Senior Independent Study Theses from 2013
Route 28, Ilana R. Ben-Zvi
Department: English
Breaking (Amish) News: Citizen Journalism in the Digital Age, Leah M. Brown
Department: English
Breaking Patriarchy: the Utopias and Discontents of Gilman, Atwood, Le Guin, and Burgess, Milo Carpenter
Department: English
The Curse of the South: Using Trauma Theory to Examine Faulkner's the Sound and the Fury and Absalom, Absalom!, Evelyn M. Clarke
Department: English
The Unique Value of Autonomy, Daniel Copfer
Department: English; Philosophy
The Flâneuse in Film: Female Flânerie in the French New Wave and Contemporary Indie Cinema, Emily Corwin
Department: English
Lazarene, Mary K. Donnelly
Cracks Between the Cobble: France and the World Out There, Joseph Dziedziak
Department: English; French and Francophone Studies
From Compost to Gram's Kitchen: a Cultural History of Food, Elizabeth Jean Fackler
Department: English
The Lost Letters of Calpurnia: An Epistolary Novella Based on the Life of Pliny the Younger's Wife, Lisa Marie Favicchia
Department: Classical Studies; English
The Seven Deadly Sins, Kathryn Furbee
Department: English
Fire, David Grunfeld
Department: English
To Speak of Building my House: A Life with Gastroparesis, Kelsey E. Hardin
Department: English
The Inevitable Fate of Charlie Drake, Annie Hunter
Department: English
Lesbian Life Writing: a Multi Genre Exploration From the Well to Memoir, Erika Kay
Department: English
Sexually Ever After: Cultural Impositions on Psychosexual Development in Myth and Fairy Tales, Lara Koenig
Department: English
The Boondocks, Double Consciousness and Minstrelsy, Chantel Massey
Department: English
Life of a Dead Man, Stephen Maxwell
Department: English
Since It Began: a Collection of Poetic Daguerreotypes, Lee B. McKinstry
Department: English
Finding Meaning at the End of the World(S): Life, Death, and Identity in Battlestar Galactica, Amy Newton
Department: English
Grand Owl Habitat: a Collection of Poetry, Alexa Norris
Department: English
Lady Rochford: Always Remembered As a True Courtier of Henry VIII, Jacqueline O'Dell
Department: English; History
Switchbacks: An Outdoor Magazine For Ohio, Colleen O'Neil
Department: English
Paralysis: An Urban Liberation, Amanda Priest
Department: English
Ali- No Color Added: A Transracial Adoption Story, Alexandria Questel
Department: English
Give Me a Minute to Figure this Out: A Memoir of Learning, Larping, and Living a Young Life with Aspergers, Hannah J. Rothman
Department: English
Searching For Alice: An Examination of Identity Through Dreams, Gender, Class, and Language in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, Alea Safier
Department: English
The Little Gods, Ian D. Schoultz
Department: English
The Extremes of Our Own Nature: A Feminist Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Three Short Stories by Flannery O'Connor, Hilary Sehring
Department: English
This Is How Girls Walk, Jane Meryl Siegel
Department: English
Inside the "Strategery" of Impression: a Study of Political Satire on Saturday Night Live, Libba Smith
Department: English
Breaking News in Emerging India: Analysis of the Indian Broadcast News System (2007- 2012); Broadcast News in India, Tanvi Sood
Department: English
The Jackson Thieves, Justin Stanger
Department: English
Anchored: a Novel-In-Stories and a Brief Exploration of Why We Love Horror, Shaina Switzer
Department: English
Minds on Fire: or How I Learned to Stop Being Paranoid and Love the Young Adult Dystopia, Lauren Tweddale
Department: English
An Artificial Eden: Experiencing the Suburban Landscape in Postwar American Literature, Elyse Vukelich
Department: English; History
Workingmen! To Arms!, Joshua Ware
Department: English
Réplicas Heroicas/Heroic Replicas: Don Quijote de La Mancha y/and Song of Solomon, Alexia Wynn
Department: English; Spanish
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2012
Mating: a Creative Exploration of Comedic Television, Jadon Baker
Department: English
¡Venga! A Non-Fiction Magazine for The College of Wooster Study Abroad Students Interested in Andalusia, Spain, Emily Bartelheim
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