Senior Independent Study Theses from 2005
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
Red: A Look at the History of Little Red Riding Hood and her Impact on our Culture, Cara Milne
Department: English
Not Like Us: A Collection of Short Stories, Theresa A. Morgan
Department: English
Cultural and Narrative Renewal in Leslie Marmon Silko's Novels, Laura Nader
Department: English
?: An Exploration of Existentialism, Jennifer C. Novicki
Department: English
Koffie and Dreams: The European Experience as Seen Through the Eyes of an American Teenager, Christopher Olson
Department: English
Knock Twice, Erin Popelka
Department: English
Something Palace and Other Poems, Haley B. Pritchard
Department: English
Things Other Than Flowers: a Collection of Poems and Their Rejected Brethren, James Redick
Department: English
Literary Canon: A Blast from the Past or a Modern-Day Teaching Tool?: Compilation of Essays dealing Critically with the Concept of the Literary Canon, Kristen Rice
Department: English
Glimpse of Truth, Alison Richardson
Department: Religious Studies; English
The Intersection of Poetry and Community within the Poetic Works of Sherman Alexie, Martin Espada and Yusef Komunyakaa, Hannah W. Russell
Department: English
After Tragedy: An Aesthetic Solution, Philip Sandifer
Department: English
Errant Passages: Essays Towards a Literacy of the Land, Emily Schadler
Department: English
Self Help: Intentions of the Author and Responses From the Reader, Gina T. Serrani
Department: English
Exposing Time's Lie: A Bergsonian Analysis of William Faulkner's The Sound and The Fury, Rebecca C. Stinson
Department: English
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2002
Birth of a Siren: Creating the New Voice of Third Wave Feminism, Leila H. Atassi
Department: English
Building on a Genre: Feminist Novels Transforming Transformation, Maria C. Carpenedo
Department: English
Hugo: A Collection of Short Stories and Essays, Sarah A. Church
Speaking to Maoritanga the Representation of Postcolonial Identity in Maori Literature, Maia S. Clay
Department: English
Extra, Extra! Read All About It! From Castaway to the Mclaughlin Group: the Dean Magazine Uncovered, Daniel G. Dean
Department: English
Tangled Threads: An Exploration of Choose Your Own Adventure Stories and Fictional Writing, Kristin DeAngelis
Department: English
African-American Literary Theory and Criticism: An Exploration to Find a Minority’S Voice, Melanie A. DeNardo
Department: English
Birthright: a Collection of Short Stories, Greta N. Dishong
Department: English
Aesthetics of Naming and Making: An Esemplification of Frank O'Hara's Poetics Within a Study of the Influenceof Painting on Modern Poetry, Adam T. Dupaski
Department: English
From the Page to La Peau: Tearing Women's Identities Out of the Advertisements in Elle and Vogue, Elizabeth Farina
Department: French and Francophone Studies; English
Day Soweto Burned, Claire B.G. Frese
Department: English
Resisting the Gender Binary: Women Novelists Negotiate Their Social and Cultural Contexts, Pieta C. Horvath
Department: English
Wonderland, Slone Isselhard
Department: English
He, Arlyn E. Keith
Department: English; Philosophy
Homemade Voyeur: a Collection of Poems, Robyn M. Kocher
Department: English
Finding My Voice: Exploring Identity Through Literature, Elizabeth M. Kriynovich
Department: English
"Am I the Only Weirdo in the World?": a Study of the Misfit in Children's Literature, Jennifer Kunkler
Department: English
Grandma's Intestinal Fortitude, Lori A. Lehr
Department: English
Two Trees Deep: a Summer of Love and Learning, Elizabeth H. Martin
Department: English
Cycling: a Local Bike Magazine For Everyone, Nicholas E. Mason
Department: English
According to Me: the Stories of My Mother, Melissa Marie Melvin
Department: English
Historical Fact or Fiction? a Study of the Historical and Literary Components of Louis De Bernieres's "Corelli's Mandolin," Evelyn Waugh's "The End of the Battle," and William Craig's "Enemy at the Gates: the Battle For Stalingrad", Maren L. Miller
Department: English
Self Concealed: a Memoir, Melissa Myers
Department: English
She Might Be Giant, Mary J. Nienaber
Department: English
Hidden: Suburban Legends at the College of Wooster, Daniel F. O'Connor
Department: English
Powered By PR: An Analysis and Overview of Public Relations Campaigns For Country Kitchen and Habitat For Humanity, Kathryn E. Orwin
Department: English
Infestation of American Public Schools: Challenges to Literature in the American Educational System, Miranda H. Pfahl
Department: English
California Dreams, California Nightmares: Celebrity Culture and Female Identity in Three Texts, Alicia H. Reed
Department: English
"Vieux Carre, Nouveau Vie" and Other Stories, David D. Reeves
Department: English
Bearing: a Nontraditional Memoir, Allison Roger
Department: English
An Imitation of a Film a Filmed Screenplay, Victor Rortvedt
Department: English
People and the Stones, Jen Schade
Department: English
Tension Decreased, Interaction Achieved: the Eruption of Spontaneous Community in Postwar America, Hallie Shapiro
Department: English; History
Monkey See, Monkey Do: a Project Demonstrating Ceative and Practical Applications of Race, Gendern and Disability in Children's Literature, Diana M. Smith
Department: English; Communication Studies
"Cause I'm a Twenty-First Century Digital Boy:" Looking Back From the Future in William Gibson's Cyberpunk, Andrew J. Stimson
Department: English
"Is It Just Me?" - the Development and Writing of An Original Situation Comedy and An Analysis of the Writing Process, Jennifer Telischak
Department: English
Growing Up in a Contradicting Nation: a Critical and Creative Analysis of American Identity in Fiction, Emily Van Oeveren
Department: English