Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Like Branches on a Tree, Meiloni C. Erickson
The Fall Line: on Tarversville, Georgia and Some of its Lives, Barry K. Fitzpatrick
Smart Mouth [stories], Tyler Gillespie
It's Never Perfect, Caroline Goetze
Myth Protagonist X, Jennifer R. Hanks
Overcoming Sin: Comparing Dante’s Inferno and the New Testament to Cormac McCarthy’s Outer Dark and Child of God, Tammy S. Hanson
Using Hamlet and Peter Pan: Family Issues, Ghosts, and Memory in Bret Easton Ellis's Lunar Park, Michael L. Hardie
Python Crown Girl, Jade Hurter
Time Enough, LB Kovac
“On the Cusp of Half-Remembered Prophecies”: Interpreting Prophecy in George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire, Patrice A. Loar
Lost Girls, Maya Lowy
Exposing the “Shadow Side”: Female-Female Competition in Jane Austen’s Emma, Melissa M. Lyman
Brief Encounters, Alexandra E. Reisner
What Sweden Is Like, Riccardo Savini
Premium Brawn, Spencer E. Silverthorne
Chaucer's Collision Montage, Brandon Simmons
A Family of One's Own: Reconstructing Queer Families of Color in Film, David F. Stephens
A Fixated People, Jessie Strauss
The Present, A Thousand Times Deeper, Edie Talley
The Tiberius Torture, Christian Thomas
The Digital Badge Initiative and its Implications for First-Year Writing, Rena Tillinghast
The Last Place on Earth, Cameron Q. Todd
Across the Great Divides: An Exploratory Tryptich, Andrew Vaught
New Rust, Lauren Walter
If Only They Tried; The Complicated Crusade for Salvation in the Post-Katrina Education Reform Movement, Brooke Wanamaker
Scrub, Mark T. Williams
The Cunning Folk, Erin N. Wylie
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
John Milton: Not War, Not Peace, Not Exactly Grotian, William T. Abbott
894, Kathleen A. Bailey
Alsobrook, Harvey S. Bartlett III
Dissent, John P. Belli III
Garberville: A Collection of Stories, Katharine Kara Breithaupt
What Ever Happened to the Man from the Cosmos?, Christian Coleman
A Song of Rape and Infanticide: "Sir John Doth Play", Candace Crawford
Temptation, Sin, and the Human Condition in Shakespeare's Macbeth, Maria Cusimano
Erichtho’s Mouth: Persuasive Speaking, Sexuality and Magic, Lauren E. DeVoe
Contagious Deadly Sins: Yellow Fever in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans Literature, Kathleen M. Downes
Exit, Promising, Stephanie Doyle
Cognitive Castles: Place and The Castle of Otranto, Kevin I. Flotte
Father and Mother Songs, Heather Fowler
Spared the Technicolor, Peter C. Friedman
In My Heart was a Kind of Fighting, Dana Glass
Tulpamancy, Kia Groom
“Cowboy, Paladin, Hero?”: Being Boys and Men in David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King, David J. Guidry
Fear of Inclement Weather, Clare L. Harmon
“In my fiction I never say anything which is not absolutely true”: Reassessing Constance Fenimore Woolson’s Literary Realism, Ashley N. Hemm
E to Em, Elizabeth M. Hogan
The Sins of the Mothers, Sylvia Johns Schneller M.D.
Skagway, Robin Johnstone
Talk Here: A Personal Chronology in Linked Essays, Neva Knott
A Bedlam of Shenanigans, Andrew F. Kooy
The Unheard New Negro Woman: History through Literature, Shantell Lee
“Beauty Joined to Energy”: Gravity and Graceful Movement in Richard Wilbur’s Poetry, Elizabeth Lynch
The Stars of David, Eric B. Millman
Becoming Number Six, Ross Peter Nelson
A Fire Stronger than God: Myth-making and the Novella Form in Denis Johnson's Train Dreams, Chinh Ngo
Feeling Your Heart Beat in the Palm of Your Hand, Kami L. Ownbey
You Don't Have to Be Good, Andrea Panzeca
Lost and Found, Denise L. Patrick
From the Back of a Bus Named Desire, Brenda D. Quant
Wandering Souls of The Graveyard, Brandon Rizzuto
Per Capita, Kristina K. Robinson
Examination, Exertion, and Exemplification: Wives of Anglican Clergymen in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, and Mansfield Park, Lauren K. Sauzer Dunn
Fat Boy Private Dance, Adam M. Schwartz
Ash Back Into Fire, Roxanne P. Seay
Letters of a Ruined House, Benjamin P. Sines
Stranded, Rachael Smith
"It's No Life Being a Steer": Violence, Masculinity, and Gender Performance in The Sun Also Rises and In Our Time, Brock J. Thibodaux
Discreet Feminism: Neil Gaiman’s Subversion of the Patriarchal Society in American Gods, Christopher P. Thompson
The Revisionists, Thomas A. Turpish
Dante, Damnation, and The Undead: How The Conception of Hell Has Changed in Western Literature from Dante's Inferno to The Zombie Apocalypse, Isabelle M. Whitman
Blank Page: A Teacher Begins, John D. Wolfe
Verve, Stephanie L. Zahareas
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
A Sister's Mythology, Robin Baudier
The Succubus and the Suckers: the Soul-Siphoning Leeches in the Stories of Modernist Text., Victoria Bonilla
The Hat Lady Equation, Lauren Capone
Baring It All, Barbie Cure
The First Foretelling, Cynthia M. Davidson
Shades of Sunflower County, Louann Dorrough
Roadside, Lea L. Downing
The Trash Collector, Cara E. Duryea
Twin Core: An Exploration of Twins in the Wizarding World, Carol R. Eshleman
Eclectica, Melanie D. Fitch
Man Without a Blueprint, Brendan Frost and Brendan Gaquin Frost
Inside the Trampoline, Eli J. Gay
Don’t Bow Down, Andrew B. Gibbs
Romantic Rhetoric and Appropriation in William Apess’s A Son of the Forest, Courtney Hilden
In Between the Dots and Dashes: Telegrams and the Mediation of Intimacy in The Golden Bowl, Sean Jemison
Forlorn Days, Anthony Kane
Here There Is No Place That Does Not See You, Carolyn B. Mikulencak
Lisbeth Salander Lost In Translation - An Exploration of the English Version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Kajsa Paludan
Found Cairn, Megan E. Riley
The Music of Turbulence, Traci J. Rosenbaum
Invincible: Legacy and Propaganda in Superhero Comics, Natalie R. Sheppard
Just Off Elysian Fields, Woodlief A. Thomas
The Garden, Todd S. Trulock
Please Inside-Out This, Tara S. Waudby
Sometimes the Bear, Summer Wood
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Leitmotif, Breiseus A. Ashford
Vampirism in Hawthorne’s “The Birthmark,” The Scarlet Letter, and “The Minister’s Black Veil”, Amanda D. Baudot