Theses from 2024
Unsilencing and Laying Bare: A Comparative Study of Mother to Mother by Magona and Things I’ve Been Silent About by Nafisi, Arezoo Bayat Barooni
Abject Creatures, Katherine Easley
From Lover to Silence: A Freudian Reading of Maternal Substitution in Monna Innominata, Lydia Ezell
Martine Means Well, Jada Ford
Useful Untruth: The Utility of Deceptive Rhetoric in Apps, Websites, and Games, Brandon Hardy
Relics, Karen Javits
“A Blot Upon Darkness:” A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court and the Failures of Reconstruction, Jessica Lyons
“Was I in Dixie or Wasn’t I:” Queer Negativity and the U.S. South in the Comics of Howard Cruse, Matthew Mills
Shaping a Nation and Transforming Identity: Ovidian Mythic Allusions in William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and John Milton’s “Lycidas”, Gabriella Schuett
Magical Realism in Chicano Literature, Laura Vazquez
Theses from 2023
"Among These Rocks": A Kierkegaardian Reading of T. S. Eliot's Poetic Personas 1915-27, Robert Abbott
Werewolf Identity in Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God, Elias Acuna
The Queer Plot of Stoner: Covert Homoeroticism in John Williams' Cult Academic Novel, Alice Rachel Ashe
Milton's Vocal Hierarchy in Paradise Lost, John McNabb
"With Undiscording Voice": Discord and Original Sin in Milton's Poetic Imagination, Maggie Miller
Recruitment Rhetoric of Metro Atlanta-Based Corporations, Cameron Moore
Theses from 2022
Girls' Trip, Carly Alaimo
Apricot City, Lindsey M.B. Bower
"[H]earing beyond what we are able to hear: Reframing Grievable Lives in Thomas Pynchon?s V. and Stephen Wright?s Meditations in Green, F. Tyler Elrod
Power, Domesticity, and Insanity: Gender Roles in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret, Danielle Hestand
Self-Mutilation as Nonverbal Communication in Young Adult Literature, Morgan L. Hunter
God, Dog, and the Problem of the Immanent Frame, Sung Park
Bargaining Dreams and Myths: The Relationship between the Literacy Myth, the American Dream, and the Immigrant Bargain, Brianny M. Paulino Feliz
Alive in the Glamour Pit, Alec J. Prevett
Considering the Agency of Faith in Reimagining Narrative and Shared Space in Beth Moore?s Departure from the Southern Baptist Convention, Samantha Joann Rae
Transnational Perspectives on Neil Gaiman's Sandman, Elisha T. Schuett
Theses from 2021
Queering the Monstrous Feminine: Lesbian Vampires, Folklore, and Trauma in Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla, Emilee Calametti
Surveilling Wolves, Reticent Rabbits, and Pecking Parties: Discourse as Power Mechanism for Policing Queerness in Ken Kesey?s One Flew Over the Cuckoo?s Nest, Sarah E. Darling
The Feast of Languages: A Perspectival Reading of James Joyce?s Ulysses, Edward Prioleau Ellis
Derrida's Style: Formalism as an Address to the Other, Benjamin Leake
Livestreaming Vico: Imagination and the Ecology of Literacy in Online Gaming, Dylan Maroney
The Taste of Toxic Rhetoric within TikTok?s Cosplay Community, Amber Murray
Lillian Smith's Killers of the Dream and Michel Foucault: Structural Racism, Critical Theory, and the U.S. South, Emily Pierce
Too Weird For Words: An Analysis of the Weird Across Media, Joshua Winston
A Call for the Study of Irish Rhetoric, Rachel E. Woods
Theses from 2020
Revealing the Gothic Narrative Tradition in Eudora Welty's Delta Wedding and Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey: A Study of the Transatlantic Novel, Rachel Adornato
“She’s a Sly One:” Rethinking Complicity and Survival in Paula Vogel’s How I Learned to Drive, Mary Ann Barfield
Rethinking Discourse Communities in the Digital Age: The Effects of Streaming on Discourse of Gaming Communities, Russell Beason
Partnering Universities with Their Neighboring High School Writing Centers: A Local Study Through Interviews and Observations, Katherine Carroll
"Say What I Wear": A Study of Clothing and Animal Language within Aldhelm's Enigmata and the Exeter Riddles, Bridgitte I. Colwell
A Syzygy of Snails, Nathan G. Isaksson
The Evolution of the Lyrics of The Beatles as a Social Function within the Popular Culture, Leslie King
"You Can Disappear Here Without Knowing It": Excess, Accommodation, and Assimilation in The Great Gatsby and Less Than Zero, Jeremy Simpson
Mina: A Novel, Jeremiah Wood
Theses from 2019
Emergence Elsewhere: Third Space in Linda Hogan's People of the Whale, Joan M. Banez
In a Space of their Own: Literary Representations of Feminine Trauma through the Arthuriad, Viktorija Bezbradica
The Shine of The Shining: Domestic Violence and Deterministic Trauma, Ashleigh Boutwell
A Wintering Room, Taylor D'Amico
Shock and the Poststructural in Watt and Murphy, Emily B. Davis
Cold Witness: A Short Story Collection, Hannah Doyle
Time and 'Manyness': Temporality, Ecology, and Form in Don DeLillo's Underworld, Andrew B. Hagan Mr.
As Small As a World, Rebecca Kumar
"I Felt All the Pangs of Exile": Trauma and the Fight for Human Rights in the Memoirs of Nabokov, Soyinka, and Danticat, Lauren Marlatt
Regional Flavor of Blood: Trauma of the Subjugated in the Nature of Blood and the God of Small Things, Shabana Sayeed
Theses from 2018
Critical Compassion in the Composition Classroom, Brittny M. Byrom
"Irresistible Motion": Matter, Causality, and Henry David Thoreau, Kristen Carlson
Thru-hiking and Why People Do It, Richard Crowley
Considering Social Media and Mental Health in Critical Expressivism, Sarah Geil
Frenzied, Desperate Birds, RaNiqua S. Lee
Wycliffite Influence in an Age of Political and Religious Turmoil: A Reassessment of Jack Upland, Friar Daw's Reply, and Upland's Rejoinder, Bradley Peppers
The Hill Fire and Other Stories, Michael Putnam
Formal Genre Interruption in Ursula K. Le Guin and Samuel R. Delany, Christopher Reynolds
The Etymology Of Salvation, Anna Sandy
The Measurement of Dreams, Marissa Stephens
Rome is Burning: Reevaluating Futurism's Relation to Fascism, Carl C. Sweat IV
Recognizing the War-Torn Wives of West’s Return of the Soldier and Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, Nicole Turner
Theses from 2017
“I Am the Joneses!”: Deconstructing Class Performativity and Identity Formation in Bravo’s the Real Housewives of Atlanta, Shari L. Arnold
Identity, Knowledge, and Power: Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier and Parade's End, Dianne D. Berger
"The River's for Everybody": The River Chronotope and Trauma Healing in Melvin Dixon's Trouble the Water, Keith D. Freeman Jr.
Mary Shelley's Lodore: A Romantic Reconfiguration of Paradise Lost, Robert Gregory Gamewell
Anecdotal Evidence, Charles Gay
Church of Bone, Valerie Dawn Gilreath
Marriageable Material, Soniah Kamal
"For the Elevation of Women": Recovering the Lost Voices of College Temple, 1853-1889, Emily Nicole Kimbell
Spotlighting Truth and Beauty: Willa Cather's Tenebraic Word Pictures, Maria Mackas
The Need for Critical Composition Pedagogy in Present Times, Lashon Malone
More Stores About Disappointment And TV, James McDermott
Convergence: The Meeting of Technology and Art in Don DeLillo's Cosmopolis and Zero K, Jay Shelat
Folklore and Identity in Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, Amy Wilson
The Impossible Thought of Georges Bataille: A Consciousness That Laughs and Cries, Drew M. Wright
Theses from 2016
(Dis)Continuous Beings: Sadean Sexual Aesthetics in the Work of John Hawkes, Emma Baughman
First Light, Judith Carson
On The Local Level: Rethinking Grammar and The Role of Editing in Writing Centers, Jennifer Carter
By the Grace of Joyce, the Brute is Freed: Brutish Bodies, Munificent Minds, and Liberating Language Within Dubliners, Julie E. Fowkes
Love on the Stage, War on the Page: Evaluating the Role of War Trauma in How I Learned to Drive, Deborah Hull
The Three Merry Wives of Windsor, Kirsten Marciniak
Triad, Kelly Neal
Uncovering Trahlyta: Examining Textual Manifestations of Dahlonega's Cherokee Indian Princess, Allison Pine
The Rhetoric of the iPhone: A Cultural Gateway Of Our Transforming Digital Paradigm, Jessica Rose
The Yard's Edge: Poems, Eric Saye
Troy Novant: An Examination of Aeneas as Depicted by Geoffrey Chaucer, Peter Steffensen
Close Enough to Burn, Bethany Sullivan
"The eyes of judgment": Prejudice, Misperception, and Sexuality in The Roaring Girl, Donna Wroble
Theses from 2015
Hostages in Old English Literature, Melissa Bird
These Things Could Not Be Resolved: Short Stories, Kara E. Eidsvik