How Vergil Does Things With Words: Speech Act Theory and the Poetics of Speech in the Aeneid

An examination of how the concept of the artist as independent genius was inflected by the practice of making prints closely related to other works of art.

Making Sense of Faultless Disagreement

Reactionary Cosmopolitanism: Politics and Travel in the French Novel between 1880 and 1940

Sir Walter Ralegh’s History of the World and the Historical Culture of the Late Renaissance

A sturdy of social an political conflict at the grass roots level in the Germanic Democratic Republic; it tries to account for the stability of the socialist regime from 1945 - 1970.

The outlook of the colonized colonizer: The issue of the Sudan in Egyptian Nationalism, 1825

The Kingdom of the Wise: Cosmology and Ethics in Early Stoic Thought

Women and History: Ines Echevera Bello and the Struggle for Women's Writing in Chile

Causal Independence and Divine Support in Spinoza and Leibniz

Artfully Composed: Winslow Homer's Independent Drawings, ca. 1875

A study of the ekphrastic tradition, focusing on lyric poems that describe visual works, and reinterpreting these poems, through the application of genre theory, by viewing them as a particular form of aesthetic response

Underwriting the Accident: Narratives of American Chance, 1817-1933

Waking Dreams: Readings in Shakespeare, Keats and Baudelaire