Thesis Titles of Recent Graduates

2009 Graduates

Edward Sterling Alexander
One Arc Synoptic: Hart Crane’s Aesthetics in The Bridge

Hannah Elizabeth Baker
Things Aren’t as Bad as They Seem: The Development of Religious Emotions in Two Novels by G.K. Chesterton

Sarah Rose Barrett
Towards a Baedeker of the Mind: Space, Mapping, and Italy in E.M. Forster

Fani Clarke Benhabib
Train Wreck Syndrome or The Obsessive Nature of Typographical Metafiction

Madeline Sarah Blodgett
Textual Healing: Queer Writing and Testimony in Bastard out of Carolina

Hilary June Bromell
What We Write about When We Write about Food: The Gastronomic Autobiographies of M.F.K. Fisher, Ruth Reichl, and Patience Gray

Raymond Kee Dennison
“These Accents Seem Their Own Defense”: The Lyric Form of John Ashbery and Luci Tapahonso

Leah Ann DiMatteo
Gender, Race, and Class Identity: The Power of Representation in Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko

Sophia S.R. Frank
Mainstreaming Mondo: The Remediation of Mondo Cinema

John Chandler Fredrick
Big Love, Long Story: Cultural Perceptions of Mormonism and Polygamy in American Literature and Television

Jack Daly Friend
The Revenge of the Daimonic: A Mayist Reading of All the King’s Men

Matthew Stewart Harper
Truthiness or Consequences: Investigating Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure

Ambalila Hemsell
Linguistics in the Colony

Sarah Chelsea Hoffer
We Are The Monsters: Complicating Degeneration in Fin-de-siècle Fiction

Brooke Laurel Hulteen
Made Grace: Recovering Earthly and Narrative Ecosystems in the Stories of Barry Lopez

Neima Jahromi
Othello, Othello, and the Role of the Audience

Clare Elaine Johnston
Reassessing the Rake: The Discussion between Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Stefanie Kam Li Yee
Poetic Subjectivity: Conceptions of Interiority in Shakespeare’s Sonnets

Madeleine Sutherland Linares
Through the Magic Mirror: Exploring Sexuality in the Imaginative Fiction of George MacDonald and Lewis Carroll

Theresa Ann Lingrey
Interruptions: Stories

Leslie Andrea Loy
Creating Community through the Fantastic: How the Quotidian and the Supernatural Blend in the Sexual Experience in Louise Erdrich’s Fiction

Kailyn Margaret McCord
She and I

Jonathan Ray McCoy
Becoming a Happy Bandit: Readings of Resistance within the Works of Jean Genet

Gabriel Stone Mehlman
Seeking Narratives: A Reading of Moby Dick

Anne Frances Miano
The Harmonies of Silence: Thomas Merton’s Poetry and Poetics

Diana Christina Oliva
Everything that Never Happened to Me

Jodi Bree Romero
“A World Made of Stories”: Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony

Corie Ann Sanford
“A Sense of New and Sudden Vision”: Representations of Epiphany in the Modern Novel

Melissa Claire Schatz-Miller
A Loud and Empty House: The Status of Friendship in Contemporary South Asian British Literature

Marissa Sophia Schneiderman
Captives and Captors: Mary Rowlandson, Susanna Rowson, and the Evolution of an American Role

Alina Serebryany
“Their Throat is an Open Sepulchre”: Archival Descent and Song in Susan Howe’s The Nonconformist’s Memorial

Prashant Sharma
“To Spiritualize the Burden”: The Inward Quest in The Scarlet Letter

Kerelyn Rebecca Smith
Descriptive Designs: Deep Focus and Natural Background in Thomas Hardy’s Wessex Novels

Brittany Morgan Taylor
America, Yes: The Myth of the People in the Industrial Poetry of Carl Sandburg

James Roberts Timberlake
Cyborg Visions: Looking through Popular Representations of Meeting Technological Advancements

Emma Bly Tupper
“The Jig-Saw Gists Beginning to Fit”: Reading as Recovery in the Poetry of Lorine Niedecker

Katherine Elliott Walsh
White Girls with Problems: The Postfeminist Film Reel-ity

Flint Egan Brannin Whistler
The Bluebeard Tales: Crossing Boundaries with Marriage and Murder

Isaac P. Zisman
Narrative Silences: A Reading of Absalom, Absalom!

2008 Graduates

Rachel Minow Apatoff
Secrets Hidden in Plain Sight: Narration and Information in Bleak House

Devin Douglas Bambrick
Feel-Good Novels about Interracial Murder: Discourse and Disruption in Sherman Alexie’s Indian Killer and Flight

Elizabeth Eloise Bergland
The Perfect Taste of War in Harper’s Bazaar

Rosezell Lorraine Bosely
Worlds within Worlds: Utopian Oz, Edenic Neverland, and Their Legacies beyond the Page

Andra Upite Brosy
Pynchon’s Postmodern Landscape: Spatial Representation in V. and The Crying of Lot 49

Samantha Amelia Carrick
“If a man is a force in one’s life”: A Study of Mentorship in American Poetry Considering Williams, Nardi, and Ginsberg

Jonina Wilensky Dames
Barefoot and Pregnant—IN SPACE!! Gender Dynamics in Science Fiction Television: Femininity and the Military in Farscape, Stargate SG-1, and the Earth: Final Conflict

Robert Charles Ericksen
Lifesong of a Zapoteca

Rebecca Xan Fitzgerald
Force, Counterforce, and the Propagation of a New Mythology: Writing in the Discourse of Fiction as a Participatory Act

Fiona Joy Gladstone
“La jaula se ha vuelto pájaro y se ha volado”: Translating Flight through Form

Elizabeth Rebecca Haas
Music is the Message: Documentary Film Addresses African Political Dissidence

Sarah Tang Hausman
Invisible Protest: The Democratic Rhetoric and Integrationist Aesthetics of Ellison’s Invisible Man

Christy Savannah Johnson
Navigating Chicana/o Time and Faith: Curanderismo and Identity Construction in Novels by Rudolfo Anaya and Ana Castillo

Mark Christopher Jones
Pensando, enredando sombras: Possible Partial Translations of Pablo Neruda’s Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada

Alexa Lee Kelly
The Alienation and the Subject in Early and Contemporary Postmodernist Fiction

Violeta Rumyanova Ketskarova
From Beowulf to Buffy or, Why Do We Keep Chasing Evil Dragons and Glorifying Virtuous Heroes?

Valentina Jing Yee Landolfi
“Stupendous Grief”: The Language of Mourning in Tess Gallagher’s Moon Crossing Bridge and Donald Hall’s Without

Timothy John Lehnen
The Craft of Writing and the Relationship between Author and Text in Tristram Shandy

Raina Marie Levesque
Translation in Samuel Beckett’s Fin de partie and Endgame

Benjamin Mac Lingo
Time and Space, Imagination and Narration: The Third Term of Duality

Britt Nicole Long
There Were Things You Pretended You Had to Do: Masculinity and Self-Fashioning in Postwar American Fiction

Gerald Edmund Lunn
Fistfuls of Prose: The Prose Poem’s Missing Torso

Scott Donald MacLeod
King Lear and the Tragedy of Hermeneutics

Avyark Mallik
The Postmodern and the Postcolonial within the Discourse of Cultural Globalization

Alexa Preston Malott
Abstract Poetry: Ezra Pound’s Cantos IV and LXXVII

Evan Alexander Messinger
Satires on Truth-Knowing: Chaucer’s Parliament of Fowles, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, and Apuleius’s Metamorphoses

Morgan Ann Mills
Trailing Clouds of Glory: Approaching God through Children’s Fantasy Literature

Eric Byron Nelson
Beckett’s Paradox

Jennifer Pan
Outside and in-between: Empire and Epistemology in the Short Fiction of Jean Rhys

Scott Gia Pham
The Spy Novels of Graham Greene and Eric Ambler: The Cultural Politics of Popular Literature and Figuring the Real

Anna Laura Queener Platt
Posting the Subject: The Wife of Bath and the Language of Dissent

David Lawrence Platzer
9/11—Terror, Myth, and Fiction: An Ethnography of the Novel

Megan Ann Ralstin
Language and Self in Paul Auster’s New York Trilogy

Francis Anthony Reynolds
“I. Quick leave him”: Ambiguity in Language and the Formation of the Subject in Samuel Beckett

Glencora Roberts
No Rest for the Tired Reader: The Revolutionary Power of the Grotesque in Carson McCullers and Flannery O’Connor

Benjamin Nelson Sanchez
The Recontextualization of Americana in William Carlos Williams’ Spring and All

Alise Marie Scheeler
Sacred Monsters: The Diva and Her Homosexual Admirers in the Works of Terrence McNally

Elizabeth Koch Schmidt
The Influence of the Works Progress Administration on Bellow’s Dangling Man

Robin Ross Swearingen
Modes of Disinheritance in Kafka

Courtney Heather Thrall
Constructing the “Monstrous” Subject: Anatomy, Aesthetics, and Rhetoric in Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein

Rachel Elizabeth Tomlinson
An Epic of the Body: Women and Obscenity in Ulysses

Kyle Linden Webster
Haruki Murakami and Ray Loriga: Memory and Solitude in Supermodern Space

Stephen Josef Wissow
Ethics, Anti-Elegy, and Specular Aversio: Language and Image in Li-Young Lee

2007 Graduates

Nicolas Moselle Allen
The Making of Don Quixote

Amanda Leigh Bailey
It’s Alive!: A Study of the Persistent Appeal of the Gothic

Elizabeth Christine Bourke
Science Fiction and Mutation: The Subject in the Novels of Ballard, Gibson, and Card

Rachel Marie Brownell
The Construction of Identity through Structure and Content in the Fiction of Anne Hébert

Mackenzie James Cole
In the Prairie Grass Come Dark

Emily Claire Owens Collinson
The Alcibiades Problem: Athens and a New Colonial Narrative

Charles Franklin Sanders Creasy
No Garter King-at-Arms: Narrative Voice and the Retrospective Arrest of Meaning in William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury and Appendix: Compsons

Emma Madeline Dupin
The Terms of Sacred and Profane Communication in John Donne’s Lyrics

Jessalyn Alvera Deva Epstein
Blanchotian death: l’extase de la mort

Layla Nova Forrest-White
The Fleshless Phallus: Mythical Masculinity and Roman Anxiety in Ovid’s Metamorphoses

Joanna Lauren Gallardo, The Devil’s Party: Reading Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials

Justin Nathaniel Gillette
Reading the Republican Child: May Fourth Ideology and the Creation of a Modern Children’s Literature in The Scarecrow

Serena Eve Golden
Gilt Counterfeits: Interpretation and Exchange on Troilus and Cressida

Nandini Jayarajan
Palliation

Kasey Elizabeth Johnson
Narrative and Character in Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea

Jessica Lynn Kapteyn
A Sympathetic Condemnation: Moral Philosophy in Plutarch’s Life of Antony

Marlene Ruth Kelly
Semiotics of Etiquette in Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina: Shifting Forms of Address as Markers of Transgression in the Diglossic Society of the 19th-Century Russian Aristocracy

Stephanie Cornelia Larson
Manhood and Masculinity in the American West: Owen Wister’s The Virginian and James Welch’s Fools Crow

Zoe Wilhelmina Lassen-Purser
Vivre ou Raconter: Time, Narrative, and the Figure of the Writer in Sartre, Blanchot, and Duras

Jessica Danielle Levy
Contradiction, Uncertainty, and Repetition as a Function of the Unnatural in Macbeth

Ane Lauren Noland McCullough
The Being of Art in Calderón’s El pintor de su deshonra

Elizabeth Anne Mueller
[O!]

Tetsuro Namba
Meaning and Non-Meaning in Psychoanalytic Theory and Criticism: The Huge Abysses Where Wisdom is Sought

James Matthew Nemiroff
Scenes of Recognition: The Representation of the Judio-Converso in Early Modern Spanish Drama

Andrew Glatter Nusbaum
Unpardonable Heresy: The Excommunication of Sholem Asch

Niall P. O’Donoghue, Polybius and the Fortunes of Man

Elizabeth Ann Oakes
Blue

Lauren Dylan Pope
Where Do We Go from Here? Siberian Village Life after “The Thaw”

Samantha Ann Prybeck
Still Lives: Family, Tragedy, and Identity in Autobiographical Comic Books

Joshua Michael Riedel
Sleep, Indian

Stephen Edward Ronkowski
The Evolution of American Frontier Myth: “Young Goodman Brown” and Blood Meridian

Mike Irvine Rosen
In Times of War

Evelyn Salazar
An Analysis of Gender Reconstruction in Zhang Yimou’s Red Sorghum, Ju Dou, and Raise the Red Lantern

Katharine Benz Schwer
Creating Fiction/Examining Fiction: On Three Works by Marguerite Duras

Laura Jean Tomlinson
More than Ostalgie: Reclaiming the Right to Wax Nostalgic in the New German States

Samuel Benjamin Tucker
Stoic Theology and Religion

Marina Tephra Gale Valenzuela
Being “un diez”: Problematizing Exemplarity in the Works of Alfonso X, El sabio, and the Escuelas Alfonsíes.

Leigh Garrett Walton
Making the Dead Speak: Classical Translation and Two Hymns of Callimachus

Fawn Emmalee Ward
Terror, Confetti, Blood, and Morality: the fin de siècle Body in Stoker’s Dracula and Ellis’ Glamorama

Michelle Brooke Wells
Naukratis

Christina Curley Wiles
Instant to Revelation: Text/Image Relationships in Instante y Revelación

2006 Graduates

Thomas Pitman Allen IV
To Steal a Language: The Tactics of Textual Plurality in Roland Barthes

Thomas Pitman Allen IV
To Steal a Language: The Tactics of Textual Plurality in Roland Barthes

Alice Rebecca Beckett
Interchanges With Culture: Proliferation, Consumption, and Subjectivity in Three Postwar Novels

Melinda Kristine Brown
Katherine Mansfield and the Performance of the Self

Katherine Elizabeth Bruens
The Realization of Horror: The British Fin-de-siécle and the Development of a Gothic Mode

Ana Leigh Cooke
Identifying Resistance in the Work of Charles Berstein

Josey Rose Duncan
In This House Where We Were Outsiders

Ben Levine DuPree
Romanticism, Realism, and Satire in Bret Harte’s Gilded Age The Story of a Mine

Mollie Copley Eisenberg
Plain Words: The Social Function of Reading Practices in Ulysses

Claire Rudy Foster
We Can Make Each Other Happy

Rebecca Gaydos
“The Map of Sound Got Fleshed Out”: Dis/Locating Place, Sound, and Race in C.S. Giscombe’s Giscombe Road

Sarah Emily Geis
Poems in Two and a Half Dimensions: Mina Loy’s Conception of Art

Hannah Teresa Gildea
“The Vanity and Power to Know I am Desirable”: Language, Violence, and Sexuality in Aphra Behn’s Restoration Comedy, The Rover

Lindsay Rose Helms
Maintaining a Terrifying Reality: Dialogue, Language, and Ethics in the Book of Job

AdriAnne May Huff
The Flow of Absence: Asian Influence from Ezra Pound to Gary Synder

Benjamin Read Hutchinson
Around Every Circle Another Can Be Drawn

Matthew John Kielt
“Taking Harlem’s Heartbeat”: Blues, Bebop, and Epic in Langston Hughes’ Montage of a Dream Deferred

Rebecca Lynn Kluth
The Scientific Method

Kayu Lam
The Sustenance of Pleasures: Narrative, Taste, and Memory in Gastronomic Discourse

Laura Dawn Larsell
Migration at Night

Michael Benjamin Lubing
Home and Abroad: Space, Travel, and Transformation in E.M. Forster’s Novels

Dana Kathryn Meade
Postcolonial Pickles: Or, Theories of History in Midnight’s Children and The God of Small Things

Tyler Lane Murphy
Pictures and Conversations: Films of Alice In Wonderland and Pastoral

Dayna Marie Offenbacher
The Quick and the Dead in D.H. Lawrence’s Short Fiction

Elizabeth Cady Olney
Counter-History: Humor and the Construction of a Preterite Past in Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow

Daniel Jeffrey Rankin
The Unfinished: Symbol and Self in the Poetry of William Butler Yeats

Mara Julia Reynolds
“This Monster, The Body, This Miracle, Its Pain”: Illness and “Moments of Being” in the Fiction of Virginia Woolf

Paige Jacqueline Richmond
The Postmodern Question: Death, Feminism, and Sex in John Irving’s The World According to Garp

Donald Leroy Roberts
Articuluum: Toward a Corporeal Textual Practice of Radical Subjectivity

Melinda Irene Ross
… And I Knew the Silence of the World

Katharine R. Rutledge-Jaffe
Cowboy, This Will Never Work Out

Aaron M. Sharpe
Thomas Pynchon and William Gibson are Cool

Molly Elinor Shaver
Poetic Speech in Carl Sandburg’s Rootabaga Stories: Bridging the Divide Between Oral Discourse and Poetic Language

Adele Maxine Shea
“Men and women, born with Heavenly compassion in your hearts!”: The Search for Compassion in Charles Dickens’ Bleak House

Lurline Lauren Sweet
Jewish-American Absurdist Tragicomedy: Saul Bellow’s Humboldt’s Gift and Woody Allen’s Annie Hall

Edwin Way Thanhouser Jr.
Urizen Wept: William Blake and the Sublime in Milton: A Poem

Monika G. Tomsinski
Dethroning the Kitchen God: Storytelling as Empowerment in Amy Tan’s The Kitchen God’s Wife

Adelaide L. Wainwright
Narrating the Body: Models of a Body Ethics in (and out) of Colette’s Break of Day

Chalcedony B. Wilding
Braiding the River Poems

Xie Yi Zhu
Moebius Strips, Funhouses, and Electrolytic Jelly: The Very Strange Fictions of John Barth and Donald Barthelme

2005 Graduates

Grey Martin Anderson
Literary Reflexivity

Aaron Joseph Betcher
Reception History of William Faulkner

John Hywel Bower
What is America to You or You to America? American Identity in the Poetry of William Carlos Williams

Jacob Samuel Bromberg
Hélène Cixous: From Ontology to Ethics

Austin Lipiec Brown
“Representations and Things” in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, or, The Evening Redness in the West

Sarah Jean de Haan
“The Thing You Need to Know Is: It’s All about Sex”: The Function of Heteronormative Discourse and Ideology in Queer as Folk and The L Word

Ryan Christopher Delker
“Nothing is without Meaning”: Nation, Reading, and Truth in Midnight’s Children

Johanna Droubay
“The Story Shall Be Changed”: Reading Imaginatively in A Midsummer Night’s  Dream

Kristen Marie Earl
Race, Class, and Sex: Transgression in Langston Hughes’ The Ways of White Folks

Parker Harris Emerson
The Question of Raymond Chandler

Naomi Louise Fogerty
Time Will Tell: Forging a Fictional Australian Historiography in Peter Carey’s True History of the Kelly Gang and Richard Flanagan’s Gould’s Book of Fish

Amber Ann Grasmick
A Woman’s Place Is in the Poem: Enclosure and the Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Adrienne Rich

Patricia Elise Greve
Dark Waters

Mark Charles Hulse
Shakespeare’s Second Historic Tetralogy: Romanticism, Formalism, and New Historicism

Sarah Jean James
The Invisible Imagined Visible: The Historical Fiction of Sarah Waters and Nineteenth Century Lesbian Identity

Rachel Jenna Katz
The Horror of an Unleashed Woman: Self-Governance and the Supernatural in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre

Amber Lynn Kingery
Jewel Kilcher and her Literary Tradition: A Case for Popular Culture as High Art

Taya Aschaffenburg Koschnick
I Don’t Remember It Like That

Daniel Brooks Lichterman
The Headless Man, A Lifelong Literary Ambition Composed for the Desk: An Exploration of Bricolage and Storytelling within Isaac Babel’s “Childhood Cycle”

Sharareh Lotfi
Interpretation, Imitation, and Innovation: The Creative Process of Translation

Ian Gibbs Mallett
Nomads, Rogues, Boys, and Men: Manhood and the Mythology of the Frontier in On the Road and Adventures  of Huckleberry Finn

Anna Crystal Mirocha
Happily Missing the Forest for the Trees: A Close Look at Early John Ashbery

James Daniel Morrell
“All Dark and Comfortless?” Cruelty, Disharmony, and Intelligibility in Two Films of King Lear

Michael Charles Mullins
Free Indirect Discourse and the Figurative Scaffold of Their Eyes Were Watching God

Sergio Humberto Pastor
A Riverrun

Natalie Lois Rogers
Visions of Individual Resistance in 1984 and The Trial

Joseph Israel Rubin
Traveling With Class: Language and Politics in the Novels of Henry Green

Casey Erin Samuelson
Mayonnaise and Sauerkraut and Bread

William Arthur Teixeira Savery
“I’ll Tell You What I’m Blathering about”: Tradition, Transformation,  and Transcendence in The Big Lebowski

Betsy Caitlyn Schwartz
The Beautiful City

Kerry Louise Skemp
Heeding the Butterfly and Beyond: The Unique Interpretive Activities Necessitated by Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire

Jessica L. Stroia
Native American Women’s Poetry: A New Blend of the Mythic and Modern

Cecily Anne Hodges Swanson
“To Resuscitate the Dead Art of Poetry”: Ezra Pound and the Sublime

Sarah Elizabeth Zoref
“To Fashion a Gentleman”: Re-envisioning Masculinity in Film Adaptations of Pride and Prejudice

2004 Graduates

Jessica Miranda Barbata
Cotton Wool, Kinky Hair, and Historical Contradictions: An Autobiographical Study of Memory in Woolf, hooks, and Wilkomirski

Claire Lamar Barrera
The Monster's Strugle: A Deconstruction of John Gardner's Grendel

Elaine Joy Basa
Frank Bidart's Poetry: Still Life Images

Elizabeth Addenbrook Blake
Narrating the Decentered Self: Textual Strategies in AVA and Wittgenstein's Mistress

Eleanor Anne Bryant
Folding the Magic Carpet: Figures of Absence in Literary Autobiography

Elizabeth Anne Canning
Sentiments of Virtue: An Analysis of the First American Best-sellers, Susannah Rowson's Charlotte Temple and Hannah Foster's The Coquette

Katherine Eunice Churchill
A Finite Fulfillment: The Hopeless Individual Condition in D.H. Lawrence's The Rainbow

John Henry Crippen
Violence and Subjectivity in Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club

Jacinta Maria Cruz
Menace and Miracles: A Study of Minimalist Fiction

Edith Darling
Theatricality and Self-Negation in Shakespeare's Othello

Jordan Brooke Downing
Performative Representations and an Insistent Material Reality in Maxine Hong Kingston's China Men and The Woman Warrior

Ashley Dawn Edwards
American Orphic: Jack Spicer and the Poetics of Hell

Darryl William Ellison
Regulating Knowledge: Medieval Education and The Canterbury Tales

Lindsay Catrin Gerdes
Constructing Identity in Slave Narratives

Jacob Reynolds Harman
Slaves to Discourse: A Study of Abolitionist and Pro-Slavery Texts]

Jesse Hoffman
Bodies in the Text: Percy Shelley's Unacknowledged Editor

Rachael Diana Horst
Cincinnatus' Criminal Intuition: The Contexts of Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading

Rachel Aileen Kanouse
Full Time Job: Love, Sex, and the Femme Fatale in Howard Hawk's The Big Sleep

Megan Anne Labrise
Hot Air and Foul Winds: The Comedic Grotesque in the Works of Flannery O'Connor and John Kennedy Toole

Jeanette Louise Lehn
"To Each/Other We/Will Speak": Palimpsest, Perception, and Syntax in George Oppen's "Of Being Numerous" and Primitive

Adam Chaikin Levine
Languages of Persuasion: Political Oratory and Narratives of Justification in Three Speeches for War

William Ramsey MacLaughlin
Heroism and Identity in Conrad and the Imperial Romance Novel

Alexandra Manglis
Journey and Release: A Close Reading of Seamus Heaney's Seeing Things

Clark William Matthews
The Canonization of Robinson Crusoe

Lesley Alexis Offrichter
"Please, Baby, Please": Spike Lee's Treatment of African American Women and Performers in She's Gotta Have It, Girl 6 and Bamboozled

Kai Lawrence Prenger
"The Same, But Not Quite": An Experiment in Applying Bhabha's Postcolonial Theory to American Literature

Cristina Maureen Rodriguez
Creating Constellations: Paranoia and Plurality in the Work of Thomas Pynchon

Caitlin Ann Scholl
"There is Occult Power in Speech": Tradition, Gender, and the Spoken Word in the Mande Sunjata Epic

Tanya Alexis Short
Restorative Reconstruction in Toni Morrison's Paradise

Benjamin Alexander Spanbock
Evaluations of Ethical Relationships in RamÛn del Valle-Incl·n's Divinas palabras and Luces de bohemia

Rachel Keller Thomas
Sexual Colonization: Western and Arab Cultural Encounters in Paul Bowles' The Sheltering Sky and Driss Chraibi's Les Boucs

Devon Parrot Willis
Mrs. Brown Goes to War: How Virginia Woolf Used the World War I Veteran to Reveal Her Modernist Agenda

Jessica Katelyn Young
Tracing Literary Origins: Mansfield Park and its Influence on Our Nig and Woman's Fiction

Kathleen Elizabeth Zeman
Soul, Desire, and Mortality in honorè de Balzac's Le Peau de Chagrin and Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray

2003 Graduates

Sarah Caroline Bagley
The Reading of Ulysses

James Andrew Blahut
Geoffrey Chaucer and Medieval Rhetoric

Colin Jon Blake
William Blake in the Forge of Prophecy

Travis Lee Bonilla
Contact through the Process of Ordering in the Writing of William Carlos Williams

Kirsten Ashley Broadbear
A Gendered Identity: Creation, Entrapment, and Escape in Pamela, Madame Bovary, and Written on the Body

Jane Newton Davis
Representations of Christ in J.D. Salinger's Franny and Zooey

Gabriella Anna Ekman
Beloved Stranger: The Ethics of Response in Denise Levertov's Poetry

Christopher John Evans
Poetic Narratives and Forms in American Hip-Hop

Molly Roseann Fenn
"The drunken taxicabs of Absolute Reality": Art, "Real" Life, and Consumer Culture in Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems

Karin Elizabeth Hamlin
The Politics of Biomythography: Audre Lorde's Zami

Hallie Hart Hodenfield
Hamlet's Theatrical Apprenticeship

David Watson Howenstine
The Mysteries of Truth: Knowledge in Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White<

Christopher Webber Huge
"Less Beautiful than Grand": The United States as Negative Example in Latin America's Path to Modernity

Anjelina Michelle Keating
Design Systems, Representation, and Imagination in William Carlos Williams's Spring and All

Elizabeth Kate Kurzweil
Towards a South African Post-Apartheid National Literature: Language, Identity, and Politics in the Novels of Sindiwe Magona, Zakes Mda, and J.M. Coetzee

Godfrey Leung
The Swans at Coole Re-revisited: W.B. Yeats and Figured Poetic Identity

Mary Cameron Leyda
Jimmying It Open: Chris Ware's Reinvention of Comics

Anna Carol Loosli
William Carlos Williams: Patients and Poetry

Daniel Stanley Meyers
Chaucer and the Dream Vision: Courtly Love and the Poetics of Cultural Dissent.

Beatrice Yeh Ogden
Writings on the Walls: Poetry Written by Chinese Immigrants While Detained at Angel Island Immigration Station, 1910-1940

Catherine Leigh Pelletier
Ambiguity and Narrative Strategy in Henry James's The Golden Bowl and The Awkward Age

Katherine Rainsford Pistone
Ecce Homo:Defining the Human in Three Novels by H.G. Wells

James Colby Robson
Rhetorical Mediation and the Limits of the Body

Emily Anna Rosenblitt
Fictional Autonomy: Russian Formalism, the Serapion Brothers, and Lev Lunts

Colleen Ruth Rosenfeld
Rhetorical Harlotry and the Generation of Poetic Selves: A Study of the Rhetorical Manipulation of Courtly Love Conceits in Elizabethan Sonnet Sequences

Melinda Mead Scharstein
Difficulties of Resonance: Navigating Particularity and Essentialism in Readings of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and The Handmaid's Tale

Rachele Rae Selvig
The Pursuit of Knowledge and Vocational Success in George Eliot's Middlemarch

Alexander Fredric Sheriff
A Reading of White Noise

Daniel Frederick Spoth
Jefferson City Limits: The Impossible Space in Faulkner's Fiction

Joel Deny Stonington
Materialist Conversion and Ontological Capitalism: Nathanael West's Critique of Consumer Culture in Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust

Deborah Eileen Strickland
Cultivated Ambiguity in the Lais of Marie de France

Brenna Joelle Stuart
After-words: Temporality, Narrative, and Historical Knowledge in Three Don DeLillo Novels

Joseph Terence Tierney
Representational Authority in Literary History: J.M. Coetzee's Foe and Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe

Leah Hall Toffolon
Lorine Niedecker's Poetics of Place

Matthew Valdini
"Stephen Smiled at this Sidethrust": Joyce, Lacan, and Misdirection

Nathan James Wilson
Adrienne Rich: The Wounded Healer

Sarah Ruth Zseleczky
Shimmering Bliss: Descriptive Language in Nabokov's Short Stories

2002 Graduates

Elliot Hale Barlow
Merge

Paul Newcomb Bates
Mercy Street

Tasia Celeste Bernie
Seismology Stories

Russell Skye Birmingham
Problems of Writing and Existence in Two Comic Novels by Flann O’Brien

Julie Ann Brown
The Private Project of E.M. Forester’s Fiction: Gender, Sexuality, and the Moorean Ideal

Jennifer Anastasia Cameron
Tom Stoppard’s Metatheatre: The Play’s the Thing, but What Is the Real Thing?

Cathy Linh Che
Hair Poems: A Collection of Cuts and Ties

Carolyn Marie Duncan
The Cultural Storm: Modernism and Mass Culture in Nathanael West’s “Miss Lonelyhearts” and “The Day of the Locust”

Erin Elizabeth Forbes
The Roles of Skepticism: “King Lear” and “The Confidence-Man”

David Bennett Garlock
Windows

Lin J. Hendler
The Lost Girls

Stuart Guy Hoisington
“Myths of Manhood”: Fight Club in the Pacific Northwest Literary Tradition

Yesica Hurtado
“Gammy Birds”: A Dialogue of Narrative and Nations between E. Annie Proulx’s “Postcards” and “The Shipping News”

Daniel D.V. Hutchins
Hunting for the Trace of Sublimity: A Critical Perspective on Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness”

Alon Karniel
Mark Doty and the Experience of Loss

Margaret Elizabeth Konkol
Poemical Revolution: How to (Re)Read: A Lesson Provided by Gertrude Stein

Mark Lester Kudera
“Is the Object to Stay Human?”: “1984” as an Experiment with Humanism

Tamara S. Larson
Critical Engagement as an Answer to Postcolonial Paralysis in Salman Rushdie’s “The Ground Beneath Her Feet”

Will Abraham Lasky
Cityscapes

Robin D. Loehrke
“Prescribing Corrective Lenses for Earthling Souls:” Representations of Identity in Kurt Vonnegut’s “Mother Night” and “Slaughterhouse-Five”

Claire Stafford McCabe
True Fiction: Myth, History, and Apocalyptic Discourse in Gabriel García Márquez’s “One Hundred Years of Solitude”

Felipe Nicolas Muniz
War, Language, and Identity in William S. Burroughs’s “The Place of Dead Roads”

Catherine Anne Peebles
Camera Obscura

Samia Shabnam Rahimtoola
Twain

Dylan Strider Rice-Leary
Where Exactly? An Analysis of C.S. Giscombe's “Here”

Maisie Nicole Rubinstein
Transformations: Digression and Mimesis in the Novel

Katherine Gibson Sharpe
A Novel History: Society, History, and the Individual in Rushdie’s “Midnight’s Children”

Brett Ian Sills
To Be, Or Like, Not To Be: A Study of Shakespeare in Teen Film

Ryan Daniel Smith
Small Gods

Matthew John Sorg
“The Real Pleasure”: Aesthetics and Style in “Velvet Goldmine”

Jeremy Allan Tiedeman
Walt Whitman and Physical Mysticism: Taking Us Back to Eden

Nathan Neal Vonk
Narrative’s Gender: The Communication of Gender through Stream-of-Conscious Narration in Joyce’s “Ulysses”

Leah Julianne Vornbrock
The Fields of Boaz

Rebecca Wirth
“The Message in the Bottle”: The Redemptive Vision of Faith in Walker Percy’s Fiction

Carly Ann Wray
Becoming Prospero: Art, Anxiety, and Authority in Peter Greenaway’s Prospero’s Books and Derek Jarman’s “The Tempest”

2001 Graduates

Chris Sananda Brown
From the Real to the Really Artificial: Metaphysics and Style in Three Contemporary Nature Writers

Kevin Andrew Casey
The Labyrinth of Dedalus: Liberating Life from the Corridors of Mind

Giuseppe Yoshiaki Catania
Akutagawa Ryunosuke’s Short Stories as Metaphor for Duality in Modern Japanese Society

David Gregory Clark
Silence Inflected: Reading the Elegies of Li-Young Lee

Stefan Kalon Durham
African-American Preaching Traditions: Narrativization, Sustaining, and the Whoop in the Call and Response Black Gospel Sermon

A’Nova Ettien
Mark Twain’s "Deep Secret": An Examination of the Author’s Tacit and Explicit Expression of His Progress Towards Independent Thought, in Some Selected Works

Graham Carmichael Fisher
Beckett and Ashbery

Teresa Helena Freeman
Constructing aParadise from Pain: Self/Other Relationships and Text Production as Processes of Identity Formation in Toni Morrison’s Novel

Elizabeth Mae Gilkey
The Mountain Goat is Running Amok in Bloomingdale’s

Mollie Amelia Godfrey
Virgin/Woman/Whore: Representation and Resistance in Measure for Measure and Ulysses

Jasmin Anika Gordon
Mapping the Third World onto Our First World Experience: Testimonial Literature and Revolutionary Nicaragua

Jennifer Dawn Graham
The Skepticism of Other Minds in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest

Simon Max Hill
Imperialism Means Never Saying You’re Sorry: Ego, Assimilation, and Identity in Bharati Mukherjee’s Wife, Jasmine, and Leave it to Me

Heather Marie Houser
The Location of Newness and the Returns of the Self in Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses

Melinda Erin Kausek
"Point-Counterpoint": Untangling the Contrapuntal Relationship of Reading and Writing in Borges and Nabokov

Kerry Elizabeth Lawrynovicz
Midway

Eric Arnold Lovaas
Portraying the New Negro: The Construction of Black Identity in Claude McKay’s Home to Harlem and Banjo

Dawn Helen Mann
"Man Knows So Little About His Fellows": Joe Christmas and Ambiguous Narration in William Faulkner’s Light in August

Solange Thadée Mougin
The Wanderlust of Wayward Women

Ryan James Neumann
Shakespeare’s Metamorphoses

Bethany Leigh Powell
Thesis Starring or Mentioning a Monkey

Laura Elizabeth Rude
Dangerous Dichotomies: Satiric Extremism in Shakespeare’s Othello

Andrew Travis Schmitz
This City Becomes You: Los Angeles and the Construction of Character Subjectivity in Joan Didion’s Play it as it Lays and Karen Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange

Navjot Kaur Singh
"One Nation Under a Groove": The Fluid Ground of Artistic Creation in Salman Rushdie’s The Ground Beneath Her Feet

Marjorie Ann Skinner
The Vampiric Sublime: Metaphors for Blood in Dracula and Interview with the Vampire

Emily Rachel Thurston
Life and Literary Text: An Analysis of Gaskell’s Ruth and Wives and Daughters

Luke Ziminsky
J.D. Salinger’s Fiction: A Look at His Religion

Alanya Michelle Zubrow
Literary Convictions: The Prison Writings of Chester Himes and Assata Shakur