Senior Independent Study Theses from 2003
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
Transcending the Roadblocks: Northern Irish Writers and the Troubles, Meghan E. Wills
Department: English
Catch Me When You Can, Jaime L. Wolfe
Department: English
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2001
I'm a Man: A Look at Masculinity in Highway 61 Revisited, What's Going on, Born to Run, and Me Against the World, Bryan C. Appel
Department: English
What Is Becoming of Me: Personal Agency As National Possibility in the Post-Apartheid Narrative, Karen Auble
Department: English
Une Exploration De Théâtre De L'Absurde Une Autre Vue De Fin De Partie, Elise M. Becchetti
Department: English; French and Francophone Studies
Letters From Home: a Novel, Siddhartha Bose
Department: English
Voice 'In-Between': Oral Dialogues Within Written Texts, Ashley C. Brister
Department: English
Translating Between Cultures in Novels by Bhara Ti Mukherjee and Chitra Div Akaruni, Elizabeth A. Byrer
Department: English
The Ghost Story: It's Not Just For Kids, Michelle Cady
Department: English
NV: The Making of a Fashion Magazine, Sarah C. Chazan
Department: English
Seeking Slam, Erika Joy Chouinard
Department: English
George Eliot's Realism and George Sand's Idealism: a Comparative Study, Marjorie D. Cooper
Department: French and Francophone Studies; English
The Same Thing Every Night: A Collection of Poems, Tim E. Drouhard
Department: English
Tales of Disjunction: a Collection of Short Stories, Craig E. Duff
Department: English
Verbatim: a Behind the Scenes Look, Matthew H. Frank
Department: English
Simple Procedure, Kate Kutina Gessler
Department: English
A Quantitative Model and Test of Journalistic Writing Quality, Jeffrey R. Guciardo
Department: English
Transgressing Limitations, Timothy B. Hagen
Department: Art and Art History; English
Splendor: A Magazine - Concerning Politics of Women's Magazines in American Culture, Stephanie A. Hoffman
Department: English
Journalism Ethics and the Outing of Oliver Sipple A Discussion About the Importance of Incorporating Feminine Ethics into the Practice of Journalism, Amelia Kays
Department: English; Philosophy
I Never Knew It Had a Name: Experiences of Trichotillomania, Erin R. Kollar
Department: English
Walls Broken: Poetry and an Interview with Authors of the Former East Germany, Naomi R. Kresge
Department: English; German Studies
"My Task Which I Am Trying to Achieve Is, By Power of the Written Word,... to Make You See": Apocalypse Now, a Clockwork Orange, and Lord of the Flies As Adaptations of Three Modern Novels, Lauren E. Kulchawik
Department: English
MyMarx.com: What's Your Revolution? - Signs of Modernity in Literary Fiction at the 20th Century's End, Johathan G. Lindsay
Department: English
Portrayals of Chinese Eurasian Identity in the Autobiographies of Edith and Winnifred Eaton: Identity Politics and Social Protest, Sheri Marker
Department: English
"The Island of Women" and Other Stories: a Fictional Exploration Into Writing From What We Do Not Know, Molly S. McKinney
Department: English
A Llama Caught In Rain: A Collection of Poems, Caroline Morrell
Department: English
Magpie in June Sun, Brendan Park
Department: English
Revolution Chicago: A Study and Practice of Hypertext on the World Wide Web, Andrew Phelan
Department: English
The Survival of Past Images: The Use of Time, Memory and the Past in Novels by William Faulkner, Virginia Woolf, and Michael Dorris., Katherine M. Rybak
Department: English
Barley Educated, J. Marie Shannon
Department: English
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2000
Conversations and Answers: Comparing Constructions of Race and Gender in Jack Koruacs the Subterreneans and Hettie Jones' How I Became Hettie Jones, Richard K. Anderson
Department: English
Transgressions - a Memoir, Julie R. Assmus
Department: English
Bilito's Ghost: How Charles Manson's Cowboy Boots Became the White Star of the West, Matthew M. Barbee
Department: English
Construction of the Self: Two American Women in the 1950S, Katie L. Bomba
Department: English
Kerri on Her Own: a Fictional Young Adult Novel Intended For the Betterment of Adolescent Girls, Amy R. Brown
Department: English
Portrayals of Animals in Children's Literature, Darlene Bubel
Department: English
Black Womens' Sexuality: Voices of the Dark Brought to Light, Rose Carter
Department: English
"Dear Father:" How Gender Construction Among Emigrants to Liberia in the Nineteenth Century Compared to Gender Constructions in the Antebellum South, As Revealed Through Letters Written By Freed Slaves to Their Former Owners, Marjorie J. Clayman
Department: English; History
Manipulation of Newspaper Media, Ryan L. Dansak
Department: English
Duality and Deception: a Novella, David J. Francis
Department: English
Why I Don't Like Shakespeare, Marijke S. Hartzler
Department: English
Wild Things Protection Act: Taking a Second Look at the Works of Shel Silverstein and Maurice Sendak, Kathryn M. Hoffman
Department: English
Multigenre Research Paper: An Alternative to Standard Research, Stacy K. Ingraham
Department: English
If This House Stands, Angel M. Jernigan
Department: English
Eyes Wide Shut, Andrew J. Jones
Department: English
Echoes of Experience: One Writers Attempt to Create the Various Life Situations of Today's Woman, Elizabeth A. King
Department: English
Slowness and Perception, Matthew R. King
Department: English