Recent Alumni
Summer 2025
Anderson, Alexandra. Spaces of Assimilation: Multiethnic American Women's Writing and the Gothic. [Committee: Paul R. Schneider (Co-chair), Derek A. Pacheco (Co-chair), Maren T. Linett, Marlo D. David, Cindy Murillo.] Assistant Professor of English, University of Minnesota Crookston.
Morgenstern, Matt. Climate Solutions and Genre Politics in Contemporary Fiction. [Committee: Robert P. Marzec (Chair), Aparajuta Sagar, John N. Duvall, Gerry N. Canavan.] Lecturer, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Education Department, University of Minnesota Crookston.
Fall 2024
Alhallafi, Ahlam. Beyond Borders: Literary Encounters with the Arabian Peninsula Across the Centuries. [Committee: Robyn A. Bartlett (Chair), Christopher J. Lukasik, Paul R. Schneider, Manushag N. Powell.] Lecturer, Department of English, King Khalid University.
Summer 2024
Pearson, Allyn. From Judith to Dorigen: The Feminine Embodiment of Violence in Medieval English Literature. [Committee: Robyn A. Bartlett (Chair), Dorsey Armstrong, Shaun F.D. Hughes, Dana M. Oswald.] Faculty Awards Specialist, Purdue University.
Spring 2024
Diefenderfer, Marc. Militarizing Whiteness: Vietnam Veterans, Race, and Narrative. [Committee: John N. Duvall (Chair), Jennifer L Freeman Marshall, Nancy J. Peterson, Robert P. Marzec.] Assistant Professor, Department of English, Brazosport College.
Fall 2023
Leaman, Kristen. Printers, Publishers, and Translators of Aelfric's Easter Homily in A Testimonie of Antiquitie from 1566-1687. [Committee: Shaun Hughes (Chair), Angelica A. Duran, Michael R. Johnston, S Dorsey Armstrong.] Assistant Professor, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Education Library, Purdue University.
Summer 2023
Gotfredson, Erika. Race, Space, and Narrative: Spatial Reading and Racial Literacy in Contemporary Multifocal American Novels. [Committee: Nancy J. Peterson (Chair), Marlo D. David, Paul R. Schneider, Corinne Bancroft.] Assistant Professor, Department of English, Aquinas College.
Kim, NaRim. Ethical Wondering in Contemporary African American and Asian American Women's Magical Realism. [Committee: Nancy J. Peterson (Chair), Aparajita Sagar, Derek A. Pacheco, Marlo D. David.]
McNulty, Erin. We Need Diverse Histories: Systemic Racism in Young Adult Historical Fantasy. [Committee: Derek A. Pacheco (Chair), Janet M. Alsup, Manushag N. Powell, Nicole Livengood.]
Spring 2023
Myers, Maggie. Give Her Some Space: Quest Maidens, Spatiality, and Mobility in Medieval Arthurian Literature. [Committee: Dorsey Armstrong (Chair), Robyn A. Bartlett, Shaun F.D. Hughes, Molly A. Martin.] Teaching Professor, Department of English, Xavier University.
Roders, Dana. Beyond Deadly Sins and Virgin Impairments: Medieval Bodies in Disability Studies. [Committee: Manushag N. Powell (Chair), Robyn A. Bartlett, Derek A. Pacheco, Shaun F.D. Hughes.] Adult Student Program Manager, University of Wisconsin Parkside.
Fall 2022
Liu, Tzu-Yu. The Consolidation of the British Merlin's Identity from Geoffrey of Monmouth to Malory: From a Foreign Iuvenis sine Patre to the Powerful Advisor of King Arthur. [Committee: Dorsey Armstrong (Chair), Michael Johnston, Paula E. Leverage, Shaun F.D. Hughes.] Assistant Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences, natinal Dong Hwa University Language Center
Summer 2022
Iacocca, Vanessa. Ossianic Medievalisms: Dialogic Nation-Building and a Tradition of Invention in the Internal British Empire, 1760-1921. [Committee: Shaun F.D. Hughes (Chair), Dino F. Felluga, Manushag N. Powell, Matthew Reznicek.] Assistant Professor of English, Young Harris College
Parsons-Powell, Michelle. Unwiht: Shifting Boundaries of Humanity in Early Middle English Language and Literature. [Committee: Shaun F.D. Hughes (Chair), Dorsey Armstrong, Michael Johnston, Mary K. Niepokuj.]
Spring 2022
Ortega, Alejandra. "Stories in the form of places": Modern Literary Domestic Spaces. [Committee: maren T. Linett (Chair), John N. Duvall, Nancy J. Peterson, Justus Nieland.] Associate Professor, Department of English, College of DuPage.
Ribeiro Costa, Ane. Absent Mothers, Rebel Daughters, and Motherlands: The Politics of Home. [Committee: Shaun F.D. Hughes (Chair), Jennifer L. Freeman Marshall, Robert P. Marzec, Venetria K. Patton.] Assistant Professor of English, Utica University.
Summer 2021
Froid, Dan. Enlightenment Devilry: Devils in Eighteenth-Century British Literature. [Committee: Manushag N. Powell (Chair), Christopher J. Lukasik, Derek A. Pacheco, Mita Choudhury.] Program Manager in Research, Arizona State University
Leary, Amanda. Relational Chaucer: Intersubjective Identity and Ricoeurian Narrative Hermeneutics. [Committee: Roberta Malo (Chair), Dorey Armstrong, Michael Johnston, Shaun F.D. Hughes.] Teaching and Learning Developer, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
McCarter, Christy. Hinged, Bound, Covered: Signifying Potential of the Material Codex. [Committee: Roberta Malo (Chair), Dorsey Armstrong, Manushag N. Powell, Shaun F.D. Hughes.] Senior Media Specialist, Purdue University.
Sheble, Margaret. "That whyle she lyved she was a trew lover": Suicide, Gender, and Desire in Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur. [Committee: Dorsey Armstrong (Chair), Jeffrey Turco, Shaun F.D. Hughes, Molly A. Martin.] Archive Distribution Specialist, Educational Video Center.
Wegener, Susan. Accommodating Texts: Literary Analysis, Disability Studies, and Social Justice. [Committee: Maren T. Linett (Chair), Arkday Plotnitsky, Daniel C. Morris, Emily L. Allen.] Project Editor, University of Utah Press.
Spring 2021
Larsen, Haley. Electric Modernism. [Committee: Maren T. Linett (Chair), Derek A. Pacheco, John N. Duvall, Paul R. Schneider.] Lead Writer, Pinterest
Suh, Jung-Kyu. Nuclear Eventuality: How the Nuclear Bomb Contaminated the Present with the Future. [Comittee: John N. Duvall (Chair), Robert P. Marzec, Bill V. Mullen, Paul R. Schneider.] Assitant Professor of Management and Organizations, NYU Stern School of Business.
Williams, Sebastian. Parasitic Modernism: Bioethics, Dependency, and Literature. [Committee: Maren T. Linett (Chair), Arkady Plotnitsky, John N. Duvall, Jeanne N. Dubino.] Assistant Professor of English, Tiffin University.
Summer 2020
Gorden, Trey. An annotated, diplomatic edition of Leonard Digges's A Prognostication of Right Good Effect Fruitfully Augmented...of 1555. [Committee: Michael Johnston (Chair), Dorsey Armstrong, Richard Johnson-Sheehan, Shaun F.D. Hughes.] Tippecanoe Battlefield Museum Manager, Tippecanoe County Historical Assocatiation.
Holtan, Aidan. Reading the body: Dismemberment of Saints and Monsters in Medieval Literature. [Committee: Shaun F.D. Hughes(Chair), Dorsey Armstrong, Jeffrey Turco, Roberta Malo.] Writing Center Coorinator/English Professor, Grayson College.
Lonsberry, Gabriel. The King, the Prince, and Shakespeare: Competing for Control of the Stuart Court Stage. [Committee: Paul W. White(Chair), Angelica A. Duran, Charles S. Ross, Sandor Goodhart.] Assistant Professor, Jacksonville State University.
McClure, Adrian. Haunted by Heresy: The Perlesvaus, Medieval Antisemitism, and the Trauma of the Albigensian Crusade. {Commitee: Dorsey Armstrong (Chair), Charles S. Ross, Jeffrey Turco, Michael Johnston.] Honorary fellow, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Parkison, Shawn. The Society of Mad Scientists: Scientists and Social Networking in the Victorian Novel. [Committee: Emily L. Allen (Chair), Dino F. Felluga, Manushag N. Powell, Adam E. Watkins.]
Spring 2020
Krumrie, Cody. Dressing for the Part(s): Costume Transformations on the Early Modern English Stage. [Committee: Paul W. White (Chair), Angelica A. duran, Charles S. Ross, Manushag N. Powell.]
Fall 2019
Schatz, Stephanie. Sleep and Dream-States in Literature, Science, and Medicine, 1700-1899. [Committee: Emily L. Allen (Chair), Geraldine S. Friedman, Maren T. Linett, Anne Stiles.]
Summer 2019
Biesiada, Brrittany. School-Time for Girls: The Depiction of Female Education in Late Nineteenth-Century American School Stories. [Committee: Derek A. Pacheco (Chair), Christopher J. Lukasik, Janet M. Alsup, Paul R. Schneider.] Lecturer, MonMouth University.
Spring 2019
Batti, Bianca. Worldbuilding in Feminist Game Studies: Toward a Methodology of Disruption. [Committee: Marlo D. David (Chair), Samantha Blackmon, Cheryl A. Cooky, John N. Duvall.] Postdoctoral Fellow in the Writing and Communication Program, Georgia Institute of Technology.
Boyle, Liz. She Will Be: Literary Authorship and the Coming Woman in the Postbellum United States. [Commitee: Derek A. Pacheco (Chair), John N. Duvall, Maren T. Linett, Paul R. Schneider.] Managing Editor, History & Theory.
Campbell, Michelle. Midwestern Anarchist Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century. [Committee: Christian P. Knoeller (Chair), Bill V. Mullen, Derek A. Pacheco, Jesse Sheppard Cohn.] Broader Impants Lead, University of Michigan.
Elliot, Amy. Hiding in Plain Sight: The Aesthetic of Plainness and the Nineteenth-Century Novel Form. [Committee: Dino F. Felluga (Chair), Emily L. Allen, Manushag N. Powell, Maren T. Linett.] Associate Teaching Professor for English and Writing, The University of Tampa.
McKee, Arielle. Moral Challenge and Narrative Structure: Fairy Chaos in Middle English Romance. [Committee: Michael Johnston (Chair), Dorsey Armstrong, Paul W. White, Roberta Malo, Shaun F.D. Hughes.] Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Wake Forest.
Fall 2018
Claytor, Brittany. The Twelfth-Century Normans in Southern Itlay and Sicily: Romances, Architecture, and Cosmopolitan Spaces. [Commitee: Dorsey Armstrong (Chair), Michael Johnston, Paula E. Leverage, Shaun F.D. Hughes.] Assistant Outreach Corrdinator, Arthuriana.
Summer 2018
Nakawaki, Bryan. Renaissance Drama on the Purdue University Stage. [Committee: Charles S. Ross (Chair), Paul W. White, Angelica A. Duran. Andrew J. Hartley.] Institution Giving Manager, Institure for Nonprofit News.
Spring 2018
Dearing, Stacey. Medical Intersections: Patients, Agency, and Disease in Early American Literature. [committee: Kristina K. Bross (Chair), Christoopher J. Lukasik, Derek A. Pacheco, Kelly Wisecup.] Teching Professor of English, Siena University.
Pierce, Ingrid. Sound and Hearing in Middle English Literature. [Committee: Roberto Malo (Chair), Dorsey Armstrong, Michael Johnston, Shaun F.D. Hughes, Richard G. Newhauser.] Senior Lecturer, Clemson University.
Summer 2017
Park, Joohyun. Victorians at the End of the Earth: Negotiating with Modernities and Imperialisms in the "Far East". [Committee: Emily L. Allen (Chair), Aparajita Sagar, Dino F. Felluga, Elizabeth Chang.] Assistant Professor of Sociology, Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea.
Spring 2017
Barker, Justin. Matter and Form in Medieval English Literature. [Committee: Roberta Malo (Chair), Dorsey Armstrong, Michael Johnston, Shaun F.D. Hughes.] Senior Manager of Professional Learning/EPP Fincancial Manager, Tennessee Department of Education.
Clarkson, Shaun. Creative Sanctions: Imaginative Limits and the Post-9/11 Novel. [Committee: John N. Duvall (Chair), Nancy J. Peterson, Robert P. Marzec. Wendy S. Flory.] Assistant Professor, Brazonsport College.
Pennywark, Leah. Cold War American Detective Fiction and Postmodernism. [Committee: John N. Duvall (Chair), Nancy J. Peterson, Venetria K. Patton, Erik Dussere.] Humanities Editor, University of Minnesota Press.
Taylor, Marie. Diplomatic Conversions: Recovering Sachem Influence in Seventeenth-Century New England Missionary Writings. [Committee: Kristina K. Bross (Chair), Christopher J. Lukasik, Derek A. Pacheco, Jean M. O'brien.] Assistant Professor, The University of Tennessee.
Wicks, Heather. Love Her After: Desire, Death, and Tragic Subjectivity on the Early Modern Stage. [Committee: Charles S. Ross (Co-Chair), Paul W. White (Co-Chair), Angelica A. Duran, Roberta Malo.]
Fall 2016
Padgett, Christopher. Poetry Matters: Radical Politics in Postmodern American Poetry. [Committee: Wendy S. Flory (Chair), Arkady Plotnitsky, Daniel C MOrris, Lance Duerfahrd.] Director of Grants Development and Innovation, Hartnell College.
Colleen, Warwick-Green. Bad Girls in Corsets: Women and the Transgressive Body in the Nineteenth Century. [Committee: Thomas J. Rickert (Chair), Manugshag N. Powell, Shaun F.D. Hughes, William J. Palmer.]
Summer 2016
Leslie, Batty. Of Angels and Animals: Sexuality, Spirituality, and Social Context in Rebeca West's Modernist Novels. [Committee: Maren T. Linett (Chair), Paul R. Schneider, Shaun F.D. Hughes, Margaret M. Rowe, William J. Palmer.]
Goddard-Scovel, Ekeama. Functions of Gender in Soca: An Historical and Lyrical Analysis of St. Lucian Soca. [Committee: Alfred J. Lopez (Chair), Aparajita Sagar, Marlo D. David, Shaun F.D. Hughes.] Assistant Professor of English, Harris-Stowe State University.
Harris, Mary Beth. Women Writers and the Genealogy of the Gentleman: Masculinity, Authority, and Male Characters in Eighteenth-Century English Novels by Women. [Committee: Manushag N. Powell (Chair), Emily L. Allen, Geraldine S. Friedman, Marilyn Francus.] Assistant Professor of English & Modern Languages, Emporia State University.
Knudson, Karen. The Power of the Medieval Solomon-magus and Solomon-auctor Revealed through the Canterbury Tales, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and the Tale of the Sankgreal. [Committee: Dorsey Armstrong (Chair), Paul R. Schneider, Roberta Malo, Shaun F.D. Hughes.] Professor of English, Olivet Naerene University.
Layfield, Allison. Pedagogy and Profit: Young Adult Literature and the American Literary Canon. [Committee: Bill V. Mullen (Chair), Janet M. Aslup, Jennifer L. Freeman Marshall, Patrocino P. Schweickart.] Senior Proposal Development Specialist, New Mexico State University.
Spring 2016
Mitsein, Rebekah. Africa is Always Bringing forth Something New: African Worlds and Worldviews in British Enlightenment Literature, 1660-1780. [Committee: Manushag N. Powell (Chair), Christopher J. Lukasik, Geraldine S. Friedman, Wendy L. Belcher.] Associate Professor and Assistant Chair, Boston College.
Fall 2015
Alrasheed, Khalid. Invisible Humans, Visible Terrorists: Representations of the Middle East and U.S. Neo-Orientalism Post 9/11. [Committee: Aparajita Sagar (Chair), Ahmed Idrissi Alami, Alfred J. Lopez, Shaun F.D. Hughes.]
Cuddy, Elizabeth. The Counterfactual History Novel in Nineteenth-Century British Literature. [Committee: Manushag N. Powell, Dino F. Felluga, Emily L. Allen, Kristina K. Bross.] Assistant Proffessor of English and Interim Chair, Hampton University.
Summer 2015
Anwer, Megha. Navigating the Necropolis: Urban Corpses, Metropolitan Mobility and Narratives of Crime and Terror. [Committee: Emily L. Allen (Chair), Aparajita Sagar, Dino F. Felluga, Lance Duerfahrd.] Associate Dean for Research and Clinical Associate Professor, Purdue University John Martinson Honors College
Gibson, Casarae. There's A Riot Going on! Race and Rebellion in Contemporary African American Literature. [Committee: Venetria K. Patton (Chair), Aparajita Sagar, Bill V. Mullen, Marlo D. David.] Associate Professor, Temple University.
Nelson, Heather. The Law and the Lady: Consent and Marriage in Nineteenth-Century British Literature.
[Committee: Emily L. Allen (Chair), Maren T. Linett, Patricia A. Boling, William J. Palmer.]
Fall 2014
Kissick, Erin. Constructing Community from Corpses in Medieval English and Icelandic Literature. [Committee: Shaun F.D. Hughes (Chair), Dorsey Armstrong, Jeffrey Turco, Roberta Malo.]
Summer 2014
Al Ahbabi, Amna. Representation of Black Otherness in Khaleeji Literature. [Committee: Shaun F.D. Hughes (Chair), Ahmed Idrissi Alami, Alfred J. Lopez, Dorothy J. Deering.] Assistant Professor, United Arab Emirates University.
Dziak, Marc. Exalted and Perverted Fury: Violence, Masculinity, and American Literary Naturalism. [Committee: Robert P. Lamb (Chair), John N. Duvall, Paul R. Schneider, Wendy S. Flory.] Assistant Professor of English, San Juan college.
Eidam, Laura. Architectural bodies and human surfaces: Locating the urban picturesque in Victorian London. [Committee: Emily L. Allen (Chair), Dino F. Felluga, Manushag N. Powell, Lorraine J. Kooistra.]
Park, Hwanhee. Reading Models: Women, Exemplary Texts, and their Appropriation in Late Medieval England. [Committee: Shaun F.D. Hughes (Chair), Dorsey Armstrong, Michael Johnston, Roberta Malo.]
Spring 2014
Keck, Russell. Individualism and Corporatism from Chaucer to Milton. [Committee: Charles S. Ross (Chair), Angelica A. Duran, Dorsey Armstrong, Paul W. White.] Facutly Fellow and Associate Professor, Harding University.
Magras, Lydia. Representations of Spirituality in the Texts of Marilynne Robinson, Louise Erdrich, and Zora Neale Hurston. [Committee: Nancy J. Peterson (Chair), Jennifer M. William, Patrocinio P. Schweickart, Venetria K. Patton.]
Martini, Mia. Imagining War: Shaping and Reshaping American Cultural Memory in the Twentieth Century.
[Committee: Bill V. Mullen (Chair), Elena Coda, Paul R. Schneider, Robert P. Lamb.] Assistant Professor of English, West Virginia University Potomac State College.
Mohlmann, Nicholas. Discourse of the Old Company: Corporate Poetics and the Virginia Company of London, 1607-1655. [Committee: Kristina K. Bross (Chair), Christopher J. Lukasik, Manushag N. Powell, Wendy S. Flory.] Asoociate Professor of English, University of West Florida.
Fall 2013
Tompkins, J. Case. Methods of Revision in Sixteenth-Century English Cycle Drama. [Committee: Paul W. White (Chair), Charles S. Ross, Michael Johnston, Dorsey Armstrong, Shaun F.D. Hughes.] Senior Lecturer, Purdue University.
Watkins, Adam. The city in mind: Environmental literacy and adaptation in nineteenth-century British literature. [Committee: Dino F. Felluga (Chair), Manushag Powell, Emily Allen, Ruth Livesey.] Assistant Dean for Leadership Development and Clinical Associate Professor in the John Martinson Honors College.
Sinnott, Peter. Weak Gods and the Happy System: Questions of Value and Literary Form in British Political Economy of the Long Eighteenth Century. [Committee: Geraldine S. Friedman (Co-Chair), Manushag Powell (Co-Chair), Arkady Plotnitsky, Daniel W. Smith.]
Tardif, Elyssa. "I Have Thought Proper to Inform the World": Reading Unconventional Testaments of 18th-Century New England Women. [Committee: Kristina Bross (Chair), Christopher Lukasik, Derek Pacheco, Susan Curtis.] Director of Education, Massachusetts Historical Society.