2009

Rebecca Renee Chapman
May 28, 2009
Co-Chairs:  Leah Marcus & Kathryn Schwarz
Title:  Rehabilitating Shakespeare:  Cultural Appropriation and Queer Subjectivity

Sarah Louise Childress
June 15, 2009
Chair:  Dana Nelson
Title:  Common Interests, Competing Subjectivities:  U.S. and Latin American Avant-Garde Film Theory and Practice

Frances Dianne Henderson
March 27, 2009
Chair:  Michael Kreyling
Title:  (Re)Claiming Self:  Motive Forces Contributing to Migration in African American Literature by Women

Lauren Wood-Hoffer
June 5, 2009
Chair:  Carolyn Dever
Title:  "That Inevitable Woman":  The Paid Female Companion and Sympathy in the Victorian Novel

Jennifer A. Krause
April 29, 2009
Chair:  Michael Kreyling
Title:  From Classical to Postmodern:  Madness in Inter-American Narrative

Donald C. Jellerson
May 15, 2009
Chair:  Lynn Enterline
Title:  Ghost Complaint:  Historiography, Gender, and the Return of the Dead in Elizabethan Literature

Christina Maria Neckles
June 3, 2009
Chair:  Jay Clayton
Title:  Defensive Adaptation:  Managing Social Anxieties in Literature and Film

Miranda Garno Nesler
May 4, 2009
Chair:  Leah Marcus
Title:  Performing Silence, Performing Speech:  Genre and Gender in Stuart Drama

Brian James Rejack
June 24, 2009
Chair:  Jonathan Lamb
Title:  Gluttons and Gourmands:  British Romanticsm and Aesthetics of Gastronomy

Daniel Frederick Spoth
May 4, 2009
Chair:  Michael Kreyling
Title:  The Wandering Eye:  Dreaming the Globe in Faulkner and Walcott

Nafissa D. Thompson-Spires
June 19, 2009
Chair:  Paul Young
Title:  Thank Canada:  Locating the Candaian Presence in U.S. Youth Television

2008


Brian Daniel Deyo 
August 25, 2008
Chair:  Jonathan Lamb
Title:  We Have Never Been Human:  J.M. Coetzee, The Enlightenment, and The Lives of Animals

Joshua Benjamin Epstein
August 18, 2008
Chair:  Mark A. Wollaeger
Title:  "Sublime Noise:  Musical Culture and the Modernist Writer"

Katherine A. Fusco
June 19, 2008
Co-Chairs:  Paul D. Young and Cecelia Tichi
Title:  "Time Material:  Temporality, Narration, and Modernity in Silent Films and American Naturalism"

Benjamin Thomas Graydon
August 21, 2008
Chair:  Cecelia Tichi   
Title:  "Marketing Fictions:  Product Branding in American Literature and Culture"

Persephone Emily Harbin
July 17, 2008
Chair:  Mark A. Wollaeger
Title:  "Transforming the Race-Mother:  Motherhood and Eugenics in British Modernism"

Christian Bradley Long
August 19, 2008
Chair:  Paul D. Young
Title:  "The Wages of Sprawl:  The Experience of the Suburban Form in American Film and Fiction"

Jeffrey Michael Menne
August 20, 2008
Chair:  Paul D. Young
Title:  "The Birth of the Auteur:  The Counterculture, Individualism, and Hollywood Cinema, 1967-1975"

Nicole E. Seymour
June 24, 2008
Co-Chairs:  Carolyn Dever and Paul D.Young
Title:  "Foreign Bodies and Anti-Bodies:  Queer Bodily Transformations in Post-World War II Literature and Film"

2007

Charles Kinian Cosner, Jr.
May 29, 2007
Chair:  John Halperin
Title:  "'Neither Lye nor Romance':  Narrativity in the Old Bailey Sessions Papers"  

Elizabeth A. Festa
September 24, 2007
Co-Chairs:  Cecelia Tichi and Teresa Goddu
Title:  "Precious Specimens:  Public Museums, Popular Culture, and American Literary Modernism"

Jeong-Oh Kim
August 22, 2007
Co-Chairs:  Jonathan Lamb and Mark Schoefield
Title:  "A Sense of Place and the Uncertainty of the Self"

Briana O'Riordan McCoy
March 14, 2007
Co-Chairs:  Carolyn Dever and Jay Clayton
Title: "Migrants and Cosmopolitans: Travel and the Reconciliation of England and Ireland in Nineteenth-Century Literature"

David L. Smith
May 4, 2007
Chair:  John Halperin
Title:  "Under Lock and Key: Securing Privacy and Property in Victorian Fiction and Culture"


2006

Jennifer Clement
December 11, 2006
Co-Chairs: Leah Marcus and Lynn Enterline
Title: "Significant Others: Devotion, Divinity, and Authority in Early Modern England"

Susan Crisafulli
March 13, 2006
Chair: John F. Plummer
Title: " 'Wommen, of kynde': The Construction of the 'Natural' and the Natural World in Medieval Courtly Narrative"

Brian Scott Hicks
March 22, 2006
Chair: Michael Kreyling
Title: "Re-farming the New World Order: Imaginations of Agriculture in Global America"

Melanie Butler Holladay
July 13, 2006
Chair: Cecelia Tichi
Title: "Individualism Possessed: The Supernatural Marriage Plot, 1820 - 1870"

Dean Anthony Masullo
March 29, 2006
Chair: Cecelia Tichi
Title: "The Penumbral Frontier: Landscape, Modernity, and the Subterranean Imagination in New York City Literature and Culture, 1609-2001"

Beccie Randhawa
March 28, 2006
Chair: Jonathan Lamb
Title: "An Elicit Proximity of Geography: Creoles and Colonial Hospitality in 18th-Century Transatlantic Literature"


2005

Andrea Bradley
May 3, 2005
Chair: Jonathan Lamb
Title:  "Wanted: Advertising in British Literature, 1700-1830"

Hyeyurn Chung
November 14, 2005
Co-Chairs: Cecelia Tichi and Tina Chen
Title:  "The Color of Masculinity: Racialized Masculinities and the Reconfiguration of American Manhood"

Shalyn Claggett 
August 16, 2005     
Co-Chairs: Jay Clayton and Carolyn Dever  
Title:  "The Science of Character in Victorian Literature and Culture"
 
Melissa Hull
August 22, 2005     
Co-Chairs: Leah Marcus and Kathryn Schwarz
Title:  "Reproducing Texts, Reproducing Bodies: Aberrant Reproduction and Print Culture in Early Modern England"

Michael Karounos  
March 28, 2005       
Chair:  John Halperin
Title:  "Tropes of Time and Space in Johnson, Burney, Edgeworth, and Austen"

Lisa A. Niles                        
August 17, 2005     
Co-Chairs: Carolyn Dever and Jay Clayton  
Title:  "Unproductive Productivity: Aging and Literature in the Nineteenth Century"

Laurel A. Young
November 29, 2005
Chair:  John Halperin
Title: "(Re)Inventing a Genre: Legacy in Women's Golden Age Detective Fiction"
                                                        

2004

Mark Barr                                  
July 23, 2004       
Co-Chairs: Mark Schoenfield and Jerome Christensen
Title:  “In Search of Justice: Blake, Coleridge and the Romantic Conflict between Legal and Literary Discourse”

Tikenya Foster-Singletary     
August 16, 2004  
Chair: Michael Kreyling
Title:  “Revolutionary Romances: Romantic Love in African American Literature by Women”

Aisha Francis                           
March 19, 2004    
Co-Chairs:  Michael Kreyling and Sheila Smith McKoy
Title:  "Hometraining and How to Be: Black Conduct Literature and the Politics of Identity in United States Culture"

Ellen Levy                                  
December 2, 2004    
Chair: Vereen Bell
Title:  "'Poetry was declining/Painting advancing': The Dialectics of Dominance in the Institution of Modern Art"

Karissa McCoy                        
August 17, 2004  
Chair: Michael Kreyling
Title:  “Re-writing Region, Reconstructing Whiteness: Appalachia and the 'Place' of Whiteness in American Culture, 1930-2003”


2003

Daniel Turner                         
 August 25, 2003          
Chair: Michael Kreyling
Title: "Sustaining Power: The Poetry of the Contemporary American South"        


2002

Tommy Anderson                 
May 29, 2002 
Co-Chairs: Leah Marcus and Lynn Enterline
Title: “The Claims of the Past: Traumatic Events, Compensatory Narratives and the Formation of Identities in Early Modern England”

Lisa Barnes                           
 February 20, 2002    
Chair: Cecelia Tichi
Title: “Politicians in Print: American Women Writers and the Landscapes of Nationalism, 1839-1894”

Sean Heuston                        
July 15, 2002   
Chair: Mark Jarman
Title: “The Dialect of the Tribe: Ethnography and Modern Poets”

Ashley Trice                           
July 1, 2002    
Chair: John Plummer
Title: “Capturing Christ: Representations of the God-Man in Middle English Religious Lyrics”

Anthony Wilson                     
July 31, 2002               
Chair: Michael Kreyling
Title: “The Shadow and the Shelter:The Swamp and Constructions of Southern Identity”