Recent PhD Dissertations
2020
- Ruby Al-Qasem, Resurrection Attempts: Essays
- Stevie Edwards, Still House
- Sanderia Faye, Eleven
- Natalie Foster, Winter
- Allyson Jones, Just Ask: A Memoir of My Father
- Matthew Morton, Improvisation without Accompaniment and What Passes Here for Mountains
- Sebastian Paramo, Where We Split
- James Redmond, Because You Previously Liked or Played
- Iqra Shagufta, Postmodernity and Pakistani Postmodern Literature
- Daniel Stuart, Stalking Dickens: Predatory Disturbances in the Novels of Charles Dickens
- Virginia Wood, Tigers Born in the Same Year
2019
- Conor Burke, Given That the Body Was Made
- Justin Carter, Brazos
- Cheri Paris Edwards, Your Blues Ain't Like Mine:Voices from the Other Side of the Color Line
- Kimberly Garza, The Last Karankawas: Stories
- Meghan Taylor Johnson, Poor Things: Objects, Ownership, and the Underclasses in American Literature, 1868-1935
- Ross Wilcox, Union: A Novel
2018
- Spencer Hyde, Let It Run
- Nick Lu, Constructing Taiwan: Taiwanese Literature and National Identity
- Jessica Murray, Notes for the Manual Assembly
- Clint Peters, The Divine Coming of the Light
- Jeff Pickell, Jeff Pickell: New and Selected
- Timothy Regetz, Lollardy and Eschatology: English Literature c. 1380-1430
- Charlie Ricciardelli, The Hoboken War Bride: A Novel
- Brian Tatum, Rearranging an Infinite Universe: Literary Misprision and Manipulations of Space and Time, 1750-1850
2017
- Heidi Cephus, Corporeal Judgment in Sheakpeare's Plays
- Trista Edwards, Spectral Evidence
- Anthony Cole Jeffrey, The Aesthetics of Sin: Beauty in Early Modern English Literature
- Tana Juko, Misrecognized and Misplaced: Race Performed in African American Literature, 1900-2015
- Darcy Lewis, Xenotopia: Death and Displacement in the Landscape of Nineteenth-Century American Authorship
- Nick McRae, Inscrutable House
- Amber Pagel, "How Can We Know the Dancer from the Dance?": Cognitive Poetics and the Poetry of William Butler Yeats
- Timothy Ponce, The Hybrid Hero of Early Modern English Literature: A Synthesis of Classical and Contemplative Heroism
- Karl Zuehlke, Momentarium
2016
- Christopher Beard, Wake
- Courtney Craggett, Goodness and Mercy: Stories
- Kara Dorris, For the Ruined Body
- Matthew Haines, Inter
- Jeanette Laredo, The Ruptured Word: Remembering Trauma in Gothic Literature and Detective Fiction
- AprilJo Murphy, Welcome to the Rest of It: Essays
- Ashley Reis, With the Earth in Mind: Ecological Grief in the Contemporary American Novel
- Heather Robinson, Ours is the Kingdom of Heaven: Racial Construction of Early American Christian Identities
- Mark Sweeney, Nym (A Novel)
- Chelsea Wagenaar, The Spinning Place
- Mark Wagenaar, Southern Tongues Leave Us Shining
2015
- Andy Briseño, Down and Out: A Novel
- Matthew Davis, Derivation: Excerpts From a Novel
- Ryan Flanagan, Wolf Man
- Jenny Molberg, Marvels of the Invisible
- Lindsay Moore, The Laureates' Lens: The Development of Literary History and Literary Criticism from Beneath the Dunce Cap
- Caitlin Pryor, Vanishing Act
- Basima Shaheen, The Palestinian Archipelago and the Construction of Palestinian Identity after Sixty-Five Years of Diaspora: The Rebirth of the Nation
- Sidney Thompson, Bass Reeves: A History • A Novel • A Crusade
- Zach VandeZande, (some more) American Literature
Recent MA Theses
2020
- Conor Flannery, Collected Stories
- Zachary Kusch, A Century of Ash
- Garrett Vesely, Mortal Ghosts
2019
- Laura Allen, Driving Lessons and Other Stories
- WIlliam Ross Irvin, Life Holders
- Hunter Jernigan, Running from My Youth: Essays
- Benjamin Smith, "A Very Fine Piece of Writing": Parnell and the Joycean Text, 1905-1922
- Morgan Inigo Smith, Flotsam: Men in Isolation
- Leah Tieger, Animals Alive and Dead
2018
- Jaya Wagle, Homeland/Split
2017
- Jessica Beattie, Second Life, Second Chance
- Caleb Braun, Developer
- Lauren Pilcher, "A Kind of Ghost"
- Sarah Ridley, That Every Christian May be Suited: Isaac Watts's Hymns in the Writings of Early Mohegan Writers, Samson Occom and Joseph Johnson
- Cary Siegfried, "Failure to Yield": Essays
- Amanda Yanowski, Off Main Street: Stories
2016
- Ronal L. "Sonny" Bohanon, This Fundamental Lack: Stories
- Erin Campbell, "Refugees" and Others
- Catherine Gollahon, Unclean Slates: Stories
- Natalie Foster, Eaten: A Novel
- Carol Lischau, Counting out the Harvest
- Kaleb Mayo, My Tattooed Mind
- Elizabeth Norton, Monsters Like Us: Reexamining "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" Through the Decades
- Jaclyn Theis, Clocks and Mirrors
2015
- Bryn Agnew, "No Paper Cowboys": Stories
- Julia Batch, Searching for a Savior
- Christie Bingham, Through an Open Window
- Cody Hunter, Prison Notes: An Introductory Study of Inmate Marginalia
- Steven Kilpatrick, Laws of Inheritance
- Elizabeth Whitby, Ghost Machine
2014
- Katherine Brizendine, Penumbra
- Christopher Criswell, Networks of Social Debt in Early Modern Literature and Culture
- Gwendolyn Christy, The Inevitable: Withdrawn
- Frisco Edwards, "Werewolves and Time Machines"
- Aprell Feagin, The Angular Degrees of Freedom: Stories
- Jezy Gray, Underground Men: Alternative Masculinities and the Politics of Performance in African American Literature and Culture
- Luke Heister, Paralysis as "Spiritual Liberation" in Joyce's Dubliners
- Jon Leal, Across Borders and Barlines: Chicana/o Literature, Jazz Improvisation, and Contrapuntal Solidarity
- Erin Lynch, Room of Windows
- Elise Mathews, "Stealing Dreams" and Other Stories
- Jessica Ward, Conjugal Rights in Flux in Medieval Poetry
