Selected Dissertations

  Medieval

• Jenny Adams, "Gender, Play, and Power: The Literary Uses and Cultural Meanings of Medieval Chess in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries"
• Suzanne Edwards, "Beyond Raptus: Pedagogies and Fantasies of Sexual Violence in Late Medieval England"
• Andrew Rabin, "Testimony in Old English Literature"

  Renaissance/Early Modern

• Paul Cefalu, "Habit, Virtue and Character: Moral Identity in Early Modern English Texts"
• Glenn Clark, "Drama and the Culture of Commercial Hospitality in Early Modern England"
• Christine Coch, "In a Lady's Bower: Poetry, Gardens, and the Problem of Pleasure in Early Modern England"
• Aaron Kitch, "Paper Stages: The Intersection of Printing and Drama as Cultural Institutions in Tudor and Stuart England"
• Gregory Kneidel, "'I Am Made All Things to All People': Pauline Humanism and Protestant Rhetoric in Early Modern England"
• Paula McQuade, "Casuistry and Tragedy: Cases of Conscience and Dramatizations of Subjectivity in Early Modern England"
• Mary Trull, "Public Privacies: Household Intimacy in Renaissance Genres"
• David Wilson-Okamura, "Spenser and the Renaissance 'Aeneid'"

  Eighteenth Century

• Tony Brown, "Beside History: Rethinking the Primitive in Aesthetics and Literature, 1700-1830" (2005)
• Michelle Jensen, "Imposture and Cultural Appropriation in Eighteenth-Century British Narrative, 1663-1800"
• Joanne Myers, "Projecting Agents: Epistemological Critique and the Rhetoric of Belief in Eighteenth-Century British Projects" (2005)
• Gregory Nosan, "'The People Rejoiced': Vauzhall Gardens and the Public World, 1732-1792"
• James Perry, "Building the Second Temple: the Art of Dramatic Adaptation in England, 1660-1688"
• William Pritchard, "Outward Appearances: The Display of Women in Restoration London"
• Catherine Skeen, "Projecting Ireland: Irish Writing in English, 1720-1760"

  Romantic

• Samuel Baker, "Written on the Water: British Romanticism and the Culture of Maritime Empire"
• Martha Bohrer, "Reports from the Field: Natural History and the Rural World in Romantic Period Literature"
• Noel Jackson, "Sensation: British Romanticism, Human Science, and the Invention of the Aesthetic"
• Maureen McLane, "Poetry Bound: Romantic Writing and the Science of Man"
• Jonathan Sachs, "Antique Modernity: Republicanism, Romanticism, and the Matter of Rome"

  Victorian and Late Victorian

• Zarena Aslami, "State Fantasy: The Late Nineteenth-Century British Novel and the Cultural Formation of State Personhood"
• William Dotson, "Sacred Conspiracies: Spiritualist and Occult Politics in Britain, 1843-1916"
• Kathleen Frederickson, "The Content of Instinct: Fiction, Liberalism, and the Sciences of Sexuality, 1870-1900" (2007)
• Michelle Hawley, "Aesthetic Citizenship: Poetry and the Public Sphere, 1868-1874"
• Aeron Hunt, "Personal Business: Character and Commerce in Victorian Literature and Culture" (2005)
• Victoria Olwell, "Female Genius: Fiction, Politics, and Gender, 1870-1920"
• Emily Rena-Dozier, "Novel Histories: The Rise of the Novel in the Nineteenth Century" (2005)
• Lise Shapiro, "Consuming Fantasies: Labor, Leisure, and the London Shopgirl, 1880-1914"

  Modern, Contemporary, and Transnational

• Thomas Balazs, "Toward the New Man: Modernism and Masculinity from Relational Psychoanalytic Perspective"
• Jessica Burstein, "Prosthetic Fictions: Cold Modernism in Wyndham Lewis, Mina Loy, and Evelyn Waugh"
• Kavita Daiya, "Violent Belongings: Nationalism, Gender and Postcolonial Citizenship"
• Lee Garver, "Lost Politics: The New Age and the Edwardian Socialist Roots of British Modernism"
• Stephen Lewis, "Passionate Engagement: Love, Bullfighting and Politics in Anglo-American and French Literature, 1926-1955"
• Anne O'Connell, "The Embodiment of Culture: Medical Fantasies of the Body in Avant-Garde Modernism"
• Paige Reynolds, "'A New Public, A New Form of Life': Irish Modernism and Irish Audiences"
• Emily Shelton, "My Secret Life: Photographs, Melancholy Realisms, and Modern Personhood" (2002)
• Rajiv Vrudhula, "The Bengali Babu: Ideology, Stereotype and the Quest for Authenticity in Colonial South Asian Literature"