2000-2011
2011 John Barnard
Project: “Icarian Exceptions: Race, Revision, and American Myth.”
Readers: Susan Mizruchi, Maurice Lee
2010 Matt Borushko
Project: “Shelley’s Romantic Nonviolence: Aesthetics, Politics, Ethics.”
Readers: David Wagenknecht, Charles Rzepka
2010 Steven Wandler
Project: “Moral Luck and American Fiction: Identity, Aesthetics, History.”
First reader: Leland Monk
2009 Anna Boyagoda
Project: “Representations of Community in the Poetry of Eric Roach, Derek Walcott, Wallace Stevens, and Elizabeth Bishop.”
First reader: Laurence Breiner
2009 Mina Zdravkovic
Project: “Aesthetic at Its End: Late Style in the Works of Joseph Conrad, Vladimir Nabokov, and W.G.Sebald”
First Reader: Aaron Fogel
2009 Eric Johnson DeBaufre
Project: “A Globe of Countries: Carto-Geographic Consciousness and the Production of Early Modern English Literature, 1516-1616
Readers: Carroll, Siemon
2009 Eoin Cannon
Project: “The Politics of Redemption: Addiction and Conversion in Modern Culture”
Readers: Mizruchi, Carlo Rotella (Boston College)
2008 Jane Zwart
Project: “The American Initial at the End of the 20th Century: Rewriting The Scarlet Letter and the Romance of the American Origin”
Readers: Breiner
2008 Jennifer Airey
Project: “‘I Would Have Kill’d Myself With A Knife’: Sexual Violence, Courtroom Broadside, and The Restoration Stage”
Readers: Winn, Murphy
2008 Lisa Hinrichsen
Project: “Moving Forward, Looking Past: Trauma, Fantasy, and Misrecognition in Southern Literature 1930-2001”
Readers: Matthews, Patterson
2008 Belisa Monteiro
Project: “The Pleasures of Comic Mischief in Jane Austen’s Novels”
Readers: Brown, Winn
2008 Sara Pearson
Project: “Religion, Gender and Authority in the Novels of Charlotte Bronte”
Readers: Brown, Herbert Rosengarten (Chodat, proxy)
2008 Shawn Normandin
Project: “The Opacity of Renunciation in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales”
Readers: Levine, Green
2008 Jason Pearl
Project: “New Words and New Worlds in the Age of Crusoe and Gulliver”
Readers: Winn, Breiner
2008 Keith Johnson
Project: “The Ethics of Form and the Form of Ethics: Experiments in Literature and Philosophy”
Readers: Fogel, Wagenknecht
2008 Elisa Oh
Project: “Defining Absence: Reading Female Silence in Early Modern Literature 1580-1640”
Readers: Carroll, Elaine Beilin (Framingham State U)
2007 Sara Sullivan
Project: “Coming Home to History: the Domestic Interior and the nation in Twentieth-Century Literature”
Readers: Preston, Smith, Brown
2007 Alex Bove
Project: “Dickens’ Dream-Representations: Image and Character Beyond Mimesis”
Readers: Wagenknecht, Brown
2007 Joseph Navitsky
Project: “‘Words with Words Revenged’: Religious Conflict and the Rearticulation of Late Elizabethan Satire”
Readers: Siemon, Martin
2007 Evan Willner
Project: “Imminent Communities: The Epistomological Challenge of Twentieth-Century Experimental Poetry”
Readers: Fogel, Costello
2007 Emily Rohrbach
Project: “Historioraphy of the Subject in Austen, Keats, and Byron”
Readers: Wagenknecht, Rzepka
2006 Joseph Linitz
Project: “Versions of Pastoral in Modern American Fiction”
Readers: Patterson, Matthews
2005 Reena Sastri
Project: “James Merrill: Knowing Innocence”
Readers: Costello, Riquelme
2005 Randy Boyagoda
Project: “Imagining Nation and Imaginary Americans: Race, Immigration, and American Identity in the Fiction of Salman Rushdie, Ralph Ellison, and William Faulkner.”
Readers: Matthews, Breiner
2005 Sharifah Osman
Project: “Bandit Queens and Eastern Sisters: Byronic Heroes and British Nationalism, 1770-1840”
Readers: Rzepka, Wagenknecht
2005 Amy Weintraub Kratka
Project: “Cynthia Ozick’s Sacral Aesthetic.”
Readers: Korobkin, Brown
2005 Daniel Silverstone
Project: “Urban Topographies: Controlling the Movement of People in Fictions of Dublin, London, and Los Angeles”
Readers: Fogel, Matthews
2005 Melanie Benson
Project: “Disturbing Calculations: The Economics of Southern Identity.”
Readers: Matthews, Patterson
2004 Laurel Corelle
Project: “Elizabeth Bishop and Christian Literary Tradition”
Readers: Costello, Hawkins
2004 Wade Newhouse
Project: “Home/Front: Domesticity, Nationalism, and the Narrative of Civil War from Reconstruction to the 1930s”
Readers: Matthews, Patterson
2003 Jennifer Ann Ho
Project: “Consumption and Identity in Asian-American Coming-of-Age Novels”
Readers: Mizruchi, Patterson
2003 Kirk Bazler Melnikoff
Project: “Professional Drama in the Twilight of the Elizabethan Clown: Playing and Professional Playwrighting in the Late 1580s and Early 1590s”
Readers: Siemon, Carroll
2002 Christopher Stuart Chapman
Project: “The Last Southern Gentleman: A Critical Biography of Shelby Foote”
Readers: Matthews, Patterson
2002 Peter Frederick Anderson
Project: “Against Silence: Poetry in Prison Under Apartheid”
Readers: Breiner, Fogel
2002 Sohui Lee
Project: “Pens of the Democratic Party: Nationalism, Politics, and Creative Literature in The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, 1837-1845”
Readers: Mizruchi, D. Wagenknecht
2002 Ann Keniston
Project: “Overheard Voices: Address and Subjectivity in Postmodern American Lyric”
Readers: Costello, Monk
2001 Peter Green Lurie
Project: “Vision’s Immanence: Film, the Gaze, and Popular Narrative in Faulkner’s Modernism”
Readers: Matthews, Monk
2001 Jonathan David Mulrooney
Project: “The Subject of Theater: Theatrical Criticism and Poetry in Britain, 1798-1832”
Readers: Rzepka, D. Wagenknecht
2001 Kaara L. Peterson
Project: “Pathology and Performance: Representing Hysterical Disease in Early Modern England”
Readers: Carroll, Martin
2000 Lisa Ann Rodensky
Project: “Minds, Acts, and Crimes: Charles Dickens, George Eliot, James Fitzjames Stephen, and Victorian Criminal Responsibility”
Readers: Ricks, Korobkin
2000 Jean Follansbee Quinn
Project: “Democratic Aesthetics: The Discourse of Social Justice in American Literature, Criticism, and Philosophy of the 1930s”
Readers: Mizruchi, Matthews
2000 Naomi Ziva Sofer
Project: “Rites of Authorship: Gender and Religion in the American Literary Imagination”
Readers: Mizruchi, Korobkin