Senior Independent Study Theses from 1998
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
Pray Love, Remember: a Novella, Antonia Mandry
Department: English; History
Advertisements By Myself, Mark Melnick
Department: English
Locusts in Bronze, Nathaniel J. Missildine
Department: English
Hourglass No One Has to Turn: a Collection of Poems, Neil Moore
Department: English; Spanish
Trials and Triumphs: Images of Womanhood, Caroline W. Muchekehu
Department: English
Common Women: An Examination of Writings By White Women and Women-Of-Color in the Construction of Community, Julia D. Oliverio
Department: English
Conventions, Controversy, and the Environment: a Study of Newspaper Articles Mentioning Environmental Issues Pertaining to the 1988 and 1992 Presidential Campaigns, Robin Oswald
Department: English; Chemistry
It Isn't a Book About Cops: Ed Mcbain's 87th Precinct Novels - a Study of Social Commentary Within Genre Fiction, Allehandro J. Parker
Department: English
Modern Madwoman: Insights From Twentieth Century Novels By Women, Heather A. Schuckman
Department: English
Influence of the Classics on Henry David Thoreau, Aaron V. Skrypski
Department: English; Classical Studies
Concepts of Mother: Motherhood, Mother Tongue, and Motherland in the Novels of Buchi Emecheta and Alice Walker, Amanda J. Smith
Department: English
Music For the Accordion: a Collection of Poetry, Susannah C. Sprong
Department: English
Chair That Sits at the End of the Hallway, Katherine E. Steger
Department: English
On the Stoop: a Collection of Short and Short-Short Stories, Mary Tartir
Department: English
Ruby Fire: a Romance, Jacqueline Tolonese
Department: English
Feminist Speculative Fiction: Reshaping the Archetypal Patterns of Motherhood Rooted in Myth, Margaret A. Toth
Department: Classical Studies; English
Carnival Fish, Audra M. Variakojis
Department: English
Air Underneath My Wings, Mariama K. Whyte
Department: English
Jennifer Willis Actually Turns in Independent Study, Jennifer Willis
Department: English
Sneaky Monks and Other Fuzzy Stories, Brad A. Winter
Department: English
Serving Up the Soul: a Multi-Genre Examination of the American Diner, Susan Wittstock
Department: English
One Unsatisfied Customer, Derek J. Young
Department: English
Tent Worms and Other Stories, Kathryn A. Youther
Department: English
Great Writers of the People: a Fictional Journey Through the Writings of Fyodor Dostoevdky, Walt Whitman, Allen Ginsberg, and Douglas Coupland, Joseph J. Zenir
Department: English
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1996
Perspectives on Censorship in Adolescent Literature, Erin Martha J. Balsat
Department: English
Toni Morrison: the Advantage of Post Colonial Writing, Heather S. Bond
Department: English
Restructuring of the American Canon in the Twentieth Century, Maureen Bowles
Department: English
Jacob's New Kite: a Study of Self-Esteem in Children's Picture Books, Amy Boyden
Department: English
Teaching Banned Books: the Case of Little Black Sambo, Elizabeth C. Conrad
Department: English
Fly on the Wall, Beth Cooperman
Department: English
The No-Win Situation: Shedding Light on the Indian Woman's Romantic Heterosexual Relations, Meher D'Mello
Department: English; History
World War One and Its Effects on American Literature: Romantic Vision to Disillusion, Meghan H. Doughtery
Department: English
Makin' Freedom Languages: a Cyclical Journey in Conversation With Writings By Toni Morrison & Nitozake Shange, Erin I. Dreistadt
Department: English
Influences on Shakespeare's Fairy Mythology in a Midsummer Night's Dream, Heather Ford
Department: English
Angel, Whore, Bitch: An Analysis of Mothers, The Cultural Implications and Assessment of Motherhood in Portnoy's Complaint, Life is Elsewhere, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Heidi M. Georgi
Department: English
Oppression Through Experience: the Effects of the Industrial Revolution on Children As Seen in Blake's Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, Anthony M. Humbert
Department: English
Images of Women in Advertising 1960-Present, Jesmon Idriss
Department: English
Literary Texts As Ethnographies: the Folkloric Design in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and Toni Morrison's Sula By Which the Writers Present Myth of Self and Community, Achila Imchen
Department: English; Sociology and Anthropology
Entering the Realm of the Unknown: the "Problem" of Convention and Cultural Context in Three Representations of Satan, Amanda L. Junkin
Department: English
Can You See What I'm Saying?: Comics, the Graphic Novel, and Neil Gaiman's Sandman, Lizbeth A. Leathers
Department: English
Female Sexuality: An Interdisciplinary and Personal Critique, Deborah J. Lewis
Contaminations, Matthew W. May
Department: English
Don't Bother Reading This. You Already Know What It Says., Curtis McClurkin
Department: English
Medieval Reader in England, 1356-1500, Carolina Miranda
Department: English; History
Belle Réve: An Analysis of John Berryman's Dream Song, Latasha Naidu
Department: English
Lay-Z Boys of America: a Collection of Poems, Adam H. Rose
Department: English
"From Science to Spirit: Metaphor in Walden and Pilgrim at Tinker Creek", Jason R. Rundorff
Department: English
Sightings: a Collection of Poems, Caleb M. Tiller
Department: English
My Life: a Personal Narrative, Regan M. Turner
Department: English
What Is This Creature That I Have Created?, Carmine Vincenzo
Department: English
Hotel Catarphillus and Other Encounters With the Strangely Usual, Benjamin Wachs
Department: English
Appearance of Things: a Collection of Short Fiction, Melissa L. Wagner
Department: English
Text Into Screenplay: An Adaptation of Flannery O'Connor's a Good Man Is Hard to Find, Benjamin B. Wolski
Department: English
Looking to the North Star: Octavia E. Butler's Use of the Ante Bellum Slave Narrative and Science Fiction in the Novel Kindred, Courtney L. Young
Department: English
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1995
Tet Offensive of 1968: Examining the Relationship Between Print Media Discourse and Trends in Public Opinion, Amanda L. Avery
Department: English; Political Science
Modernism Expanded: Questions of Self, Narration, and Language in Virginia Woolf's to the Lighthouse and Margaret Atwood's Surfacing, Ruth E. Berry
Department: English
Dragons, Sirens, Warriors, and Goddesses, Naomi A.C. Crummy
Department: English
Venus of Nazareth, Jesus of Willendorf, Alan DeNiro
Department: English
From Paradox to Paradigm: Understanding Fiction As Knowledge in the Novels Native Son and Go Tell It on the Mountain, Ben Geiger
Department: English
Reconstructing Byatt, Michelle Gershman
Department: English
Formalist Analysis of the French Lieutenant's Woman: Novel Into Film, Kevin M.M. Goheen
Department: English
Gorge, Michael D. Grau
Department: English
Geography of the Spirit: Implications of the Escape Motif in the Regionalist Works of Sarah Orne Jewett, Kate Chopin, and Mark Twain, Kendra L. Hancock
Department: English
"Freedom Cannot Be Conceived Simply": the Conflict Between Divine and Human Wills in the Fiction of Flannery O'Connor and Joyce Carol Oates, Lisa M. Hannan
Department: English
Muckraking Tradition: a Dynamic Between Society and Texts, Peter A. James
Department: English
Saviors and the Saved: a Novella, Jennifer L. Lindquist
Department: English
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Daphne Du Maurier's Gothic Novel Rebecca, Amy K. Madden
Department: English