Senior Independent Study Theses from 2001
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 Face of God, Smith Alexander Reed
Department: English; Music
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
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
Ambrose Bierce: The Truth of Perception; A Comprehensive Analysis of His Life and Short Stories, Andi Vance
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