Theses from 2022
Enclosure in Flesh and Stone: Intermediaries and Access to God in Revelations of Divine Love, Emily Danuser
“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
The Screen and Development: Creative Writing and Liminality in Children’s Literature, Rebecca E. Glenn
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
"Custome is an Idiot": How Genre Bending Opens New Meanings for Hæc Vir, or the Womanish Man, Stephen Montgomery-Anderson
Inclusive Pedagogy: Connecting Disability and Race In Higher Education, Meredith Persin
Unseen Bruises: Surviving and Conquering a Narcissist, Frances C. Smith
A Cross-Cultural Trek of Nomadism Through Metaphoric Criticism, Gabrielle Wilkosz
Theses from 2021
COVID-19 and the Emergence of a New Illness Narrative, Thomas M. Allison
How “Interested” Criticism Fueled the Formulation of Nineteen Eighty-Four’s Cultural Afterlife, John Cameron Bosch
Interrupting the Narrative: Reader Emapthy and Authorial Resistance in Gayl Jones’s Corregidora and Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half, Allison Daniel
The Art of The Author: A Discussion of Servants in The Castle of Otranto, Laura Caroline Dunn
"They don't need men and they don't need God": The Liberatory Possibilities of Waywardness in Toni Morrison's Paradise, Mary Frankovich
Weaponizing Faith: ‘Spectral Evidence’ in Longfellow, Miller and Trump, Paul Hyde
Contemporary Women's Poetry and Leaning Into the Senses, Samantha Keebler
On Moving Beyond and Looking Behind: An Analysis of Contemporary Queer of Color Digital Art and Performance, Caroline Kinderthain
"I / believe in ruin": Trance, Affect, and Disorientation, Zachary Melton Kinsella
Autonomous Power and Profound Agency: Women and Magic in the Icelandic Legendary Sagas, Amanda Platz
They Say, We Say: A Standpoint Analysis of Stay-at-Home Mothers’ Engagement with Public Discourse, Ayesha Tanzila
The Bachelor as a Platform for Format Subversion: Authorial Intent and Audience Reaction, Michael A. Vaughan
Historical Nets, Jenny E. Washburne
Theses from 2020
Finding the Ephemeral: Aura, Apperception, and Digitally-Mediated Music, Rodger Eugene Bishop
Guard Your Heart, “by Force, if Necessary”: Faith, Virginity, and Shame in the Evangelical Purity Movement, Kelley M. Gillis
The Story of Hur, Hwi Eun Hur
Marie's Knowing Winks: Ironic Play, Courtly Love, and the Disruption of Generic Conventions in Chaitivel, Lanva, and Yonec, Anna Lia Johnson
Defending the Dead: A Critical and Creative Exploration of the Eulogy, Dan Leach
A Slow and Spectacular Violence: Anti-Black, Environmental, and Labor Violence in Muriel Rukeyser’s The Book of the Dead, Kaitlyn Michelle Samons
Computational Configurations: Behind the Bricolage of The Truelist, Emma Jayne Stanley
Between Worlds & A Conversation on Fantasy, Portals, and Escape, Sarah Savannah Watkins
Something I Don't Know: Stories About Being Human, Robert Welborn
Theses from 2019
"I Was Quiet, But I Was Not Blind": The Surprising Consistency of Fanny Price, Blake Elizabeth Bowens
Rereading the Journal: Maintaining the Potential for Refinement, Julie Anne Edewaard
Is There a Self in this Text? Satire, Passing, and Life in Caucasia, Myers Enlow
An Audience with the King, Charissa Eileen Fryberger
A Change in Southern Character through Southern Characters, Emma McCracken
Reading Charlotte and Branwell Brontë’s Early Writings as Colonialist Fantasy, Kristian Nicole Wilson
Theses from 2018
Dendarian: A Young Man's Quest & The Functions of Fairy Tales, Daniel Atkinson
"It's All a Blind": Scopic Economies in Henry James' Washington Square, Carrie L. Hill
The Culture of the Body: The Beautiful, Sublime, and Ugly in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Courtney Huff-Oelberg
Better than Adequate: An Investigation in Contemporary Short Fiction, Stephen Michael Hundley
Making Interpretations: Digitally Adapting Yeats's 'Ego Dominus Tuus' as a Digital Comic, Jared Jameson
The Desubjectified Subject in the Poetry of Rosmarie Waldrop, Amanda Rebecca Johnson
Edward II: Negotiations of Credit in the Early Modern Public Sphere, Jane E. Kuebler
The Work of Water in Edwidge Danticat's Environmental Imagination, Gabrielle Nugent
Transgressive Theatricalities: Questioning the Existence of a Sincere Self in Sensation Fiction, Carley Amanda Robertson
Theses from 2017
Marked: Masculine Performativity in Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club and Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho, Robert Brian Brissey Jr.
Abducted by Reading Machines: Pragmatism and the Discourse of Distant Reading, Matthew Scott Duncan
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
Madness in the Media: Demystifying the Emergence of an OCD Trope in Television, Sam Martin
Theses from 2016
Treacherous Selves: Subjection and Subjectivity in The Tragedy of Mariam, Emily Anne Boyter
The Sunglasses of Ideology: Augmented Reality as Posthuman Cognitive Prosthesis, Jason Crider
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
"The Wildest Stock": Service, Monarchical Grafting, and Environmental Engagement in The Winter's Tale, Kristen Joy Hixon
Woman as Place: The Utilization of the Female Body in Horror Film, Madison Alisa Johnson
Between Flesh and Being: Theorizing the Racial Body and the Position of Personhood in Claudia Rankine's Citizen, Lanja Najmalddin Karim
Will The Real Captain America Please Stand-Up: Redefining the Patriotic Hero Post-9/11, Michelle Anne Lloyd
Gender Hybridity in H.G. Wells' The Island of Dr. Moreau, Charlotte Rene Powell
Like a Character in a Truffaut Film, Trevor Lance Seigler
Finding Freedom for Jane: A Reading of Subjugation, Shame, and Sympathy in Charlotte's Brontë Jane Eyre, Rebecca Shaver
Formulas of Fiction: The First World War and the Popular Fiction of 1914, Caroline Swanson
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
The Metonym of Edenic Masculinity: Depictions of Male-Male Rape in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Property, Chelsea Clarey
CARRIE’S CHOICE: CONTEMPORARY FEMINISM AND SOCIOPOLITICAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF WOMANHOOD IN FILM ADAPTATIONS OF STEPHEN KING’S CARRIE, Molly Brianna Collins
Raising Specters: Queer Reclamation in Toni Morrison's A Mercy, Justin Allen Holliday
Reader Interrupted: Poetry as Thing in the Lyrical Works of Emily Dickinson, Sarah Katherine Melchers
A Discourse of Hoodwinking: Falcons and Performativity in The Taming of the Shrew, Dustin Cleag Mosley
PAINTING VERSUS PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE ROMANCE OF A SHOP AND CAPTURING THE NEW WOMAN THROUGH A MECHANICAL LENS, Sarah Michelle Naciuk
Gawain the Exile: Reading 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' in a Postcolonial Context, Hannah Vaughan
Value and Truth in Literature: The Critic versus the Reader from Henry James' Perspective as Applied to Reader Response Theory, Marilyn M. Vickery
Conspicuous Consumers: the Victorian Department Store and the Women's Movement, Joslyn McCraw VonKaenel
Theses from 2014
The Deception of Perception: Browning, Childe Roland, and Supersensory Belief, Catherine Blass
A Modernism Against Maestros: Horacio Quiroga and the Transnational Automaton, Jacqueline Fetzer
Bombing 12294, Lucosi Ikeem Fuller
'Meaning Strides Through These Poems': Ted Berrigan's The Sonnets and the Poetics of Sociability, Joshua Martin
White Noise and Newer Media: The Prophetic Impact of Jack's Avatars, Caleb Milligan
Acquiescence: Stories, Justyna Anna Pekalak
Silver Hair on the Silver Screen: Adaptations of Jane Austen's Older Women, Hilary Richards
Lanyer's Virtual Community: The Defense of Female Community in Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum, Megan Roberts
Night's End, Michael Whiteside
Theses from 2013
A Slow Reading in Matthew Dickman's Elegiac and Nostalgic Poetry, Sumood Almaowashi
What of the Cosmopolitan? Or Approaching the Absent Patriarch in Transnational Theory, Sophia Basaldua
'Pulse for Pulse, Breath for Breath:' Reconsidering Embodiment through the Phenomenology of Respiration, Erica Britenburg
'Go Ahead Touch this Dinosaur Fossil': The Rhetoric of Interactivity in Museum Culture, Steffanie Golliher
Delayed Action or Locomotion? Con/versions of Reality in Dramatism and Inception, Jacob Greene
The Real Housewives of the Garden of Eden, Victoria Hurst
POUND'S OCCULTISM: THE DEVELOPMENT OF AUTOMATIC WRITING AND OCCULT PHILOSOPHY IN THE PISAN CANTOS, Katrina Johnson
The Second Choice, Yangchun Li
Imagining a Common Ground: Place, Community, and the Possibility for Place-Based Education through Flannery O'Connor's 'Greenleaf', Christine Mahoney
Theses from 2012
Measuring Legal Fictions: Law and Sovereignty in Measure for Measure, James Funk
I Laughed Until I Cried: The Tragicomedy of Harold Pinter's The Homecoming , Kesha Garner
Stolen Souls, Emily Kudeviz
To Kill a Vampire?: Through the Hearth, Charlsie Lamos
When Time Stops, Andrew Mathas
Wilde Monsters: The Creation of Aesthete Criminals, Robyn Miller
STRANGER OF THE HOUSE: THE EVOLUTION OF SENSATION'S NEW MAN, Laura Mogel
Two for Confidence, Antonio Shaw
The Cinematic Essay: Argumenative Writing and Documentary Film, Zachary Snow
Theses from 2011
Zadie Smith's Aesthetics, Christina Cook
'The Purpose of Poetry is to Seem as Lifelike as Possible ...': Communicating the Alive Through Contemporary Poet Chelsey Minnis's Supplemental Language, Lindsay Niedringhaus