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  1. Recent PhD Dissertations

    Recent PhD Dissertations. Terekhov, Jessica (September 2022) -- "On Wit in Relation to Self-Division". Selinger, Liora (September 2022) -- "Romanticism, Childhood, and the Poetics of Explanation". Lockhart, Isabel (September 2022) -- "Storytelling and the Subsurface: Indigenous Fiction, Extraction, and the Energetic Present".

  2. The Dissertation

    The culminating product of graduate work, the doctoral dissertation is likely to be by far the longest piece of writing a student has ever done, and it becomes the most important piece of evidence on the academic job market, the fullest and most visible expression of a candidate's intellectual values and accomplishments.

  3. English Dissertations and Theses

    Theses/Dissertations from 2019. PDF. No Home but the World: Forced Migration and Transnational Identity, Justice Hagan. PDF. The City As a Trap: 20th and 21st Century American Literature and the American Myth of Mobility, Andrew Joseph Hoffmann. PDF. The Fantastic and the First World War, Brian Kenna. PDF.

  4. Prize-Winning Thesis and Dissertation Examples

    Prize-Winning Thesis and Dissertation Examples. Published on September 9, 2022 by Tegan George.Revised on July 18, 2023. It can be difficult to know where to start when writing your thesis or dissertation.One way to come up with some ideas or maybe even combat writer's block is to check out previous work done by other students on a similar thesis or dissertation topic to yours.

  5. What Is a Dissertation?

    A dissertation is a long-form piece of academic writing based on original research conducted by you. It is usually submitted as the final step in order to finish a PhD program. Your dissertation is probably the longest piece of writing you've ever completed. It requires solid research, writing, and analysis skills, and it can be intimidating ...

  6. Dissertations

    May 2023. Michael Abraham: "The Avant-Garde of Feeling: Queer Love and Modernism" directed by Langdon Hammer, Marta Figlerowicz, Ben Glaser". Peter Conroy: "Unreconciled: American Power and the End of History, 1945 to the Present" directed by Joe Cleary, Joseph North, Paul North. Trina Hyun: "Media Theologies, 1615-1668" directed ...

  7. Recent PhD Dissertations

    Recent PhD Dissertations - CompLit. 2023-2024. Of Unsound Mind: Madness and Mental Health in Asian American Literature. Carrie Geng. Cultural Capitals: Postwar Yiddish between Warsaw and Buenos Aires. Rachelle Grossman. Counter-Republics of Letters: Politics, Publishing, and the Global Novel. Elisa Sotgiu.

  8. Dissertation & Thesis Outline

    Dissertation & Thesis Outline | Example & Free Templates. Published on June 7, 2022 by Tegan George.Revised on November 21, 2023. A thesis or dissertation outline is one of the most critical early steps in your writing process.It helps you to lay out and organize your ideas and can provide you with a roadmap for deciding the specifics of your dissertation topic and showcasing its relevance to ...

  9. Program Description

    The doctoral dissertation is expected to be an original and substantial work of scholarship or criticism, excellent in form and content. The department accepts dissertations on a great variety of topics involving a broad range of approaches to literature. ... *English graduate students wishing to teach in their 2nd year must have 1) passed ...

  10. English Department Dissertations Collection

    Dissertations from 2022. PDF. Writing the Aftermath: Uncanny Spaces of the Postcolonial, Sohini Banerjee, English. PDF. Science Fiction's Enactment of the Encouragement, Process, and End Result of Revolutionary Transformation, Katharine Blanchard, English. PDF.

  11. Dissertations

    UC Berkeley Dissertations. Published September 1962-December 1970, and from December 1975 on: Search in ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (link above) Browse dissertations by department: UC Berkeley, Department of English. UC Berkeley, Department of Comparative Literature. Duplicate a print dissertation:

  12. PDF Guidelines for The PhD Dissertation

    Most dissertations are 100 to 300 pages in length. All dissertations should be divided into appropriate sections, and long dissertations may need chapters, main divisions, and even subdivisions. Students should keep in mind that GSAS and many departments deplore overlong and wordy dissertations.

  13. Dissertation

    The dissertation should be defended in the student's fourth year. When the student has completed a defensible draft, (s)he submits the abstract (in digital form) to the English Graduate Officer with the notification that (s)he is ready to defend, and sends an electronic copy of the dissertation and abstract to the English Graduate Office.

  14. Tips for writing a PhD dissertation: FAQs answered

    A PhD thesis (or dissertation) is typically 60,000 to 120,000 words ( 100 to 300 pages in length) organised into chapters, divisions and subdivisions (with roughly 10,000 words per chapter) - from introduction (with clear aims and objectives) to conclusion. The structure of a dissertation will vary depending on discipline (humanities, social ...

  15. Dissertations

    University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Gilbert, Alycia. (Re)Imagining the Nineteenth Century: Issues of Power and Process in Period Adaptation . 2023. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Sobers, Janine H. Enchanted Modernisms: Global Literary Afterlives of the Spirit, 1922-1949. 2023.

  16. How to Write a Dissertation or Thesis Proposal

    When starting your thesis or dissertation process, one of the first requirements is a research proposal or a prospectus. It describes what or who you want to examine, delving into why, when, where, and how you will do so, stemming from your research question and a relevant topic. The proposal or prospectus stage is crucial for the development ...

  17. OATD

    OATD.org aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes 7,439,716 theses and dissertations.

  18. English Theses and Dissertations

    Theses/Dissertations from 2021. PDF. Social Cues in Animated Pedagogical Agents for Second Language Learners: the Application of The Embodiment Principle in Video Design, Sahar M. Alyahya. PDF. A Field-Wide Examination of Cross-Listed Courses in Technical Professional Communication, Carolyn M. Gubala. PDF.

  19. Theses & Dissertations: Home

    Finding a Cambridge PhD thesis online via the institutional repository. The University's institutional repository, Apollo, holds full-text digital versions of over 11,000 Cambridge PhD theses and is a rapidly growing collection deposited by Cambridge Ph.D. graduates.Theses in Apollo can be browsed via this link.More information on how to access theses by University of Cambridge students can be ...

  20. Dissertation Structure & Layout 101 (+ Examples)

    Time to recap…. And there you have it - the traditional dissertation structure and layout, from A-Z. To recap, the core structure for a dissertation or thesis is (typically) as follows: Title page. Acknowledgments page. Abstract (or executive summary) Table of contents, list of figures and tables.

  21. Harvard University Theses, Dissertations, and Prize Papers

    The Harvard University Archives' collection of theses, dissertations, and prize papers document the wide range of academic research undertaken by Harvard students over the course of the University's history.. Beyond their value as pieces of original research, these collections document the history of American higher education, chronicling both the growth of Harvard as a major research ...

  22. Resources to Find Dissertations: Home

    Doctoral Dissertations on Mission Since 1900 Citations for English-language doctoral dissertations on missions and on Christianity outside the West. Only includes dissertations from 1908-2019. Only includes dissertations from 1908-2019.

  23. How to Write a Thesis or Dissertation Introduction

    Overview of the structure. To help guide your reader, end your introduction with an outline of the structure of the thesis or dissertation to follow. Share a brief summary of each chapter, clearly showing how each contributes to your central aims. However, be careful to keep this overview concise: 1-2 sentences should be enough.

  24. Kevin Morris, PhD Student, Accepts Department of Black Studies

    Kevin Morris, PhD Student, has recently accepted the Department of Black Studies Dissertation Fellowship at UC Santa Barbara for 2024 to 2025. Morris is a PhD student on the American Studies track focusing on 19th and 20th century African American literature and culture.

  25. CLAS doctoral candidate receives prestigious Mellon/ACLS Fellowship

    Darius Stewart, a University of Iowa graduate student pursuing a PhD in English, is a 2024 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellow.. The fellowship will allow Stewart to make progress on his dissertation "Erotic Discretion: Toward a Speculative Memoir on Desire, Betrayal, and Black Gay Monogamy," which examines the evolving public perception of the "down low" (or DL), a sexual ...