Masters Theses from 2022
Revolutionary Road And Gone Girl: Undermining The Veneer Of Domestic Bliss, John T. Hoty
Six-Bullets Faith, Justin R. Lazor
"I Need to Write About What I Believe": Journaling and Afrofuturism in Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents, Shlana E. Sims
Graphic Diaspora: Reframing Narratives Of American Identity In Black Comic Books, Ashley Wilson
Masters Theses from 2021
Formal Affective Strategies In Contemporary African Diasporic Feminist Texts, Zuzanna E. Koziatek
Masters Theses from 2020
Sound And Storytelling—an Auditory Angle on Internalized Racism In Invisible Man And the Lone Ranger And Tonto Fistfight In Heaven, Patricia A. Budd
An Alternative Woman: Breaking From the Binary Options of Sir Walter Scott’s Heroines And their Successors In Historical Fiction, Rachel Hernan
Personage And Post-adolescence In F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise, Marissa C. Hyde
We rode alone, of course a collection of short stories, Ryan T. Merriman
Although of Course they End Up Constructing their Selves Performative Gender Identity In the Pale King, Kevin Tasker
Negative Representation And the Germination of English Identity In Medieval And Early Modern Travel Narratives, Kelly R. Unterborn
Borne the Battle; Creative Writing For Military Trauma And Personal Trauma, Damien L. Ware
Masters Theses from 2018
“The Deepest Blush”: Bodily States of Emotions in Jane Austen’s Novels, Nadya Abdelfattah
Murder at the Palace Theater, Robert Mclane knight Daniels
The Sellout by Paul Beatty: “Unmitigated Blackness” in Obama's America, John E. Davies
Notes on Survival, Despite, Jason Harris
First Person Plural: Short Stories, Justin R. Lazor
Truth and the Language of War, Kelly O'melia
The Sting in the Green City, Nicole Tsakoumagos
Contradictionary Lies: A Play Not About Kurt Cobain, Katie R. Wallace
Masters Theses from 2017
Sympathy, Skepticism and Conversation in Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy and Henry Mackenzie's the Man of Feeling, Ahoud Turki Al ghmiz
The Creation of Space for Engaged Reading and Creative Interpretation in the Collected Works of Wallace Stevens, Lauren Cannavino
Eldritch Horrors: the Modernist Liminality of H.P. Lovecraft's Weird Fiction, Dale Allen Crowley
“Only a Sufficient Cause:" Bram Stoker's Dracula as a Tale of Mad Science and Faustian Redemption, Leah Christiana Davydov
The Other Side of Fun, Dan Forkapa
Shriekers, Jessica Leigh Johnson
Feminist Pedagogies in the Creative Writing Classroom: Possibilities and Reflections, Angela Lagrotteria
Towards a Synthesis: Tracing the Evolution of Masculinity in the Eighteenth-Century Novel, Anthony Necastro Necastro
Male Laguna Cultural Infulence in the Restoration of Tayo, Peter Lee Parry
Wharton's Library: For Born Readers Only, Christine Primisch
"Tale as Old as Time": the "Beauty and the Beast" Narrative as Vehicle for Social Resistance, Monica Williams
I Hate It, But I Can't Stop: The Romanticization of Intimate Partner Abuse in Young Adult Retellings of Wuthering Heights, Brianna R. Zgodinski
Masters Theses from 2016
The Discourse of Female Mental Illness in Kate Chopin's The Awakening, Elise M. Collman
Cultural Criticisms Within Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Holly Rose Litwin
Secret History in Contemporary America: Re-Reading All the King's Men and Primary Colors, Megan Nicole Petraska
The Black Death and Giovanni Bocaccio's The Decameron's Portrayal of Merchant Mentality, Rachel D. Rickel
Six Stories, James Silver
Fe/male Mother of Two: Gender and Motherhood in Lionel Shriver's We Need to Talk About Kevin, Amy B. Smialek
Masters Theses from 2015
Contextualizing Chester Himes's Trajectory of Violence Within the Harlem Detective Cycle, Bailey A. Capelle
Basement, Robert Mclane Daniels
Legacy of Shame: A Psychoanalytic History of Trauma in The Bluest Eye, Martina Louise Hayes
Sexualizing the Body Politic: Narrative the Female Body and the Gender Divide in Secret History, Eileen A. Horansky
The Liquid Nature of Self in Maxine Kingston's Autobiographical Story the Woman Warrior, Evelyn Jablonski
Ring Rust, Suzanne D. Mcwhorter
Ya Gotta Shoot 'Em in the Head: the Zombie Plague as the New Apocryphal Myth in Post 9/11 America, Ryan F. Neff
Making Waves: Bacon, Manley, and the Shifting Rhetorics of Opulent At(A)Lantis, Alex Cahill Nielsen
The Hill Fire and Other Stories, Michael Ervin Putnam
James and Shakespeare: Unification Through Mapping, Christina Wagner
Masters Theses from 2014
Women's Control of Passion: Louisa May Alcott's Revision of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Societal Restrictions of Passion in the Ninteenth-Century, Erica Eileen Cicero-erkkila
Don't Believe Everything You Read: Hoaxes and Satire in the Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, Erik E. Harder
The Black Blood of the Tennysons: Rhetoric of Melancholy and the Imagination in Tennyson's Poetry, Vanessa Jakse
Cultural Collision and Consequence: Redefining the Invisible in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, Nina Shari Kidd
Taming the Perfect Beast: the Monster as Romantic Hero in Contemporary Fiction, Lara Klaber
Structural and Symbolic Parallels Within the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and the Catcher in the Rye, David G. Polster
The Rise and Fall of the Black King: Girardian Thought in the Tragedy of Macbeth, Matthew Tarnovecky
American Hamlet: Shakespearean Epistemology in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, James Jason Walsh
Undermining Heteronormativity in Kate Chopin's the Awakening, Susan G. Weber
Masters Theses from 2013
No Ordinary Pilgrim: Margery Kempe and Her Quest for Validation, Authority, and Unique Identity, Alice A. Barfoot
The Trope of Domesticity: Neo-Slave Narrative Satire on Patriarchy and Black Masculinity, Darrell E. Coleman
The Objectification of Women in Cane, Claudia M. Davis
Liminal Identity in Willa Cather's "The Professor's House", Alexandra D. Debiase
Passive and Active Masculinities in Disney's Fairy Tale Films, Grace Dugar
The Synthesis of Anglo-Saxon and Christian Traditions in the Old English Judith, Sarah E. Eakin
Invoking the Incubus: Mary Shelly's Use of the Demon-Lover Tradition in Frankenstein, Christopher M. Lamphear
Interpretations of Fear and Anxiety in Gothic-Postmodern Fiction: an Analysis of the Secret History by Donna Tartt, Stacey A. Litzler
Civilization Is Going to Pieces: Crime, Morality, and Their Role in the Great Gatsby, Kathryn F. Machcinski
Art Spiegelman's Maus as a Heteroglossic Text, Dane H. Minich
Examining the Tribal "Other" in American Post-Apocalyptic Fiction, Alicia M. Pavelecky alicia m.
Emerging Imagery: the Great Famine in Nineteenth Century Irish Lit, Barbara A. Pitrone
Othering, Mirroring, and Identity in John Edgar Wideman's Brothers and Keepers, James E. Walker
Romance and Identity in Flight Club, Jacob Wiker
Liberating the Sexed Body: Oscar Wilde Erodes Victorian Conventions as a New World Is Created in the Importance of Being Earnest, Amber M. Wulu
Masters Theses from 2012
The Dark Is Melting: Narrative Persona, Trauma and Communication in Sylvia Plath's Poetry, Jessica J. Feuerstein
Reverse Orientalism: Laila Halaby's Once in a Promised Land, Amanda Lloyd
The After Effects of Colonialism in the Postmodern Era: Competing Narratives and Celebrating the Local in Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost, Priyanthan A. Pillainayagam
Restoring James Agee: a Textual Analysis of the Original and Restored Versions of James Agee's a Death in the Family, Matthew P. Rother
Masters Theses from 2011
An Exploration of Self-Construction Through Buddhist Imagery in Maxine Hong Kingston's the Women Warrior, Rosann M. Bilek gage
Charles Chesnutt Racial Relation Progression Throughout Career, Lindy R. Birney
A Clockwork Orange: the End of the "Angry Young Man" Era, Matthew J. Horner
The Language of Diaspora in Jhumpa Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth, Brittany Kemper
Hopeful Hostility: an Analysis of the Evolution of American Naturalism, Amonte Littlejohn
Pigeonholing Without Hybridizing: the False Reduction of Toni Morrison's Beloved, Lauren B. Molnar
None of My Idols Were Worth Worshipping, Charlotte Morgan
Eggs, Rachel Stallard
Diversification Through Discourse: a Bakhtinian View of Homer Hickam's Red Helmet, Julia A. Wilson
Masters Theses from 2010
The Mutual Development in James, Henry, and Jane Austen's Early Writings, Margaret K. Antone
String Theory, Rachel A. Baird
Poetry Matters, Emily E. Gillilan
Self-Evident Truths, Jennifer J. Hoyt
The Evolution of the Robotic Other in Science Fiction Film and Literature: from the Age of the Human to the Era of the Post-Human, Gregory M. Humphrey
The Reawakening of Steinbeck, Christine E. Jacobs
The Political Repercussions of Homosexual Repression of Masculinity and Identity in Martin Sherman's Bent, Melissa C. Lupo
Suicide Pelicans, Amanda A. Mccoy
Fahrenheit 451: Tempreture Rising, Douglas C. Moore
Richard Powers's the Echo Maker and the Trauma of Survival, Nicolas J. Potkalitsky
Shells, Joline L. Scott
The Non-Specificity of Location in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, Brian P. Voroselo
Masters Theses from 2009
The Power of Society in The Red Badge Of Courage, Hmoud Alotaibi
Young Ghosts, Michael Aeneas Crifasi
