Theses from 2010
Gypsie, Cynthia P. Vergara
Turning Back Time: Duration, Simultaneity, and the Timeless in Fitzgerald and Fincher's Benjamin Button, Nathan Wagner
Opening the Window to Edward Whittemore: Systems that Govern Human Experience, Joseph L. Winland Jr.
Traveling Light, Sarah L. Winterfield
Theses from 2009
Representations of Labor in the Slave Narrative, Agnel Natasha Barron
Lost Tramps & Cherry Tigers, John Brett Bender
Heroes with a Hundred Names: Mythology and Folklore in Robert Penn Warren's Early Fiction, Leverett Belton Butts, IV
Eyes That Seen Too Much, Dawn Cloud
"Ah Ain't Brought Home a Thing but Mahself": Cultural and Folk Heroism in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and Ellen Douglas' Can't Quit You, Baby, Kimberly Giles Cochran
Static, Yet Fluctuating: The Evolution of Batman and His Audiences, Perry Dupre Dantzler
Protestants Reading Catholicism: Crashaw's Reformed Readership, Andrew Dean Davis
Exploring the Factory: Analyzing the Film Adaptations of Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Richard B. Davis
Naming Experience and Revealing Sentiment: The Archetypal Journey in Edna St Vincent Millay's "Renascence", Jennifer Rose Forsthoefel
Not Unlike Drowning, Kristen Joyce Gottstein
The Importance of Being Oscar: A Performance Studies Inquiry of Wilde's Literary Women, Sydney Nicole Lanier
Wake: A Novel, Liane LeMaster
To Keep on Knowing More(?): Seminar XVILL, The Other Side of Psychoanalysis, John Lowther
"Check with Yo' Man First; Check with Yo' Man": Perry Appropriates Drag as a Tool to Recirculate Patriarchal Ideology, Timothy Scott Lyle
Where I am, There (Sh)it will be: Queer Presence in Post Modern Horror Films, Melanie McDougald
Absent Characters as Proximate Cause in Twentieth Century American Drama, Sarah Emily Morrow
A Critic in Her Own Right: Taking Virginia Woolf's Literary Criticism Seriously, Yvonne Nicole Richter
The Necessity of Narrative: Personal Writing and Digital Spaces in the High School Composition Classroom, Catherine Coker Rumfelt
Delirium Tremens, Charles Austin Segrest
Modernist Aesthetics of "Home" in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway and Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier, James Harper Strom
Taking Eudora Welty's Text Out of the Closet: Delta Wedding's George Fairchild and the Queering of Saint George, James R. Wallace
Theses from 2008
Performing Passing: Theatricality in Zo‰ Wicomb's Playing in the Light and Nella Larsen's Passing, Jennifer L. Apgar
Slow Spring, Sara Bartlett
Barb & Debbie, Amber Nicole Brooks
Shooting Hummingbirds in the Mimosa Tree: Stories from One Perfectly Normal Family, Jody Elizabeth Brooks
Clarice Lispector's an Apprenticeship, or the Book of Delights: The Role of Silence in the Cultivation of Intimacy", Susan Katherine Dulaney
A Rhetorical Analysis of an American University's Diversity Policy, Adam C. Faust
Daisy Chain, Shelley Helms Fleishman
Thinking Back through Our Fathers: Woolf Reading Shakespeare in Orlando and a Room of One's Own, Maureen Gallagher
Fidelity, Corey Douglas Green
Can the Wound Be Taken at Its Word?: Performed Trauma in Don DeLillo's The Body Artist and Falling Man, Brett Thomas Griffin
Wees Gonna Tell It Like We Know It Tuh Be: Coded Language in the Works of Julia Peterkin and Gloria Naylor, Crystal Margie Hills
Cotton Mather's Relationship to Science, James Daniel Hudson
Where the Whip-poor-Will Blows, Robert Perry Ivey
"You Done Lost Yo' Mind Ain't No Such Thang as AAVE": Exploring African American Resistance to AAVE, Tiffany Marquise' Jones
Dread Talk: The Rastafarians' Linguistic Response to Societal Oppression, Carol Anne Manget-Johnson
Transgenerational Ghosting in the Psyches and Somas of African Americans and their Literatures, Sonya Lynette McCoy-Wilson
Illuminating the Queer Subtext: the Unmentioned Affairs in Willa Cather's O Pioneers!, Nora Neill
The Sound the Wind Makes, Robert Pfeiffer
Divine Destiny or Free Choice: Nietzsche's Strong Wills in the Harry Potter Series, Julia Rose Pond
The Morphic Orator: Transmogrified Delivery on the Audio-Enabled Web, Brian Johnson Snead
Theses from 2007
Shift, Amanda Suzanne Arnold
Establishing Pedagogical Practicality by Reconnecting Composition Studies to the Rhetorical Tradition, Jeffrey Alan Bacha
Teaching Media Literacy in the Composition Classroom: Are We There Yet?, Misty Dawn Carmichael
Building Nest, Laura Carter
Tangerines in a Tomato Patch, Michael Cooper
Becoming the New Man in Post-PostModernist Fiction: Portrayals of Masculinities in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest and Chuck Palahnuik's Fight Club, Andrew Steven Delfino
Levelling Up: Designing and Testing a Contextual, Web-based Dreamweaver 8 Tutorial for Students with Technological Aptitude Differences, Alicia Nicole Hatter
A Meaning-Full Bouquet: Margaret Fuller's and Elizabeth Stoddard's Use of Flowers to Grow Feminist Discourse, Corinne Kopcik
Confluence, Jessica E. Lindberg
The King of Babylon and Other Stories, Samuel Miller
From Superman to Superbland: The Man of Steel's Popular Decline among Postmodern Youth, Timothy Aaron Pevey
Satirical Inquiry, Gina Henderson Prescott
Medias Res, Temporal Double-Consciousness and Resistance in Octavia Butler's Kindred, Roslyn Nicole Smith
An Erratic Performance: Constructing Racial Identity and James Baldwin, Natasha N. Walker
Theses from 2006
The Anglo-Saxon Peace Weaving Warrior, Anthea Rebecca Andrade
Theory in Culture: Toward a Psychoanalytic Criticism of Advertising, Robin L. Bellinson
Jazz Babies, a Femme Fatale, and a Joad: Women and the Automobile in the American Modernist Era, Jessica Bremmer
Two Laureates and a Whore Debate Decorum and Delight: Dryden, Shadwell, and Behn in a Decade of Comedy A-la-Mode, Patricia Ann Chapman
Finding Love among Extreme Opposition in Toni Morrison's Jazz and Eudora Welty's The Optimist's Daughter, John David Clark
Aesthetic Excuses and Moral Crimes: The Convergence of Morality and Aesthetics in Nabokov's Lolita, Jennifer Elizabeth Green
A World of Our Own: William Blake and Abolition, Lisa Karee Parker
Tonight is the Night I Come Unglued, Laurah Norton Raines
Melville's Quest for Certainty: Questing and Spiritual Stability in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, Damien Brian Schlarb
Aspects of King MacLain in Eudora Welty's The Golden Apples, James Hammond Shimkus
Being Incommensurable/Incommensurable Beings: Ghosts in Elizabeth Bowen's Short Stories, Jeannette Ward Smith
Unveiling Objectification: The Gaze and its Silent Power in the Novels of Frances Burney, Jennifer Joanne Wingfield
Theses from 2005
Marginally Male: Re-Centering Effeminate Male Characters in E. M. Forster's A Room with a View and Howards End, Damion Clark
Determining Quality through Audience, Genre, and the Rhetorical Canon: Imagining a Biography of Eudora Welty for Children, Cindy Sheffield Michaels
Savage Ballet, Leslie Wortman