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The English Department Dissertations and Theses Series is comprised of dissertations and thesis authored by Marquette University's English Department doctoral and master's students.

Theses/Dissertations from 2024 2024

Speculative Escapism in Contemporary Fantasy: Labor, Utility, Affect , Liamog Seamus Drislane

Disillusionment and Domesticity in Mid-20th-Century British Catholic Literature , Catherine Simmerer

A LIBERATED WEST?: FEMALE AUTHORS’ REPRESENTATIONS OF THE "REAL AND THE FANTASIZED" ON THE AMERICAN FRONTIER , Amanda Diane Zastrow

Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023

Lifting the Postmodern Veil: Cosmopolitanism, Humanism, and Decolonization in Global Fictions of the 21st Century , Matthew Burchanoski

Gothic Transformations and Remediations in Cheap Nineteenth-Century Fiction , Wendy Fall

Milton’s Learning: Complementarity and Difference in Paradise Lost , Peter Spaulding

“The Development of the Conceptive Plot Through Early 19th-Century English Novels” , Jannea R. Thomason

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

Gonzo Eternal , John Francis Brick

Intertextuality and Sociopolitical Engagement in Contemporary Anglophone Women’s Writing , Jackielee Derks

Innovation, Genre, and Authenticity in the Nineteenth-Century Irish Novel , David Aiden Kenney II

Reluctant Sons: The Irish Matrilineal Tradition of Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, and Flann O’Brien , Jessie Wirkus Haynes

Britain's Extraterrestrial Empire: Colonial Ambition, Anxiety, and Ambivalence in Early Modern Literature , Mark Edward Wisniewski

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

Re-Reading the “Culture Clash”: Alternative Ways of Reading in Indian Horse , Hailey Whetten

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

When the Foreign Became Familiar: Modernism, Expatriation, and Spatial Identities in the Twentieth Century , Danielle Kristene Clapham

Reforming Victorian Sense/Abilities: Disabilities in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Social Problem Novels , Hunter Nicole Duncan

Genre and Loss: The Impossibility of Restoration in 20th Century Detective Fiction , Kathryn Hendrickson

A Productive Failure: Existentialism in Fin de Siècle England , Maxwell Patchet

Inquiry and Provocation: The Use of Ambiguity in Sixteenth-Century English Political Satire , Jason James Zirbel

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

No Home but the World: Forced Migration and Transnational Identity , Justice Hagan

The City As a Trap: 20th and 21st Century American Literature and the American Myth of Mobility , Andrew Joseph Hoffmann

The Fantastic and the First World War , Brian Kenna

Insane in the Brain, Blood, and Lungs: Gender-Specific Manifestations of Hysteria, Chlorosis, & Consumption in 19th-Century Literature , Anna P. Scanlon

Reading Multicultural Novels Melancholically: Racial Grief and Grievance in the Joy Luck Club, Beloved, and Anil's Ghost , Jennifer Arias Sweeney

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

The Ethos of Dissent: Epideictic Rhetoric and the Democratic Function of American Protest and Countercultural Literature , Jeffrey Lorino Jr

Literary Cosmopolitanisms of Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, and Arundhati Roy , Sunil Samuel Macwan

The View from Here: Toward a Sissy Critique , Tyler Monson

The Forbidden Zone Writers: Femininity and Anglophone Women War Writers of the Great War , Sareene Proodian

Theatrical Weddings and Pious Frauds: Performance and Law in Victorian Marriage Plots , Adrianne A. Wojcik

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

Changing the Victorian Habit Loop: The Body in the Poetry and Painting of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris , Bryan Gast

Gendering Scientific Discourse from 1790-1830: Erasmus Darwin, Thomas Beddoes, Maria Edgeworth, and Jane Marcet , Bridget E. Kapler

Discarding Dreams and Legends: The Short Fiction of Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Flannery O’Connor, Katherine Anne Porter, and Eudora Welty , Katy L. Leedy

Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015

Saving the Grotesque: The Grotesque System of Liberation in British Modernism (1922-1932) , Matthew Henningsen

The Pulpit's Muse: Conversive Poetics in the American Renaissance , Michael William Keller

A Single Man of Good Fortune: Postmodern Identities and Consumerism in the New Novel of Manners , Bonnie McLean

Julian of Norwich: Voicing the Vernacular , Therese Elaine Novotny

Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014

Homecomings: Victorian British Women Travel Writers And Revisions Of Domesticity , Emily Paige Blaser

From Pastorals to Paterson: Ecology in the Poetry and Poetics of William Carlos WIlliams , Daniel Edmund Burke

Argument in Poetry: (Re)Defining the Middle English Debate in Academic, Popular, and Physical Contexts , Kathleen R. Burt

Apocalyptic Mentalities in Late-Medieval England , Steven A. Hackbarth

The Creation of Heaven in the Middle Ages , William Storm

(re)making The Gentleman: Genteel Masculinities And The Country Estate In The Novels Of Charlotte Smith, Jane Austen, And Elizabeth Gaskell , Shaunna Kay Wilkinson

Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013

Brides, Department Stores, Westerns, and Scrapbooks--The Everyday Lives of Teenage Girls in the 1940s , Carly Anger

Placed People: Rootedness in G. K. Chesterton, C. S. Lewis, and Wendell Berry , David Harden

Rhetorics Of Girlhood Trauma In Writing By Holly Goddard Jones, Joyce Carol Oates, Sandra Cisneros, And Jamaica Kincaid , Stephanie Marie Stella

Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012

A Victorian Christmas in Hell: Yuletide Ghosts and Necessary Pleasures in the Age of Capital , Brandon Chitwood

"Be-Holde the First Acte of this Tragedy" : Generic Symbiosis and Cross-Pollination in Jacobean Drama and the Early Modern Prose Novella , Karen Ann Zyck Galbraith

Pamela: Or, Virtue Reworded: The Texts, Paratexts, and Revisions that Redefine Samuel Richardson's Pamela , Jarrod Hurlbert

Violence and Masculinity in American Fiction, 1950-1975 , Magdalen McKinley

Gender Politics in the Novels of Eliza Haywood , Susan Muse

Destabilizing Tradition: Gender, Sexuality, and Postnational Identity in Four Novels by Irish Women, 1960-2000 , Sarah Nestor

Truth Telling: Testimony and Evidence in the Novels of Elizabeth Gaskell , Rebecca Parker Fedewa

Spirit of the Psyche: Carl Jung's and Victor White's Influence on Flannery O'Connor's Fiction , Paul Wakeman

Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011

Performing the Audience: Constructing Playgoing in Early Modern Drama , Eric Dunnum

Paule Marshall's Critique of Contemporary Neo-Imperialisms Through the Trope of Travel , Michelle Miesen Felix

Hermeneutics, Poetry, and Spenser: Augustinian Exegesis and the Renaissance Epic , Denna Iammarino-Falhamer

Encompassing the Intolerable: Laughter, Memory, and Inscription in the Fiction of John McGahern , John Keegan Malloy

Regional Consciousness in American Literature, 1860-1930 , Kelsey Louise Squire

The Ethics of Ekphrasis: The Turn to Responsible Rhetoric in Mid-Twentieth Century American Poetry , Joshua Scott Steffey

Theses/Dissertations from 2010 2010

Cognitive Architectures: Structures of Passion in Joanna Baillie's Dramas , Daniel James Bergen

On Trial: Restorative Justice in the Godwin-Wollstonecraft-Shelley Family Fictions , Colleen M. Fenno

Theses/Dissertations from 2009 2009

What's the point to eschatology : multiple religions and terminality in James Joyce's Finnegans wake , Martin R. Brick

Economizing Characters: Harriet Martineau and the Problems of Poverty in Victorian Literature, Culture and Law , Mary Colleen Willenbring

Submissions from 2008 2008

"An improbable fiction": The marriage of history and romance in Shakespeare's Henriad , Marcia Eppich-Harris

Bearing the Mark of the Social: Notes Towards a Cosmopolitan Bildungsroman , Megan M. Muthupandiyan

The Gothic Novel and the Invention of the Middle-Class Reader: Northanger Abbey As Case Study , Tenille Nowak

Not Just a Novel of Epic Proportions: Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man As Modern American Epic , Dana Edwards Prodoehl

Recovering the Radicals: Women Writers, Reform, and Nationalist Modes of Revolutionary Discourse , Mark J. Zunac

Theses/Dissertations from 2007 2007

"The Sweet and the Bitter": Death and Dying in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings , Amy M. Amendt-Raduege

The Games Men Play: Madness and Masculinity in Post-World War II American Fiction, 1946-1964 , Thomas P. Durkin

Denise Levertov: Through An Ecofeminist Lens , Katherine A. Hanson

The Wit of Wrestling: Devotional-Aesthetic Tradition in Christina Rossetti's Poetry , Maria M.E. Keaton

Genderless Bodies: Stigma and the Myth of Womanhood , Ellen M. Letizia

Envy and Jealousy in the Novels of the Brontës: A Synoptic Discernment , Margaret Ann McCann

Technologies of the Late Medieval Self: Ineffability, Distance, and Subjectivity in the Book of Margery Kempe , Crystal L. Mueller

"Finding-- a Map-- to That Place Called Home": The Journey from Silence to Recovery in Patrick McCabe's Carn and Breakfast on Pluto , Valerie A. Murrenus Pilmaier

Emily Dickinson's Ecocentric Pastoralism , Moon-ju Shin

The American Jeremiad in Civil War Literature , Jacob Hadley Stratman

Theses/Dissertations from 2006 2006

Literary Art in Times of Crisis: The Proto-Totalitarian Anxiety of Melville, James, and Twain , Matthew J. Darling

(Re) Writing Genre: Narrative Conventions and Race in the Novels of Toni Morrison , Jennifer Lee Jordan Heinert

"Amsolookly Kersse": Clothing in Finnegan's Wake , Catherine Simpson Kalish

"Do Your Will": Shakespeare's Use of the Rhetoric of Seduction in Four Plays , Jason James Nado

Woman in Emblem: Locating Authority in the Work and Identity of Katherine Philips (1632-1664) , Susan L. Stafinbil

When the Bough Breaks: Poetry on Abortion , Wendy A. Weaver

Theses/Dissertations from 2005 2005

Heroic Destruction: Shame and Guilt Cultures in Medieval Heroic Poetry , Karl E. Boehler

Poe and Early (Un)American Drama , Amy C. Branam

Grammars of Assent: Constructing Poetic Authority in An Age of Science , William Myles Carroll III

This Place is Not a Place: The Constructed Scene in the Works of Sir Walter Scott , Colin J. Marlaire

Cognitive Narratology: A Practical Approach to the Reader-Writer Relationship , Debra Ann Ripley

Theses/Dissertations from 2004 2004

Defoe and the Pirates: Function of Genre Conventions in Raiding Narratives , William J. Dezoma

Creative Discourse in the Eighteenth-Century Courtship Novel , Michelle Ruggaber Dougherty

Exclusionary Politics: Mourning and Modernism in the Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Amy Levy, and Charlotte Mew , Donna Decker Schuster

Theses/Dissertations from 2003 2003

Toward a Re-Formed Confession: Johann Gerhard's Sacred Meditations and "Repining Restlessnesse" in the Poetry of George Herbert , Erik P. Ankerberg

Idiographic Spaces: Representation, Ideology and Realism in the Postmodern British Novel , Gordon B. McConnell

Theses/Dissertations from 2002 2002

Reading into It: Wallace Stegner's Novelistic Sense of Time and Place , Colin C. Irvine

Brisbane and Beyond: Revising Social Capitalism in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America , Michael C. Mattek

Theses/Dissertations from 2001 2001

Christians and Mimics in W. B. Yeats' Collected Poems , Patrick Mulrooney

Renaissance Roles and the Process of Social Change , John Wieland

'Straunge Disguize': Allegory and Its Discontents in Spenser's Faerie Queene , Galina Ivanovna Yermolenko

Theses/Dissertations from 2000 2000

Reading American Women's Autobiography: Spheres of Identity, Spheres of Influence , Amy C. Getty

"Making Strange": The Art and Science of Selfhood in the Works of John Banville , Heather Maureen Moran

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English Theses and Dissertations

Theses/dissertations from 2023 2023.

Of Mētis and Cuttlefish: Employing Collective Mētis as a Theoretical Framework for Marginalized Communities , Justiss Wilder Burry

What on earth are we doing (?): A Field-Wide Exploration of Design Courses in TPC , Jessica L. Griffith

Organizations Ensuring Resilience: A Case Study of Cortez, Florida , Karla Ariel Maddox

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

Using Movie Clips to Understand Vivid-Phrasal Idioms’ Meanings , Rasha Salem S. Alghamdi

An Exercise in Exceptions: Personhood, Divergency, and Ableism in the STAR TREK Franchise , Jessica A. Blackman

Vulnerable Resistance in Victorian Women’s Writing , Stephanie A. Harper

Curricular Assemblages: Understanding Student Writing Knowledge (Re)circulation Across Genres , Adam Phillips

PAD Beyond the Classroom: Integrating PAD in the Scrum Workplace , Jade S. Weiss

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

Social Cues in Animated Pedagogical Agents for Second Language Learners: the Application of The Embodiment Principle in Video Design , Sahar M. Alyahya

A Field-Wide Examination of Cross-Listed Courses in Technical Professional Communication , Carolyn M. Gubala

Labor-Based Grading Contracts in the Multilingual FYC Classroom: Unpacking the Variables , Kara Kristina Larson

Land Goddesses, Divine Pigs, and Royal Tricksters: Subversive Mythologies and Imperialist Land Ownership Dispossession in Twentieth Century Irish and American Literature , Elizabeth Ricketts

Oppression, Resistance, and Empowerment: The Power Dynamics of Naming and Un-naming in African American Literature, 1794 to 2019 , Melissa "Maggie" Romigh

Generic Expectations in First Year Writing: Teaching Metadiscoursal Reflection and Revision Strategies for Increased Generic Uptake of Academic Writing , Kaelah Rose Scheff

Reframing the Gothic: Race, Gender, & Disability in Multiethnic Literature , Ashely B. Tisdale

Intersections of Race and Place in Short Fiction by New Orleans Gens de Couleur Libres , Adrienne D. Vivian

Mental Illness Diagnosis and the Construction of Stigma , Katie Lynn Walkup

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

Rhetorical Roundhouse Kicks: Tae Kwon Do Pumsae Practice and Non-Western Embodied Topoi , Spencer Todd Bennington

9/11 Then and Now: How the Performance of Memorial Rhetoric by Presidents Changes to Construct Heroes , Kristen M. Grafton

Kinesthetically Speaking: Human and Animal Communication in British Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century , Dana Jolene Laitinen

Exploring Refugee Students’ Second Language (L2) Motivational Selves through Digital Visual Representations , Nhu Le

Glamour in Contemporary American Cinema , Shauna A. Maragh

Instrumentalization Theory: An Analytical Heuristic for a Heightened Social Awareness of Machine Learning Algorithms in Social Media , Andrew R. Miller

Intercessory Power: A Literary Analysis of Ethics and Care in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon , Alice Walker’s Meridian , and Toni Cade Bambara’s Those Bones Are Not My Child , Kelly Mills

The Power of Non-Compliant Logos: A New Materialist Approach to Comic Studies , Stephanie N. Phillips

Female Identity and Sexuality in Contemporary Indonesian Novels , Zita Rarastesa

"The Fiery Furnaces of Hell": Rhetorical Dynamism in Youngstown, OH , Joshua M. Rea

“We developed solidarity”: Family, Race, Identity, and Space-Time in Recent Multiethnic U.S. American Fiction , Kimber L. Wiggs

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

Remembrance of a Wound: Ethical Mourning in the Works of Ana Menéndez, Elías Miguel Muñoz, and Junot Díaz , José Aparicio

Taking an “Ecological Turn” in the Evaluation of Rhetorical Interventions , Peter Cannon

New GTA’s and the Pre-Semester Orientation: The Need for Informed Refinement , Jessica L. Griffith

Reading Rape and Answering with Empathy: A New Approach to Sexual Assault Education for College Students , Brianna Jerman

The Karoo , The Veld , and the Co-Op: The Farm as Microcosm and Place for Change in Schreiner, Lessing, and Head , Elana D. Karshmer

"The weak are meat, and the strong do eat"; Representations of the Slaughterhouse in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature , Stephanie Lance

Language of Carnival: How Language and the Carnivalesque Challenge Hegemony , Yulia O. Nekrashevich

Queer Authority in Old and Middle English Literature , Elan J. Pavlinich

Because My Garmin Told Me To: A New Materialist Study of Agency and Wearable Technology , Michael Repici

No One Wants to Read What You Write: A Contextualized Analysis of Service Course Assignments , Tanya P. Zarlengo

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

Beauty and the Beasts: Making Places with Literary Animals of Florida , Haili A. Alcorn

The Medievalizing Process: Religious Medievalism in Romantic and Victorian Literature , Timothy M. Curran

Seeing Trauma: The Known and the Hidden in Nineteenth-Century Literature , Alisa M. DeBorde

Analysis of User Interfaces in the Sharing Economy , Taylor B. Johnson

Border-Crossing Travels Across Literary Worlds: My Shamanic Conscientization , Scott Neumeister

The Spectacle of The Bomb: Rhetorical Analysis of Risk of The Nevada Test Site in Technical Communication, Popular Press, and Pop Culture , Tiffany Wilgar

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

Traveling Women and Consuming Place in Eighteenth-Century Travel Letters and Journals , Cassie Patricia Childs

“The Nations of the Field and Wood”: The Uncertain Ontology of Animals in Eighteenth-Century British Literature , J. Kevin Jordan

Modern Mythologies: The Epic Imagination in Contemporary Indian Literature , Sucheta Kanjilal

Science in the Sun: How Science is Performed as a Spatial Practice , Natalie Kass

Body as Text: Physiognomy on the Early English Stage , Curtis Le Van

Tensions Between Democracy and Expertise in the Florida Keys , Elizabeth A. Loyer

Institutional Review Boards and Writing Studies Research: A Justice-Oriented Study , Johanna Phelps-Hillen

The Spirit of Friendship: Girlfriends in Contemporary African American Literature , Tangela La'Chelle Serls

Aphra Behn on the Contemporary Stage: Behn's Feminist Legacy and Woman-Directed Revivals of The Rover , Nicole Elizabeth Stodard

(Age)ncy in Composition Studies , Alaina Tackitt

Constructing Health Narratives: Patient Feedback in Online Communities , Katie Lynn Walkup

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

Rupturing the World of Elite Athletics: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of the Suspension of the 2011 IAAF Regulations on Hyperandrogenism , Ella Browning

Shaping Climate Citizenship: The Ethics of Inclusion in Climate Change Communication and Policy , Lauren E. Cagle

Drop, Cover, and Hold On: Analyzing FEMA's Risk Communication through Visual Rhetoric , Samantha Jo Cosgrove

Material Expertise: Applying Object-oriented Rhetoric in Marine Policy , Zachary Parke Dixon

The Non-Identical Anglophone Bildungsroman : From the Categorical to the De-Centering Literary Subject in the Black Atlantic , Jarad Heath Fennell

Instattack: Instagram and Visual Ad Hominem Political Arguments , Sophia Evangeline Gourgiotis

Hospitable Climates: Representations of the West Indies in Eighteenth-Century British Literature , Marisa Carmen Iglesias

Chosen Champions: Medieval and Early Modern Heroes as Postcolonial Reactions to Tensions between England and Europe , Jessica Trant Labossiere

Science, Policy, and Decision Making: A Case Study of Deliberative Rhetoric and Policymaking for Coastal Adaptation in Southeast Florida , Karen Patricia Langbehn

A New Materialist Approach to Visual Rhetoric in PhotoShopBattles , Jonathan Paul Ray

Tracing the Material: Spaces and Objects in British and Irish Modernist Novels , Mary Allison Wise

Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015

Representations of Gatsby: Ninety Years of Retrospective , Christine Anne Auger

Robust, Low Power, Discrete Gate Sizing , Anthony Joseph Casagrande

Wrestling with Angels: Postsecular Contemporary American Poetry , Paul T. Corrigan

#networkedglobe: Making the Connection between Social Media and Intercultural Technical Communication , Laura Anne Ewing

Evidence of Things Not Seen: A Semi-Automated Descriptive Phrase and Frame Analysis of Texts about the Herbicide Agent Orange , Sarah Beth Hopton

'She Shall Not Be Moved': Black Women's Spiritual Practice in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, Beloved, Paradise, and Home , Rondrea Danielle Mathis

Relational Agency, Networked Technology, and the Social Media Aftermath of the Boston Marathon Bombing , Megan M. Mcintyre

Now, We Hear Through a Voice Darkly: New Media and Narratology in Cinematic Art , James Anthony Ricci

Navigating Collective Activity Systems: An Approach Towards Rhetorical Inquiry , Katherine Jesse Royce

Women's Narratives of Confinement: Domestic Chores as Threads of Resistance and Healing , Jacqueline Marie Smith

Domestic Spaces in Transition: Modern Representations of Dwelling in the Texts of Elizabeth Bowen , Shannon Tivnan

Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014

Paradise Always Already Lost: Myth, Memory, and Matter in English Literature , Elizabeth Stuart Angello

Overcoming the 5th-Century BCE Epistemological Tragedy: A Productive Reading of Protagoras of Abdera , Ryan Alan Blank

Acts of Rebellion: The Rhetoric of Rogue Cinema , Adam Breckenridge

Material and Textual Spaces in the Poetry of Montagu, Leapor, Barbauld, and Robinson , Jessica Lauren Cook

Decolonizing Shakespeare: Race, Gender, and Colonialism in Three Adaptations of Three Plays by William Shakespeare , Angela Eward-Mangione

Risk of Compliance: Tracing Safety and Efficacy in Mef-Lariam's Licensure , Julie Marie Gerdes

Beyond Performance: Rhetoric, Collective Memory, and the Motive of Imprinting Identity , Brenda M. Grau

Subversive Beauty - Victorian Bodies of Expression , Lisa Michelle Hoffman-Reyes

Integrating Reading and Writing For Florida's ESOL Program , George Douglas Mcarthur

Responsibility and Responsiveness in the Novels of Ann Radcliffe and Mary Shelley , Katherine Marie McGee

Ghosts, Orphans, and Outlaws: History, Family, and the Law in Toni Morrison's Fiction , Jessica Mckee

The "Defective" Generation: Disability in Modernist Literature , Deborah Susan Mcleod

Science Fiction/Fantasy and the Representation of Ethnic Futurity , Joy Ann Sanchez-Taylor

Hermes, Technical Communicator of the Gods: The Theory, Design, and Creation of a Persuasive Game for Technical Communication , Eric Walsh

Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013

Rhetorical Spirits: Spirituality as Rhetorical Device in New Age Womanist of Color Texts , Ronisha Witlee Browdy

Disciplinarity, Crisis, and Opportunity in Technical Communication , Jason Robert Carabelli

The Terror of Possibility: A Re-evaluation and Reconception of the Sublime Aesthetic , Kurt Fawver

Unbearable Weight, Unbearable Witness: The (Im)possibility of Witnessing Eating Disorders in Cyberspace , Kristen Nicole Gay

the post- 9/11 aesthetic: repositioning the zombie film in the horror genre , Alan Edward Green, Jr.

An(other) Rhetoric: Rhetoric, Ethics, and the Rhetorical Tradition , Kathleen Sandell Hardesty

Mapping Dissertation Genre Ecology , Kate Lisbeth Pantelides

Dead Man's Switch: Disaster Rhetorics in a Posthuman Age , Daniel Patrick Richards

"Of That Transfigured World" : Realism and Fantasy in Victorian Literature , Benjamin Jude Wright

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English Department Masters Theses Collection

Theses from 2023 2023.

A New Language: Apophatic Discourse in John Donne's "Devotions" , Jessica M. Farris, English

Theses from 2022 2022

An Economy of Care: George Eliot's Middlemarch and Feminist Care Ethics , Madison V. Newman, English

Marked at Sea: Race, Class, and Tattoo Culture in Melville's Early Sea Fiction , Connell D. Swenson, English

Theses from 2020 2020

A Stylometric Analysis of Climate Change Fiction , Nina Lorenz, English

Theses from 2018 2018

The Publication and Initial Reception of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights: Victorian Gender Norms and Intertextual Modern Interpretation , Juliana Ohrenberger, English

Theses from 2017 2017

The Unreliable Narrator: Simplifying the Device and Exploring its Role in Autobiography , James Ferry, English

Theses from 2016 2016

The Ladies and the Women , Caroline V. Jauch, English

Theses from 2014 2014

Studies in the Production of Historical Fiction: Considering Prestructure in The Red Badge of Courage , Janie Gray, English

Soft Spot , Joanna Novak, English

Theses from 2013 2013

That Map Feeling , Kimberly Abruzzo, English

The Montaigne Result , Hannah Brooks-motl, English

The Grave Keepers , Elizabeth A. Byrne, English

Hotel Warren , Matthew D. Charlton, English

Out Here , Michele Christle, English

No Fear Here , Bryan T. Comer, English

Mammal Room , Kristen A. Evans, English

The Constitution , Brian j. Foley, English

The Riots , Leora S. Fridman, English

Out of Season , Aaron E. Frigard, English

Six Stories , Lech Harris, English

Ava, A Novel , Jacqueline Blair Holt, English

Rough Belief , Emily R. Hunt, English

Still Fires , Rachael E. Katz, English

I Came To in Conflagration , Katelyn S. Litterer, English

"i am on the Coloured Side": The Roles of the White Suitor and the Black Mother in the Tragic Mulatta Narrative , Shannon D. Luders Manuel, English

Bay of Fundy , Carlin Mackie, English

Cities I've Never Lived In , Sara Majka, English

Union Square , Sarah K. Malone, English

The Atlanta Motor Speedway is on Fire , Gregory Carl Purcell, English

Theses from 2012 2012

A Rose Has No Teeth When You Hold It So , David R. Bartone, English

Of Zebra , Sarah W. Boyer, English

Creatures Are Kind , Angela M. Buck, English

Flood Bloom , Caroline Cabrera, English

The Human Error , Ngoc Doan, English

A Heart, Beating, Hard , Lauren F. Goodman, English

Sometimes the Air in the Room Goes Missing , Dana Green, English

All the Good in the World Starts Now , Anne C. Holmes, English

A Daytime Moon , Anne Kleeman, English

In Between Days , Andrea Lawlor, English

Hipster , Mark Leidner, English

A Ceiling of Sky , Su-yee Lin, English

Gloria Fama , Kelin E. Loe, English

Occasionally Disparate Stories , Ryan A. Macdonald, English

Rules for an Old Children's Game: After the Paintings of Egon Schiele , Jenny Mar, English

The Closest Thing , Jessica Miele, English

Shiva's Dance , Abha E. Phoboo, English

We Are Alive and Know What To Be Scared of , Michael S. Rosenberg, English

In the Colonies , Nicolas A. Sansone, English

Soldier On , Gale Marie Thompson, English

Falling Rock , Heather S. Varnadore, English

Solid Gold October , Christopher S. Ward, English

The Book of Hats , Dov S. Zeller, English

Theses from 2011 2011

Everything Could Be Different , Joel Anderson, English

The Winter War , Jensen Beach, English

We Came and We Brought Our Own Furniture , Luke J. Bloomfield, English

Throw Yourself into the Prairie , Francesca Chabrier, English

New Revised Standard , Jack Christian, English

Forgive Everyone Everything , Adam P. Cogbill, English

How to Catch a Coyote , Christine Crutchfield, English

The Gun at Kamurgersky , Emily F. Culliton, English

Deer Jump Fences, Antelope Thread , Jeffrey A. Downey, English

Escape from the Haunted City of Fright and Doom! , Kyle Flak, English

Skin , Kim Hagerich, English

Victory , Benjamin J. Kopel, English

My Favorite Ice Cream Shop Has Been Leveled to the Ground , John Maradik, English

Reptile House , Rosalyn H. Mclean, English

Three Act Drama , Luke Phelan, English

When Grass on a Mountain Takes Fire, There Is Great Light , A'dora Phillips, English

Bad Blood: The Southern Family in the Work of William Faulkner , Neil T. Phillips, English

The Mounting Evidence of our Decline , Roger (boomer) Pinches, English

They Dragged Them through the Streets , Hilary Plum, English

At the Checkpoint to Sleep , Henk Rossouw, English

The Orchard Green And Every Color , Zachary Savich, English

Trumpet , Matthew Suss, English

50% , Jonathan Tosch, English

Theses from 2010 2010

Mama's Boy , Jamie t. Berger, English

The Legend of Hugo el Maximo , Alejandro E. Cuellar, English

Every Mostly Great Man in the State , Gabe Durham, English

Valparaiso, Round the Horn , Madeline S. Ffitch, English

Open Season , Jessica L. Fjeld, English

Breaking News , Matthew M. Gagnon, English

Pee On Water and Other Stories , Rachel B. Glaser, English

The Adventures of Eagle Feather: A Collection of Stories , Luke B. Goebel, English

The Out of Way , Katie F. Hoffman, English

Good Time Park , Mark M. Koyama, English

The Silhouettes , Lily Ladewig, English

The Burts , Jason Larson, English

Show of Wonders , Brian Mihok, English

Frog City , Ata Moharreri, English

(Evol)ution Is Love Spelled Backwards , Erica Monteiro, English

Garbage and Marble , Emily Rae, English

Things Are Looking Up , Ian Wang, English

Float the River, Sink the Sea , Matthew P. Weingast, English

Look! Look! Feathers , Michael A. Young, English

Theses from 2009 2009

This This Here , Sara Jaffe, English

Crosslands , James C. Schlatter, English

The Rediscovery of South African Cultural Identity in Zakes Mda's Ways of Dying , Kiren M. Valjee, English

Theses from 2008 2008

Head Heart Hand , Lyndsey Kara Cohen, English

The Confessions , Christopher N. Deweese, English

The Things a Body Does When It Thinks It's Going to Die , Aaron M. Hellem, English

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Recent Theses and Dissertations

Recent phd dissertations.

• Mohammed Alhamili, The Emergence of Arab Nation-State Nationalism as an Alternative to the Supranational Concept of Ummah
• Anthony Buenning, Shakespeare and Early Modern Trauma
• Jay Gentry, The World We Want to Leave Behind: White Supremacy in the Apocalyptic Genres Past, Present, and Future
• Jonathan Duckworth, The Sometime Joy
• Maricruz Gomez, Chicana Decolonial Feminism: An Interconnectedness of Being
• Cassia Hameline, Stay for the Heron: Essays
• Kat Moore, Have You Ever Had a Broken Heart?
• Aza Pace, Her Terrible Splendor
• Travis Scott Ray, Stories and "Burning Man"
• Megan Arlett, Louisiana Saturday Nights
• Anum Aziz, Mapping the Feminist Movement in Pakistani Literature: Towards a Feminist Future
• Joshua Jones, Somehow Holier
• Minadora Macheret, Dear Bone Mother
• Takuya Matsuda, This Man is Your Friend: Knowing "Us" and "Them" in Ethnic American Literature of the Pacific Theater
• Lauren Rogener, Cultures of Elite Theatre in the Elizabethan and Jacobean Masque: Four Incarnations
• Andrew Smith, The Construction of the Fringe Extraterrestrial of Postmodernity
• Carly Susser, Molt
• Kevin West, Portal
• Brett Armes, The Ends of Smaller Worlds
• Rebecca Bernard, In the Way of Family
• Natalie Clark, Defining and Teaching Courtliness with Animals and Clothing in the Lais of Marie de France
• Brian Clifton, Wrong Feast
• Andrew Koch, Some Names for Empty Space
• Shannon Sawyer, True War Stories: Lies, Truth, and Recovery in the Non/Fiction of Vietnam
• Katherine Schneider, Body Doubles: Materiality and Gender Non-Binarism in Victorian Supernatural Fiction
• Stephanie Vastine, Queerness, Futurity, and Desire in American Literature: Improvising Identity in the Shadow of Empire
• Aurelia von Tress, Revolutionaries and Prophets: Post-Oppositionality in Kathleen Alcalá's Sonoran Desert Trilogy
• Sarah Warren, Oklahoma History
• Ruby Al-Qasem, Resurrection Attempts: Essays
• Stevie Edwards, Still House
• Sanderia Faye, Eleven
• Natalie Foster, Winter
• Allyson Jones, Just Ask: A Memoir of My Father
• Matthew Morton, Improvisation without Accompaniment and What Passes Here for Mountains
• Sebastian Paramo, Where We Split
• James Redmond, Because You Previously Liked or Played
• Iqra Shagufta, Postmodernity and Pakistani Postmodern Literature
• Daniel Stuart, Stalking Dickens: Predatory Disturbances in the Novels of Charles Dickens
• Virginia Wood, Tigers Born in the Same Year
• Conor Burke, Given That the Body Was Made
• Justin Carter, Brazos
• Cheri Paris Edwards, Your Blues Ain't Like Mine:Voices from the Other Side of the Color Line
• Kimberly Garza, The Last Karankawas: Stories
• Meghan Taylor Johnson, Poor Things: Objects, Ownership, and the Underclasses in American Literature, 1868-1935
• Ross Wilcox, Union: A Novel
• Spencer Hyde, Let It Run
• Nick Lu, Constructing Taiwan: Taiwanese Literature and National Identity
• Jessica Murray, Notes for the Manual Assembly
• Clint Peters, The Divine Coming of the Light
• Jeff Pickell, Jeff Pickell: New and Selected
• Timothy Regetz, Lollardy and Eschatology: English Literature c. 1380-1430
• Charlie Ricciardelli, The Hoboken War Bride: A Novel
• Brian Tatum, Rearranging an Infinite Universe: Literary Misprision and Manipulations of Space and Time, 1750-1850
• Heidi Cephus, Corporeal Judgment in Sheakpeare's Plays
• Trista Edwards, Spectral Evidence
• Anthony Cole Jeffrey, The Aesthetics of Sin: Beauty in Early Modern English Literature
• Tana Juko, Misrecognized and Misplaced: Race Performed in African American Literature, 1900-2015
• Darcy Lewis, Xenotopia: Death and Displacement in the Landscape of Nineteenth-Century American Authorship
• Nick McRae, Inscrutable House
• Amber Pagel, "How Can We Know the Dancer from the Dance?": Cognitive Poetics and the Poetry of William Butler Yeats
• Timothy Ponce, The Hybrid Hero of Early Modern English Literature: A Synthesis of Classical and Contemplative Heroism
• Karl Zuehlke, Momentarium

Recent MA Theses

• Xaviera Hernandez, Mexican Goodbye
• Caleb Kunasek, The Colonial Subject in the Early British Novel: Revisiting Colonial Captivity in Robinson Crusoe
• John Brandt, "Before This Memory Makes Sense": Essays
• Joel Najera, Beyond the Hold: The Evolution of the Ship in African American Literature
• Andrea Perez, Death Date
• Sara Ulery, Rein of Renegades
• Kaitlyn Brown, Exploitation, Justification and Overcoming through Voice: Exploring American Slavery and the Slave Narrative in "The Handmaid's Tale"
• Cade Mason, "Engine Running": Essays
• Martin Ramirez, "The Sandbox" and Other Short Stories
• Olivia Trotter, Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games Trilogy: How Society of Spectacle Bred the Mockingjay
• Conor Flannery, Collected Stories
• Zachary Kusch, A Century of Ash
• Garrett Vesely, Mortal Ghosts
• Laura Allen, Driving Lessons and Other Stories
• WIlliam Ross Irvin, Life Holders
• Hunter Jernigan, Running from My Youth: Essays
• Benjamin Smith, "A Very Fine Piece of Writing": Parnell and the Joycean Text, 1905-1922
• Morgan Inigo Smith, Flotsam: Men in Isolation
• Leah Tieger, Animals Alive and Dead
• Jaya Wagle, Homeland/Split
• Jessica Beattie, Second Life, Second Chance
• Caleb Braun, Developer
• Lauren Pilcher, "A Kind of Ghost"
• Sarah Ridley , That Every Christian May be Suited: Isaac Watts's Hymns in the Writings of Early Mohegan Writers, Samson Occom and Joseph Johnson
• Cary Siegfried, "Failure to Yield": Essays
• Amanda Yanowski , Off Main Street: Stories

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The Thesis Project

Students completing a thesis project should familiarize themselves with both this webpage and the Graduate School’s webpage on academic resources and policies . They should also be aware that the approval and submission of a thesis is a multi-step process involving both the Department of English and the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences.

All institutional policies, procedures, and academic forms involving thesis submission are available on the Graduate School’s webpage,  “Dissertation, Doctoral Project, and Thesis Information.”

Below you will find a detailed breakdown of the preparation involved in beginning serious work on your critical, multimodal, or public outreach thesis project, and on the M.A. Thesis Seminar, as well as submission instructions once your work is complete.

Departmental guidelines on writing the thesis are also described below.

    Preparing to Write a Thesis

Students should register for the M.A. Thesis Seminar to be taken in their third semester. By the end of their second semester, they must identify a general topic or focus for their thesis project. Around the mid-point of their second semester, students will be asked to submit an informal thesis prospectus that details the interest and scope of the thesis. The Director of Graduate Studies and Program Administrator will use this prospectus to match students with their advisor and second reader. Students should plan to devote the semester break between their second and third semesters to serious preparatory work for their project.

Before you begin writing:

• View Thesis Template for Mac
• View Thesis Template for PC
• Complete and submit the  Thesis/Doctoral/Dissertation Proposal Form  to the Program Administrator by or before early December of your third semester.

    Writing the Thesis

Options for the thesis include critical and scholarly work, as well as multimodal and public outreach projects. The program expects theses to reflect original research, analysis, and writing with considerable depth and complexity appropriate to Master’s level work. As such, scholarly and critical theses should fall between 15,000–22,000 words , where 1 page = approximately 250 words in length. Equivalent in scope to the scholarly and critical thesis, a  multimodal, and/or public outreach thesis project should include a written rationale of at least 7,500–10,000 words  in length. Most students also build out the latter thesis projects using digital tools; however, the public outreach thesis option does not require previous technical expertise.

Research and design of thesis projects will take up the bulk of the work in the M.A. Thesis Seminar in the fall, including submission of the Thesis Proposal by early December; students are expected to continue working to design and polish their work independently in the spring of year two. Students work with their advisor to complete the thesis by the Department of English and Graduate School deadlines.

Complete first drafts of the thesis are due to both the advisor and the second reader by a date established by the Director of Graduate Studies. Students will also schedule a two-hour thesis defense session with the advisor and second reader. A signed  Master’s Thesis Reviewers Report Form  should be submitted  a week before the scheduled defense  to the Program Administrator. More information about the thesis defense will be distributed to students, advisors, and second readers over the weeks leading up to spring break.

The outcome of the thesis defense will determine how much additional work the student will need to do before submitting the final version of the thesis project for approval by the advisor and the program. Students are expected to abide by the University’s honor code and should review the Graduate School’s policies on Academic Integrity .

    Submitting the Thesis

While the vast majority of M.A. English students will graduate in May, it is possible to submit a thesis and graduate in either August or December. Students must submit the finished thesis to the Director of Graduate Studies (DGS) only after it has been approved and signed by the thesis advisor. The DGS will not read theses that have not been thoroughly and finally corrected, revised, and approved by the thesis advisor.

Please note: As of April 2020, our department is using an electronic signature platform—DocuSign—for the forms listed below.

After you have completed the final revision:

• Submit your thesis to your advisor and second reader.
• Sign the electronic  Master’s Thesis Cover Sheet  and  Electronic Thesis & Dissertation (ETD) Release Form  sent by the Program Manager via DocuSign. Students should determine the deadline of their thesis based on the month in which they wish to graduate. 
• Once you have been notified that the DGS has approved your thesis, follow the Graduate School’s procedure for official submission via ProQuest. Please keep in mind that it is necessary to submit your thesis for review in advance of the listed deadline.

The Graduate School meticulously reviews all submitted thesis projects. Students must pay careful attention to grammar, punctuation, spelling, and margins, or the Graduate School may not accept their theses. The final version of the thesis must be proofread carefully in order to pass the Graduate School’s review. Neither the Director of Graduate Studies nor the thesis advisor is responsible for proofreading the thesis.

    Thesis Defense Cycle Timeline: Spring 2024

Please note that this timeline is subject to change as the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences finalizes its schedule for the Fall semester.

Monday, March 11: Students must submit their complete thesis draft to both their advisor and second reader.

Monday, March 18 – Wednesday, March 27: Students must complete their thesis defense. Students should schedule a 90-minute time block with their advisor and second reader, even though the defense may not take all of that time. Note: One week before their scheduled defense, students must submit their Master’s Thesis Reviewers Report Form to the Program Administrator via DocuSign. After the scheduled defense, the student’s advisor and second reader will complete the Thesis Defense Report Form and submit the form to the Program Administrator via DocuSign.

Last Week of March, First Days of April: Students must complete required revisions to their thesis.

Tuesday, April 2: Students must submit their revised thesis to their advisor for feedback in advance of review by the Director of Graduate Studies.

Wednesday, April 10th: Students must submit the final version of their thesis to the Director of Graduate Studies for review and approval. Upon approval, students will submit the Cover Sheet and Electronic Thesis & Dissertation (ETD) Release Form to the Program Administrator via DocuSign.

In the event that a student cannot meet a posted deadline, they must reach out to the Program Administrator ( [email protected] ) and the Director of Graduate Studies to request an extension to ensure that they are on track to meet the Graduate School deadline.

Friday, April 19th: The deadline established by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences for students to have uploaded their thesis to ProQuest.

In practice, students have developed a wide range of scholarly and critical thesis projects . Here are some ideas, with links to recent theses. If you’d like to view examples of multimodal and/or public outreach projects, continue scrolling to view the section below.

Freedom Seeking and Self-Making in Twentieth Century Black Women’s Literature

Adapting The Juice: Performances of Legal Authority through Representations of the O.J. Simpson Trial

Fairy Tale Bildungsroman: Charlotte Brontë’s Deployment of Fairy Tale Tropes and Narrative Logic in  Jane Eyre

“Stories Can Save Us”: Writing as Therapy In War Literature, Poetry, and Memoir

No Respecter of ‘Place, Persons, Or Time’: Festivity as Coercive Power in  Twelfth Night  and  The Puritan Widow

And They Lived Happily Ever After. The End? Postfeminism and the Rebranding of the Disney Princesses

Cyberspace and the Post-Cyberpunk Decentering of Anthropocentrism

The Grammar of Ethics in  Paradise Lost

Pleasure, Reading: Literacy, Sexuality and Empowerment in Queer Chicano Narrative

The Infinite Frontier: Imperialism, Frontierism and Nostalgia in World of Warcraft

Queer Sexual and Textual Practice: The Postmodernist Poetics of Pynchon’s  Gravity’s Rainbow

Additional topics can be found via the University’s  DigitialGeorgetown  repository.

In practice, students have developed a wide range of multimodal and/or public outreach projects . Here are some ideas, with links to recent theses.

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English Theses and Dissertations

This collection contains theses and dissertations from the Department of English, collected from the Scholarship@Western Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

Theses/Dissertations from 2024 2024

Listening to "Silence": Alternative Modes of Communication in Korean and Korean American Women's Literature , Judy Joo-Ae Bae

The Ecology of American Noir , Katrina Younes

Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023

Poetics in Transit: Indigenous, Diasporic, and Settler Women’s Contemporary Writing in Canada , Christine Campana

Bodies of Silence and Space: Victimhood, Complicity, and Resistance in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale , Sana H. Mufti

Capacious Feminism: Intimacy and Otherness in Mina Loy's Poetry , Elise Ottavino

Romantic Citation and the Receding Future , Andrew Sargent

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

Love-Worlds: Performance of Love as Decolonial Worldmaking in India and in Indigenous Theatre on Northern Turtle Island , Sheetala Bhat

Diaspora and Abjection of a Nowhere in Particular: Theorizing the Hyphen in Iranian-Canadian Narratives , Mahdiyeh Ezzatikarami

Nostalgic Metafiction: The Adventure Fiction of Stevenson, Kipling, and Conrad , Hanji Lee

Men under Microscopes: “Medical Gaze” and Homeostasis in Victorian Realist Literature , Nida Rashid

The Time Helix: Nonlinear Narrative Structures and the Paradox of Delayed Simultaneity , Jaclyn A. Reed

Representing Women and the 1947 Partition in Hindi Cinema and Television (1948-Present) , Nidhi Shrivastava

Buried Feelings, Standing Stones: Secularity, Animism, and Late-Victorian Pagan Revivalism , Jeff Swim

Speaking Chastity: Female Speech, Silence, and the Strategic Performance of Chaste Identity in Early Modern Drama and Women's Writing , Lisa Templin

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

Unsettling Sympathy: Indigenous and Settler Conversations from the Great Lakes Region, 1820-1860 , Erin Akerman

Unmade and Unmanned Men: Reading Traumatized Masculinity in Late Nineteenth-Century British Adventure Fiction through the Lens of the Indian “Mutiny” of 1857 , Madison A. Bettle

Artificial Frontiers, Simulated Indigeneity: Western Big-Budget Open World Games and the Settler Colonial Imaginary , Adam Bowes

Bible Translations And Literary Responses: Re-reading Missionary Interventions In Africa Through Local Perspectives , Chinelo Ezenwa

Capital Distress: Productive Citizenship and Mental Health in Adolescent Literature , Jeremy TL Johnston

Refusing Interpretation: Waste Ecologies in Victorian Fiction and Prose , Nahmi Lee

Resonances: An Examination of Republication Through Four Case Studies , F S. Nakhaie

“The seal set on our nationhood”: Canadian Literary Responses to the South African War (1899-1902) , Alicia C. Robinet

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

Exquisite Corpses: Markedness, Gender, and Death in Video Games , Meghan Blythe Adams

Critiquing Psychiatry, Narrating Trauma: Madness in Twentieth-Century North American Literature and Film , Sarah Blanchette

Duration and Depravity: Religious and Secular Temporality in Puritanism and the American Gothic , Taylor Kraayenbrink

Sacred Mnemonics in Late Medieval England: ars memoria in the Hagiography of Osbern Bokenham , Erica C. Leighton

Malory, Chivalric Medievalism, and New Imperialist Masculinity , Andrew LiVecchi

Land, Water, and Stars: Relationality in Anishinaabe and Diasporic Literature , Maral Moradipour

Atmosphere and Religious Experience in American Transcendentalism , Thomas Sorensen

Material Witness: Occult Affects in the Mystery Fiction of the Fin de Siècle , Thomas Matthew Stuart

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

Semantic Shift in Old English and Old Saxon Identity Terms , David A. Carlton

Financial Frictions: Money and Materiality in American Literary Naturalism, 1890-1925 , Patricia Luedecke

Criminal Masculinities and the Newgate Novel , Taylor R. Richardson

Everywhere, Animals Appear: Species, Race, and the State in Literature from the Raj to Global India , Jason Sandhar

Antichrist in the Shadows: Biblical Allusion in Richard III and Macbeth , Curtis J. Simpson

Georgic Political Economy: Emergent Forms of Order and Liberal Statecraft in Eighteenth-Century British Poetry , Jonathan Stillman

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

Agnotologies of Modernism: Knowing the Unknown in Lewis, Woolf, Pound, and Joyce , Jeremy Colangelo

Species Panic: Interspecies Erotics in Post-1900 American Literature , David Huebert

Unread: The (Un)published Texts of Romanticism , Marc D. Mazur

Narrative Immunities: The Logic of Infection and Defense in American Speculative Fiction , Riley R. McDonald

Buddhism in Progress: Ecstasy, Eternity, and Zen Sickness in the English Romantics , Logan M. Rohde

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

Romantic Metasubjectivity: Rethinking the Romantic Subject Through Schelling and Jung , Gord Barentsen

The Hermetic Enigma of a Protean Poet: Gnosis and the Puritanical Error in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis , Luke Jennings

Literary Language Revitalization: nêhiyawêwin, Indigenous Poetics, and Indigenous Languages in Canada , Emily L. Kring

The Unknown Soldier in the 21st Century: War Commemoration in Contemporary Canadian Cultural Production , Andrew Edward Lubowitz

Islam's Low Mutterings at High Tide: Enslaved African Muslims in American Literature , Zeinab McHeimech

Appearing Live: Spectatorship, Affect, and Liveness in Contemporary British Performance , Meghan O'Hara

Spaces of Collapse: Psychological Deterioration, Subjectivity, and Spatiality in American Narratives , Andrew Papaspyrou

No Delicate Flower: Victorian Floral Symbolism’s Mediation of Social Issues in Selected Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Alfred Tennyson, John Ruskin, and Isabella Bird Bishop , Christine Penhale

Waiting for God: John Milton’s Millenarianism Reconsidered , Rainerio George Ramos

Terrorism, Islamization, and Human Rights: How Post 9/11 Pakistani English Literature Speaks to the World , Shazia Sadaf

Crossing the Line: Censorship, Borders, and the Queer Poetics of Disclosure in English-Canadian Writing, 1967-2000 , Kevin T. Shaw

Imagining the Unimagined Metropolis: Privilege, Liminality, and Peripheral Communities in the Contemporary Urban Situation , Colton R. Sherman

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

Rhetorical Ductus in Chaucerian Ekphrasis , Emily Laura Pez

"The Sense of An Ending": The Destabilizing Effect of Performance Closure in Shakespeare's Plays , Megan Lynn Selinger

Of the Last Verses in the Book: Old Age, Caregiving, and Early Modern Literature , Emily M. Sugerman

Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015

Reading the Canadian Battlefield at Quebec, Queenston, Batoche, and Vimy , Rebecca Campbell

Turning to Food: Religious Contact and Conversion in Early Modern Drama , Fatima F. Ebrahim

Reading Boredom in Tennyson, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris, and Christina Rossetti , Rebekah Ann Lamb

Creating Difference: The Legal Production of Race in American Slavery , Shaun N. Ramdin

About Telling: Ghosts and Hauntings in Contemporary Drama and Poetry , Leif Erik Schenstead-Harris

The Aesthetics of Romantic Hellenism , Derek Shank

Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014

The Luminous Detail: The Evolution of Ezra Pound's Linguistic and Aesthetic Theories from 1910-1915 , John J. Allaster

"Rank Corpuscles": Soil and Identity in Eighteenth-Century Representations , Nina Patricia Budabin McQuown

The Romantic Posthuman and Posthumanities , Elizabeth Effinger

Transnational Conversations: The New Yorker and Canadian Short Story Writers , Nadine Fladd

The Book Beautiful: Aestheticism, Materiality, and Queer Books , Frederick D. King

Graphic Drama: Reading Shakespeare in the Comics Medium , Russell H. McConnell

Diffuse Connections: Making Sense of Smell in Canadian Diasporic Women's Writing , Stephanie Oliver

“Companions of the Flame”: Concealment and Revelation in H.D.’s Trilogy , Cam Riddell

Dirty Modernism: Ecological Objects in American Poetry , Michael D. Sloane

EECOLOGY: (pata)physical taoism in e. e. cummings’s poetry , Nathan B. TeBokkel

Fatal Attraction: The Fetishized Image of the Fatal Woman as Gothic Double , Margaret Anne Young

Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013

Storied Truths: Contemporary Canadian and Indigenous Childhood Trauma Narratives , Michelle Coupal

Feeling With Imagination: Sympathy and Postwar American Poetry , Timothy A. DeJong

After Dark: Reading Canadian Literature in a Light-Polluted Age , David S. Hickey

Dark Sympathy: Desiring the Other in Godwin, Coleridge, and Shelley , Jeffrey T. King

Strata, Soma, Psyche: Narrative and the Imagination in the Nineteenth-Century Science of Lyell, Darwin, and Freud , Pascale M. Manning

Uncommon Ecology: Reading the Romantic Oikos , Shalon Noble

"Radiant Imperfection": The Interconnected Writing Lives of Robert Bringhurst, Dennis Lee, Tim Lilburn, Don McKay, and Jan Zwicky , Kostantina Northrup

Preposterous America: The Language of Inversion in Thoreau, Melville, and Hawthorne , Rasmus R. Simonsen

Metaphor and Metanoia: Linguistic Transfer and Cognitive Transformation in British and Irish Modernism , Andrew C. Wenaus

Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012

Hazardous Experiments: The Elusive Prefaces of William Godwin, Mary Hays, William Wordsworth and Percy Bysshe Shelley , Jeffrey W. Miles

Architectures of the Veil: The Representation of the Veil and Zenanas in Pakistani Feminists' Texts , Amber Fatima Riaz

Miscegenation in the Marvelous: Race and Hybridity in the Fantasy Novels of Neil Gaiman and China Miéville , Nikolai Rodrigues

Broken Passages and Broken Promises: Reconstructing the Komagata Maru and Air India Cases , Alia Rehana Somani

Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011

Residues of the Cold War: Emergent Waste Consciousness in Postwar American Culture and Fiction , Thomas J. Barnes

Biological Inheritance and the Social Order in Late-Victorian Fiction and Science , Sherrin Berezowsky

Life Among the Machines: James Joyce's Ulysses and Early Twentieth-Century Technology , Patrick Casey

Social Money: Literary Engagements with Economics in Early Modern English Drama , Myungjin Choi

States of Insurgency: Dismemberment and Citizenship in the American 1848 , David J. Drysdale

Re-forging the smith: an interdisciplinary study of smithing motifs in Völuspá and Völundarkviða , Leif Einarson

Touching Bodies/Bodies Touching: The Ethics of Touch in Victorian Literature (1860-1900) , Ann M.C. Gagne

Feeling Better: The Therapeutic Drug in Modernism , Philip Glennie

Corporeal Returns: Theatrical Embodiment and Spectator Response in Early Modern Drama , Caroline R. Lamb

Seeking the Self in Pigment and Pixels: Postmodernism, Art, and the Subject , Selma Purac

Total Men!: Literature, Nationalism, and Mascuilinity in Early Canada , Aaron J. Schneider

Alternative Be/longing: Modernity and Material Culture in Bengali Cinema, 1947-1975 , Suvadip Sinha

Theses/Dissertations from 2010 2010

Graphomania: Composing Subjects in Late-Victorian Gothic Fiction and Technology , Gregory D. Brophy

The Burdens of Body's Beauty: Pre-Raphaelite Representations of the Body in William Morris's the Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems (1858) and Algernon Swinburne's Poems , Thomas A. Steffler

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Theses/dissertations from 2023 2023.

Ga(y)zing Backward: Queer Desire in Ovid, Shakespeare, and Scaimma , Falynn Blayre Brickler

Four Junes , Sara Brown

Illness Under the Microscope: Disease in Colonial Discourse, a Disruptive Study , Sujata Chattopadhyay

Black Girl Magic: History, Identity, and Spirituality in Contemporary Fantasy and Science-Fiction , Taylore Fox

Genre and Gender: A Rhetoric of Irony in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing , Nanette Rasband Hilton

Feminine Aesthetics of Embodied Cognition: Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes, and Audre Lorde , Jenessa L.w. Kenway

A Cultural History of Anti-Feminism in Marvel's Scarlet Witch , Madison M. Kooba

A Slow Act of Vision , Alice Letowt

Sight Words: Poems , Benjamin Harrison Socolofsky

Public Transportation , Benjamin Stallings

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

Screwball , Nicholas Barnette

Leaving Babylon: A Memoir of Repatriation , Soni Brinsko

Horse Loose: Essays on Fear and Attachment , Alyse Burnside

That Hidden Country: The Travels of Jacob Singleton, A Novel , James Earp

A Name No One Should Know , Mohammed Jahama

Chimaera: A Collection , Robert Ren

The World of the Living , Bronwyn Scott-Mccharen

Our Mountains , Jordon Christena Smith

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

The Castles We Built , Therin Aloïs Alrik

The Silence She Broke: Black Women Escaping Abuse Narratives, Regaining Personal Agency, and Healing , Tajanae LaBria Barnes

Monumentalizing a Political Candidacy: Robert Lowell and Eugene McCarthy’s History , Jeremy Freeman

The Old Brag of My Heart: Essays , Cody James Gambino

Thanks for Your Gift , Ruth Larmore

"Till This Moment, I Never Knew Myself": Letters in Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park , Renee Maalouf

A World of Infinite Possibilities: Recoding Popular Culture in Modern U.S. Ethnic Fiction , Todd Martinez

The Unfinished Enlightenment Novel: Comparative Studies in Indeterminacy and Democracy , Andrew Joseph Rhoades

Soft Machinery , Chelsi Sayti

The Concept Album as Postmodern Literature: A Critical Examination of Nine Inch Nails' The Downward Spiral , Kelly E. Stith

Hybridity, Ecocriticism, and Feminist Perspectives in She-Ra and the Princesses of Power , Sarah Warso

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

Ricky & Grams , Berthold Brock Albin

The Economy of (Dis)Honor in the Americas: A Transnational Rupturing of American Literature through Faulkner, García Márquez, and Silko , Clayton Neil Cobb

Nothing Orphic, Nothing Foreign , Samuel Merriman Gilpin

A Bara by Any Other Word: Female Subjectivity and Cultural Crises in Japanese Adaptations of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet , Gary Dean Lindeburg

Thatcherism in the Contemporary British Novel, 1978-2012 , David Mowatt

Beyond Maidens and Mothers: A Study of Till We Have Faces , Tamar Peterson

Madres, Hijas, y la Frontera: an Analysis of the Relationship Between Mexican Mothers and Mexican-American Daughters , Arianna Gabriela Razo

Sad Water and Sand , Karli Tokala Rouse

Narratives of Belonging and Citizenship: Race and Gender in the Hemispheric American Novel , Ariel Jade Santos

The Transformation of Edgar Huntly: An American Awakening , Willie C. Sosa

Shakespeare’s As You like It and James Cameron’s Avatar: Reharmonizing Society with Nature , Erin Rebecca Turner

Gender and Race in Four Contemporary Productions of The Duchess of Malfi and Antony and Cleopatra , Dorothy Christine Vanderford

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

Does It Mean? Gene Wolfe: Perverse Puzzle Maker , Marc Anthony Aramini

Floating Head Touching Earth , Carrieann Cahall

Blanche DuBois: A Woman's Journey from Belle Reve through Tarantula Arms to The Elysian Fields , Raluca Daniela Comanelea

The Search For Home: An Analysis of American-Socialized Filipino American Identity in Literature , Julianna Marie Crame

Encyclopedia of My Body , Alice Hastings

Riding My Bike in Paradise with Margaret Fuller: A Phenomenological Study , Nanette Rasband Hilton

An Alternative Reading of Feminist Criticism on S. Weir Mitchell , Erika Hylton

Literal Dope , Frank Johnson

Stone Bouquets , Angelo Santino Ligori

How to Break Your Own Heart , Ryan Molloy

Irredenta , Oscar Oswald

The Pleasures of Conversation: Samuel Johnson's Social Epistemology , Brandon Schneeberger

Breaking Free from the Snake Strangling America , Kate Marjorie Shapiro

Amasamiento , Lorinda G. Toledo

Forget Me Not & Other Stories , Zach Wilson

The Ruins of Doves , Mariah Tahera Yusofzei

Empire and Other Stories from the Black Rock , Alex Zenz

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

Shakespeare's Hamlet as a Pilgrimage of the Soul , Joyce Ahn

Utilizing Teacher Response to Help Students Meet and Transfer First-Year Composition Course Objectives , Clyde Aidoo

& One Night the World Will Have Changed , Hanna Andrews

Before and After Her Body , Shannon Austin

A Land to Call Their Own , Timothy James Buchanan

Literature in the World: A Critical Discourse Study of World Literature Pedagogy , Elisa Cogbill-Seiders

Virginia Woolf and the Flâneuse: A Geocritical Approach to Mrs. Dalloway and the Voyage Out , Kayla Dean

Waiting For Nothing , Jiwoong Hyun

Memories of Three Rivers , Olufunke Ogundimu

Epidemiology of Love: A Survey , Maegan Poland

Envisioning Shadows in Romantic Ekphrasis and Early Photography , Joseph Kevin Tuvera Sebastian

Milk Teeth and Other Stories , Timea Sipos

Beyond All of This , Jack Stilwell

The New Cambrian Children , Shin Watanabe

Hallucination Machines , Autumn Widdoes

Cosmic Valentine , Gabrielle Faith Williams

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

Reality and Nature in Robinson Jeffers , Joshua D. Bartee

Remember the Country and the Age in Which We Live": The British Gothic Novel in the Age of Enlightenment, 1764-1798 , Garland David Beasley

Table of the Sun , Christine Bettis

Radio Spring , Kristian Louis Warren Einstman

Cacophony , Noha Elbadry

Learning to Adapt , Kelly Elcock

Everything Is Real , Brett Finlayson

Belt of Pearls , Danielle Lee Henry

Studies in Words: Laborious Ben Jonson's Lexicon , Steven Hrdlicka

Art and The Ordinary: Literary and Visual Constructs of the Mundane , Jenessa Kenway

They Knew Full Well , Matthew Johannes Kollmer

It’s Not about Brooklyn , Elee Maybelle Oak

Strange Wedding , Ariana Nicole Turiansky

Are You Grieving Girl , Leia Penina Wilson

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

Seers In Greensand , Michael Lawrence Berger

The Edge of Mercury , Aurora Brackett

'The Only Thing That Matters': A Critique of the Editorial Practices in The Garden of Eden , Jesse Lee Cook

WOLF!!! VOL. 1 , Jamison Crabtree

Crossing , Olivia Clare Friedman

Notes from Reconstructing Illness , Scott Hinkle

The Skinny House , Leo August Jilk

Water, Prestige, and Christianity: An Ecocritical Look at Medieval Literature , Cortney Nicole Lechmann

Mouthy Bones , Shaun Leonard

Mr. Universe Wants To Live Forever , Oksana Marafioti

Of Wolves & Thieves: A Love Story , Kayla Miller

Heaven on Their Minds , Rebecca Kate Robison

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Theses/dissertations from 2023 2023.

Muscadine: Poems , Albert Hosia Jerriod Avant

MIDDLE CHILDREN OF HISTORY: MALE-AUTHORED POST-1960s FICTION & THE NIHILISM OF WHITE MALE PROTAGONISTS , Emma C. Baughman

THE (MIS)FORMATION OF IDENTITY IN JOSEPH CONRAD’S NOVELS: IDEOLOGY, COMMUNITY, AND THE SELF , Youngji Cho

COMPUTATIONAL CLOSE READING: A CRITIQUE OF DIGITAL LITERARY METHODOLOGY , Damiano Consilvio

DIAGNOSTIC BRAINS, EXPERIENTIAL MINDS AND METAMODERNISM: MCEWAN, SELF, AND MCCARTHY AS CASE STUDIES , Mohamed Anis Ferchichi

RESISTING ARREST: AN (AUTO-THEORETICAL) ESSAY ON PRISON LITERATURE , James A. Ferry

WAITING TOO LONG TO MOVE AT GREEN LIGHTS , Michael Landreth

IS IT FREEDOM YOU WANT?: FEMINIST MORMON HOUSEWIVES “DEAR FMH” COLUMN AS A PARTICIPANT IN THE ETHICS OF CARE IN AMERICAN WOMEN’S ADVICE COLUMNS , Julia Unger

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

THE TEXT(TILES) OF ADINKRA SYMBOLS: WEST AFRICAN ART, GENDER, & POETIC TRANSLATIONS , Rachel A. Ansong

BLACK FEMINIST AUTOETHNOGRAPHY: HOW IDENTITY CAN AFFECT PEER REVIEW PRACTICES IN THE COLLEGE WRITING CLASSROOM , Eileen M. James

TO SCALE DRAGONS: COMPRISING THINGS LOST AND TWO ESSAYS ON FANTASY , André V. Katkov

THE ALICE ATOM COMPENDIUM , Nick Mendillo

BROKEN DOZER, HAUNTED VALE: THE ECOPOETICS OF AMBIENT LANGUAGE , Andrew Merecicky

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

TRUE CRIME, WOMEN, AND SENSATIONALIZED REPRESENTATIONS IN THE ITALIAN AMERICAN IMAGINARY , Francesca Borrione

FANTASIZING REPRODUCTION: THE BIOLOGIZATION OF THE DESIRE FOR PROGRESS IN VICTORIAN LITERATURE , Xinqiang Chang

GENDERED & GENREFIED BODIES: HEROISM AS PRODUCTION AND PERFORMANCE IN SWORD & SORCERY FANTASY , Anthony Conrad Chieffalo

INTIMATE DISTANCES: AN ARCHIPELAGO , Elizabeth Foulke

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

PREPARING FOR DEATH: CANNIBALISM, CONSUMPTION AND INCORPORATION IN WOMEN’S SHIPWRECK NARRATIVES , Danielle Cofer

FEMALE COMIC GROTESQUE CHARACTERS IN VICTORIAN NOVELS: INVESTIGATING THE POSSIBILITIES OF LIMINALITY , Barbara A. Farnworth

READING THE READER: ANALYZING DEPICTIONS OF MALE READERS IN SERIAL VICTORIAN FICTION , Ashton Foley-Schramm

REORIENTING THE FEMALE GOTHIC: CURIOSITY AND THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE , Jenna Guitar

ECOLOGIES OF MATERIALITY AND AESTHETICS IN BRITISH MODERNIST WAR-TIME LITERATURE, 1890-1939 , Molly Volanth Hall

FICTIONS OF CAPTIVITY: RACIALIZING RELIGION IN EARLY U.S. LITERATURE AND CULTURE , Serap Hidir

BETWEEN SIBLINGS: HOW THE SIBLING METAPHOR REIMAGINES AFFECTIVE ENTANGLEMENTS IN THE VICTORIAN NOVEL , Beth Leonardo Silva

OPENING CEREMONY: A WRITING PRACTICE TOWARDS QUEER FUTURITY , Laura Marie Marciano

“THE SKIPPING KING”: MASCULINITY AND EFFEMINACY IN EARLY MODERN DRAMA , Danielle Johanna Sanfilippo

THE MARK OF THE VANISHING READER: INTRADIEGETIC INTERACTION IN MULTIMODAL NARRATIVE , Catherine Ann Winters

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

PRACTICING TRANSLINGUALISM: FACULTY CONCEPTIONS AND PRACTICES , Adrienne Jones Daly

TO BE CONTINUED: SERIALITY IN NEW MEDIA , Ryan Engley

CONSTRUCTING TRANSGRESSION: CRIMINALITY IN EXPERIMENTAL LITERATURE , Charles Kell

WELCOME TO THE CLUB: AN ARCHIVAL INQUIRY INTO THE DEWEY LABORATORY SCHOOL AS RHETORICAL EDUCATION , Krysten Manke

“THERE IS NO RACISM IN CUBA”: A FIELD STUDY OF THE “POST-RACE” RHETORIC OF MODERN CUBA , Clarissa J. Walker

CHARMED MODERNISMS: FANTASIES OF SOCIALITY AND DIFFERENCE IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY BRITISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE , Kara Watts

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

THE NEW SINCERITY IN AMERICAN LITERATURE , Matthew J. Balliro

Understanding Reading Sponsorship Through Analysis of First-Year Composition Students’ Literacy Narratives , Nancy A. Benson

Widening the Sphere: Mid-to-Late Victorian Popular Fiction, Gender Representation, and Canonicity , Anna J. Brecke

Demonstrating Feminist Metic Intelligence Through the Embodied Rhetorical Practices of Julia Child , Lindy E. Briggette

The Men That Sleep Built , Samuel Simas

Questing Feminism: Narrative Tensions and Magical Women in Modern Fantasy , Kimberly Wickham

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

Writing Irish America: Communal Memory and the Narrative of Nation in Diaspora , Beth O'Leary Anish

Speaking Truth to Power: Stand-Up Comedians as Sophists, Jesters, Public Intellectuals and Activists , Jillian Belanger

Architectures of Captivity: Imagining Freedom in Antebellum America , Rachel Boccio

Virginia Woolf's Pedagogical Art , William R. Bowden

Undergraduate Student Perspectives on Electronic Portfolio Assessment in College Composition Courses , Bridget Fullerton

Metadata and Relational Architecture: Advancing Arrangement, Agency, and Access with New Methodology , Jenna Morton-Aiken

Agency in Eating Disorders: American Literary and Visual Memoirs of Anorexia and Bulimia , Jenny Platz

To Start, Continue, and Conclude: Foregrounding Narrative Production in Serial Fiction Publishing , Gabriel E. Romaguera

"You Will Hold This Book in Your Hands": The Novel and Corporeality in the New Media Ecology , Jason Shrontz

Exploring the Use of NoRedInk as a Tool for Composition Instruction , Alyson Snowe

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

You Are What You Eat: Investigating Food Discourse and Digitally-Mediated Identities , Katelyn Leigh Burton

Exquisite Clutter: Material Culture and the Scottish Reinvention of the Adventure Narrative , Rebekah C. Greene

“A Peculiar Power of Perception”: Scottish Enlightenment Rhetoric and the New Aesthetic of Language , Rosaleen Greene-Smith Keefe

Absurdity and Artistry in Twentieth Century American War Literature , Brittany B. Hirth

The Color of Grammar and the Surface of Language: 20th Century Avant-Garde Poetics in Gertrude Stein, Mina Loy, and Blaise Cendrars , Sarah E. Kruse

Consent Puzzles: Narrative Ambiguities of Girls' Sexual Agency in Literature and Film from the 1990s , Michele Meek

John Dewey's Letters from Asia: Implications for Redefining "Openness" in Rhetoric and Composition , Karen Pierce Shea

Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015

Automated Essay Evaluation and the Computational Paradigm: Machine Scoring Enters the Classroom , Catherine M. Barrett

Bringing the World Inside: British Modernism and Taste – Gustatory, Social, and Aesthetic , Michael David Becker

Permeable Boundaries: Globalizing Form in Contemporary American and British Literature , Nancy Caronia

AT HOME IN THE DIASPORA: DOMESTICITY AND NATIONALISM IN POSTWAR AND CONTEMPORARY CARIBBEAN-BRITISH FICTION , Kim Caroline Evelyn

AN EXAMINATION OF ARGUMENTATION IN UNDERGRADUATE COMPOSITION TEXTBOOKS , Wendy Lee Grosskopf

Stories That Shape: The Work of Writing Program Administration , Marcy Isabella

OFF THE HIP: A THERMODYNAMICS OF THE COOL , Rebecca Kanost

INSOMNIA AND IDENTITY: THE DISCURSIVE FUNCTION OF SLEEPLESSNESS IN MODERNIST LITERATURE , Sarah Kingston

TEMPERANCE IN THE AGE OF FEELING: SENSIBILITY, PEDAGOGY, AND POETRY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY , Sarah Hattie Maitland

UNCONSCIOUS STATES: A NOVEL , Rachel May

Life vs. Unlife: Interspecies Solidarity and Companionism in Contemporary American Literature , Barnaby McLaughlin

TOWARD A PSYCHOSOCIAL UNDERSTANDING OF SUICIDE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE OF THE 1990’S , Sara E. Murphy

THE SENTINELLE AFFAIR: A STUDY IN MULTILINGUAL LANGUAGE PRACTICES , Jason Peters

Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014

Firefighters’ Multimodal Literacy Practices , Timothy R. Amidon

ARGUMENT, RHETORIC, AND TRANSCENDENCE: “THE ADHERENCE OF MINDS” WITHIN THE DISCOURSE OF SPIRITUALITY , Gavin Forrest Hurley

OPTING-IN ONLINE: PARTICIPANTS’ PERCEPTIONS OF KNOWLEDGE CONSTRUCTION IN PUBLIC FORUM COMMUNITIES , Jennifer C. Lee

Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013

LIGHTNING-ROD MEN, MAGNETIC LIVES, BODIES ELECTRIC: ELECTROMAGNETIC CORPOREALITY IN EMERSON, MELVILLE, & WHITMAN , James Patrick Gorham

Women's Historiography in Late Medieval European Literature: Giovanni Boccaccio, Geoffrey Chaucer, and Christine de Pizan , Eva M. Jones

SAVING PRINCE PEACH: A STUDY OF “GAYMERS” AND DIGITAL LGBT/GAMING RHETORICS , M. William MacKnight

Affective Reconfigurations: A New Politics of Difference , Laurie Rodrigues

Theses/Dissertations from 2003 2003

Manifestoes: A Study in Genre , Stevens Russell Amidon

Making the Grade: Academic Literacies and First-Generation College Students in a Highly Selective Liberal Arts College , Theresa Perri Ammirati

Theses/Dissertations from 2000 2000

The Colors and Shadows of My Word(s) , Lydia A. Saravia

Theses/Dissertations from 1999 1999

Toni Morrison: Rethinking the Past in a Postcolonial Context , Hanan Abdullatif

Theses/Dissertations from 1998 1998

(Re)Envisioned (Pre)History: Feminism, Goddess Politics, and Readership Analysis of The Clan of the Cave Bear and The Valley of the Horses , Glenna M. Andrade

Theses/Dissertations from 1997 1997

Indicated Silences in American Novels , Catherine Adamowicz

Cynics, Spaces, and Subjects: Toward a Tactical Ethics of Rhetoric , Kristen Francis Kennedy

Theses/Dissertations from 1995 1995

Our Beloved Lizzie; Constructing an American Legend , Gabriela Schalow Adler

My Cambodian Son: Another Race: Another Culture , Patricia Russell

Theses/Dissertations from 1994 1994

An NEH Fellowship Examined: Social Networks and Composition History , Stephanie A. Almagno

The "Fine Line" of Otto Rank , Philip J. Hecht

Theses/Dissertations from 1993 1993

REWRITING THE BODY POLITIC: THE ART OF ILLNESS AND THE PRODUCTION OF DESIRE IN THE DIARIES AND JOURNALS OF ALICE JAMES AND ACHSA SPRAGUE , Susan Grant

Theses/Dissertations from 1992 1992

*Baby Shoe Tattoo*: A Film Script and Critical Preface , Anthony R. Amore Jr.

Out of the Shadows: A Structuralist Approach to Understanding the Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft , James A. Anderson

Lilacs in November , Marjorie L. Briody

The Jeovah Imperative: Images of Incest and Blood Sacrifice in Walpole's "The Castle of Otranto" and Flannery O'Connor's "Wise Blood" , Penelope Hope Goff

Theses/Dissertations from 1988 1988

Sub-Versions of History in Three Twentieth-Century Novels , Gabriella Schalow Adler

Joyce and the Dialogical: Literary Carnivalization in Ulysses , Stephanie A. Almagno

Home Before Morning: A Teleplay , Susan E. Apshaga

"Dear Uncle George" Ezra Pound's Letters to Congressman Tinkham of Massachusetts , Philip J. Burns

Theses/Dissertations from 1984 1984

Style in Children's Literature: A Comparison of Passages from Books for Adults and for Children , Celia Catlett Anderson

Theses/Dissertations from 1978 1978

Robert Frost: A Twentieth Century Poet of Man and Nature , Pauline Elaine Allen

Theses/Dissertations from 1977 1977

CHAUCER AND THE GAME OF LOVE: AN ANALYSIS OF THE BOOK OF THE DUCHESS, THE HOUSE OF FAME AND THE PARLIAMENT OF FOWLES , Stephen Hyginus Murphy

Theses/Dissertations from 1972 1972

Man's Relationship to Nature and Society in Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter , Sherry E. Adams

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Cognitive boundaries: perception and ethics in nineteenth-century britain , colony writing: creative community in the age of revolt , cosmopolitan romance: the adventure of archaeology, the politics of genre, and the origins of the future in walter scott's crusader novels , the entangled cities: earthly communities and the heavenly jerusalem in late medieval england , the fate of epic in twentieth-century american poetry , getting lost: forms of animation in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century british novel , hap: uncertainty and the english novel , the imaginary encyclopedia: the novel and the reference work in the age of reason , lyric as comedy , milton and music , the miniature and victorian literature , “my life is only one life”: turning to other people in american lyric poetry after new criticism , narrative and its non-events: counterfactual plotting in the victorian novel , poetry, desire, and devotional performance from shakespeare to milton, 1609-1667 , practical georgics: managing the land in medieval britain , the practice of form: arts of life in victorian literature , the premodern literary: matter and form in english poetry 1400-1547 , protestant institutionalism: religion, literature, and society after the state church , representations of counsel in selected works of sir philip sidney .

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English Department Theses

Theses/dissertations from 2023 2023.

Neither Meek nor Docile: An Analysis of Margaret Hale and Jane Eyre in Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South and Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre , McKell Ferguson

INOCULANT TO INFLUENCE: CULTIVATING CRITICAL CITIZENSHIP BY FOREGROUNDING ONTOLOGY THROUGH KENNETH BURKE AND WALTER FISHER’S RHETORICAL FRAMEWORKS , Mark Griffin

CONCEPTUALIZING FIRST-YEAR WRITING AGENCY: THE TRANSFER-RHETORICAL GENRE-VOICE TRIAD AS AN ENACTMENT OF RHETORICAL AGENCY , Amanda Kerr

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

HENRY D. THOREAU’S COLOR RED, RELATIONSHIP TO NATURE, AND RELIGIOUS IMAGERY IN ROBERT FROST’S “ROSE POGONIAS” AND OTHER POEMS , Jennifer Fry

Seeking Visionary: Ginsberg And The Beat Influence On Progress , Mark Howard

Reinvestigating Masculinity in the Works of Ernest Hemingway , Neidy D. McHugh

Multimodal Expertise Training for Writing Center Tutors , Erin E. A. O'Day

SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES: THE EVOLUTION OF ANN RADCLIFFE , Maximillian D. Patton

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

European Imperialist Violence and Feminine Influence in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness , Katlyn S. Davenport

Thomas Kent's Paralogic Rhetoric as a Framework for Analyzing Corporate Social Responsibility Discourse , Donald E. Penner

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

Politicized Identity in Peter Ho Davies's The Welsh Girl and The Fortunes , Savanna S. Batson

KNOWING, LOVING, AND BEING THROUGH EXCESS: CREATION OF SUBJECT IN BERTHA HARRIS’S LOVER , Kristin S. Bruckner

The Mystery of the Missing Half: The Developing Female Investigator Trope in Detective Fiction , Anthony E. Farah

“NEW HOPE IN THE MIDST OF DARKNESS”: EUCATASTROPHE AS KAIROS IN THE LORD OF THE RINGS , Chance Gamble

The Desire for Chaste Love in Book Three of The Faerie Queene , Hayley McClenny

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

Merlin’s Role as Nationalist in Monmouth and Malory , Ashley C. Johnson

The Phenomenological Beat: Allen Ginsberg's Many Multitudes , Joseph Karwin

Connected Spirits: Adolescent Females and Animal Agents , Elizabeth A. Parrish

The Politics of Utopia: Examining Three Hawthorne Romances as Political Allegories , Melanie A. Whiting

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

The Formation of the Autonomous Woman Through a Hegelian Lens: A Comparative Study of the British Fin de Siecle "New Woman" and the Post-Mao "Amazing" Woman , Robyn L. Buro

"Our attachments are our temples": Addiction, Recovery, and the Metamodernist Movement , Ashlie M. Contos

“THAT DARK PARADE”: EMILY DICKINSON AND THE VICTORIAN "CULT OF DEATH” , Carol M. DeGrasse

The American Dream, Micronationalisms, and the Three Part National Identity as Presented by Dr. Hunter S. Thompson , Brianna J. Doucet

Hemingway and the Soča Front , Rebecca Johnston

Conrad's Pronoun Usage as a Stylistic Marker and Its Relation to His Density of Text and Themes , Jennifer K. Onishi

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MA in English Theses

Theses/dissertations from 2018 2018.

Implementing Critical Analysis in the Classroom to Negate Southern Stereotypes in Multi-Media , Julie Broyhill

Fan Fiction in the English Language Arts Classroom , Kristen Finucan

Transferring the Mantle: The Voice of the Poet Prophet in the Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Emily Dickinson , Heidi Brown Hyde

The Effects of Social Media as Low-Stakes Writing Tasks , Roxanne Loving

Student and Teacher Perceptions of Multiliterate Assignments Utilizing 21st Century Skills , Jessica Kennedy Miller

The Storytellers’ Trauma: A Place to Call Home in Caribbean Literature , Ilari Pass

Post Title IX Representations of Professional Female Athletes , Emily Shaw

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

“Not as She is” but as She is Expected to Be: Representations, Limitations, and Implications of the “Woman” and Womanhood in Selected Victorian Literature and Contemporary Chick Lit. , Amanda Ellen Bridgers

The Intrinsic Factors that Influence Successful College Writing , Kenneth Dean Carlstrom

"Where nature was most plain and pure": The Sacred Locus Amoenus and its Profane Threat in Andrew Marvell's Pastoral Poetry , James Brent King

Colorblind: How Cable News and the “Cult of Objectivity” Normalized Racism in Donald Trump’s Presidential Campaign , Amanda Leeann Shoaf

Gaming The Comic Book: Turning The Page on How Comics and Videogames Intersect as Interactive, Digital Experiences , Joseph Austin Thurmond

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

The Nature, Function, and Value of Emojis as Contemporary Tools of Digital Interpersonal Communication , Nicole L. Bliss-Carroll

Exile and Identity: Chaim Potok's Contribution to Jewish-American Literature , Sarah Anne Hamner

A Woman's Voice and Identity: Narrative Métissage as a Solution to Voicelessness in American Literature , Kali Lauren Oldacre

Pop, Hip Hop, and Empire, Study of a New Pedagogical Approach in a Developmental Reading and English Class , Karen Denise Taylor

Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015

Abandoning the Shadows and Seizing the Stage: A Perspective on a Feminine Discourse of Resistance Theatre as Informed by the Work of Susanna Centlivre, Eliza Haywood, Frances Sheridan, Hannah Cowley, and the Sistren Theatre Collective , Brianna A. Bleymaier

Mexican Immigrants as "Other": An Interdisciplinary Analysis of U.S. Immigration Legislation and Political Cartoons , Olivia Teague Morgan

Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014

"I Am a Living Enigma - And You Want To Know the Right Reading of Me": Gender Anxiety in Wilkie Collins's The Haunted Hotel and The Guilty River , Hannah Allford

Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013

Gender Performance and the Reclamation of Masculinity in Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns , John William Salyers Jr.

Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012

"That's a Lotta Faith We're Putting in a Word": Language, Religion, and Heteroglossia as Oppression and Resistance in Comtemporary British Dystopian Fiction , Haley Cassandra Gambrell

Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011

Mirroring the Madness: Caribbean Female Development in the Works of Elizabeth Nunez , Lauren Delli Santi

"Atlas Shrugged" and third-wave feminism: An unlikely alliance , Paul McMahan

"Sit back down where you belong, in the corner of my bar with your high heels on": The use of cross-dressing in order to achieve female agency in Shakespeare's transvestite comedies , Heather Lynn Wright

Theses/Dissertations from 2010 2010

Between the Way to the Cross and Emmaus: Deconstructing Identity in the 325 CE Council of Nicaea and "The Shack" , Trevar Simmons

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The Department of English strongly encourages all undergraduates to consider completing a senior thesis under the direction of a faculty advisor(s). Undergraduate theses may involve:

• The drafting of a scholarly research paper.
• The production of a novel, set of short stories, or collection of poems.
• The analysis of narratives and/or other qualitative data collected from a particular cultural or regional community.
• The creation of a digital media artifact.

Indeed, because of the wide variety of creative and scholarly work undertaken by our 100+ faculty members, our undergraduates have the opportunity to compose theses on a seemingly endless array of topics, in a seemingly endless array of forms. 

The thesis acts as a capstone experience for our undergraduates: it allows them to explore issues of personal, scholarly, cultural, historical and/or creative importance; to solve complex problems using the knowledge and skills they have gained throughout their undergraduate careers, and to produce new knowledge and new solutions that reflect their unique perspectives, talents and abilities. Students who complete a thesis graduate either "with research distinction" or "with honors research distinction;" while the latter phrasing is used for students who are members of the Arts and Sciences Honors Program, all students are encouraged to complete a thesis regardless of their honors status.      

For some students, the process of developing and completing a thesis project may seem a bit daunting at first; however, the following steps are designed to make this process manageable and to outline how students typically proceed. In addition to reading the information below, students interested in completing a thesis are encouraged to make an appointment and advisor. We can help students think through possible thesis topics, locate potential faculty advisors, and complete the appropriate thesis paperwork

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2020 Philip Derbesy (PhD) Reading Cinematic Allusions in the Post-1945 American Novel (Marling [dir.], Flint, Spadoni, Goldmark [Music])

Daniel Luttrull (PhD) Solidarity through Vacancy: Didactic Strategies in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Clune [dir.], Stonum, Vrettos)

2019 Michael Chiappini (PhD) Beyond Memorialization: Rhetoric, Aesthetics, and AIDS Literature (Fountain [dir], Clune, Emmons

Thom Dawkins (PhD) Rejoice in Tribulations: The Afflictive Poetics of Early Modern Religious Poetry (Flint [dir], Vinter, Olbricht)

Melissa Pompili (PhD) Uncomfortable Subjects: Bioaffective Attachments, Aesthetic Remainders, and the Making of a Physician (Emmons [dir], Fountain, Vinter)

Megan Weber (PhD) Patriarchal Tyrants and Female Bodies: Ekphrasis in Drama and the Novel in England, 1609-1798 (Flint [dir], Vinter, Fountain)

2018 Evan Chaloupka (PhD) Cognitive Disability and Narrative (Marling [dir.]; Emmons; Vrettos)

Megan Griffin (PhD) Fictions of Sovereignty: Temporal Displacements of the Monarch in Shakespeare, Milton, and Behn (Vinter [dir.]; Flint; Olbricht)

Michelle Lyons-McFarland (PhD) Literary Objects in Eighteenth-Century British Literature (Flint [dir.]; Siebenschuh; Vrettos)

Marcus Mitchell (PhD) Forms Unconfined: Muscular Women, Physical Culture, and Victorian Literature (Vrettos [dir.]; Flint; Koenigsberger)

2017 Ray Horton (PhD) American Literature’s Secular Faith (Clune [dir.], Gridley, Marling)

Jessica Slentz (PhD) Yes, You May Touch the Art: New Media Interfaces and Rhetorical Experience in the Digitally Interactive Museum (Fountain [dir.], Emmons, Koenigsberger)

2016 Kate Dunning Allen (PhD) Mobial Corporeality in W. S. Merwin’s Ecopoetic Corpus (Stonum [dir.], Clune, Gridley)

Andrew Banghart (PhD) Escaping the Real: Popularizing Science and Literary Realism in the Victorian Marketplace (Koenigsberger [dir.], Oakley, Vrettos)

Cara Byrne (PhD) Illustrating the Smallest Black Bodies: The Creation of Childhood in African-American Children’s Literature, 1836-2015 (Umrigar [dir.], Fountain, Grimm)

Eric Earnhardt (PhD) The “Sentient Plume”: The Theory of the Pathetic Fallacy in Anglo-American Poetry, 1856-1945 (Koenigsberger [dir.], Clune, Gridley)

Catherine Forsa (PhD) Science as Aesthetic Device in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Clune [dir], Marling, Vrettos)

Kristin Kondrlik (PhD) (Re)Writing Professional Ethos: Women Physicians and the Construction of Medical Authority in Victorian and Edwardian Print (Koenigsberger [dir.], Emmons, Fountain, Vrettos)

Michael G. Parker (PhD) Queer Orientation in Twentieth-Century American Literature (Fountain [dir.], Clune, Grimm)

Jonathan Scott Weedon (PhD) Attending Like an Engineer: Rhetoric, Design, and Professionalization (Fountain [dir.], Emmons, Oakley)

2015 Monica Orlando (PhD) Relational Representation: Constructing Narratives and Identities in Auto/Biography about Autism (Emmons [dir.], Clune, Siebenschuh)

2014 Mary Assad (PhD) Gender, Illness, and Narrative: A Rhetorical Study of the American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women Campaign (Fountain [dir.], Emmons, Grimm)

Jason Ray Carney (PhD) The Shadow Modernism of Weird Tales : Experimental Pulp Fiction in the Age of Modernist Reflection (Koenigsberger [dir.], Clune, Grimm)

Nicole Marie Emmelhainz-Carney (PhD) Writing Games: Collaborative Writing in Digital-Ludic Spaces (Emmons [dir.], Fountain, Gridley)

Jennie Giaconia Young (PhD) (The) Student Body/ies: Cultural Paranoia and Embodiment in the American High School (Emmons [dir.], Fountain, Sheeler)

2013 Robert Welling Addington (PhD) Discipline and Publish: Creative Writing Programs, Literary Markets and the Short Story Renaissance (Stonum [dir.], Clune, Flint)

Michael Moss (PhD) Rhetoric and Time: Cognition, Culture, and Interaction (Oakley [dir.], Fountain, Sheeler)

2012 Daniel Paul Anderson Jr. (PhD) The Ivory Shtetl: The University and the Postwar Jewish Imagination (Oster [dir.], Clune, Spadoni)

Natalija Grgorinic (PhD) Recounting the Author (Stonum [dir.], Flint, Umrigar)

2011 Tasia Hane-Devore (PhD) Constructed Bodies, Edited Deaths: The Negotiation of Sociomedical Discourse in Autothanatographers’ Writing of Terminal Illness (Emmons [dir.], Koenigsberger, Umrigar)

Irene Moody (PhD) Lexicons in Lace: The Language of Dress in the New Woman Novel (Siebenschuh [dir.], Fountain, Koenigsberger)

Christine Mueri (PhD) “Defined not by time, but by mood”: First-Person Narratives of Bipolar Disorder (Emmons [dir.], Koenigsberger, Oakley)

Danielle Nielsen (PhD) Reading the Empire from Afar: From Colonial Spectacles to Colonial Literacies (Koenigsberger [dir.], Emmons, Vrettos)

Anne Ryan (PhD) Victorian Fiction and the Psychology of Self-Control, 1855-1885 (Vrettos [dir.], Flint, Siebenschuh)

2010 Iris Jamahl Dunkle (PhD) Shaking the Burning Birch Tree: Amy Lowell’s Sapphic Modernism (Oster [dir.], Grimm, Stonum)

Asdghig Karajayerlian (PhD) Large Worlds/Small Places: Critical Cosmopolitanism and Stereoscopic Vision in the Global Postcolonial Novel (Koenigsberger [dir.], Marling, Umrigar)

Jamie Lynn McDaniel (PhD) Trespassing Women: Representations of Property and Identity in British Women’s Writing 1925-2005 (Koenigsberger [dir.], Grimm, Stonum)

Brandy L. Schillace (PhD) “The Alphabet of Sense”: Rediscovering the Rhetoric of Women’s Intellectual Liberty (Flint [dir.], Siebenschuh, Vrettos)

Chalet K. Seidel (PhD) Representations of Journalistic Professionalism:1865-1900 (Emmons [dir.], Stonum, Umrigar)

Jason Todd Stuart (PhD) The Disciplinary Rhetoric of the Twenty-First Century: The Emergence of Computers and Composition (Emmons [dir.], Fountain, Oakley)

Ronald Jerome Tulley (PhD) An Exhibitionist’s Paradise: Digital Transformations of the Autobiographical Impulse (Siebenschuh [dir.], Emmons, Fountain)

2009 Jafeen S. Ilmudeen (MA) Portraits

Kenneth W. McGraw (PhD) Dangerous Discourse: Language and Sex between Men in Eighteenth-Century London (Flint [dir.], Emmons, Meakin)

Naomi Igarashi Takagi (PhD) Flow Theory: Conscious Experience in Expository Argumentative Writing (Oakley [dir.], Emmons, Oster)

2008 Kathryn Elizabeth Anderson (MA) “These were the things that bounded me”: a New Examination of Millay’s Dramatic Works”

Jason B. Barone (MA) The Search for the Jungian Stranger in the Novels of Haruki Murakami

Katherine Hansen Clark (PhD) What is a Cozy?

Heather J. Kichner (PhD) C emetery Plots from Victoria to Verdun: Literary Representations of Epitaph and Burial from the Nineteenth Century through the Great War

Christopher Mays (MA) The Failure to Meet “the Challenge of Our Time”: the Demise of Bill Clinton’s Plan for Universal Health Care

Jenifer Lynn Wolkowski (PhD) Ideas of Community in Three Depression-era Southern Novels: Faulkner’s The Hamlet, Dargan’s Call Home the Heart , and Still’s River of Earth

2007 Daniel Anderson (MA) Plato’s Complaint: Nathan Zuckerman, the University of Chicago, and Philip Roth’s Neo-Aristotelian Poetics

Barbara Burgess-Van Aken (PhD) Barbara Torelli’s Partenia: A Bilingual Critical Edition

Erin Monroe (MA) Terminal: A Collection of Poetry

Gabriel Rieger (PhD) Penetrating Wit: Sexual Language and Satiric Tragedy

Elizabeth Sirkin (PhD) Popular Images and Cosmopolitan Mediation: Mass Media and Western Pop Culture in the Anglophone South Asian Novel

2006 Brian Ballentine (PhD) Toward a Rhetoric of Engineering: Explorations in the Practices of Engineers and the Implications for the Teaching of Technical Communication

Darcy Brandel (PhD) If I Had a Hammer: Rereading Female Experimental Writing in the Context of Progressive Social Change

Narcisz Fejes (PhD) Absorbing East-Central Europe: Representations of the Region in Modern British Literature

Veeneenea Erika Smith (PhD) Dinna Forget Spurgeon: A Literary Biography

2005 Maria Assif (Ph.D.) Mother-daughter Relationships in Asian and Jewish American Literatures: Story(ing) Identities

Kristine Kelly (PhD) A Place For Everyone: Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Emigration and Settlement

2004 Leigh Fabens (PhD) Dreams amd Death in the Novels by James Welch, Tim O’Brien, and Ron Arias: A Cognitive Approach

Katherine Kickel (PhD) Novel Notions: Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Mapping of the Imagination

Traci Arnett Pipkins (PhD) “Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read”: The Revolution in Reading Scripture in Seventeenth-century England

2003 Bradley Ricca (PD) American Zodiac: Astronomical Signs in Dickinson, Melville, and Poe

Carrie Shanafelt (MA) Fielding on Fielding: Rhetoric of Authenticity in the Prose Fiction of Henry Fielding

Brenda Smith (PhD) The Construction of Bi-Cultural Subjectivity in African-American Autobiography

2002 Maria Assif (MA) Kristeva’s Reading of William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury in Search of Caddy’s Voice

Christina Hebebrand (PhD) “We Are the People”-Native American and Chicano/a Literatures as Intersecting Indigenous Literatures of the American Southwest

Lydia Kosc (MA) The Birth of Fiction: Interfaith Relationships in the Novels of Philip Roth

Amy Magnus (PhD) Leaving Tracks: The Legacy of Chippewa History in the Novels of Louise Erdrich

Paula Makris (PhD) Colonial Education and Cultural Inheritance: Caribbean Literature and the Classics

Christopher Stewart (PhD) In Paths Untrodden: Queer Spiritual Autobiography

Jennifer Swartz (PhD) “The Very Being or Legal Existence of the Woman is Suspended”: Law, Literature, and the Middle-Class Victorian Woman

2001 Naomi Igarashi (MA) User-Friendly Web Design: An Application of Principles to the Cleveland Clinic Foundation Web Site

Amy Kesegich (PhD) Pilgrim in Progress: The Works of Annie Dillard as Spiritual Autobiography

Dian Killian (PhD) The Nation’s Other: Ideology, Repression, and Resistance in Irish Emigrant Discourse

Kathy Miller (MA) The Push Toward Meaning and Bi-cultural Understanding: The Writer/Reader Relationship in Maxine Hong Kingston’s Woman Warrior

Kristen Olson (PhD) The “Soul’s Imaginary Sight”: Visuality and Mimesis in Early Modern Poetics

Brian Reed (PhD) Wrestling Sensibility: Male Anxiety, Sentimentality, and British Eighteenth-Century Narrative.

2000 Saad Asswailim (PhD) Myth, Ideology and Silence in Three Novels by Vance Bourjaily

Kristin Bryant (PhD) Constructed Identities and the Interior Self: A Reading of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando: A Biography

Anna Cole (PhD) Jonathan Swift Telling His Own Story: Book IV of Gulliver’s Travels as Autobiography

Maryanne Cole (PhD) Voices of Travail: Autobiographical Journey Narratives by English Sectarian Women, 1641-1700.

Francesca Giusti (MA) Ludovico Domenichi’s La Stampa: Printing, Editing, Plagiarism and Authorship in an Italian Renaissance Dialogue

Yonjae Jung (PhD) “The Most Inseparable of Companions”: Lacan(-izing) Freud (-ianized) Poe

Moonsoon Kang (PhD) Satire as “a Sword in the Hands of a Mad Man” and “that Art of Necessary Defence”: A Study of Madness and Satire in Swift and Johnson

Carla Kungl (PhD) Women Writers and Detectives: Creating Authority in British Women’s Detective Fiction 1890-1940

Jerome McKeever (PhD) The McCarey Touch: The Life and Films of Leo McCarey

Michelle Smith (MA) Liris A Novella

James Wynn (MA) A Cognitive Approach to Prepositional Usage in English as a Second Language Acquisition

1999 Maimu Alber (MA) Traveling at the Speed of Darkness

.Jeffrey Morgan (PhD) Developing a Feminine Pastoral: Sarah Orne Jewett’s The Country of the Pointed Firs

Richard Van Noy (PhD) Surveying the Interior: Literary Cartographers and the Sense of Place

1998 Jeffry Schantz (PhD) Shaping Captivity: Transformations of the Indian Captivity Narrative from the 17th through the 19th Century

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Elizabeth Lengel , University of Nebraska-Lincoln Follow

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Lauren Gatti

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A thesis presented to the faculty of the Graduate College at the University of Nebraska in partial fulfillment of requirements for the degree of Master of Arts

Major: English

Under the supervision of Professor Stacey Waite

Lincoln, Nebraska, May 2024

Copyright 2024, Elizabeth Lengel. Used by permission

This thesis serves as a rationale for the creative writing pedagogy I use and how it serves my high school creative writing class. As my school district made the decision to overhaul our English curriculum, the English department decided to add Creative Writing as an English class elective.

The work for planning these new classes was spread around the English Department, and I was assigned to design the curriculum for the new Creative Writing class. Designing an entire class from scratch leaves a lot of room for creativity and innovation. However, as excited for this new course as I was, I also felt intimidated. I wanted to get this right and attempt to create a course that would nurture an environment for students to explore their creativity without trepidation but would also challenge them and allow them to build their writing skills. I needed to be prepared for the variety of students who would enter the class, so I started to research creative writing pedagogy. I set out to learn how I could create the most productive writing classroom while also understanding that many of my students would still have a lot to learn or review about writing before they could feel confident in their skills and willing to actually see where their ideas could take them.

In the first section, I will lay out what I discovered in my research and the reasons for the decisions I made when planning and structuring my units for the class. In the next section, what I might do differently next time I teach the course. And in the final section, I will lay out my unit plans for this semester-long course.

Advisor: Stacey Waite

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This collection includes theses and dissertations from the Department of English, in the College of Arts & Sciences. It is not exhaustive since most paper theses and dissertations have not been digitized. Generally, paper copies of theses and dissertations published prior to 2014 can be accessed in the University of Louisville Libraries. If you would like to add your thesis or dissertation to this collection, please fill out the Electronic Theses & Dissertations form .

Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023

“Difference in/at the center" a transnational approach for mobilizing international multilingual graduate writers' writing assets during writing instruction. , Olalekan Adepoju

The forest for the trees: how a local arboretum shapes rhetoric and discourse surrounding environmentalism. , Cooper Day

Author(iz)ing literacy: a rhetorical/historical analysis of literacy for college readiness in Kentucky from KERA to the Common Core (and beyond). , Susannah Kilbourne

Rainforests of the mind: Conceiving transnational composition from a mobilities perspective on knowledge. , Tobias Lee

Non-western rendition of ambient rhetoric of Khajuraho monuments. , Shiva Hari Mainaly

From "smart talk" to "living well": Commonplaces and their role in narratives of rare disease. , Caitlin E. Ray

Communicating in crisis: Rhetorical (de)stabilization during the COVID-19 pandemic. , Brittany Nicole Smart

“Long live ear x-tacy!”: an oral history study of rhetorics of nostalgia and place. , Aubrie Warner

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

Re-localizing writing assessment: sites of knowledge mobilization. , Charlotte Asmuth

Taiwanese indigenous representation, rhetoric of resistance, and heteroglossia in warriors of the rainbow: SEEDIQ bale. , John Yu-Choh Chang

Progymnasmata and practicality: classical composition in the contemporary classroom. , Chelsea Murray Schaper

Definitions and depictions of rhetorical practice in medieval English Fürstenspiegel. , Joseph Ethan Blaine Sharp

(De)Legitimizing genres: rhetoric and tactical institutional critique. , Walker Smith

Rewriting writing as transmodal and translingual: Tranßcribing Japanese. , Alex Way

The glass coffin: gothic adaptations and the formation of sexual subjectivity. , Colton T. Wilson

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

Acting on what we hear: the impact of a listening methodology in a community literacy program. , Megen Farrow Boyett

Resonating otherness: rethinking the body through Octavia Butler's dawn. , Tristan DeWitt Carr

Imagination in practice: writing studies and the application of hospitality. , Edward Alan English

Transnational writing program administration: mobility, entanglement, work. , Joseph Franklin

Writing program administration at public liberal arts colleges. , N. Claire Jackson

The space between: listening within difference in writing center consultations. , Jessica S. B. Newman

A translingual approach to the theory and practice of basic writing. , Rachel Rodriguez

In a Victorian fog: constructing identities in female gothic novels. , Hayley Salo

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

Long for death. , Ashley William Bittner

"Don't put an 'or' where God puts an 'and'": constitutive rhetoric in queer Appalachia. , Brooke Elizabeth Boling

The sick ones. , Christian Loriel Lucas

Making modality: transmodal composing in a digital media studio. , Chris Scheidler

Regression and progression: portrayals of midnighter and apollo wildstrom and dc comics. , Adam J. Yeich

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

Do LGBTQ-identified, postsecondary writing instructors come out in their classrooms? , Michael Baumann

Vital data : writing and circulating data in non-profits. , Patrick Danner

Wounds and writing : building trauma-informed approaches to writing pedagogy. , Michelle L. Day

Learning and laboring : student-workers’ networked experiences of literacy, agency, and mobility in the Neoliberal University. , Layne Porta Gordon

Subversive sponsorship : organized literacy education and the long civil rights movement. , Jaclyn Hilberg

Coming to terms with Gonzo journalism : an analysis in Russian formalism. , Beau Kilpatrick

Remaking identities, reworking graduate study : stories from first-generation-to-college rhetoric and composition PhD students on navigating the doctorate. , Ashanka Kumari

Brokering words and work: complexities of literacy sponsorship in the oilfields of south Texas. , Jennifer L. Marciniak

Mapping rural literacy sponsorship networks : literacy infrastructures and perceptions in Abbyville. , Amy McCleese Nichols

This to which we've come. , Holly Tabor

Character arcs: mapping creative writers' trajectories into the composition classroom. , Jon Udelson

The emergent matter of archives : a rhetorical investigation of the queer formation of the Williams-Nichols archive. , Richard Wysocki

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

Conciencia bilingüe : the multilingual and academic writing practices of undocumented immigrant activists. , Sara del Pilar Alvarez

Uncertain certainties: an analysis of the American response to the 2014-2016 West African Ebola epidemic. , Kelly Carty

'Where history meets the future' : a historiographic exploration of Mississippi : the view from Tougaloo. , Khirsten L. Echols

Pens, print, and pixels : gendered writing and the epistolary genre in transitional eras. , Keri Elizabeth Mathis

A fractured conversation : the professional, scholarly, and disciplinary identities of two-year college writing faculty. , Laura Sceniak Matravers

"We're asking you to show up" : accountability as rhetorical practice for queer, feminist, and racial justice allyship. , Laura Tetreault

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

His scent of sandalwood. , Lujain Almulla

Eight pieces of pie. , Maggie E. Cassaro

Stories at work : restorying narratives of new teachers' identity learning in writing studies. , Rachel Gramer

New genres and new challenges : five interdisciplinary case studies of master's student writers. , Meghan Lynne Hancock

Aspirations into action : navigating structures for community engagement at the University of Louisville. , Megan Faver Hartline

Articulating the new normal(s) : mental disability, medical discourse, and rhetorical action. , Andrew Wesley Holladay

A curriculum of civic responsibility : transitioning Black American students to college-level writing. , Jamila M. Kareem

Retellings : a collection of nonfiction essays. , Jennifer Kiefer

The military meets the university : mapping issues of literacy sponsorship across military and academic settings. , Ashley Ludewig

Short stories. , Karley Miller

Trinity part one : food of the Gods. , Thomas Edward Olges

Ironic deference : an inquiry into the nineteenth-century feminist rhetoric of Kesiah Shelton. , Melissa Rothman

Hard to see through the smoke : remembering the 1912 Hillsville, Virginia courthouse shootout. , Travis A. Rountree

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

"If this stuff matters, why isn't it being shared?" : citations, hyperlinks, and potential public futures of online writing in rhetoric and composition. , Elizabeth Frances Bergeron Chamberlain

Master Buddha & the jolly golly fun time gang. , Todd Edward Evans

"This machine kills fascists" : the public pedagogy of the American folk singer. , Harley Ferris

To my betas, endless chocolate frogs! : exploring the intersections of emotion, the body, and literacy in online fanfiction. , Brittany Kelley

"Clarity" and "The romantic Marvin Milkweed". , Adam Christopher Lippert

The zodiac army. , Keith Charles Marks

Stories of single mothers : narrating the sociomaterial mechanisms of community literacy. , Kathryn Elizabeth Perry

New game+ , Bobby Rich

This sleep of reason. , Brit Thompson

The available means of imagination : personal narrative, public rhetoric, and circulation. , Stephanie D. Weaver

Amused teachers and public readers : empathy and derision in "student blooper" collections. , Jessica Winck

Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015

Language difference and expansive learning : negotiating concepts, contexts, and identities in writing-related transfer studies. , Megan Jeanne Bardolph

Doing time by conceiving space : the rhetorical cartographies of imprisoned writers. , Benjamin Bogart

“A polished, a practical, or a profound education” : (gendered) rhetorical literacies and higher learning in Louisville’s first free public high schools, 1856-1896. , Amy Jean Lueck

An unnamed God. , Luke Cash Mansfield

Mediation in literacy : language, technology, and modality. , Hem Sharma Paudel

A few good men and women : the rhetorical constitution of military personnel identity. , Ashly Bender Smith

Places in the polity of rhetoric : topoi, evolution, and the fragmentation of discourse. , Benjamin James Bickel Wetherbee

Hidden sites of 'first-year' composition : what do we mean when we say 'AP'? : the diversity of practices in AP English language and composition courses. , Hollye Nicole Wright

Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014

Corn cantos. , John E. Burgett

Mobilizing modernist magazines : Peter Sloterdijk and the Transatlantic review. , Daniel Lee Conrad

Undoings : reversals and dissolutions of binaries in the narrative films of Peter Greenaway. , Kristina Sue Bohleber Groves 1978-

Yours, mine, and ours : confronting the originality burden through remix and intertextuality. , Barrie Olson Harvey

"My watch begins" : identification and procedural rhetoric on second screens and social networks. , K. Shannon Howard

Servants of my people first : an examination of the political literacies of the Black Liberation Front International (BLFI), 1969-1973. , Joilynn Karega-Mason

The language politics of doctoral studies in rhetoric and composition : toward a translingual revision of graduate education in the field. , Carrie Byars Kilfoil

Globalizing literacies and identities : translingual and transcultural literacy practices of Bhutanese refugees in the U.S. , Tika R. Lamsal

Prankster questionaire. , Matthew Landan 1972-

Composing college and career : mobility, complexity and agency at the nexus of high school, college and work. , Brice Nordquist

Transfer and the commodification of practice. , Kenneth Andrew Smith

The ethos of conspiracy argument : "character" as persuader in conspiracy rhetoric. , Michael James Sobiech

Pedagogy : reconsiderations and reorientations. , John Vance

Prompting discussion : writing prompts, habits of mind, and the shape of the writing classroom. , William Matthew Wiles

Competing conceptions of literacy : intersections in a dual-credit writing program. , Caroline Wilkinson

Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013

Translingualism in post-secondary writing and language instruction : negotiating language ideologies in policies and pedagogical practices. , Nancy Bou Ayash

"Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished" : mortality, sexuality and spirituality in the early modern period. , Whitney L. Brown

Our mess is more. , Conyer Clayton

Wine with pharaohs. , Jean Fox DeMoisey 1974-

Literacy and identity in popular and participatory culture. , Laura A. Detmering

Exploring the interaction of explicit, genre-based instruction with antecedent genres and student engagement. , Jason Charles Dietz

Ideologies of response in composition classrooms. , Matt Dowell

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Quicklinks und sprachwechsel, main navigation, master thesis (30 ects).

Some information is available on the website of the Faculty of Arts . Below, you find the most important guidelines for Master Theses at the English Department. However, we strongly encourage you to read the Faculty guidelines as well.

Template Cover Master Thesis (English) (DOCX, 56 KB)

You may also wish to consult the section on extending deadlines (only possible in cases of force majeure) .

Whom Can You Choose as Your Supervisor?

• The Master Thesis is usually supervised by a professor .
• Other members of staff holding a PhD degree are also allowed to supervise Master Theses. Note, however, that they are not obliged to do so.
• To find out what types of topics individual instructors may be interested in supervising , you can consult their homepages. You can find links to all instructors' homepages on the UZH English Department's Staff List .

When to Contact Potential Supervisors?

Make sure to contact a potential supervisor prior to booking the Master Thesis online - ideally at the end of the preceding semester, but no later than:

• August 5 if wishing to book the two-semester module in the fall semester;
• January 5 if wishing to book the two-semester module in the spring semester.

When and How Do I Book the Master Thesis?

• The Master Thesis must be booked online , during the module booking period .

By When Do I Need to Submit?

• December 1 (for the fall semester);
• June 1 (for the spring semester).

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• Note that your supervisor may ask you to submit the Master Thesis earlier than this (e.g. mid-November for the fall semester).

How Long Should the Master Thesis Be?

Usually, the Master Thesis is between c. 20,000 and 30,000 words (not counting the bibliography). Note, however, that supervisors may accept theses that are shorter or longer. In other words, if in doubt, discuss the question of length with your supervisor.

Please also consult the following documents:

• Linguistics: Manual for Writers of Papers in English Linguistics
• Literature: Literature Guide

How Much Supervision? And What If I Don't Hear Back?

You are expected to conduct most of your research for the Master Thesis independently. However, supervisors will of course be happy to provide a certain level of guidance.

• At the start of the supervision process, you should discuss the mode of supervision with your supervisor (e.g. Will there be regular meetings? How often are you allowed/supposed to contact your supervisor?)
• Should you encounter any major problems, then please make sure to get in touch with your supervisor as early as possible!

Usually, supervisors at the UZH English Department will try to respond to your queries within 48 hours (working days, i.e. not counting weekends).

Should you not not hear back from your supervisor within three to four working days, then please send them a short reminder.

If you still do not hear back from your supervisor after your second message (within three to four working days), you should contact the advisor of studies at [email protected] .

Organizing the Master Thesis: Two Examples

The Master Thesis is, usually, a two-semester module. Accordingly, the following examples cover the two most common cases.

• ideally contact your supervisor at the end of the fall semester in the previous year, but no later than January 5, to find out whether they are willing to supervise your topic;
• book the Master Thesis during the module booking period of the spring semester (end of January/early February);
• submit the Master Thesis no later than on December 1 (or earlier, if your supervisor has given you an earlier submission date).
• ideally contact your supervisor at the end of the spring semester in the previous year, but no later than August 5, to find out whether they are willing to supervise your topic;
• book the Master Thesis during the module booking period of the fall semester (end of August/early September);
• submit the Master Thesis no later than on June 1 (or earlier, if your supervisor has given you an earlier submission date).

If you would like to submit your Master Thesis at the end of the first semester, then the corresponding deadlines would apply (i.e. June 1 for the spring and December 1 for the fall semester).

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Master of Arts Thesis

A thesis, ENG/LIN 599 (a minimum of six hours), is required, culminating in an oral examination on the completed work. Students prepare the master's thesis under the supervision of the chair of the Master of Arts (M.A.) thesis committee.

Registration:  Students will fill out the  Independent Study Form  for ENG/LIN 599. The Thesis Chair will sign the form (or if they are unable to sign the form, their email approval serves as the signature) and students will email the complete form to  [email protected] . Our front office staff will process the form and give the student access to register. No student will be allowed to register for thesis hours who does not have an approved  Plan of Study (iPOS) . Note: the default when registering is one credit hour. Students will need to ensure they register for the correct amount of credits. 

Please note that the Department Chair serves as a placeholder on all independent study courses and should not be contacted about the project. Students should only contact their Thesis Chair about registering and to discuss the specifics of the project/timeline of completion.

The M.A. thesis examines a well-focused question or problem through an informed context that is critical, theoretical and/or historical. In choosing a thesis topic, defining its scope, and determining its method, students should be guided by the expectation of the English department that the length of the thesis will be between 35 and 60 pages, exclusive of endnotes and bibliography. The committee will judge the thesis by the standards appropriate to a fully finished piece of critical or scholarly work in English.

The ideal germinating point for the thesis is a paper that comes out of a course, written for a professor with whom the student is comfortable and who agrees to direct an extended version of that study. Once the topic and committee are established, the student should decide upon a timetable that is both realistic for him or her and acceptable to the chair. The experience of students and faculty members is that completion of the thesis, from initial identification of the topic and attendant research through the final draft, is in most cases a project that needs more than one semester for its completion, regardless of the number of thesis hours taken during that semester. In other words, for most people it makes more sense to stretch the project over two semesters rather than to expect to begin and finish in one semester.

Students are required to show their work at regular intervals to all members of their committee. Committee members may decline such active participation, but this should not be assumed until each committee member has been consulted. Failure to follow this procedure, with reasonable amount of time for reading and comments, may result in rejection of the thesis.

The complete thesis must be submitted for initial format approval to the  Graduate College  at least 10 working days prior to the defense. An additional two weeks must be allowed for the thesis committee chair to judge that the thesis is ready for format approval. It is quite helpful to check out a copy of a thesis from Hayden Library for examples of what is outlined in the format manual, a Graduate College publication on format matters which each student should obtain. In addition, each year the Graduate College schedules helpful workshops on thesis and dissertation preparation, and the department encourages attendance.

Students may find it helpful to attend other oral defenses before their own is scheduled. Defenses are announced via e-mail in the Department of English and posted on the department website. It is the obligation of the candidate to observe  Graduate College deadlines  for both format approval and defense.

Please be advised that you must reserve a room for your oral defense BEFORE scheduling a defense through your MyASU. The Graduate College defense scheduling system does not automatically schedule rooms. Once you know the date and time of your defense, contact Michael Begay in the main office or complete the room scheduling form to schedule a room for your defense. Room scheduling can sometimes take up to three days, so please allow ample time. Also, please note whether you require any special room features. You will insert your already reserved room into the defense scheduling system along with the date, time, title, etc. Defenses must be scheduled with the Graduate College through your MyASU homepage (defense schedule tab) at least ten working days before the defense date. All milestones such as iPOS, exams must be completed before a defense can be scheduled.

Oral defenses of theses and dissertations are announced in the English Department. A student preparing for his/her defense should send an  e-mail to  Sheila Luna , which will include student name, thesis/dissertation title, date, time, room, committee chair, committee members, and a brief abstract. The abstract should be in the body of the e-mail, not as an attachment.

It is English department policy that defenses must be scheduled only in the fall and spring semesters; summer defenses are being allowed only in cases of unusual hardship.

M.A. Thesis Committee : The M.A. thesis committee consists of three members on the graduate faculty, ordinarily specialists in the area of the thesis, who should be selected as early as possible during a student's residence in a program. Once the chair is selected, the student should confer with him or her about other suitable members of the committee. Petitioning to have committee members from outside the department's graduate faculty will be handled by the department chair in consultation with the director of graduate studies. The plan of study is the student's official notification to the Graduate College of the committee membership.

Harvard University Theses, Dissertations, and Prize Papers

The Harvard University Archives ’ collection of theses, dissertations, and prize papers document the wide range of academic research undertaken by Harvard students over the course of the University’s history.

Beyond their value as pieces of original research, these collections document the history of American higher education, chronicling both the growth of Harvard as a major research institution as well as the development of numerous academic fields. They are also an important source of biographical information, offering insight into the academic careers of the authors.

Spanning from the ‘theses and quaestiones’ of the 17th and 18th centuries to the current yearly output of student research, they include both the first Harvard Ph.D. dissertation (by William Byerly, Ph.D . 1873) and the dissertation of the first woman to earn a doctorate from Harvard ( Lorna Myrtle Hodgkinson , Ed.D. 1922).

Other highlights include:

• The collection of Mathematical theses, 1782-1839
• The 1895 Ph.D. dissertation of W.E.B. Du Bois, The suppression of the African slave trade in the United States, 1638-1871
• Ph.D. dissertations of astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (Ph.D. 1925) and physicist John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (Ph.D. 1922)
• Undergraduate honors theses of novelist John Updike (A.B. 1954), filmmaker Terrence Malick (A.B. 1966),  and U.S. poet laureate Tracy Smith (A.B. 1994)
• Undergraduate prize papers and dissertations of philosophers Ralph Waldo Emerson (A.B. 1821), George Santayana (Ph.D. 1889), and W.V. Quine (Ph.D. 1932)
• Undergraduate honors theses of U.S. President John F. Kennedy (A.B. 1940) and Chief Justice John Roberts (A.B. 1976)

What does a prize-winning thesis look like?

If you're a Harvard undergraduate writing your own thesis, it can be helpful to review recent prize-winning theses. The Harvard University Archives has made available for digital lending all of the Thomas Hoopes Prize winners from the 2019-2021 academic years.

Accessing These Materials

How to access materials at the Harvard University Archives

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How to find and request undergraduate honors theses

How to find and request Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize papers

How to find and request Bowdoin Prize papers

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All the highlights from Class Day 2024

It was with great pleasure that friends and family members of the Class of 2024 gathered in McCosh Hall on Monday, May 27th for the Economics Department’s annual Class Day celebration.

At the beginning of the ceremony, Economics Department Chair Wolfgang Pesendorfer recognized the many challenges this year’s graduating class overcame when their journey at Princeton began in 2020. 

“Your high school senior year was profoundly disrupted and many of you missed out on your high school graduation ceremonies,” Pesendorfer noted. “Your time at Princeton started out most inauspiciously: First only virtual, then mostly confined to your dorm rooms. I am sure this was not the college experience you had envisioned for yourselves.”

“But here you are, having navigated those challenges with resilience and determination. Congratulations.”

Here’s a quick look at some of the biggest moments from this year’s Class Day celebration.

Shirley Ren awarded the Halbert White ’72 Prize in Economics

Shirley Ren receives the Halbert White ’72 Prize in Economics and the Wolf Balleisen Memorial Prize for the best thesis on an economics subject.

This year’s Halbert White ‘72 Prize in Economics–awarded annually to the department’s top student as evidenced by excellence in department coursework and creativity in their Junior Paper and Senior Thesis–went to Shirley Ren.

In addition to majoring in economics, Ren, whose thesis was titled “ An Asset Demand Approach to Studying Recent Trends in Chinese Equity Markets,” also earned certificates in Finance, Statistics and Machine Learning, Applied and Computational Mathematics, Political Economy, and East Asian Studies.

The 2024 Senior Thesis Prize winners

Every year, the department recognizes students whose Senior Thesis projects exemplify quality, creativity, and academic rigor.

The John Glover Wilson Memorial Award for the best thesis on international economics or politics was awarded to Antek Hasiura for their thesis titled “Currency Crises in the Age of Decentralized Finance.”

The Walter C. Sauer ’28 Prize, awarded annually to the student whose thesis or research project on any aspect of United States foreign trade is judged to be the most creative, was awarded to Dickson Bowman for their thesis titled “An Analysis of the Cross-Border Effects of Mexican President Felipe Calderón’s Cartel Kingpin Strategy.”

The Griswold Center for Economic Policy Studies Prizes, awarded to the best policy-relevant theses, were given to:

• Jampel Dorjee for their thesis titled “How the Rich Stay Rich: Intergenerational Wealth Transfer in the British Aristocracy, 1860-2022.”
• Joe Fast for their thesis titled “The Effect of the Minimum Wage on Disability Insurance Recipients.”
• Samantha Lee for their thesis titled “The Effects of Market Exclusivity Loss on Medication Utilization Dynamics: A Comparative Analysis of Cardiovascular and Psychotherapeutic Drugs.”
• Tucker Saland for their thesis titled “Climate Value at Risk: A Model Calibration Approach to Green Financing, Environmental Taxes, and Climate Change.” 
• Aaron Ventresca for their thesis titled “The Effect of the Tax Cuts and Job Acts of 2017 on Private Charitable Giving.”

The Burton G. Malkiel *64 Senior Thesis Prizes in Finance were awarded to:

• Ben Cai for their thesis titled “Examining Changes in Individual Payment Choice Behavior.”
• Bofan Ji for their thesis titled “Liquidity Regime Unveiled: Integrating Liquidity Measures Through Gaussian Mixture-Driven Hidden Markov Models.”

The Elizabeth Bogan Prize in Economics , awarded annually for the best thesis or theses in health, education or welfare, was awarded to Maya Satchell for their thesis titled “The Private Market Meets Affordable Housing: Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Properties Improve Low-Income Neighborhoods with Minimal Effects on High-Income Neighborhoods.”

The Daniel I. Rubinfeld ’67 Prizes in Empirical Economics , awarded for the best theses in empirical economics, were given to:

• John Mulunda for their thesis titled “Less Money, More Problems: An Analysis of U.S. Public Pension Plans’ Funded Ratio, Asset Allocation, and Investment Returns from 2001-2022.”
• Michael Zhou for their thesis titled “A Factor Model for Correlation Risk Premium Returns.”

Finally, the Wolf Balleisen Memorial Prize for the best thesis on an economics subject written by an economics major went to Shirley Ren for their thesis titled “An Asset Demand Approach to Studying Recent Trends in Chinese Equity Markets.”

Expressing gratitude for our outstanding graduate student preceptors and faculty advisers

During this year’s Class Day ceremony, Pesendorfoer also recognized six graduate students for going above and beyond as preceptors. The winners of this year’s Graduate Student Teaching Prizes were Narek Alexanian , Dexin Li , Carol Shou , Rafael Schwalb , Jesse Silbert , and So Hye Yoon .

Professors Mikkel Plagborg-Møller and Kelly Noonan were each awarded the Harvey Rosen Teaching Prize for their outstanding contributions to undergraduate education, and Assistant Professor Karthik Sastry was recognized for his commitment to undergraduate advising.

“He pushed me to think deeper about development economics and the many moving parts that go into implementing a large-scale policy,” one student said of Sastry’s efforts. 

“He provides thoughtful and helpful advice and comments, and never once made me feel rushed.”

Recognizing campus-wide contributions and the department’s all-star student athletes

Finally, Pesendorfer gave special recognition to several students whose contributions to Princeton extended far beyond the department. 

Pesendorfer recognized Stephen Daniels , who was one of eight seniors, out of 180 nominations, to win the 2024 Spirit of Princeton award for his service and contributions to campus life. He also recognized Sydney Eck , who was one of three undergraduates this year to win the Princeton Research Day Orange and Black Award. Eck won the award for her Junior and Senior Independent Work, which focused on health economics in India and China. 

Pesendorfer also recognized many of the department’s student athletes, whose achievements made the entire university proud. Those students include: 

• Cate Bade and the women’s softball team won the Ivy League tournament, the post-season tournament and advanced to the NCAA.  
• Tommy Barnds and Pace Billings, as a part of the men’s lacrosse team, won the Ivy League post-season tournament and advanced to the NCAA.
• William Cauley and Joe Fast were Ivy League champions in men’s track and field.
• Alastair Cho was an Ivy League champion for men’s squash.
• Christian Hartch and the men’s water polo team made it to the final four of the NCAA championship. 
• Ellie Mitchell and the women’s basketball team were Ivy League champions, winning the post-season tournament and advancing to the NCAA. 
• Samantha DeVito , Ellie Mueller , and Grace Tauckus , as part of the women’s lacrosse team, made it to the second round of the NCAA.
• Jen Estes and Marissa Hart , as part of the women’s soccer team, also made it to the second round of the NCAA. 
• Ben Harrington and the men’s volleyball team made it to the quarterfinals of the EIVA tournament.
• Mariachiara (Kikka) Giudici competed with the women’s openweight crew team, which ranked third nationally.

Congratulations to the incredible Class of 2024! We can’t wait to see everything you achieve in the years ahead.

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