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
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
Erasure of the Individual Sovereign: The Vulnerability of Public and Gendered Identity in Marlowe, Webster, and Cary, Justina Oliva
The Boys I Should Never Write About, Ashley Rivers
'Reflection' and Other Stories, Melissa Turner
The Man On the Postcard, David Williams
The Dark Continent: Europe's Encroachment Upon English Identity in Jane Eyre and Villette, Derek Williams
Wounded Planet, Wounded People: The Possibility of Ecological Trauma, Lauren Woolbright
Theses from 2010
The Vortex and World War II: Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot's Poetic Treatment of Wartime, Charles Bax
TURNING `THE ANGEL OF THE HOUSE' OUT OF THE HOUSE: PRIVACY IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY SENSATION NOVEL, Ashley Crider
Camp Bugaboo: A Creative thesis, Brittany Cuenin
'Shored Against the Ruins': Edifying Romantic and Modernist Thought, Leslie Haines
A Christmas Tree and Other Stories, Jillian Lang
COMING DOWN OUT OF THE TREE: EXPLORING MEMORY AND IDENTITY IN H.D.'S END TO TORMENT, Natalie Mahaffey
THE UNITED STATES' 'EMPIRE STATE OF MIND:' IDENTITY AND POSTCOLONIALISM IN A POST-9/11 WORLD, Margaret Mcgill
The Scarf Club, Mari Ramler
`Finding Gold In a Gully': Nineteenth-Century Australia in Constructions of British Domesticity From Sensation Fiction to Realism, Lisa Vandenbossche
Theses from 2009
Intersexed, Intertext: A Critique of Limited Gender Identity in Herculine Barbin and Middlesex, Allison Andrew
Goddess, King, and Grail: Aspects of Sovereignty within the Early Medieval Heroic Tradition of the British Isles, Robert Bevill
FULFILLMENT, Stacey Brown
Ambiguity and Apocalypse: Metafictional Reading Strategies in The Crying of Lot 49 and One Hundred Years of Solitude, David Foltz
Some Apocalypse, David Hehn jr.
Homegrown Rhetoric: Rhetorical Vision in States' Marketing of Local Foods, Joni Lea Hoke
PROVINIALIZING WORLD LITERATURE: TRISTRAM SHANDY AND MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN AS PRECURSORS TO CURRENT POSTCOLONIAL CRITICAL THEORY, Rachel Jordan
Victims and Aggressors: Black and Jewish Interethnic Relationships in Contemporary American Literature, Jessica Martin