Senior Independent Study Theses from 1996
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
Requiem For the Holocaust and Other Poems, Susan K. McGowan
Department: English
Self-Representation in the Autobiographies of Jean Rhys, Zora Neale Hurston, Maya Angelou and Annie Dillard, Stefanie Muntzel
Department: English
Sandwiches: Text and Paintings, Noah C. Phipps
Department: English; Art and Art History
Martin Amis: Fiction As Paradox, Elizabeth S. Puterbaugh
Department: English
Legal and Literary Theory; a Missed Relationship, Caleb R. Shreve
Department: English
Cultural Consequences of the Vampire in Bram Stoker's Dracula and Ann Rice's Interview With the Vampire; "Bite Me...", Elizabeth A. Staruch
Department: English; Theatre and Dance
Honor, Social Class and Gender in Plays of Lope De Vega and Shakespeare, Katherine T. Szabo
Department: English; Spanish
Jean Genet: Construction of the Self As Narrative, Ashley U. Vaught
Department: English
Words Through the Wall, Gabriele von Bülow Wilson
Department: English
"A", Elizabeth A. Walter
Department: English
Approaches to Teaching Three Texts By Twentieth-Century American Women Writers, Emily J. Weidner
Department: English
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1994
Looking at Living: An Examination of Distinguishing Characteristics in Henry David Thoreau's Walden and Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Aaron T. Adams
Department: English
Maurice Sendak: His Controversial Picture Books, Deanna L. Ashbridge
Department: English
Bitter Water, John Atkinson
Department: English
Cultural Awareness of Eroticism, Resistance and Rape: An Enquiry Into the Pain and Joy of Female Sexuality As Portrayed By Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker and Toni Morrison, Amy M. Bacik
Department: English
Analysis of Shifting Representative of Divorce and New Sibling Relationships in Picture Story Books From 1968-1990, Mary M. Callanan
Department: English
I Have Loved: A Collection of Poetry, Lucie Carleton
Department: English
Lexicography and Culture: A Closer Look at the Production of the Great English Dictionaries, Jeremy A. Church
Department: English
Where No Woman Had Swum Before: Kate Chopin's the Awakening, Antonia M. Conforti
Department: English
Water Jar, William J. Cook
Department: English
One Way or Another This Darkness Has Got to Give: A Personal Journey Through the Novels of Leslie Marmon Silko, Richard A. Davis
Department: English
Eudora Welty: An Experiment With Analytical Fiction, Lucille F. Day
Department: English
James Dickey and the Psychological Autobiography of Poetry, Michael J. Dittman
Department: English
Fight Song, John Dreisbach
Department: English
Analysis of Critical Interpretations of the Concluding Chapters of Mark Twain's the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Sandra J. Eyre
Department: English
William Faulkner's New South, Robert Felter
Department: English
Nuclear Construction, Jennifer K. Firlik
Department: English
Out, Melissa B. Friedman
Department: English
Examination of Stereotypical Black and White Female Characters in Selected Works By Richard Wright, Cherobia Gates
Department: English
Look at the Role of Women in the Literature of the 1920s, Jeffrey G. Hoerner
Department: English
Cultural Dispossession: Three Contemporary South African Author's Exploration of the Past, Hanna C. Howe
Department: English
Are You There Judy Blume? I Need Some Advice About Adolescence and Alternative Role Models, Andrea M. Hubacz
Department: English
Biological Mothers- Good But Dead, Roberta R. Lake
Department: English
Smoke Ring Circus and Other Plays, Amy J. Lambo
Department: English
A Narrative and Essays From An Existentialist Perspective, Rahyab Lari
Department: English
Completing the Saga: a Critical/Fictional Investigation of Flann O Brien's Unfinished Novel, Michael P. Mattison
Department: English
Assessment of New Journalism, Marcus C. McGraw
Department: English
Elements of the Anti-War Text: a Study of Hemingway, Vonnegut, Heller and O'Brien, Alexander J. McNamee
Department: English
Fishing For Words: A Collection of Song Lyrics and Poems, Damond A. Moodie
Department: English
S-A, Judith D. Nichols
Department: English
Two Short Stories, Paul Pakenham-Walsh
Department: English
Laughter, Degradation and Carnival in the Literature of Milan Kundera, Mariah D. Pfeiffer
Department: English
Records of Krishi Shaman, Kristin M. Roehrich
Department: English
How Censorship Has Affected Literature: Beat Generation Writers, Kristen D. Watt
Department: English
Expression of the Vietnam War Through Fictional Writing, James P. Webb
Department: English
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1993
Tentative Order: A Collection of Poems, Anne C. Adams
Department: English
Mencken, Lewis, and Anderson Examine the Forces of Nostalgia and Progress in the Making of American Culture, Sarah Adkins
Department: English
Glance Backwards: Eight Short Stories, Amna Ahsanuddin
Department: English
Illiteracy in America; A Burgeoning Problem, Kathleen J. Allen
Department: English
Regressing Romances: Don't Sweep Me Away!! (But If You Insist, I Won't Argue), Elaine A.J. Baran
Department: English
Beat Generation and the Bored Generation -- the Search For Place and Identity Through Writing and Art, Karyn J. Baumann
Department: English
From Dungeons to Towers: The Dichotomy of Good and Evil Women in Grimms' Fairy Tales: the Role of Three Tales in the Socialization of Young Females, Leslie A. Belgrad
Department: English
Power of the Wilderness, David G. Brewster
Department: English
Mission Accomplished and Other Stories, Susan Cochran
Department: English
A Case of 'Articulate Devotion:' The Poetical Sensibility of Sir John Betjeman, Stephen B. Constantelos
Department: English
Women and Madness: Silence and Disturbance in Victorian Culture, Katherine M. Cowles
Department: English
Negative Distance: Short Stories, Dana M. DeWeese
Department: English
Reclemation: A Future History, Bryan A. Fay
Department: English
Process of Realizing the Not So Simple 'Art' of Murder, Samantha A. Fryberger
Department: English
Writings of William Tyndale, Galen I. Gaarder
Department: English
Question of Faith, Trevor W. Garner
Department: English
Testing the Boundaries: a Study of the Relationship Between News Magazines and Society, Jennifer F. Goebel
Department: English
Failure of the Code: The Dysfunctional Family in Southern Fiction, Emily C. Grevstad
Department: English
Phillis Wheatley in Context: A Critique of Ten Poems Within the Socio-Historical Constraints of Her Life-Time, Erik B. Haakonsen
Department: Africana Studies; English
Vietnam War: An Autobiographical Perspective, John W. Hamilton
Department: English
Path of Progress, Cally M. Haserot
Department: English
Everything Waits For Touch: a Collection of Poems, April N. Heck
Department: English
Wait, Mark H. Herriott
Department: English
Sort of Deviation: A Collection of Stories, Ann M. Intrieri
Department: English
American Dreaming, Shawn K. Judge
Department: English