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Senior Independent Study Theses from 2023

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Sanctuary, Katherine Adams-Fisher
Department: English

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Memories of Tomorrow, Lillian S. Beach
Department: English

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Dawn of Darkness, Pookar Chand
Department: English

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No One Is an Island: Towards a Geocritical Perspective of Identity via Japanese Culture and Literature, Zachary Filippi
Department: Religious Studies; English

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Books, Technology, and Readers; A Multidimensional Bond, Oriana Marsella Galvis Marin
Department: English

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Agency: The Art of Human Choice - Finding Space Between Free Will and Determinism, Langston Hood
Department: English; Philosophy

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Confronting Climate Change: A Real(ist) Problem, Hannah Keough
Department: English

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Little Gems: A Poetry Anthology Examining Family Structure and How it Affects Self Discovery Through a Feminist Lens, Kathryn Rose Materick
Department: English

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Angel, Take A Dive, Andy Mockbee
Department: English

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Utopia Across Time and Space: Could There Ever Be a "Perfect World"?, Ashini Patel
Department: English; Philosophy

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The Shuck Pit, Matthew Rohlman
Department: English

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Sir Skink in The Cold Knight, Adam Schneider
Department: English

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The Funeral of Dr. Tulp, Nicholas Yungbluth
Department: English

Senior Independent Study Theses from 2022

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Anthem Of The Stars, Zachary A V Corwin
Department: English

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Little Boxes, Zoe K. Dudack
Department: English

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The Development Of The Fairy In English Popular Culture: A Mutual Relationship, Beatrice E. Glassman
Department: English

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Sirens In Symphony, Emily Rae Herczeg
Department: English

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Memories, Melancholia, And Myself (Song Of): A Collection Of Nature-Based Poetry, Kate Joseph
Department: English

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For Every Adaptation Belonging To Me As Good Belongs To You: Analyzing Intertextuality In Lauren Gunderson's Literature-Based Plays, Brian S. Luck
Department: English; Theatre and Dance

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What Girls Do: Girls' Political Participation Reflected In Contemporary Young Adult Literature, Carly McWilliams
Department: English; Political Science

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All In The Audience: Examining Columbine Narratives To Unveil The Reasons Behind The Acceptance Of False Narratives, Olivia M. Mittak
Department: English

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Jesus As Educator: An Analysis Of Parabolic Teaching In The King James Bible, Caitlin Olsen
Department: English

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Drift, Pilar Randolph
Department: English

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Hands That Grab And Tongues That Say: Understanding Animal Narrators And Protagonists, Sophie Helen Ryan
Department: English

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A Strange Object That Breaks Your Heart: Short Stories, Annie Sheneman
Department: English

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A Critical Analysis Of Antiracist Pedagogical Strategies And Diverse Young Adult Literature For White Educators, Jenna Lee Stanton
Department: English

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Perspectives: Understanding Conflict In New Religious Movements Through Epistolary Voices And Their Entanglements, Rebekah Emily Trunnell
Department: English; Religious Studies

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Affect, Trauma, And Self In Alexander Chee’s Edinburgh, Corey Ullman
Department: English

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Inherent Misfortune, Cole Ward
Department: English

Senior Independent Study Theses from 2021

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Code War Savior: A Novella, Wyatt H. Brugge
Department: English

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Sunscreen, Zoe Covey
Department: English

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Can Climate Fiction Novels Inspire Social Change? A Literary and Empirical Ecocritical Analysis, Claire Davidson
Department: English; Sociology and Anthropology

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Sinister Cinema: Depictions of Evil in the WWII and Postwar Thrillers of Alfred Hitchcock and Henri-Georges Clouzot, Holly N. Engel
Department: English; French and Francophone Studies

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Representation of African Immigration in Short and Long-Form Media, Abigail E. Everidge
Department: English

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A Re-evaluation of Texts Taught in High School English Classrooms: Why a Need for a Curriculum Reboot is Necessary, Morgan Paige Fields
Department: English

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At the Corner of Two Walls, Sierra A. Foltz
Department: English

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Paradoxical Descriptions of Divine Beings, Tiago Garcia
Department: English; Religious Studies

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Multilingual Literature of the New World: A Literary and Semantic Study of Spanglish in Susana Chávez-Silverman’s Killer Crónicas, Justin Garibotti
Department: English; Spanish

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The Music of the People: Appalachian Ballads and the Search for the Authentic in the 1960s American Folk Music Revival, Anna Halgash
Department: English; History

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This Boat is Obviously Sinking : The Response of 90s Musicians to Neoliberalism, Andrew T. Kilbride
Department: English

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American Dragon: A Story of an Asian American Woman Finding Her Way Home, Hannah Langer
Department: English; Art and Art History

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Haunted Households: Adaptation, Genre, and Gender Politics in Horror and the Gothic During Second Wave Feminism, Eliza C. Letteney
Department: English

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From the Controller to the Television Screen - Adapting Dragon Age: Origins into a Television Drama, Aaron McAllister
Department: English

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Know My Rage: A Novel with Critical Introduction, Alicia Messenger
Department: English

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A Protest Analysis: Examining the Effectiveness of Occupy Wall Street, Standing Rock, Black Lives Matter, and the Civil Rights Movement, Kate Murphy
Department: English; Global Media and Digital Studies

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“The Knight and the Demon”: Intersecting Poetry, Demonology, and the Middle Ages, N Praml
Department: English; History

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Immerse, Sarah Rapacz
Department: English

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Protest or Riot?: The Role of News Media in Characterizing the Unrest in Ferguson, Emma Reiner
Department: English; Political Science

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Eat Your Heart Out: Cannibalism, Incorporation, and Transgression in Contemporary and Traditional Fairy Tales, Kathryn S. Scott
Department: English

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The Apprentice: With Critical Introduction, James P. Shanahan
Department: English

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Is This Music? Poetry, YouTube Memes, and Rap at Commencement, Charlie Smrekar
Department: English; Music

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A Thing Is An Essay Without Words: An Essay Collection, Lillie Therese Soukup
Department: English

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"The Bliss of Solitude": In Search of Fulfilled Single Characters in Seventeenth through Twentieth Century Anglophone and Francophone Literature, Annabelle Vosmeier
Department: English; French and Francophone Studies

Senior Independent Study Theses from 2020

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So Our Children Can Fly Free: Toni Morrison Challenging a Biased American Literary Tradition and Monolithic Portrayals of Blackness Through African American Discourse, Sofia Abdirizak
Department: English

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The Timekeeper's Compass, James M. Alltop
Department: English

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Descendants of Jori, Emily H. Bernstein
Department: English

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East vs. West: A Study of Orientalist Tropes in Sports Journalism, Benjamin R. Blotner
Department: English

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The Dream Machine, Amelia Burke
Department: English

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"Nothing That I Don't Like:" Gwendolen Harleth's Search for Life Outside the Marriage Plot in Daniel Deronda, Imogen Campbell Hendricks
Department: English

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Brew in Advertising: Marketing and the Craft Beer Industry, Ciaran Conway
Department: English

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Out of the Vat: A Collection of Poems, Alexander E. Doone
Department: English

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In Your Orbit, Sara Fikse
Department: English

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Greenbean Comics: An Independent Study!!!, Samantha Green
Department: English

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Awake, Waverly Swan Hart
Department: English

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Write It Slant: Queerness and Form in The Argonauts and Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through, Eleanor Linafelt
Department: English; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

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An Exploration of Changes and the Effectiveness of Gendered Marketing in Young Adult Novels, Olivia Maher
Department: Economics; English

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Life, Spilled, Gianmarco A. Martignetti
Department: English

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Cheap Thrills and Moral Guidance: The Limitations of Subversive Themes in Mid-Nineteenth Century Urban Literature Centered on New York City, Victoria McCaslin
Department: English; History

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Almost Heaven: An Aubade to Identity in Central Appalachian Memoir, Emilee McCubbins
Department: English

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Witch's Luck, Claire Montgomery
Department: English

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“In sorrow thou shalt bring forth children”: Victorian Literary Denunciation of the Duties of Motherhood, Ellie Peabody
Department: English

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A Grave New World: A Critical and Creative Study Examining Environmental Decline Within Transnational Dystopian Literature, Andrew Newcomb Peacock
Department: English

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A House Without Doorknobs: and Other Essays, Kyra Perlmutter
Department: English

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The Song of Siros, John-Paul W. Richard
Department: English; Russian Studies

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The City of Goblins, Hope K. Siegel
Department: English

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Chasing Gold Statues: A Study of Kanye West and the Case for Abstract Minimalism in the Digital Age, Sarah Stutler
Department: Art and Art History; English

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Revolutionary Possibilities: Anarchist Philosophy and Its Influence on the Work of Thomas Pynchon, Addison R. Wanner
Department: English

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Who are the Savages?: Racialization of Eating and Appetites in Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, Brown’s Edgar Huntly, and Melville’s Typee, Taylor Wood
Department: English

Senior Independent Study Theses from 2019

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Insurrecting Purity: Creativity as Resistance in Somatic Ambiguity, Margy J. Adams
Department: English; Philosophy

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The Drum Break: Using the Poetics of Hip Hop as a Lens to Observe the Black Freedom Movement Post-Civil Rights & Black Power, Andrew Aldridge
Department: English; History

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Subverting Narratives: Queer Applications of the Comic Form, Emily Anderson
Department: English

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Mind the (gender)Gap: Navigating Space and Movement in Charles Dickens’ Our Mutual Friend, Lydia Barr
Department: English

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Liminal Souls, Liminal Bodies: Michelangelo’s Non Finito and the Poetics of Liberation, Mackenzie Clark
Department: Art and Art History; English

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In the Act of Witnessing Art, Regan Concannon Clark
Department: Art and Art History; English

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Of Sleep and Subversion: Neil Gaiman's Sandman as a Groundbreaking Comic, Will Manning Courtney
Department: English

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Empowered Dolls, Empower Girls: An Analysis of the Contradictory Messages in the Literature and Marketing of the Historical American Girl Doll Collection, Mallory I. Crane
Department: English

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Psychic or Not: Examining the Effects of Psychic Distance on Implicit Attitudes and Empathetic Connections, Nathaniel C. Davis
Department: English; Psychology

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Science Perspectives and Stories: A Journey of Growth and Maturity Through the Multifaceted Machine of Science, Sara Garcia
Department: Biology; English

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Sybil's Travels, Maria Sophia T. Giordano-Scott
Department: English

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Traces of an Unknowable Past: A Literary Investigation of Intergenerational Guilt and Trauma in Southern Identity, Nathaniel A. Harling
Department: English

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“How Do You Make a Body Accountable for Its Language, Its Positioning?”: An Analysis of the Construction of Racial Identity Through Language, Kaitlyn Harrison
Department: English

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Darkness? In My Dungeon? It's More Likely Than You Think: Exploring the Lovecraftian Horror Within Darkest Dungeon, Jason Huggler
Department: English

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This Fool's Heart: A Collection For the Hell of It, Kristopher Johns
Department: English

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‘False Frenchwoman’: William Shakespeare’s Reinterpretation of Powerful Female Historical Figures in the Reign of Elizabeth I, Rebecca Giver Johnston
Department: English; History

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Mark: A Novella and Screenplay Adaptation, Alexandra J. Kangas
Department: English; Film Studies

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"What's Sex Got to Do with It?": Deconstructing Audre Lorde's Theory of the Erotic in the Works of Nella Larsen, Toni Morrison and Zora Neale Hurston, Sally Kershner
Department: English

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Tremble, Haylee Maude
Department: English

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The Waste Land as the Narrative of the Journey to Conversion, Yeeun Min
Department: English

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Contents Under Pressure, Megan Murphy
Department: English

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Staging the (Anthropos)cene: An Exploration of Climate Change and the Human Through Playwrighting, Daniel L. Myers
Department: English; Theatre and Dance