Dissertations 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 May 2010 Denis Ferhatovic: An Early English Poetics of the Artifact oberta Frank directed by Professor R

Colin Gillis: Forming the Normal: Sexology and the Modern British Novel, 1890-193 9 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 L iterary Mode directed by Professor John Rogers Patrick Redding: A Distinctive Equality: The Democratic Imagination in Modern Ame rican Poetry directed by Professors David Bromwich and Langdon Hammer Emily Setina: Modernism s Darkrooms: Photography and Literary Process directed by Pr ofessors Langdon Hammer and Pericles Lewis Jordan Zweck: Letters from Heaven in the British Isles, 800-1500 ssor Roberta Frank December 2009 Elizabeth Twitchell Antrim: Relief Work: Aid to Africa in the American Novel Sinc e 1960 directed by Professor Wai Chee Dimock Emily Coit: The Trial of Abundance: Consumption and Morality in the Anglo-America n Novel, 1871-1907 directed by Professors Catherine Labio and Ruth Bernard Yeazel l Andrew Goldstone: Modernist Fictions of Aesthetic Autonomy Langdon Hammer and Amy Hungerford directed by Professors directed by Profe

Matthew Mutter: Poetry Against Religion, Poetry As Religion: Secularism and its D iscontents in Literary Modernism directed by Professors David Bromwich and Pericl es Lewis May 2009 Anna Chen: Kinship Lessons: The Cultural Uses of Childhood in Late Medieval Engla nd directed by Professors Jessica Brantley and Lee Patterson Anne DeWitt: The Uses of Scientific Thinking and the Realist Novel fessor Linda Peterson Irina Dumitrescu: The Instructional Moment in Anglo-Saxon Literature directed by Pro directed by P

rofessor Roberta Frank Susannah Hollister: Poetries of Geography in Postwar America directed by Professor s Paul Fry and Langdon Hammer James Horowitz: Rebellious Hearts and Loyal Passions: Imagining Civic Consciousne ss in Ovidian Writing on Women, 1680-1819 directed by Professors Jill Campbell an d Elliott Visconsi Ben LaBreche: The Rule of Friendship: Literary Culture and Early Modern Liberty rected by Professors David Quint and John Rogers December 2008 Sarah Van der Laan: What Virtue and Wisdom Can Do: Homer s Odyssey in the Renaissan ce Imagination directed by Professor David Quint May 2008 Annmarie Drury: nda Peterson Literary Translators and Victorian Poetry directed by Professor Li di

Jeffrey Glover: People of the Word: Puritans, Algonquians, and the Politics of Pr int in Early New England directed by Professors Elizabeth Dillon and Wai Chee Dim ock 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 rected 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 La te Medieval England directed by Professor Lee Patterson Ariel Watson: The Anxious Triangle: Modern Metatheatres of the Playwright, Perfor mer, and Spectator directed by Professor Joseph Roach Jesse Zuba: The Shape of Life: First Books and the Twentieth-Century Poetic Caree r 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 Manqu: Form and Failure in the British Nov el Since 1945 directed by Professors Pericles Lewis and Ruth Bernard Yeazell Melissa Ganz: Fictions of Contract: Women, Consent, and the English Novel, 1722-1 814 directed by Professor Jill Campbell Siobhan Phillips: The Poetics of Everyday Time in Frost, Stevens, Bishop, and Mer rill directed by Professors David Bromwich and Langdon Hammer Morgan Swan: The Literary Construction of a Capital City: Late-Medieval London an d the Difficulty of Self-Definition directed by Professor Lee Patterson di

Andrea Walkden: Lives, Letters and History: Walton to Defoe David Quint and John Rogers May 2007

directed by Professors

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

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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 Paul Fry and Pericles Lewis Eric Lindstrom: y directed by Professors

Romantic Fiat directed by Professors David Bromwich and Paul H. Fr directed by P

Megan Quigley: Modernist Fiction and the Re-instatement of the Vague rofessors 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 M edieval Arthurian Literature directed by Professor Lee Patterson May 2006 Christopher Bond: Exemplary Heroism and Christian Redemption in the Epic Poetry o f Spenser and Milton directed by Professors David Quint and John Rogers Lara Cohen: Counterfeit Presentments: Fraud and the Production of Nineteenth-Cent ury American Literature directed by Professors Elizabeth Dillon and Wai Chee Dimo ck Nicholas Salvato: Uncloseting Drama: Modernism s Queer Theaters rs Joseph Roach and Michael Trask directed by Professo

Anthony Welch: Songs of Dido: Epic Poetry and Opera in Seventeenth-Century Englan d directed by Professor David Quint December 2005 Brooke Conti: Anxious Acts: Religion and Autobiography in Early Modern England ected by Professor Annabel Patterson dir

Brett Foster: The Metropolis of Popery: Writing of Rome in the English Renaissanc e directed by Professors Lawrence Manley and David Quint Curtis Perrin: Langland s Comic Vision directed by Professor Traugott Lawler

Requirements Ph.D. Requirements In order to fulfill the basic requirements for the program, a student must: 1. Complete twelve courses six courses with at least one grade of Honors and a m aximum of one grade of Pass by July 15 following the first year; at least twelve courses with grades of Honors in at least four of these courses and not more th an one Pass by July 15 following the second year. One of these twelve courses m ust be The Teaching of English (ENGL 990). Courses selected must include one Me dieval, one Early Modern, one eighteenth- and/or nineteenth-century, one twentie th- and/or twenty-first century. 2. Satisfy the language requirement in one of three ways by the end of the secon d year (see details below). 3. Pass the oral examination before or as early as possible in the fifth term of residence. The exam consists of questions on five topics, developed by the stu dent in consultation with examiners and subject to approval by the DGS. 4. Submit a dissertation prospectus, normally by January 15 of the third year. 5. Teach a minimum of two terms. 6. Submit a dissertation. Upon completion of all predissertation requirements, including the prospectus, s tudents are admitted to candidacy for the Ph.D. Admission to candidacy must take place by the end of the third year of study. M.A. Requirements Students enrolled in the Ph.D. program may receive the M.A. upon completion of s ix courses with at least one grade of Honors and a maximum of one grade of Pass, and the passing of two of the languages by departmental examinations. Students enrolled in the terminal Master s degree program must complete either sev en term courses or six term courses and a special project within the English dep artment (one or two of these courses may be taken in other departments with appr oval of the director of graduate studies). There must be at least one grade of H onors, and there may not be more than one grade of Pass. Students must also pass examinations in two languages, ancient or modern. Full-time students normally c omplete the program in one year. Language Requirements The Yale English Department maintains more rigorous language requirements than m any other graduate programs, based on the belief that all students (with few exc eptions) should have basic knowledge of one of the classical languages and suffi cient reading knowledge to be able to conduct international research in their su bjects of specialization. Latin or Greek is considered necessary for students s pecializing in periods before 1750. The language requirements should be complet ed by the end of the second year in one of three ways: 1. Two languages, by course and exam: one language to be completed by passing an

advanced literature course at Yale (graduate or upper-level undergraduate cours e taught in and requiring papers in the language in question) with a grade of Ho nors or High Pass; the other to be passed by departmental exam (reading knowledg e with dictionary). 2. Two languages by exam: strong reading knowledge of one language, as demonstra ted by passing a departmental exam without use of a dictionary; reading knowledg e of a second language, demonstrated by passing a departmental exam with diction ary. 3. Three languages by departmental exam or, in the case of an ancient language, by satisfactory completion of two terms of introductory Latin or Greek (GREK 110 -111 or LATN 110-111): Languages to be selected from the following: (a) Latin or Greek; (b) French or German; (c) one of the preceding languages or Biblical Heb rew, Italian, Russian, Spanish, or another language agreed upon by the director of graduate studies (DGS). Students specializing in periods after 1750 may, with the permission of the DGS, substitute a third language for selection (a). Two t erms of Old English (or one term of Old English and one of the History of the La nguage) may be substituted for selection (c). The three-language requirement is to be completed by passing two exams by the end of the first year and the third by the end of the second year.