Honors Undergraduate Theses from 2024
Guns Can't Kill Ghosts, Krista B. Ruffo
Theses from 2023
Tomiccama Tomiccanacayo: A Feminist/Spatial Analysis of flesh to bone by ire'ne lara silva, Alyssa B. Bent
Diverse Expressions of the Black Identity in Jackson, Mississippi: Stories, Elisabeth Campbell
Treatment of the Differently Abled: Representations of Disability from Victorian Periodicals to Contemporary Graphic Narratives, Rachelle Echevarria
Propaganda of Car Ecotourism in Glacier National Park, Hanna Y. Mohammed
The Beauty of Hip-Hop Culture: Linguistic Connections Through Music, Poetry, and Literature, Aminah Patel
Political Bodies in the Ulster Cycle: Space, Conflict, and Comedy in Scéla Muicce Meicc Dathó, Glenn S. Ritchey III
Pepper Pot and Callaloo: Caribbean Cuisine as Embodiment of "Otherness" and Resistance, Sheina Senat
Literature as a Form of Resistance Against British Colonial Rule in India, Ebada Wasiuddin
Before They Could Be Saved: AIDS Voices before Protease Inhibitors, Julian J. Willis
Wild Wild Country: Netflix, Orientalism, and the Guru, E. K. D. Wood
Theses from 2022
La Carroza Dorada (The Golden Carriage), Camila Cal Mello
Authoring Inclusion: The Sonnet's Shifting Form, Aloysius Devine
On Your Painted Wings, Sandra M. Ford
Illuminated Books: A Voyage Through the Verbal-Visual and Caribbean Folklore, Shannon Ganeshram
Hope Without Assurance: The Eucatastrophic Nature of Tolkien's Arda, Grant Glavin
The Spicy Girls: Writings on the Lived Experiences of Latinas as the Exotic "Other.", Nina M. Lopez
Investigating the Use of Technical Writing Theories in Aerospace Defense: Electronic Maintenance Manuals, Shannon P. Maharajh
Good Patients, Susan Mesler-Evans
Hymnal of Teeth: Southern Stories of Folk and Fey, James E. Phillips III
Contained Identities: Forms of Resistance in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee and Pamela Lu's Pamela: A Novel, Zohra Qazi
Idyllic History: The Role and Agency of Women and Religion in Contemporary Bollywood, Kushma Singh
Theses from 2021
The Language of Personas: Poetic Masks in Confessional and Black Arts Poems, Grecia Espinoza
Resurrecting an American Archive: A Mid-20th-Century Case Study of Louise Amory (1892-1979), Barbara A. Marquis
The Hidden Secrets of Historical Artistry, Jennifer B. Musser
Memoria: Re(member)ing How to Heal, Vilma E. Portocarrero
"There Was Also the Music": A Literary Analysis of Puerto Rican Identity in the Works of Sandra Maria Esteves and Judith Ortiz Cofer, Keyla A. Robles
Crime/Mystery: Reinventing Tropes, Gabrielle Santiago
Vergissmeinnicht: An Inderdisciplinary Study of Holocaust Trauma Literature, Medical Experimentation Discourse, and Narratives of Denial, Tiffany Sidders
The "Information Pandemic": Technical Communication and False Information on Social Media in the Age of COVID-19, Mia M. Stephens
Hemingway Drunk: A Study of Prohibition, Medico-Legal Rhetoric, and The Autonomy of Masculinity, Graham P. Studdard
Maritime Lacunae, Miriam S. Taveras
A Literary Analysis of Magic: A Dissection of Medieval Icelandic Literature, Jordan T. Williams
Theses from 2020
A Tale of the Terminally Fey: A Modern Take on Collaborative Folklore, Olivia Damm
Monster in the Closet, Sean Glatch
A Transnational Look at the Modern Women, Isabella Hardesty
Macho Remixes: A Collection of Writings, Daniel A. Hernandez
This Woman's Work: Corrosive Power Structures, Gendered Labor and Weariness in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake, Taylor J. Pryor
Representation in the Story: The Social Impact of Diversity in Transmedia, Tiffany S. Tanaka-Cooper
Theses from 2019
The Study of Free Will in the East and the West, Nicholas J. Colecio
Spiteful Houses, Sweet Homes: Analyzing Denver's Traumatic Space in Beloved, Tyler Dick
A Deconstruction of Puritan Ideology Through the Works of John Winthrop, Anne Bradstreet, and Mary Rowlandson, Rocco S. Fazzalari
La Sufrida: An Analysis of the Social and Literary Archetype, Meleena Gil
The Americanization of the Holocaust: Reconsidered Through Judaic Studies, Brie Green-Rebackoff
An Exploration of Teacher Perceptions of the Presence of Cultural Reproduction in Two Middle Schools, Kaitlyn Montcrieff
Borrowing Time: The Classical Tradition in the Poetic Thoeries of T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, Nicholas Odom
LATCHKEY: A Memoir in Essays, Nicole C. Pendleton
Open World Translation: Localizing Japanese Video Games for a Globalizing World, Emily Suvannasankha
Theses from 2018
'No Home Here': Female Space and the Modernist Aesthetic in Nella Larsen's Quicksand and Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, Julianna N. Cherinka
Deconstruction of the Romantic Comedy in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Mary E. Crivelli
Esther Reed's Political Sentiments and Rhetoric During the Revolutionary War, Kennedy Harkins
Unificación: The Things That Bind Us, Kaylani E. Muriel
Amidst a Bottled Word: Poetry & Prose, Carlos J. Peralta
Theses from 2017
This Must Be the Place, Jesse S. Feinman
Blankets of Memory: Short Stories, Kyle S. Kubik
Theses from 2016
Excerpt from: Won, a Novel, Jenna Ellenbogen
Exploring Preservice Teacher Attitudes toward Black Students, Audra L. Greuel
Five Degrees: A Short Story, Cassia E. Hinds
Migrant Child, Nicholas Sheperd
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Lost Voices of Ancient Israel Reclaiming Eden: An Ecocritical Exegesis, Nazeer Bacchus
The Brevard Chronicles: Short Stories, Joshua Dull
Reimaging Desire: Queer Time, Liminal Space, and Narrative Anxiety, Aidan Mitchell
The Third Island: A Novella, Iris Mora
The Early Modern Space: (Cartographic) Literature and the Author in Place, Michael C. Myers
My Black is Beautiful: A Study of How Hair is Portrayed in Children's and Young Adult Literature, Quacy-Ann Webley
The Repressive Role of Technology in American and British Dystopian Novels of the Cold War, Gabriela Wolk
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Bringing John Green to Schools: Incorporating Young Adult Literature in a Secondary English Language Arts Classroom, Emily Adams
The Representation of Poverty in Great Depression American Literature, Cavel Austin
Need: Stories, Megan Ellis
Home Nowhere: Assorted Prose, Rebecca Fortes
Secondary English Teachers' Perceptions and Expectations of High School Athletes, Sarah Jarem
The Scattered Brain Convalesces, Sam Lamura
Imago Dei: Stories, Benjamin Langevin
A Longer Spoon: A Novel, Elizabeth MacDonald
Representation and Imagination of the Holocaust in Young Adult Literature, Amelia Mackarey
Islam, Sacrifice, and Political Theology in John Milton's Samson Agonistes, Renee Marvin
Orange Blossoms, Edward Montalvo
Bite Me: Sadomasochistic Gender Relations in Contemporary Vampire Literature, Shelby Nathanson
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
The Uncanny and the Postcolonial in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, Molly Brown Fuller
Gridlocks and Padlocks, Rachel Chapman
Buried in the dust, Jessica Farrell
Ebbing Winds: Life Rituals at Home and Abroad, Asya Fergiani
The Ambivalence of Science Fiction: Science Fiction, Neo-imperialism, and the Ideology of Modernity as Progress, Graham Hall
Maid for Man, Elyse Kelly
Lucidity: A Novella, Rafael Lancelotta
An intersectional comparison of female agency in Toni Morrison's Sula and Wang Anyi's Song of Everlasting Sorrow, Jordan Lynton
Gukundana, Lindsay Van Stone
In the Cards: A Collection of Short Stories and Poetry, Alise Vick
Shaming the love plot: inconvenient women navigating conventional romance, Brittan Wilkey
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Social media and its effect on privacy, Brittney Adams
An examination of technology and its influence on reading in struggling students and an autoethnography of a preservice teacher, Megan Campanile
Samphire a novella, Hillary Casavant
A crimson trail, Caitlin McGill
An examination of academic dishonesty in secondary online english education, Marissa Middleton