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

Jeffrey S. Baggett (’00)
Assistant Professor and Chair, 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)
Assistant Professor, 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

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

Rachel Bowser (’08)
Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina Beaufort
"The Subject of Surfaces in Victorian Fiction"
Advisor: Laura Otis

Jennifer Brady (’10)
Lecturer, History and Literature Program, Harvard University
“Sentimental Exchanges in the Antebellum United States”
Advisor: Michael Elliott

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

Jennefer Callaghan (’08)
Director of Writing, Bryn Mawr College
Advisor: Michael Elliott

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, Oglethorpe 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)
Associate Director, Leadership Gifts, Princeton University
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

Kathryn Crowther (’08)
Marion L. Brittain Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Georgia Intstitute of Technology
"Textual Relics: Authorship, materiality, and Literary Commodification in the Victorian Novel"
Advisor: Laura Otis

Brian Croxall (’08)
Emerging Technologies Librarian, Woodruff Library, Emory University
"Discourse Accidents: Technology Within the Stories of Trauma"
Advisor: John Johnston

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

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)
“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

Rosslyn Pratt Elliott (’06)
“Other Worlds: Christianity, Conjure and Dialogue in American Literary Realism”
Novelist
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, Illinois State University
“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

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

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

Nicholas Gianinni (’10)
Knowledge Network Specialist, Thomson Reuters
“Homeland (In)security: Terminal Masculinity and the Spector of 9/11”
Advisor: Walter Kalaidjian

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

Kim Green (’10)
Assistant Professor, Alabama State
“To Be Black and ‘At Home’: Movement, Freedom, and Belonging in African American and African Canadian Literatures”
Advisor: Frances Smith Foster

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

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

Shannon Hipp (’11)
Teacher, The Westminster Schools

Allison Hobgood (’07)
Assistant Professor, Willamette University
“Affecting Passions on the Stage: Audience, Emotions, and Early Modern Drama”
Advisor: Richard Rambuss and Patricia Cahill

Jennifer Hughes (’09)
Assistant Professor, Young Harris College
“Telling Laughter: A Cultural History of American Humor, 1830-1900”
Advisor: Barbara Ladd

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

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

Emily Kader (’11)
Visiting Assistant Professor, Emory University

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

Simon Kress (’10)
“Hurt into Poetry: The Politics of Sentiment in Northern Irish Poetry, 1966-1998”
Advisor: Geraldine Higgins

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

Lori Leavell (’11)
Assistant Professor, University of Central Arkansas

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

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

Lynn Maxwell (’11)
Visiting Assistant Professor, Emory University

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

Irene Middleton (’10)
Brittain Fellow, Georgia Institute of Technology
“Audience Communities: Early Modern Desire in Post-1956 British Performance”
Advisor: Sheila Cavanagh

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

Michelle Miles (’11)
Brittain Fellow, Georgia School of Technology

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 of Transformation in African and African Caribbean Women's Literature, 1970-2005"
Advisor: Frances Smith Foster

Marc Muneal (’10)
Assistant Professor, Gordon College
“Novel Chiaroscuro: INspired Blackness in the Mid-Victorian Novel”
Advisor: Martine Watson Brownley

Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt (’99)
Assistant Professor, Pennsylvania State University
“Narrative Settlements: Genre and Geography in British Women’s Fiction, 1918-1939”
Advisor: Julie Abraham

Carol Elena Newell (’02)
Lawrence C. Gallen Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Villanova University
“Women Folk and the Landscape of Modernism: The Novels of Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Julia Peterkin, and Zora Neale Hurston”
Advisor: Barbara Ladd

Leigh Tillman Partington (’99)
“Forging Ireland: Lady Gregory’s Re-Vision of Irish History”
Advisor: Ronald Schuchard

Sarah Peterson (’08)
Visiting Assistant Professor, Emory University
"Poetic Visions: The Visual in Nineteenth-Century Poetry"
Advisor: Deborah Elise White

Karen Michele Poremski (’00)
Associate Professor, Ohio Wesleyan University
“Liminal Captivities: Manipulations of Race and Genre in Literature of the Early Republic”
Advisor: Cris Levenduski

Aimee L. Pozorski (’03)
Assistant Professor, Central Connecticut State University
“Figures of Infanticide: Traumatic Modernity and the Inaudible Cry” 
Advisor: Walter Kalaidjian

Natalie Prestwich (’06)
"Surface Poetics: Ornamentation and Liquefaction in Robert Herrick's Hesperides"
Advisor: Richard Rambuss

Jessica G. Rabin (’00)
Assistant Professor, Anne Arundel Community College
“Surviving the Crossing: (Im)migration, Ethnicity, and Gender in Trans-National America”
Advisor: Walter Kalaidjian

Elizabeth Rackley (’02)
“Imagining the Rustic Child in the British Romantic Period”
Advisor: Walter Reed

Kelli Vastelle Randall (’07)
Assistant Professor, Salisbury University
"Depictions of Marriage: Fictions of Race and Gender in the Age of Realism"
Advisor: Frances Smith Foster

David Alan Raney (’99)
Director of Publications, College Office Emory University
“Insidious Designs: Contagion and the Borders of the Self in Modern American Literature”
Advisor: Catherine Nickerson

Elizabeth Brewer Redwine (’04)
Adjunct Professor, Seton Hall University
“Written for Her to Act: Female Characters and Theatrical Collaboration in the Plays of Yeats and Synge”
Advisor: Ronald Schuchard

Lauren Rule (’08)
Assistant Professor, The Citadel
"Romantic Revisions: Novels of the Americas De-Scribing Empire"
Advisor: Martine Watson Brownley

Lisa Calgaard Sands (’03)
“Fictional Transformations: Educating White Middle-Class Women and African-Americans, 1865-1900”
Advisor: Cris Levenduski

Steven Schessler (’07)
Adjunct Faculty, Santa Rosa Junior College
"The Craft of Confession: Pain, Temporality, and Mental Illness in the Rise of American Autobiographical Poetry"
Advisor: Walter Kalaidjian

Sarah Schiff (’10)
“Word of Myth: Critical Stories in Minority American Literature”
Advisor: Michael Elliott

Lisa J. Schneider (’08)
Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow, Georgia Institute of Technology
"Poetics of Self-Love: Autoerotic Desire in American Verse"
Advisor: Walter Kalaidjian

Erin Sells (’09)
"24: The Story of a Day in Modernism"
Advisor: Geraldine Higgins

Gitanjali Shahani (’07)
Assistant Professor, San Francisco State University
"Things Rich and Strange: Economies of Encounter andf Exchange in Early Modern Drama"
Advisor: Sheila Cavanagh; Deepika Bahri

Andrew Silver (’97)
Associate Professor, Mercer University
“Minstrel Shows and Whiteface Conventions: The Politics of Popular Discourse and the Transformation of Southern Humor, 1835-1939”
Advisor: Trudier Harris

Anya Krugovoy Silver (’97)
Associate Professor, Mercer University
“Waisted Women: The Anorexic Logic of Victorian Literature”
Advisor: Walter Reed

Robert Stalker (’04)
“The Vast Fatigue: Victorian Literature and the Pleasures of Exhaustion”
Advisor: Christopher Lane

Vickie Lynn Taft (’01)
Educator, Woodward Academy K-12 School
“Body Matters: Victorian Representations of Elizabeth I”
Advisor: Harry Rusche

Shirley Toland–Dix (’01)
Assistant Professor, University of South Florida
“To Tell Their Own Stories: Transformations of Narrative Form by Caribbean Women Novelists”
Advisor: Ellizabeth Fox-Genovese

Christopher Stephen Vilmar (’05)
Assistant Professor, Salisbury University, Maryland
“Samuel Johnson and the Chronotope of Satire”
Advisor: John Sitter

William H. Wandless (’02)
Assistant Professor, Central Michigan University,
“Fifty Deviations from a Straight Line: Narrative Form and the 18th-century English Novel” (Aphra Behn, Lawrence Stern, Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding)
Advisor: Martine Brownley

Elizabeth West (’97)
Assistant Professor, Georgia State University
“Writing the Black Woman: Post-Civil War Constructions of African American Womanhood in the Writings of Alexander Crummell”
Advisor: Trudier Harris

 Peter Harold West (’01)
Assistant Professor, University of Wyoming
“Fictions of Authenticity: Antebellum Literature and the Informational Reader”
Advisor: Barbara Ladd

Karen Brown Wheeler (’04)
“Belated Travelers and Posthumous Children:  Phantoms of Romanticism in Victorian Literature”
Advisor: Walter Reed

Jennifer Denise Yusin (’07)
Assistant Professor, Drexel University
"From the Borders of Partition: Trauma, Ethics, and Testimony"
Advisor: Deepika Bahri