Information for Current English Graduate Students
Mildred Kates Dissertation Fellowships Recipients
2010-2011
Stephanie Womack
The Graduate Studies Committee has awarded Stephanie Womack the Mildred Kates Dissertation Fellowship Award for 2010-2011. Her dissertation is entitled "Dress, Decorum, and Domesticity: Fashioning Femininity from Richardson to Thackeray."
2009-2010
Kristen Pond
The Graduate Studies Committee has awarded Kristen Pond the Mildred Kates Dissertation Fellowship Award for 2009-2010. Her dissertation is entitled "The Impulse to Tell and to Know: The Rhetoric and Ethics of Sympathy and Privacy in the Nineteenth-Century Novel."
2008-2009
Allison Cooper Davis
The Graduate Studies Committee has awarded Allison Cooper Davis the Mildred Kates Dissertation Fellowship Award for 2008-2009. Her dissertation is entitled "Reading With Faith: The 'Phastastic' Philosophy of the Nineteenth-Century Fantasy Novel."
2007-2008
Laura Alexander Linker
The Graduate Studies Committee has awarded Laura Alexander Linker the Mildred Kates Dissertation Fellowship Award for 2007-2008. Her dissertation is entitled "The Female Libertine from Dryden to Defoe."
2006-2007
Rita Jones-Hyde
The Graduate Studies Committee has awarded Rita Jones-Hyde the Mildred Kates Dissertation Fellowship Award for 2006-2007. Her dissertation is entitled "Asked to Bear Their Part: Redefining the Audience in Early Modern Drama."
2005-2006
Heidi Hanrahan
The Graduate Studies Committee has awarded Heidi the Jean Gegan Fellowship for 2005-2006. Her dissertation is entitled "Competing for the Reader: The Writer/Editor Relationship in Nineteenth-Century American Literature."Cameron Golden
The Graduate Studies Committee has awarded Cameron Golden the Mildred Kates Dissertation Fellowship Award for 2005-2006. Her dissertation is entitled "Questioning Autobiographical Figures in 20th-Century Literature."
2004-2005
Laura Savu
The Graduate Studies Committee has awarded Laura Savu the Mildred Kates Dissertation Fellowship Award for 2004-2005. Her dissertation is entitled "Lives after Lives: Portraits of Artists in Contemporary Fiction."
2003-2004
Bonnie Libby
The Graduate Studies Committee has awarded Bonnie the Jean Gegan Fellowship for 2003-2004. Her dissertation is entitled "A Language of Incarnation: The Gospel Parables in Piers Plowman."Laura Shearer and Nick Crawford
The Graduate Studies Committee has awarded Laura Shearer and Nick Crawford the Mildred Kates Dissertation Fellowship Award for
2003-2004. Laura's dissertation is entitled "The Work Force: Labor and Identity in
American Lifewriting." Nick's dissertation is entitled "Legitimacy and Subjectivity in English Renaissance Drama," and also won the Campus-Wide Outstanding Dissertation Award in 2004.
2002-2003
Gretchen Martin
The Graduate Studies Committee has awarded Gretchen Martin the Mildred Kates Dissertation Fellowship Award for 2002-2003. Her dissertation is entitled "The Humor of the Old Southwest: Great Escapes."
2001-2002
Beth Howells
The Graduate Studies Committee has awarded Beth Howells the Mildred Kates Dissertation Fellowship Award for 2001-2002. Her dissertation is entitled "Facing the Page: A Study of the Prefaces of Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers."For more information, contact:
Ms. Alyson Everhart
3137 MHRA
(336) 334-5311
