Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Beyond Coming Out and Queer Tragedy : How Julie Ann Peters, Becky Albertalli, Adam Silvera, and Aiden Thomas Navigate Through the Spectrum of Queer Representation, Jacqueline Carey (2024)
Playing With Every Sense of the Word : Lolita Through the Lens of Jacques Derrida, Noelle Marie Florio (2024)
Exploring Instability in Dream-Based Narratives : A Comparative Analysis of “Vanilla Sky” and "Inception", Sara Glemaud (2024)
Beyond Print : The Web of Egan’s Narrative Universe, Cassandra Sardo (2024)
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
An Unfaithful Feminist : Neoliberal Feminism, Identity, and Postmodernism in Jenny Offill’s Dept. Of Speculation, Anne Bobis (2023)
Professional, Personal, Societal : The Detrimental Effects of Identity Revolving around Career in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Remains of the Day, Salvatore Cerchio (2023)
Racial Capitalism in Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad, Daniel Paul Marx (2023)
Adult Women in the Wizarding World : Rowling’s Ideal Female in the Harry Potter Novels, Grace Ann McCarthy (2023)
The Commercialization and Imposed Voices of Femininity in The Summer I Turned Pretty, Danielle McClelland (2023)
Ecocriticism and the Young Adult Audience in Dry and The Islands at the End of the World, Nicole Marie Sysyn (2023)
Sylvia Plath as a Confessionalist Writer : The Queen Bee, Alexandra Tangarife (2023)
The Ghost of the Neo-Slave Narrative : Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing and the Evolution of the Black Gothic, Kabria Wimbush (2023)
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
The Framing of Black and White Masculinities in Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Felesha Beckford (2022)
“I’m not like that!” : Reframing Contemporary Ecopoetic Criticism and De-Metaphorizing the Nonhuman Animal, Alexandra Franke (2022)
The Women of Brewster Place : A Dream Deferred and Unactualized, Lauren Fuentes (2022)
Muslim Young Adult Graphic Novels : Destabilizing Perceptions, Sidra Habal (2022)
Into the Roach’s Mouth: Beyond the Postmodern Discourse on Silence in Clarice Lispector’s The Passion According to G.H., Eman Halimeh (2022)
Resisting Dominican Motherhood across Julia Alvarez’s How the García Girls Lost Their Accents and Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Ana Hilario (2022)
“To Feel Myself Beloved on the Earth” : Hauntology and Memory in the Films of Alejandro Gonzalez lnarritu, Elizabeth Denny Hook (2022)
Caliban the Savage : Shakespeare’s Critique of Colonialist Misappropriation of Indigenous Identities, Leonard Aquil Hughes (2022)
"Neither Here Nor There" : Migrant Women and the Cycle of Cultural Masculine Superiority, Fiorella Medina (2022)
The Wide-Reaching Appeal of Fan Fiction and Its Merits in Popular Culture, Summer Nawaz (2022)
The Eye’s Construction of Power in Richard II, Julius Caesar and Macbeth, John O’Brien (2022)
Literary Machiavellianism, the Vice Figure, and the Jewish Character : Anti-Semitic Perceptions in The Jew of Malta and The Merchant Venice, Allison Schaechter (2022)
“The Delta is Filled Up With Death” : Death As Avoidance and the Construction of White Identity in Lewis Nordan’s Music of the Swamp, Sarah Sturm (2022)
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Having Her Dinner and Eating It Too : Edna’s Last Dinner Party, Brielle Babiar (2021)
Octavia E. Butler’s Dawn and “Bloodchild” : From Human to Posthuman, Nicole Fields (2021)
Marital and Maternal Mourning : Gravesite Domesticity in Sylvia Townsend Warner’s “Epitaphs”, Alexis Grainger (2021)
A Whole New (Eastern) World: Ramy Youssef’s Role in the Undoing of Orientalism in Modern-Day Media, Mary Hanna (2021)
A Film of Many Colors : Neoliberalism, Capitalism, and Climate Change in Rango, Sierra Javras (2021)
Wound and Weight : “Cumbrous Flesh” and Pain in Paradise Lost and Paradise Regain’d, John Robert Jenkins (2021)
Freudian Melancholy and Bodily Mutilation in “Little Snow White” and “The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood”, Valmira Kaba (2021)
Reflections of a Broken Mirror : An Analysis of the Mirror Motif in The Famished Road, Mama Day, and Us, Samira Pigford (2021)
The Island Remembers : Land Memory, Collective Memory & Trauma in Gloria Naylor’s Mama Day, Justine Prusiensky (2021)
Salvaging the Utopia : Posthumanism, Feminism, and Anti-Patriarchal Language in Kathy Acker’s In Memoriam to Identity, Fe Lorraine Agustin Reyes (2021)
“True Darkness and True Womanness” : A Study of Sisterhood in Marlon James’ The Book of Night Women, Jessica Schwartz (2021)
The Impact of the Translation of the Quran on Shakespeare’s Plays, Rania Shair (2021)
“I Shall Watch Their Progress”: The Observer Effect and Information Theory in Literary Systems, Michael L. Shohet (2021)
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Tension Within Immigrant Identity in South Asian and Asian Characters in The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Everything I Never Told You, and Disgraced, Dania Abdelsalam (2020)
Euripides : Suppliant to the Divine Feminine, Liz Amato (2020)
"A" is for Ambivalence : Hester Prynne's Conflicted Response to Motherhood in Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Stephanie Morecraft Carlson (2020)
“Mutually Exclusive” : Exploring Gender and Sexuality in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, Caitlin Moran Casey (2020)
“Life Swarms with Innocent Monsters” : the Monstrosity of Gender Inversion in Bram stoker’s Dracula, Natalie Diane Cottrill (2020)
Stellar Transfigurations of Disabled Bodies : Wangechi Mutu and Afrofuturism, Addys Lorenzo Gonzalez (2020)
"Gazing on Vacancy" : Charlotte Bronte's Critical Portrayal of Church Life in Shirley, Emily Pataki Hamburger (2020)
“There is Power in a Woman’s Wit and Will” : Womanly, Wit, Will, and Wiles in Gothic Works of Louisa May Alcott, Alexandra Ortea (2020)
Anti-Semitism in American Realist Literature: Edith Wharton’s Sim Rosedale - a Thorn in American Identity, Elizabeth Pantirer (2020)
Politically Correct Language in George Carlin, Alan Schultz (2020)
Magic in the Classroom: The School Story and the Implications of Discipline in Harry Potter, Megan Thompson (2020)
Ride of the Waelcyrges : Combating Notions of Feminine Passivity and Monstrous Deviance in Anglo-Saxon Literature, Shaina Marie Strang-Wolf Tullo (2020)
Making Meaning : Death, Dignity, and Dasein in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, Angel Katrina Tuohy (2020)
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
The Eternal Detective : Poe’s Creative and Resolvent Duality in the Hardboiled Era, Michael Cresci (2019)
Mōnstrum Ex Machina : Reading the Artificial Life as Monster in Three Contemporary Western Narratives, Constance Lynnette Humphrey (2019)
“This Unique Empire” : Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton’s Embodied Poetry as L’Ecriture Feminine, Theresa Kircher (2019)
The Perversion of Dignity in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions, Lilian Nyanchama Mayaka (2019)
"Pure language" : Authenticity, Punk Ideology, and Belonging in A Visit from the Goon Squad, Kimberly Plaksin (2019)
“A Present Tense People, Modern, Relevant, Alive” : Writing Against Erasure in Tommy Orange’s There There, Greg Riggio (2019)
Ecocriticism and the Trans-Corporeal : Agency, Language, and Vibrant Matter of the Environmental “Other” in J.R.R Tolkien’s Middle Earth, Garrett Van Curen (2019)
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Shakespeare and the "Two Masters" In and Around Joyce, Robert Conklin (2018)
“The Unwelcome Truth” : Arthur Miller’s The Crucible as Satirical Political Allegory, Deanna Marie Mattia (2018)
Flawed to Start : The Inconsequence of Action in the Novels of Brian O’Nolan, Christopher M. Mitchell (2018)
“‘Bold Words Vouched with a Deed so Bold’ : Latent Orientalism and Narrative in John Milton’s Paradise Lost”, Carolyn Noury (2018)
The Library in the Mountains and the Writing on the Wall : Fragmented Memories and Cultural Amnesia in Ursula K. Le Guin, Erin Michelle Roll (2018)
Trajectories of the Postcolony in The Color Purple, Kim Silva-Martinez (2018)
Queens of Failing Nations in Classical Tragedy, Katie L. Toledano (2018)
Making Narrative Theory Teachable : Experiments and Overlaps in Lost, Arrested Development, and A Visit From The Goon Squad, Kristen Lynn Zosche (2018)
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
We’re All Mad Here : The Madness of Linguistic Expression in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Rose Arszulowicz (2017)
An Examination of Hegemonic Structures : Deconstructing the Myth of Education as an Equalizer, Daniela Conte (2017)
"Oh! why does he not look at me? why cannot I speak to him?" : Indirectness in Three Novels by Jane Austen, Claire A. Davanzo (2017)
Orphan Benefactors and Orphan Innocence in Charles Dickens and Helen Hunt Jackson, Monika Mezyk (2017)
Sharp Teeth, Red Lips, and Dangerous Ideas : The Construction of the Female Abhuman in Fin-de-Siecle Gothic Literature, Karina Millan (2017)
E-Portfolios as an Alternative to PARCC in the "College and Career Ready" Age, Katherine Ondrof (2017)
Rethinking Foreignness in the Works of John Milton, Courtney Van Saders (2017)
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Deconstructing Zombies of Capitalism : the Walking Dead and New Views of American Zombies, Jennifer Daly (2016)
Coding the Common Core : What's Missing from the English Language Arts Standards for Writing, Joseph Anthony De Guzman (2016)
Canon Fodder in the Institutional Vessel : The Missing Voice of the Student in Literary Canon and Curriculum Discourse, Meagan J. DeJong (2016)
"You are all a lost generation" : The Wandering Soldier in the Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway, Stephen Denn (2016)
Talk to Text, George Gallagher (2016)
The Victorian Influence on Virginia Woolf's Domestic Feminist Aesthetic in Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse, Heather Mary Greenberg (2016)
Toward a Phenomenological Poetics : The Interplay of Philosophy and Poetry in William Butler Yeats’s “The Tower” and “Meditations in Time of Civil War”, Peter Michael Lang (2016)
History of Housewives in First-Year Composition and Effects on Students, Pay, and Pedagogy, Vera Lynn Lentini (2016)
Lost Generations and the Problem of American Identity : The Emergence of Racial Nativism in American Culture (1890s-1920s), Gloria Lugo (2016)
Bridging the Gap Between Manner and Matter : The Friction of Reticence and Resistance in Sylvia Townsend Warner's Intimate Poems, Giana Milazzo (2016)
Bridges, Not Towers: Connecting Universities and Local Communities for Community Writing Projects, Alicia Remolde (2016)
"A Better Calm / of Meet Companionship" : Augusta Webster's (Re)Vision of Victorian Wifehood and Marriage, Jennifer Sabatelli (2016)
"Gutless Bitch" Camouflage : Post-Postmodern Barbarism and Shifting Gender Performativity in AMC's The Walking Dead, Lynette Marie Surie (2016)
Domesticity, Literacy, and Self in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Abigail Walker (2016)
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Robo-Teaching? : Automated Essay Scoring and K-12 Writing Pedagogy, Swati Viren Chauhan (2015)
Putting Pedagogical Compositional Theory in Action : A Case Study of Process Based Approaches to Exploring Unfamiliar Writing Tasks, Brett Conrad (2015)
Sorry, Not Sorry : Speech as Action for Women in the Works of Aemilia Lanyer and John Milton, Tiffany Ann Errickson (2015)
Politics and Prophecy : Melville's America in Moby-Dick and Benito Cereno, Michelle T. Fernandes (2015)
"Academia, Here I Come!" : Plain Language and Academese in the Postsecondary Academy, Heather Lockhart (2015)
Ghettoizing Black Women's Literature : A Socio-Historic Study of Black Women Writers and the White Publishing Industry, Kimberly Wiley Luna (2015)
A Classroom Stuck in Time : The Theoretical Ambitions of Curriculum and the Reality of Classroom Practice, Rebecca McGrath (2015)
Secular Transformations and Spiritual Manifestations : Three Poems by Auden, Zachary Rosenblum (2015)
Dynamic Future : Movements Beyond Postmodernism in Three Contemporary American Novels, Christopher Aleixo Teixeira (2015)
Beelzebub : Satan's Consort in John Milton's Paradise Lost, Beth Tippenreiter (2015)
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Visions of Terror : Reconstructing Literature Through 9/11 Texts, Jennifer Michelle Agens (2014)
Technical and Structural Experimentation in Dave Eggers' A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Samantha Branin (2014)
Optical Misperception and Shakespearean Drama, Lisa Marie Castelluber (2014)