University at Albany - English Graduate Studies

Graduate Studies in English

Recent Ph.D. Alumni, 2000-7

Name Degree & Year	Dissertation Title	Current Employment
Edward C. Fristrom PhD 2007	The Turbulence of the Living: Complexity Theory and the Writing Classroom	Drexel University
Kelly A. Moore PhD 2007	The Crosscurrents of Culture in the Dialogic Pairing of Henry James: What Maisie Knew with Zitkala-Sa’s American Indian Stories and of Henry David Throureau’s Walden with Susan Fenimore Cooper’s Rural Hours
David Parry PhD 2007	Reading without Rest: Negotiating Narrative in the Age of the Digital	University of Texas, Dallas Assistant Professor
Shealeen Meaney PhD 2006	“Skirts Must Be Girded High”: Spaces of Subjectivity and Transgression in Post-Suffrage American Women’s Travel Writing	Russell Sage College Assistant Professor
Pedro Malard Monteiro PhD 2006	“Diagnosing Nothing But The Flu”
Michael Needle PhD 2006	Emotions at Work in Process Writing Classrooms	A&U: America's AIDS Magazine Managing Editor
Rachel Zitomer PhD 2006	In Celebration of the Ephemeral: Contemporary Poetry Communities Beyond Institutions in Albany, New York	University at Albany Part-Line Instructor
Patricia Dyjak PhD 2005	Snakes in the Garden: Power, Privilege, and Poetry in the Creation of Authority	College of Eastern Utah Assistant Professor
Habiba Ibrahim PhD 2005	Inside the Color Line: Reading Biracialism in Twentieth-Century American Culture	University of Washington Assistant Professor
Danielle Jones PhD 2005	Poetry in Three Dimensions: A Creative Dissertation of Print, Sculpture, and Electronic Poems
Tyler Kessel PhD 2005	Landscape of Estrangement; Reading Relations to the Outside in DeLillo	Hudson Valley Community College Assistant Professor
Cailin Brown Leary PhD 2005	The Student Writer as the Citizen in Public Journals	College of St. Rose Assistant Professor
Kathleen McDonald PhD 2005	Unheard Voices: Women’s Private Texts Enlighten the 18th Century	Norwich University Assistant Professor
Anthony Miccoli PhD 2005	Posthuman Suffering: The Expression of the Technological Embrace	Western State College of Colorado, Visiting Professor of English, Communications, & Philosophy
Jennifer Mitchell PhD 2005	Sustaining a Critical Literacy in Composition Studies: The Place Of Current-Traditional Rhetoric in Composition Theory and Practice	SUNY at Potsdam
Jillmarie Murphy PhD 2005	Monstrous Kinships: Obsession and Child Psychotraumatology in the Novels of Mary Shelley, Herman Melville, Thomas Hardy, Stephen Crane and Vladimir Nabokov	Schenectady Community College Full Professor
Karen Rowan PhD 2005	Preparing the Next Generation: Graduate Student Administrators in Writing Centers	Morgan State University Assistant Professor and Director of the Writing Center
Linda Scoville PhD 2005	Fire and Wings: Drinking Women in Interwar British and American Literature Services Center	University at Albany Advisement
Julie Torrant PhD 2005	The Contemporary Family and Its Cultural Representations	Adirondack Community College
Jeffrey Gibson PhD 2004	The Parodic Historical Novel: Critiquing the Representation of Past Events	Wesley College Assistant Professor
Corel Lenhardt PhD 2004	The Unsayable: Three Generations of Malvadas
Cynthia Mahamdi PhD 2004	The Renegado: A Novel of North Africa and Accompanying Commentary	Santa Clara University
Mary Perrone PhD 2004	Finding Common Ground: Paint, Politics, People and the Poet (The 1850s as Formative Years For The Writer Emily Dickinson)	Technology at Utica/Rome
Annie Raskin PhD 2004	Snapshots: A Collage Novel
Alina Treis PhD 2004	Literacy Women, Private Person: Rebecca Harding Davis and Her Heart Ideology	Mohawk Valley Community College Assistant Professor
Wilbert Turner PhD 2004	Blackie: The Novel and the Postscript	Allendale Columbia (Independent Prep School)
Steven Hartman PhD 2003	Faces of Thoreau in American Literature	Växjö University, Senior Lecturer in English
Miehyeon Kim PhD 2003	Finding Mothers: Reconstruction of African American Motherhood, Family, Community, and History in Toni Morrison’s Fiction	Ajou University, Korea
Dorothy Stringer PhD 2003	Dangerous and Disturbing: Traumas and Fetishes of Race in Faulkner, Larsen and Vanvechten	James Madison University Lecturer
Stephen Westbrook PhD 2003	Composition-Rhetoric, Creative Writing, and Institutional Reform: Toward a New Subject	California State University at Fullerton Assistant Professor
K. Hyoejin Yoon PhD 2003	The Subjects of Critical Pedagogy and Composition: The Asian American Teacher-Intellectual and the Problem of Affect	West Chester University Assistant Professor
Ando Arike PhD 2002	What Are Humans For? Essays In Cyborg Culture	Editor, Williamsburg Observer
Merle Bachman PhD 2002	Yiddishland: Immigrant Writing and Threshold Poetics	Spalding University Assistant Professor
Judy Baker PhD 2002	Theatre Is Life: Fornes, Feminisms, and Feminist Epistemology	New Jersey Project William Paterson University
Rosanne Denhard PhD 2002	“Words Are Women”: Early Modern Women’s Epistolary Self-Writing	Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts Assistant Professor
Christiane Farnan PhD 2002	A Study of Narrative Authority in the Novels of Augusta Jane Evans and Harriet Beecher Stowe	Siena College Assistant Professor
Joan Goodman PhD 2002	Embodied Texts: Reading New Subjectivity Through Charles Olson and Muriel Rukeyers
Mary Lannon PhD 2002	Life on a Grape with an Introduction on Theories of the Novel	Fulton Montgomery Community College
Alina Luna PhD 2002	Visual Perversity: A Rearticulation of Maternal Instinct	Western State College of Colorado Assistant Professor
Maria Palmara PhD 2002	The Farthest West Beach: An Italian American Woman’s Search For Literacy Identity	Hudson Valley Community College Associate Professor
Alyssa Colton PhD 2001	The Faithful: Healing Through Narrative	University at Albany University in the High School
Maryrose Eannace PhD 2001	Lunatic Literature: New York State’s The Opal, 1850-1860	Cazenovia College
Thomas Mackey PhD 2001	Collaborative Interface: Writing the Web and Interactive Multimedia and Virtual Reality	University at Albany School of Information Science and Policy
Christina Milletti PhD 2001	Innovative Ends: Gender and the Poetics of Transformation in Women’s Experimental Fiction	University at Buffalo Assistant Professor
Megeen Mulholland PhD 2001	Unposing the American Family Portrait — Part 1 — Feminist Confessional	Hudson Valley Community College
Dimitrios Anastasopoulos PhD 2000	The Language of Fiction and Its Limits	University of Buffalo
Christine Atkins PhD 2000	Don’t Walk Alone: Twentieth-Century American Women Writers and Narratives of Violence
Frances (Vanmeter) Condon PhD 2000	Teaching to Transform: Nonviolence and Literacy	University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Associate Professor
Michael Hassan PhD 2000	Beach Rubble
Deborah Kelsh PhD 2000	Outlawed Needs: Class and Cultural Theory	College of St. Rose Associate Professor
Lisa Mastrangelo PhD 2000	Stories of a Progressive Past: Early Feminist and Progressive Approaches to Writing Instruction
Sharisse Stenberg PhD 2000	Professing and Pedagogy: Learning the Teaching of English	University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Associate Professor

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