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2023

“Something to Be Watched”: The Southern Gothic as Cultural Myth and the Nation’s Racial Spectacle, Wes Byers
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

2022

Girlhood and Engendered Alienation in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Lauren C. Dolese
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Fantasizing a Free Black History: Post-Black Arts Movement Novels and Plays Re-Imagining Jim Crow, Wynter Lastarria
Beyond the Margins: A Journal of Graduate Literary Scholarship

A New Politics of Black Regality: Zora Neale Hurston and Alice Walker’s Monarchical Method, William Martin
Beyond the Margins: A Journal of Graduate Literary Scholarship

Review of William Faulkner and Mortality; A Fine Dead Sound, by Ahmed Honeini, Routledge, 2021, pp. xi+ 194, $ 96,00 (hardback), ISBN: 9780367501327., Marietta Kosma
Beyond the Margins: A Journal of Graduate Literary Scholarship

2021

Odd Botany, Isaac G. Lauritsen
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

2020

Going Slumming in Mexico: Rereading Primitivism in Katherine Anne Porter’s Flowering Judas and Other Stories, Annika M. Schadewaldt
Beyond the Margins: A Journal of Graduate Literary Scholarship

Epic on an American Scale: Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, Tiffany M. Messick
Beyond the Margins: A Journal of Graduate Literary Scholarship

The Bird Woman, Erinn Beth M. Langille
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

2019

The Color of Invisibility, Bryan A. VanMeter
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

“To be men, not destroyers”: Developing Dabrowskian Personalities in Ezra Pound’s The Cantos and Neil Gaiman’s American Gods, Michelle A. Nicholson
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

“An’ No Place to Lead ‘Em”: The Grapes of Wrath and the Breakdown of Myth, Nicholas F. Comeaux
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

John Gardner’s Grendel: The Importance of Community in Making Moral Art, Catherine C. Cooper
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

2018

“Your love is too thick”: An Analysis of Black Motherhood in Slave Narratives, Neo-Slave Narratives, and Our Contemporary Moment, Kaitlyn M. Spong
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

“More Human Than Human”: Lacan’s Mirror Stage Theory and Posthumanism in Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Richelle V. Finn
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

2017

The Female Bildungsroman in George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, Lena M. Nunez
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

2016

Using Hamlet and Peter Pan: Family Issues, Ghosts, and Memory in Bret Easton Ellis's Lunar Park, Michael L. Hardie
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

2015

Contagious Deadly Sins: Yellow Fever in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans Literature, Kathleen M. Downes
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

"It's No Life Being a Steer": Violence, Masculinity, and Gender Performance in The Sun Also Rises and In Our Time, Brock J. Thibodaux
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

“In my fiction I never say anything which is not absolutely true”: Reassessing Constance Fenimore Woolson’s Literary Realism, Ashley N. Hemm
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

“Cowboy, Paladin, Hero?”: Being Boys and Men in David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King, David J. Guidry
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

You Don't Have to Be Good, Andrea Panzeca
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

2014

In Between the Dots and Dashes: Telegrams and the Mediation of Intimacy in The Golden Bowl, Sean Jemison
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Don’t Bow Down, Andrew B. Gibbs
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

2013

Vampirism in Hawthorne’s “The Birthmark,” The Scarlet Letter, and “The Minister’s Black Veil”, Amanda D. Baudot
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

William Beer: An Englishman's Role in Libraries, Literature and Society in New Orleans, 1891-1927, Remesia Shields
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

2012

Happy Valley, Robert D. Gray
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

“Bury Your Head Between My Knees and Seek Pardon”: Gender, Sexuality, and National Conflict in John Okada’s No-No Boy, Patricia A. Thomas
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

2011

Racism Recognized and the Reformation of the South in Ernest Gaines‘, La Toya Session
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Dark Consciousness: Theory of Mind and Henry James’s The Golden Bowl, Adam Maillet
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

2006

Katrina and Her Poets, John Gery
English Faculty Publications

1998

'What! Has she got into the "Atlantic"?': Women Writers, the Atlantic Monthly, and the Formation of the American Canon, Anne E. Boyd
English Faculty Publications