2015
The Transformation of Vier Letzte Lieder, Wei Peng
Defining (Wo)Manhood: Exploring Gender Roles in James Joyce's Ulysses, Victoria Leigh Prince
Writing Pathology: Disease as Metaphor in Camus, Mann, and Kushner, Ardis Tennyson-Loiselle
2014
Carry me Along, oh Roads: Tracing urban landscapes, searching sites of memory with Baudelaire, Flaubert, Proust and Benjamin, Zoe Clair Azulay
"Be Like Huck Finn": Twain, Education, and the Politics of Language, Jonathan Jorge Bisson
A Grand Design Revealed! The Form and Function of Conspiracy in Contemporary Literature, Christopher John Buonanno
There Can Be No More Coincidences: Pynchon and the Invisible Structure, Benjamin J. Conley
Dismantling the Literary Fallout Shelter: Encounter Magazine and the Creative Ethos of the Cold War Writer, Joshua Parkin Corner
Violence and Privacy: Inwardness in the Iliad and War Music, Robert Owen Duff
A Study in Sherlock Holmes and Adaptability: Looking For Clues as to What Makes Watson, Adler, and Moriarty Endure, Molly Panarotti Feibel
After the Holocaust: Storytelling in the Western Tradition, Andras Janos Ferencz
Beautiful Women and Their Monstrous Men: An Examination of Gender Politics in “Beauty and the Beast” and “Bluebeard”, Victoria M. Fleisher
Dissonant Ambitions: Stendhal, Balzac, and the Fluid Nature of Selfhood, Eliel Ford
Golden City Made of Brass: The Exportation of Myth and the Construction of the Self in the Los Angeles Narrative, Nathan Ezra Gellman
Elm Blight, Jeffrey M. Giering
False Histories and Fractures Authors: Philip Roth's American Pastoral and John Edgar Wideman's Philadelphia Fire, Margaret M. Gushue
Communicative Fragments: Pseudonymity, Subjectivity, & Indirect Communication in the Works of Søren Kierkegaard, Maximillian W. Hamel
Berlin Was a Woman: Fassbinder's Appropriation and Reconstruction of Fontane's Anti-Heroine Paradigm, Melissa E. Jarrett
The Epistemological Importance of the Body in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, Walter James Johnson
Solving for Nonsense: Mathematics and Lewis Carroll's Linguistic Play in the Alice Books, Kathleen M. Jump
Queen to Queen: Conceptions of Beauty as a Communicative Force within Japanese Subcultures, Jared Andrew Kershner
Towards a Poetics of the Notebook: From Dorothy Wordsworth to Philippe Jaccottet, Hannah Phoebe LeClair
The Secret Life of Literary Texts: Reading Emile Habiby’s The Pessoptimist, Harrison Clinton Liddle
“Here was One Room; There Another:” The Tension between Subjectivity and Connection in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and To The Lighthouse, Rebecca L. Lipnick
Poppies, Panthers, and Paisanos: Nature and Work in the Literature of the Industrial Age, Donald R. Long
The Tragedy of Fame: Reclaiming the Legacy of L.E.L., Samuel David McGaffin
Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream: Voice, Reality, and Imagination in Works by Joan Didion, Lucy K. Meilus
The Conjuror Waits in the Wings: Theatre in Nabokov's Fiction, Henry Louis Rabinowitz
Prometheus Unbound: Atheism, Supernaturalism, and Their Union in Love, Harry David Rose
Family and Familiarity: The Relation of the Self to the Family In Faulkner, Fiona Steacy
The Moral Landscape of Truth and Lies in 20th Century Fantasy, and the Lies Used to Tell It, Michael Scott Sullivan
Human Eclipse, Elizabeth Macdonald von Klemperer
Deconstructing the Trujillo Theater and Moving Beyond Silences, Amanda Tess Whitney
2013
"Who Is Speaking, and to Whom?": Narrators and Narratees in Twentieth Century British Children's Literature, Zoe Vija Ames
A beginning, a middle, and an end, but not exactly in that order: History, Language, and Love in some of the Later Films of Jean-Luc Godard, Michael Jonathan Blum
“Silence Is of Different Kinds”: Gender, Narration, and Social Power in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette, Anne Louise Boylan
Status Rerum: A Reflection on Literary History and the Late Emergence of a Regional Northwestern Voice, Lauren Elizabeth Brown
Dueling with the Canon: Reading Remnants of the Duel in Julio Cortázar's Hopscotch, Sarah Elisabeth Coolidge
Fashioning the Unfashionable: Toni Morrison's Smashing Good Beauty Care Products, Francis Christian Dougherty
The Fictionality of History: The Role of Literature in the Twentieth Century Egyptian Historical Archive, Nolan Gregory English
A Wound too Deep: Hemingway's Broken Sentimental Heroes, Bryant Estrella
Writing the City: The Flaneur and the Poetics of the Modern Metropolis, Jonathan Peter Goodman
"Ghost, Fiend, and Angel": The Middle-Class Crises of Rape and Chastity in the Victorian Gender Text, Christopher Jordan Guarisco
Journeys into the Unknown: Fairy Figures as Catalysts of Mortal Motion, Leon Isaac Husock
All Worlds Are My Kin: Melville and the Cartographic Imagination, Nikolas Prescott Jaeger
Ash, Hannah Kristie Jay
Time, Distance, and Epic Memory in The Tempest, Andrew Nathan Kaplan
Transformation in Fantastic Fiction: Violence, Trauma, and Catharsis in Selected Works by Elizabeth Hand, Mark Stephen Kaufmann
Architectural Anxiety: The Implications of Italian Architecture in the Short Fiction of Henry James, Coralie Hannah Kraft
Essentially, an Act, Alex Krasovsky
"I am Dracula": Building a Myth for the Modern Age, Olivia Anne Madden
Rugged Gastronomy: Taste, Cooking and Appetite in Jim Harrison's Novellas, Tess Ryan Mahoney
Life Below the Sash: Desire, Power, and Sexuality in Toni Morrison, Sarah Jane Mellett
Euripides' BAKKHAI: A New Version with an Interpretive Essay, Edward McKendree Moore
La Monterrisa: A Translation of Fables, Short Stories, and Essays by Augusto Monterroso, Matthew Isaac Needleman
Force of Gesture, Amy Jane Pedulla
Force of Gesture, Amy Jane Pedulla
Affiliation, Nationalism, and Resistance: A Close Reading of Sahar Khalifeh’s Wild Thorns, Hannah Elizabeth Rigg
Gender Performance in Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and The Garden of Eden, Lily Grace Schroedel
Italo Calvino: Six Memos as Literary Provocation in Three Novels, Ian P. Smedley
"The Suffering of Ambivalence:" Liberated Women's Struggle for Survival in 1950s American Society, Jennifer Marien Spadaccia
The Rap Game: Language, Legacy, and Authenticity in Hip-Hop, Michael Jedidiah Toy
Turgenev's Dilemma: The Garden as Stage for Romantic Realism, Mia Elise Wendel-Dilallo
2012
Vanishing Footprints: Place and Man’s Struggle for Endurance in the Works of Thomas Wolfe, Tongucnaz Seleme Basturk
Dress Codes: Appearance and Identity in Great Expectations, Sister Carrie and The Great Gatsby, Anne S. Battles
As I Lay Reading: Faulkner's Structures of Motion, Katherine Bondy
Kafka On Trial: Polysemy and Epistemological Enactment in Modern Literature, Michael Chew
"The Infinity and Clarity of Desire:" Identity, Piracy, and Pleasure in the Work of Kathy Acker, Clare Donofrio
Between Artifice & Authenticity: A Study of Postmodern Song Lyrics, Mark Fletcher
Thomas Hardy's Women: An Examination of the Tragic Heroine, Vivien Ford-Smith
The Hideous Progeny of the Anti-Type: An Exploration of Love, Isolation, and Pursuit in the work of the Shelleys, Carley Gooley
Building Baghdad: Modern Architecture, the IDB, and the Construction of Iraqi National Identity, Abigail Guyton
The Unraveling of Idle Talk: Truth and Communication in Faulkner, Celeste Haverkamp
The Pull of the Earth: Thomas Hardy, Willa Cather and Writing the Land, Eliza Holmes
Significant Distortions: The Politics of Reading Science Fiction, Goro Ikeda-Iyeki
Maps and Mazes: The Ambivalently Moral Fiction of Cormac McCarthy, Oliver Kalb
“Making a Modern Bolus”: The Non-Poetic Path to the New American Poetry of William Carlos Williams, 1921-1932, Joshua LaLande
On Going A Journey Through The Works of Virginia Woolf, Laura Lewis-Mckeon
Calligrams of Absence, Wendy Lotterman
Re/Memory: The Writing of History in Chris Marker and W.G. Sebald, Frank Mandell
Roy and Billy at the Bat: An Analysis of Recognition and its Relation to Heroism in The Natural and Moneyball, Stephen M. Martin
Shamrocks and Chopsticks: Representations of Nationalism in Two Chinese Translations of James Joyce's Ulysses, Kelley Shannon McLaughlin
Genus Esse Deorum; Infelix Dido, Jacqueline McLean
Shaping Identities through Jazz, Marianna Notaro
Thith Cometh of Biting Crutht: Interactions with Nonsense Literature and Victorian Philosophical Toys, Alexandra Patkin
Communicative Rebellion: An Exploration of Meaning Making in Albert Camus' The Plague, Rebecca Pelham
The Existential Child: Exploring Existentialism in Children's Picture Books, Emily Elizabeth Present
The Mind Commands the Text and Meets Resistance: The Emotional and Intellectual Implications of Saint Augustine's Reading of Virgil, Nina Quirk-Goldblatt
An Eloquently Rendered Rage: Women and Violence Re-imagined in Fairy Tales by Angela Carter and Joyce Carol Oates, Sarah Rosenthal
It's Written In A Language That Was Meant To Fuck You Up: The Work of Ryan Adams, Conor Seidman
Because Such Fingers Need To Knit: Reunion and Ecstasy in Jane Austen’s Persuasion, Tara E. Sheffer
The Role of Empathy in the Works of David Mamet, Neil LaBute & Harold Pinter, Joseph Sims
The Infinite Contain: Ever-Expanding Boundaries and Feeling Included in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson, Anna Swann-Pye
"We Was Girls Together": The Literary Progeny of Harriet Jacobs, Nella Larsen, and Toni Morrison, Rebecca Webb
"To Keep The Touch Green": Death and the Poetics of Robert Duncan, Mary Weston
The Most Positive Form of Human Expression: A Study of the Relationship between Peak Experiences and Drag Performance, Landon C. White
“In The Sound”: Schopenhauer and the Musical Manumission of the Slave, Caitlin Youngquist
2011
The American History of Repression (a Camp Parody): Performance, Identity, and Society in James Ellroy's Underworld USA Trilogy, Evan P. Bustria
Madness & Control, Penn Chan