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Theses/Dissertations from 2023

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“Speechless, Placeless Power”: Affect and Trauma in Moby-Dick and “Bartleby, the Scrivener”, Lauren Colandro

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Queer Not: Medieval Romance's Toll on Queerness, Kyle Gaydo

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Digitizing the American West: Analyzing Rhetoric in Red Dead Redemption 2, Amalia McEvoy

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The Key Role of Social Media in Students’ Understanding of the Rhetorical Situation, Olivia Montine

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Fever Dive: A Novel, Sofia Ohrynowicz

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Recovering Pearl: Utopian Projections in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter", Evan Weiss

Theses/Dissertations from 2022

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Untitled YA Novel Opening Chapters, Christopher Ferrante

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Rock Bottom: Stories, Sarah Newgarden

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He Had Two Women to Die For, Ireland and the missus”: Mothers as Abject and Sons as Scapegoats in Edna O’Brien’s House of Splendid Isolation and In the Forest, Emily Nix

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“The Un/Touchables:” Quest for Citizenship in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things and Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People, Mahreen Shahzadi

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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

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Stories About Stories (For Myself and Others), Anthony Bonuccelli

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Quand c'est?, Shanice Casimiro

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From Parsley and Sugarcane, Jennifer Celeste

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Scenes of Subversion: How Monstrous Subjectivities Affect Futurity in Gothic Horror, Salvatore S. DiBono

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Satire in the Cold War Era: Graham Greene's Our Man in Havana and Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions, Sara Eslami

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A Rhetorical Approach to Assessing Source Credibility: Digital Natives, Lateral Reading, and the Need for Media Literacy Curriculum, Sanna Fogt

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The Nobility in Seeing Oneself: Unreliable Narration in British Postmodern Fiction, Jessica Marzocca

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All Things Considered, Conor Murtagh

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Edgar Allan Poe: Addressing the Haunting Legacy of American Exceptionalism, Kaitlyn Quinn

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Roams, Brittany L. Temple

Theses/Dissertations from 2020

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Dramatic Example: Spectacle, Theatricality, and Performance in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Trilogy, Patrick Joseph Caoile

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Sacralizing the Secular: Preserving Space in Sarah Orne Jewett’s “A White Heron”, Maria Catherina Capozzoli

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Take Care, Now, Evyania Constant

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"I speak for the preservation of the Union" : Daniel Webster, Law, and Morality in the writings of the American Renaissance, Rebecca Nicole Girardin

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You Couldn't Write This, Erica Ann Savi

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Choking Hazards, Naomi Shuyama and Naomi Shuyama

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“This is a true story”: Paratextual Prefaces and their Fictive Truths Across Literature, Rebecca Stokem

Theses/Dissertations from 2019

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Van Gogh’s Yellow Flowers: The Influence of Post-Impressionism on Mansfield and Woolf, Gabriella M. D'Angelo

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“Donning the Skins”: The Problem of Shapeshifting in The Saga of the Volsungs, David Mudrak

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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

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From Teaching to the Best Seller List: How the Educational System Drives the Publishing Market and Vice Versa, Kai D. Alexander

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Waging War on the Womb: Women’s Bodies as Nationalist Symbols and Strategic Victims of Violence in Susan Abulhawa’s Mornings in Jenin, Noora Badwan

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"'Violent Love': Jane Austen and Eighteenth-Century Marriage Laws", Brianna Bicho

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Sacramental Anxiety in Richard II and The Comedy of Errors, Aria Casey

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"I believe in Sherlock Holmes": Fans, Readers, and the Problem of Serial Character, Mary Katherine Evans

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I Can't Hear You: Queering and Hearing in the Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale, Miranda Lynn Hajduk

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Time, Memory, and Consciousness in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and Between the Acts, Nicole Olivotti

Theses/Dissertations from 2017

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Lust and Lineage: The Complex Politics of Chaucer’s The Clerk’s Tale, William Arguelles

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Magical Politicism: History and Identity in Gabriel García Márquez’s Fiction, Isabel C. Henao

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Documentation Authority and Reliability in the Cultural Space of the Wiki, Robert Kehler

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Becoming Pamela: The Fight for Maternal Authority in Pamela II, Danielle Pollaro

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Organic Morality: A Poetic Garden Rhetoric Originating in the 18th Century, Heather Robinson

Theses/Dissertations from 2016

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Slaying Hybridity: The “Uncreated” Monstrous Doubles in the The Saga of the Volsungs, Nibelungenlied, and Kudrun, Kyle Augustyniak

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An Almost Threesome: Erotic Love Triangles and Authorial Choice in Malory’s Le Morte D’ Arthur, Maria L. Avery

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The Adolescent Grotesque: Transgressing Boundaries of Female Sexuality in Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory and Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John, Telia Bennett

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Daisy Miller: Picking-up James’s Psychological Breadcrumbs, Amanda D'Amore

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Linework, David Felton

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One With the Toad: Bejeweled but Venomous Nature, Lisa Fisher

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“Names portable as alter stones”: Nomadic Movement and Recollection in Seamus Heaney’s Poetry, Norah Toomey Hatch

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Mrs. Ramsay's Art in To the Lighthouse, Olivia Innamorato

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Talking Some Sense into Chaucer: Bodies in “The Miller’s Prologue” and “The Miller’s Tale”, Jacqueline Joewono

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Which Side Are You on? : Prosthetic Vaginas, Cross-dressing Madonnas, and Queer Theology in Virgin of the Flames and Narcopolis, Nasreen Hannah Khan

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Natural Elements Representing the Cycle of Life and Death through Whitman’s “Song of Myself” and “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, Priya Patel

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Animals as Projections of the Self in “The Raven” and “The Black Cat”, Samantha Payerl

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Wilde's Final Act, Justine Ilissa Sha

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"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

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“The Indians gaping before us”: Anxieties of Consumption in Mary White Rowlandson’s Sovereignty and Goodness of God, Samantha Woodington

Theses/Dissertations from 2015

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Refiguring George MacDonald: Science and the Realist Novel, Karl Hoenzsch

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Leaves Ripped from Wet Branches, Edward Hopkins

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“He was the Mirror of the World”: Social Constructivist Reflections in Le Roman de Silence, Hillary O'Brien

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A Rumba for Rothko and Other Poems, Dennis O'Connell

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The Stella Stories, Francesca Phillippy

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"And While We Were Here", Benjamin Rader

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How Does Poetry Confess? Zhai Yongming's Poems and the Landscape of "Confession", Xin Xu

Theses/Dissertations from 2014

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Behind the Meatball: A Reflection on Italian Cuisine, Lost and Found, Christina DeRay

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Redefining Blackness in the Age of Whiteness: Mimicry, Ancestry, Gender Performance, and Self-Identity in Afro-Caribbean and Afro-American Literature, Brandon Marcell Erby

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Collapsing the Secret Self: Thackeray's The History of Pendennis as a Performative Parody, Rachel Freire

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Beyond the Pages: The Significance of the Social Self Proposed in Jane Austen's Persuasion, Veronica Grupico

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Reading In Vogue: The Function of Fashion in Three Chopin Short Stories, Rachael Scardelli

Theses/Dissertations from 2013

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Werewolves as Translation: Bisclovret, Melion and Alphonse, Jessica L. Auz

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California Grotesques: Torture, Fiction, and Ethnic Identity in John Fante's Ask the Dusk, Elizabeth Bracey

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On Recklessness as a Virtue: a Jersey Shore Memoir, Annmarie Gervasio

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Style and Substance: Isabel Archer as a New Type of "Lady", Sandra Gulbicki

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Haunted by Passion: Supernaturalism and Feminism in Jane Eyre and Villette, Laurel Lorber

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"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

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Seeping Through the Divide: The American Experience in Bradstreet's Verse, Kaitlin Tonti

Theses/Dissertations from 2012

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Fear and Loathing in Nineteenth-Century England: Monsters, Freaks, and Deformities and Their Influence on Romantic and Victorian Society, Valerie Falk

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The Abridged Autobiography of Yousef R., Joseph G. Rathgeber

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" I take non hede what a man hath ben, but I Take hede what he wyl ben": Margery Kempe, Christian Improvement, and the Collapse of Physical Time, Rachel Tanski

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"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

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Faulkner, Freud, and the Holy Family: The Portrayal of the Joseph Figure in Light in August, Richard Boland

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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

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The Werewolf Pride Movement: A Step Back from Queer Medieval Tradition, Caitlin B. Giacopasi

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Sense of Color, Robert Lombari

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"Madness" in Exile Literature: Insanity as a Byproduct of Subjugation and Manipulation in Bessie Head's A Question of Power, Jacqueline McDaniel

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Late Medieval Women: Ascetic Performance and Subversive Mysticism, Deirdre A. Riley

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Dialogical Narrative amd the Struggle for Vehicle Consciousness in D.H Lawrence's Women in Love, Alyssa Robinson

Theses/Dissertations from 2010

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Meddlesome Markets and Epistolary Escapes: Mediating Discourses in Gissing's New Grub Street, Robert Fanzo

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Family Recipe, Christin Grow

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Ophelia's Mistreatment and Ignored Monastic Opportunities, Danielle Tovsen

Theses/Dissertations from 2009

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Angelic Demons: Witchcraft and Sorcery in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, Melanie Bussiere

Theses/Dissertations from 2008

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Peace-Weavers and the Soldiers Who Court Them: the Sexual Development of Women in Shakespear's Plays, Sara Ben-David

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Open, Clear Decisions: Virginian Woolf's Orlando and Clarissa Dalloway as Bisexuals, Sarah Brey

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Defining Henry James's Feminine Perceptions and Characterizations: Alice James as Model for Isabel Archer and Claire de Cintre, Edvie Marie Clark

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Exploring Sexuality within the Modernist Bildungsroman, Mathew J. Kochis

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The Chase, Dwight McCaulsky

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A Praxis Mundi, Ryan McConnell

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Mending the Gaps: Margaret Fuller's Transnational Identity and the Cultivation of a World Order, Jennifer Pennacchio