Senior Independent Study Theses from 2000
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
Africa in the News, Chemeli T. Kipkorir
Department: English
Murder Will Out, Timothy G. Kiscoe
Department: English
Crystalballs and Mindreading: the Relationship Between the Public and the Media in the Evolution of Presidential Press Coverage, Jamie L. Mapes
Department: English
Prose Poetry: Transcendent Literature, Erica C. Molliver
Department: English
What It Means to Be Human: Artificial Humans in Fiction and Science Fiction, Sarah M. Nagelbush
Department: English
What Lies in the Tunnel: A Memoir, Bryan J. Partridge
Department: English
Structural Study of Children's Literature By Matt Christopher, Edward L. Priesand
Department: English
Kitchen Table Tales, Elizabeth C. Reiter
Department: English
Under the Lunar Neon: A Collection of Poems, Paul T. Richlovsky
Department: English
Are You Talking to Me? Literature As a Form of Dialogue Between Black and White Women, Marie Salupo
Department: English
Feeling-Knowing-Being: Reconstructing Dominant Systems of Knowledge in Jeanette Winterson's "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit", Nicole Scott
Department: English
Deserving of My Attention: An Experential Reading of Tillie Olsen's Short Fiction, Scott Sheets
Department: English
Who Am I and How Do I Fit In?: An Examination of the Adolescent Maturation Process Into Adulthood With Representations From Fifties and Contemporary Literature, Sarah E. Smith
Department: English
Enjoy the Silence: Exploring the Poetic Significance of European Pop-Music, Ben Spieldenner
Department: English
In Pursuit of Prospectives: The Private, Liberal Arts College, Marketing, and the View Book, Christina P. Stern
Department: Communication Studies; English
Escaping Sweet Valley: A Feminist Approach to Beauty, Sexuality, and Gender in Young Adult Literature, Megan A. Tarrant
Department: English
Capricious By Nature: The Mutable Role of Pan in a Selection of Classical, Nineteenth-Century and Twentieth Century Texts, Megan W. Whinery
Department: Classical Studies; English
One Woman Reading: A Personal Inquiry in Transactional Reading, Carrie L. Wiles
Department: English
America's Biographers: The Personal and Political Poetry of Robert Lowell and John Berryman, Nathan Wilkinson
Department: English
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1999
Vision of the Child in the Nineteenth Century British Fiction, Christina K. Alberto
Department: English
Person Is a Person, No Matter How Small Breaking the Communication Barrier Between Adults and Children Through Literature, Jayme Armistead
Department: English
Creation at the Intersection of Media, Francis Browne
Department: English
Drama of Her Own: J.M. Synge and the Quest For National Identity in Ireland, 1903-1909, Brooke Bulkeley
Department: English
Creating and Implementing an Effective Elementary Reading Program: A Discussion of a Whole Language, Literature Based Reading Program, Laura J. Chazan
Department: English
Spice: The Making of a Magazine, Amy M. Chidiac
Department: English
Writing From the Belly of a Paradow: Thomas Merton and the Recovery of the Christian Experience Through Zen, David J. Cooper
Department: Religious Studies; English
Color at the Final Curtain: The Creation of Mood Through Color in Europides Medea and Dassin's Dream of Passion and How the Ancient and Modern Audiences Responded, Danielle M. Coppola
Department: Classical Studies; English
Transcendentalism of Gatsby's Dream: Illusions of Time and the Material, Jonathan N. Crawford
Department: English
Film Adaptation As Autoethnography: Three Cinematic Offspring of Oliver Twist, Dan Darling
Department: English
Ya-Ya Mamas and Women Warriors, Kristen Demaline
Under the Rim: a Sportswriter's Season With the 1998-99 Scot Men's Basketball Team, Neil Domer-Shank
Department: English
Pleasure Unto Death, Colleen V. Dunn
Department: English
Modern Christian Fiction: Bridging the Gap Between the Believer and the Unbeliever, Rachel E. Evans
Department: English
Dirty Tricks and Dirty Dresses: Newspapers and White House Scandal, Sarah C. Fenske
Department: English; Political Science
Photography and Text: a Meaningful Conversation, Micheal L. Hahn
Department: English
Irony in Selected Short Stories of O. Henry, Ambrose Bierce, Kate Chopin, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman: 1890-1910, Andrea J. Hiner
Department: English
Dula: An Acoustical, Lucien G. Holmes
Department: English
Rise of Legal Fiction, Elizabeth B. Howard
Department: English
"Yes, There Are Homeless People in Wooster": Memoirs of Invisible Women, Kathryn A. Klonowski
Department: English
Serial: Fixations...Ratings...Objects, Hope E. Miller
Department: English
Examination of Animals in Literature: What They Are Saying About Us and Why, Yael Moore
Department: English
Digging Up the Streets and Other Stories, Lorraina Raccuia
Department: English
Creation of a New Genre: Fusing the Elements of the Gothic and Grotesque Elements to Examine the Works of William Faulkner and Flannery O'Conneor, Karen J. Rafferty
Department: English
Dinosaurs and Memory Wars: A Dialogical Interpretation of Historical Experience in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, Graham Swift's Waterland, and Bradley Me. Rank's Untitled, Bradley M. Rank
Department: English; History
Multiculturalism in the Classroom: a Look at Creation Stories and English Literature, Heather N. Reynolds
Department: English
Hummingbird of the Dead, Kirsten Rich
Department: English
B6560, Shayna N. Sharpe
Department: English
Exploring Wilderness (And Returning Home), Caitlin F. Shipps
Department: English
Talking About the Body: a Collection of Poems, Kristen Silver
Department: English
Reimagining Beauty: Challeging Societal Images of Black Women in Two Novels of the Harlem Rennaisance:; Jessie Fauset's Plum Bun and Wallace Thurman's Blacker the Berry, Catriona A. Ward
Department: English
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1998
Terminal Bliss: the Wrath of Mortality on Ernest Hemingway and the Garden of Eden, Brooke S. Abernethy
Department: English
Why Boobz, Wende Bitler
Department: English
Mulingi's Belt, David Bryant
Department: English
Winnie-The-Pooh For Adults, Jessica Buell
Department: English
Examining the Affects of Sexual Motifs on Mother-Daughter Relationships in Three East-Asian American Novels: Amy Tan's "Joy Luck Club," Lan Cao's "Monkey Bridge," and Nora O. Keller's "Comfort Woman.", Lasaly Changkachith
Department: English
Matriarchy, Maternity, Monogamy, and Black Women's Empowerment in the Novels of Toni Morrison, Emily M. Coleman
Department: English
This Slower Death: a Collection of Poems, Nicole Donnelly
Department: English
Inbetween Spaces Le Cas De La Littérature Postcoloniale de l'Afrique Occidentale, Helen Aine Flewelling
Department: English; French and Francophone Studies
We Must Use What We Have to Invent What We Desire: Poetics and Politics in the Later Poems of Adrienne Rich, 1978-1995, Heidi R. Haverkamp
Department: English
"No Madder Than the Queen of England": Representations of the Nineteenth-Centruy Madwoman in Twentieth-Century Literature and Popular Journals, Kristin E. Hundertmark
Department: English
Read Me, Read Me, Read Me!: An Analysis of the Persuasive Functions and Powers of Language in Advertising and Marketing, Megan Kreider
Department: English
"Better to Leave Your Audience Wailing in the Dark": A Study of the Reader-Text Relationship and the Readers Struggle With Indeterminacy in Tim O'Brien's "In the Lake of the Woods", Holly L. Kyle
Department: English
Lights, Hellman Rolling, Action, Gregory B. Licht
Department: English; Theatre and Dance
Pacifying Vidalia, Jennifer Nadar
Department: English
Hayden Carruth, Rose Marie, and This World's Love, Eduardo Nunes
Department: English
Eyeblink of Rokeness, Matt R. Pietz
Department: English
With Love From the Man in the Bush, Rachel Pope
Department: English
Computer: Enemy of the Humanities?, Christopher D. Pugh
Department: English
Kindred Parables: An Examination of Octavia Butler's "Kindred" and "Parable of the Sower", Kathryn E. Rhoads
Department: English
Boxed In, Andrea K. Shreve
Department: English
In Here It Is I Must Kill the Priest and the King: the Deconstruction of Cultural Hegemony in James Joyce's Ulysses, Hilary A. Teynor
Department: English
World's Best I.S., Sally Thelen
Department: English
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1997
22 Is Catching, Jill Bartholomew
Department: English; Theatre and Dance
Wooster By Night: a Study in Chaos, Dana Benson
Department: English
Irish-American Search For Identity As Exhibited Through the Literature of the Famine Generation, Stephanie H. Blake
Department: English
Voices Behind the Curtain, Margaret E. Conti
Department: English
Persona Non Grata, Ian P. Cook
Department: English
Issue of Reader Response: a Personal Investigation, Lesley A. Crossley
Department: English
Anyways, Sarah K. DeBacher
Department: English
Brutal Black or Bad Black Man? Assessing the Affect of Culture on Interpretation and Identity in 'The Life and Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger', Ebony M. Green
Department: English
Fragile Jericho: a Novella, Aaron D. Hemry
Department: English
Regulars of Blanding, Ohio, Daniel B. Herr
Department: English
714: Family Legends and Other Myths of Baseball, Christopher R. Hertz
Department: English
Abdominous Tales, Patrick E. Hogan
Department: English
In Other Words..., Liam P. Kelly
Department: English; Art and Art History