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Final Public Oral Exam - John Schulz
May 9, 2023, 3:00 pm

The Balladic Empire: Nineteenth-Century Poetry, British Imperial Identity, and the Idea of the Ballad

Dissertation Advisors: Meredith Martin, Esther Schor, Susan Wolfson

Zoom information

Meeting ID: 993 6700 2028

Dissertation is…

Location
Hinds Library - B14 McCosh Hall
Speaker
2022 - 2023
Final Public Oral Exam - Mary Naydan
May 4, 2023, 1:00 pm

Forms of Fantasy: World-building Between the World Wars

Dissertation Advisors: Diana Fuss, Joshua Kotin, Meredith Martin

 

Zoom information

https://princeton.zoom.us/j/95456184656

Meeting ID: 954 5618 4656

Dissertation is available upon request from

Location
Hinds Library - B14 McCosh Hall
Speaker
2022 - 2023
Final Public Oral Exam - Eli P. Mandel
May 3, 2023, 1:00 pm
Collecting Facts: Between Poetry and the Literature of Fact, 1934-1941

Dissertation Advisors: Bradin Cormack, Joshua Kotin, Susan Stewart

Zoom information

https://princeton.zoom.us/j/99596761000

Meeting ID: 995 9676 1000

Dissertation is available upon request from

Location
Hinds Library - B14 McCosh Hall
Speaker
2022 - 2023
Final Public Oral Exam - Ian Davis
Mar 1, 2023, 10:00 am

The Breakup Novel

Dissertation Advisors: Maria DiBattista, Diana Fuss, Joshua Kotin

 

Zoom information
https://princeton.zoom.us/j/93579737427
Meeting ID 935 7973 7427

 

Location
Hinds Library - B14 McCosh Hall
Speaker
2022 - 2023
Final Public Oral Exam - Ingrid Norton
Jan 17, 2023, 2:00 pm

Time's Blood: Love, Living Memory, and 19th Century U.S. Fictions
Dissertation Advisors: Diana Fuss, Bill Gleason, Sarah Rivett

Location
Hinds Library - B14 McCosh Hall
Speaker
2022 - 2023
Final Public Oral Exam - Andrew Finn
Dec 6, 2022, 2:00 pm

Ars Artium: Penitential Poetry in Late Medieval England
Dissertation Advisors: Andrew Cole, D. Vance Smith, Russ Leo

 

 

 

 

Location
Hinds Library - B14 McCosh Hall
Speaker
2022 - 2023
Final Public Oral Exam--Isabel M. Lockhart
Aug 15, 2022, 1:00 pm

Storytelling and the Subsurface: Indigenous Fiction, Extraction, and the Energetic Present

Dissertation Advisers:  Zahid Chaudhary, Rob Nixon, Sarah Rivett

Dissertation is available upon request from Pat Guglielmi ([email protected])

Location
Zoom information: https://princeton.zoom.us/j/94668867830; Meeting # 946 6886 7830
Speaker
2022 - 2023
Final Public Oral Exam--Liora Selinger
Jul 29, 2022, 1:00 pm

Romanticism, Childhood, and the Poetics of Explanation

Dissertation advisers:  Claudia Johnson, Meredith Martin, Esther Schor, Susan Wolfson

Dissertation is available upon request from Pat Guglielmi ([email protected])

 

Location
Zoom information: https://princeton.zoom.us/j/96195514003; Meeting ID# 961 9551 4003
Speaker
Final Public Oral Exam--Jessica Terekhov
May 17, 2022, 11:00 am

On Wit in Relation to Self-Division

Advisers:  Jeff Dolven, Adam Potkay (College of William & Mary), Jeff Nunokawa

Location
Zoom: https://princeton.zoom.us/j/99694933630; Meeting ID# 996 9493 3630
Speaker
2021 - 2022
Final Public Oral Exam--Jessica Terekhov
Apr 13, 2022, 11:00 am

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Dissertation Advisers:  Jeff Dolven, Jeff Nunokawa, Adam Potkay (College of William & Mary)

Location
Zoom information TBA
Speaker
2021 - 2022
Final Public Oral Exam--Nathan Ashe
Jan 27, 2022, 1:00 pm

Narrative Energy: Physics and the Scientific Real in Victorian Literature

Advisers:  Zahid Chaudhary, Deborah Nord, Gauri Viswanathan (Columbia University)

Dissertation is available for review upon request from Pat Guglielmi ([email protected])

Location
Zoom information: https://princeton.zoom.us/j/99615325636; Meeting ID# 996 1532 5636
Speaker
2021 - 2022
Final Public Oral Exam--Scott Bartley
Jan 26, 2022, 1:00 pm

"Watch it closely": The Poetry and Poetics of Aesthetic Focus in The New Criticism and Middle Generation

Advisers:  Jeff Dolven, Meredith Martin, Esther Schor

Dissertation is available for review upon request from Pat Guglielmi ([email protected]).

Location
Zoom information: https://princeton.zoom.us/j/97381756527; Meeting ID# 973 8175 6527
Speaker
2021 - 2022
Final Public Oral Exam--Ali Mctar
Sep 30, 2021, 11:00 am

Fallen Father: John Milton, Antinomianism, and the Case Against Adam

Dissertation advisers:  Jeff Dolven, Russ Leo, and Nigel Smith

Location
Zoom information: https://princeton.zoom.us/j/99533075611; Meeting ID: 995 3307 5611
Speaker
2021 - 2022
Final Public Oral Exam--Janet Kong-Chow
Aug 17, 2021, 2:00 pm

Securing the Crisis:  Race and the Poetics of Risk

Dissertation Advisers:  Simon Gikandi, Kinohi Nishikawa, Imani Perry, Herman Beavers (University of Pennsylvania)

Location
Zoom information: https://princeton.zoom.us/j/93701976163; Meeting ID: 937 0197 6163
Speaker
2020-2021
Final Public Oral Exam--Kate Thorpe
Aug 6, 2021, 11:00 am

Protean Figures: Personified Abstractions from Milton's Allegory to Wordsworth's Psychology of the Poet

Dissertation Advisers:  Sophie Gee, Esther Schor, Susan Stewart, Susan Wolfson

Location
Zoom information: https://princeton.zoom.us/j/93145287301; Meeting ID: 931 4528 7301
Speaker
2020-2021
Final Public Oral Exam--Jennifer D. Minnen
Aug 2, 2021, 11:00 am

The Second Science: Feminist Natural Inquiry in Nineteenth-Century British Literature

Dissertation Advisers:  Claudia Johnson, Deborah Nord, Rachel Bowlby (University College, London)

Location
Zoom information: https://princeton.zoom.us/j/98335580969; Meeting ID: 983 3558 0969
Speaker
2020-2021
Final Public Oral Exam--Kristen H. Starkowski
Jul 29, 2021, 2:00 pm

Doorstep Moments: Close Encounters with Minor Characters in the Victorian Novel

Advisers:  Meredith Martin, Jeff Nunokawa, Gayle Salamon

Location
Zoom information: https://princeton.zoom.us/j/93260614258; Meeting ID: 932 6061 4258
Speaker
2020-2021
Final Public Oral Exam--Matthew Rickard
Jun 29, 2021, 11:00 am

Probability: A Literary History, 1479- 1700

Advisers:  Jeff Dolven, Daniel Heller-Roazen, Russ Leo, Nigel Smith

Location
Zoom information: https://princeton.zoom.us/j/93107454626; Meeting ID: 931 0745 4626
Speaker
2020-2021
Final Public Oral Exam--Caitlin E. Crandell
Jun 25, 2021, 2:00 pm

On the Metareferential Mode and 19th Century British Literature

Advisers:  Claudia Johnson, Meredith Martin, Deborah Nord

Location
Zoom information: https://princeton.zoom.us/j/97903568020; Meeting ID: 979 0356 8020
Speaker
2020-2021
Final Public Oral Exam--Tom Clayton
Jun 7, 2021, 11:00 am

The Reformation of Indifference: Adiaphora, Toleration, and English Literature in the Seventeenth Century

Advisers:  Bradin Cormack, Russ Leo, Nigel Smith

Location
Zoom: Meeting ID# 929 4988 7899; https://princeton.zoom.us/j/92949887899
Speaker
2020-2021