This collection includes English and Creative Writing master's theses completed at LSU New Orleans (formerly the University of New Orleans) from 2003 to the present.
Older theses are housed as print copies in the library, and can be identified through the library's online catalog.
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
"The conceit of this inconstant stay": Shakespeare's Philosophical Conquest of Time Through Personification, Triche Roberson
Place Matters: An Evolutionary Approach to Annie Proulx's "The Half-Skinned Steer"and "Wamsutter Wolf", Erin Walker
Adolescent Transformation In the Short Stories of Carson McCullers, Ashley-Ann Dorn Woods
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Names, Violence, and the African American Vernacular in Richard Wright's The Outsider, Sarah Bailly
Medieval Feminine Humanism and Geoffrey Chaucer's Presentation of the Anti-Cecilia, Meghan Flewellyn
"Let heaven kiss earth!": The Function of Humanism and Animism in Shakespeare's Richard II and Henry IV, Parts I and II, Kathrin Kottemann
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Draumkvedet and the Medieval English Dream Vision: A Study of Genre, Christian Carlsen
Otherness and Assimilation: The Poetry of Double-consciousness in the Works of Charles Simic, Marilyn Chin, and Susan Atefat-Peckham, Katherine Kidder
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Gendered Representations of Jazz Vocal Artists: A Critical Discourse Analysis of CD and Performance Reviews, and Interviews, Miroslava Jichova
Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales: Rhetoric and Gender in Marriage, Andrea Marcotte
Slapstick Carnage: The Absurd Universe of Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, James Marler
Individuation and the Demeter-Persephone Myth in Charlotte Bronte's Shirley, Kristin Voss
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
(Re)Building Cultural, Community, and Academic Identity: Freshman Composition After Katrina, Russo Celeste Del
These People are Not Your People: Class Conflict and Ideology in Faulkner's Sanctuary, Elizabeth Shaye Hope
Guilty Pleasures: Narrative Craft and Mass Appeal in the Newgate Calendar, Aimee Rust
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
Neil Gaiman's American Gods: An Outsider's Critique of American Culture, Mark Hill
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
Critical Discourse Analysis of Sexual Enhancement Medication Ads, John-Paul Gomez
The Acquisition of the English Present Perfect by a Speaker of Brazilian Portuguese, Eleomarques Rocha
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
As Runs the Deer, Mignon Fahr
Theses/Dissertations from 1996
Potentiality in Lorenzo Da Ponte's Don Giovanni, James Ortego