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Theses from 2024
Stomach and Womb: Early Modern Recipes for the Perinatal Woman, Grace E. Beacham
Theses from 2023
THE CHILDREN’S FINAL GIRL: EXPLORING FEMINISM, HORROR, AND ADOLESCENCE IN CORALINE, THE LAST CUENTISTA, AND A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS, Hannah Rose Lussier
RECOGNIZING POSSIBILITY: REFLECTIONS ON THE MESSIANIC DIMENSIONS OF BEING, LANGUAGE, AND SPACE, Khalif M. Vernon
INVOKING LA LLORONA: ABJECTION AS A SITE OF POWER IN JOVITA GONZÁLEZ, CHERRIE MORAGA, AND JAYRO BUSTAMANTE, Samantha Donoso
Theses from 2022
EXPLORING THE SCP WIKI: COMMUNITY, DIGITAL HORROR, AND APOCALYPTIC FICTION, Justin M. Jones
Identifying Loss, Animating Melancholy: Asian-American Narratives in Avatar: The Last Airbender, Spirited Away, and Bao, Jered Connery Mabaquiao
Pandemic Pedagogy: A Case Study of Commenting Practices in a Pandemic, Nicholas G. Nicklin
Accurate or Aspirational? A Rhetorical Analysis of One University's Representation of Student Diversity, Kristen Coady Spaeth
Theses from 2021
A Quantification of Magnitude in the Writing of James Baldwin: A Digital Recovery Work, Robert Tate Morrison
Ontological (Free) Agency: the Erasure, Commodification, and Autonomy of Black Athletes, Abraham Yabar Salinas
RACE AND SOCIAL INJUSTICE: THE REPRESENTATIONS IN CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOKS, 2016-2020, Brittany Boisvert
REOPENING THE TEMPLE SCHOOL: REFORMING CONTEMPORARY EDUCATION WITH THE TRANSCENDENTALISTS, Richard Evan Miller
THE CASE OF NEMO NOBODY: A LACANIAN STUDY OF THE TRAUMATIC AND NEUROTIC RELATIONSHIPS OF THE MAN WHO DOESN'T EXIST, Brittany N. Sanders
JUSTICE FOR THE FALLEN WOMAN, Terri Weaver
Theses from 2020
HAPPILY-EVER-AFTER: AN EXPLORATION OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY LAWS, MARRIAGE, AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN REPRESENTATION, Sarah Clayburn
The Social Cut of Black and Yellow Female Hip Hop, Erick Raven
Theses from 2019
The Core Four: An Examination of Contemporary Black Women's Writing in "The Norton Anthology of African American Literature", Jade M. Harrison
Theses from 2018
Truth and Strength in Vulnerability: Using Topoanalysis to Reveal the Need for Expanding the Modernist Literary Canon, Misty DawnMarie Falkenstein
Meming and Enthymeming: Persuasion in the Age of Social Media, Taylor R. Parrish
SOCIETY DOES NOT R-E-S-P-E-C-T BLACK MOTHERS: HISTORICALLY RACIALIZED REPRESENTATIONS AND BLACK WOMEN’S COMPROMISED OBSTETRICAL CARE, Ashleigh Riley
A Staring Contest with the Self: Karl Ove Knausgaard, Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count, and Explanatory Style, Colton Tyler Royle
SONGS OF SALVATION: SHAKESPEARE’S DEFENSE OF PERFORMING ARTISTS THROUGH SECULAR BALLADS IN THREE PLAYS, Latisha Dawn Fletcher
Theses from 2017
DEVOTION, DOMESTICITY, AND HEALING AMONG EARLY MODERN WOMEN: WRITING RELIGION AND MEDICINE IN PERSONAL MANUSCRIPTS, Jana Jackson
The Joker: A Character Study of a Modern Madman, Jay Ewald
Theses from 2016
THE WORLD IN THE SCREEN: HOW THE MOBILE DEVICE SYMBOLIZES TECHNOGENESIS, Joel Mathew Morrow
Navigating Women's Cultural Representation Through Video Games in the Obama Era, Mark Stephen Reeder
WHAT WAS THE MOCKINGBIRD’S SONG? REASSESING TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD THROUGH THE LENS OF GO SET A WATCHMAN, Leslie Erin Cook
Theses from 2015
Finding Deaf Gain: Changing Languages, Changing Lenses, Changing Society, Edward Henry Bart
Becomes a Woman Best: Female Prophetic Figures in Shakespeare's Plays, Alan Morris Cochrum
Creating Myself: Friendship As Black Women's Liberation In Toni Morrison's Sula And Alice Walker's The Color Purple, India Renee Miles
Media And Literary Representations Of Latinos In Baseball And Baseball Fiction, Mihir Dilip Parekh
In Another Time With (an)other Race: Representations Of Race And National Narratives In Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim And Fallout 3, Christopher M. Simpson
Realizing The Virtual: Constructing And Embodying Cyberspace In Gibson's Sprawl, Matt Underwood
Theses from 2014
the Little White Dish Of My Faith: Anne Sexton, The Body, And Spirituality, Elizabeth J. Barbee
More Than Just A Piece In Their Games: Agency And The Docile Body In The Hunger Games And Reality Television, Kathleen Denison
Art At The End Of The World: Bioart And Posthuman Ethics In The Anthropocene, Sean Farrell
Continuing Narratives Of The Pharmakos: Trans-ethical Perspectives Through The Liminal Performativity Of Material Agencies In Drug Genre Film, Audrey Haferkamp
'Schyre Leuez' And Cesspits: An Ecocritical Reading Of Land Use And Apocalypse In Cleanness, Katelyn Jaynes
The Potential Of Posthumanism: Reimagining Utopia Through Bellamy, Atwood, And Slonczewski, Jacob Aaron Mckeever
The Hip-Hop Academy: "Let no one ignorant of' poetry "enter", Danny Joe Rodriguez
Chaucer's De-colonized Custance, Rod S. Sachs
The Pedagogy Of Conclusions: From Rhetorical Ancestry To Modern Composition With A Research Study On Pedagogy In The Classroom, Sarah E. Visser
A Labor Of Love: A Social And Literary History Of The Blue Cloud Quarterly, Bethany Ann Yardy
Theses from 2013
Breaking Trauma's Empire: Trauma And Resolution In Boardwalk Empire And Breaking Bad, Lindsey Barlow
Inside Out: The Dialogics Of Codeswitching In Ana Castillo's So Far From God And Ibis Gómez-vega's Send My Roots Rain, Carla L. Dye
Delights And Dangers: The Pursuit Of The Oceanic In Thelma & Louise And Lost, Christine Kyle
The Feminine Alternative: Men And Women In Modernist European Literature, Kara Nicole Purschwitz
Perceptions Of Subversion: The Formation Of A Pop-subculture, Kristofor R. Vogel
Theses from 2012
No Utopia Is An Island: The Ecosystem Of Utopias In Paul Mcauley's Quiet War Saga, Kerri Beauchesne
Blood Path: An Original Screenplay Based On The Life And Works Of John Rollin Ridge, Jennifer Chamberlain
Networked Authorship: A Community Of Creators In Born-digital Literature, Tricia Jost Dupew
A Graduate English Major's Search For Meaning: Toward A Pedagogy Of Creative Rhetoric, Lindsey Gendke
The Best And The Brightest: The Overachievement Rhetoric During America's Polio Epidemics, Samantha Taryn Putman
Murder In The Digital Age: Rethinking Crime Fiction Theory through the Medium of Videogames, Fanny Anne Ramirez
The Development Of Rhetorical Satire In Humanist Literature: Erasmus' The Praise Of Folly And More's Utopia, Luke Story
Implicit Learning In The Remedial English Classroom: Steps Towards A Pedegogy Of Literacy, Jo A. Ward
Theses from 2011
Digitalism: Towards A Theory Of Digital Rhetoric And Composition, Jared Chambers
One Foot In The Grave: The Zombie's Consumption Of American Film, Ronni M. Davis
Moving Beyond This Moment: Employing Deleuze And Guattari's Rhizome In Postcolonialism, Robert LaRue
God Is Dead... Now There Danceth A God In Me. Bringing Modernist Darkness To Light Through The Apollonian And Dionysian Dichotomy, Kendall Stephenson
Resisting Commodification (with Friends!): Facebook And Consumer Culture, Wilton S. Wright
Theses from 2010
Alcott And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Public Sphere: Identity, Privacy, And Publication In Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, Leslie Bukowski
Children Of Israel: Jacob Figures And Themes In The Novels Of Chaim Potok, Alan Morris Cochrum
An Ecocritical Exploration Of The Unique Nature Of Early Modern Oceans In The Blazing World And The Tempest, Marykathryn Earnest
Borges And New Media: Connections Via Heterotopic Spaces, Sherrin Frances
Building Cultural Bridges Across Generational Chasms: Comparing Chicano And Jewish American Literature, Thomas Rhea
The Currency Of Love: The Merging Of Monetary And Amorous Concerns In The Merchant Of Venice and Timon Of Athens, Pamela Kay Rollins
The Androgyne Patriarchy In Japan: Contemporary Issues In Japanese Gender, Rachel Ann Snyder
Japan In The Mirror Of Language: The Failure Of Language To Represent Objects In Travel Narratives On Japan, Andrew Tyner
Biography As A Searchlight: Finding The Frank Stanford Story Cycle In Ellen Gilchrist's Fiction, Alyson Ward
Theses from 2009
A Multi-functional Essay Prompt For State Mandated Assessments, Allen Anthony Glick
The Drag Paradox, Robert Doane Lipscomb
Maternal Bodies, Ojibwe Histories And Materiality In The Novels And Memoirs Of Louise Erdrich, Jodi Bain McCormack
Death In Paradise Lost, Luke Tesdal
What's So Funny? Letters As Comedic Devices In Shakespeare's Twelfth Night And Love's Labor's Lost, Pamela Tracy
At Play In Her Clearing: Centering The Personal Experience Of Disability Within Irigarayan Philsophy, Katherine Elaine Wallis
Theses from 2008
Lilith Rising: American Gothic Fiction And The Evolution Of The Female Hero In Sarah Wood's Julia And The Illuminated Baron, E.D.E.N. Southworth's The Hidden Hand, And Joss Whedon's Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Kristie Leigh Musgrove
Cracked Foundations: St. Antony, Textual Production, And Genre, William Auther Rogers
Feeling Better Than Most People Think: Nature And The Body In Wallace Stegner's All The Little Live Things And The Spectator Bird, Angela Renae Sowa
Falling Into The Rabbit Hole: Monstrosity, Modesty, And Mary Toft, Piper Crisp Davis
Negotiated Authorship: A Rhetorical Analysis Of Professional Writer Job Postings, Jill Dickerson
Opinions In Context: Reconsidering Endoxa In Aristotle's On Rhetoric, Kyle Simpler
Theses from 2007
Death Of The American Dream: The Revolutionary Meaning Of Infant Mortality And Mourning In Hannah Webster Foster's the Coquette, Tracey-Lynn Clough
Beyond Good And Evil: Sister Leopolda's Traumatic Will To Power, Alisha Stafford Feitosa
Shades Of Scarlett: Cultural Images Of Historical Southern Women, Gail Nash Tunnell
Freeze-Frame: Time And Vision In Three Early Welty Stories, Barbara L. Coots
Ladies And Loners: A Comparative Gender Study Of The Romance And Popular Western, Courtney Rena Henderson
Theses from 2006
Hold Your Tongue: Female Speech And Male Anxieties In Early Modern England, Lindsey Nicole Lanzisero
The Magical Sublime: A New-old Lens On Magical Realism, Kim Danielle Sasser
Is This Her Fault Or Mine?: An Examination Of The Overregulation Of Sexuality In Measure For Measure As An Argument Against Early Modern Anti-theatricalism, Heidi Nicole Tesch
Black Sounds: Hemingway And Duende, Kristine A. Wilson
Colorblind Fraternity: Unseating Racism, Males,, April Leigh Kinkead
"The Curse Never Fell Upon Our Nation Till Now": History And Fear In Philip Roth's The Plot Against America, Michael Lynn Brittain
Theses from 2005
Sunday In The Park With George: A Musical Curation By Stephen Sondheim, Amy Riordan
Marriage Or Career? Domestic Ideology In George Gissing's The Odd Women, Kuo-Wei Hsu
The Parody Of Romance, Tara Donalson