| Alumnus | Title of Dissertation |
| 2021 | |
| Christopher J. Lee | Unspectacular Violence: Narrating Trans/Queer Death in Contemporary American Culture |
| Jennie Snow | Estranging Citizenship: U.S. Prison Camps Since World War II, Forms of Memory and Address |
| 2020 | |
| John Casey | Early Modern Rhetorics of Color |
| Nicole Fung | Stereo Types: Sounding Race in Twentieth-Century America |
| Cole Morgan | The World Before Us: Blackness, Narration, and the Photography |
| Ian Sampson | Tuneless Numbers: New Media, Poetry and the Oulipo |
| Anna Thomas | Forms of Rearrangement: Habit, Injury, and Mourning in African American and Caribbean Literature |
| Dashiell Wasserman | Ugly Americanism: American Literature, Culture, and Aesthetic Judgment |
| 2019 | |
| Claire Gullander-Drolet | Translational Futures: Asian/American Environmental Fiction and the Transpacific Turn |
| Jerrine Tan | Bad Style: Feminism and the Ethics of Heading in 20th and 21st Century Global Anglophone Literature |
| Jennifer Wang | Race After Identity: Forms of Racial Configuration in Contemporary North American Literature |
| Minta Zlomke | Cosmopolitanism and the Horizon of Romance: The Poetics of the Nation in Spenser, Ralegh, and Milton |
| 2018 | |
| David Hollingshead | The Biomatters of American Modernity |
| Sara Pfaff | Pluralism and Pathology in Afro- and Native American Fiction |
| Swetha Regunathan | A machine which winds its own springs: Fictions of Self-invention in the Eighteenth Century |
| 2017 | |
| Andrea Actis |
Our Kind of Seriousness: The Reintegration of Judgment in Contemporary American Culture |
| Matthew Beach | Out of Time: Sentimentalism and Temporality in Long Nineteenth-Century American Literature |
| Katie Fitzpatrick | Between Law and Justice: Legal Authority, Liberal Democracy, and Postwar Fiction |
| Peter Kim | Reading Character in George Eliot and William Thackeray |
| Joel Simundich | Unformed Feelings: Reading Affects in the Mid-Victorian Novel |
| Jessica Tabak | Pained Measures: Forms of Suffering in Spenser, Shakespeare, and Donne |
| Stephanie Tilden | Paper Boats: The American Sea Travel Narrative and Archives of Knowledge, 1815-1850 |
| Rebecca van Laer | Autobiography's Queer Forms: Modernist Self-Writing from Auden to H.D. |