light From Nowhere: Utopian Fiction and Politics in the Atlantic World, 1802-1859”
Tyler Talbott (PhD)
Dissertation: “Plotting Ethnonationalism: Race and Novel Theories of the Nation Since the Victorians”
Han Xu (MA)
MA Thesis: “The Conundrum of Power and Emotion in Shakespeare’s Richard II”
Anna Zalokostas (PhD)
Dissertation: “Object Lessons: Free Trade, Race, and the Literature of Globalization”