Rice English integrates creative and critical practice through training in close reading, analytical writing, cultural history, and craft/form. Our faculty research and pedagogy cover the breadth of the study of British and American literatures and cultures ranging from the medieval era to the present.
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PhD Bookshelf
Recent PhD Bookshelf
A selection of recently published books by former doctoral students
PRISCILLA SOLIS YBARRA (PHD 2007)
WRITING THE GOODLIFE: MEXICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT, 2017
WINNER OF THE WESTERN LITERATURE ASSOCIATION’S 2017 THOMAS J. LYON BOOK AWARD IN WESTERN AMERICAN LITERARY AND CULTURAL STUDIES
VICTORIA FORD SMITH (PHD 2010)
BETWEEN GENERATIONS: THE COLLABORATIVE CHILD IN THE GOLDEN AGE OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE, 2017
MARTINE VAN ELK (PHD 2000)
EARLY MODERN WOMEN'S WRITING: DOMESTICITY, PRIVACY, AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE IN ENGLAND AND THE DUTCH REPUBLIC (EARLY MODERN LITERATURE IN HISTORY), 2017
TANYA ANN KENNEDY (PHD 2004)
HISTORICIZING POST-DISCOURSES: POSTFEMINISM AND POSTRACIALISM IN UNITED STATES CULTURE (S U N Y SERIES IN FEMINIST CRITICISM AND THEORY), 2017
RYAN WHITE (PHD 2012)
THE HIDDEN GOD, 2015
EILEEN CLEERE (PHD 1996)
THE SANITARY ARTS: AESTHETIC CULTURE AND THE VICTORIAN CLEANLINESS CAMPAIGNS, 2014
ELIZABETH FENTON (PHD 2006)
RELIGIOUS LIBERTIES: ANTI-CATHOLICISM AND LIBERAL DEMOCRACY IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY U.S. LITERATURE AND CULTURE, 2011
AYSE ÇELIKKOL (PHD 2006)
ROMANCES OF FREE TRADE: BRITISH LITERATURE, LAISSEZ-FAIRE, AND THE GLOBAL NINETEENTH CENTURY, 2011
LLOYD KERMODE (PHD 1998)
ALIENS AND ENGLISHNESS IN ELIZABETHAN DRAMA, 2009
