Theses/Dissertations from 2017
The Monsters in Our Closets: A Cultural Look at Neo-Victorian Adaptation, Carlie M. Copal
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Flawed Knighthood and Kingship in the Medieval Literary Tradition, Leta Bressin
Plays and Punks; Or, Aphra Behn and the Restoration Woman, Amanda J. Thompson
Fear and Loathing in Dystopia: The Ruckwartsroman and the Narrative of Fear, Brooke Vaughan
Oh Sinnerman, Where You Gonna Run To?, Semein Washington
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Perfecting Pamela: Samuel Richardson's Final Revisions to his Earliest Novel, Jennifer S. Elliott
Mind the Gap: A Case Study in Instructor Intention and Feedback, Meredith R. Grady
A TEXTBOOK CASE: THE CONNECTION BETWEEN TEXTBOOKS, STANDARDIZED TESTING, AND STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT, Megan P. Miller
SCARRED: A Collection of Creative Nonfiction Essays, Jason A. Ruiz
THE NERD HOUR IS AT HAND: PORTRAYALS OF GEEKS AND NERDS IN YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE AD POPULAR MEDIA, Jessica M. Stanley
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
FRIENDS IN BED, Andrew Baker
Life on the Back Roads: Poems, Jessica R. Dennis
Almost a Man: A Collection of Short Drama, Tyler Fruge'
TOWARD AN ETHICAL RESPONSE: READER COMPLICITY IN TONI MORRISON'S BELOVED AND PARADISE, Michael A. Hampton
FOREVER OPENING & OTHER POEMS, Ashley Maser
SEHNSUCHT, Dena ten Pas
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
THE LINE OF THEN AND NOW: A NOVELLA AND OTHER STORIES, Brittany Clark
Text and Technology: Creating Open Educational Resources for Students and Teachers of American Romanticism, Jeff Everhart
MIRROR IMAGE AND OTHER STORIES, Amanda Inman Mull
ELEMENTS OF LIVING, Dan Steele
Punishment and Praise: Grappling with Shyness in Children's and Young Adult Literature, Katherine Stein
SPILLING OVER: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES, Jaleesa M. Watkins
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Ciphers in the Text: The Problems and Promise of Women's Biblical Fiction, Beth Lonvick Cheuk
Surviving the Eco-Apocalypse: Losing the Natural World and the Self in Post-Apocalyptic and Dystopian Literature, Samantha Drake
HOME-PLACE, Beth Feagan
YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE IN THE HIGH SCHOOL CLASSROOM: EXPLANATION AND APPLICATION OF TEACHER/SCHOLAR: STUDENT/SCHOLAR PEDAGOGY, Colleen Barnes Herndon
Miles Down the Gravel Road, Summer Jenkins
Dreams I Don't Remember Having, Will Mayer
Feedback Loop and Other Screenplays, Jon Norcutt
The Virtuous Lady G.; Or, the Evolution of Samuel Richardson's Feminine Ideal in Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison, Ruth A. O'Dell
"Playing Superhero": Agency and the Role of the Teenaged Superhero, Jessica R. Saunders
The Night Entertainment, Angela Sloan
Hot Pink Love, Katherine R. Sloan
A Ballad of Dixie Rae Blackwater and Other Tales, Jessica Wimmer
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
FINDING HOME AND OTHER ESSAYS, Melissa Clampitt
Chaucer's The Parlement of Fowls and the Rejection of the French Tradition, Patrick V. Day
The Invisible Universe and Other Screenplays, Edward Howarth
WE'RE ALL MONSTERS HERE AND OTHER STORIES, Lindsey Jones
"'Ic paet secgan maeg, hwaet ic yrmpa gebad'": Christian Scribes' Condemnation of Blood Feud and its Effect on Women in Anglo-Saxon Society, Tara Seate-Beck
The Invisible Other: White Trash in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! and The Hamlet, Bryant Edwards Trihey
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
PUT INTO PLACE, Heather C. Carey
Narrative Distance in the Works of George Gordon, Lord Byron, and Jonathan Swift, or "A Digression in Praise of Digressions", Samantha M. Cash and E. Derek Taylor Ph.D.
The Young Adult Addiction Novel: A Modern Tragedy, Carrie Rosson Hicks
What He Had Never Done Before and Other Plays, Alex Odom
THE MEN BEHIND: A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS, Jennifer Lynne Parkes
BOXED UP, Alicia Raymond
Coming to Terms, Leslie Smith
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Papacy in Paganism: The Great Schism of Palamon and Arcite, Samantha Kathleen Diaz
THINGS I REMEMBER WHICH I CANNOT PROVE AND OTHER STORIES, Austin Eichelberger
King of the Who? The Collective Unconscious and the Crafting of National Identity in the Medieval Arthurian Tradition, Melissa Ridley-Elmes
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
The Reality of Happily Ever After: Charlotte Bronte's Revision of Fairy Tales in Jane Eyre, Sarah Rice
MANACLED DESIRES: WILLIAM BLAKE'S STRUGGLE FOR SEXUAL AUTONOMY, Cheryl Adams Rychkov
"There's Nothing Like Dancing, After All" Gender as Performance in Jane Austen's Dance Scenes, D. Nicole Swann
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Transitioning the Struggling Reader: Evaluating the Effects of Middle-School Direct Instruction on Traditional High-School Learning in the English Classroom, Sarah Tanner Anderson
WHY SIZE MATTERS: FLASH FICTION IN HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH, Wayne R. Ashby
SWIMMING LESSONS, Kathy Cole
Between Desire and Reality: Samuel Richardson's Clarissa and the Single Woman in Eighteenth-Century England, Jessica L. Cook
PRACTICAL PIECES AND OTHER STORIES, Rebecca Lynn Haigh
The Power of the American Indian Grandmother: Leslie Silko's Ceremony and James Welch's Winter in the Blood, Lorie Southall Keener
The Byronic Heroine, Jessica M. Laffoon
"WHAT MAN AS MADE OF MAN": FROM BRITISH ROMANTICISM TO NEO-ROMANTICISM, Melissa A. Pelletier
Ordinary Mermaids and Other Stories, Desiree Sholes
OUT HERE, LISTENING, Amy Whipple
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
From the Illuminating Moon to the Radiating Sun: The Philosophical Writings of Emerson and Nichiren, Sharon Mitsue Blythe
THINGS WE DON'T SAY & OTHER STORIES, Frances A. Stubbs
BEASTS AND OTHER STORIES, Amanda Walton
I am Elizabeth Gaskell: The Literary Evolution of Elizabeth Gaskell throughout Mary Barton, North and South, and Wives and Daughters, Jessica Leigh Watkins
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
Islands: Jewish Themes and Images in Selected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser, Wendy Susan Howard Gray
From the Stage to the World: The Moralizing Methods of Sir Richard Steele, Shelah Y. Simpson
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
THE INFLUENCE OF CELTIC MYTH AND RELIGION ON THE ARTHURIAN LEGENDS, Gretchen Koenig
Lambs of a Foreign God: Christianity in African-American Literature, Maryam F. Mujahid
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
To glory or to ruin : Guinevere and Vivien in Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur, Alfred Tennyson's Idylls of the king, and Edwin Arlington Robinson's Merlin and Lancelot, Eunice W. Carwile
RE-EXAMINING VONNEGUT: EXISTENTIAL AND NATURALISTIC INFLUENCES ON THE AUTHOR'S WORK, Marybeth Davis
Selling the "Professional" Housewife: Editorial Strategy in Ladies Home Journal 1905 and 1955, Amanda Ellington
"We Were There": Anatomy of a Successful Series of Historical Novels for Young People, Deanna Lee Gasteiger Schwartz
GUENEVERE'S CONFLICT: PAGAN LOVE OR CHRISTIAN ETHICS, Jacquelyn Sweeney Johnson
The Power of the Supernatural in Four Shakespearian Plays, Amy M. Lyon
Pivotal Transformations: The Changing Voice in Anne Sexton's Poetry, Lara L. Plate
SHAKESPEARE'S TWIST: THE TRAGIC WITHIN SOME COMEDIES, Susan Dettweiler Wilhide
Theses/Dissertations from 2002
The Differences Between Dorothy Wordsworth's Journals and William Wordsworth's Poetry: Applying the Principles of "Preface", Susan Dean Elzey
Setting the Hook of Realism: A Study of the Early Career of William Dean Howells, George C. Lanum III
Lee Smith's The Last Day the Dogbushes Bloomed and Family Linen: Children's Loss of Innocence, Bree A. Poliey
Hemingway's Modern Woman: An Analysis of Selected Novels, Bonnie Gay Robertson
Reflections on Doris Lessing: Age, Enclosure, and the Female Experience, Heather M. Swan
Faulkner's Mothers: The Relationship of Fact to Fiction In The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying, Spring P. Zuidema
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
Mammy: From Pancakes to Grenades, Nichol Michelina Pagano
Theses/Dissertations from 2000
"I was born too late to believe in your God": The Struggle Against Religion in Ernest J. Gaines's Of Love and Dust and A Lesson Before Dying, Matthew D. Towles
The Portrayal of Evil and the Shakespearean Villain, Allie Chaffin Yarbrough
Theses/Dissertations from 1999
Anne Spencer: A Conventional, Yet Unconventional, Harlem Renaissance Poet, John C. Anstey
The Fox and the Lion: Machiavellian Characters and Tactics in Renaissance Tragedies by Christopher Marlowe and Jacobean Tragedies by John Webster, James Craig Austin
Mary Elizabeth Braddon: Reconstructing Beauty from Portent of Innocence to Potential Threat in Aurora Floyd and Lady Audley's Secret, Susan Bryant Cook
Assimilation or Acceptance: The Effects of Industrialization on Appalachians in Anne W. Armstrong's This Day and Time and Harriette Arnow's The Dollmaker, Susan Litton Haslet
Faulkner's Narrative in The Sound and the Fury and Absalom, Absalom!, Gerard Lassahn
Victorian Concepts of the Ideal Man as Evidenced Through His Relationships With Animals: "If She Don't Carry You, You May Shoot Her" or "Remember Gyp When You Get Home", Mary Ann Pebbles Soles
Victorian Concepts of the Ideal Man as Evidenced Through His Relationships with Animals: "If She Don't Carry You, You May Shoot Her" or "Remember Gyp When You Get Home", Mary Ann Peebles Soles
The Jewish Immigrant Perception of the American Dream In Abraham Cahan's Yekl and Anzia Yezierska's Bread Givers, Andrea Verschaeve
Theses/Dissertations from 1998
Reading the Temporal Nature of Lee Smith's Fair and Tender Ladies through Oral History, Don L. Butler
Perspectives on History: New Orleans's Women in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! and Anne Rice's The Feast of All Saints, Stacey Morgan Ford
"Painted Fire": fire Imagery in Life on the Mississippi and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Deborah T. Ketchum
