Senior Independent Study Theses from 2009
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
Everything, Written Down: a Novella, Sarah Haskell
Department: English
After Caravaggio: a Collection of Poetry, Julie Hufnagel
Department: English
"When Nine Hundred Years Old You Reach, Look As Good You Will Not": Star Wars and the New Mythology of Fan Fiction, Jessica Ilko
Department: English
Seeking a Text of Her Own: (Con)Textualizing Women's Reputations and Agency in Late Medieval England, Elizabeth Jean Kerr
Department: History; English
Viewing Between the Lines: Animated Females Produced By Walt Disney and Hayao Miyazaki, Brandi M. Killinger
Department: English
Suffocation By Refrigeration: a Collection of Short Fiction, Amanda Marie Kirkendall
Department: English
Oh, the Things You Can Think Up If Only You Try: a Collection of Parodies and Original Short Stories, Abigail L. Knapp
Department: English
Transposed Edens: a Comparison of C.S. Lewis and Philip Pullman and Their Fictional Writings, Katherine E. Lawrence
Department: English
Illegals: An Intertextual Study of Legitimacy and Voice, Anne L. Leigh
Department: English
And If That Boisterous Channel: Crossing Borders, Deleting Lines, Marissa A. Marangoni
Department: English
"No Place For Children in a War:" the World War II Evacuation of British Children in History and Chidren's Fiction, Julia Stuckman
Department: English; History
Annotated Lorax: a Creative and Critical Investigation Into Dr. Seuss's the Lorax, the First and Definitive Edition of Its Kind With Many Notes About Many Important Things, Sara R. Taggart
Department: English
Red Wine Dreams, Kristin K. Yorks
Department: Sociology and Anthropology; English
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2006
Evolution of Gay Identity in Twentieth-Century American Gay Fiction, Clinton K. Baugess
Department: English
Mendacious Memoir of Rick Leblanc, Rhett H. Brodie
Department: English
Palace of the Forest of Lebanon: A Collection of Poems, Sarah June Fisher
Department: English
Disentangle: Rethreading Feminism through the Creation of a Magazine, Mary Kate Hageman
Prison Models and Organizational Agendas: A Reflection on the Historical Development of the American Prison System, Shawn Joseph Handy
Department: English; History
Donnie Darko: Writing a Film From a Reader's Perspective, Jeffery A. Morgan II
Department: English
"Had You Behaved in a More Gentleman-Like Manner" (Austen 127): a Study of Social Conventions in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and How the Novel Acts As a Microcosm in the Context of Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century English Society, Caitlin A. Schneider
Department: English
National Enquirer Eats New York Times: An Examination of the Tabloidization of U.S. Daily Newspapers, Leslie Mae Smith
Department: English
Heroes Without Wings: Rescue, Redemption, and the Persistence of Western Myth, Elizabeth Weiss
Department: History; English
Heroes: Reflections of World War II Through the Stories of Those Who Lived It, Jennifer R. Woloschyn
Department: English
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2005
The Landscape: Catalyst of American Identity, Ann Marie Bliley
Department: English
"What He Has Now to Say": a Thematic Narrative in John Berryman's 77 Dream Songs, Jay Brumfield
Department: English
Redeeming Voices: Mother-Daughter Relationships in Dorothy Allison, Jessica Paige Conn
Department: English
Rhizome Media: Exploring the Effect of the Internet on Journalism Today, Sarah Core
Department: English
Diamonds in the Roughly Dismissed Literature: Plot, Theme, and Character Development in the Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert A. Heinlein, and Ray Bradbury, Michelle Douglas
Department: English
Word Problems, Juliann Frances Draper
Department: English
Waves of Meaning: Advertising the Cruise Industry, Michelle Lynn Durham
Department: English
Is There a Difference Between a Work of Literature and An Instruction Manual?, John Evans
Department: English; Philosophy
Sibling Ties: A Family's Struggle with Adoption, Katherine Ruth Homer
Department: English
Humane Caregiver: Physicians and Nurses As Poets, Sula M. Hood
Department: English
To Get a Voice Heard: The Development and Production of a Documentary Film As An Application of a Qualitative Study, Jessica Keath
Department: English; Sociology and Anthropology
"The Story of Our Lives Becomes Our Lives:" Lesbian Readers and the Construction of a Lesbian Self Through Textual Experience, Sheila Liming
Department: Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; English
"Loving You This Way Is a Crime": Desire as Causation for Social Deviance and Self-Destruction in the Films of Pedro Almodóvar and David Lynch, Melissa K. Malone
Department: English
Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Male Negro: How Discourse Leads to Tragedy, Courtney L. Miller
Department: English
I Do Not Want to Die: Fear, Fantasy, and Grief in Death-Related Literature For Children, Elizabeth A. Miller
Department: English
Lost Boys: Sir James M. Barrie and Peter Pan, Margo Nelson
Department: English
Voices of Travel: Exploring Study Abroad, Travel Literature and Contemporary Issues of Travel Through the Creation of a Magazine, Angel D. Pappalardo
Department: English
Collected Poems of Lawrence Raysor and the Lyrics of the Son of Sin, Lawrence Raysor
Department: English
Fictional Invitations Into Ojibwa Worlds: a Reader-Response and Cultural Study of Louise Erdrich's the Antelope Wife and Love Medicine, Emily E. Ritter
Department: English
Filtering History: The Story of the Burbages and the Birth of the Globe Theater, Meghan E. Sackett
Department: English
Cuentos de una Cumbiambera, Christina Elena Schmitzler
Department: English; Spanish
Idle Witness, Joel Servillo
Department: English
Menace of Lemming Heights, Julia Smith
Department: English
Leaning in the Balance: a Collection of Poems, Jenifer A. Stockdale
Department: English
Discerning Marlowe's Doctor Faustus: the Teaching of Morality, Amy N. Stotler
Department: English
85, Will Torres
Department: English
Dennis Cantwell Wetzel: Memories of a Lost Uncle, Charles Alexander Van Gombos
Department: English
Bending of Twigs: a Collection of Poems, Katherine Walsh
Department: English
Diaphanous: a Collection of Short Stories, Tiffany Anne White
Department: English
Sister Stories: Negotiating the Landscape of Relationality in Women's Memoir, Emily Joy Whitsett
Department: English
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
Soul Sistas: An Analysis of Black Women Writers, Angela Nichole Barone
Ten Thousand Words: From Lao Tzu to Landscape Poetry, Laura A. Clarke
Department: English
Can Narrative Heal? Honoring the Creativity, Consciousness and Self-Authorship of Sick Patients and Re-Humanizing Health Care Through the Art of Narrative, Daniel R. George
Department: English
Crawling Through the Mist, Melissa Johnson
Department: English
Blood, Sweat and Tears: Sentimentality in Aids Documentaries, Rachel Kranch
Department: English
Doubt and Faith in Dostoevskii's Later Novels: a Re-Evaluation of Bakhtin's Polyphonic Theory, Jesse R. Menefee
Department: English; Russian Studies
Produclng a Literate Nation: A Critical and Creative Approach to Teaching and Encouraging Chlldren's Reading, Serena A. Sword
Suburban Gangsters': A Screenplay, William C. Thomas
Department: English
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2003
Little Ol' Excursion Trips: Selected Travel Narratives of John Steinbeck and William Least Heat-Moon, Daniel S. Bartha
Department: English
The Romance Novel and the Controversies Surrounding It, Erin Miller Bode
Department: English
Between Moments: A Collection of Short Stories, Margaret Buck
Department: English
Exploration X: A Look into Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves, Andy Busch
Department: English
Up in the Air, Catherine Anne Clifford
Department: English
Unshattered Mask: Melville's Narrators Confront the Gothic Void, Matthew A. Cutler
Department: English
"Appalling Manners:" Working Through Evelyn Waugh's Fiction, Gregory M. Davis
Department: English
Mary, the Screenplay: An Adaptation and Expansion of Nabokov's First Novel, Darren C. Demaree
Department: English
The Political Pulitzer, Erin Donnell
Department: English
"Cereal Flakes:" An Experiment in Satire, Justin J. Fusco
Department: English
From Execution to Entertainment: An Examination of Past and Present Constructions of Witchcraft, Jamie Ganzhorn
Department: English
An Exploration and Analysis of the Construction of Chicana Identity in the Short Stories and Novels of Ana Castillo and Sandra Cisneros, Meena Marie Ghaziasgar
Department: English
Women Bound: The Deconstruction of Gender Boundaries in The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot and Tess of the D'urbervilles by Thomas Hardy, Emily S. Hines
Department: English
Overcoming the Representational Problem of the Apocalypse in Kurt Vonnegut, Peter King
Department: English
The Compson Family: A Lineage of "Ancient Wounds", Caroline Kramer
Department: English
Women and Power in Tragedy: Macbeth, Hedda Gabler, and The Crucible, Katy L. Leedy
Department: English
'A Hunger For Justice:' The Development of the Modern Detective Story, Emily L. Martin
Department: English