Theses from 2026
I Am the Perfect Wife: The Bildungsroman and the Disruption of the System in Jane Eyre and The Hunger Games, Carolyn Carpenter
The Everlasting Bite of the Colonizer In Contemporary Vampire Narratives, Emily Hatchett
The Everlasting Bite of the Colonizer In Contemporary Vampire Narratives, Emily Hatchett
Letters for Lavinia, Victoria N. Jackson
"Obsessive Myth:" Disturbing the Grammar of the Lyric and Epic in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's DICTEE, Noelle Kriegel
"Obsessive Myth:" Disturbing the Grammar of the Lyric and Epic in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's "DICTEE", Noelle (Nell) Kriegel
Northern Skin, Southern Story, Jania L. Smalls
A Walk with a Friend Named Grief, Rebecca L. Whaley
Theses from 2025
Beyond Just the Negros’ Art: Langston Hughes and the Poetic Renewal of Black Musical Tradition, Samuel Adewumi
Migration and Diaspora: An Intersectional Feminist Reading of Lucy by Jamacia Kincaid., Benjamin Oluwakayode Akinlabi
"All the Songs I Stole": Ballad Collection and the Conditions of Collective-Making in Johnny Cash's Prison Concert-Albums, Camryn J. Bruce
Understanding Writing Center’s Motivations for Creating and Providing Online Writing Resources: A Qualitative Study, MacKenzie K. Croley
The Shape of Absence: Diaspora and Echoes of Mother in Lucy, Zahra Ebrahimi
Rhetorics of Motherhood in Fiction:Motherhood as Identity and Status-Quo, Brea A. Hudson
The Shame of (Be)Longing in Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy, Grace S. Miholic
Capitola, the Newsboy, as a Story-Paper: Movement, Serialization, and the Rewriting of Domestic Space in E.D.E.N Southworth’s the Hidden Hand, Emma B. Pinson
Beyond World War I: Post-War Trauma in Agatha Christie’s The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Alayna Puckett
Grief is Isolating. The Elegy is Not: An Exploration of Loss and Grief in Poems, Jennifer Terry
Unsettling Femininity in Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Audrianna Witcher
Untethered and Unraveled: Isolated Motherhood in the Liminal Stage, Ashton K. Wronikowski
Theses from 2024
Fragile: Handle With Care A Conversation on Trauma, Flashbacks, and Seeing A Therapist When You Need One, Gloria Aragon
“No One Likes a Mad Woman:” a Modern Reclamation of Solitude In The Domestic Space Through Women With Invisible Disabilities in a Post-lockdown World, Marley Ashton Bickley
The Grove, Sabrina Blanchard
Playing Myself: The Gothic's Challenge to Audience Identity, Elena Durant
Cloaked Trannies on the SIlver Screen: "Evolutionary Derangement" and Cronenberg's Approach to Shaping a Critical Mindset towards Trans Bodies, John David Hunter
Shared Shame and Affect in Nella Larsen's Passing, Claudia Ludwick
Depths of Perception, Connor Matthews
The Calling of Governess, Karissa Maust
“Caroline”: Deviance in Southern Women’s Poetry, Sage Aspyn Short
Beyond “Muscular Blueprints”: Sarah Ruhl and Access Intimacy in Dramatic Writing, Taylor Steck
The Female Werewolf: The Wolf, the Woman, and the Dunce Outcast, Melina Wallace
By the Devil’s Grace: Zofloya’s Victoria and the Recontextualizing of a Protagonist, Katherine Woods
Theses from 2023
Cú Chulainn's "Vigil on the Hound Fords": The Centrality of Borders in the Táin Bó Cuailnge, David Atkinson
Pedagogy, Sexual Violence, and Contemporary Extremist Films: Baise-moi (2000), Irréversible (2002), and Promising Young Woman (2020), Olivia Harris
Finding Freedom in Stagnation: The Physical Spaces and Movement of Victorian Women in Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea, Madison Norder
“I Found It Again. My Home.”: The Role of Art in the Mediation of Trauma and Loss in Station Eleven, Emily Zhong
Theses from 2022
Enclosure in Flesh and Stone: Intermediaries and Access to God in Revelations of Divine Love, Emily Danuser
“People Like They Historical Shit in a Certain Way”: The Civil War Plays of Suzan-Lori Parks, or Commercialized Memory and Black Lives, Brandon Eric Fisher
The Screen and Development: Creative Writing and Liminality in Children’s Literature, Rebecca E. Glenn
Triumph in the Suburbs: Richard Ford and the Spaces of New Capitalism, John Gorton
The Unarticulated Unseen: Britt Bennett’s “The Vanishing Half” and Her Intent on Revealing the Unseen in the Tradition of Racial Passing, Caroline Maas Rue
"Custome is an Idiot": How Genre Bending Opens New Meanings for Hæc Vir, or the Womanish Man, Stephen Montgomery-Anderson
Inclusive Pedagogy: Connecting Disability and Race In Higher Education, Meredith Persin
Unseen Bruises: Surviving and Conquering a Narcissist, Frances C. Smith
A Cross-Cultural Trek of Nomadism Through Metaphoric Criticism, Gabrielle Wilkosz
Theses from 2021
COVID-19 and the Emergence of a New Illness Narrative, Thomas M. Allison
How “Interested” Criticism Fueled the Formulation of Nineteen Eighty-Four’s Cultural Afterlife, John Cameron Bosch
Interrupting the Narrative: Reader Emapthy and Authorial Resistance in Gayl Jones’s Corregidora and Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half, Allison Daniel
The Art of The Author: A Discussion of Servants in The Castle of Otranto, Laura Caroline Dunn
"They don't need men and they don't need God": The Liberatory Possibilities of Waywardness in Toni Morrison's Paradise, Mary Frankovich
Weaponizing Faith: ‘Spectral Evidence’ in Longfellow, Miller and Trump, Paul Hyde
Contemporary Women's Poetry and Leaning Into the Senses, Samantha Keebler
On Moving Beyond and Looking Behind: An Analysis of Contemporary Queer of Color Digital Art and Performance, Caroline Kinderthain
"I / believe in ruin": Trance, Affect, and Disorientation, Zachary Melton Kinsella
Autonomous Power and Profound Agency: Women and Magic in the Icelandic Legendary Sagas, Amanda Platz
They Say, We Say: A Standpoint Analysis of Stay-at-Home Mothers’ Engagement with Public Discourse, Ayesha Tanzila
The Bachelor as a Platform for Format Subversion: Authorial Intent and Audience Reaction, Michael A. Vaughan
Historical Nets, Jenny E. Washburne
Theses from 2020
Finding the Ephemeral: Aura, Apperception, and Digitally-Mediated Music, Rodger Eugene Bishop
Guard Your Heart, “by Force, if Necessary”: Faith, Virginity, and Shame in the Evangelical Purity Movement, Kelley M. Gillis
The Story of Hur, Hwi Eun Hur
Marie's Knowing Winks: Ironic Play, Courtly Love, and the Disruption of Generic Conventions in Chaitivel, Lanva, and Yonec, Anna Lia Johnson
Defending the Dead: A Critical and Creative Exploration of the Eulogy, Dan Leach
A Slow and Spectacular Violence: Anti-Black, Environmental, and Labor Violence in Muriel Rukeyser’s The Book of the Dead, Kaitlyn Michelle Samons
Computational Configurations: Behind the Bricolage of The Truelist, Emma Jayne Stanley
Between Worlds & A Conversation on Fantasy, Portals, and Escape, Sarah Savannah Watkins
Something I Don't Know: Stories About Being Human, Robert Welborn
Theses from 2019
"I Was Quiet, But I Was Not Blind": The Surprising Consistency of Fanny Price, Blake Elizabeth Bowens
Rereading the Journal: Maintaining the Potential for Refinement, Julie Anne Edewaard
Is There a Self in this Text? Satire, Passing, and Life in Caucasia, Myers Enlow
An Audience with the King, Charissa Eileen Fryberger
A Change in Southern Character through Southern Characters, Emma McCracken
Reading Charlotte and Branwell Brontë’s Early Writings as Colonialist Fantasy, Kristian Nicole Wilson
Theses from 2018
Dendarian: A Young Man's Quest & The Functions of Fairy Tales, Daniel Atkinson
"It's All a Blind": Scopic Economies in Henry James' Washington Square, Carrie L. Hill
The Culture of the Body: The Beautiful, Sublime, and Ugly in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Courtney Huff-Oelberg
Better than Adequate: An Investigation in Contemporary Short Fiction, Stephen Michael Hundley
Making Interpretations: Digitally Adapting Yeats's 'Ego Dominus Tuus' as a Digital Comic, Jared Jameson
The Desubjectified Subject in the Poetry of Rosmarie Waldrop, Amanda Rebecca Johnson
Edward II: Negotiations of Credit in the Early Modern Public Sphere, Jane E. Kuebler
The Work of Water in Edwidge Danticat's Environmental Imagination, Gabrielle Nugent
Transgressive Theatricalities: Questioning the Existence of a Sincere Self in Sensation Fiction, Carley Amanda Robertson
Theses from 2017
Marked: Masculine Performativity in Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club and Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho, Robert Brian Brissey Jr.
Abducted by Reading Machines: Pragmatism and the Discourse of Distant Reading, Matthew Scott Duncan
A Shared Resilience in Contemporary Southern Literature: Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina and Robin Boylorn's Sweetwater: Black Women and Tales of Resilience, Laurie Pfister Epps
Madness in the Media: Demystifying the Emergence of an OCD Trope in Television, Sam Martin
Theses from 2016
Treacherous Selves: Subjection and Subjectivity in The Tragedy of Mariam, Emily Anne Boyter
The Sunglasses of Ideology: Augmented Reality as Posthuman Cognitive Prosthesis, Jason Crider
From Overt Contentment to Hidden Space: Examining the Portrayal of Gender Fluidity in Naylor's Bailey's Café and Walker's The Color Purple, Teneshia Shante Head
"The Wildest Stock": Service, Monarchical Grafting, and Environmental Engagement in The Winter's Tale, Kristen Joy Hixon
Between Flesh and Being: Theorizing the Racial Body and the Position of Personhood in Claudia Rankine's Citizen, Lanja Najmalddin Karim
Will The Real Captain America Please Stand-Up: Redefining the Patriotic Hero Post-9/11, Michelle Anne Lloyd
Gender Hybridity in H.G. Wells' The Island of Dr. Moreau, Charlotte Rene Powell
Like a Character in a Truffaut Film, Trevor Lance Seigler
Finding Freedom for Jane: A Reading of Subjugation, Shame, and Sympathy in Charlotte's Brontë Jane Eyre, Rebecca Shaver
Formulas of Fiction: The First World War and the Popular Fiction of 1914, Caroline Swanson
The Zombi of the British Empire: Rochester's Imperialist Drive in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea, Chloe Whitaker