Senior Independent Study Theses from 2003
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
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