Senior Independent Study Theses from 2010
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
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