Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Constructing Death Worlds: Israel’s Occupation of Palestine, Nichole S. Arel
Silent, or Silenced: Repression of the Middle Eastern Subaltern, Amanda Arodes
Locked-In Learning: Honorlock and Surveillance Capitalism in the First Year Writing Department, Tehyah Carver
Mythos and Meaning: Medieval Appropriations of Mythological Types in The Consolation of Philosophy and Later Western Literatures, Francis J. Hunter
The Artful Voyeur: Seamus Heaney as Parrhesiastes, Olivia Ransbottom
“Class and Consciousness”: An Application of Marxist Theory and Posthumanism to Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day, Never Let Me Go and Klara and the Sun, Renee Elizabeth Samuel
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
“Speechless, Placeless Power”: Affect and Trauma in Moby-Dick and “Bartleby, the Scrivener”, Lauren Colandro
Queer Not: Medieval Romance's Toll on Queerness, Kyle Gaydo
Digitizing the American West: Analyzing Rhetoric in Red Dead Redemption 2, Amalia McEvoy
The Key Role of Social Media in Students’ Understanding of the Rhetorical Situation, Olivia Montine
Fever Dive: A Novel, Sofia Ohrynowicz
Recovering Pearl: Utopian Projections in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter", Evan Weiss
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Untitled YA Novel Opening Chapters, Christopher Ferrante
Rock Bottom: Stories, Sarah Newgarden
“The Un/Touchables:” Quest for Citizenship in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things and Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People, Mahreen Shahzadi
Fulfilling the Search for Completeness in Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird and Delia Owens’ Where the Crawdads Sing, Kyra M. Sica
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Stories About Stories (For Myself and Others), Anthony Bonuccelli
Quand c'est?, Shanice Casimiro
From Parsley and Sugarcane, Jennifer Celeste
Scenes of Subversion: How Monstrous Subjectivities Affect Futurity in Gothic Horror, Salvatore S. DiBono
Satire in the Cold War Era: Graham Greene's Our Man in Havana and Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions, Sara Eslami
The Nobility in Seeing Oneself: Unreliable Narration in British Postmodern Fiction, Jessica Marzocca
All Things Considered, Conor Murtagh
Edgar Allan Poe: Addressing the Haunting Legacy of American Exceptionalism, Kaitlyn Quinn
Roams, Brittany L. Temple
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Dramatic Example: Spectacle, Theatricality, and Performance in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Trilogy, Patrick Joseph Caoile
Sacralizing the Secular: Preserving Space in Sarah Orne Jewett’s “A White Heron”, Maria Catherina Capozzoli
Take Care, Now, Evyania Constant
"I speak for the preservation of the Union" : Daniel Webster, Law, and Morality in the writings of the American Renaissance, Rebecca Nicole Girardin
You Couldn't Write This, Erica Ann Savi
Choking Hazards, Naomi Shuyama and Naomi Shuyama
“This is a true story”: Paratextual Prefaces and their Fictive Truths Across Literature, Rebecca Stokem
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Van Gogh’s Yellow Flowers: The Influence of Post-Impressionism on Mansfield and Woolf, Gabriella M. D'Angelo
“Donning the Skins”: The Problem of Shapeshifting in The Saga of the Volsungs, David Mudrak
Stepping Beyond the Veil and Breaking the Pittsburgh Cycle: The American Dream, Otherness, and Generational Trauma in August Wilson's Cycle Plays, Kaitlin Stellingwerf
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
From Teaching to the Best Seller List: How the Educational System Drives the Publishing Market and Vice Versa, Kai D. Alexander
"'Violent Love': Jane Austen and Eighteenth-Century Marriage Laws", Brianna Bicho
Sacramental Anxiety in Richard II and The Comedy of Errors, Aria Casey
"I believe in Sherlock Holmes": Fans, Readers, and the Problem of Serial Character, Mary Katherine Evans
I Can't Hear You: Queering and Hearing in the Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale, Miranda Lynn Hajduk
Time, Memory, and Consciousness in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and Between the Acts, Nicole Olivotti
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Lust and Lineage: The Complex Politics of Chaucer’s The Clerk’s Tale, William Arguelles
Magical Politicism: History and Identity in Gabriel García Márquez’s Fiction, Isabel C. Henao
Documentation Authority and Reliability in the Cultural Space of the Wiki, Robert Kehler
Becoming Pamela: The Fight for Maternal Authority in Pamela II, Danielle Pollaro
Organic Morality: A Poetic Garden Rhetoric Originating in the 18th Century, Heather Robinson
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Slaying Hybridity: The “Uncreated” Monstrous Doubles in the The Saga of the Volsungs, Nibelungenlied, and Kudrun, Kyle Augustyniak
An Almost Threesome: Erotic Love Triangles and Authorial Choice in Malory’s Le Morte D’ Arthur, Maria L. Avery
Daisy Miller: Picking-up James’s Psychological Breadcrumbs, Amanda D'Amore
Linework, David Felton
One With the Toad: Bejeweled but Venomous Nature, Lisa Fisher
“Names portable as alter stones”: Nomadic Movement and Recollection in Seamus Heaney’s Poetry, Norah Toomey Hatch
Mrs. Ramsay's Art in To the Lighthouse, Olivia Innamorato
Talking Some Sense into Chaucer: Bodies in “The Miller’s Prologue” and “The Miller’s Tale”, Jacqueline Joewono
Which Side Are You on? : Prosthetic Vaginas, Cross-dressing Madonnas, and Queer Theology in Virgin of the Flames and Narcopolis, Nasreen Hannah Khan
Animals as Projections of the Self in “The Raven” and “The Black Cat”, Samantha Payerl
Wilde's Final Act, Justine Ilissa Sha
"both nourished at my grandmother's breast": Eating, Feeding, and the Subverted Female Ideal in Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Catherine Ventura
“The Indians gaping before us”: Anxieties of Consumption in Mary White Rowlandson’s Sovereignty and Goodness of God, Samantha Woodington
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Refiguring George MacDonald: Science and the Realist Novel, Karl Hoenzsch
Leaves Ripped from Wet Branches, Edward Hopkins
“He was the Mirror of the World”: Social Constructivist Reflections in Le Roman de Silence, Hillary O'Brien
A Rumba for Rothko and Other Poems, Dennis O'Connell
The Stella Stories, Francesca Phillippy
"And While We Were Here", Benjamin Rader
How Does Poetry Confess? Zhai Yongming's Poems and the Landscape of "Confession", Xin Xu
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Behind the Meatball: A Reflection on Italian Cuisine, Lost and Found, Christina DeRay
Redefining Blackness in the Age of Whiteness: Mimicry, Ancestry, Gender Performance, and Self-Identity in Afro-Caribbean and Afro-American Literature, Brandon Marcell Erby
Collapsing the Secret Self: Thackeray's The History of Pendennis as a Performative Parody, Rachel Freire
Beyond the Pages: The Significance of the Social Self Proposed in Jane Austen's Persuasion, Veronica Grupico
Reading In Vogue: The Function of Fashion in Three Chopin Short Stories, Rachael Scardelli
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Werewolves as Translation: Bisclovret, Melion and Alphonse, Jessica L. Auz
California Grotesques: Torture, Fiction, and Ethnic Identity in John Fante's Ask the Dusk, Elizabeth Bracey
On Recklessness as a Virtue: a Jersey Shore Memoir, Annmarie Gervasio
Style and Substance: Isabel Archer as a New Type of "Lady", Sandra Gulbicki
Haunted by Passion: Supernaturalism and Feminism in Jane Eyre and Villette, Laurel Lorber
"It is the Business of the Artist to Follow it Home to the Heart of the Individual Fighters": D.H. Lawrence, The Great War, and the Trajectory of his Novels, Samantha Lauren Mathews
Seeping Through the Divide: The American Experience in Bradstreet's Verse, Kaitlin Tonti
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
The Abridged Autobiography of Yousef R., Joseph G. Rathgeber
"That House Belongs to Me": The Appropriation of Space, Place, and Heritage in L.M. Montgomery's Emily Trilogy, Rebecca J. Thompson
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Faulkner, Freud, and the Holy Family: The Portrayal of the Joseph Figure in Light in August, Richard Boland
Dickensian Physiology of Memory: Recall, Redintegration, and the Historical Novel, Timothy M. Curran
Loving Outside of the Law: Land as Mother in Cather, Austin, and Foote, Catherine Q. Forsa
The Werewolf Pride Movement: A Step Back from Queer Medieval Tradition, Caitlin B. Giacopasi
Sense of Color, Robert Lombari
"Madness" in Exile Literature: Insanity as a Byproduct of Subjugation and Manipulation in Bessie Head's A Question of Power, Jacqueline McDaniel
Late Medieval Women: Ascetic Performance and Subversive Mysticism, Deirdre A. Riley
Dialogical Narrative amd the Struggle for Vehicle Consciousness in D.H Lawrence's Women in Love, Alyssa Robinson
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Meddlesome Markets and Epistolary Escapes: Mediating Discourses in Gissing's New Grub Street, Robert Fanzo
Family Recipe, Christin Grow
Ophelia's Mistreatment and Ignored Monastic Opportunities, Danielle Tovsen
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Angelic Demons: Witchcraft and Sorcery in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, Melanie Bussiere
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Peace-Weavers and the Soldiers Who Court Them: the Sexual Development of Women in Shakespear's Plays, Sara Ben-David
