Theses from 2011
Chelmsford , Daniel Davis
Violence, Christianity, And The Anglo-Saxon Charms, Laurajan G. Gallardo
The Meek Shall Inherit, Chris Houchens
Dear generals and used up men: War discourse and dissent in antebellum America, Kimberly Hunter-Perkins
John Savage, John Klyczek
H(A)Unt, Daniel Paquin
Distorted domesticities: Hawthorne and the Democratic domestic sphere, John Stromski
Sometimes magic, Corey Taylor
Twenty Essential Illinois Problems, Clint Walker
Theses from 2010
Genre Awareness In The Writing Center, Ashok Bhusal
An Economic Model Of Literary Studies, Devin Charles Black
Going Home, Glen Davis
William Harper: A story, J.T. Dawson
Frederick Douglass: The man, his words and his legacy as a master rhetorician, Tameka Lashean Johnson
It's not catharsis, it's cognition: A new approach to emotion in composition, Caronia (Nia) Klein
Monstrous transformations: Loyalty and community in four medieval poems, Mary Lieske
In The Cold, Quiet Dark, Chris Ludwig
Marketing Campaign For Soup Stop, Nfp, Inc., Chelsea M. McBride
Rhetorical grammar and you: A study of first-year composition papers, Kristi McDuffie
Performance, spectacle, text: The court masques of Samuel Daniel, Donica Martin Miller
Strings, Willie J. Morris
Invisible, not invincible: A fiction and memoir thesis on domestic abuse, Jennifer KayLynn O'Neil
A teller of tales: Narratology and the works of Sherwood Anderson, Jamie Patton
Wordsworth, Emerson, And The "Art Of Loss", Nicholas M. Shaner
You'Re Not Really Black Unless You'Ve Been Shot-- Or So Says Black Urban Fiction, Erin A. Talley
Theses from 2009
Exploring At-Risk Student Writers In Academic Success Programs And The Role Instructors Play In Their Evaluation, Katrina Monique Dunbar
Translating Anglo-Saxon poetry: Foreignized translations of The seafarer and The wanderer, Andrew Timothy Eichel
Where we can't follow: A collection of short stories, Megan Holt
Becoming, Liz Jacoby
The first adventure of Raspberry and Lime: A futuristic screenplay, Sarah E. Mims
The letters of Elizabeth I: Rhetoric for ruling, Anna M. Patton
Theses from 2008
The grim word: 'home' in fiction by Graham Greene, Geoff Cowgill
Hannah Dustan: A seventeenth-century text still in progress, Janice Derr
Textual Selves, Tasha Dunaway
A song and a slogan: Regional influences on Carl Sandburg and Edgar Lee Masters, Amanda Dunlavey
Driven To Distraction, Carissa Renee Hayden
Passage through the ocean: The female heroic journey in the novels of Anita Desai, Jaime Pedigo Hendrix
Cyber tribe: The rhetorical implications of the Daily kos political filter blog community, Rachel Lutz
The Bearded Man, Scott Lutz
Expanding composition's scope: Community-based literacy and second-language writing, Carolina Pelaez-Morales
What Comes Next, Mario Podeschi
Cutting back the mask: Character and coiffure in fiction by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Robert Penn Warren, Lisa Anne Powell
Warriors, lovers, mothers: Women's physical powers in the Irish sagas, Jessica L. Powell-Pickering
The beauty of her survival: Being Black and female in Meridian, The salt eaters, Kindred, and The bluest eye, Loretta N. Ullrich-Ferguson
Theses from 2007
The Search For Authentic Identity In Three Novels By West Indian Author Earl Lovelace, Todd A. Cornwell
The interdialect approach to second dialect acquisition: Theory, process, and results, Shauna K. Cromwell
To the beat of a different drum: Inside the mind of an "Aspie", Kristopher Allyn Jones
Holding Her Hand, Chris Ellen Lamb
The Philosophical Quest of Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath, Eun-Young Lim
The Myth, Paul Meske
Rocking the Kenyan cradle: Colonial conditioning in Ngugi wa Thiongo's Njamba Nene stories, Jonathan Moore
Black, white, and gray: The veiled politics of race and slavery in antebellum literature, Emily Ramage
Home invasions: Victorian domestic space and the figure of the outsider, Kathleen Rodems
Brasil with an S: A memoir, Lee Isaacson Roll
Punk'd lives: Or, The effects of white folks, black folks, and breeders on punks, Maurice L. Tracy
Color-blind or seeing white: A pedagogical approach to critical whiteness studies, Rebekah K. Volk
In The Middle Of Somewhere, Lisa Anne Walker
Comfort Food, Anita Zimmerman
Theses from 2006
American books of the dead: Mourning and denial in the fiction of Don DeLillo and Cormac McCarthy, Allan E. Crandell
Her violated body: Sexual violence and the limits of political allegory in post-apartheid South African fiction, Jennifer Mishaela Fuhler
Tracing Virag: Jewish migration and the construction of James Joyce's Ulysses, Barry A. Hudek
Jane Austen, character, and the place of the picturesque, Lola Burnham McElwee
Way station: A play in two acts, Wes Payton
Treading lightly, Megan Rankin
The semantics of color in Anna Akhmatova's early poetry, Alsu Shakirova
Living with Paine: The age of reason in nineteenth-century American literature, Joe Webb
Boundary-crossers: Observation, chance, and change in the fiction of Thomas Hardy, D. Levi Woolen-Danner
Theses from 2005
The fool, Jonathan M. Cook
The sadness of great fame: The conflict between individuality and expectation in the works of Don DeLillo and Jim Morrison, Sue Ellen Norton Francis
Bringing her fist down on that wholeness: Rewriting gendered narratives in Zoë Wicomb's fiction, Rachel Heicher
Observing, navigating, exploring: The fourfold path of nourishing wrath and others, Greg Holden
Parting of the ways: The end of the spirit of empire in Paul Scott's Raj quartet, Blake Strong
Politics and gendered spirituality in the short stories of SriDaoRu'ang, Rachel Ann Vaughn
A focused study of the social outcast in literature: A healing for America's youth, Darcey A. Voyles
The tunnel at the end of the light: Victimization in the films of Roman Polanski, Christopher Weedman
Re-assessing state writing assessment, Tracy Wright
Theses from 2004
Translating Shakespeare: Film representation of dramatic art, Benjamin Russell Atkins
Vagabonds , Brianne Bolin
Rhetoric of change: Crisis, paradigm, process and computers in composition, Peggy A. Eddy
Donne and Herbert: Constructing a religious identity amidst powerful cultural forces, Jeffrey J. Fathauer
Witness: Literary representations of slave insurrection in the West Indies and America, 1781-1861, Joshua Sopiarz
Female identity in the works of Willa Cather: A product of cultural context, Tara N. Veach
National writing, personal journey: Shifting moral ideas in the gothic novels of Charles Brockden Brown, Stanley Eugene Weiss
Theses from 2003
Motherlands of the Mind: A Study of the Women Characters of Attia Hosain's Sunlight on a Broken Column and Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, Umme Sadat Nazmun Nahar Al-wazedi
Transcending gender and class: A study of Elizabeth Gaskell's novels, Kimberly A. Burnett
Lacunae: Narrative "Lacks, Holes or Gaps" in Faulkner's and Morrison's Novels, Phyllis Ann Karpus
understanding reflection, David Michael Moutray
Kerouac's instrumental use of jazz, Dawn Nehrkorn
The Role of Place in Malcolm Cowley's Blue Juniata and Exile's Return, Robert Pratte
Image and Identity: Effects of the Gaze in Colette's The Vagabond and Jean Rhys's Good Morning, Midnight, Janet A. Puzey
The Soldier's Strife: An Introspective View Through the Work of Tim O'Brien, Mandy Solomon
The Mermaid's Dress: Marriage and Empire in The Voyage Out and Mrs Dalloway, Melissa Wharton-Smith
Love, Violence, and Creation: Modernist Mediums of Transcendence in Sylvia Plath's Poetry and Prose, Autumn Williams
Theses from 2002
John Irving, Female Sexuality, and the Victorian Feminine Ideal, Tara Coburn
Marty on the Edge, Bill Feltt
American Kitsch: Dreams of Vegas and Apollo beyond Aporias, Daniel Gerling
