Theses/Dissertations from 2018
On Frank Stanford's "Battlefield", Clara Brigid Allison
Rebuilding Stories: The Lost Metropolis of Zora Neale Hurston, a Literary Architect, Madisen Faye Anderson
Word as Bond: Rhetoric and Performativity in Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, Stephen Appel
Love, Kissed into Verse: Swinburne, Tennyson, and the Failure of Love in Consummation Versus the Triumph of Love Through Time in Poetry, Julia E. Berry
To Play a Game, Jackson A. Blau
Delineate the Spiritual: An Examination of Metaphysics in the Works of Donne, Herbert, and Milton, Zhuobin Chen
Questions for Alejandra Pizarnik, Jessica Dagg
After the Age of Innocence: Reclaiming Edith Wharton's Satirist Status, Jeffrey Smith Daugherty
Captive/Obsessive: Invention and Desire in "Crazy For Vincent", Walker Patrick Douglass
The More Loving One: W.H. Auden on Love, Matthew Tyler Fallon
The Architecture of Confinement: An Exploration of Spatial Boundaries in Wright, Poe, and Foucault, Samantha Feig
"Mirrors Can Only Lie:" The Search for Masked Self-Knowledge in the Work of James Baldwin, Chloe Zeff Fields
"Time is Surely Passing" Progress and Decline Toward An Inevitable End in Murakami Haruki's Trilogy of the Rat, Madison C. Grubb
A Great Negative Work of Destruction: 20th Century Avant Garde and the Reimagination of Novelty, Alexander V. Hall
South Side, World Wide: The Fusion of History and Literature in Richard Wright and James T. Farrell's Chicago, Malachi Zachary Hayes
William Wells Brown; or the Spook Who Sat by the Cabin Door From Black Ex-slave Narratives to White Abolitionist Fiction: Understanding the First African American Novel and Its Origins, Elijah Coleman Jackson
Latticework: Forms of Relation in Critical Materialist Theory, Natalie Kay Janes
Parfois Le Hasard Fait Bien Les Choses: The Biography of Justus Rosenberg, Vikramaditya H. Joshi
Guillotine Rubies and Weighted Tortoise Shells: An Exploration of Uncanny and Grotesque Aesthetics, Anne Sasha Lutwak-Schneider
Crossing the Border into Poetry: Documenting the Undocumented and the Trauma of Migration in Javier Zamora’s "Unaccompanied", Chloe Ruth Reimann
Floral Images and Emotions in Classical, Medieval, Western and Eastern Texts, Karin Hanna Roslund
The Conspiracy of Silence: Power and Betrayal in Pinter, Chekhov, and Shakespeare, Natalya Sands
Jack Kerouac and the Ecstasy of Longing: The Journey of the Embodied Word, Esme Savage
Limited Absolutes: A Study of "War and Peace" and the Pluralizing Experience, Sophia Melora Scanlon
I'd Rather See You Dead at My Feet: Familial Failure in "The Well of Loneliness" and "The Paying Guests", Zoe Trudel Terhune
Nation, Self, and Foreign Space: Exploring the Expatriation of James Baldwin, Henry James, and Edith Wharton, Emily Monroe Weisman
"Becoming" David Foster Wallace: Media, Metafiction, and Miscommunication, Gordon Hugh Willis IV
The Perfect Illusion: Complicated Beauty and the Challenge of Interpreting Nabokov's "Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle", Hugh Zimmerbaum
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
“Shutting Her Up:” An Exploration of the Madwoman and the Madhouse in Victorian Literature, Savannah Jane Bachman
Transformations & Light Bloom, Natasha Killaura Boyd
Little Creatures: Samuel Beckett and the Language of The Unnamable, Adam Daniel Brown
Echoes of the Written Word: On the Difficulties of Memory and Belonging in W.G. Sebald's "Die Ringe des Saturn", Kaitlynn Theresa Buchbaum
"It's [Not] Only Lines On Paper, Folks!": The Curious Literary Identity of the Graphic Novel, Oona Blood Cullen
Together We’ll Make Magic: Exploring the Relationship Between Empathy and Literature Using Ruth Ozeki’s “A Tale for the Time Being”, Janet Lindsay DiNozzi-Houser
Stopped Before Beauty: Meditations on the Closed Door, Hannah Celia Harwell Fassett
“Led by the nose”: An Examination of Mythic, Political, and Personal Transformations in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats, Sophie Cornelia Gallant Green
Genevieve’s Light, Albertine’s Shadows; Apparitions in Marcel Proust’s 'In Search of Lost Time', Augusta Beatrice Hood
The Folks on the Hill, Cecilia Emily Kaplan
All the World's Ashamed, Peter David Lane
"Light Silence Dark Speech": Samuel Beckett, Jasper Johns, and the Image-Text Distinction, Isabella Rose Leung
The Library in Literature, Hannah Madelene Richter Livant
The Endless Tragedy: Euripides and Camus, Robert Ian McMahon
"A Child in Whom Death Dances Exultantly:" Scenes of Melancholia in Elias Khoury's Gate of the Sun, Alana May Pagano
The Language of Dystopia, Sidney Woodson Peery
Sister, Mother, Daughter, Friend: An analysis of Solidarity and Womanhood in Tracy Brown's "White Lines", Latika Juanita Price
Ideological Infection in Dostoevsky's "Demons", Sam Joshua Reed
Emily Dickinson "In Waters Green": Skepticism - Lexicography - Sublimity, Jonathan Martin Repetti
A Path of Stories Wrapped Around Itself: A translation and aesthetic reading of Guillermo Meneses’ short story “La Mano Junto al Muro”, Samuel Rotter Bechar
From Jonathan Edwards to Anne Truitt: Experiences of Space in American Culture, Kristen M. Schmitz
Five Stars: Contemporary Review and Literary Discourse, Maxwell Louis Sims
Imagined England: Readers and Writers in the Twelfth to Fourteenth Centuries, Justin Adam Tobey
The Price of Personhood in War, Bach Tuong Tong
From a Youth to a Knight: A Study of Identity in Arthurian Romance, Lindsay Josephine Watson
"A Perfect Labyrinth of Limitations": Confronting the Restrictions of Societal Roles in James Baldwin's Fiction, Natalie Sophia West
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Navigating the New World: The Double as Vehicle in "Edgar Huntly", Kevin Tarik Bakry
The Hall of Effigies, Duncan Randolph Henry Barile
Saintly Victim(s), Savage Assailants: Race, Rape and, Media Portrayals of the Central Park Jogger Case, Thomas Palacios Beddall
Viewing the Whale: Space, Time, and the Imagination in "Moby-Dick" and Comics, Garrett Sterling Bond
Method can be Madness: "Mrs.Dalloway" and its unique take on madness and sanity, Jessica Leslie Boyd
“Nothing But Blows”: Herman Melville and the Contagion of Authority, Conrad Irving Brittenham
The Reputability of Suffering: Illness, Guilt, Gender and Food in Contemporary, Bestselling, American Fiction, Aurora Case
"Recipes Like Floating Islands:" Recipe, Autobiography, and Memory in The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book, Chloe Alice Chappe
Reading Playfully: A New Branch of Criticism for The Digital Age, Enzo Cnop
Afrofuturism:The artistic manifestation of otherness through science fiction, Brandon John Lee Cunningham
The Portrait of the Artist in a Mirror: The Refraction of Joyce in Nabokov's Fiction, Rebecca Frances Dangoor
The Temptation of Sherlock Holmes: Aesthetics, Expectations, and the Gothic, Sarah M. Davin
Observations on the Nature of Translation: El murmullo de las abejas, Gerardo Fuentes
A Collection of Short Stories in Translation: The Andalusian Shawl, Claire Marie Gotch
Worldly Things: Poetry and Propaganda In America, Claire Godwyn Harvey
Into Their Hands: Selected Letters and Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Boris Pasternak in English Translation, Jared Carlos Hester
A History of Mozambican Identity as Told by Four Mozambicans, Nandhi M. Honwana
Janko Jesensky's The Democrats: Translation form the Slovak with Commentary and Introduction, Rastislav Huba
“All the Being and the Doing”: Time and the Role of the Artist in Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse and Mrs. Dalloway, Maeve Odile Jackson-Dufault
"When We Come Back From the War I Will Have Changed.", Sam Robert Ketchum
The Hidden Hand: Rubbing Out The Masturbation Narratives in "Ulysses", "Lolita" and "Portnoy's Complaint", Nicholas Sanford Kiersted
On Emily Dickinson, Zachary David Nussdorf
Into the Parlor: the Persona of Mark Twain as Architect and Satirist of the Genteel Tradition, Morgan Ariel Oppenheimer
Following Racialized Motherhood from the Plantation to the Courtroom, Rachel Greer Parker
Friends, Lovers, Ideals: A Look at Sociality in Emerson, Luke R. Patterson
Female Visions of the City: An Exploration of Urban Literature Written by Women, Leah Katherine Rabinowitz
A Labyrinth of Mirrors: The Reader as the Writer and the Writer as the Reader in Jorge Luis Borges’ Short Fictions, Andy Byung-Ho Rim
Intention in the World of the Apparatus, João Otávio Rosa
The Graphic Gregor Samsa: Can Kafka's Creature Be Brought to Life?, Samantha J. Sacks
Drawing Out the Intangible: A Study of the Depiction and Reinterpretation of Memory in Two Comics, Malkie Scarf
Black Creoles in New Orleans (1700-1971): the life of the educated, talented, and civilized black Creoles, Troy Lenard Simon
The Harmony of Disharmony: The Void of Language as Source of Infinite Possibility, Mikhaela Shakti Singh
Demon or Human: The Various Identities of the Vampire Figure in Literary Narratives, Regina Keyha Smith
Where Imagination Runs Riot: A Defense of Modern Fantasy, Annarose D. Stewart
Castles in the Air: Thoreau's Theory of Mind, Harry Deneen Trask
Emily Dickinson's Three Covenants: A Poet's Spiritual, Linguistic, and Readerly Imagination, James John Volpe
"Between Sunset and River": Nabokov's Bridge to the Otherworld, Jesse R. Weiss
Projects from 2015
Go, Litel Bok, Go: Concerns of Transmission In Troilus and Criseyde, Eric Lee Arroyo
Rewriting Genesis: Adaptations in Twain and Woolf, Majlinda Bacaj
Stranger Love, Alexandra Christina Baro
Frames of Failure: Faulkner's Language of the Impossible, John Bilgin
The Geometry of the Abyss: Varieties of Triumph in Fernando Pessoa's The Book of Disquiet, Thomas Gabriel Bowers
How the Ghost Became Reality: The Effects of the Civil War on the Creation and Evolution of Southern Gothic Literature, Victoria Castiglione
Not to Bring Peace, But a Mirror: A Consideration of Conceptual Poetry, Matthew William Francis Constantino
Meeting Alphonso Lingis, Joshua Meyer Daube
Joanne Kyger & "The Rush", Kelsey Ann Davis