This page contains all publications submitted to SURFACE by students, faculty, and staff in the department.

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2024

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Subcultural Textuality: Skateboarding and the Politics of Subcultural Media, Simon Vangel

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Transnational Druze and Reincarnation: Remembering, Recording, and Reconnecting, Natalie El-Eid

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Climate Justice Before the Anthropocene: How Inclement Weather Shaped British and Irish Romanticism, Lauren Cooper

Pained Subjects: Self-harm, Sexual Health, and US Citizenship, Alex O'Connell

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“Rude, Misshapen, Monstrous Rabblement”: Race, Disability, and Gender in Early Modern England, Deyasini Dasgupta

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Turbulent Landscapes: Reading the Borders of Contemporary Latinx and Indigenous Literatures, Florencia Lauria

Liberalism and Feminist Political Thought In U.S. Women's Suffrage Fiction, 1856-1891, Rachel Snyder

2023

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Second-Person Surveillance: Politics of User Implication in Digital Documentaries, Elizabeth Gleesing

2022

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Future Climate Rhetorics of Belize: A Counter-Apocalyptic Inquiry into Belize’s Possible, Probable, and Preferable Futures, André Habet

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Novel Epidemics: Contagion and Metaphor in US Literature, Maxwell Clement Cassity

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Hell's Black Intelligencers: Representing Clandestine Labor on the Early Modern Stage, Evan Alexander Hixon

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'Play the Book Again': Towards a Systems Approach to Game Adaptation, Johnathan Sanders

2021

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Dalit Women, Anti-caste Aesthetics, and the Politics of Representation, Ruma Sinha

"Man Delights Not Me; No, Nor Woman Neither": Asexuality in Early-modern Literature, Ashley O'Mara

Medical Liberty and Alternative Health Practices in Nineteenth-century Britain, Haejoo Kim

2020

Cultivating an Ethos of Refusal: What it Takes to (Un)Teach a Student Like Me, Yanira Rodrguez

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Prison Sights: Carceral Counter-Visions in Documentary Film, Christopher R. Barnes

2019

Romantic Legalism, Adam Kozaczka

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Commodification of Blackness in Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing and Jordan Peele’s Get Out, Nicholas Blauner

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Materiality and Minority Representation in Timothy McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Julia Leyden

2018

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History's Perilous Pleasures: Experiencing Antiquity in the Postwar Hollywood Epic, Thomas Jefferson West III

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American Space Monkeys: Analyzing Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club as a Transmedia Text through Fan Appropriations and Commoditization, Danielle Bertolini

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Resisting Borders, Resisting Control Examining the multiplicity of identities in A Map of Home and The Girl in The Tangerine Scarf, Zainab Abdali

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Resisting Borders, Resisting Control: Examining the multiplicity of identities in A Map of Home and The Girl in The Tangerine Scarf, Zainab Abdali

2017

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Wifely Figures: Gender, Marriage, and Biblical Typology in Early Modern England, Melissa Welshans

Transgressive Tears: Performance and the Melodramatic Unruly Woman, Staci Stutsman

A Civil Contract of Documentary: Israel, Palestine, and the Political Aesthetics of Documentary Intersubjective Witnessing, 2000-2017, Sarah Barkin

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Contested Spaces: Spatial Discourses and the Struggle for Power in the Early Modern English Empire, Emily O'Hara

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Modesty and Manliness: Gendered Truth-Telling in Herodotus, Jennifer Shulman

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The Treatment of Sexual Violence and Reclaimed Agency in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus and The Rape of Lucrece, Lily Sarkisian

2016

Transnational Genre Hybridity and the British Horror Film, 2002-2012, Lindsey Decker

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Unusual Children: Queerishness and Strange Growth in A Wrinkle in Time and The Giver, Olivia Morris

2015

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Learning to Flip the Framework: A Multigenre, Autoethnographic Account of One Student's Experience with Gradual Release of Responsibility, Julie Theresa Saltisiak

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Contesting Victorian Beliefs: The Unintended Effects of Victorian Novels, Christina Barquin

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Exposing Narrative Ideologies of Victimhood in Emma Donaghue’s Room and Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl, Meredith Jeffers

Imperfect Imitations: A Novel, Mary Salmonsen

READING BODIES: ASSOCIATIONISM, EMPATHY, AND THE ETHICS OF SENSATION IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY FICTION, Peter Jeffrey Katz

2014

Assertive Fictions: Arguments and Audiences of the Postwar Social Problem Film, 1944-1954, Steven Doles

Paradoxically Progressive: The Red Progressives and the Creation of a Modern Native American Subjectivity, Corey J. Dosch

Insurgent Imaginations: Culture, Postcolonial Planetarity and Maoism in India, Auritro Majumder

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180 Degrees Away, Megan Daniels

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The Evolution of The Legend of King Arthur, Krista Dayle Staropoli

2013

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Déjà Viewed: Nation, Gender, and Genre in Bollywood Remakes of Hollywood Cinema, Gohar Siddiqui

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Peripheral Knowledge: The Witch, the Magus, and the Mountebank on the Early Modern Stage, Rinku Chatterjee

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Landscaping India: From Colony to Postcolony, Sandeep Banerjee

Coming Home: Mobile Women, Non-Linear Temporalities, South Asian Diasporic Texts, Soumitree Gupta

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Jailbreakers, Villains, and Vampires: Representations of Criminality in Early-Victorian Popular Texts, Elizabeth Fay Stearns

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The Uncertainty of National and Cultural Identity in Salman Rushdie’s East, West and Midnight’s Children, Tress Klassen

2012

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The Body Machinic: Technology, Labor, and Mechanized Bodies in Victorian Culture, Jessica Kuskey

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A Kiss with a Fist is Better Than None: Violence and Sexuality in The Maltese Falcon and The Big Sleep, Julie Nascone

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Constructing Depth through Jane: Contemporary Interactions between Austen and Interiority, Nicole Catherine Peters

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Counter-Reformation: the Search for a Unified John Donne, Bailey Susan Fitzgerald

Here, From the Passenger Seat: A Novel, Emma June DeMilta

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Penance: A Novel, Rachel Anne Weiser

2011

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Crossroads: A Novella, Patricia Ann-Marie Abraham

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Hero/Heroine: A Study of the Representation of Womanhood in Victorian and Neo-Victorian Literature, Laura DePalma

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Poetry Fix - Episode 20 - Weldon Kees - 1926, Mary Karr

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Poetry Fix - Episode 19 - Lux - Tarantulas on the Lifebuoy, Mary Karr

Guilty Looks: The Pains and Pleasures of Liberal Reform in Late-Victorian Britain, Tanushree Ghosh

Heroine Abuse: Feminism, Femininity and the Female Action Hero, Cristina Lucia Stasia

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In the name of the father Lacanian reading of four white South African writers, Obiwu Iwuanyanwu

2010

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Poetry Fix - Episode 10 - Matthews - Cheap Seats, Mary Karr

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Poetry Fix - Episode 11 - Hayes - Talk, Mary Karr

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Poetry Fix - Episode 12 - Baseball Edition, Mary Karr

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Poetry Fix - Episode 13 - Oliver- Wild Geese, Mary Karr

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Poetry Fix - Episode 14 - Keats - This Living Hand, Mary Karr

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Poetry Fix - Episode 15 - Transtromer - Street Crossing - Face to Face, Mary Karr

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Poetry Fix - Episode 16 - McHugh - I Knew I'd Sing, Mary Karr

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Poetry Fix - Episode 3 - Neruda - Walking Around, Mary Karr

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Poetry Fix - Episode 4 - Stevens - Rabbit as King of the Ghosts, Mary Karr

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Poetry Fix - Episode 5 - Gluck - Mock Orange, Mary Karr

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Poetry FIx - Episode 7 - Frost - Once by the Pacific, Mary Karr

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Poetry FIx - Episode 8 - Parra - Piano Solo, Mary Karr

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Poetry Fix - Episode 9 - Heaney - Digging, Mary Karr

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Poetry Fix - Episode 18 - Milosz - Late Ripeness, Mary Karr

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Poetry Fix - Episode 1 - Robert Hass - Old Dominion, Mary Karr

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Poetry Fix - Episode 2 - Archilochos - Liar, Mary Karr

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Poetry Fix - Episode 17 - Milosz - On Prayer - And Yet the Books, Mary Karr

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“Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision”: Carroll's Use of Mathematics and Literature to Critique Victorian Britain., Diana Schneider

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The Connection Between Humans and Things in Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, Allison Polster

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Back to the fifties: Pop nostalgia in the Reagan Era, Michael D. Dwyer

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The suspension of (dis)belief: Novel and Bible in Victorian society, Jonathan David Singleton

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Toward a literary geography: Space and social consequence in U.S. fiction, 1900--1920, Rachel Ann Collins

2009

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A Crucial Juncture: The Paracosmic Approach to the Private Worlds of Lewis Carroll and the Brontës, Kristin Petrella

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Becoming a Boy: Disability & Masculinity in Rodman Philbrick’s Freak the Mighty, Courtney Cohen

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Blocked: Short Story Manuscript, Christopher Hazle-Cary

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Governing Boyhood in the Novels of George MacDonald and Robert Louis Stevenson, Meredith Louise Hale

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More Than Meets the Eye: Technique and Themes in the Poetry of Raymond Carver, Fletcher W.H. Schmidt

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Descartes' daughters: Thinking-machines and the emergence of posthuman complexity, Dawn E. Lausa

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Representations of colonial intimacy in Anglo-Indian narratives, Nandini Sengupta

2008

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A Director's Guide to the Galaxy: Navigating the Drama of a Performance Organization, Shaina Rosenthal

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Catch a Fire Catch Afire: An Understanding of Distance and Its Meaning, Luciana Amodeo

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Four Short Stories about a Four Letter Word, Michelle Tan-Torres

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Jane Austen Film Adaptations, Fan Fiction, and Contemporary Anglo-American Culture, Rebecka Schaber

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Women's self-writing and medical science: Harriet Martineau, Charlotte Bronte, Harriet Jacobs, and Elizabeth Stoddard, Sarah L. Russo

2007

George Saunders, Raymond Carver Reading Series, December 5, 2007, George Saunders

Christopher Kennedy, Raymond Carver Reading Series, November 4, 2007, Christopher Kennedy

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Editing Shakespeare Violence, Text and Commodity in The Taming of the Shrew, Kathryn E. Vomero

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Motherhood and the Political Project of Queer Indian Cinema, Bryce J. Renninger

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"An element of blank": Reading silences in post-World War II American narratives of pain, Cindy L. Linden