Theses from 2015
Capital Sandbox: Fantasy and the Mechanics of Form in Fallout 3, Christopher Seidl
The Prophetic Chronotope and the Sexual Revolution in Baron Ludwig von Reizenstein's The Mysteries of New Orleans, Timothy Walker
Theses from 2014
Pleasure as Pathology: Trauma and Perversion in the Fiction of David Foster Wallace, Erik Cofer
The Weight of Birds, Travis Denton
Seattle: Stories, Alex Gallo-brown
The Remediation of Dumas Fils' La Dame aux Cam‚lias, Brandi Guined
The Nature of Religious Melancholy: Edward Taylor's Poetic Treatments of a 17th Century Epidemic, Sheena K. Johnson
NeuroRhetoric(s) and NeuroComposition: Foundational Questions for Future Research, Robert Manfredi
Samuel Butler's Ernest Pontifex, or The Way of All Flesh: Evolution, Religion, and Wealth, Carla Mills
The Horrific 'Mother/ Monster' and the Spaces Between in Ridley Scott's Alien and James Cameron's Aliens, Terri M. Nicholson
Postcolonial Trauma Narratives: Traumatic Historiography and Identity in Amitav Ghosh's The Calcutta Chromosome, Jennifer Olive
Victimology, Andrea Orourke
The New Negro Teaches Writing: G. David Houston's Activist Rhetoric at Howard University, Jimisha I. Relerford
Emergent Disciplines and Cultural Divisions: Melvin Kranzberg's "Laws of Technology" and New Humanities, Matthew Sansbury
Breathing Machines, Patchwork Monsters and Mechanical Limbs: Steampunk and the Grotesque, Angela C. Santoro
Abjection and Empathy: The Shared Spaces and Blurred Boundaries of Infinite Jest, Emily Washburn
Who's Afraid Of The Wicked Wit?: A Comparison Of The Satirical Treatment Of The University System In Terry Pratchett's Discworld And Evelyn Waugh's Decline And Fall, Mary Alice Wojciechowski
Theses from 2013
Lifting the Veil Between George Eliot's "The Lifted Veil" and Henry James' "The Beast in the Jungle, Dan Abitz
Is Pinterest Really Killing Feminism?, Lauren E. Alford
A Plain Apology: Teaching Plain Style in First-Year Composition, Benjamin H. Austin
Migrating Ministry: New Media Literacy And Christian Communication, Frederick A. Cole III
A Phrenological Assesment of Rebecca Harding Davis's Sketch, 'Blind Tom', LeAnne M. Davis
"Nature gave a second groan": The Decay of Nature in Paradise Lost and Seventeenth-Century Discussion, Mary Grace Elliott
Staff Management in the Writing Center: Theoretical and Practical Preparation for Administrators, Kelly Elmore
Awesome Inconsequence: Critique of Modern Society through Apocalyptic Frivolity in the Early Novels of Waugh and Fitzgerald, Jessica H. Graves
Hunting and Writing the Whale: Masculine Responses to the Maternal in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, Seth A. Hagen
Cyborg in the Mirror: Embodiment in Video Games, Andrea Judy
Re-Discovering Ethan Allen and Thomas Young's Reason the Only Oracle of Man: The Rise of Deism in Pre-Revolutionary America, Benjamin Kolenda
A Folkloristic Literary Analysis of Cultural Collision in the Work of Bobbie Ann Mason, Sally J. Newman
The Rhetoric of Queer: Subverting Heteronormative Social Institutions and Creating New Meaning, Marissa Nolan
'This World of Sorrow and Trouble': The Criminal Type of Oliver Twist, Megan N. Samples
Water's Weight, Mary Christine Swint
Is Tomorrow Another Day? The Uncertain Implications of Scarlett's Life Decisions in Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind, Elizabeth A. Young
Theses from 2012
The Pursuit of Happiness: The State of the American Dream in Suzan-Lori Parks's Topdog/Underdog, Sabrina A. Abid
Evolution of Ethics in the Island of Doctor Moreau and Heart of Darkness, Christine D. Anlicker
The Trauma of Chattel Slavery: A Womanist Perspective Women on Georgia in Early American Times, Dionne Blasingame
Through the Looking Glass: Another Reading of Willa Cather's The Professor's House, Rebecca H. Bonacchi
Revealing and Concealing Hitler's Visual Discourse: Considering "Forbidden" Images with Rhetorics of Display, Matthew G. Donald
A True and Lonesome West: The Spaces of Sam Shepard and Martin McDonagh, Sarah A. Dyne
The Life of Thomas, Mark Elberfeld
Toward An Ethic of Failure in Three Novels by Herman Melville, Elinore Faustino
Dressing Their Best: Independent Fashion Bloggers and the Complexities of Ethos, Melody C. Heffner
Gothic Romance and Poe's Authorial Intent in "The Fall of the House of Usher", Robert F. Hiatt
In Their Words: Women's Holocaust Memoirs, Shana Latimer
Carnival, Convents, and the Cult of St. Rocque: Cultural Subterfuge in the Work of Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Sibongile B. Lynch
It's Different for Girls: Coming of Age in Two Victorian Novels, Jamila McTizic
Phenomenology of Space and TIme in Rudyard Kipling's Kim: Understanding Identity in the Chronotope, Daniel S. Parker
Dismantling the Spatiality of Heaven in the Prayer Poems of Emily Dickinson, Scott A. Pett
Readings of Zwelethu Mthethwa's South African Photographs: Postcolonialsim, Abjection, and Cultural Studies, Dusty K. Ross
The Lactating Body on Display: Collective Rhetoric and Resistant Discourse in Breastfeeding Activism, Amy M. Saxon
Slothrop's Sublime: Perversion and Paranoia in Gravity's Rainbow, Christopher Simony
Who Cycles Into Our Valley, Benjamin M. Solomon
Writing Space, Righting Place: Language as a Heterotopic Space in Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative, Lelania Ottoboni Watkins
"How Art Thou Lost": Reconsidering the Fall in Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night, Meredith A. Zaring
Theses from 2011
The Knot, Laura L. Beasley
"Born Every Minute": Reworking the Mythology of the American Medicine Show, Owen C. Cantrell
Palamedes, Paul A. Cantrell
Hawthorne's Transcendental Ambivalence in Mosses from an Old Manse, Matthew S. Eisenman
God Made the Apples, We Made the Bites, Jessica Danielle Hand
A Critical Study of Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees, Joy A. Hebert Ms.
Willa Cather's O Pioneers!: Violence and Modernist Aesthetics, Jordan F. Hobson
Three Daughters in Search of Mothers: Exploring Surrogate Motherhood in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, Kathryn M. Huie
Inside and Outside 1101: First-Year Student Perceptions of Academic Writing, Laura E. Jones
Sounds Carefully Crafted: Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Literary Composition, Francisco Lopez
Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Comedy: Finding the Humor in Rasselas through Ecclesiastes, Mary Katherine Mason
"Now There's No Difference": Artificial Subjectivity as a Posthuman Negotiation of Hegel's Master/Slave Dialectic, Casey J. McCormick
Haunting the House, Haunting the Page: The Spectral Governess in Victorian Fiction, Shane G. McGowan
Faulkner's Literary Environment: Assessing the South's Relationship with Land Abuse, Eric Sandarg
"Growing like the Plants from Unseen Roots": The Equalizing Role of Plant Imagery in Aurora Leigh, Sarah King Steiner
The Special Artist, William W. Taft Jr
For the Future: An Examination of Conspiracy and Terror in the Works of Don Delillo, Ashleigh Whelan
Reading 9/11 in 21st Century Apocalyptic Horror Films, Colby D. Williams
Connecting the Old with the New: Developing a Podcast Usability Heuristic from the Canons of Rhetoric, Laurissa J. Wolfram
Theses from 2010
William Apess and Sherman Alexie: Imagining Indianness in (Non)Fiction, Gabriel M. Andrews
The Ministry of Passion and Meditation: Robert Southwell's Marie Magdalens Funeral Teares and the Adaptation of Continental Influences, Mark Russell Benedict
The Pleiadic Age of Stuart Poesie: Restoration Uranography, Dryden's Judicial Astrology, and the Fate of Anne Killigrew, Morgan Alexander Brown
Fish from Deep Water, Monica R. Burchfield
Guyon's Sensitive Appetite, Matthew J. Davis
The Forgiveness Project, Karen Lee Gentry
The Visual Rhetoric of Craftsmanship, Amalia K. Gonzales
Eudora Welty's Theatrical Sketches of 1948: Summer Diversion or Lost Potential? Bye-Bye Brevoort and Other Sketches, Leslie H. Gordon
Ford Madox Ford's Good Soldier in a Modern World, Constance Hinds
William Shakespeare's Parable of "Is" and "Seems": Ironies of God's Providence in Hamlet and Measure for Measure, Joseph L. Kelly
From Rivers to Gardens: The Ambivalent Role of Nature in My ?ntonia, O Pioneers!, and Death Comes to the Archbishop, Graham Kirkland
A Woman's Touch in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night: Pulling the Women Out of the Background, Merry B. Luong
"Sugarman Done Fly Away": Kindred Threads of Female Madness and Male Flight in the Novels of Toni Morrison and Classical Greek Myth, Ebony O. McNeal
Initiation in the Novellas of Henry James, Collyn E. Milsted
"How Silence Best Can Speak": The Distrust of Speech in George Meredith's Modern Love, Ellen J. Murray
A Joint Reading of the Color Purple and the Awakening: From Feminism to Womanism and the Significance of Authentic Feminine Space, Catthuan L. Nguyen
Thomas De Quincey's Retreat into the "Nilotic Mud": Orientalism as a Response to Social Strain, Patrick W. Osborne
Mistress of Restraint, Jenny R. Sadre-Orafai
The Presence of Jacques Lacan's Mirror Stage and Gaze in Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and in Rouben Mamoulian's 1931 Film, Enoch Shane Smith
The Same-Spelling Hapax of the Commedia of Dante, Terrill Shepard Soules
Un-Fairytales: Realism and Black Feminist Rhetoric in the Works of Jessie Fauset, Danielle L. Tillman