Consortium Dissertations
We are incredibly proud of the original research conducted by the graduate students affiliated with the Dickens Project. If you would like your dissertation to be included, please contact us at dpj@ucsc.edu.
| Author | Dissertation Title | University | Publication Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adler, Emma Rose | Novel Drama | Harvard University | 2025 |
| Apate, Jai Sharad | Examining the Multiplicity of Subjectivity in the Contemporary French and Francophone Novels | UC Davis | 2023 |
| Bartlett, Aaron | Voice Synthesis and Mediation in Victorian Poetry | University of Maryland, College Park | 2024 |
| Baugh, Victoria | Race and Authority: Building Racial Epistemologies in Nineteenth-Century British and Caribbean Women’s Writing | Cornell University | 2024 |
| Beckwith, Emily | The Affordances of Liminal Places: Wales and the Nineteenth-Century British Novel | University of Georgia | 2024 |
| Bernardi, Muriel | The Political Malady: Embodied Belonging in British Fiction, 1796-1860 | University of Pennsylvania | 2025 |
| Bunzel, Jordan | Learning Through the Body: Experimental Educations and the Victorian School Novel | Indiana University | 2023 |
| Cook, Jessica Rose | Memory Machines: Mnemonics, Poetry, and Computing in Nineteenth-Century Britain | UC Los Angeles | 2024 |
| Dye, Angel | Rent Was Due: Rent Parties as Racial-Cultural Phenomenon in the Literature and Culture of the Harlem Renaissance | Rutgers University | 2025 |
| Ewing, Annemarie | Speculative Citizenship: Race, National Belonging, and the Counterfactual Imagination in the Literature of the Long Reconstruction | University of Maryland, College Park | 2024 |
| Ferguson, Alexis | Making Cis: Sex in Nineteenth-Century Britain | Princeton University | 2025 |
| Ferniany, Andrea Marie | “A Transient Veil”: Appropriation of Exclusionary Form in Eighteenth-Century Women’s Writing | University of Mississippi | 2024 |
| Foster, Emily Anne | Unhappy Endings: Continuing the Nineteenth-Century Novel | Columbia University | 2024 |
| Gallichio, Christian | “Huddled ‘Round the Hearth”: Ritualized Gift-Exchange and Conversion in Transatlantic Nineteenth-Century Christmas Fiction | University of Georgia | 2023 |
| Iorio, Vianna | Spectacular Feeling: Affect and Gender in Victorian Melodrama | Rutgers University | 2025 |
| Lee, Yangjung | A Guilty Emancipation: Victorian Fiction and Legacies of Compensation | UC Los Angeles | 2023 |
| Loy, Sara | Practice Imperfect: Agential Repetition in the Golden Age of Children’s Literature | Indiana University | 2025 |
| Martin, Alice | The Social Lives of Women’s Manuscripts in the Nineteenth-Century United States | Rutgers University | 2025 |
| McGann, Maddison | Reading Ecologies: Forms of Regression in Victorian Fiction | University of Iowa | 2023 |
| McMichael, Trevor | Everyday Revenge and British Romanticism | Indiana University | 2022 |
| Molyneux, Frances Victoria | Sound’s Effects: Sonic Epistemology in the Victorian Novel | Stanford University | 2022 |
| Moorhead, Bailey | Unearthing the Old South/West: Histories of Racial Capitalism in Modernist Border Narratives | University of Mississippi | 2022 |
| Newman, Kaari | The Aunts of Anglo-American Literature | University of Delaware | 2025 |
| Newman, Rachel | Anxious Plotting: Fin-de-Siècle Female-Focused Fiction, Form, and Anxiety | University of Southern California | 2025 |
| Perez-Cancino, Bianca | Domestic Maritime Masculinity in British Novels of the Sea, 1815-1915 | Indiana University | 2025 |
| Peterson, Lauren Suzanne | Industrial Specters of Nineteenth-Century Literature: Mills, Ports, and Mines | UC Davis | 2022 |
| Pittman, Sarah Margaret | Capitalism’s Vampiric Kiss: Bankruptcy, Entanglement, and Extraction in Victorian Literature | University of Mississippi | 2024 |
| Prindle, Joshua | Imperfectly Understood: Intellectual Disability and the Nineteenth Century | UC Riverside | 2025 |
| Reynolds, Madeline Leigh | Anthropomorphic Representations: Blurring Animal-Human Boundaries in the Nineteenth-Century Novel | Cornell University | 2021 |
| Ritland, Laura | Public Disinterest: Criticism and Literary Education, 1873-2014 | UC Berkeley | 2025 |
| Shaaban, Dana Aicha | The Influence of Shahrazad, the Female “Hakawati” of ‘The Arabian Nights,’ on Victorian Children’s Literature | Texas Christian University | 2023 |
| Sherman, Beth | Beyond the Madwoman in the Attic: Representations of Female Madness in Victorian Popular Literature | City University of New York | 2024 |
| Sherwin, Michelle-Taylor | American Women Writers and Mentorship, 1920-1995 | University of Georgia | 2022 |
| Thomas, Tara | Queer Decadent Classicism: Late-Victorian Representations of Ancient Roman Literary Culture | UC Santa Cruz | 2021 |
| Thompson, Justin | ‘The Native Question’: Genre, Gender, and Governance in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing | University of Maryland | 2022 |
| Thulin, Lesley Michele | Disability and Political Economy in Romantic Literature, 1762-1834 | UC Los Angeles | 2025 |
| Vachali, Krithika | Novel Relations: Collection Epistemologies in Nineteenth Century British Literature | Cornell University | 2022 |
| Young, Molly R. | Desiring the Everyday in Victorian Literature | University of Pennsylvania | 2025 |