Dissertations Recently Completed in Related Fields

• Bowes, Constance M. “Integrating Sexuality and Spirituality: A Case Study of Shalom Mountain Retreat and Study Center Leadership.” PhD diss., Widener University, 2010. Pp. 264.

• Cartier, Marie. “Baby, You Are My Religion: The Emergence of ‘Theelogy’ in Pre-Stonewall Butch-Femme / Gay Women’s Bar Culture and Community.” PhD diss., Claremont Graduate University, 2010. Pp. 664.

• Fritz, Angela I. “Ten Cents a Dance: Taxi Dancers, a Living Wage, and the Sexual Politics of Women’s Work, 1912–1952.” PhD diss., Loyola University Chicago, 2010. Pp. 388.

• Gamber, Francesca. “The Radical Heart: The Politics of Love in the Struggle for African-American Equality, 1833–2000.” PhD diss., Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 2010. Pp. 580.

• Gillis, Clare Morgana. “Illicit Sex, Unfaithful Translations: Latin, Old High German and the Birth of a New Sexual Morality in the Early Middle Ages.” PhD diss., Harvard University, 2010. Pp. 437.

• Gillis, Colin. “Forming the Normal: Modern British Fiction and Sexology, 1890–1939.” PhD diss., Yale University, 2010. Pp. 352.

• Gubbels, Katherine Gertrude. “‘An Uncouth Love’: Queering Processes in Medieval and Early Modern Romances.” PhD diss., University of Iowa, 2010. Pp. 192.

• Haffey, Kate. “Eddies in Time: Literary Modernism, Queer Temporality.” PhD diss., University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 2010. Pp. 259.

• Hourigan, Richard R., III. “Welcome to South Carolina: Race, Sex and the Rise of Tourism in Myrtle Beach, 1900–1975.” PhD diss., University of Alabama, 2010. Pp. 239.

• Koolen, Mandy. “Que(e)rying History: Lesbian, Queer, and Trans Historical Fiction and the Construction of Contemporary Pasts.” PhD diss., McMaster University, 2008. Pp. 244.

• McAleavey, Maia Margaret. “‘The Shadowy Third’: Bigamy and the Victorian Novel.” PhD diss., Harvard University, 2010. Pp. 194.

• McCoy, Kelli Ann. “Claiming Victims: The Mann Act, Gender, and Class in the American West, 1910–1930s.” PhD diss., University of California, San Diego, 2010. Pp. 285.

• Modigliani, Leah. “Engendering a Counter-Tradition: Jeff Wall, Photo-Conceptualism, and the Sexual Politics of the Defeatured Landscape.” PhD diss., State University of New York at Stony Brook, 2010. Pp. 259.

• Morris, Anthony J. “The Censored Paintings of Paul Cadmus, 1934–1940: The Body as the Boundary between the Decent and Obscene.” PhD diss., Case Western Reserve University, 2010. Pp. 288.

• Palinic, Bo Kristin. “Otto Preminger’s ‘Laura,’ ‘Where the Sidewalk Ends,’ and ‘Angel Face’: An Obsession with Freudian Psychology.” PhD diss., University of California, Los Angeles, 2009. Pp. 301.

• Reigle, Kimberly Guy. “Defensive Virginity from Spenser to Milton.” PhD diss., University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2010. Pp. 310.

• Robinson, Michael Edward. “Ornamental Gentlemen: Literary Curiosities and Queer Romanticisms.” PhD diss., University of Southern California, 2010. Pp. 211.

• Sanfilippo, Stephen Nicholas. “Whalemen’s Song: Lyrics and Masculinity in the Sag Harbor Whalefishery, 1840–1850.” PhD diss., State University of New York at Stony Brook, 2010. Pp. 278.

• See, Samuel Ryan. “Queer Natures: Feeling Degenerate in Literary Modernism.” PhD diss., University of California, Los Angeles, 2009. Pp. 514.

• Sheehan, Rebecca. “American Sexual Culture: Women’s Liberation, Rock Music, and Evangelical Christianity, 1968–1976.” PhD diss., University of Southern California, 2010. Pp. 277.

• Shih, Shang-Ying. “Interdisciplinary Approaches to Ancient Egyptian Visual Culture and Visualities: Spectatorship, Gender, Sexuality, and Power.” PhD diss., University of California, Berkeley, 2009. Pp. 364.

• Starkweather, Todd. “The Rise and Fall of the Muscular Christian: Sport’s Influence on Masculinity in British Literature.” PhD diss., University of Illinois at Chicago, 2010. Pp. 242.

• Summerville, Tammy. “An Examination of Court Cases Relating to the Dismissal of K–12 Teachers for Immorality (1977–2007).” PhD diss., University of Alabama, 2010. Pp. 378.

• Trent, Mary Shelley. “Enigmatic Bachelors: Masculinity, Girlhood, and Vision in the Art of Joseph Cornell and Henry Darger.” PhD diss., University of California, Irvine, 2010. Pp. 248.

• Wackerfuss, Andrew. “The Stormtrooper Family: How Sexuality, Spirituality, and Community Shaped the Hamburg SA.” PhD diss., Georgetown University, 2009. Pp. 458.

• Watts, Tracey Ann. “A Jungle of Anxious Desires: Representing New Orleans, 1880–2005.” PhD diss., University of Texas at Austin, 2009. Pp. 169.

• Wright, Joshua K. “Stagolees, Superflies, and Gangsta Rappers: Black Masculinity, Bad Men, and the Struggle for Power.” PhD diss., Howard University, 2010. Pp. 215.