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Theses from 2023

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Cú Chulainn's "Vigil on the Hound Fords": The Centrality of Borders in the Táin Bó Cuailnge, David Atkinson

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Pedagogy, Sexual Violence, and Contemporary Extremist Films: Baise-moi (2000), Irréversible (2002), and Promising Young Woman (2020), Olivia Harris

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Finding Freedom in Stagnation: The Physical Spaces and Movement of Victorian Women in Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea, Madison Norder

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“I Found It Again. My Home.”: The Role of Art in the Mediation of Trauma and Loss in Station Eleven, Emily Zhong

Theses from 2022

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Enclosure in Flesh and Stone: Intermediaries and Access to God in Revelations of Divine Love, Emily Danuser

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“People Like They Historical Shit in a Certain Way”: The Civil War Plays of Suzan-Lori Parks, or Commercialized Memory and Black Lives, Brandon Eric Fisher

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The Screen and Development: Creative Writing and Liminality in Children’s Literature, Rebecca E. Glenn

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Triumph in the Suburbs: Richard Ford and the Spaces of New Capitalism, John Gorton

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The Unarticulated Unseen: Britt Bennett’s “The Vanishing Half” and Her Intent on Revealing the Unseen in the Tradition of Racial Passing, Caroline Maas Rue

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"Custome is an Idiot": How Genre Bending Opens New Meanings for Hæc Vir, or the Womanish Man, Stephen Montgomery-Anderson

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Inclusive Pedagogy: Connecting Disability and Race In Higher Education, Meredith Persin

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Unseen Bruises: Surviving and Conquering a Narcissist, Frances C. Smith

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A Cross-Cultural Trek of Nomadism Through Metaphoric Criticism, Gabrielle Wilkosz

Theses from 2021

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COVID-19 and the Emergence of a New Illness Narrative, Thomas M. Allison

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How “Interested” Criticism Fueled the Formulation of Nineteen Eighty-Four’s Cultural Afterlife, John Cameron Bosch

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Interrupting the Narrative: Reader Emapthy and Authorial Resistance in Gayl Jones’s Corregidora and Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half, Allison Daniel

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The Art of The Author: A Discussion of Servants in The Castle of Otranto, Laura Caroline Dunn

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"They don't need men and they don't need God": The Liberatory Possibilities of Waywardness in Toni Morrison's Paradise, Mary Frankovich

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Weaponizing Faith: ‘Spectral Evidence’ in Longfellow, Miller and Trump, Paul Hyde

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Contemporary Women's Poetry and Leaning Into the Senses, Samantha Keebler

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On Moving Beyond and Looking Behind: An Analysis of Contemporary Queer of Color Digital Art and Performance, Caroline Kinderthain

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"I / believe in ruin": Trance, Affect, and Disorientation, Zachary Melton Kinsella

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Autonomous Power and Profound Agency: Women and Magic in the Icelandic Legendary Sagas, Amanda Platz

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“The Profoundest Arcana of Our Dual Existence, and Its Intermediates”: The Technology of Monstrously Gendered Bodies in “Carmilla” and Havelock Ellis, Dennis Ranahan

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They Say, We Say: A Standpoint Analysis of Stay-at-Home Mothers’ Engagement with Public Discourse, Ayesha Tanzila

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The Bachelor as a Platform for Format Subversion: Authorial Intent and Audience Reaction, Michael A. Vaughan

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Historical Nets, Jenny E. Washburne

Theses from 2020

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Finding the Ephemeral: Aura, Apperception, and Digitally-Mediated Music, Rodger Eugene Bishop

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Guard Your Heart, “by Force, if Necessary”: Faith, Virginity, and Shame in the Evangelical Purity Movement, Kelley M. Gillis

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The Story of Hur, Hwi Eun Hur

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Marie's Knowing Winks: Ironic Play, Courtly Love, and the Disruption of Generic Conventions in Chaitivel, Lanva, and Yonec, Anna Lia Johnson

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Defending the Dead: A Critical and Creative Exploration of the Eulogy, Dan Leach

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A Slow and Spectacular Violence: Anti-Black, Environmental, and Labor Violence in Muriel Rukeyser’s The Book of the Dead, Kaitlyn Michelle Samons

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Computational Configurations: Behind the Bricolage of The Truelist, Emma Jayne Stanley

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Between Worlds & A Conversation on Fantasy, Portals, and Escape, Sarah Savannah Watkins

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Something I Don't Know: Stories About Being Human, Robert Welborn

Theses from 2019

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"I Was Quiet, But I Was Not Blind": The Surprising Consistency of Fanny Price, Blake Elizabeth Bowens

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Rereading the Journal: Maintaining the Potential for Refinement, Julie Anne Edewaard

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Is There a Self in this Text? Satire, Passing, and Life in Caucasia, Myers Enlow

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An Audience with the King, Charissa Eileen Fryberger

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A Change in Southern Character through Southern Characters, Emma McCracken

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Reading Charlotte and Branwell Brontë’s Early Writings as Colonialist Fantasy, Kristian Nicole Wilson

Theses from 2018

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Dendarian: A Young Man's Quest & The Functions of Fairy Tales, Daniel Atkinson

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"It's All a Blind": Scopic Economies in Henry James' Washington Square, Carrie L. Hill

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The Culture of the Body: The Beautiful, Sublime, and Ugly in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Courtney Huff-Oelberg

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Better than Adequate: An Investigation in Contemporary Short Fiction, Stephen Michael Hundley

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Making Interpretations: Digitally Adapting Yeats's 'Ego Dominus Tuus' as a Digital Comic, Jared Jameson

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The Desubjectified Subject in the Poetry of Rosmarie Waldrop, Amanda Rebecca Johnson

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Edward II: Negotiations of Credit in the Early Modern Public Sphere, Jane E. Kuebler

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The Work of Water in Edwidge Danticat's Environmental Imagination, Gabrielle Nugent

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Transgressive Theatricalities: Questioning the Existence of a Sincere Self in Sensation Fiction, Carley Amanda Robertson

Theses from 2017

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Marked: Masculine Performativity in Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club and Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho, Robert Brian Brissey Jr.

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Abducted by Reading Machines: Pragmatism and the Discourse of Distant Reading, Matthew Scott Duncan

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A Shared Resilience in Contemporary Southern Literature: Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina and Robin Boylorn's Sweetwater: Black Women and Tales of Resilience, Laurie Pfister Epps

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Madness in the Media: Demystifying the Emergence of an OCD Trope in Television, Sam Martin

Theses from 2016

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Treacherous Selves: Subjection and Subjectivity in The Tragedy of Mariam, Emily Anne Boyter

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The Sunglasses of Ideology: Augmented Reality as Posthuman Cognitive Prosthesis, Jason Crider

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From Overt Contentment to Hidden Space: Examining the Portrayal of Gender Fluidity in Naylor's Bailey's Café and Walker's The Color Purple, Teneshia Shante Head

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"The Wildest Stock": Service, Monarchical Grafting, and Environmental Engagement in The Winter's Tale, Kristen Joy Hixon

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Between Flesh and Being: Theorizing the Racial Body and the Position of Personhood in Claudia Rankine's Citizen, Lanja Najmalddin Karim

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Will The Real Captain America Please Stand-Up: Redefining the Patriotic Hero Post-9/11, Michelle Anne Lloyd

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Gender Hybridity in H.G. Wells' The Island of Dr. Moreau, Charlotte Rene Powell

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Like a Character in a Truffaut Film, Trevor Lance Seigler

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Finding Freedom for Jane: A Reading of Subjugation, Shame, and Sympathy in Charlotte's Brontë Jane Eyre, Rebecca Shaver

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Formulas of Fiction: The First World War and the Popular Fiction of 1914, Caroline Swanson

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The Zombi of the British Empire: Rochester's Imperialist Drive in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea, Chloe Whitaker

Theses from 2015

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The Metonym of Edenic Masculinity: Depictions of Male-Male Rape in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Property, Chelsea Clarey

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CARRIE’S CHOICE: CONTEMPORARY FEMINISM AND SOCIOPOLITICAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF WOMANHOOD IN FILM ADAPTATIONS OF STEPHEN KING’S CARRIE, Molly Brianna Collins

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Raising Specters: Queer Reclamation in Toni Morrison's A Mercy, Justin Allen Holliday

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Reader Interrupted: Poetry as Thing in the Lyrical Works of Emily Dickinson, Sarah Katherine Melchers

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A Discourse of Hoodwinking: Falcons and Performativity in The Taming of the Shrew, Dustin Cleag Mosley

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PAINTING VERSUS PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE ROMANCE OF A SHOP AND CAPTURING THE NEW WOMAN THROUGH A MECHANICAL LENS, Sarah Michelle Naciuk

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Gawain the Exile: Reading 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' in a Postcolonial Context, Hannah Vaughan

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Value and Truth in Literature: The Critic versus the Reader from Henry James' Perspective as Applied to Reader Response Theory, Marilyn M. Vickery

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Conspicuous Consumers: the Victorian Department Store and the Women's Movement, Joslyn McCraw VonKaenel

Theses from 2014

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The Deception of Perception: Browning, Childe Roland, and Supersensory Belief, Catherine Blass

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A Modernism Against Maestros: Horacio Quiroga and the Transnational Automaton, Jacqueline Fetzer

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Bombing 12294, Lucosi Ikeem Fuller

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'Meaning Strides Through These Poems': Ted Berrigan's The Sonnets and the Poetics of Sociability, Joshua Martin

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White Noise and Newer Media: The Prophetic Impact of Jack's Avatars, Caleb Milligan

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Acquiescence: Stories, Justyna Anna Pekalak

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Silver Hair on the Silver Screen: Adaptations of Jane Austen's Older Women, Hilary Richards

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Lanyer's Virtual Community: The Defense of Female Community in Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum, Megan Roberts

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Night's End, Michael Whiteside

Theses from 2013

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A Slow Reading in Matthew Dickman's Elegiac and Nostalgic Poetry, Sumood Almaowashi

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What of the Cosmopolitan? Or Approaching the Absent Patriarch in Transnational Theory, Sophia Basaldua

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'Pulse for Pulse, Breath for Breath:' Reconsidering Embodiment through the Phenomenology of Respiration, Erica Britenburg

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'Go Ahead Touch this Dinosaur Fossil': The Rhetoric of Interactivity in Museum Culture, Steffanie Golliher

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Delayed Action or Locomotion? Con/versions of Reality in Dramatism and Inception, Jacob Greene

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The Real Housewives of the Garden of Eden, Victoria Hurst

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POUND'S OCCULTISM: THE DEVELOPMENT OF AUTOMATIC WRITING AND OCCULT PHILOSOPHY IN THE PISAN CANTOS, Katrina Johnson

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The Second Choice, Yangchun Li

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Imagining a Common Ground: Place, Community, and the Possibility for Place-Based Education through Flannery O'Connor's 'Greenleaf', Christine Mahoney

Theses from 2012

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Measuring Legal Fictions: Law and Sovereignty in Measure for Measure, James Funk

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I Laughed Until I Cried: The Tragicomedy of Harold Pinter's The Homecoming , Kesha Garner

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Stolen Souls, Emily Kudeviz

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To Kill a Vampire?: Through the Hearth, Charlsie Lamos

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When Time Stops, Andrew Mathas

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Wilde Monsters: The Creation of Aesthete Criminals, Robyn Miller

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STRANGER OF THE HOUSE: THE EVOLUTION OF SENSATION'S NEW MAN, Laura Mogel