Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Eurydice Never Liked Music: Reading Artistry in Aucoin and Ruhl's Eurydice, Kenji Anderson
“Still a Better Love Story than Twilight”: Camp, The Twilight Renaissance, and Contemporary Queer Youth Culture, Catherine Horowitz
Beyond the Red Demise: An Examination of Modes of Mythic Discourse in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, Oziah Wales
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
The Imperial Gothic: Contact Tracing Narratives of Disease, Disorder, and Race in Global American Literature, Emma Brownstein
Conceptualizing Teaching as a Joint Action: Learning Together in the English Classroom, Aniella Day
Events from 2020
Tools for Reading the Environment: Literary Field Guides & Poetic Inventories as Place-Making Literature, Lily Jones
Soupbone: Toward Public and Collective Humanities, Phoebe Pan
Events from 2019
Skilled Narration, Beautiful Language, and Sympathy for the Villain: How Texts Dehumanize the Lolitas and Ledas of Literature, Julia Berrebi
Antirealism: A History, Ben Diener
Power of Programming: The History and Theory of Film Curation, Emma Dreyfuss
Indigenous Superheroism in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Juliette Greene
Intellectual Insurgency and the Subversive Academy: Palestinian Women, Violent Resistance, and the Erasure of Political Subjectivity, Nicholas Kattoura
Incorporating Movement into High School Choral Classrooms: A Practical Approach, Peri Leavitt
Written in the Margins, Katherine Maleckar
Deconstructing the Politics, Erotics, and Poetics of Contemporary Feminist Text in the Post Me Too Era, Gabi Shiner
Events from 2018
A Friendly Discourse: How Should A Person Be? At the Intersection of Female Friendship and Epistolarity, Leah Cohen
Using Filipino American National Democratic Activism as a Lens for Redressing American Empire in the Philippines, Melissa Harris
“Get Yourself Out of Whatever Cage You Find Yourself In”: The Queerness of Form in Contemporary Queer Literature, Elly Higgins
Events from 2017
Consider the Mantis Shrimp: Semiotics and Authorship in Italo Calvino’s If on a winter’s night a traveler, Zoe Ginsberg
Investigating Allomorphy in a Coordinating Conjunction: A Corpus Study of Hiaki (Yaqui) Into(k(o)), Olivia Hay and Mattea Scheiber Koon
Dealing with the Digital: Literary Media, Mediated Narratives, and Sketchy Politics, Amanda A. Leopold
Reading' the Tracking Shot in Nadja and Marienbad, Eleanor H. Van Buren
Events from 2016
To Come Alive in Our Experience: The Sounds of Listening in Sigurd F. Olson, Allison Fulton
To Come Alive in Our Experience: The Sounds of Listening in Sigurd F. Olson, Allison Fulton
Don't Look Back: A Retrospective on Orpheus and Eurydice in Augustan Poetry, Emma Sterling
Events from 2015
Damsels in Distress no More: Grimm’s Fairy Tales and Modern Conceptions of Girlhood, Kasey Cheydleur
“The Whole Vexed Question”: Seamus Heaney, Old English, and Language Troubles, Una Creedon-Carey
“The Whole Vexed Question”: Seamus Heaney, Old English and Language Troubles, Una A. Creedon-Carey
Living in an (Im)material World: Consuming Exhausted Narratives in New Grub Street, Emma C. Eisenberg
Eat me/Drink me: Lewis Carroll’s Alice as Canonical Commodity, Emma Hadden
Reading the Landscape: Race, Gender, and Capital in Western Constructions of Nature, Asher Kaplan
Can Bình Speak?: Marginalization, Subversion, and Representation of the Subaltern in Monique Truong’s The Book of Salt, Joanne Eun Jung Lee
Shakespeare in the Round: Harmonic Logic of the Globe, Sophia Richardson
Untenable Boundaries: J.M. Coetzee’s Summertime and the Autobiography of All Writing, Sarah Westbrook
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
The Mechanical Aspirations of Written Things in Sterne's Tristram Shandy, Maxwell Harrison Cohn
The Unsolved Problem: Anger and Female Authorship, Ryann Eastman
On the Genealogy of Obscenity: Naked Lunch and The Death of Obscene Literature, Luke Harrison
Hearing Beyond the Veil: Benjy Compson and the Acousmatic Experience, Adam Hirsch
Negotiating Respectability: Black Women's Struggle for Self-Representation, Nicole Nance
Meaningful Play: Exploring the Possibilities of the Novel in Don DeLillo's White Noise, Steven Quam
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Manhattan Transference: Reader Itineraries in Modernist New York, Sophia Bamert
Manhattan Transference: Reader Itineraries in Modernist New York, Sophia Bamert
Function of Faith in Gesang Der Junglinge, Ross Chait
Hybrid Rhythms, Antithetical Echoes, and Autopoiesis: Intersections Between Sound, Self, and Nation in the Poetry of Yeats, Connor Stratton
Events from 2012
Symbolism and Language Within The Handmaid’s Tale and its Relevance to Literary Scholarship, Brittany Brahn
"And the Light Flood Over the Land": Reading Region in Marilynne Robinson's Gilead, Joshua Davidson
“Trying to Say”: Memory, Overheard Mothers, and the Rhetoric of Modernity in Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, Arielle Kaplan
A Never-Changing Map: Cartographic Experiments and a Return to the Subject in Cloud Atlas, Rebecca Nieto
A Poetics of Space: Opening Up a World Through Vessel Metaphors in Modern and Contemporary Poetry, Lili Pariser
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
The Authority of Difference: Culturally Effected Realism in Whitman and Henry James, Lindsey Jaynes
The Sentence, The Novel, and Autobiography: The Histories of Reading and Self in Bunyan and Rousseau, Samuel Rowe
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
The Luminous Halo: The Place of Language in The Waves and The Years, Rachel Luban
“Only Connect”: Music’s Role in Forster's A Room with a View, Tammela A. Platt
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
The Never-Ending Quest: Possession as a Postmodern Literary Romance, Allison L. Carlisle
Exile: The Implications of Separation From Language During Genocide, Kehan DeSousa
Why Floods be served to us in Bowls: Emily Dickinson's Souvenirs, Hannah Lee
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Jack Spicer and the Phenomenology of Meaning, Benjamin J. Kossak
An Infinity of Questions: Dramatizing Science on Stage, Emily Miranker
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Historias Nacionales ... or, Nation, Narration, and the End of the World in the Works of Jorge Luis Borges, Hannah Alpert-Abrams
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
"Life into Dry Bones": Emergence of the Female Artist and Community Integration in L.M. Montgomery's Novels of Development, Laurie Elizabeth Stein
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
What's Really in Alaska?, Renata Perri Silberblatt
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
In Need of Nature's Nourishment, Anna Gardner-Andrews
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
Dramatic Relocation: The Time and Place for Shakespeare on Film, Lydia Lunning
"Stuff You Really Want to Read:" Pleasure and Negotiation in Teen Magazine Reading, Margaret E. Troyer
Theses/Dissertations from 2002
All Hands Withdrawn: Touch and the Failure of Intimacy in A Passage to India and The Pisan Cantos, Douglas Diesenhaus
Word is Born: Critical Gaps and the Poetics of Hip-Hop, Kabir Hamid
Inheriting a Jewish Consciousness: Reading with a Sense of Urgency in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda, Joshua Mason
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
A Moment of Transcendence: Encountering Each Other In and Beyond the Fiction of Raymond Carver, Amy Lynn Leo
Canons, Culture Wars and History: A Case Study of Canonicity Through the Lens of The Blithedale Romance, Daniel L. Shiffner
Theses/Dissertations from 2000
Metametascience Towards Reconciliation, John P. Kennedy
Theses/Dissertations from 1999
Looking Through a Lens: A Viewer's Story about Love and the Movies, Jennifer Waldo
Theses/Dissertations from 1997
Science Fiction: Rhetoric, Authenticity, Textuality and the Museum of Jurassic Technology, Jeremiah Dyehouse
Theses/Dissertations from 1996
No Longer Children, Not Yet Adults: Adolescence in the Fiction of L.M. Montgomery, Cathlin M. Davis
"Yes, friends, these clouds...Are...stage machinery": An Exploration of Subject in John Ashbery, Shauna Sutherland
Theses/Dissertations from 1995
Relating to the Rood, Christopher C. LeCluyse
Theses/Dissertations from 1994
Faith and Banishment: The Artistic Credo of Katherine Anne Porter, Paul Richard Jaskunas
Theses/Dissertations from 1993
"As If I Could Do Anything Except Just Sit and Stare": A Gaze of a Viewer/Reader in Psycho and To The Lighthouse, Stephanie Hunt Hegstad
Classifying Gilbert and Sullivan, Joshua Rutsky
Spaces Between: Towards Depolarized Readings of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Bethany Suzanne Schneider
Say What I Mean: Metaphor and the Exeter Book Riddles, Sarah L. Thomson
Theses/Dissertations from 1992
"Nobody Said Anything" Issues of Communication in the Short Stories of Raymond Carver, Darren Bosch
The Mythmaking Self (or the Myth Making Self): Fiction and Experience in Galway Kinnell's The Book of Nightmares, Michael Patrick Robertson
Theses/Dissertations from 1991
Mary Shelley, Victor Frankenstein, and the Powers of Creation, Danielle Kolker
Theses/Dissertations from 1990
In Pursuit of "Our Heroine's Biographer": A Study of Narrative Method in Henry James' The Portrait of a Lady & The Ambassadors, James C. Davis
Gravity's Rainbow: Modernist Discourse Vineland: Postmodernist Discourse, Ted Mouw
Frowning Babe or Brightening Glance? Blake and Yeats's Particular Uses of Metaphor, Daniel Muir
The Fiction of Truth: Intergenerational Conflict in the Life and Works of Flannery O'Connor, Elizabeth Reed
"As If She Had No Secrets": Approach, Recognition, and Coming of Age In Alice Munro's Lives of Girls and Women, Catherine Laura Sweeney
Theses/Dissertations from 1989
Multiple Identities/Multiple Narrative Strategies: Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior, Gabrielle N. Dean
The Reinscription and Qualification of the Feminine in Elizabeth Stoddard's The Morgesons, Jeffrey Mihok
Breaking and Connecting in the Short Stories of Flannery O'Connor: "The Look of This Fiction is Going to be Wild" (Grace Minus Nature Equals Mystery), John Benjamin Schwartz
Theses/Dissertations from 1988
Oedipus Fallen: Irony in the Fiction of Milan Kundera, Douglas Lauen
Theses/Dissertations from 1987
The Fool As a Provisional Role in Shakespeare: Three Examples, Santha Cassell
The Commercialization of the Colloquial Voice: Raymond Carver and the Minimalist Aesthetic, Cara Diaconoff
The Function of Forest in The Faerie Queene: Seeing the Woods for the Trees, Nicholas Randell
Theses/Dissertations from 1986
"Are You Speaking?": A Speech Act Analysis of Pinter's A Kind of Alaska and No Man's Land, Brian M. Britt