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, 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

Rachel Bowser (’08)
Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina Beaufort
"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
"'Empire Lost': Unstable Terms in the Language of Female Sexuality, Political Conquest, and Literary Authority, 1660-1765"
Advisor: Martine Watson Brownley

Jennefer Callaghan (’08)
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, Milliken 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)
Visiting Assistant Professor, Clemson 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”
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)
"The Craft of Confession: Pain, Temporality, and Mental Illness in the Rise of American Autobiographical Poetry"
Advisor: Walter Kalaidjian

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)
Visiting Assistant Professor, Emory University
"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