Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Net/Work: Composing the Posthuman Self, Julia L. Mason
“To Know Where I Have Got To”: The Postmodern Chronotope in Beckett’s Malone Dies and Coetzee’s Foe, Brian J. McAllister
Hemingway’s Development of the Female Characters Catherine from A Farewell to Arms to The Garden of Eden, Amy K. Recla
Victorian Perspectives on the Supernatural: The Imaginary Versus the Real in Two Brontë Novels, Crystal Sidell
Sharing the Power of Words and Changing Lives Through College-Level Instruction in Grammar and Mechanics, Carol Ann Tillema
Metadrama and Antitheatricality in Shakespeare’s King Lear and Troilus and Cressida, Douglas R. Willcox
The Abyss in Allen Tate’s The Fathers: What Can be Seen in the Darkness of American Literature?, Barry T. Wireman
Great Apes and Other Stories, Ryan Zimmerman
Daughter of the Moon and Other Stories, Shannon Zimmerman
Scripting the Unscripted: Gender and Sexual Orientation in Strategy-Genre Reality Television, L Elizabeth Zollner
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Shakespearean Spin-Offs: Mindless Entertainment or Conversations with Critics, Amy Anderson
Rock, Paper, Scissors, Josef Benson
Good Girl, Bad Girl: The Role of Abigail and Jessica in The Jew of Malta and The Merchant of Venice, Anna Beskin
The Constructions of Fay Weldon, Woman of Letters, Harriet Blymiller
American Odyssey, Bernadette Kafwimbi Cogswell
Standing Up With The King: A Critical Look At Stephen King's Epic, Jenifer Michelle D'Elia
Identity Politics: Postcolonial Theory and Writing Instruction, Toni P. Francis
Changing the subject: First-person narration in and out of the classroom, Susan Friedman
My Lord Lackbeard: Enfranchisement and expressions of beardlessness in Shakespeare's canon from 1594 to 1601, C R. Junkins
The Gothic as counter-discourse: Mark Twain, Charles Chesnutt and Toni Morrison, Hyejin, Kim
The Turn of the Screw's debated phantasms: The role of the fantastic in the creation of Peter Quint and Miss Jessel, Susan Savage Lee
The chivalric Gawain, Carleigh Leffert
Faust in Lolita: Composing sins, souls, and rhetorical redemption, Aurora Mackey
Elements of narrative discourse in selected short stories of Ernest Hemingway, Gueorgui V. Manolov
Moving Thumos: Emotion, image, and the enthymeme, Eric D. Mason
Venturesome women: Nineteenth-century British women travel writers and sport, Precious McKenzie-Stearns
Beauty, Objectification, and Transcendence: Modernist Aesthetics in The Picture of Dorian Gray and Pale Fire, Deborah S. McLeod
Suzan-Lori Parks’s The America Play and Its Deconstructive Ontology, Rachel A. Naor
The art of existentialism: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Norman Mailer and the American existential tradition, J'aimé L. Sanders
"A Woman's Face, or Worse": Otto Rank and the modernist identity, Michael L. Shuman
Scissors paper rock, Barbara St. Clair
What the Spirit Knows: Charles Williams and Kenneth Burke, Grace Veach
Honor - a double-edged sword: An examination of the South's "culture of honor" wounding of two races, Vernetta K. Williams
Thomas Hardy's Siren, Sarah A. Wray
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
Mocking Mohammad: Mark Twain’s Depiction of Arabs and Muslims in The Innocents Abroad, Nancy Bakht
Bel-Imperia: The (Early) Modern Woman in Thomas Kyd’s Spanish Tragedy, Ann McCauley Basso
Folk Wiki: The shared traditions of folk music and the Wiki way, Phillip Mark Chamberlin
Powerful submission: Popular texts and the subjectivity of Christian right women, Ellen L. Flournoy
Altered States of Reality: The Theme of Twinning in David Lynch's Lost Highway, Alan Edward Green Jr.
The influence of the "Book of Job" on the Middle English morality plays, Cameron Hunt-Logan
The signature poetics of Sharon Olds and John Cage, Walter E. Lewallen
Virginia Woolf and the persistent question of class: The protean nature of class and self, Mary C. Madden
Joyce...Beckett...Dedalus...Molloy: A Study in Abjection and Masochism, Patricia A. McCabe-Remmell
The Enthymeme’s Role in Modern Discourse, Ryan Meehan
Cross-dressing in Sarah Grand's The Tenor and the Boy and E.D.E.N Southworth's The Hidden Hand: gender, class, and power, Marcy Wynn Murray
Ashes from Falling Stars, John A. Nieves
An Inquiry Concerning the Teaching of Critical Thinking in an Advanced Placement Literature and Composition Class, Minnette Northcutt
The True Picture of the Indian—As Jackson Viewed It: The Portrayal of Alessandro as an Atypical Native American, Carrie. Olin
Icon, representation and virtuality in reading the graphic narrative, David Steiling
"Mingling Incantations": Hart Crane's Neo-Symbolist Poetics, Christopher A. Tidwell
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
Dissertations: Past, Present, and Future, Matthew D. Barton
Isabel Undone, Lynne Berggren
Investigating Affective Dimensions of Whiteness in the Cultural Studies Writing Classroom: Toward a Critical, Feminist, Anti-Racist Pedagogy, Allison Brimmer
From Strange Fruit to Fruitful Kitchens: The Space of the Kitchen in Toni Morrison’s Novels, Betty J. Chroninger
The Outsider Within the Victorian Community: Nicholas Bulstrode in Middlemarch and Michael Henchard in The Mayor of Casterbridge, Marian D. Conklin
The Power of the Spoken Word: Literature in the American Mass Media of the 1990s, Codrina Cozma
Fire and Ice in The Age of Innocence, Alisa Mariva DeBorde
A Discourse Concerning Two New Compositions, Stanley D. Harrison
“The Wil of his Wif:” Discourse, Power, and Gender in Chaucer’s The Tale of Melibee, Sara D. Jenkins
Mosaic, Vicki L. Kennedy
The Rapid Unexpected, Daniel Pantano
"And So He Plays His Part:" Theatrical Prejudice and Role-Playing in As You Like It and King Lear, Erin Rutter
Postmodern Narrativity in Absalom, Absalom! and Memento: Examining Telling Similarities in the Techniques of William Faulkner and Christopher Nolan, Jessica Jain Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
Towards an e-Criture Feminine: Woolf, DuPlessis, Cixous, and the Emerging Discursive Tradition in Women’s Online Diaries, Deborah Silverman Bowen
Tutor Attitudes Toward Tutoring Creative Writers in Writing Centers, Leah F. Cassorla
Institutionalized on the Margins: An Organizational History of the Preparation of Teachers of College Composition, Gregory A. Giberson
She Fell To Her Knees And Other Stories, Karen Brown Gonzalez
The 24th of July: A Novel-In-Progress, Kimberley A. Hanna
Lily’s Dilemma: Opposing Principles in The House of Mirth, Debbie Lelekis
From Wounded to Woman: The Demasculinization of Hemingway’s Wounded Male Characters, Myla B. Morris
Shakespeare’s Midsummer Fairies: Shadows and Shamen of the Forest, Patricia, Roy
Discovering the Source of Gatsby’s Greatness: Nick’s Eulogy of a “Great” Kierkegaardian Knight, Jaime' L. Sanders
They Shoot Single People, Don't They?, Dianne J. Smith
The Essay In The Postmodern Era, Xiqiao Wang
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
Pipe Dreams and Primitivism: Eugene O'Neill and the Rhetoric of Ethnicity, Donald P. Gagnon
Alexander Pope's Opus Magnum as Palladian Monument, Cassandra C. Pauley
Harold Frederic's The Damnation of Theron Ware: A Study Guide with Annotated Bibliography, Robin Taylor Rogers
Homosocial, Homoerotic, Bisexual, and Androgynous Bonds in Shakespeare’s Comedies, Klarisa Sokolovic-Cizmek
Theses/Dissertations from 2002
The Diffusion of New Media Scholarship: Power, Innovation, and Resistance in Academe, Judith R. Edminster
Hamlet Haven: An Online, Annotated Bibliography, Harmonie Loberg
Theses/Dissertations from 1999
Literacy, Technology, and Change: The Gates of Hell, Janice R. Walker
Theses/Dissertations from 1987
The Geometry of James Joyce's Ulysses: From Pythagoras to Poincaré: Joyce's Use of Geometry for Structure, Metaphor, and Theme, Susan Sutliff Brown