The Americas In and Across the Disciplines (graduate)

The Epic of the Americas (graduate)

Literature and Ecology in the Americas (graduate)

The Art of Wilson Harris (graduate)

Magical Realism in the Americas (graduate and undergraduate)

Comparative Caribbean Literature (graduate)

Literature of the Hispanic Caribbean (graduate)

The Caribbean Novel in English (undergraduate)

Caribbean Fiction and Poetry (undergraduate)

Black Literatures of the Americas (undergraduate)

Literatures of the Americas (undergraduate)

Re-Reading Faulkner (graduate and undergraduate)

Race, Nationalism, and American Modernism (graduate)

Modern American Literature (graduate and undergraduate)

Contemporary African American poetry (undergraduate)

Representations of Slavery in U.S. American and Cuban Literatures (graduate)

Amanda Hagood, “The Domestication of Environmentalism.” English, Vanderbilt (in-progress) (with Michael Kreyling).

Justin Haynes. “The History of Theater in Trinidad.” English, Vanderbilt (in-progress).

Daniel Spoth. “The Wandering Eye: Dreaming the Globe in Faulkner and Walcott” English, Vanderbilt, 2009 (with Michael Kreyling and Cecilia Tichi).

Rebecca Berne. “Regionalism, Modernism, and the American Short Story Cycle.” English, Yale, 2007 (with Wai Chee Dimock).

John Ryan Poynter. “Eroticism in twentieth-century Francophone Caribbean Literatures,” French and African American Studies, Yale, 2006 (with Christopher Miller).

Lena Hill. “Frames of Consciousness: Visual Culture in Zora Neale Hurston, Tennessee Williams, and Ralph Ellison.” English, Yale, 2005 (with Joseph Roach).

Jerome B. Anderson. “New World Romance.” Comparative Literature, Yale, 2005 (with Roberto González Echevarría).

Ferentz LaFargue. “The Survivor Figure in Contemporary Fictions of Slavery.” African-American Studies and American Studies, Yale, 2005 (with Christopher Miller and Paul Gilroy).

Antonio Barrenechea. “Telluric Monstrosity in the Americas.” Comparative Literature, Yale, 2004 (with Roberto González Echevarría).

Pearl James. “From Trench to Trope: Narrating American Masculinity in the Wake of World War I.” English, Yale, 2002 (with Alan Trachtenberg).

Rachel Trousdale. “Imaginary Worlds and Cultural Hybridity in Vladimir Nabokov, Isak Dinesen, and Salman Rushdie. English, Yale, 2002

Laura Yow. “So Sad As Silence: Modernity and the Unspeakable.” African American Studies and English, Yale, 2002 (with Paul Gilroy). 

Joseph D. Thompson. “The Story Scarcely Mentioned; Race, Education, and Arna Bontemps.” African American Studies and English, Yale, 2001 (with Hazel Carby). 

Anita Gallers. “Enslavement and Sexuality in Afro-Hispanic Narrative.” African American Studies and Spanish & Portuguese, Yale, 2000.

Sharmila Sen. “Eating India: Literary and Cultural Consumptions of the Subcontinent.” English, Yale, 2000 (with Sara Suleri Goodyear).

Jeffrey Karem. “The Romance of Authenticity: Representing Regions and Ethnicities in the South and Southwest.” English, Yale, 2000. Published as Regionalism and Representation in American Literature (U of Virginia P, 2004).

John Ochoa. “Failure and History in Mexican National Idenity.” Comparative Literature, Yale, 1999 (with Roberto González Echevarría). Published as The Uses of Failure in Mexican Literature and Identity (U of Texas P, 2004).

Peter Hallward. “Writing in the Singular Immediate: Gilles Deleuze, Edouard Glissant, Natalie Sarraute, Charles Johnson, Mohammed Dib, Severo Sarduy.” African American Studies and French, Yale 1997 (with Christopher Miller). Published as Absolutely Postcolonial : Writing Between the Singular and the Specific (Manchester UP, 2002).

Deborah Karush. “Innocent Voyages: Fictions of United States Expansion in Cather, Stevens and Hurston.” English, Yale, 1996 (with Richard Brodhead).

Scott Infanger. Spanish & Portuguese, Vanderbilt (in-progress).

Robert Kelz. German & Slavic Languages, Vanderbilt (in-progress).

Kathrin Seidl. German & Slavic Languages, Vanderbilt (in-progress).

John Morell. English, Vanderbilt (in-progress).

Lena Ahlin. “The New Negro in the Old World: Europe in the Fiction of Jessie Fauset, James Weldon Johnson, and Nella Larsen.” University of Lund, Sweden, 2004.

Tuire Valkeakari. “Sacred Words, Secular Visions: Evocations of Religion in the Postwar African-American Novel.” English, University of Helsinki, Finland, 2003.

Qiana Robinson Whitted. “African-American Literature and the Crisis of Faith.” African American Studies and American Studies, Yale, 2003.

Kristin Dykstra, “American Cosmopolitanism and the Decline of the Spanish Empire, 1800-1832 .” English, SUNY Buffalo, 2002.

Noelle Morrissette, “Critical Fictions: The Prose Writings of James Weldon Johnson. African American Studies and English, Yale, 2002.

Ian Baucom. “Locating Identity: Topographies of Englishness and Empire.” English, Yale, 1995. Published as Out of Place: Englishness, Empire, and the Locations of Identity (Princeton UP, 1999).