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"A song along the keyboard": Popular music and literature in postwar American culture	"And sympathy unites, whom fate divides": Reading and social bonds in early America

"No there there": Gertrude Stein, negation, and critical reception	"Strange and unfunny Jokes": Folly and satire in the works of James Joyce and Nathanael West

"You can't get there from here": Identity, autobiography, and self-reflection in the travel writings of Edith Wharton, Emma Hart Willard, and Ida Tarbell in France	'He that is not with us is against us'. Apocalypticism and millennialism in American literature and culture: 1630--1860 (James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne)

'Married or single?' Bachelors, spinsters and critiques of marriage in nineteenth-century American literature, 1820--1870 (Washington Irving, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Donald Grant Mitchell, Louisa May Alcott)	'Racing the screen: Race and hegemony in African American television

'Vulnerability as armor': Embodied spiritual commitments of Alice Walker, Audre Lorde, and Toni Cade Bambara	A covenant in fiction: Legacies of Puritanism in the post-war American novel

A fragile frame?: The Beat Generation and the development of postwar culture in America, 1945--1965	A myth made flesh: Representing female-to-male transsexual desire in visual and textual print

A nation unchurched: The Apocalyptic community in Massachusetts Bay, 1620--1713	Agencies and associations: Women writing Indian reform in nineteenth-century America

American movement: Nature and civilization in Turner, Cooper, Twain, and Cather	An ethics of waste: Twentieth-century American literature and excremental culture

Apocalyptic incarnations: The aesthetics of fear and catastrophe in the nineteenth-century literary imagination	Architect of excess: Robert Duncan and the American pragmatist sublime

Architectural grotesque: Impersonal affects and the new queer cinematic (Matthew Shepard, Gus Van Sant, Jonathan Caouette, Todd Solondz, Matthew Barney)	Art and community in postmodern American fiction (1955--2001) (William Gaddis, Thomas Pynchon, Maxine Hong Kingston, Don DeLillo)

Beginning again then: History, progress, and American modernism	Biblical origin and echoes: Modern American literature and biblical archetypes

Body language: The material bodily lower stratum in the poetry of Walt Whitman, Frank O'Hara, and Charles Bukowski	Borrowed angels and "roll" models: Disability and illness life narratives

Bridging the gap: Writing, reading, and critiquing digital poetry	Catalysis: Experimental poetry and the sciences (Gertrude Stein, Marianne Moore, Lorine Niedecker, Joan Retallack, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge)

Chaotic whiteness: Race, narrative, and the erotics of fear	Clothing, history, and narrative in Catharine Maria Sedgwick's "Hope Leslie"

Dark articulations: Nation and narration in the colonial and postcolonial gothic	Dedoxifying gender identity through language and sexuality: Kathy Acker's abjection of western phallocentric traditions and the feminist Utopian sublime

Eastern past, Western present, and back again: Emerson, Thoreau, and Eastern philosophy	Ecopoetics: Outsider poetries of the twentieth century

From emigration to immigration: A transpacific reading of Korean and Korean American literature and film	Geometries of desire: Carole Maso's "The Art Lover", Rikki Ducornet's "The Fan-Maker's Inquisition", and Joanna Scott's "The Manikin"

Haunted heritage: History, memory, and violence in the drama of August Wilson and Suzan-Lori Parks	Hawthorne's sacramental vision of nature: Moving beyond Eden to the ecological

How to form: Exploring poetry as praxis of everyday life, America as landscape of language	Indians and the national unconscious: Discourses of nationalism and democracy in the United States and Bolivia, 1780--1850

Individualism and the sectional crisis: Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and their responses to slavery and racism	Landscape as poem: Poem as landscape. Space, place, and the visual in the poetry of Kamau Brathwaite and Susan Howe

Letterpress printing in the postmodern era: Poetry, media and typography	Louisa May Alcott's performative femininity

Memento matria: Patterns of maternity, memory, memento, immigration, cooking and community in Willa Cather's "My Antonia", Amy Tan's "The Joy Luck Club", and Susan Power's "The Grass Dancer"	Narratives of consumption: Postmodern American fiction's engagement with consumer culture

New breed, old blood: Gothic horror in contemporary fiction and film (Mark Z. Danielewski, M. Night Shyamalan, Joyce Carol Oates, Graham Swift, Angela Carter)	On the line: A reconsideration of 1930s modernist and proletarian radicalism

Over the river and through the woods: Miscegenation and the American experiment	Poetics of emptiness: Transformations of East Asian philosophy and poetics in twentieth-century American poetry (Ernest Fenollosa, Gary Snyder, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha)

Pure potential being as a new American subject in Herman Melville's "Bartleby" and Pierre	Queer comedy: Laughter and stigma; fear and rebellion in modern and contemporary drama

Reconsidering the homefront: American women writers' responses to the First World War	Restoring Washington Irving into the national American canon

Rewriting the American myth: The literary foundations of modern unionist culture	Role reversal: Female self-interest and male sacrifice in the novels of Louisa May Alcott

Romancing the mind: A look at Nathaniel Hawthorne's romances in light of "The Haunted Mind"	Serviceable selves: Antislavery, autobiography, and the postidealist critique of moral reform, 1841--1901

Shelley Jackson's "Patchwork Girl": Hysteria, hypertext, and the ethics of the fragmented body, or, Am I a woman or a monster?	Sidewalks of desire: Paradoxes of the postmodern flaneur in contemporary queer fiction

Sounding time: Temporality, typography, and technology in twentieth-century American poetry	Straying aside/bodying athwart: Without the lines of traumatic history in Walt Whitman's "Specimen Days" and W. E. B. Du Bois' "The Souls of Black Folk"

Sublime responsibilities: Form as ethic	The 'chaos of publication' in Scotland and America, 1740--1801 (United States)

The (mis)identification of madness: Unacknowledged doubleness and American fiction	The Madeleine Effect

The beginning of feminism in the South: An examination of southern women writing Civil War and Reconstruction novels, Augusta Jane Evans to Ellen Glasgow	The engines of history: The automobile in American and Italian literary cultures, 1908--1943

The field of possibilities: A semiotic conception of the structure of avant-garde poetry	The hazard of sympathy, race, and gender in antebellum American women's writing

The influence of Edgar Allan Poe and Frances Sargent Osgood on Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter," and the introduction of a previously unknown tale by Edgar Allan Poe, "The Snowstorm"	The naked Communist: Anti-Communist popular fiction, 1945--1963

The poetics of exception: Contemporary North American poetry and the ghosts of relation	The postcolonial Gothic: Haunting and historicity in the literature after empire

The promised future: The (un)interrupted dialogue in William Carlos Williams' "Yes, Mrs. Williams"	The rematerialization of poetry: From the bookbound to the digital

The shadow and the veil: Imagining the self in nineteenth-century American literature	The shadow of difference: Sex, race, and the unconscious

The significance of father figures in Richard Wright and Sherman Alexie	The stories women tell: History, memory and countermemory in twentieth century American literature and film by women

The turn of the ear: Reading for speech in Henry James	The underside of politics: Postmodernism, political mythology and the Cold War

The virtues of our defects: Social critique in nineteenth-century American literature	Things, politics, and the future: Propositions for an American new

Thinking through sexual difference: Toni Morrison's love trilogy	Threatening narratives of community: Fear, incongruity, and performative values in American culture and literature

Towards a poetics of the supraliminal body: Merleau-Ponty's 'embodied perception' and resultant philosophical commentary in relation to the artistic works of Lance Phillips and Mike Patton	Towards an aesthetics of impotence: Proust, James, Woolf, Duras

Tracing the maternal: Memory and writing in contemporary American women writers of the diaspora	Tragic investigations: The value of tragedy in American political and ethical life (Henry David Thoreau)

Transperformance: Transgendered reading strategies, contemporary American literature (Michelle Cliff, Jamaica, Andrew X. Pham, Shani Mootoo, Louise Erdrich)	Unhomely spaces: US Latinas, empire, nation

United States modernism and its quest for national literature: A case of William Carlos Williams	Utopian cannibals: Rewriting the encounter in early American literature

Wanderings: (Back) toward a poetic historiography	When the other writes back: "Poaching," "bargain shopping," and rewriting the vampire narrative in Jewelle Gomez's "The Gilda Stories" and Octavia Butler's "Fledgling"

White shadows: Race and ethnicity in the high school literary canon (F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck, Harper Lee, William Golding, Nathaniel Hawthorne)	Whose dust is rising? Historical and literary narratives of the northern migration of African American women

Working form: The poetics of writing work	Written on water: The poetics of Anglo-American exchange