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A

Susan Campbell Anderson ('95)
Assistant Professor, Spelman College
“‘Steeped in the Colors of their Trade’: Commodity, Authority, and Self-Articulation in Jacobean Popular Literature”
Advisor: Shelia Cavanagh

B

Jeffrey S. Baggett ('00)
Assistant Professor, Lander University
“Celticism, Orientalism, and Irish Identity, 1829-1916: Ferguson, Mangan, and Yeats”
Advisor: Ronald Schuchard 

Laura Maricque Barlament (’01)
Director of Publications, University of the South
“Wagner’s Tristan and the Limits of Love: Tristianism in Thomas Mann, Kate Chopin, and Willa Cather”
Advisor: Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

Pamela E. Barnett (’96)
Associate Vice Provost and Director of the Teaching & Learning Center, Temple University
“The Language of Rape: Sexual Violence in Novels by Faulkner, Naylor, and Morrison”
Advisor: Trudier Harris

Mary Behrman (’04)
Assistant Professor, Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA
“Chaucer, Gower, and the Vox Populi: Interpretation and the Common Profit in The Canterbury Tales and Confessio Amantis”
Advisor: John Bugge

Patrick W. Bixby (’03)
Assistant Professor, Arizona State University
“Unmapping Ireland: Samuel Beckett and the Postcolonial Novel”
Advisor: John Johnston

Valerie A. Booth (’96)
Adjunct Professor of English at Lane Community College
“Our Late Flowers are Rare and Splendid: Middle-Aged Women in the Novels of Virginia Woolf and Colette”
Advisor: Martine Brownley

J. Marshall Boswell (’96)
Associate Professor, Rhodes College
“Rabbit Rebound: Irresolution and Mastered Irony in John Updike’s Rabbit Angstrom”
Advisor: Mark Bauerlein

Rian Bowie ('08)
Visiting Instructor, Wake Forest University
"Is There a Woman in the Text? The Black Press and the Emergence of Organized Black Womanhood, 1827-1900
Advisor: Frances Smith Foster

Rachel Bowser '08
Visiting Assistant Professor, Emory University
"The Subject of Surfaces in Victorian Fiction"
Advisor: Laura Otis

Amy Benson Brown (’95)
Director of Manuscript Development Program, Office of Provost, Emory University
“Rewriting the Word: Women Writers and the Bible”
Advisor: Martine Brownley

Emily Bowles ('04)
Lecturer in English and Gender Studies, Lawrence University, Wisconsin
Dissertation title: "'Empire Lost': Unstable Terms in the Language of Female Sexuality, Political Conquest, and Literary Authority, 1660-1765"
Advisor: Martine Watson Brownley

C

Laura R. Callanan (’99)
Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Duquesne University
“Reading Race in Mid-Victorian England”
Advisor: Christopher Lane

Ann Marie Campbell (’03)
Assistant Professor, Boise State University
“Left to the Freedom of Her Choice: Depictions of the Marriage Market in the British Courtship Novel, 1750-1790”
Advisor: John Sitter

Mary J. Carter '08
Visiting Assistant Professor, St. Louis University
"The Politics of Walking in the Long Eighteenth Century"
Advisor: John Sitter

Zhesheng Cheng (’97)
Freelance English/Chinese translator
“Narrative Perspective and Imperial Paradox: A Study of the Colonial Novels by Joseph Conrad, E.M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence,and Joyce Cary”
Advisor: Walter Reed

Miriam Madeleine Chirico (‘98)
Associate Professor, Eastern Connecticut State University
“Speaking with the Dead: O’Neill, Eliot, Sartre and Mythic Revisionary Drama”
Adviser: William Gruber

Monica Chiu (’96)
Associate Professor, University of New Hampshire
“Illness and Self-Representation in Asian American Literature by Women”
Advisor: Angelika Bammer

Tara M. Christie ('07)
Modernism, the Metaphysical Poets, and the First World War
Advisor: Ronald Schuchard

Brian Francis Cliff (’01)
Assistant Professor, Montclair State University
“Communities of Difference in Contemporary Irish Literature: Paul Muldoon, Frank McGuinness, and Patrick McCabe”
Advisor: Ronald Schuchard

Rae Carlton Colley (‘98)
“Domesticating the Frontier: Representation of Native Americans in American Women’s Prose, 1820-1885. 
Advisor: Cris Levenduski

Nicole Ruth Cooley (’95)
Assistant Professor, Queens College, City University of New York
“The Avant-Garde at the End of the Century: Gertrude Stein, Postmodernism and Contemporary Women Writers”
Adviser: John Johnston

Brendan Corcoran (’03)
Assistant Professor, Indiana State University
“Ships of Death: The Elegiac Poetics of Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, and Michael Longley”
Advisor: Ronald Schuchard

Lillian Emma Craton ('06)
Assistant Professor, Lander University, Greenwood, South Carolina
"Odd Bodied: Physical Difference and Ideology in Nineteenth-Century Fiction"
Advisor: Walter L. Reed

Michelle Crescenzo (’05)
Assistant Professor, Mississippi Valley State University
“Reading Women Reading: Literacy and Consciousness in Four American Novels”
Advisor: Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

Jodi Cressman (’97)
Research Assistant, Commission on Teaching, Akron, Ohio
“The Miracle, the Marvel, and the Genius: A Study of Autobiography, Psychology, and Publicity in America, 1890-1940”
Advisor: Julie Abraham

Anthony Cuda (’04)
Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
“The Hidden Soul in W. B. Yeats and T. S. Eliot”
Advisor: Ronald Schuchard

Judith Curlee (’96)
“‘Tis A Merry-Age’: Comic Discourse of Marriage in Early Modern Literature”
Advisor: Harry Rusche

 

D

LaRose Marie Davis (’06)
"Weaving Wisps of Narrative: Intersections in African American and Native American Literary Traditions from 1965-2000"
Advisors: Michael Elliott and Mark Sanders

Jean DeSilva (‘04)
Lecturer, Emory University
“Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan, and Pulp Fiction: The Making of Modern American Manhood”
Advisor: Catherine Nickerson

Gavin Morgan Drummond (‘02)
High School Teacher, Westminster School, K-12
“The Poetics of Distance in Northern Irish Poetry”
Advisor: Ronald Schuchard

Renee Dye (’94)
Associate Principal, Accenture, Atlanta
“Sociology for the South: Representations of Caste, Class, and Social Order in the Fiction of William Gilmore Simms”
Advisor: Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

 

E

Rosslyn Pratt Elliott (’06)
“Other Worlds: Christianity, Conjure and Dialogue in American Literary Realism”
Advisor: Michael Elliott

Scott Patrick Ellis (’01)
Assistant Professor, Southern Connecticut State University
“Fictional Privacy and Private Fictions: The Developing Discourse of Fiction in the Early American Republic”
Advisor: Cris Levenduski

Katherine Ellison (’04)
Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, Normal
“Åfter the Fatal News Arrived: Information Delivery and the Eighteenth-Century Media State”
Adviser: Martine Brownley

Anna Elisabeth Engle (’00)
High School English Teacher and English Department Chair at Wesleyan School
“Imagined Evangelical Communities: Conversion Literature and the Construction of Identity in Nineteenth-Century America”
Advisor: Frances Smith Foster

Patrick M. Erben (’03)
Assistant Professor, University of West Georgia
“Writing and Reading a ‘New English World’: Literacy, Multilingualism, and the Formation of Community in Early America”
Advisor: Cris Levenduski

Hans-Georg Erney (’06)
Assistant Professor, Armstrong Atlantic State University (Savannah, GA)
“Modernity and Globalization in Contemporary Literature: A Postcolonial-Ecocritical Approach”
Advisor: Deepika Bahri

William Dansby Evans (’98)
Senior Editorial Associate, Mercer Delta Consulting, New York
“T. S. Eliot’s Harvard College Senior Year: The Medieval Curriculum”
Advisor: John Bugge

 

F

Diana Lynn Farmer (‘98)
English Teacher, Chamblee High School
“‘Cries against the Moaning of the Saint’: The Tension Between Devotion and Desire in the Works of T. S. Eliot”
Advisor: Ronald Schuchard

Erika Leigh Farr (’04)
Staff, Beck Center, Woodruff Library, Emory University
“Spatial Speculations: The Poetics of Place In Renaissance Verse”
Advisor: Sheila Cavanagh

Rebecca Scott Finlayson (‘98)
Assistant Professor and Director of Writing Center, Rhodes College
“The Politics of Criticism: Post-Structuralism and Early Modern Studies”
Advisor: Harry Rusche

G

Caroline Playoust Garnier (’02)
Assistant Professor, Morehouse College
“Women and Trauma in William Faulkner’s Fiction”
Advisor: Barbara Ladd

Karen Bloom Gevirtz (‘98)
Assistant Professor of English, Seton Hall University
“Performing Authority: The Convergence of Form in Eighteenth-Century Didactic Novels and Non-Fiction Prose”
Advisor: Martine Brownley

Walter Glaze (’95)
Assistant Professor, Morehouse College
“Patronage and Otium in Two Renaissance Dialogues: A Comparative Approach”
Advisor: Frank Manley

Erin Goss (’05)
Assistant Professor, Loyola College in Maryland
“Excessive Encounters: The Language of Revelation in Nineteenth-Century Literature”
Advisor: Walter Reed

Kristan Sarve’-Gorham (’01)
Teacher in the Moreno Valley, California, School System
“Answering the Western: The Frontier Myth in American Indian Fiction”
Advisor: Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

Michelle Wallace Gunn ('07)
"Talking Trash: Grotesque Realism and the Poor White in Twentieth-Century Southern Fiction"
Advisor: Mark Bauerlein

 

H

Reshmi J. Hebbar (’02)
Brittain Fellow, Georgia Institute of Technology
“Disorderly Thinking, Model Conduct: Ethnic Heroine Construction in the 20th-Century African and Asian American Women’s Fiction”
Advisor: Catherine Nickerson

Allison Hobgood
Assistant Professor, Willamette University
"Affecting Passions on the Stage: Audience, Emotions, and Early Modern Drama"
Advisor: Richard Rambuss and Patricia Cahill

Kristin Curry Hunter (’95)
Teacher, Westminster School
“The Art of a Genteel Rebel: The Craft of Katherine Ann Porter’s Fiction”
Advisor: Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

 

J     

Cassandra Jackson (’00)
Assistant Professor, College of New Jersey
“‘Barriers Between Us’: Mulatto Figures in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction”
Advisor: Frances Smith Foster

Laura Jeffries (’03)
Teacher, Bolles School College Prep, K-12
“Writing the Life of Margery: Generic Identities, Hagiographic Conventions, and The Book of Margery Kempe”
Advisor: Jim Morey

Jason B. Jones (’02)
Assistant Professor, Central Connecticut State University
“Histories of the Real: Aesthetics and Historiography in the Victorian Novel”
Advisor: Christopher Lane

 

K

Kathy Panthea Kilpatrick (‘98)
Assistant Professor, Rowan University
“Rage and Outrage: African-American Women Novelists in the 1970s”
Advisor: Martine Brownley

Patricia Grace King (’01)
“The Autographical Witness: American Women Writers and the Spanish Civil War”
Advisor: Walter Kalaidjian

Margaret Mary Koehler (’03)
Assistant Professor, Otterbein College
“Scriblerian Intellectual Scenes”
Advisor: John Sitter

Rebecca Sutton Koeser (’06)
Woodruff Library Staff, Systems Division, Emory University
“Nonlinearity and Incarnation in T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets and Susan Howe’s ‘The Nonconformist’s Memorial’”
Advisor: Walter Kalaijian

 

L

Karen O’Neill Lacey (’00)
Assistant Professor, Mercer University
“Women’s Rights: Strategies of Signifying Loss in Eudora Welty’s Narratives”
Advisor: David Hesla

Andrew Patrick Ladd (‘98)
Self-employed
“The Gothic Arthur: A Study of Arthurian Transformations in Geoffrey’s Historia, Laymon’s Burt and the Alliterative Morte Arthure”
Advisor: John Bugge

Christina Marie Bieber Lake (’99)
Associate Professor, Wheaton College
“Incarnational Arts of Flannery O’Connor”
Advisor: Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

Thomas H. Lilly (’03)
Brittain Teaching Fellow, Georgia Institute of Technology
“Contexts of Reception and Interpretation of the United States Serializations of Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1851-52) and Bleak House (1852-53)”
Advisor: Catherine Nickerson

Ruth Looper (95)
Associate Professor, Young Harris College
“The Consecration of Multiplicity: William Butler Yeats and the Grotesque”
Advisor: Ronald Schuchard

 

M

Yolanda M. Manora (’02)
Assistant Professor, University of Alabama
“A Someone Like the Dreamer: Relationship, Community, and Consciousness in Twentieth-Century African-American Women’s Novels”
Advisor: Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

Jennifer Liff Margulis (’99)
Freelance Creative Writer
“Swarthy Pirates and White Slaves: Barbary Captivity in the American Literary Imagination”
Advisor: Frances Foster

Jeffrey Allen Massey (’03)
Assistant Professor, Molloy College
“Corpus Lupi: The Medieval Werewolf and Popular Theology”
Advisor: John Bugge

Dominic Mastroianni ('08)
Assistant Professor, Clemson University
"Secrets of American Romanticism: The Politics and Ethics of Separation"
Advisor: Michael Elliott

Sharon D. McCoy (’03)
“Against the Current: Class, Race, Morality, and the Limits of Love in Huckleberry Finn and Beyond”
Advisor: Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

Kathryn Read McPherson (’98)
Associate Professor, Utah Valley State College
“Great-Bellied Women: Religion and Maternity in Seventeenth-Century England”
Advisor: Sheila Cavanagh

Carole Meyers (’97)
Senior Director, Information Technology and Facilities for Emory College
Emory University
“‘Language is the Dress of Thought:’ Style and Identity in Eighteenth-Century Great Britain”
Advisor: John Sitter

Diana Frances Miles (’00)
“Women, Violence, and Testimony in the works of Zora Neale Hurston”
Advisor: Mark Sanders

Miriam E. Moore (’01)
Associate Professor of English and ESL Director, English Language Academy for Non-Native Speakers, Lord Fairfax Community College, VA
 “Shapes of Desire: Representing the Body in Trolius and Criseyde and Celestina”
Advisor: Dalia Judovitz

Susana Maye Morris ('07)
Assistant Professor, Auburn University
"Reclaiming Mother's Body: Narratives