Theses from 2002
Searching for the Hero's Code: Questioning (White) Hero Formation in Contemporary American Film, Amanda D. McKay
Birth of a Paradigm: Digital Technology and Its Effect on Literary Studies, Chad Michael Verbais
This Man's Heart: Masculinity in the Poetry of E.E. Cummings, Willis John Whitesell III
Theses from 2001
The Voices from the Sanctuary: The Female Narrators of J M Coetzee's In the Heart of the Country and Doris Lessing's Memoirs of a Survivor, James L. Forman
Walt Whitman: The Optimism of an Evolutionary Pantheist, Katherine R. Hults
Pirsig's Phaedrus: The Journey of the Shaman, Joseph E. Levora
Journey to the Frontiers of Perception: How Women Wrote About the Westward Movement during the Nineteenth Century in Relation to Land, Animals, and the Domestic Sphere, Brandi Dale Spelbring
African-American Life Writing: Harriet Jacobs and bell hooks, Luo Yi
Theses from 2000
Delight, Subversion and Truth in The Canterbury Tales: Chaucer's Talking Birds, Terri Benson Blair
Gary Snyder's Path, Jason Dockter
Victorian Philosophies of Useless Work Versus Work for the Mind: Carlyle, Ruskin, Morris, and Marx, Marlaina Easton
Audre Lorde's Expansive Influence on Black Lesbians: Jewelle Gomez, Cheryl Clarke, and Kate Rushin, Denise L. Fitzer
The Noble Survivor and the Sublime Victim: A Study of Two Hardy Heroines, Elizabeth-Jane and Tess, Wei Gao
African American Poets of the Vietnam War, Megan Guernsey
Critical Fantasies: Structure of Chinese Folk Tales, Saihanjula He
Lessing and Emerson: Conscious Evolution and Ideal Reality, Rachel Hills Newell
"I am no mean player myself": Games and Recreation in Irish Mythology, Julie Lynn Perenchio
"Retracing Our Steps": Storytelling, Time, and Traditional Referentiality in Mama Day and Absalom, Absalom!, Christine Ann Roth
From Hierarchy to Balance: Anne Bradstreet's Union of Renaissance and Puritan Influences, Christy Shannon
Theses from 1999
Connecting Threads: Quilts as Symbols in Adolescent Literature, Anita L. Beaman
Are They Fact or Are They Fiction? The Sadeian Women of Angela Carter, Catherine Gall
L.I.F.E., Omar Merideth Headen
I Was a Teenage Necrophiliac: A Screenplay, Walter Howard
Garbage Picking with Salman Rushdie, Tara Hubschmitt
Door to Door, Bryan Levek
Reanimating the Creature: The Last Man as a Sequel to Frankenstein, Shannon Phillips
‘Two are better than one;’ Adam and Eve's Symbiotic Marriage in John Milton's Paradise Lost, Jeffrey Paul Pietruszynski
Theses from 1998
"She Protects Her Girls": The Legend of Mary Hawkins at Pemberton Hall, Margaret Allen-Kline
Of What She Lets Go, Amber Dawn Garrison
The "hope" of Sandra Cisneros's the House on Mango Street: Affirming community and rejecting machismo, Ann Marie Ladner
"The World Adrift in Emptiness": Crossing the Abyss of Transition in Four Tragedies by Wole Soyinka, Michael H. Lake
Syntactic and Semantic Properties of Intensive Reflexives in English, Marek R. Marciniak
A Journal of Poetry: The War in Croatia, Diana Katarina Matijaš
Ngatish, Dale T. Mosley
The Other and Narrative Framing in Nabokov's The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Lolita, and Pnin, Stacey Vivian Overend
"That Gentil Text Kan I Wel Understonde": Textual Authority in Chaucer’s The Wife of Bath’s Prologue, Emilie Roy
Speaking of the Raj: Kipling, Forster, and Scott on the English Language in British India, Victoria K. Tatko
Beyond the Problem Novel: Robert Cormier's Vision and the World of Adolescent Tragedy, Erik M. Walker
William Butler Yeats and the Cuchulain Cycle, Zhibo Wang
Warren's Audubon: A Vision Revisited, Sylwia W. Zechowska
Theses from 1997
"Childhood and Other Disabilities", Sandra Beauchamp
Integrating Student Expectations Into Writing Center Theory and Practice, Mary J. Bonevelle
Barring the Nursery Window: Narrator Intrusion and Separation Anxiety in Children’s Literature, Mary Alice Dwiggins
Yoknapatawpha as Camelot: The Influence of the Arthurian Legends on the Writings of William Faulkner, Sally Dye
Benjamin Franklin and His Critics: John Adams, Mark Twain, and David Herbert Lawrence, Marzuki Jamil Baki Bin Haji Mohamed Johar
Growing Old and Growing Wise? Parenting and Maturation in Henry James' Selected Tales and Novels, Judit Magyar
Country of Thieves, Jennifer A. Moro
The Ruins of Childhood: Jim Thompson, Erskine Caldwell, and William Faulkner Expose Guilt and Consequence, Robert Thomas Newell
In transition: Five women's writings in the cultures of America, Kirsi Rintanen
Writing anxiety and the adult student: Causes, effects, and solutions, Leann Smith
Theses from 1996
A Woman Alone and Writing: Anti-Ideology and Artistic Irony in Writings of Mary Shelley, Delores Archaimbault
A subversive in hyperspace: C.J. Cherryh's feminist transformation of space opera, Susan J. Eisenhour
Geoffrey Chaucer's House of Fame: From Authority to Experience, Victoria Frantseva
Chaucer's Use of the Absalom Archetype in The Knight's Tale and in The Miller's Tale, Sharon Hardin
In Pursuit of a Path: A Collection of Short Stories About Women, Stacey M. LaFeber
Transforming a Legend: Significance of the Wandering Jew in Shelley's Work, Matthew D. Landrus
James Welch's Winter in the Blood: Thawing the Fragments of Misconception in Native American Fiction, Mario A. Leto II
Spiritual Illumination And Reconciliation In Thomas Hardy'S Poetry, Mary F. Pottorff
A Contextual Study Of Hair Imagery In The Poetry Of Emily Dickinson, Marlene M. Slough
Edgar in Wonderland: Elements of Nonsense in Lewis Carroll and Edgar Allan Poe, Martha Taussig
"Maybe I Have Character Too": Reconsidering Bernard Malamud's Seductresses, Jeff Vande Zande
Theses from 1995
An Analysis of Personal Pronouns in Middle English Literary Texts, Melissa Jill Bennett
Whale, Michael J. Brown
Computer Assisted Instruction and the Basic Writer, Kathy Ford
Pynchon, Dionysus and America: In Search of the Pig that Got Away, Andreas Gerling
A Genetic Model Of Duality In Latin American Magical Realism, Keith Spear
A New Sense of Time in Female Development: Linearity and Cyclicity in Atwood's Surfacing and Cat's Eye, Diana L. Unes
Theses from 1994
Rethinking space and time: Pueblo oral tradition and the written word in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony, Lynn K. Galbreath
Anne Rice's vampire aesthetic: Redefining the vampire tradition, Kurt Alan Kemp
From Tragedy to Hope: A Study of the Parallels in the Thought of Samuel Johnson and T.S. Eliot, Thomas Daniel McGrath
The Concept of the Local in Williams' Developing Poetics: The Poet's Perception and Representation of the Poor, Jon Montgomery
From Innocence to Experience in William Blake's The Book of Thel and the Visions of the Daughters of Albion, Ann B. Moutray
Shirley Jackson--Escaping The Patriarchy Through Insanity, Jennifer Noack
The Transformation of Immanence: From the Augustinian Faith of Henry Vaughan to the Rationalist Faith of S.T. Coleridge, Tristum M. Ryan
Forced Entries: A Novel, Thom Schnarre
Jonathan Swift: A study of personae and satire, Susan J. Uhlarik
The Feminine Other: A Study of the Women in Shakespeare's Major Tragedies, Kurt E. Wilamowski
Theses from 1993
Raiders of the Lost Ark and the Hollywood Tradition: Nostalgia, Parody, and Postmodernism, Michael F. Deters
"And the Woman Is a Stranger": The Double-Voiced Discourse in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea and Voyage in the Dark, Hsiao-chien Lee
The Allegorical and Symbolic Modes of Representation in W. Wordsworth's Poems of the Fancy and Poems of the Imagination, Irena Nikolova Nikolova
The Multiple Voices of Frederick Douglass, Gesthemane Vasiliadou
The Quest in Lao Tzu and William Wordsworth for Original Creative Power, Yue Xing
Theses from 1992
Letters to Mother: A One-Act Play, Susan R. Brock
Rhetoric in Fiction: A Fantasy-Theme Analysis of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, Thomas S. Caldwell
A Woman's Quest for Happiness: O'Neill's "Private Myth", Andrea Ximena Campaña Garcia
Tumbleweed, John Fehrmann
Expectations as Character Development in Chaucer's Clerk's Tale, Kevin Gorham
An Analysis of Writing Across the Curriculum, M. Katherine Haight
Imagination and Intuition in the Narrative of Charlotte Brontë, Norma Henning
Tolkien's Unnamed Deity Orchestrating the Lord of the Rings, Lisa Hillis
Marianne Moore: Facets of the Crystal, Mary Virginia Katzeff
Like He Would Jump Me with a Book: Black Humor in Sanctuary and Oliver Twist, Deborah LeClaire
Oedipal Identity and the Freudian Construction of Orality in Okot p'Bitek's Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol, Paul Kent Oakley
A New Reading of Ruth Suckow, Judith Pierson
Narrative Perspective In Willa Cather'S O Pioneers!, My Antonia And A Lost Lady, Debra L. Will
Chaucer's "Nether Ye": A Study of Chaucer's Use of Scatology in The Canterbury Tales, Brook Wilson
Theses from 1991
Female Fantasists: Re-visioning the Archetypal Warrior, Tammy M. Bear-Tibbs
