Bampton, Tina M. "Innumerable Forgettings: Bearing Witness to Disaster in Douglass and Morrison." State University of New York at Buffalo, 2011.
Bass, Allison. "A near Emotional Drowning: Exploring the Personal Grief Process through the Lens of Toni Morrison's Novel, "Beloved"." Southern Connecticut State University, 2011.
Bednarska, Dominika. "Ability Underneath: Bodies in the Literary Imagination." University of California, Berkeley, 2011.
Bollini, Chris. "A Life of Wandering and Labor: "Their Eyes Were Watching God" and "Tar Baby" as Post-Edenic Texts." Villanova University, 2011.
Bolton, Matthew Everett. "A Rhetorical Approach to Adaptation: Effects, Purposes, and the Fidelity Debate." The Ohio State University, 2011.
Campbell, Andrea Kate. "Narrating Other Natures: A Third Wave Ecocritical Approach to Toni Morrison, Ruth Ozeki, and Octavia Butler."
Clark, Jennifer J. "Omegakondre, and, Horseface Minstrelsy in the Western." University of Southern California, 2011.
Clerico, Bethany Aery. "Caribbean Hauntings and Transnational Regionalism in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature." State University of New York at Albany, 2011.
Cochran, Shannon M. "Corporeal (Isms): Race, Gender, and Corpulence Performativity in Visual and Narrative Cultures."
Cook, Michele D. "Chasing Philomela." California State University, Dominguez Hills, 2011.
Cox, Sandra. "Ethical Engagement: Critical Strategies for Approaching Autoethnographic Fiction." University of Kansas, 2011.
Cruz, Daniel Shank. "A Third Way to Change: Violence against Whites in African American Novels from the 1970s." Northern Illinois University, 2011.
Delcoco-Fridley, Lea Johanna. "Defining Motherhood: The Plight of the Non-Traditional Mother in Multi-Ethnic American Women's Literature." Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2011.
Dillon, Karen. "Anxieties of Affiliation: Twinship, Spectacle, and Race in the U.S. Cultural Imaginary." Indiana University, 2011.
Ditzel, Christine Jacquelyn. "Possibilities in the Margins: Exploring Love and Power in Tillie Olsen's "I Stand Here Ironing", Toni Morrison's "the Bluest Eye", and Dorothy Allison's "Bastard out of Carolina"." State University of New York at Buffalo, 2011.
Dyen, Jonathan. ""I'll Never Be Hungry Again": Sectionalism, Economic Resistance, and the Trope of the Civil War in American Fiction, 1894--2010." Boston University, 2011.
Evans, David F. "The Methodist Melting Pot: Italian Immigrants in the White Protestant Imagination, 1909-1916." Drew University, 2011.
Floyd, Nikki Dejan. "Bridging the Colonial Divide: Japanese-Korean Solidarity in the International Proletarian Literature Movement." Yale University, 2011.
Freiz, Ihab M. "The Narrative of Aging: The Portrayal of the Aged in Toni Morrison and Ernest J. Gaines." Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2011.
Grogan, Christine. "The Wound and the Voiceless: The Insidious Trauma of Father-Daughter Incest in Six American Texts." University of South Florida, 2011.
Hanna, Holly. "Collective Trauma and Narrative Working through Toni Morrison's "the Bluest Eye"." Western Illinois University, 2011.
Hennessy, C. Margot. "Raiding the Inarticulate: Postmodernisms, Feminist Theory and Black Female Creativity."
Henry, Michelle L. "Toni Morrison: Re-Canonizing African American Femininity in Her Own Image." The University of Texas at Dallas, 2011.
Jabbur, Adam N. "Nation and Form: Writing the Nineteenth Century in Twentieth-Century American Historical Fiction." University of Delaware, 2011.
Kohl, Natasha Loran. "Manipulation and Resistance: White Educators and Black Students in Nineteenth-Century American Literature." Fordham University, 2011.
Kuchera, Carolyn. "The Other Vanishing American: The Disappearing Farmer in American Literature, 1887--1939." The University of New Mexico, 2011.
Lillvis, Kristen. "Fantasies of Maternal Unity in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century African Diasporic Women's Fiction and Science Fiction." University of Kansas, 2011.
Mahurin, Sarah. "American Exodus: Migration and Oscillation in the Modern American Novel." Yale University, 2011.
Matos Ayala, Jennifer. "A Feeling or Something More: Love as a Liberating Force in "Their Eyes Were Watching God", "Sula" and "the Women of Brewster Place"." University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez (Puerto Rico), 2011.
McCormick, Stacie Selmon. "The Open Wound: Writing Black Female Bodies." City University of New York, 2011.
Murphy, Anne N. "A Narrative of Her Own: Appropriating Aesthetics for Postcolonial Feminism." Georgetown University, 2011.
Ortega, Gema. "Writing Hybridity: Identity, Dialogics, and Women's Narratives in the Americas." University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2011.
Owens, Frederick. "Narratives of Feeling: The Function of Sympathy in Modern Literary Forms." The Florida State University, 2011.
Paruolo, Melissa. ""Anything Dead Coming Back to Life Hurts": "Beloved", "Bastard out of Carolina", and "Gods in Alabama" as Contemporary Female Gothic." University of Central Oklahoma, 2011.
Prince, Sarah E. "With "Two Throats and One Eye": Abject Female Friendships in Contemporary American Women's Novels." Emory University, 2011.
Ramlagan, Michelle N. "(Re)Placing Nation: Postcolonial Women's Contestations of Spatial Discourse." University of Miami, 2011.
Rashedi, Roxanne Naseem. "Deconstructing the Erotic: A Feminist Exploration of Bodies & Voice in Audre Lorde, Lucille Clifton, Nella Larsen, and Toni Morrison." Georgetown University, 2011.
Rorabaugh, Peter W. "The Sermonic Urge: Postsecular Sermons in Contemporary American Fiction." Georgia State University, 2011.
Schmidt, Amy L. "All over God's Creation: Global Jim Crow in the Texts of Lillian Smith, Richard Wright, Zelda Fitzgerald, Evelyn Scott, Zora Neale Hurston, and Toni Morrison." University of Arkansas, 2011.
Showalter, Anne. ""Chosen to Deliver": Black Female Jeremiads in American Literature and Culture." The George Washington University, 2011.
Sims, Deborah Marie. "The Postdomestic Woman: Divorce and the Ex-Wife in American Literature, Film, and Culture." University of California, Riverside, 2011.
Smith, Abigail Lundelius. "Shall We Gather at the Table?: The Symbolic, Material, and Cultural Significance of the Table in American Life and Letters." University of South Carolina, 2011.
Smith, Meagan K. "From Signifying to Posterizing." The American University, 2011.
Standage, Misty Lynn. "Multiply Voiced, Multiply Heard: Double-Voiced Discourse in Toni Morrison, Maryse Conde, and Nuruddin Farah." Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 2011.
Veric, Charles Samuya. "Techniques of the Face: An Essay on Everyday Embodiment, Representation, and Consciousness." Yale University, 2011.
Warren, Suzanne Emily. "Bad Gift: Stories and Essays." University of Cincinnati, 2011.
Weaver, Kimberly C. "Surrogacy in Twentieth-Century American Literature: Promise or Betrayal." Georgia State University, 2011.