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Graduate Students (Director)

Mandy Reid, PhD 2005.
Assistant Professor, Indiana State University (2005-present).

Dissertation Title:

"A Most Terrible Spectacle: Visualizing Racial Science in American Literature and Culture, 1839-1915."

Articles Published/In Press:

"Selling Shadows and Substance: Photographing Race in the United States, 1850-1870s," Early Popular Visual Culture, vol. 4 no. 3, p. 285-305.
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"Racial Profiling: Visualizing Racial Science on the Covers of Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852-1928," Nineteenth-Century Contexts, forthcoming 2006.

"Slave Daguerrotypes and Sojourner Truth," Early Popular Visual Culture, forthcoming 2007.

Elizabeth Fenton, PhD 2006.
Assistant Professor, University of Vermont (2007-present).

Dissertation Title:

"Comparative Strangers: Anti-Catholicism, Liberalism, and Nineteenth-Century American Literature."

Articles Published:

"Birth of a Protestant Nation: Catholic Canadians, Religious Pluralism, and National Unity in the Early U.S. Republic," Early American Literature 41.1
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Book Forthcoming:

Religious Liberties: Anti-Catholicism, Liberalism, and Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

David Messmer, PhD expected 2008.

Dissertation Title:

"Fighting Words: The Politics of Literary Aurality in African American Literature from the Civil War to the Civil Rights"

Articles Published:

"'If Not in the Word, in the Sound': Frederick Douglass's Mediation of Literacy through Song," American Transcendental Quarterly vol. 21 no.1, p. 5-22.

"Trumpets, Horns, and Typewriters: A Call and Response Between Ralph Ellison and Frederick Douglass," African American Review (forthcoming).

Molly Robey

Dissertation Title:

"Sacred geographies: Revelation and Nation in Nineteenth-Century U.S—Holy Land Literature"

Articles Published:

"Sacred Geographies: Religion and Race in Maria Susanna Cummins's El Fureidis and U.S. Women's Holy Land Writings," American Literature, (Forthcoming).

Cory Ledoux

Dissertation Title:

Revolutionary Traditions: The Idea of Haiti in 19th Century US Literature

Lilian Crutchfield

Exam Scheduled 2008