Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Comedy, Contagion, and Confinement in Bo Burnham’s Inside, Zoe Barclay
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
The Pen as Your Sword: Writing Through the Lens of Depression, Chris Lownie
Girls in Wonderland: The Male Gaze, Disordered Eating, and Bad Women in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Spirited Away, Arielle Westcott
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Decentering the Dictator: ‘In the Time of the Butterflies’ and the Mirabal Sisters’ Outspoken Challenge, Elise Coombs
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
“We'll Make a Man Out of You”: Steven Universe, the Bildungsroman, and the Redefinition of the Male Hero., Ryan Badalamenti
A House Divided, Christian Burgos
Finding Nemo, Findng Dory, Finding Ourselves: How and Why We Teach Our Children to Think About Disability, Stacie Klinowski
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
How Documentary Poetry Imagines, Seunghyun Shin
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Unveiling Fantasy in the American Gothic, Olga Jacqueline Neroni
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Breaking Bad: On the Western Genre and Audience Reception, Marisa Mazart
The Sanity of Furor Poeticus: Romanticism’s Demystification of Madness and Creativity, Joseph Meringolo
The Black and the Blue: Comedy, Laughter, and Deformity in Ellison’s Invisible Man, Olivia Grace Popiel
Ideology and Subversion: Linguistic Registers in Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible, Natalie Wallace
Riffing on The Past: Jazz and Signifying in Ishmael Reed’s Mumbo Jumbo, Kevin Wheeler
The Isolated Self: A Re-imaging of the Individual in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Mamoru Oshii’s Ghost in the Shell, Emily Wierzbowski
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Walking Corpses & Conscious Plants: Possibilist Ecologies in Graphic Novels, Julie Ann Bingham
Social Media Fetishism: The Substitution of Life, The Disavowal of Death, and The Zombie Syndrome, Ian Andrew Lepkowsky
From Pulp to Webpage: Homestuck and Postmodern Digital Narrative, Austin Gunner Litwhiler
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
The Role of Magic in Fantasy Literature: Exposing Reality through Fantasy, Martin Cahill
Aeschylus’ Tragedy of Law: Kinship, the Oresteia, and the Violence of Democracy, Grace Hobbs
Back to the Future: The Mechanics of Temporality in H.G. Wells' The Time Machine, Rebecca Matt
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
The Backwards Making of A Heroine: Mary Cowden Clarke’s Girlhood and Its Importance In the Shakespearean Conversation, Jillian Caramanna
Without a Place but Always Trying to be Placed: Between Hope and Impossibility in Samuel Beckett’s Molloy, Joseph Stepansky
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: The Creature’s Attempt at Humanization, Noelle Webster
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
The Dynamics of Male/Female Relationships in Jon Donne's Love Poetry, Amanda Boyd
“Tragical History” and “Tragedy” as Inquisitive Vehicles: Examining the Implications of Marlowe’s Two Faustus Texts, Joseph Sturcken
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Our Greatest Want: An Examination of the Rhetorical Tendencies Employed by African American Female Abolitionist Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911), Lauren Deborah Nye
“A Woman’s Story at a Winter’s Fire”: Gender Performativity and the Intrinsic Power of the Feminine in Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Whitney Sperrazza