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.]