Theses from 2024
The Confessional Side of Lennon: Comparing the Lyrics of John Lennon to the School of Confessional Poetry, Brandon H. Job
Theses from 2022
Textual Persuasion: Trauma Representation in Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves, Elizabeth A. Wall
Theses from 2021
A Transatlantic Conversation on Medicine and Literature, Brittani Mroz
Theses from 2020
The Psychological Effects of Patriarchy and Courtship: Eighteenth Century Women’s Mentalities in Pamela and Clarissa, Peter J. LaPorta
The Estrangement of George Orwell’s Modern Man, Christopher Nightengale
Crossing Borders, Crossing Genres: Utilizing Genres to Explore Literary Themes Through Genre Fiction, Michael W. Rickard II
Theses from 2019
"Witness to the Witness": Slavery and the Writing of Disaster, Danelle Peterson
Theses from 2018
The Lacanian Real as Absent Cause: The Name(s)-of-the-Father, or Les Non-Dupes Errent, Garrett Busshart
Cultural Consumption: Ideologies, Aesthetics and Economies in Marguerite Duras’s Work, Melissa Ferreira
Beyond Christ in Concrete: Exploring Assimilation, Identity and Manual Labor in Pietro di Donato's This Woman and Three Circles of Light, Giannina A. Lucantoni
Theses from 2017
Histories Become Fiction: Variations on the Literary Case Study, Megan C. Cole
Magical Realism and Film: A Look at Midnight’s Children, Jeff Floss
The French Way: Henry James and the British Theater, Jeremy D. Williams
Theses from 2016
Ann Radcliffe's Superpaternal: A Study of the Supernatural in The Romance of the Forest and The Mysteries of Udolpho, Lynn Kramer
Theses from 2015
Confining Country, Confining City: Real and Imaginary Places in the Work of Sam Selvon, Anthony J. DiGesare
Racial Impartiality: The Women of the Abolition Movement as Depicted in Dessa Rose and The Invention of Wings, Chelsea B. Garbe
“Inhumanly Beautiful”: The Aesthetics of the Nineteenth-Century Deathbed Scene, Margo Masur
Theses from 2014
Rap Aesthetics and the Postmodern Imaginary, Timothy A. Collins
Salvation Through Storytelling: Examining Storytelling in Modern Children’s Literature, Devon A. Cozad
"God Loves All Them Feelings": Renegotiating Faith and Sexuality in The Color Purple and Angels in America, April L. OBrien
Theses from 2013
Victorian Women and Their Working Roles, Kara L. Barrett
The Lovecraft Look: An Examination of Lovecraftian Themes in Film, Michael A. Church
(Re)Visions of Gender: Reading the Uncanny in Virginia Woolf, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Hilda Doolittle, Joelle Mann
From Mutation to Disarticulation: Terror and the Body in Don DeLillo’s Falling Man, Sarah A. McMichael
Now, in the Time of Salpiglossis: A Study of Sound and Image in the Poetry of Stevens, Moore, and Bishop, Heidi E. Wallace
The Road Opens: From Escape to New Truth on the Road in American Literature, Peter J. Wiesen
Theses from 2012
Master of Your Domain: Descriptions of Interior Space in the Works of Charles Dickens and Elizabeth Gaskell as Social Justice Commentary, Ryan P. Bowers
The Bionic Self: Unveiling the Phantom of the East, Christopher J. Jarmark
Survival of the Fictiveness: The Novel’s Anxieties Over Existence, Purpose, and Believability, Jesse Mank
The Sacred Role of Animal Beings in Iroquois Lore, Melissa J. Martinelli
House of Leaves: The End of Postmodernism, Joseph B. Noah
Theses from 2011
Harry Potter: A Hero of Mythic Proportions, Katie L. Baker
Theses from 2007
An Arrogant Eternity: An Examination of Class and Society in the Works of Philip Larkin, John J. Gangemi
Theses from 1998
Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" as a Modern Version of T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land", Jennifer A. Campbell
