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The Graduate Program

Dissertations in Progress
updated: January 16, 2007

Jason Arthur
Purple States: The Long Division of the Cosmopolitan and the Provincial
Director: Andrew Hoberek

Shelley Block 
American Women Temperance Writers
Director: Patricia Okker 

Erin Clair
Death Becomes Her: Modernism, Necrophilism, Femininity
Director: Elisa Glick

Sharon Emmerichs
The Twice-Gated Garden: Shakespeare and the Landscape of England
Director: David Read

Chatham Ewing
American Little Magazines of the Mid-20th Century: Network Analysis, Influence and Canons
Director: Tim Materer

NaImah Ford
Toward a Theory of "Yere Wolo": Coming of Age Narratives, Identity Construction, and the African Diaspora
Director: Karen Piper

Laura Gravette
British and American Parks in Novels
Director:  Nancy West

Joseph Green
Victorian Natural History as Cultural History
Director: Nancy West

Phil Howerton
Delayed Reality: The Arcadia Myth and the Backwoods Stereotype in the Local Color Literature of the Missouri Ozarks, 1865-1945
Director: Tom Quirk

Emily Isaacson
Domesticating the Citizen: Household Authority, the Merchant Class Family, and the Early Modern Stage
Director: William Kerwin

Michael Lueker
Negotiating the Writing Classroom
Director: Martha Townsend

Carolyn Anne Mack
The Ideal Victorian Woman of Empire
Director: Howard Fulweiler

Michael Piafsky
Tarot (fiction)
Director: Marly Swick

Julianne Ramsey
George Lippard and His Critique of Antebellum Nationalism
Director: Thomas Quirk

Lisa Rathje
Re/presenting Traditions: Identity, Power, and Politics on the Festival Stage and in the Museum Exhibit
Director: Elaine Lawless

Jeremy Reed
The American Dream From the Margins in 20th Century Fiction
Director: Andrew Hoberek

Sharon Robideaux
Student Applications of Discourse Convention Cues Pertaining to Differing Audiences:  A Constructivist Analysis
Director: Marty Townsend