2011
Poor Old Horse: Tragicomedy and The Good Soldier, Matthew Christian
Haruki Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: The Power of Storytelling, Dennis M. Donnelly
A Singing Country: American Folk Expression and The Lomax-Hurston-Barnicle Expedition of 1935, Odetta B. Hartman
Love Without Organs: A critical analysis of Robert Creeley's poetry as elucidated by Guattari and Deleuze's BwO, David Hyman
Translation of Bernard Werber's 'Nos amis les Humains', Peter Nikolayevich Karpushin
The Sound and the Fury: A Screenplay Adaptation, Brenna Kouf
Delinquent Palaces, Amelia Marini
Elizabeth Bishop and The Life of Her Poetics, Elizabeth Maslin
"And She is Also Me" Discovering the Womanist Critique in Brooks, Clifton and Giovanni, Sarah Mooney
Kitsune and the Four Worlds, Shaine Morgan
The Longest Fall: Excerpts and Analyses, Thomas A. Norman
"Go now and tell them": Bulgarian folksongs and political resistance to the Turkish "yoke", Thea Piltzecker
Joyce's Open War: A Revolution in Exile, Michael Porter
The Sure Reality, Shaheen Qureshi
Fled is that Magic: The Uses of Enchantment in John Keats and Led Zeppelin, Jenna M. Ruggiero
The Book of Monelle, Kit Schluter
What is a Woman? Tolstoy's Moral and Social Dilemmas, Catherine Schmitz
Towards A Noble Unconscious: The Dialectical Legacy of Late Modernism, Brian C. Shewfelt
Signals From Babel: The Influence of Jorge Luis Borges on Metafiction of the Late Twentieth Century, Emma Stamm
The Thinking Climax: Feminist Rewritings of Sexual Sensationalism, Julia L. Stern
Dead Bodies in Big Houses: A Search for Agency in Literary and Visual Texts, David Toropov
Seneca to Shakespeare: Tracking the Influence of Tragedy, David Wiley
2010
Kathy Acker and Jackson Mac Low: the Reader's Relationship to a Difficult Text, Sheila Byers
Postmodern but not Postmoral: Locating the Affirmative in the Fiction of Gaddis, Pynchon, and Barthelme, William Cranshaw
With Thanks For Listening: Issues of Representation in Post-Katrina Narrative Nonfiction, Maureen Crittenden
Restless Waves, Endless Striving: The Absence a/Finality in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, Natalia Drozdiak
Indelible Marks and Impossible Tasks: The Solitary Pursuit ofthe Past in Proust, Nabokov and Sebald, Kate Ehrenberg
The Seafarers, Alexander Eriksen
"Abysms of Shrieking and Immemorial Lunacy:" An Analysis of H. P. Lovecraft's Cosmic Horror, Alexander Houstoun
The Games We Play! : An Exploration of Style, Narrative, and Arc, Khana Itkis
Worldweaving and Bodybuilding: Constructing a Dream in the Shadow of (Mass) Utopia, Josiah Jacobus-Parker
Criminality and Politics in the Post-Apartheid State, Alyssa Landers
Not Brushstrokes, But Words: John Banville's Art Trilogy, Sheila Langan
Representation of the 'Gypsy' in 19th Century Russian Literature, Alexandra Lavrentovich
Celebrity Gangsters: Interwar Visual Culture and the Politics of American Identity, Justin Leigh
Virginia Woolf's Problem with Authority: "The Androgynous Mind" and the Gendered Narrative, Samuel Leon
The Exuberance of Influence: Melville's Style, Aesthetics and Perspective In Moby-Dick, Brian McDonald
Expressions of Ineffability in Henry James' The Golden Bowl, Katelyn Montanese
New Novel: An Exploration of the Relationship Between the French Nouveau Roman and the Beginnings of American Postmodernism, Adena Rivera-Dundas
She's a Witch, Bum Her: A Look at the Semantics Behind Medieval Gossip Concerning Anne Boleyn and Joan of Arc, Michelle Ronay
"Footless in the Void:" Landscape and Identity in the Desert West, Ben Seligman
The Bare and Bawdy Bolaño: An Exploration in the Interpretation and Experience of Reading 2666, Nicole Sherman
Memento Mori: Three Tales of Vampires, Possession, and the Evil Within, Jessica Sirkin
The Motion In Between: Three Close Readings of William Faulkner, Lindsay St. Onge
White Lives, Benjamin L. Tripp
Five Novels by Philip Roth: Freedom and Its Discontent, Caroline Walker
Hemingway's Dying World: An Analysis of Authenticity as Seen in His Characters and Themes, Andrew Worthington
2009
From Ripples to Waves of Life and the Ocean of Words: A Study of Virginia Woolf, Laura Alexander
At the Mercy of the Reader: The Constraint of Probability and its Resistance to an Infinite Deferral of Meaning, Lillian Allison
Making Conversation: Spoken and Unspoken Expression in The Ambassadors by Henry James, Emma Alpern
To Tear Speech Away Doubt and Surrender in the Poetic Works of Jalal-al-Din Rumi and Robert Duncan, Lilly Bechtel
(tentatively) A Motion Picture and The Heaviest Heart is Apt to Be the Most Playful, Jesse Bogner
Double-Dealing: The St. Petersburg Story of an Early Dostoevskian Hero, Erica Cohen-Taub
The Novelistic Impetus: Foundation, Image and Act in Fielding, Hogarth and Richardson, Myles Curtis
Revolution and the Semiotic: Towards an Ethics of Difference, Neşe Devenot
Despair, Identity and Quiet in Raymond Carver's Depresses America, Annabelle Dexter-Jones
"The Background of Freedom": Free Will in the Context of Literature, Samuel Douglas
Beginning of History: A study of Adonis's relationship to his cultural heritage with translations of selected poems., Evelyn Fettes
Apres JE, le Déluge: Meaning and Paradox in the French Avant-Garde After Rimbaud, Sam Freilich
Bartered Bodies and Suspicious Silences in Miguel de Cervantes's Novelas ejemplares, Christine Gehringer
Wliat Is There That Is Not History, Humanity, and Violence in Cormac McCarthy's West, Emilv Gilbert
Balloons and Boxes: Graphical Text in Sshhhh! and Watchmen, Jonathan Gorga
The Grammar of Desire: Formal Perversity in Henry James's The Ambassadors, Alice Gregory
Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and the Act of Humanism, Ryan Gustafson
From Within the Burrow: Understanding Kafka's Animal, Deanna Kawitzky
Ghostly Bodies, Haunted Minds: The Return of the Dead in the Works of Edgar Allen Poe, Toni Morrison, and Shirley Jackson, Katy Kelleher
In the Hands of Achilles, Christian Lehmann
Building a Better Superhero: Mythology and Misprision in the Modem Superhero Narrative, Daniel Lewis
"To the Horizon and Back" Liminality in Three African-American Migration Narratives, Caitlyn McClure
Reflections of Living Art: Spenser's Depictions of Queen Elizabeth, Darren McDowell
The Mimesis of Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, James Molloy
Love and the Limits of Subjectivity: The Space of Truth in Proust, Lacan, and Merleau-Ponty, Marissa Solow
*Hand in Hand with Wand'ring Steps and Slow' Writing the Search for God, Emily Tersoff
2008
Out of Absence: An Interpretation of Interpretation, Walter Byers
'Under the Palaver Tree': Tradition and Realism in the Literary and Cinematic Works of Ousmane Sembene, Eugenie Cha
Writing Off Stable Ground: The Motif of Flight in Magical Realism, Margaret Dobbins
Lise - A novel, Elliot Dutcher
Others within Us Personless Narrators in Faulkner and Beckett, Monroe Ellenbogen
Of Loneliness, Mimesis, and the End of Teleology: The Animal in the Work of Franz Kafka, Andrew Farquhar
'We have descended from the sky:' Modern tales from Tibet, Daniela Gallegos-Anda Chávez
Artist and Object in Olesha's Envy: The Attempt at Writing the Self in the Soviet Union, Spencer Goot
"To Grow in the Open Air": Transgressing Personal Spaces in American Literature, Augustus Hoffman
Notes of a Conscious Country: James Baldwin on American Narrative, Love, and Cinema, Nica Horvitz
"When the Canvas Must Spread / To New Junk": Parapoetic Bricolage & the Urban Artifact, Ellis Isenberg
"Is It Long Enough?" Race and Emasculation in The Sound and the Fury, William Lanier
In Solid Air: Subject/Object Relations, Gender, Form and Work-as-Play in the poetry and prose of William Carlos Williams, Charley Lanning
Contorting the Modern Demos: The Rise of the Liberal Police System, Jonathan Leslie
The Genre of the Farfelu : Bubbling Language of Consciousness, Aliénor Littaye
As ON THE SHORE OF THE OCEAN: LIQUID BORDERS AND THE CRISIS OF DEMOCRACY, Jessica Loudis
The Philosopher and His Animal: Figuration and the Stakes of Animal-Human Relations, Kieran Morris
"The Limits of my Body": Thomas Browne arid the Baroque, Alexander Morrison
(Meta)morphosis: Theory and Praxis of Creative Writing, Mischa Nachtigal
"A Race Apart, We War Products": Women's Narratives of the First World War, Anna Nolan