Recent Theses, Dissertations & Graduate Degrees Awarded
Beginning in Fall 2001, all UF students awarded graduate degrees have been required to submit electronic copies of theses and dissertations to UF’s George A. Smathers Libraries. (Voluntary electronic submission began in 1998.) Most are openly accessible; some are restricted to access from UF computers for periods prescribed by the author.
August 2007
Joel C. Adams, PhD. “Incandescently Queer: Reading Desire in Culture.” Chair: Stephanie Smith. Readers: Susan Hegeman, David Leverenz, Eric Segal (UF, Art & Art History).
P. Todd Reynolds, PhD. “Security Exchanges: The Rise of Systematic Criminal Justice in Gilded Age U.S. Imagination.” Chair: Stephanie Smith. Readers: Susan Hegeman, Kenneth Kidd, Louise Newman (UF, History).
Joanna R. Shearer, PhD. “Naught by Nature: Chaucer and the (Re)Invention of Female Goodness in Late Medieval Literature.” Chair: R. Allen Shoaf. Readers: James Paxson, Stephanie Smith, Andrea Sterk (UF, History).
A. Catherine Tosenberger, PhD. “Potterotics: Harry Potter Fanfiction of the Internet.” Chair: Kenneth Kidd. Readers: John Cech, Terry Harpold, Linda Lamme (UF, Teaching & Learning).
Alison Joy Van Nyhuis, PhD. “Gendering America: Caribbean Writers and the American Dream.” Chair: Leah Rosenberg. Readers: Marsha Bryant, Susan Hegeman, Berta Hernandez-Truyol (UF, Comparative Law).
Leah M. Carroll, MFA. “Roughly the Size of Rhode Island.” Chair: Jill Ciment. Readers: Andrew Gordon, Mary Robison.
Melissa Garcia, MFA. “The Language of Tongues.” Chair: Sidney Wade. Readers: Ira Clark, Michael Hofmann.
David B. Ramsey, MFA. “Even to the Edge of Doom.” Chair: David Leavitt. Readers: Susan Hegeman, David Leverenz.
Angela D. Schlein, MA. “Privilege and Idealism in Salinger and Knowles’s Modern American Prep School Stories.” Chair: R. Brandon Kershner. Reader: Julie Kim.
Rachel M. Slivon, MA. “Triangular Desire and Female Sacrifice: Emerging Logic in Ada Leverson’s ‘Love’s Shadows,’ ‘Tenterhooks,’ and ‘Love at Second Sight.’” Chair: Chris Snodgrass. Reader: Pamela Gilbert.
May 2007
Doris R. Bremm, PhD. “Representation Beyond Representation: Modes of Ekphrasis in Contemporary Narratives.” Chair: Julian Wolfreys. Readers: Alexander Alberro (UF, Art & Art History), Marsha Bryant, Susan Hegeman.
Rebecca A. Brown, PhD. “The Uncanny English House in the English Novel from 1890s to 1930s.” Chair: Julian Wolfreys. Readers: Nora Alter (UF, Germanic & Slavic Studies), R. Brandon Kershner, Eric Kliegerman (UF, Germanic & Slavic Studies).
Timothy A. Gilmore, PhD. “Towards the Death and Flowering of Transcendentalism in Walt Whitman.” Chair: David Leverenz. Readers: Susan Hegeman, Louise Newman (UF, History), Stephanie Smith.
Jessica A. Livingston, PhD. “Narratives of Work in a Neoliberal Economy.” Chair: Susan Hegeman. Readers: Sheryl Kroen (UF, History), Amy Ongiri, Phillip Wegner.
Jessica Magnani, PhD. “Divided Loyalties: Latina Family Sagas and National Romances.” Chair: Tace Hedrick. Readers: Efrain Barradas (UF, Romance Languages & Latin American Studies), Malini Johar Schueller, Phillip Wegner.
James McDougall, PhD. “Innovations and Exclusions: The Incorporation of Chinese Literature in Modern American Poetry.” Chair: Marsha Bryant. Readers: Susan Hegeman, Malini Johar Schueller, Chuan-Kang Shih (UF, Anthropology).
Jill Pruett, PhD. “Autobiography in the Business of Modern Aesthetics: Gertrude Stein, Josephine Baker, Elisa Shiaparelli, and Sylvia Beach.” Chair: Marsha Bryant. Readers: Amy Ongiri, Gwynn Kessler (UF, Religion), James Paxson.
Antoinette E. Baker, MFA. “I Went To Japan on Business, and I Saw the Revolution There.” Chair: David Leavitt. Readers: Sidney Homan, Brian McCrea.
Eric M. Bliman, MFA. “Insurrection Avenue.” Chair: Michael Hofmann. Readers: Terry Harpold, Sidney Wade.
Julie G. Christenson, MFA. “Elbow and Scarcity.” Chair: Jill Ciment. Readers: John Cech, David Leverenz.
Margaret D. Franklin, MFA. “The Owl of the Orchard.” Chair: Sidney Wade. Readers: William Logan, Brian McCrea.
Georgia Gelmis, MFA. “After the Island.” Chair: David Leavitt. Readers: Marsha Bryant, Leah Rosenberg.
Derrick L. Hoeben, MFA. “Sandlappers.” Chair: Mary Robison. Readers: R. Brandon Kershner, Kenneth Kidd.
Amanda L. Jones, MFA. “The Lighter Voices.” Chair: William Logan. Readers: R. Brandon Kershner, Sidney Wade.
Marianne Kunkel, MFA. “In Secret.” Chair: Sidney Wade. Readers: Marsha Bryant, Michael Hofmann.
Christopher W. Lenz, MFA. “The Dog Years: Three Stories.” Chair: Jill Ciment. Readers: Andrew Gordon, R. Brandon Kershner.
Linsey N. Maughan, MFA. “An Explanation for Rain.” Chair: Deborah Greger. Readers: William Logan, Sidney Wade.
Sean C. McCartin, MFA. “Mystery Play: A Novel.” Chair: David Leavitt. Readers: Marsha Bryant, Kenneth Kidd.
Saara M. Raappana, MFA. “Every Important Thing.” Chair: William Logn. Readers: Deborah Greger, Michael Hofmann.
William G. Scherban, MFA. “The Great Minor League Baseball Novel.” Chair: Mary Robison. Readers: Terry Harpold, Todd Hasek-Lowy (UF, African & Asian Languages & Literatures).
Andrew P. Wislocki, MFA. “At Least the Dead Lie Still.” Chair: William Logan. Readers: Ira Clark, Michael Hofmann.
Zachary G. Beck, MA. “Alienation and Love: Creating a Redemptive Hermeneutics from the Work of St. Augustine.” Chair: James Paxson. Reader: Phillip Wegner.
Janel M. Cayer, MA. “‘Perhaps the World Ends Here’: Reinscribing the Kitchen in Contemporary Women’s Poetry.” Chair: Marsha Bryant. Reader: Susan Hegeman.
Lisa K. Dusenberry, MA. “Playing Adolescent: ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ & The Subject of Participatory Media.” Chair: Kenneth Kidd. Reader: Terry Harpold.
Cari Jo Keebaugh, MA. “Quoth the Raven, ‘Eat My Shorts’: Adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe in YA Culture.” Chair: Kenneth Kidd. Reader: David Leverenz.
Joshua N. Miller, MA. “Living by Faith, Not by Sight: The Literary Spiritual Journeys of Stephen Crane and Gerard Manley Hopkins.” Chair: Marsha Bryant. Reader: Richard Brantley.
Brittany L. Parkhurst, MA. “A Masculinizing Investigation: The Detective and Problem of Female Reticence in the Sensational Detective Fiction of Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Wilkie Collins.” Chair: Pamela Gilbert. Reader: Chris Snodgrass.
Lindsay N. Skorupa, MA. “Firefly: Exploring Humanity in the SF Western.” Chair: Andrew Gordon. Reader: Phillip Wegner.
Christina Van Houten, MA. “The Epic Production of Gertrude Stein’s The Making of Americans, or (Re)Presenting and (Re)Forming History.” Chair: Susan Hegeman. Reader: Phillip Wegner.
December 2006
Patricia R. Campbell, PhD. “Portraits of Gastonia: 1930s Maternal Activism and the Protest Novel.” Chair: Stephanie Smith. Readers: Tace Hedrick, Susan Hegeman, Angel Kwolek-Folland (UF, History).
Derek S. Merrill, PhD. “Abject Americans: Waste, Obsolescence and Strategies of Recycling in 20th Century Literature.” Chair: Phillip Wegner. Readers: Alexander Alberro (UF, Art & Art History), Marsha Bryant, Susan Hegeman.
Thomas C. Odde, PhD. “The Chronotopic Imagination: Aberrant Times and Figures in Cinema.” Chair: Maureen Turim. Readers: Nora Alter (UF, Germanic & Slavic Studies), Tom Conley (Special Member), Scott Nygren.
Anuradha Ramanujan, PhD. “Forging Secular Publics: Literature and Cultural Activism in Post-Emergency India.” Chair: Malini Johar Schueller. Readers: Swapna Banerjee (UF, History), Pamela Gilbert, Leah Rosenberg, Mark Thurner (UF, History).
Rosa E. Soto, PhD. “Cultural Perspectives on Images and Representations of Latinas in Film, Television and Popular Culture.” Chair: Tace Hedrick. Readers: Efrain Barradas (UF, Romance Languages & Latin American Studies), Debra King, Malini Johar Schueller.
Stephanie L. Tripp, PhD. “Hauntology and Humanities Studies.” Chair: Gregory Ulmer. Readers: Kimberly Emery, Robert Ray.
Maisha L.Wester, PhD. “Blackness Writes Back: Contemporary African-American Re-Visions of Gothic Racial Ideologies.” Chair: Malini Johar Schueller. Readers: LaMonda Horton-Stallings, David Leverenz, Jon Sensbach (UF, History).
Heather Hamilton, MFA. “The Soft Music of Ships.” Chair: William Logan. Readers: Marsha Bryant, Sydney Wade.
Maryam H. El-Shall, MA. “Modern Interpretations of Gender in Naguib Mahfouz’s Cairo Trilogy.” Chair: Apollo Amoko. Reader: LaMonda Horton-Stallings.
August 2006
Natasa Kovacevic, PhD. “Civilization’s Wild East: Narrating Eastern Europe’s Communism and Post-Communism.” Chair: Julian Wolfreys. Readers: Malini Johar Schueller, Phillip Wegner, Galina Rylkova (UF, Germanic & Slavic Studies).
Nicole LaRose, PhD. “Gangsters, Zombies, and Other Rebels: Alternative Communities in Late Twentieth-Century British Novels and Films.” Chair: Julian Wolfreys. Readers: Phillip Wegner, Margaret Kohn (UF, Political Science), James Paxson.
Kirsten K.B. Ortega, PhD. “The Poète Flâneuse in the American City: Gwendolyn Brooks, Adrienne Rich, Diane di Prima, and Audre Lorde.” Chair: Marsha Bryant. Readers: David Leverenz, Amy Ongiri, Brian Ward (UF, History).
Rashna W. Richards, PhD. “Lightning Flashes: A Cinephiliac History of Classic Hollywood.” Chair: Robert Ray. Readers: Nora Alter (UF, Germanic & Slavic Studies), Susan Hegeman, Gregory Ulmer.
Robert C. Schachel, PhD. “Textual Projections: The Emergence of a Postcolonial American Gothic.” Co-Chairs: David Leverenz, Terry Harpold. Readers: Sylvie Blum (UF, Romance Languages & Literatures), James Paxson.
Nishant Shahani, PhD. “Queer Pedagogy and American Studies: A Reparative Thinking.” Chair: Kimberly Emery. Readers: Stephanie Smith, Gwynn Kessler (UF, Religion), Kenneth Kidd.
Lloyd E. Willis, PhD. “Looking Away: The Evasive Environmental Politics of American Literature, 1823–1966.” Chair: Stephanie Smith. Readers: Jack Davis, (UF, History), Sidney Dobrin, Phillip Wegner.
Eric M. Maxson, MFA. “Somehow He Deserved It.” Chair: Padgett Powell. Readers: Roger Beebe, R. Brandon Kershner.
George Arnold, MA. “In Sites: Locating Resistance in Composition.” Chair: Sidney Dobrin. Reader: Gregory Ulmer.
Jessica Burstrem, MA. “Monster Mothers: Feminist Approaches to Mothering Sons.” Chair: Kenneth Kidd. Reader: Kimberly Emery.
Kadesh L. Minter, MA. “‘She Had Never Seen A Place For Which Nature Had Done More’: The Role of Nature in Jane Austen’s Enlightened Feminist Romanticism.” Chair: Judith Page. Reader: Richard Brantley.
Amy-Kate Roedger, MA. “The Remus Lupin/Sirius Black Paring: Using Slash Fiction to Discuss Canon.” Chair: Kenneth Kidd. Reader: Linda Lamme (UF, Teaching & Learning).
Linda D. Stanley, MA. “Alejo Carpentier’s ‘The Kingdom of This World’ and the Spectral Voice of Communal Consciousness.” Chair: Leah Rosenberg. Reader: Apollo Amoko.
May 2006
Renuka Bisht, PhD. “Against Fundamentalisms: Analyzing South Asian Popular Culture.” Chair: Maureen Turim. Readers: Swapna Banerjee, Scott Nygren, Malini Johar Schueller.
Sophie P. Croisy, PhD. “Other Cultures of Trauma: Meta-Metropolitan Narratives and Identities.” Chair: Julian Wolfreys. Readers: Kenneth Kidd, Carol Murphy (UF, Romance Languages & Literatures), Maureen Turim.
Emily M. Garcia, PhD. “Intra-Imperialisms: Reading the Revolutionary Subject in American Literature and Political Discourse, 1776–1787.” Chair: John P. Leavey, Jr. Readers: Alvaro Bolanos (UF, Romance Languages & Literatures), Susan Hegeman, Julian Wolfreys.
Robin J.G. Nicks, PhD. “Fairy Tales and Necrophilla: A New Cultural Context for Antebellum American.” Chair: David Leverenz. Readers: Marsha Bryant, Kenneth Kidd, Louise Newman (UF, History).
Eric C. Otto, PhD. “Science Fiction and the Ecological Conscience.” Chair: Andrew Gordon. Readers: Sidney Dobrin, Phillip Wegner, Bron Taylor (UF, Religion).
Laurie N.F. Taylor, PhD. “Not of Woman Born: Monstrous Interfaces and Monstrosity in Video Games.” Chair: Donald D. Ault. Readers: Julian Wolfreys, Jane Y. Douglas (UF, Warrington College of Business), Paul Fishwick (UF, Computer & Information Science & Engineering).
Huei-Ju Wang, PhD. “Foreclosing Others in Cultural Representation.” Chair: John P. Leavey, Jr. Readers: Robert A. Hatch (UF, History), Malini Johar Schueller, Phillip Wegner.
Antonio Garza, MFA. “Your Place is My Home.” Chair: Mary Robison. Readers: Tace Hedrick, Brian McCrea.
Allen Jih, MFA. “Beyond the Pale Country of Anger.” Chair: William Logan. Readers: Richard Brantley, Michael Hofmann
Elizabeth Kaiser, MFA. “Girl With Hair on Fire.” Chair: Mary Robison. Readers: Roger Beebe, Michael Hofmann.
Matthew R. Ladd, MFA. “The Storm in Air.” Chair: William Logan. Readers: Michael Hofmann, Melvyn New.
Daniel G. Levine, MFA. “Punishment.” Chair: David Leavitt. Readers: Richard Brantley, R. Brandon Kershner.
Jessica E. Murray, MFA. “The Good Death, Happy Endings.” Chair: William Logan. Readers: Richard Brantley, Marsha Bryant.
Laura Anne Paul, MFA. “A Little Indiscretion.” Chair: William Logan. Readers: Michael Hofmann, Sidney Wade.
Stephen K. Priest, MFA. “Artless Silences.” Chair: William Logan. Readers: Michael Hofmann, James Paxson.
David G. Reidy, MFA. “Captive Audience.” Chair: David Leavitt. Readers: Susan Hegeman, R. Brandon Kershner.
Megan E. Shevenock, MFA. “Some Months Are Sadder Than Others.” Chair: William Logan. Readers: Richard Brantley, Michael Hofmann.
Troy A. Teegarden, MFA. “No More Bullets.” Chair: Jill Ciment. Readers: R. Brandon Kershner, R. Allen Shoaf.
Tanya N. Underwood, MFA. “The Circus of the Black Hole.” Chair: Jill Ciment. Readers: John Cech, Kenneth Kidd.
Adam B. Vines, MFA. “Mayflies.” Chair: William Logan. Readers: Michael Hofmann, Sidney Wade.
Wesley Beal, MA. “Conspiracy Theory and Consumer Practice: Collecting and the Paralysis of Interpretation in American Film.” Chair: Phillip Wegner. Readers: Edward White, Mark Fenster.
Ramona A. Caponegro, MA. “Prisoners of Innocence: American Justice, Children, and Children’s Books, 1865–1920.” Chair: Kenneth Kidd. Reader: John Cech.
James R. Fleming, MA. “Death in Life/Life in Death: Trauma, Testimony, and the 1798 Lyrical Ballads.” Chair: Judith W. Page. Reader: Donald D. Ault.
Andrew Grunzke, MA. “Money! Money in Oz: Consumerism, Communism, and the Censorship of Baum’s Oz Books.” Chair: John Cech. Reader: Andrew Gordon.
Trisha M. Kannan, MA. “‘I took my Power in my Hand’: Emily Dickinson’s Thirtieth Fascicle.” Chair: Richard Brantley. Reader: Judith W. Page.
Valerie A. Leitner, MA. “Aural Ekphrasis and Statian Sound in Chaucer’s Temple of Mars.” Chair: James Paxson. Reader: Melvyn New.
Tammy Lee Sharpe, MA. (Non-Thesis Option). Chair: Terry Harpold. Reader: Kimberly Emery.
Horacio Sierra, MA. “Marjory Stoneman Douglas’s River of Progress: Modernism, Feminism, Regionalism, and Environmentalism in Her Early Writings.” Chair: David Leverenz. Reader: Jack Davis (UF, History).
Michael A. Vastola, MA. “Postwar American Culture and the Ideological Inscription of the Suburban Norm.” Chair: Sidney Dobrin. Reader: Raúl Sánchez.
Monica Ann Williams, MA. “Misreading Pamela: The Secular Critic as Determined Seducer.” Chair: Melvyn New. Reader: Ira Clark.
December 2005
Jonathan C. Goodwin, PhD. “Consciousness, History, and Nation in the British Novel, 1926–1932.” Chair: Norman Holland. Readers: George Esenwein (UF, History), R. Brandon Kershner, James Paxson.
Tiffany N. Hinton, PhD. “Water, Perfect Memory: Gender, Culture and Consciousness in the Novels of Toni Morrison.” Chair: Debra King. Readers: Susan Hegeman, R. Brandon Kershner, Irma McClaurin (UF, Anthropology).
Aaron D. Shaheen, PhD. “Androgynous Democracy: American Modernity and the Dual-Sexed Body Politic.” Chair: David Leverenz. Readers: Susan Hegeman, Kenneth Kidd, Louise Newman, (UF, History).
Washella N. Turner, PhD. “Unity or Dissension? African American Literary Perspectives on Twentieth-Century Organizations and Relations.” Chair: Mark A. Reid. Readers: David Leverenz, Amy Obugo Ongiri, Gwendolyn Simmons, (UF, Religion).
Sharmain Van Blommestein, PhD. “Female Mystics and Violent Love: Bodytalk, Battering, and Biology.” Chair: R. Allen Shoaf. Readers: Willard Hasty (UF, Germanic & Slavic Studies), Susan Hegeman, James Paxson.
Sheri Lynne Allen, MFA. “The Amelioration of a Dream.” Chair: Michael Hofmann. Readers: David Leavitt, Scott Nygren, Sidney Wade.
Erin E. Fernandez, MA. “Puzzles and Possibilities: New Forms of Communication in the Electrate Age.” Chair: Gregory Ulmer. Reader: Terry Harpold.
Michael Muhlhauser, MA. “Pedagogy of Disease: Re-envisioning Critical Pedagogy for Economically-Privileged U.S. College Students in the First Year Composition Classroom.” Chair: Sidney Dobrin. Reader: Pamela Gilbert.
Margot R. Reynolds, MA. “Gentlewomen Prefer Women: Refiguring Dorothy and Her Friendship to Lorelie.” Chair: Susan Hegeman. Reader: Kimberly Emery.
August 2005
Traci M. Klass, PhD. “Writing Home: Grace Aguilar and the Jews.” Chair: Judith W. Page. Readers: Richard Brantley, Pamela K. Gilbert, Leah Hochman (UF, Religion).
Maria Del Carmen Martinez, PhD. “Almost Americans: Gender and Exile/Ethnic Cuban American Literature.” Chair: Stephanie Smith. Readers: Kimberly Emery, Tace Hedrick, Shelen Safa (UF, Anthropology), Malini Johar Schueller.
Jason M. Richards, PhD. “Whites in Blackface, Blacks in Whiteface: Racial Fluidities and National Identies.” Chair: Malini Johar Schueller. Readers: David Leverenz, Louise Newman (UF, History), Stephanie Smith.
Kevin P. Barents, MFA. “Bearings.” Chair: William Logan. Readers: Michael Hofmann, Sidney Wade.
Sarah W. Bleakney, MA. “‘Inconsistent’ Desire: Self-Government and Age-Disparate Marriage in George Elliot’s Middlemarch.” Chair: Pamela K. Gilbert. Reader: Susan Hegeman.
Lindsey N. Collins, MA. “Dissimulation Women: Jamaica Kincaid’s Autobiography of My Mother and Annie John.” Chair: Leah Rosenberg. Reader: Scott Nygren.
Sean W. Morey, MA. “Ecosee: Toward A Visual Rhetoric and Composition of Nature.” Chair: Sidney Dobrin. Reader: Andrew Gordon.
May 2005
Glenn Freeman, PhD. “Lyric Voice and American Democracy.” Chair: Marsha Bryant. Readers: LaMonda Horton-Stallings, Stephanie Smith, Brian Ward (UF, History).
Fayeza S. Hasanat, PhD. “Recasting Muslim Women: A Translation of Nawab Faizunnesa’s ‘Rupjalal.’” Chair: Pamela K. Gilbert. Readers: Swapna Banerjee (UF, History), Susan Hegeman, Malini Johar Schueller.
Marco P. Alves, MFA. “Beneath Each Wing, A Light.” Chair: William Logan. Readers: Tace Hedrick, Michael Hofmann.
Jonathan L. Brown, MFA. “Wyoming Was Good To Us.” Chair: Mary Robison. Readers: Michael Hofmann, R. Brandon Kershner.
Dawn A. Chartschlaa, MFA. “Red Holes Everywhere.” Chair: William Logan. Readers: Debora Greger, Sidney Wade.
Kachina O. Domenick, MFA. “The Missing Gardener.” Chair: William Logan. Readers: Robert Ray, Sidney Wade.
Natalie J. Graham, MFA. “The Perfect Body.” Chair: William Logan. Readers: Marsha Bryant, Jill Ciment.
Marli Ann E. Guzzetta, MFA. “The Last Box.” Chair: David Leavitt. Readers: Marsha Bryant, R. Brandon Kershner.
Donald J. Kinney, MFA. “The Elephant Jumpers.” Chair: Mary Robison. Readers: Andrew Gordon, Stephanie Smith
Ann L. McFadyen, MFA. “Dogarama.” Chair: David Leavitt. Readers: Roger Beebe, Scott Nygren.
Christine A. McIsaac, MFA. “Almost Always Benign and Other Stories.” Chair: Jill Ciment. Readers: Terry Harpold, Kenneth Kidd.
Christine E. Poreba, MFA. “Toward a Distant Coast.” Chair: William Logan. Readers: Ira Clark, Sidney Wade.
Christiaan Sabatelli, MFA. “Sherwood Anderson Tours the East Village.” Chair: William Logan. Readers: Marsha Bryant, R. Alan Shoaf
Nora Anne Spencer, MFA. “Rewilding.” Chair: Jill Ciment. Readers: Kenneth Kidd, Sidney Wade.
Jonas W. Williams, MFA. “Guy Santana Sings, Ay-Ay-Ay-Ay Me Stories.” Chair: Mary Robison. Readers: Michael Hofmann, R. Brandon Kershner.
Lawrence M. Wood, MFA. “The Sendoff and Other Stories.” Chair: David Leavitt. Readers: Rober Beebe, Michael Hofmann.
Samuel Worland-Esquith, MFA. “Expatriation.” Chair:
Padgett Powell. Readers: Roger Beebe, Brian McCrea.
Joel Adams, MA. “Falling Into the Queer
Archive: ‘A Florida Enchantment’ and the Uses of
a History of U.S. Consumer Capitalism.” Chair: Stephanie
Smith. Reader: Kimberly Emery.
Lydia S. Blätter, MA. “The Centrifugal Tendencies of ‘The Possessed’ in Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood.” Chair: Susan Hegeman. Readers: Kimberly Emery, Tace Hedrick.
Anna Lee Guest, MA. “Uncovering Our Work: The Production of Knowledge in Academia and Activism.” Chair: Susan Hegeman. Reader: Apollo Amoko.
Lacy F. Hodges, MA. “‘Scully, What Are you Wearing?’ The Problem Of Feminism, Subversion, and Heteronormativity in The X-Files.” Chair: Andrew Gordon. Reader: R. Brandon Kershner.
Nicholas A. Jelley, MA. “The Potential for Rewriting Myth: Finding the ‘Kindness’ on the Frontier.” Chair: Gregory Ulmer. Reader: Robert Ray.
Paul A. Johnson, MA. “The Moving Picture Ship.” Chair: Robert Ray. Reader: Donald D. Ault.
Rachael E. Kane, MA. “‘Our Present Race of Young Men’: Frances Burney’s Bad Boys.” Chair: Brian McCrea. Reader: Patricia Craddock.
Jessica M. Espinosa, MA. “A Forgotten Victorian Adventure Writer: William H. G. Kingston and His Politics, Religion, and Stories.” Chair: Pamela K. Gilbert. Reader: Kenneth Kidd.
Christina A. Leon, MA. “Figures of the ‘Other Cuban:’ Trauma, Periperformativity and the Everyday.” Chair: Kimberly Emery. Reader: Leah Rosenberg.
Thomas J. Love, MA. “Disturbing the Genre: Evaluation Power Structures in Y.A. Literature and Charting New Possibilities With Push.” Chair: Kenneth Kidd. Reader: John Cech.
Patrick J. McHenry, MA. “Vanguard Assemblages: New Media and the Enthymeme.” Chair: Gregory Ulmer. Reader: Terry Harpold.
Randi M. Smith, MA. “Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread: The Spiritual Consummatory Appetite and the Death Wish in the Poetry of Francis Quarles and Robert Southwell.” Chair: Ira Clark. Reader: James Paxson.
December 2004
Afshin’ Mohamed H. Hafizi, PhD. “Toward A General Economy of Travel: Identity, Memory and Death.” Chair: John P. Leavey, Jr. Readers: Robert Hatch (UF, History), Phillip Wegner Julian Wolfreys.
Kyeong Hwangbo, PhD. “Trauma, Narrative, and the Marginal Self in Selected Contemporary American Novels.” Chair: Norman Holland. Readers: Andrew Gordon, Malini Johar Schueller, Hernan Vera (UF, Sociology).
A. Rochelle Mabry, PhD. “In Love In a Movie: Women and Contemporary Romantic Comedy.” Chair: Maureen Turim. Readers: Nora Alter (UF, Germanic & Slavic), Roger Beebe, Susan Hegeman.
Melinda S. Cardozo, MA. “Empty Incantations and Rewritten Rituals: Reading Judith Butler for Recognitions of Subjectivity.” Chair: Stephanie Smith. Reader: Kimberly Emery.
Marlon Moore, MA. “‘A Torrent of Rhetoric’: Constructs of Blackness and Masculinity in Critical Responses.” Chair: Roger Beebe. Reader: Amy Obugo Ongiri.
August 2004
Howell (Mack) Evans, PhD. “The Literature of the Blues and Black Cultural Studies.” Chair: R. Brandon Kershner. Readers: William McKeen (UF, Journalism), Mark A. Reid, Robert Thomson.
Michelle M. Sipe, PhD. “Bringing Beauty Home to the Poor: Women, the Gardenesque, and the Domestication of Landscape in Nineteenth-Century British Culture.” Chair: Pamela K. Gilbert. Readers: Sheryl Kroen (UF, History), Elizabeth Langland (UC, Davis), Phillip Wegner.
Shane W. Trudell, PhD. “Meridians: Mapping Metaphors of Mixed Racial Identity.” Chair: Tace Hedrick. Readers: Debra King, Milagros Pena (UF, Sociology), Mark A. Reid.
Frederick J. Young, PhD. “Towards An Ethics of the Political.” Chair: Julian Wolfreys. Readers: Alexander Alberro (UF, Art History), John P. Leavey, Jr., Gregory Ulmer, Phillip Wegner.
Barbara R. Drake, MFA. “Embouchure and Three Stories.” Chair: David Leavitt. Readers: Kenneth Kidd, Sidney Wade.
Julie A. Green, MFA. “Walk On An Abandoned Island.” Chair: Sidney Wade. Readers: Debora Greger, William Logan.
Oindrila Mukherjee, MFA. “Things Come Together, with Stories.” Chair: David Leavitt. Readers: Michael Hofmann, Scott Nygren.
Suzanne E. Warren, MFA. “Truants: Stories, Translations, Essays.” Chair: Jill Ciment. Readers: Marsha Bryant, Stephanie Smith.
Michael A. Sansone, MA. “Immersion, Stylization, Naturalization, and the Erasmatron: Bridging the Gap Between Gameplay and Narrative Toward the Promise of Interactive Storytelling.” Chair: Jane Douglas. Reader: Don Ault.
May 2004
Denise K. Cummings, PhD. “The Spaces of Viewing: Film, Architecture, Exhibition, Spectatorship.” Chair: Maureen Turim. Readers: Susan Hegeman, Robert Ray, Eric Segal (UF, Art History).
David W. Hart, PhD. “Exile and Agency in Caribbean Literature and Culture.” Chair: R. Brandon Kershner. Readers: Tace Hedrick, Gerald Murray (UF, Anthropology), Malini Johar Schueller.
Megan A. Norcia, PhD. “X Marks the Spot: Victorian Women Writers Map the Empire.” Chair: Pamela K. Gilbert. Readers: Cesar Caviedes (UF, Geography), Kenneth Kidd, Chris Snodgrass.
Brendan P. Riley, PhD. “Cinema, Computers, and War.” Chair: Gregory Ulmer. Readers: Nora Alter (UF, Germanic & Slavic Studies), Roger Beebe, Robert Ray, John Sabin (UF, Physics).
Victoria D. Schooler, PhD. “Prayer in Chaucer’s Poetry.” Chair: R. Allen Shoaf. Readers: William Calin (UF, Romance Languages & Literatures), Ira Clark, Patricia Craddock, James Paxson.
Eric D. Smith, PhD. “Unfinished Modernities: Bakhtin and the Modernist Novel in Postcolonial Literatures.” Chair: R. Brandon Kershner. Readers: Swapna Banerjee (UF, History), Leah Rosenberg, Malini Johar Schueller, Phillip Wegner.
Dean A. Swinford, PhD. “Through the Daemon’s Gate: Kepler’s Somnium, Medieval Dream Narratives and the Polysemy of Allegorical Motifs.” Chair: James Paxson. Readers: Nora Alter (UF, Germanic & Slavic Studies), Fernand Hallyn (Special), Robert Hatch (UF, History), R. Allen Shoaf, Phillip Wegner.
Jolia S. Einstein, MFA. “Off the Isle of Man.” Chair: Debora Greger. Readers: Richard Brantley, William Logan.
Cortney M. Grubbs, MFA. “Where the Gods Live.” Chair: Sidney Wade. Readers: Marsha Bryant, William Logan.
Michael J. Loughran, MFA. “The Unreasonable Season.” Chair: Sidney Wade. Readers: Michael Hofmann, William Logan.
Terrence McGovern, MFA. “None of Us is Perfect and Other Stories.” Chair: David Leavitt. Readers: Brian McCrea, Scott Nygren.
Mark A. McKain, MFA. “Elegy for A Moth.” Chair: Debora Greger. Readers: Michael Hofmann, William Logan.
Arthur W. McMaster III, MFA. “Gathering Night Noises.” Chair: Sidney Wade. Readers: Richard Brantley, Marsha Bryant.
Amanda J. Reynolds, MFA.“Degrees of Separation.” Chair: Sidney Wade. Readers: Marsha Bryant, Michael Hofmann.
Bryan R. Smith, MFA. “The Good Life of the City.” Chair: Jill Ciment. Readers: Roger Beebe, Scott Nygren.
Jonathan A. Stern, MFA. “The Half-Life of Home Furnishing.” Chair: William Logan. Readers: Michael Hofmann, Sidney Wade.
Michael Kevin Wilson, MFA. “Taking Bases.” Chair: Padgett Powell. Readers: Roger Beebe, Brian McCrea.
Thomas G. Bragg, MA. “A Mere Appendix: The Reclaiming and Desexing of Sherlock Holmes.” Chair: Pamela K. Gilbert. Reader: Chris Snodgrass.
Katherine Ann Casey-Sawicki, MA. “The Circulation of Reality TV and Internet Activism: Real World Meet the Zapatistas.” Chair: Roger Beebe. Reader: Kenneth Kidd.
Erica R. Dix, MA. (Non-Thesis Option). Chair: Marsha Bryant. Reader: Kenneth Kidd.
Idoia Gorosabel, MA. “Straightening Up and Coming Out: Documenting the Heterosexual Trajectory of TLC Daytime.” Chair: Roger Beebe. Reader: Kenneth Kidd.
Cathlena A. Martin, MA.“Breaking Narrative Bounds: The Use of Multiple Visual Narratives in Caldecott Medal Award Books.” Chair: John Cech. Reader: Kenneth Kidd.
Michael S. Pearl, MA. “All That We Become: Renegotiation Vampire/Performative Masculinity in: Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Angel.” Chair: Phillip Wegner. Reader: Kenneth Kidd.
Malini Roy, MA. “Godwin’s Politics of Process.” Chair: John Cech. Readers: Kenneth Kidd, Donald D. Ault.
Sarah E. Schiff, MA. “Family Systems Theory as Literary Analysis: The Case of Phillip Roth.” Chair: Kenneth Kidd. Reader: Marsha Bryant.
Jennifer B. Simmons, MA. “Visions of Feminist (Pom(o)nanism):Masturbating Female Postmodern Subjectivity in American Television and Film.” Chair: Maureen Turim. Reader: Roger Beebe.
Erik R. Sullivan, MA. “If Not Jeffries, Then Rivera, Says Jack London: Authoring the Removal of Jack Johnson’s Golden Smile.” Chair: John Seelye. Reader: Kevin McCarthy.
Zachary N. Whalen, MA. “Play Along: An Approach to the Metaphoric and Metonymic Functions of Video Game Music.” Chair: Jane Douglas. Reader: Donald D. Ault.
December 2003
Sarika Chandra, PhD. “Dislocalism: Travel, Globalization, and the Production of Knowledge.” Chair: Susan Hegeman. Readers: Robert Hatch (UF, History), Tace Hedrick, Stephanie Smith.
David T. Johnson, PhD. “Cinematic Accidents in Theory and Practice.” Chair: Robert Ray. Readers: Nora Alter (UF, Germanic & Slavic Studies), R. Brandon Kershner, Gregory Ulmer.
Anne H. Lambert, PhD. “The Wild Woman and Her Sisters in Medieval English Literature.” Co-Chairs: Marie Nelson and R. Allen Shoaf. Readers: Patricia Craddock, Martha Hardman (UF, Anthropology), Robert Thomson.
David A. Matthew, PhD. “Bodies of Blended Times: Time Compression Figures and the Imagination of the Future.” Chair: Pamela K. Gilbert. Readers: James Paxson, Anna Peterson (UF, Religion), Phillip Wegner.
Heather N. Milton, PhD. “Woman to Woman: Confession, Sexuality, and the Production of Bourgeois Subjectivity.” Chair: Pamela K. Gilbert. Readers: Marsha Bryant, Sheryl Kroen (UF, History), Elizabeth Langland (UC, Davis).
Bharati Kasibhatla, MA. “Athleticism and Empire In P.G. Wodehouse’s The White Feather.” Chair: Chris Snodgrass. Reader: Pamela K. Gilbert.
Robin L. Nuzum, MA. “Jean Toomer or How the Failed Race Man Performed Modernity.” Chair: Tace Hedrick. Reader: Malini Johar Schueller.
Kristen D.G. Smith, MA. (Non-Thesis Option). Chair: Ira Clark. Reader: Patricia Craddock.
August 2003
C. Bradley Dilger, PhD. “Ease in Composition Studies.” Chair: Gregory Ulmer. Readers: John Blake Scott (University of Central Florida, English), Stephanie Smith, Joseph Wilson (UF, Computer Engineering).
Nivedita Majumdar, PhD. “The Nation and Its Discontents: A Critique of Nationalism in South Asian Literature.” Chair: John P. Leavey, Jr. Readers: Frederick Corney (UF, History), Tace Hedrick, Phillip Wegner.
Joy K. Gonsalves, MFA. “The Moon in January.” Chair: Debora Greger. Readers: William Logan, Sidney Wade.
Henry J. Butler, MA. “Diegetic Stance and Its Role in RPGs: An Examination of Schema. Development and Narrative Application in Digital Interactive Fiction.” Chair: Jane Douglas. Reader: Terry Harpold.
Madhurima, Chakraborty, MA. “Midnight’s Children and Subaltern Pasts: Salman Rushdie Provincializing Europe.” Chair: Malini Johar Schueller. Reader: Leah Rosenberg.
Jason Currie, MA. “The Other Imagination in The Prelude.” Chair: Donald D. Ault. Reader: Richard E. Brantley.
Kim A. Johnson, MA. “The Burden of Proof: Authenticity and Authorship in Children’s Literature.” Chair: Debra W. King. Reader: Kenneth Kidd.
Scott Gregory Reed, MA. “Webs of Resistance: New Media, Ecocomposition, and Resistance Theory.” Chair: Sidney Dobrin. Reader: Terry Harpold.
Joanna R. Shearer, MA. “In Search of a ‘Noble Prechour’: Re-defining Chaucer’s Struggle for Authority Over That of His Female Narrators and Their Experience in The Canterbury Tales.” Chair: R. Allen Shoaf. Reader: James J. Paxson.
Brinly L. Standridge, MA. “A Psychoanalytic Reading of Picture Book Dynamics: Adam Phillips’s Theories of Desire On A Temporality of Image, Text, and Closure in Fantasy.” Chair: Kenneth Kidd. Reader: Robert Thomson.
Monica T. White, MA. “Speaking In Our Own Tongues: Language and Conversations Between African Based Creative Theory and Western Based Traditional Theory in Womanist Dramatic Theoretical Discourse.” Chair: Debra W. King. Readers: Michael Pinkney (UF, Theatre), Leah Rosenberg.
May 2003
Arnold Nicholas (Nick) Melczarek, PhD. “The Ecstasy of St. Subaltern: Ideology, Jouissance, and Figuration in Literature and Theory.” Chair: Malini Johar Schueller. Readers: Kimberly Emery, Louise Newman (UF, History), Stephanie Smith. Special Reader: Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, English).
Lorraine Ouimet, PhD. “Narratives of Recovery: Trauma, History, and the Use of the Supernatural in Contemporary African American Cultural Productions.” Chair: David Leverenz. Readers: Maude Hines (Portland State University, English), Mark A. Reid, Michael Pinkney (UF, Theatre).
Patricia Ventura, PhD. “The Cultural Logic of the United States in the Globalization Era.” Chair: Susan Hegeman. Readers: Roger Beebe, Angela Kwolek-Folland (UF, History & Women’s Studies), Phillip Wegner.
Sharla R. Benedict, MFA. “The Idea That Created the Universe.” Chair: William Logan. Readers: Marsha Bryant, Sidney Wade.
Ann Bronston, MFA. “‘Eskimo Nights’ and Other Stories.” Chair: David Leavitt. Readers: Terry Harpold, Kenneth Kidd.
U. Michael Dietz, MFA. “Reports From the Province.” Chair: Sidney Wade. Readers: Michael Hofmann, William Logan.
Peter J. Grimes, MFA. “The Actual Muscles of the Heart.” Chair: Padgett Powell. Readers: R. Brandon Kershner, John Seelye.
Stephanie L. Harrison, MFA. “We Need More Elephants.” Chair: Jill Ciment. Readers: Pamela K. Gilbert, R. Allen Shoaf.
Christopher I.M. Jones, MFA. “Conducted In It.” Chair: Michael Hofmann. Readers: Ira Clark, Susan Hegeman.
Stephanie M. Kartalopoulos, MFA. “Peculiar Love.” Chair: Sidney Wade. Readers: Donald D. Ault, Michael Hofmann.
Joseph Piazza, MFA. “Deposed Kings.” Chair: David Leavitt. Readers: Sidney Homan, Michael Hofmann.
Rebecca E. Soppe, MFA. “‘Saint Theresa’s Finger’ and Other Stories.” Chair: David Leavitt. Readers: Anne G. Jones, R. Brandon Kershner.
Kristoffer H. Stokes, MFA. “Playacting.” Chair: Jill Ciment. Readers: Scott Nygren, Sidney Wade.
Suzanne M. Zweizig, MFA. “Bang, Whiskey, Roost.” Chair: Michael Hofmann. Readers: Marsha Bryant, Sidney Wade.
Cameron C. Clark, MA. “‘And she was loved’: TrauMA. and Testimony in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon.” Chair: Anne G. Jones. Reader: Debra King.
Ariel A. Gunn, MA. “‘He might have read between the lines’: Dissonant Identity in the Early Works of John Oliver Hobbes.” Chair: Chris Snodgrass. Reader: Julian Wolfreys.
Trena R. Houp, MA. “There and Back Again: A Brief Survey of Wordless Picturebooks.” Chair: John Cech. Reader: Kenneth Kidd.
Amy R. Kimball, MA. “Kate the Transgressor: Katharine Hepburn and Popular Conceptions of Feminist and Lesbian Iconography.” Chair: Maureen Turim. Reader: Stephanie Smith.
Sarah M. Mallonee, MA. “Exploring Hybridity in Flora Annie Steel’s On the Face of the Waters and The Law of the Threshold.” Chair: Pamela K. Gilbert. Reader: Malini Johar Schueller.
James I. McDougall, MA. “At the Crossroads: The Intersection of Interlanguage, Residual Modernism, and Nomadic Hybridity in Bei Dao and Ezra Pound’s Modernist Poetics.” Chair: Marsha Bryant. Reader: Scott Nygren.
Theresa Ostrom, MA. “‘And He Honoured Þat Hit Hade Euermore After’: The Influence of Richard II’s Livery System on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.” Chair: R. Allen Shoaf. Reader: James J. Paxson.
Tabitha L. Parks, MA. “In Another Place, Not Here: A Reappropriation of Caribbean Nationalism.” Chair: Kimberly Emery. Reader: Leah Rosenberg.
Herschel Shepard, MA. “Human, All Too (Post) Super-Human: (Dis)Corporation in The Dark Knight Strikes Again.” Chair: John P. Leavey, Jr. Reader: Donald D. Ault.
Alison J. Van Nyhuis, MA. “Modernist Transcanonization: Reading Genevieve Taggard and Una Marson.” Chair: Marsha Bryant. Reader: Leah Rosenberg.
Lloyd E. Willis, MA. “Modernism, Environmentalism, and the Treatment of Land in T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land.” Chair: Sid Dobrin. Reader: R. Brandon Kershner.
December 2002
Patrick S. Brennan, PhD. “Underground Homosexualities: Resituating the Early Sixties Cinema. of Kenneth Anger, Jack Smith, and Andy Warhol.” Chair: Scott Nygren. Readers: Maureen Turim, Robert Ray, Sylvie Blum (UF, Romance Languages).
Mary L.S. Huffer, PhD. “Emily Dickinson’s Experiential Poetics: ‘not precisely Knowing/And not precisely Knowing not.’” Chair: Richard Brantley. Readers: David Leverenz, Marsha Bryant, John Cech, David Hackett (UF, Religion).
Heather Joy Marcovitch, PhD. “The Art of the Pose: Oscar Wilde’s Theory of Persona.” Chair: Chris Snodgrass. Readers: Alistair Duckworth, Pamela K. Gilbert, Ralf E. Remshardt (UF, Theatre).
Brian Rhinehart, PhD. “Acting Comedy: In History, Theory, and Practice.” Chair: Sid Homan. Readers: Norman Holland, John Seelye, Carl Bredahl, David Young (UF, Theatre).
Jeffrey Rice, PhD. “The Rhetoric of Cool: Computers, Cultural Studies, and Composition.” Chair: Gregory Ulmer. Readers: Sid Dobrin, James Paxson, William Tilson (UF, Architecture).
Mario F. Garcia, MA. “The Physique Closet: Phantom Normalcy and Gay Masculinity.” Chair: Blake Scott. Reader: Kimberly Emery.
Roman Kazmin, MA. “Landscape and Ideology in 18th Century British Culture.” Chair: Julian Wolfreys. Reader: John P. Leavey, Jr.
Eric C. Otto, MA. “The Speculating a Sustainable Future: Science Fiction and the Pedagogy of Ecological Literacy.” Chair: Andrew Gordon. Reader: Sid Dobrin.
Jill L. Pruett, MA. “The Evidence of Experience: Narrative As Rhetoric, Autobiography As Activism.” Chair: Anne G. Jones. Reader: Kimberly Emery.
August 2002
Paul K. Feith, MA. “A Gonzo Cockroach: Narrative and Social Justice in Oscar Zeta Acosta’s The Revolt of the Cockroach People.” Chair: Tace Hedrick. Reader: Stephanie Smith.
Edrik J. Lopez, MA. “The Trope of the Nostalgic Jibaro: A Theory of U.S. Puerto Rican Literature.” Chair: Tace Hedrick. Reader: Efraín Barradas (UF, Romance Languages).
Sherwin F. Mendoza, MA. “‘I Have You Properly Taped, My Lad’: Tom Kernan Overdetermined.” Chair: Phillip Wegner. Reader: R. Brandon Kershner.
Elizabeth C. Rack, MA. “ BUSTing Up the Mainstream: Bohemian Feminist Texts and Postmodern Resistance.” Chair: Stephanie Smith. Reader: Maureen Turim.
Harun K. Thomas, MA. “The Pedagogy of Whatever.” Chair: Gregory Ulmer. Reader: Kimberly Emery.
Audrey C. Wasser, MA. “Bakhtin: Living Discourse and the Shape of Dialogism.” Chair: Phillip Wegner. Reader: James Paxson.
May 2002
Angela Kay H. Bacsik, PhD. “Technologies of Inscription: Archival Iterability and the Semiotics of Genomic Language.” Chair: John P. Leavey, Jr. Readers: Daniel Cottom (University of Oklahoma, English), Harry Paul (UF, History), Phillip Wegner.
Dion C. Cautrell, PhD. “The Substance of Style: Invention, Arrangement, and Paralogic Rhetoric In the Composition Classroom.” Chair: Sid Dobrin. Readers: Frederick Corney (UF, History), James Paxson, Blake Scott.
Alan R. Clinton, PhD. “High Modernism in the History of Automatism.” Chair: R. Brandon Kershner. Readers: Alexander Alberro (UF, Art), Marsha Bryant, Robert Ray, Gregory Ulmer.
William Blake Gerard, PhD. “‘Sallies of the Imagination’: Visual Imagery and the Work of Laurence Sterne.” Chair: Melvyn New. Readers: Patricia Craddock, Alistair Duckworth, C. John Sommerville (UF, History).
John J. Smith, PhD. “Men of the Cold War: Warrior Ethos and Domesticity in 1950s America.” Chair: Marsha Bryant. Readers: Andrew Gordon, Kenneth Kidd, Brian E. Ward (UF, History).
Jason A. Snart, PhD. “The Torn Book: Fixity, Fluidity, Disorder and Energy in William Blake’s Marginalia.” Chair: Donald D. Ault. Readers: Richard Brantley, Robert A. Hatch (UF, History), Phillip Wegner.
Christopher H. Bachelder, MFA. “A Brief History of Bad Love: Stories.” Chair: Padgett Powell. Readers: Roger Beebe, David Leavitt.
Rachel E. Carroll, MFA. “Things We Dream of Having.” Chair: William Logan. Readers: Michael Hofmann, Sidney Wade.
Hillary N. Commins, MFA. “The Pig Flower and Other Stories.” Chair: David Leavitt. Readers: John Cech, Michael Hofmann.
John C. Elderkin, MFA. “Bad Doctor.” Chair: David Leavitt. Readers: Michael Hofmann, Kenneth Kidd.
Andrew M. Kozma, MFA. “Bitter Roses and Thorn Tea.” Chair: William Logan. Readers: Scott Nygren, Sidney Wade.
Ryan J. Meany, MFA. “Over and Down in a Barrel.” Chair: Padgett Powell. Readers: David Leavitt, Sidney Wade.
Emily J. Miller, MFA. “Swim and Other Stories.” Chair: Padgett Powell. Readers: Ira Clark, David Leavitt.
Laura A. Roesler, MFA. “Night Scouting.” Chair: William Logan. Readers: Marsha Bryant, Sidney Wade.
Nicole A. Schildkraut, MFA. “Car After Car After Car.” Chair: William Logan. Readers: John Cech, Sidney Wade.
Charles N. Wuest, MFA. “Inside A Lean-To.” Chair: Sidney Wade. Readers: Michael Hofmann, Marie Nelson.
Tanya P. Zarlengo, MFA. “Dead in Bug Heaven.” Chair: Padgett Powell. Readers: David Leavitt, R. Allen Shoaf.
Benjamin Bain-Creed, MA. “The Production of the Surreal: An Evaluation of Nature, Consciousness, and Creation in Sylvia Plath’s Poetry.” Chair: Marsha Bryant. Reader: Susan Hegeman.
Kirsten K. Bartholomew, MA. “The Poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks and Audre Lorde: Redefining Urban Possiblities.” Chair: Marsha Bryant. Reader: Mildred Hill-Lubin.
Sophie P. Croisy, MA. “Revisiting Ecofeminism: Identy Politics, Environmental Debates, and the Promise of Native American Literature.” Chair: A. Carl Bredahl. Reader: Angela Kwolek-Folland (UF, History & Women’s Studies).
Sean M. Fenty, MA. “Defining and Extending Interactive Narrative in the Digital Age: A Defense of the Computer Game as a Narrative Medium.” Chair: Jane Y. Douglas. Reader: Terry Harpold.
Nicole M. LaRose, MA. “Information in The Information: Reading and Refusing Mass Media Mentality in Martin Amis’s London.” Chair: Julian Wolfreys. Reader: R. Brandon Kershner.
Laurie N.F. Taylor, MA. “Video Games: Perspective, Point-of-View, and Immersion.” Chair: Terry Harpold. Reader: Jane Y. Douglas.
December 2001
Richard E. Joines, PhD. “‘For Those With Ears to Hear’: Emerson, Rhetoric, and Political Philosophy.” Chair: John P. Leavey, Jr. Co-Chair: Stephanie Smith. Readers: Phillip Wegner, Geoffrey Waite (Cornell University, German Studies), Robert H. Zieger (UF, History).
Chandra T. Mountain, PhD. “Bodies of Knowledge: Madness and Power in Africana Women’s Texts.” Chair: R. Brandon Kershner. Readers: A. Carl Bredahl, Debra Walker King, Anne Wyatt-Brown (UF, Linguistics).
Robert S. Lehman, MA. “Sebald, Intuition, and The Maltese Falcon: Rethinking the Possibilities of Film Analysis.” Chair: Robert Ray. Reader: Gregory Ulmer.
Brian L. Meredith, MA. “Nation, City, Utopia: Conspiracies of Form in Fielding’s Amelia.” Chair: Patricia Craddock. Reader: Brian McCrea.
Julie A. Sinn, MA. “‘I Ain’t No Trick Baby’ or Princess in Disguise: Gender Boundaries and Female Mobility in Freeway, Snow White: A Tale of Terror, and Ever After: A Cinderella Story.” Chair: Kenneth Kidd. Reader: John Cech.