“Towards a Poetics of Conversion: Religious Experience and Modernist Form” (Ann Marie Jakubowski, Chaired by Professor Vincent Sherry)
"The Poetry of Abstraction: Mental Objects, Private and Public, in Post-Reformation England" (Esei Murakishi, Chaired by Professor Joesph Loewenstein)
"Victorian Gothic Realism: Ghostly, Grotesque, Mad, and Criminal Women" (Negeen N. Nikravesh, Chaired by Professor William McKelvy)
“The Limit Does Not Exist”: Utopian and Feminist Pedagogies in 21st-Century Broadway Musicals" (Stephen Reaugh, Chaired by Julia Walker)
"Forgetting About It": Italian American Narratives, Whiteness, and the Reorganization of Historical Memory" (Charlotte Fressilli, Chaired by Bill Maxwell)
2022-2023
“Hell Shock! Colonialism, the World Wars, and the Underworlding of the British Empire” (Matthew Thompson, Chaired by Professor Vincent Sherry)
"Subject, Scientist, Novelist: A Literary History of Sexology at the Firide Siècle" (Catherine Mros, Chaired by Professor Vincent Sherry)
"Pragmatic Ambiguities: Aphoristic Thinking in the American Nineteenth Century" (Thomas Howard, Chaired by Professor Abram Van Engen)
"Knowing One's Place: The Walking Narrative of Self and Belonging in Twentieth-Century Irish Literature" (Ian Clark, Chaired by Professor Guinn Batten)
2021-2022
“Publics Unknown: African American Literature and Radical Publishing in the Midwest, 1877-1939” (Ana Quiring, Chaired by Anca Parvulescu)
2020-2021
"Faith in Translation: Rewriting Secularity in the British Empire" (Joshua Brorby, Summer 2021. Chaired by Professor William McKelvy)
"Publishing Empire: Colonial Authorship and British Literary Production, 1900-1940" (Anna Preus, Summer 2021. Chaired by Professor Vincent Sherry)
"Modernist Amateur Economists: Heterodox Economic Theory and British Literary Modernism" (Samuel Smith, Summer 2021. Chaired by Professor Vincent Sherry)
"Deceptively Ingratiating Shapes: The Feminist Politics of Popular Genre in Twentieth-Century British Fiction" (Lori Grace Lillard, Spring 2021. Chaired by Professor Melanie Micir)
"The Sensitivity Readers Managing Affect in Post-Civil Rights Era Literary Institutions" (Deborah Thurman, Spring 2021. Chaired by Professor Anca Parvulescu)
2019-2020
"Citizenship and 20th Century American Bildungsromane" (Katie Collins, Summer 2020. Chaired by Professor Rafia Zafar)
"Consuming Flame: Commerce, Waste and the Writing of Expansion, 1661–1730 (Pedro J. Fernández, Summer 2020. Chaired by Professor Steven Zwicker)
"The Uses of Character: Modernism and the Politics of Characterization" (Jared Klemp, Summer 2020. Chaired by Professor Vincent Sherry)
"The Poetics of Religious Toleration in Revolutionary England" (Jonathan Koch, Summer 2020. Chaired by Professor Steven Zwicker)
"Planting the Past: Colonization and the Production of Historical Memory in Early Modern England" (Daniel Normandin, Chaired by Professor Joseph Loewenstein)
"Deviant Form: American Literary Exiles, Logical Contradiction, and Postmodernism" (Michael Sanders, Summer 2020. Chaired by Professor William J. Maxwell)
"The Object of Affection: Metamorphosis and the Unbound Subject in Early Modern English Literature" (Emily Barth, Spring 2020. Chaired by Professor Joseph Loewenstein)
"Race and Species: Reimagining the Ethics of Comparison in Contemporary American Fiction" (Samantha Pergadia, Spring 2020. Chaired by Professor Anca Parvulescu)
2018-2019
“Postwar Redux: The Recirculation of Postwar American Literature and the Rise of Networked Readers in the Twenty-First Century” (Melanie Walsh, Summer 2019. Chaired by Professor William Maxwell)
“Democratic Portraiture: Imagining Equal Selves in Melville, Whitman, and Douglass” (Paulo Loonin, Summer 2019. Chaired by Professor Abram Van Engen)
“Transcultural Capital: Anglo-Islamic Traffic on the London Stage” (Corinne Zeman, Summer 2019. Chaired by Professor Robert Henke)
“Seeking Asylum: Communities of Madwomen in Post-1945 American Novels” (Rose Miyatsu, Spring 2019. Chaired by Professor Vivian Pollak)
“Network Poetics: Studies in Early Modern Literary Collaboration” (John Ladd, Spring 2019. Chaired by Professor Steven Zwicker)
“Masculine Narratives of Failure and Nostalgia in British Fiction 1865-1928” (Heidi Lim, Fall 2018. Chaired by Professor Gary Wihl)
2017-2018
“Unsettling Geographies: Primitivist Utopias in Queer American Literature from Walt Whitman to Willa Cather" (Benjamin Meiners, Summer 2018. Chaired by Professor Vivian Pollak)
“Iconic Works: How Catholicism Shaped Eighteenth-Century English Fiction” (Margaret Tucker, Summer 2018. Chaired by Professor Wolfram Schmidgen)
“Altered Egos: Counter Histories in Twentieth-Century British Biographical Fictions” (Merrill Turner, Summer 2018. Chaired by Professor Vincent Sherry)
“Writing Churches: Race, Religious Institutions, and Nineteenth-Century American Literature” (Hannah Wakefield, Summer 2018. Chaired by Professor Abram Van Engen)
“‘Dying Worlds’: Environment, Ecology, Empire in British Literature 1878-1919” (Susanna Williams, Spring 2018. Chaired by Professor Dillon Brown)
“The Nets of Style: Shaping Modernist Literary Narrative” (Kelly Oman, Fall 2017. Chaired by Professor Vincent Sherry)
2016-2017
“Troubling Truth in the Auchinleck Manuscript” (Amy Reynolds, Summer 2017. Chaired by Professor Jessica Rosenfeld)
“Before the Chicago School: Literature, Gender, and Modernist Sociology in America, 1892-1930” (Claire Class, Summer 2017. Chaired by Professor Anca Parvulescu)
“Contrite Hearts: Lay Clergie in Late Medieval England” (Sara Fredman, Spring 2017. Chaired by Professor David Lawton)
“Gospel Writ in Steel: Puritan Genealogies in the Abolitionist Imagination” (Kenyon Gradert, Spring 2017. Chaired by Professor Robert Milder)
“Fatal Books: Dangerous Reading in Victorian England, 1850-1900” (Amanda Farage, Spring 2017. Chaired by Professor William McKelvy)
“Pleasure in the Past: Queer Nostalgia in the Gay American Century” (Elisabeth Windle, Fall 2016. Chaired by Professor Anca Parvulescu)
“Tempo and Temporality in Anglo-American Modernist Literature” (Yuki Tanaka, Fall 2016. Chaired by Professor Vincent Sherry)
2015-2016
“Mortal Verse: Embodied Memory in Early Modern Poetry of Love, Grief, and Devotion” (Annelise Duerden, Summer 2016. Chaired by Professor Joseph Loewenstein)
“Breaking Bread with the Dead: Social Radicalism and Christian Traditions in Twentieth-Century American Literature” (Jonathan McGregor, Summer 2016. Chaired by Professor William Maxwell)
“The Solid & the Shifting: Darwinian Time, Evolutionary Form and the Greek Ideal in the Early Works of Virginia Woolf” (Joseph Kreutziger, Spring 2016. Chaired by Professor Vincent Sherry)
“Spectacular Skepticism: Visual Contradiction on the Early Modern English Stage” (Lauren Robertson, Spring 2016. Chaired by Professor Joseph Loewenstein)
“Queer Accounts: Victorian Literature and Economic Deviance” (Margaret Dobbins, Fall 2015. Chaired by Professor Miriam Bailin)
“Science and Nature in the Medieval Ecological Imagination” (Jessica Rezunyk, Fall 2015. Chaired by Professor David Lawton)
2014-2015
“Lines of Descent: Family and the Art of History in Puritan New England” (Jennifer Romney, Summer 2015. Chaired by Professor Wayne Fields)
“‘An Ineffaceable Stain’: Interracial Marriage and White Masculinity in American Fiction, 1830-1905” (Lauren Barbeau, Summer 2015. Chaired by Professor Rafia Zafar)
“Disabling Modernity: Disability and Sexuality in British Literature, Film and Culture, 1880-1939” (Courtney Andree, Summer 2015. Chaired by Professor Vincent Sherry)
“Alternative Histories: Imagining Ancient Britain on the London Stage, 1560-1642” (Meredith Beales, Summer 2015. Chaired by Professor Joseph Loewenstein)
“‘We Average Unbeautiful Watchers’: Reflexive Fans and the Readerly Stakes of American Sports Narratives” (Noah Cohan, Summer 2015. Chaired by Professor William Maxwell)
“Gothic Literature and the Politics of Indistinction” (Nicholas Miller, Summer 2015. Chaired by Professor Wolfram Schmidgen)
2013-2014
“‘Spontaneous and Leaderless’: The Anarchist Impulse in Twentieth-Century Anglo-American Fiction” (Michael O'Bryan, Summer 2014. Chaired by Professor William Maxwell)
“Among the Modernist Ruins: British Writing and the Architecture of the State” (Ashley Maher, Summer 2014. Co-Chaired by Professor Vincent Sherry and Professor Marina MacKay)
“Heritage Fictions: The Country-House Novel, Preservation, and the New Britain” (Rin Henderson, Summer 2014. Chaired by Professor Dillon Brown)
“‘Round the Corner’: Pawnbroking in the Victorian Novel” (Jennifer Becker, Summer 2014. Chaired by Professor William McKelvy)
“A ‘Living Political Dialect’: The Science of Language and the Victorian Epic Impulse” (Barbara Barrow, Summer 2014. Chaired by Professor Willam McKelvy)
