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Non-Binary Gender Identity Negotiations: Interactions with Queer Communities and Medical Practice

--> Vincent, Benjamin William (2016) Non-Binary Gender Identity Negotiations: Interactions with Queer Communities and Medical Practice. PhD thesis, University of Leeds.

Over the last decade, studies of trans people have somewhat shifted away from essentialising and pathologising narratives, whilst recognition of gender plurality has grown. However to date, gender identities outside of the binary of male/female have received little specific sociological attention. This thesis considers negotiation of non-binary gender identities, in a UK context. Examining how non-binary individuals are involved with and integrated into LGBTQ communities exposes important nuances. This is also true regarding the negotiation of medical practice by non-binary people in relation to gender transitions, and more generally. Eighteen participants with non-binary gender identities were recruited to record ‘mixed media diaries’ for a four month period. These diaries allowed participants to use any methods they wished to express themselves. Follow-up semi-structured interviews were then conducted with the same participants in order to discuss their experiences and views, relating to broad conceptions of queer communities and medical practice. The objectives were to understand how non-binary people are integrated into queer communities and negotiate medical practice, as well as what the emergence of non-binary gender identities implies for these contexts. Symbolic interactionism provided the project’s theoretical framework, as this effectively allowed space for a multiplicity of participant interpretations resulting from interactions with the social world. The findings of this study illustrate both commonalities and difference between binary and non-binary trans experiences. Non-binary identities can present in static or fluidic forms, which may be associated with differential needs. Access to gender affirming medical services is varied, and not always pursued. Non-binary identities may be associated with discourses and practices of reduced legitimisation in both medical contexts and some queer communities. The study concludes that the improvement of a wide range of medical policies and practice is needed, together with community support initiatives to better recognise and serve non-binary people.

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Phd candidate’s queer film and media research is rich with possibilities.

Film and Digital Media PhD graduate student Marc Francis seemed destined to be a storyteller. As a child he put his wild imagination to work, dreaming up fanciful stories and movie plots, and even back then thought of becoming a film director and screenwriter.

Francis recently won the prestigious Annette Kuhn Essay Award from Screen , the United Kingdom’s preeminent film studies journal, for his essay The Asexual-Single and the Collective: Remaking Queer Bonds in (A)Sexual, Bill Cunningham New York, and Year of the Dog , originally published in Camera Obscura 31, no. 191 (2016).

“That this [essay] was awarded by Screen …is overwhelming,” says Francis. “The award serves as validation that my ideas have substance to them, that people might care about what I care about, that folks are ready to shake things up a bit, both politically and academically.”

Focus on Queer Film and Media

With his focus being on queer film and media, Francis’s PhD dissertation examines how the programming of queer art-house films in the 1970s and ‘80s arranged to stimulate viewers, and radically disrupted and reoriented spectators’ understandings of gender and sexual variance.

What brought Francis to study this topic was his fascination with moving images combined with his interest in gender and sexuality issues. A turning point for him came when he was in high school and saw Sally Porter’s groundbreaking film Orlando starring Tilda Swinton. “The film stuck with me for several years,” he says. “I re-watched it in college and recognized Potter’s invention in thinking critically about gender through time.” From there, his interest in queer cinema grew, eventually leading him to complete his Master’s thesis on New Queer Cinema at Columbia University.

As a child, growing up in Westchester, New York, Francis spent a good portion of his time travelling around the East Coast area with his parents, who were antique dealers. And since antiquing wasn’t exactly the most exciting idea of fun from a kid’s perspective, he cured his boredom by conjuring up adventurous stories and movie plots.

“This was before they had DVD players and TV monitors in minivans, so I replayed movies and TV shows in my head while on these long trips,” he said. “I look back now on these antique shows with some fondness, despite the fact that at the time the antiques mostly seemed irrelevant and outdated. It drove me a little nuts to see adults fixate on them. Seems ironic now that I spend a lot of times in archives looking at old artifacts such as neglected ephemera, given my research on film programs…go figure!”

Professor B. Ruby Rich Sealed the Deal

When it came time to choose from three universities where he would study for his PhD, Francis’s choice to attend UC Santa Cruz could be summed up in one word: “Ruby.”

Francis had been closely following the work of Professor B. Ruby Rich ( Film and Digital Media Department) and sensed that she would be an excellent advisor for him. “And I was right,” he says. “UC Santa Cruz also was the only school that gave me a first-year fellowship….” In the summer of 2015, Francis also was awarded a fellowship from the Arts Dean’s Fund for Excellence to further support his work.

While at Columbia, his advisor had suggested that he pursue the possibility of working with Professor Rich since his thesis focused on her writing as well as the area of New Queer Cinema. The idea took hold – but not after some resistance.

“I was reluctant at first because I had been very critical of these conversations, both from a generational and political standpoint,” explains Francis. “But as it turns out, Professor Rich and I share a good many of the same views and opinions, both in the field of queer film and media criticism, and also more broadly in terms of disciplinary and interdisciplinary trends.”

"Marc Francis is Exceptional..."

Francis was fortunate enough to have Professor Rich as his mentor and inspiration when he entered the PhD program. "Marc Francis is exceptional, not just because he can write so well, work so hard, and think with such sophistication, but because he has a passion for film that's impossible to teach,” says Professor Rich. “I've learned so much from working with him that I hesitate to claim any credit for how he's turned out.”

He also appreciated the enormous support he received from Professor Peter Limbrick . “I’m humbled by his generous feedback through the past few years,” says Francis.

"Marc is a gifted and innovative young scholar, one who combines extensive historical and archival research with richly theorized accounts of his objects of study,” said Professor Limbrick. “He is equally attuned to the creative and collective aspects of his research, including video essays and film programming, and I know that the work he's doing for his dissertation project will make a significant impact on feminist and queer histories of film and media. Winning the Annette Kuhn essay award shows that he's already doing just that."

Francis's monthy film series Wayward Cinema

In addition to pursuing his PhD, Francis curates a monthly film series in East Los Angeles called Wayward Cinema that screens mainly narrative-based cult, foreign, and exploitation films that are not the usual, more mainstream, art-house repertoire.

“It shows work that is meant to provoke, push the envelope, disrupt, and unsettle the status quo,” he says. “At Wayward , we create an experience that is not so much predicated on watching rare film prints…but more so on the pleasure of the surroundings and the collective opportunity of watching and reacting together.”

Francis’s friend, drag queen Charmin Ultra, also is usually at the screenings performing and mingling with the audience, adding to the overall “DIY” queer enjoyment of the event.

A devotee of many edgy filmmakers, Francis highlights John Waters, Isaac Julien, Derek Jarman, Greg Araki, Todd Haynes, and Jennie Livingston as the top of his long list of favorites. “Professor Rich’s writing on these films and videos, which I constantly return to, continually reactivates my fascination.”

Regarding scholarship and theory, Francis admires several outstanding scholars with the work of Lauren Berlant being a particular stand-out. “She brings together queer theory, affect theory, and visual (and literary) culture in a way that I find lyrical and dense, and generous,” he says.

"Its Been One of the Best Experiences of My Life..."

When he’s not working, Francis likes to explore the surroundings of his home in East LA, hike in the nearby mountains and travel whenever possible, especially to Mexico City. He knows that his heart will always be in film and television and he looks forward to finishing his degree in the spring, publishing more of his writing, and expanding his curation.

Along with all of his other projects, Francis works part-time for Professor Rich’s renowned journal Film Quarterly . “It’s funny,” he says. “One might think that it’s all too much, that I might as well just head the B. Ruby Rich fan club, but honestly it’s been one of the best experiences of my life, to have a mentor who lends support in a multitude of ways, whose opinion you value and trust, and whose work keeps inspiring you.”

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PhD thesis - Queer Subjectivities, Closeting and Non-normative Desire in Nineteenth-Century Women's Poetry and Life Writing - award date February 2016.

ABSTRACT This thesis aims to elucidate previously obscured aspects of nineteenth-century women’s writing, through the development of original approaches to the reading of gender ambiguity, queer subjectivities and non-normative desire. It challenges the removal of the closet from feminist, historicist scholarship and constructions of female sexuality based on an adherence to romantic friendship and lesbian continuum models. This research proposes original work, which breaks the links between Michel Foucault’s dating of the disciplinary coding of homosexuality and the assumed relationship with the closet. New readings are proposed which acknowledge, define and foreground multi-functional closets, inside and outside of texts. In refusing this removal this study also aims to open up a space for the consideration of closets as protective and supportive spaces as well as symptoms of oppression. Underexplored links between literary form, the repelling of social restriction and the relationship between literary conventions and non-binary positions are also highlighted to emphasise the radical potential of performative subjects in women’s writing. This project proposes the recovery of queer selves and subjective forms of identification in the work of seven/eight women writers Anne Lister, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë, Christina Rossetti, Adelaide Anne Procter, Michael Field and Amy Levy, spanning the long nineteenth century. It also offers new approaches by combining cross-genre analysis of poetry and life writing. Using activist language largely in advance of academic discourse, it asks questions about the changing significance of queerness as language and metaphor. This thesis uses diverse social, religious and literary bodies to illustrate the strength of same-sex communities and their role in providing safe spaces for queer, desiring interactions in the nineteenth century.

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Applying queer theory about time and place to playwriting

Duffy, Clare Louise (2012) Applying queer theory about time and place to playwriting. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

This practice as research contributes a ‘queer-place dramaturgy’ to knowledge about playwriting by creating an intersection of writing queer site specific performance and conventional dramatic theatre practice. It follows the recent shift of focus from queer theorizing of sexuality as a constructed identity, to thinking about what queer use of time and space might be. This shift proposes queerness that is detached, but not completely separated from, sexual identity. This shift also produces a range of kinds of queerness that can be described as odd, imaginative, strange, eccentric, dangerous, threatening wonder-full and abject. I use key works by Sara Ahmed, Jon Binnie, Judith Butler, Michael Foucault and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick to theoretically contextualise these kinds of queer times and places.

I materially investigate the theory that there is such a thing as queer time and place through an exercise of writing on a public bench for a prolonged period of time, called the ‘civic couch’ exercise. I found that this small resistance to the apparently politically neutral temporal use of a place could (re) author ‘me’ as queer beyond sexual identity. It also began to (re) author ‘identity’ itself, so that ‘I’ became more and more identified by where I was. This led to a queer practice of co-writing self and place with each time and place. When that text was dramatized the audience were invited to co-author each local place through the play and outside after the performance. This series investigates, through a spiraling structure of research the relationship between direct resistance to homophobia and heterosexism through representation of queer lives, bodies, times and places and an indirect formal resistance to a (hetero) normative construction of ‘reality’. Asking finally the question: How queer can queer writing for conventional theatre practice be in the UK today?

This project aimed to bring queer theory into practical contact with playwriting to see what it could change in the form of dramatic theatre. I found that I could (re) shape and guide dramaturgical principles but not fundamentally change or break them. I define what ‘dramaturgical principles’ are in relation to the critical work of Sue-Ellen Case, Elin Diamond, Peggy Phelan and José Esteban Muñoz and argue that ancient concepts of ‘dramaturgical principles’ continue to circulate in postmodern, queer and feminist theorizing about form in theatre and performance.

I propose that the lineage of queer writing for theatre maps a negotiation between challenging form and content, which changes significantly from the early twentieth century (and the work of Gertrude Stein and Lillian Hellman) to the emergence of the gay liberation movement in the late 1960s, (and the work of Gay Sweatshop, 1974 -1997), to Performance Art, Live Art and mainstream theatre in the 1990s (and work by Mark Ravenhill, Sarah Kane and Split Britches). I also contextualize this research as practice with contemporary site-specific performance interventions into (hetero) normative uses of public, outdoor places, particularly through the public bench.

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• Christ on the postmodern stage : debunking Christian metanarrative through contemporary Passion plays by Joseph R. D'Ambrosi Call Number: UCF ONLINE General Collection -- LD1772.F96 T45 2016 no.32 M.A., Theatre, 2016 Adviser: Julia Listengarten
• Religious Women & Homosexuality: A Denominational Breakdown by Mandi Nicole Barrringer M.A., Sociology, 2011 Adviser: David Gay
• Walking Backwards into the Future by Camille Norman M.A., Theatre, 2011 Adviser: Vandy Wood
• Beyond Performance: Portraying a Gay Character Truthfully & Effectively by Trent Fucci M.F.A., Theatre, 2011 Adviser: Kate Ingram
• Please Don't Interrupt Me While I'm Ignoring You by Sherard Harrington M.F.A., 2012
• The Estate of Mendacity: An Interpretation of Williams's Most Ambiguous Character by Creed Bowlen M.F.A., Theatre, 2010 Adviser: John Shafer
• Sharing the True Colors: An Exploration of Theatre Created by Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, & Transgender Youth by Nicholas Edward Bazo M.F.A., Theatre, 2010 Adviser: Be Boyd
• Like a Woman: Playing the Feminine Homosexual as Truth in Kiss of the Spider Woman by Michael C. Beaman M.F.A., Theatre, 2009 Adviser: Earl Weaver
• Social Norms & College Dating Violence Among Gay Bisexual Transgender & Queer (GBTQ) Students by La'Shawn Rivera M.A., Applied Sociology, 2009 Adviser: Jana Jasinski
• Elizabeth Bishop & Her Women: Countering Loss, Love, & Language through Bishop's Homosocial Continuum by Donna Ann Rogers M.A., English, 2008 Adviser: Ernest Smith
• The Gendered Altar: Wiccan Concepts of Gender & Ritual Objects by Jesse Daniel Sloan M.A., Anthropology, 2008 Adviser: Elayne Zorn
• How Stigma Affects Information Sharing by Gay Men & GLBT Communities by Kathryn Shephard M.A., Communication, 2008 Adviser: Sally Hastings
• Silent Outsiders: Searching for Queer Identity in Composition Readers by Travis Duncan Call Number: General Collection LD 1772.F96 T45 2006 no.492 M.A., English, 2006 Adviser: David Wallace
• Registered Nurses' Attitudes toward the Protection of Gays & Lesbians in the Workplace: An Examination of Homophobia & Discriminatory Beliefs by Christopher W. Blackwell Call Number: General Collection LD 1772.F96 T45 2005 no.125 Ph.D., Public Affairs, 2005 Adviser: Ermalynn Kiehl
• Is Gay Really Gay? A Heterosexual/Homosexual Quality of Life Comparison by Kristina Dzara Call Number: General Collection LD 1772.F96 T45 2005 no.173 M.A., Sociology & Anthropology, 2005 Adviser: David Gay
• "Truly an Awesome Spectacle": Gender Performativity, the Closet, & the Alienation Effect in Angels in America by Allen Gorney Call Number: General Collection LD 1772.F96 T45 2005 no.205 M.A., English, 2005 Adviser: James Campbell
• A Constructionist Analysis of Same-sex Marriage by Sandra Nead Call Number: General Collection LD 1772.F96 T45 2005 no.315 M.A., Sociology & Anthropology, 2005 Adviser: John Lynxwiler
• Aggression in Lesbian & Bisexual Relationships by Jennifer R. Parham Call Number: General Collection LD 1772.F96 T45 2004 no.163 M.A., Sociology & Anthropology, 2004 Adviser: Tracy L. Dietz
• The Meaning of Family as Perceived by Lesbian Couples by Caroline Gertz Call Number: UCF Main Library General Collection - 3rd Floor -- LD1772.F96T45 2000 no.93 M.S., Nursing, 2000 ">ch3ck availability
• El proceso ecfrástico, su inversión y el desmantelamiento de las imágenes estereotípicas del hombre, la mujer y el homosexual en la novela El beso de la mujer araña, de Manuel Puig y la adaptación cinematográfica Kiss of the spider woman, dirigida por Héc by Kandace K. Holladay Call Number: UCF Main Library General Collection - 3rd Floor -- LD1772.F96T45 2000 no.19 M.A., College of Arts & Sciences, 2000 ">ch3ck availability
• Age Period & Cohort Explanations for Attitudes Toward Homosexuality by Shannon Peardon Call Number: General Collection LD 1772.F96 T45 1999 no.274 M.A., Sociology & Anthropology, 1999
• The Effects of Sexual Orientation & Coping Strategies on Attitudes towards Persons with AIDS by Karin P. Sieger Call Number: General Collection LD 1772.F96 T45 1998 no.92 M.S., Psychology, 1998
• Stress & Coping Among Gays, Lesbians, & Bisexuals: Development Effort of a Social Support Scale by Evelyn Hernandez Call Number: General Collection LD 1772.F96 T45 1996 no.165 M.S., Psychology, 1996
• The Effect of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome on Homosexual Identity by Robert Stephen Schulman Call Number: General Collection RC 607.A26 S39 M.S., College of Arts & Sciences, 1986
• Sex Role Identity, Sexual Preference & Intrapersonal Competence in Women by India Aditi Call Number: General Collection HQ 1075.A34 M.S., College of Arts & Sciences, 1981

Mental Health Risks among the Adult Male Homosexual Population by Nida Merchant, Undergraduate Honors Thesis, Nursing, 2008 General Collection LD 1772.F96 T45 2008 no.14

Queering Canterbury by Jennifer R. Farmer, Undergraduate Honors Thesis, English, 2008 General Collection LD 1772.F96 T45 2008 no.244

Female Same-Sex Sexual Desires: Evolutionary Perspective by Heather M. Rackin, Undergraduate Honors Thesis, Anthropology, 2006 General Collection LD 1772.F96 T45 2006 no.108

Between the Lines: Depictions of Transgender Victims in News Print Media by Ethan M. Kennedy, Undergraduate Honors Thesis, Sociology, 2006 General Collection LD 1772.F96 T45 2006 no.112

Searching for a Place to Belong: Androgyny in a Gender Binary Society by Mailyn Chen, Undergraduate Honors Thesis, Psychology, 2005 General Collection LD 1772.F96 T45 2005 no.6

Opposing Conceptions of Freedom in America: A Historical & Contemporary Investigation by Colin McRee Moore, Undergraduate Honors Thesis, Philosophy, 2004 General Collection LD 1772.F96 T45 2004 no.199

The following list provides a sample of the dissertations and theses available online through Dissertations & Theses: Full Text

The Interrelatedness of Homosexual Identity Development & Perceptions of Campus Climate for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, & Transgender Students at the University of South Florida, Tampa Campus by Frederic Drury Baker, Ed.D., University of South Florida, 2008

Bourbon, Pork Chops, & Red Peppers: Political Immorality in Florida, 1945-1968 by Seth A. Weitz, Ph.D., Florida State University, 2007

Constructing the Moral Landscape through Antidiscrimination Law: Discourse, Debate, & Dialogue of Sexual Citizenship in Three Florida Communities by Thomas E. Chapman, Ph.D., Florida State University, 2007

The Effects of Homophobia, Legislation, & Local Policies on Heterosexual Pupil Services Professionals' Likelihood of Incorporating Gay-affirming Behaviors in Their Professional Work with Sexual Minority Youths in Public Schools by Lance Santoro Smith, Ph.D., University of South Florida, 2007

Negotiating Curricular Boundaries & Sexual Orientation: The Lived Experiences of Gay Secondary Teachers in West Central Florida by James B. Mayo, Jr., Ph.D., University of South Florida, 2005

Homophobia: A Study of the Relationship of Religious Attitudes & Experiences, Ethnicity, & Gender to a Homophobic Belief System by Samuel Sanabria, Ph.D., University of Florida, 2002

Visibility & Silence: Cuban-American Gay Male Culture in Miami by Susana Pena, Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 2002

A Study of the Correlation between the Coming-out Process & the First Long-term Homosexual Relationship between Gay Males by Linda Carole Eaton, Ed.D., University of Sarasota, 2000

Anticommunism & the Politics of Sex & Race in Florida, 1954-1965 by Stacy Lorraine Braukman, Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1999

Without Women: Masculinities, Gay Male Sexual Culture & Sexual Behaviors in Miami, Florida by Steven Peter Kurtz, Ph.D., Florida International University, 1999

Valued Occupational Roles & Life Satisfaction among South Florida HIV-infected & Non-infected Homosexual Males: An Exploratory Study by Kenneth Morton Byers, M.S., Florida International University, 1997

The Impact of Internalized Homophobia on the Satisfaction Levels in Gay Male Relationships by Joseph Lawrence Romance, Ph.D., Barry University School of Social Work, 1987

Cohabitation Relationships among Homosexual Male & Female Couples by Betsy Pogue Christianson, Ph.D., Florida State University, 1983

The following non-UCF dissertations are available in the UCF Library:

Breast Self-Examination, the Health Belief Model & Sexual Orientation in Women by Lyndall Alice Ellingson, Ph.D., Indiana University, 1996 Microfiche RC 280.B8 E44

  An Examination of Leisure in the Lives of Old Lesbians from an Ecological Perspective by Sharon Ann Jacobson, Ed.D., University of Georgia, 1996 Microfiche GV 14.45.J33

Leisure Behavior of Lesbians in Relation to Alcohol Consumption by Linda Karen Lute, M.S., Pennsylvania State University, 1992 Microfiche GV 183.L8

McCarthyism in Florida: Charley Johns & the Florida Legislative Investigation Committee, July 1956 to July 1965 by Bonnie Stark, M.A., University of South Florida, 1985

Heterosexuals' Attitudes Toward Lesbianism & Male Homosexuality as Related to Their Affective Orientation Toward Sexuality & Sex Guilt by Bernadette Fung Yee, M.S., Purdue University, 1982 Microfiche BF 692.2.Y42

Parent-Son Compatibility: a Study of the Relationship Between Interpersonal Relations Orientations & the Development of Male Homosexuality by Karen R. Nash, M.Ed., Memphis State University, 1973 Microfiche HQ 76.N35

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Daniel de la Rocha: “Frustrated Journeys: Social Immobility and the Aesthetics of Disappointment in Nineteenth-Century Fiction” directed by Ruth Bernard Yeazell, Marta Figlerowicz, Stefanie Markovits

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Cera Smith: “Blackened Biology: Physiology of the Self and Society in African American Literature and Sculpture” directed by Jacqueline Goldsby, Tavia Nyong’o, Aimee Meredith Cox

Michael Abraham: “The Avant-Garde of Feeling: Queer Love and Modernism” directed by Langdon Hammer, Marta Figlerowicz, Ben Glaser

Peter Conroy: “Unreconciled: American Power and the End of History, 1945 to the Present” directed by Joe Cleary, Joseph North, Paul North

Trina Hyun: “Media Theologies, 1615-1668” directed by John Durham Peters, Catherine Nicholson, Marta Figlerowicz, John Rogers (University of Toronto)

Margaret McGowan: “A Natural History of the Novel: Species, Sense, Atmosphere” directed by Jonathan Kramnick, Katie Trumpener, Marta Figlerowicz

Benjamin Pokross: “Writing History in the Nineteenth-Century Great Lakes” directed by Caleb Smith, Greta LaFleur, Michael Warner

Sophia Richardson: “Reading the Surface in Early Modern English Literature” directed by Catherine Nicholson, Lawrence Manley, John Rogers(University of Toronto)

Melissa Shao Hsuan Tu: “Sonic Virtuality: First-Person Voices in Late Medieval English Lyric” directed by Ardis Butterfield, Jessica Brantley, John Durham Peters

Sarah Weston: “The Cypher and the Abyss: Outline Against Infinity” directed by Paul Fry, Tim Barringer, John Durham Peters

December 2022

Anna Hill: “Sublime Accumulations: Narrating the Global Climate, 1969-2001” directed by Joe Cleary, Marta Figlerowicz, Ursula Heise (UCLA)

Christopher McGowan: “Inherited Worlds: The British Modernist Novel and the Sabotage and Salvage of Genre” directed by Joe Cleary, Michael Denning, Katie Trumpener

Samuel Huber: “Every Day About the World: Feminist Internationalism in the Second Wave” directed by  Jacqueline Goldsby, Margaret Homans, Jill Richards

Shayne McGregor: “An Intellectual History of Black Literary Discourse 1910-1956” directed by Joseph North, Robert Stepto

Brandon Menke: “Slow Tyrannies: Queer Lyricism, Visual Regionalism, and the Transfigured World” directed by Langdon Hammer, Wai Chee Dimock, Marta Figlerowicz

Arthur Wang: “Minor Theories of Everything: On Popular Science and Contemporary Fiction” directed by Amy Hungerford, John Durham Peters, Sunny Xiang

December 2021

Sarah Robbins: “Re(-)Markable Texts: Making Meaning of Revision in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature” directed by Caleb Smith, Jacqueline Goldsby, Anthony Reed

David de León: “Epic Black: Poetics in Protest in the Time of Black Lives Matter” directed by  Langdon Hammer, Daphne Brooks, Marta Figlerowicz

Clio Doyle: “Rough Beginnings: Imagining the Origins of Agriculture in Late Medieval and Early Modern Britain” directed by Lawrence Manley, David Kastan, Catherine Nicholson

Clay Greene: “The Preexistence of the Soul in the Early English Enlightenment: 1640-1740” directed by John Rogers, Jonathan Kramnick, Lawrence Manley

December 2020

Wing Chun Julia Chan: “Veritable Utopia: Revolutionary Russia and the Modernism of the British Left” directed by Katie Trumpener, Jill Richards, Katerina Clark

James Eric Ensley: “Troubled Signs: Thomas Hoccleve’s Objects of Absence” directed by Jessica Brantley, Alastair Minnis, Ardis Butterfield

Paul Franz: “Because so it is made new”: D. H. Lawrence’s charismatic modernism directed by David Bromwich, Ben Glaser, and Langdon Hammer

Chelsie Malyszek: Just Words: Diction and Misdirection in Modern Poetry directed by Lanny Hammer, David Bromwich, and Ben Glaser

Justin Park: “The Children of Revenge: Managing Emotion in Early English Literature” directed by Roberta Frank, Alastair Minnis, David Kastan

Peter Raccuglia: “Lives of Grass: Prairie Literature and US Settler Capitalism” directed by Michael Warner, Jonathan Kramnick, Michael Denning

Ashley James: “ ‘Moist, Fleshy, Pulsating Surfaces’: Seeing and Reading Black Life after Experientiality” directed by Professors Jacqueline Goldsby, Elizabeth Alexander, and Anthony Reed

Brittany Levingston: “In the Day of Salvation: Christ and Salvation in Early Twentieth-Century African American Literature” directed by Professors Jacqueline Goldsby, Robert Stepto, and Anthony Reed

Lukas Moe: “Radical Afterlives: U.S. Poetry, 1935-1968” directed by Professors Langdon Hammer, Jacqueline Goldsby, and Michael Denning

Carlos Nugent: “Imagined Environments: Mediating Race and Nature in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands” directed by Professors Wai Chee Dimock, Amy Hungerford, and Michael Warner

Anna Shechtman: “The Media Concept: A Genealogy” directed by Professors Amy Hungerford, John Durham Peters, and Michael Warner

December 2019

Bofang Li: “Old Media/New Media: Intimate Networked Publics and the Commodity Text Since 1700” directed by Professors Wai Chee Dimock, R. John Williams, and Francesco Casetti

Scarlet Luk: “Gender Unbound: The Novel Narrator Beyond the Binary” directed by Professors Margaret Homans, Jill Campbell, and Jill Richards

Phoenix Alexander: “Voices with Vision: Writing Black, Feminist Futures in Twentieth-Century African America” directed by Professors Jacqueline Goldsby, Daphne Brooks, Anthony Reed, and Wai Chee Dimock

Andrew S. Brown: “Artificial Persons: Fictions of Representation in Early Modern Drama” directed by Professors David Kastan, John Rogers, and Joseph Roach

Margaret Deli: “Authorizing Taste: Connoisseurship and Transatlantic Modernity, 1880-1959” directed by Professors Ruth Yeazell, Joseph Cleary, and R. John Williams

Ann Killian: “Expanding Lyric Networks: The Transformation of a Genre in Late Medieval England” directed by Professors Ardis Butterfield, Jessica Brantley, and Alastair Minnis

Alexandra Reider: “The Multilingual English Manuscript Page, c. 950-1300” directed by Professors Roberta Frank, Ardis Butterfield, and Alastair Minnis

December 2018

Seo Hee Im: “After Totality: Late Modernism and the Globalization of the Novel” directed by Professors Joseph Cleary, Katie Trumpener, and Marta Figlerowicz

Angus Ledingham: “Styles of Abstraction: Objectivity and Moral Thought in Nineteenth-Century British Literature” directed by Professors David Bromwich, Jill Campbell, and Stefanie Markovits

Jason Bell: “Archiving Displacement in America” directed by Professors Caleb Smith, Wai Chee Dimock, and Jacqueline Goldsby

Joshua Stanley: “If but Once We Have Been Strong: Collective Agency and Poetic Technique in England during the Period of Early Capitalism” directed by Professors Paul Fry, David Bromwich, and Anthony Reed

December 2017

Carla Baricz: “Early Modern Two-Part and Sequel Drama, 1490-1590” directed by Professors David Quint, Lawrence Manley, and David Kastan

Edward King: “The World-Historical Novel: Writing the Periphery” directed by Professors Joseph Cleary, R. John Williams, and Michael Denning

Palmer Rampell: “The Genres of the Person in Post-World War II America” directed by Professors Amy Hungerford, Michael Warner, and R. John Williams

Anya Adair: “Composing the Law: Literature and Legislation in Early Medieval England” directed by Professors Roberta Frank, Ardis Butterfield, and Alastair Minnis

Robert Bradley Holden: “Milton between the Reformation and Enlightenment: Religion in an Age of Revolution” directed by Professors David Quint, Bruce Gordon, and John Rogers

Andrew Kau: “Astraea’s Adversary: The Rivalry Between Law and Literature in Elizabethan England” directed by Professors Lawrence Manley, David Quint, and David Kastan

Natalie Prizel: “The Good Look: Victorian Visual Ethics and the Problem of Physical Difference” direcgted by Professors Janice Carlisle and Tim Barringer

Rebecca Rush: “The Fetters of Rhyme: Freedom and Limitation in Early Modern Verse” direcgted by Professors David Quint, David Kastan, and John Rogers

Prashant Sharma: “Conversions to the Baroque: Catholic Modernism from James Joyce to Graham Greene” directed by Professors Paul Fry, Joseph Cleary, and Marta Figlerowicz

Joseph Stadolnik: “Subtle Arts: Practical Science and Middle English Literature” directed by Professors Ardis Butterfield and Alastair Minnis

Steven Kirk Warner: “Versions of Narcissus: The Aesthetics and Erotics of the Male Form in English Renaissance Poetry” directed by Professors John Rogers and Catherine Nicholson

December 2016

Kimberly Quiogue Andrews: “The Academic Avant-Garde: Poetry and the University since 1970” directed by Professors Langdon Hammer, Paul Fry, and Wai Chee Dimock

Alexis Chema: “Fancy’s Mirror: Romantic Poetry and the Art of Persuasion” directed by Professors David Bromwich and Paul Fry

Daniel Jump: “Metadiscursive Struggle and the Eighteenth-Century British Social Imaginary: From the End of Licensing to the Revolution Controversy” directed by Professors Michael Warner, Jill Campbell, and Paul Fry

Jordan Brower: “A Literary History of the Studio System, 1911-1950” directed by Wai Chee Dimock, JD Connor, and Joe Cleary

Ryan Carr: “Expressivism in America” directed by Michael Warner, Caleb Smith, and Paul Fry

Megan Eckerle: “Speculation and Time in Late Medieval Visionary Discourse” directed by Jessica Brantley and Alastair Minnis

Gabriele Hayden: “Routes and Roots of the New World Baroque: U.S. Modernist Poets Translate from Spanish” directed by Landon Hammer and Wai Chee Dimock

Matthew Hunter: “The Pursuit of Style in Shakespeare’s Drama” directed by David Kastan, Lawrence Manley, and Brian Walsh

Leslie Jamison: “The Recovered: Addiction and Sincerity in 20th Century American Literature” directed by Wai Chee Dimock, Amy Hungerford, and Caleb Smith

Jessica Matuozzi: “Double Agency: A Multimedia History of the War on Drugs” directed by Jacqueline Goldsby, Amy Hungerford, and Anthony Reed

Aaron Pratt: “The Status of Printed Playbooks in Early Modern England” directed by David Kastan, Lawrence Manley, and Keith Wrightson

Madeleine Saraceni: “The Idea of Writing for Women in Late Medieval Literature” directed by Jessica Brantley, Ardis Butterfield, and Alastair Minnis

J. Antonio Templanza: “Know to Know No More: The Composition of Knowledge in Milton’s Epic Poetry” directed by John Rogers and Paul Fry

Andrew Willson: “Idle Works: Unproductiveness, Literature Labor, and the Victorian Novel” directed by Janice Carlisle, Stefanie Markovits, and Ruth Yeazell

December 2015

Melina Moe: “Public Intimacies: Literary and Sexual Reproduction in the Eighteenth Century” directed by Katie Trumpener, Wendy Lee, Jonathan Kramnick, and Jill Campbell

Merve Emre: “Paraliterary Institutions” directed by Wai Chee Dimock and Amy Hungerford

Samuel Fallon: “Personal Effects: Personal and Literary Culture in Elizabethan England” directed by David Kastan, Catherine Nicholson, and Lawrence Manley

Edgar Garcia: “Deep Land: Hemispheric Modernisms and Indigenous Media” directed by Wai Chee Dimock, Langdon Hammer, and Anthony Reed

Jean Elyse Graham: “The Book Unbound: Print Logic between Old Books and New Media” directed by David Kastan, Catherine Nicholson, and R. John Williams

December 2014

Len Gutkin: “Dandiacal Forms” directed by Amy Hungerford, Sam See, and Katie Trumpener

Justin Sider: “Parting Words: Address and Exemplarity in Victorian Poetry” directed by Linda Peterson, Leslie Brisman, and Stefanie Markovits

William Weber: “Shakespearean Metamorphoses” directed by David Kastan

Thomas Koenigs: “Fictionality in the United States, 1789-1861” directed by Michael Warner, Jill Campbell, and Caleb Smith

Andrew Kraebel: “English Traditions of Biblical Criticism and Translation in the Later Middle Ages” directed by Alastair Minnis, Jessica Brantley, and Ian Cornelius

Tessie Prakas: “The Office of the Poet: Ministry and Verse Practice in the Seventeenth Century” directed by John Rogers, David Kastan, and Catherine Nicholson

Nienke Christine Venderbosch: “‘Tha Com of More under Misthleothum Grendel Gongan’: The Scholarly and Popular Reception of Beowulf ’s Grendel from 1805 to the Present Day” directed by Roberta Frank and Paul Fry

Eric Weiskott: “The Durable Alliterative Tradition” directed by Roberta Frank, Alastair Minnis, Ian Cornelius

December 2013

Anthony Domestico: “Theologies of Crisis in British Literature of the Interwar Period” directed by Amy Hungerford and Pericles Lewis

Glyn Salton-Cox: “Cobbett and the Comintern:  Transnational Provincialism and Revolutionary Desire from the Popular Front to the New Left” directed by Katie Trumpener, Katerina Clark, and Joe Cleary

Samuel Alexander: “Demographic Modernism: Character and Quantification in Twentieth Century Fiction” directed by Professors Pericles Lewis and Barry McCrea

Andrew Karas: “Versions of Modern Poetry” directed by Professors Paul Fry and Langdon Hammer

James Ross Macdonald: “Popular Religious Belief and Literature in Early Modern England” directed by Professors David Kastan and John Rogers

December 2012

Michael Komorowski: “The Arts of Interest: Private Property and the English Literary Imagination in the Age of Milton” directed by Professors David Quint and John Rogers

Fiona Robinson: “Raising the Dead: Writing Lives and Writing Wars in Britain, 1914-1941” directed by Professors Katie Trumpener, Margaret Homans, and Sam See

Nathalie Wolfram: “Novel Play: Gothic Performance and the Making of Eighteenth Century Fiction” directed by Professors Joseph Roach and Katie Trumpener

Michaela Bronstein: “Imperishable Consciousness: The Rescue of Meaning in the Modernist Novel” directed by Professors Ruth Yeazell and Pericles Lewis

David Currell: “Epic Satire: Structures of Heroic Mockery in Early Modern English Literature” directed by Professor David Quint

Andrew Heisel: “Reading in Darkness: Sacred Text and Aesthetics in the Long Eighteenth Century” directed by Professors Jill Campbell and Elliott Visconsi

Hilary Menges: “Authorship before Copyright: The Monumental Book, 1649-1743” directed by Professors Jill Campbell and John Rogers

Nathan Suhr-Sytsma: “Poetry and the Making of the Anglophone Literary World, 1950-1975” directed by Professors Wai Chee Dimock and Langdon Hammer

December 2011

Patrick Gray: “The Passionate Stoic: Subjectivity in Shakespeare’s Rome” directed by Professors Lawrence Manley and David Quint

Christopher Grobe: “Performing Confession: American Poetry, Performance, and New Media 1959” directed by Professors Amy Hungerford and Joseph Roach

Sebastian LeCourt: “Culture and Secularity: Religion in the Victorian Anthropological Imagination” directed by Professors Linda Peterson and Katie Trumpener

Laura Saetveit Miles: “Mary’s Book: The Annunciation in Middle England” directed by Jessica Brantley and Alastair Minnis

Stephen Tedeschi: “Urbanization in English Romantic Poetry” directed by Professors Paul Fry and Christopher R. Miller

Julia Fawcett: “Over-Expressing the Self: Celebrity, Shandeism, and Autobiographical Performance, 1696-1801” directed by Professors Jill Campbell and Joseph Roach

Daniel Gustafson: “Stuart Restorations: History, Memory, Performance” directed by Professor Joseph Roach and Elliott Visconsi

Sarah Mahurin: “American Exodus: Migration and Oscillation in the Modern American Novel” directed by Professors Wai Chee Dimock and Robert Stepto

Erica Levy McAlpine: “Lyric Elsewhere: Strategies of Poetic Remove” directed by Professors David Bromwich and Langdon Hammer

Sarah Novacich: “Ark and Archive: Narrative Enclosures in Medieval and Early Modern Texts” directed by Professors Roberta Frank and Alastair Minnis

Jesse Schotter: “The Hieroglyphic Imagination: Language and Visuality in Modern Fiction and Film” directed by Professors Peter Brooks and Pericles Lewis

Matthew Vernon: “Strangers in a Familiar Land: The Medieval and African-American Literary Tradition” directed by Professor Alastair Minnis

Chia-Je Weng: “Natural Religion and Its Discontents: Critiques and Revisions in Blake and Coleridge” directed by Professors Leslie Brisman and Paul Fry

Nicole Wright: “‘A contractile power’: Boundaries of Character and the Culpable Self in the British Novel, 1750-1830” directed by Professors Jill Campbell and Katie Trumpener

December 2010

Molly Farrell: “Counting Bodies: Imagining Population in the New World” directed by Professor Wai Chee Dimock

John Muse: “Short Attention Span Theaters: Modernist Shorts Since 1880” directed by Professors Joseph Roach and Marc Robinson

Denis Ferhatović: “An Early English Poetics of the Artifact” directed by Professor Roberta Frank

Colin Gillis: “Forming the Normal: Sexology and the Modern British Novel, 1890-1939” directed by Professors Laura Frost and Pericles Lewis

Katherine Harrison: “Tales Twice Told: Sound Technology and American Fiction after 1940” directed by Professor Amy Hungerford

Jean Otsuki: “British Modernism in the Country” directed by Professors Paul Fry and Margaret Homans

Erin Peterson: “On Intrusion and Interruption: An Exploration of an Early Modern Literary Mode” directed by Professor John Rogers

Patrick Redding: “A Distinctive Equality: The Democratic Imagination in Modern American Poetry” directed by Professors David Bromwich and Langdon Hammer

Emily Setina: “Modernism’s Darkrooms: Photography and Literary Process” directed by Professors Langdon Hammer and Pericles Lewis

Jordan Zweck: “Letters from Heaven in the British Isles, 800-1500” directed by Professor Roberta Frank

December 2009

Elizabeth Twitchell Antrim: “Relief Work: Aid to Africa in the American Novel Since 1960” directed by Professor Wai Chee Dimock

Emily Coit: “The Trial of Abundance: Consumption and Morality in the Anglo-American Novel, 1871-1907” directed by Professors Catherine Labio and Ruth Bernard Yeazell

Andrew Goldstone: “Modernist Fictions of Aesthetic Autonomy” directed by Professors Langdon Hammer and Amy Hungerford

Matthew Mutter: “Poetry Against Religion, Poetry As Religion: Secularism and its Discontents in Literary Modernism” directed by Professors David Bromwich and Pericles Lewis

Anna Chen: “Kinship Lessons: The Cultural Uses of Childhood in Late Medieval England” directed by Professors Jessica Brantley and Lee Patterson

Anne DeWitt: “The Uses of Scientific Thinking and the Realist Novel” directed by Professor Linda Peterson

Irina Dumitrescu: “The Instructional Moment in Anglo-Saxon Literature” directed by Professor Roberta Frank

Susannah Hollister: “Poetries of Geography in Postwar America” directed by Professors Paul Fry and Langdon Hammer

James Horowitz: “Rebellious Hearts and Loyal Passions: Imagining Civic Consciousness in Ovidian Writing on Women, 1680-1819” directed by Professors Jill Campbell and Elliott Visconsi

Ben LaBreche: “The Rule of Friendship: Literary Culture and Early Modern Liberty” directed by Professors David Quint and John Rogers

December 2008

Sarah Van der Laan: “What Virtue and Wisdom Can Do: Homer’s Odyssey in the Renaissance Imagination” directed by Professor David Quint

Annmarie Drury: “Literary Translators and Victorian Poetry” directed by Professor Linda Peterson

Jeffrey Glover: “People of the Word: Puritans, Algonquians, and the Politics of Print in Early New England” directed by Professors Elizabeth Dillon and Wai Chee Dimock

Dana Goldblatt: “From Contract to Social Contract: Fortescue’s Governance and Malory’s Morte ” directed by Professors David Quint and Alastair Minnis

Kamran Javadizadeh: “Bedlam and Parnassus: Madness and Poetry in Postwar America” directed by Professor Langdon Hammer

Ayesha Ramachandran: “Worldmaking in Early Modern Europe: Global Imaginations from Montaigne to Milton” directed by Professors Annabel Patterson and David Quint

Jennifer Sisk: “Forms of Speculation: Religious Genres and Religious Inquiry in Late Medieval England” directed by Professor Lee Patterson

Ariel Watson: “The Anxious Triangle: Modern Metatheatres of the Playwright, Performer, and Spectator” directed by Professor Joseph Roach

Jesse Zuba: “The Shape of Life: First Books and the Twentieth-Century Poetic Career” directed by Professors Langdon Hammer and Amy Hungerford

December 2007

Rebecca Boggs: “The Gem-Like Flame: the Aesthetics of Intensity in Hopkins, Crane, and H.D.” directed by Professor Langdon Hammer

Maria Fackler: “A Portrait of the Artist Manqué : Form and Failure in the British Novel Since 1945” directed by Professors Pericles Lewis and Ruth Bernard Yeazell

Melissa Ganz: “Fictions of Contract: Women, Consent, and the English Novel, 1722-1814” directed by Professor Jill Campbell

Siobhan Phillips: “The Poetics of Everyday Time in Frost, Stevens, Bishop, and Merrill” directed by Professors David Bromwich and Langdon Hammer

Morgan Swan: “The Literary Construction of a Capital City: Late-Medieval London and the Difficulty of Self-Definition” directed by Professor Lee Patterson

Andrea Walkden: “Lives, Letters and History: Walton to Defoe” directed by Professors David Quint and John Rogers

Rebecca Berne: “Regionalism, Modernism and the American Short Story Cycle” directed by Professors Wai Chee Dimock and Vera Kutzinski

Leslie Eckel: “Transatlantic Professionalism: Nineteenth-Century American Writers at Work in the World” directed by Professors Wai Chee Dimock and Jennifer Baker

December 2006

Gregory Byala: “Samuel Beckett and the Problem of Beginning” directed by Professors Paul Fry and Pericles Lewis

Eric Lindstrom: “Romantic Fiat” directed by Professors David Bromwich and Paul H. Fry

Megan Quigley: “Modernist Fiction and the Re-instatement of the Vague” directed by Professors David Bromwich and Pericles Lewis

Randi Saloman: “Where Truth is Important: The Modern Novel and the Essayistic Mode” directed by Professors David Bromwich and Laura Frost

Michael Wenthe: “Arthurian Outsiders: Heterogeneity and the Cultural Politics of Medieval Arthurian Literature” directed by Professor Lee Patterson

Christopher Bond: “Exemplary Heroism and Christian Redemption in the Epic Poetry of Spenser and Milton” directed by Professors David Quint and John Rogers

Lara Cohen: “Counterfeit Presentments: Fraud and the Production of Nineteenth-Century American Literature” directed by Professors Elizabeth Dillon and Wai Chee Dimock

Nicholas Salvato: “Uncloseting Drama: Modernism’s Queer Theaters” directed by Professors Joseph Roach and Michael Trask

Anthony Welch: “Songs of Dido: Epic Poetry and Opera in Seventeenth-Century England” directed by Professor David Quint

December 2005

Brooke Conti: “Anxious Acts: Religion and Autobiography in Early Modern England” directed by Professor Annabel Patterson

Brett Foster: “The Metropolis of Popery: Writing of Rome in the English Renaissance” directed by Professors Lawrence Manley and David Quint

Curtis Perrin: “Langland’s Comic Vision” directed by Professor Traugott Lawler