Senior Independent Study Theses from 2012
In Memoriam and Moratorium: Trauma and Maturation in Young Adult Fiction, Katie Blachman
Department: English
Modern Day Slavery: A Literary and Pedagogical Liberation Movement for Human Sexual Trafficking as a First-Year Seminar, Esther Elizabeth Bryant
Department: English
Seams You Wear, Alec Burns
Department: English
Daily Show: Jon Stewart's Comic Court, Kevin Carpenter
Department: English
Absurdity with God: Faith in Walker Percy's Novels, Emily DeTar
Department: English; Philosophy
Refusing the Voice of the Mother: The Generative Failure of French Feminist Thought in Margaret Atwood's Surfacing, Jordan E. Farrar
Department: English
Reading Sesame Street: a Study of Literary Structures in Children's Educational Television, Geoffrey T. Fisher
Department: English
Chechnya: Death, Journalism, and History, Samuel Foulkes
Department: English; Russian Studies
Marshallese Time: A Critical Reflection of the Magazine, H. Kris Fronzak
Department: English
Backstory-'Without It, It's Just a Game', Michael Gellert
Department: English
What Science Says: Popular Science Rhetoric in Contemporary American Society, Emily Alanna Graham
Department: English
Walking With a Ghost, Nell C. Gram
Department: English
Oddly Uninteresting: a Collection of Short Stories, Bridget Hillyer
Department: English
Fissures in the Sand: a Narrartive Ethnography of the Fishing Culture in Gloucester, Massachusetts, Christopher Hudson
Department: Communication Studies; English
Heroin Mystique: Feminist and Postfeminist Implications of Socially Deviant Behavior in Memoir, Rachel Kassenbrock
Department: English
How to Know the Animals: a Field Guide in Poetry, Eryn Coffman Killian
Department: English
Inshallah in America: the American Dream and Arab American Literature Pre and Post 9/11, Ramsey Kincannon
Department: English
Wrecks on the Infobahn, Brandelle Knights
Department: English
Framing Death: Celebrating the Spectacle of Fast Five and the American Killing of Osama Bin Laden, Matthew J. Kodner
Department: English
Rereading Childhood: An Analysis of Female Self-Actualization in Three Classic Children's Series, Elizabeth Mady
Department: English
On Stages, Katherine M. Markovich
Department: English
Even Dusty Palms Dry Tears, Rochelle Anakaye Marrett
Department: English
Born in Blood, Ellen McIlvaine
Department: English
Adventurers' Club, Valerie Mozena
Department: English
Na(RR/VIG)ating the Labyrinth: Literary Imaginings of Repetition, Course, Horizon, and Center in the Form of the Labyrinth, Jordan Nelson
Department: English
Mosaic House, Charles A. Parrott
Department: English
Under the Bonnet and Between the Covers: An Examination of How We Read Bonnet Fiction, Hannah K. Reisdorff
Department: English
Aftermath of a Yawn: the Memoir of a Quiet Person You Can Trust (Most of the Time), Katherine Sowers
Department: English
C.O.W.Z., Nicholas A. Starr
Department: English
Recapturing Kathy: Or, How I Learned to Write in Past Tense; A Son's Fight through the Fog of Memory Surrounding his Mother's Death, Scott Stelter
Department: English
Animal, Human, Machine? Cyborgization and Its Consequences in Science Fiction, Andrew J. Tisdel
Department: English
Yonnondio, Of Mice and Men & The Girl: a Feminist Critique of the Traditional Social and Neoclassical Economic Roles of Women During the Great Depression, Brooke Danielle Towner
Department: Economics; English
And Don't You Know That God Is Pooh Bear? a Study of Jack Kerouac's Spiritual Quest in on the Road, Visions of Cody, and the Dharma Bums, John Tracy
Department: English
The Young Man and the Lake: An Exploration of Hemingway in Michigan, Megan A. Wilson
Department: English
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2011
Seven Deadly Satires, Elspeth Bloom
Department: English
Waiting For Death, Stephanie Cholley
Department: English
An Echo of An Echo: Stories, Emily Davis
Department: English
An Exploration of the Future of the Book: the Effect of Cultural and Technological Changes on the American Publishing Industry, Hannah Diorio-Toth
Department: English
Experiencing a Narrative: An Empirical Exploration of a Reader's Social Engagement With Text, Sarah Gerlach
Department: English; Psychology
Feminism and Magic in Marion Zimmer Bradley's Mists of Avalon and Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials Trilogy: An Exploration of Representations of Women and Paganism in Modern Fantasy Literature and How These Stories Reshape Ideologies, Abigail Gordon
Department: English
Achieving Autonomy: a Gendered Exploration of Space and Class in the Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Villette, Margaret Goss
Department: English
The Camelot Garden: a Novel, Alison Hornbeck
Department: English
The Language of Totalitarianism: Newspeak, Freedom, and Orwellian Dystopia, Thomas Irvin
Department: English; Philosophy
Oh, to Be a Monk on a Lonely Mountain: A Collection of Four Short Stories, Joseph Jensen
Department: English
Louisiana Island Stories: Cultural and Coastal Erosion, As Seen Through Kate Chopin's the Awakening, Lafcadio Hearn's Chita: a Memory of Last Island, and the Stories of Isle De Jean Charles, Amanda Keith
Department: English
I Left My Heart in Malawi: A Young Woman's Six-Week Journey of Self Discovery and Cultural Awakening, Brittanny Lee
Department: English
Next to Nothing: a Novel, Rachel Lindenberger
Department: English
Reimagining Romantic Relationships: Gender, Class, and Ethnicity in Isabel Allende's Novels, Grace Lundergan
Department: English; Spanish
"Re-Souling" the Glass Slipper: The Transforming Voice of Fairy Tales From Traditional Stories and Disney Films to Modern Adaptations, Erica Morgan
Department: English
The Poetics of Metaphor: How It Means, Conceptualizes, and Creates, Lindsay Neff
Department: English; Philosophy
Malicious Competitive Individualism in the Fairy Tale Tradition, William Regan O'Connor
Department: English
Sharing Lanes: a Collection of Interconnected Short Stories, Eowyn Randall
Department: English
Fear and Arrogance: Why Death Needs a Revolution, William Reid
Department: English; Psychology
Adrift Amongst a Sea of Flies, a Novella, Derek Rundell
Department: English
In Dementia's Cave: a Poetry Collection, Andrew Shaw
Department: English
Jane Austen: Zombies, Sex, and the Message That Lives Within, Katie L. Smart
Department: English
From Bennets to Bridget: the Construction of the Ideal Woman in Nineteenth-Century Women's Literature and Contemporary Chick Lit, Emily Tarr
Department: English
The Experience of Place, Patryk Tenorio
Fantastic Reality: An Analysis of the Conflation of Fantasy and Reality Through Cinema, May Tobar
Department: English
Listening For the Peace Caught in the Wind: a Collection of Poetry, Miatta Toothman
Department: English
The Dark and the Bloody: a New Chapter in Fairy Tales, Eryn Wells
Department: English
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2010
Requiem For a Nightmare: Six Tales of Malevolence Mourned, John Boucher
Department: English
Hellhammer, Evan Conzett
Department: English
Christmas Presents and Christmas Past: a Study of Memory in Holiday Fiction and Film, Meghan Durand
Department: English
Postmemories, (Re)Constructions, and Lies: Memory and Narrative in El Hablador, El Gesticulador, and Everything Is Illuminated, Keli Horton
Department: English; Comparative Literature
The Myths we Build our Lives on: An Investigation of the Construction of Narrative by Adulterous Characters in Contemporary Short Fiction, Elizabeth Maffetone
Department: English
Lament: Stories About Beginnings, Robert Melick
Department: English
The Brontës in 21St Century Fictional Biographies, Whitney Williams
Department: English
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2009
From Semi-Automatic Pistols to Taser Guns and Snowballs: Using the April 16, 2007 Virginia Tech Massacre and the February 13, 2007 Kauke Arch Incident at the College of Wooster to Explore the Journalistic Techniques Applied in Crime Reporting, Sydney Amanda Lydia Bender
Department: English
Hereisthefamilymotherfatherdickandjane: a Guide to Teaching the Unreadable, Kristen Bielik
Department: English
Confronting the Other Through the Cinematic Frame: a Study of the Novel That Swallowed the Film, Kathleen Blair
Department: English
Coming Out of the Corset: the Representation of Changing Female Ideals in Three Late-Victorian Gothic Novels, Ann Katherine Boyd
Department: English
Martyrs, Musicians, and Memoirists: Reading Identity and Ownership Through Folk Song in Frank Mccourt's Angela's Ashes, Scott Campbell
Department: English
Beyond the Dividing Line: An Argument For the Secondary Writing Center's Role in Literature Education, Megan Connor
Department: English
Up, Set, Gotcha - Memoir of a Runner, Mark Dewine
Department: English
Plato Gone Wilde: An Analysis of Same-Sex, Mentor-Pupil Relations in Plato's Symposium, Oscar Wilde's the Picture of Dorian Gray, and Alan Bennett's the History Boys, Megan Grundtisch
Department: Classical Studies; English
"I Said, Listening to Hear What I Would Say, to Find Out What I Thought": Women Diarist's Quest For Authentic Expression As Exemplified in the Golden Notebook, Emily Halnon
Department: English
Oaxaca Vive, ¿La Lucha Sigue?: Una Crónica De Conflictividad Social, Lauren Hines
Department: English; Spanish
Notions of Child Rearing in Peter Pan and Lolita, Jonathan McKay
Department: English
Concerning Nathaniel Bloom, Daniel Paul Miraldi
Department: English
The Masculinity of Juvenal Satire and the Roles of Men, Grant Dominic Morrison
Department: English
The Legal Thriller: Learning to Love to Hate the Law, J. Brendan O'Conor
Department: English
Make It Look Easy, Tracy Patinski
Department: English
"There Are Images I Need to Complete My Own Reality": Images, Memory, and the Limitations of Language in the Event of September 11th, 2001, Leda Rodis
Department: English
The First Step, Andrew Sartorius
Department: English
If You Love the Self, Fashion the Self: An Investigation of Early Modern Self-Hood Through the Works of Shakespeare, Lee Stablein
Department: English
∆S, Mitch Storar
Department: English
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2008
Looking For Watts and Other Stories, Jack Shelton Boyle
Department: English
Looking in a Shattered Glass: Coming to Terms With History, Family, Identity and Place, Cora Hofstetter
Department: English
What the #$%?!: the Life Cycle of Censorship in Young Adult Literature, Allison P. Hunter
Department: English
Invisible Men and How to See Them: a Critical Introduction to Off-Kilter Magazine, Jacqueline C. Hunter
Department: English
Classes Apart: Exploring Perceptions of Class and Experimenting With Propaganda of Agitation, Mikael Page
Department: English
Helium and Idiom: Translation as Interpretation and the Poetry of Félix de Azúa, Claire M. Robertson
Department: English
It Happened Here: a Novel, Heather A. Summers
Department: English
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2007
Covering All the Bases: the Coming of Age in Baseball Fiction, Michael T. Barone
Department: English
An Other's Blood: Nonfictions, Arianne M. Beros
Department: English
Author Has No Authority Here: Issues of Identity, Community and Textual Interaction Online, Nora E. Cascadden
Department: English
Beatriz and the Heavenly Bodies: a Translation of An Excerpt From Lucia Etxebarria's Beatriz Los Cuerpos Celestes, Megan Donelson
Department: English; Spanish
"A Woman Playing a Woman? Where's the Trick in That?": Women's Gender Performativity Explored Through a Theatrical Lens, Rachel Fichter
Department: Theatre and Dance; English