The full text of Senior Independent Study Theses submitted during and after 2012 are available to download only by College of Wooster users. Unless listed as an exemplar, all other theses are restricted.

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Senior Independent Study Theses from 1993

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Regressing Romances: Don't Sweep Me Away!! (But If You Insist, I Won't Argue), Elaine A.J. Baran
Department: English

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Beat Generation and the Bored Generation -- the Search For Place and Identity Through Writing and Art, Karyn J. Baumann
Department: English

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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

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Power of the Wilderness, David G. Brewster
Department: English

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Mission Accomplished and Other Stories, Susan Cochran
Department: English

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A Case of 'Articulate Devotion:' The Poetical Sensibility of Sir John Betjeman, Stephen B. Constantelos
Department: English

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Women and Madness: Silence and Disturbance in Victorian Culture, Katherine M. Cowles
Department: English

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Negative Distance: Short Stories, Dana M. DeWeese
Department: English

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Reclemation: A Future History, Bryan A. Fay
Department: English

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Process of Realizing the Not So Simple 'Art' of Murder, Samantha A. Fryberger
Department: English

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Writings of William Tyndale, Galen I. Gaarder
Department: English

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Question of Faith, Trevor W. Garner
Department: English

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Testing the Boundaries: a Study of the Relationship Between News Magazines and Society, Jennifer F. Goebel
Department: English

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Failure of the Code: The Dysfunctional Family in Southern Fiction, Emily C. Grevstad
Department: English

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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

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Vietnam War: An Autobiographical Perspective, John W. Hamilton
Department: English

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Path of Progress, Cally M. Haserot
Department: English

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Everything Waits For Touch: a Collection of Poems, April N. Heck
Department: English

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Wait, Mark H. Herriott
Department: English

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Sort of Deviation: A Collection of Stories, Ann M. Intrieri
Department: English

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American Dreaming, Shawn K. Judge
Department: English

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Wahoo, Pennsylvania: A Collection of Short Stories, Peter K. Kenworthy
Department: English

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World of Boundaries: Analyzing Racial, Spatial, and Gender Boundaries in the Writings of Selected Ethnic Women, Jessica M. Knight
Department: English

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Multicultural Education in America's English Classrooms, Sara L. Koester
Department: English

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"Cast in Stone:" A Collection of Short Stories, Daniel Kotchen
Department: English

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Jack Kerouac's Visions of Cody: A Re-Evaluation, Jennifer R. Ludowise
Department: English

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Conducive to Health and Happiness:'The Literature of Fly Fishing, Thomas F. McCoy
Department: English

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Alternative Approach to Literary Instruction: The Integration of Reading Recovery Teaching Strategies in Whole Language Classrooms, Stacey A. Meissner
Department: English

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Worlds Within: Fictional Ontologies and the Role of the Reader in Mikhail Bulgakov's the Master and Margarita, Louisa Merchant
Department: English

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Four Southern Authors: Feminist Exploration Through Voice, Cynthia Morrison
Department: English

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Rich Time, Garrett C. Munson
Department: English

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Our Children's Debts, Drew F. Nicholson
Department: English

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Different Side of Summer: A Collection of Short Stories and Poems, Karl G. See
Department: English

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Coming Out of Under, Ann M. Shmitz
Department: English

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JFK Had Big Hair...And Other Essays, Emily B. Silverman
Department: English

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Terrorism in Northern Ireland- the Print Media Coverage of Bloody Sunday and Bloody Friday, Sara L. Sutherland
Department: English

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Intertextual Analysis of Subject Matter, Matthew Trantum
Department: English

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Changing Language, Changing Lives: The Role of Speaking in Short Fiction of Three Contemporary Women Authors, Rebecca L. Tremaglio
Department: English

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Hemingways Perfect Woman: A Structural Analysis of Four of His Major Novels, Kathi Wallace
Department: English

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Snapshots, Brooke H. Watts
Department: English

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Experiments in Short Narrative Fiction, Donald W. Wheeler
Department: English

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Kaleidoscope, Kristen F. Whitaker
Department: English

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Words, Women, and Change, Kathryn E. Wilson
Department: English

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Evolution of Poetry and Self, Paul M. Yeakel Jr
Department: English

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1992

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Circus Twins Within, Jennifer L. Balbo
Department: English

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"Commitments" and Other Stories, Dorsey W. Barnett
Department: English

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Divergent Images: a Comparative Study of the British Working Class Condition in Cinema, Alex Benchimol
Department: History; English

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The Hometowner, Kristy K. Bender
Department: English

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Portrayal of Gender and Ethnicity in the Works of Selected Chinese-American Women Writers, Julie C. Blosser
Department: English

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Body Politic: Women, the Body, and Oppression in Popular Literature, Katrina L. Brown
Department: English

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Creatures and Creators: a Study of the Development of a Feminine Consciousness in the Works of Shelley, Bronte, and Woolf, Christine Chamberlin
Department: English

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Law and Literature: An Exploration of Law and Society As Seen Through Literature, Laura A. Charvat
Department: English

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Spirituality of Emerson and Thoreau, Amy Adele Churba
Department: English

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Poetry of Japanese-American Women: An Analyzation of Contemporary Japanese-American Poetry From a Historical Perspective After the Japanese-American Internment, Sherrie D. Clayborne
Department: English

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College Writers and the Prompted Drafting Process: a Study of College Writers' Revision in Response to Written Prompts and Individual Conferences, Carissa S. Conner
Department: English

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Portrayal of Deception in the Literary Works of Mark Twain, Todd Cushing
Department: English

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Jungian Approach to James Joyce's Ulysses, Zedford D. Dancey
Department: English

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Comparative Analysis of Country Music Lyrics Between 1981 and 1991: Looks at Loving, Leaving, and Living, Christy J. Evans
Department: English

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Reading As Dialogue: Woman, Life, and Text, Audrey Featherman
Department: English

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Exploration in Modern Literature: Learning to Live By Anne Tyler, Wendy Freeburn
Department: English

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Evolution of An American Identity and the Reflection of American Attitudes and Beliefs As Seen Through the Characters in Nineteenth Century American Western Fiction, John Paul Galego
Department: English

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Applying Lawrence Kohlberg's Six Stages of Moral Judgment to the Decisions Made By the Main Characters in Fantasy Children's Literature, Holly T. Gidez
Department: English

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Antenna: Essays and Stories About Beaverstone Bay, Ontario, Christopher D. Glaser
Department: English

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Over the Wall and Out of the Garden: Language, Space and Subversion in Eliot's Middlemarch, Melissa Valiska Gregory
Department: English

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Transubstantiation: a Collection of Poems, Jason W. Hickman
Department: English

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Ombudsmen Movement in Creating a New Principle in the American Press, Amy S. Hollander
Department: English

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Mark Twain: the Man, His Style, and Its Impact on American Literature, Peter B. Horton
Department: English

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Carrion Luggage and Other Cargo: a Collection of Poems, Meghan S. Howes
Department: English

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On the Line: Struggle and Survival in Writings By Gloria Anzaldua, Hans Johnson
Department: Spanish; English

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Film Hero For Our Times: Twentieth-Century Visions of Robin Hood, Carol D. Leonard
Department: English

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Personality and Guts, JP Lilliston
Department: English

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Writer's Approach to the Work, Allen Lincoln
Department: English

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Rolled into many: Toward Cross-Cultural and Feminist Understandings of African-American Women's Experiences in the Novels of Gloria Naylor, Mary Elizabeth Lucal

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Denial of Power: Fatalism and Female Passivity, Constance L. Mathews
Department: English

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Poems 1989-1992, John McCrory
Department: English

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George Mackay Brown: Technology of Tribes?, Margaret A. Meeker
Department: English

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Not As a Hero: An Exploration of the Female Villain in Selected Text, Lisa A. Meurer
Department: English

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Southern Belle or Wench: Paradoxes in Tennessee Williams' Life As Reflected By His Women Characters, Shannon Leigh Murray
Department: English

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F. Scott Fitzgerald: a Study of Characterization and Style, Andrew D. Page
Department: English

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Writing About the Good War: Genre and the World War II Novel, Christian L. Ruch
Department: English

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"Chinks" and "Injins": the Evolution of Stereotypes Through the Ethnic-American Detectives of Earl Derr Biggers and Tony Hillerman, Katharine A. Salzmann
Department: English

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Haven of Delight: the World of the Child-Detective, Mousumi Sarkar
Department: English

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Short Stories and Identity Themes, Kevin A. Schechterle
Department: English

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Smells of Me, Andrew Carl Schulz
Department: English

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Collection of Fictional Texts, John Benjamin Schwendener
Department: English

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Quair, Erika Beth Seyfried
Department: English

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Zen and the Way of Language: A Critical Religious Examination of Language, Benjamin Kluyver Simon-Thomas
Department: Religious Studies; English

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Marriage of Convenience: the Relationship Between Gender and Assimilation in Recent American Jewish Fiction, Jennifer L. Spilburg
Department: English

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By the Grace of God, a Southern Belle, Jeanene Diane Spohn
Department: English

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Misunderstood Outcasts: An Analysis of the Problem Novel in Young Adult Literature, Sheri Stout
Department: English

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Jacob's Ladder: a Collection of Non-Fictional Letters Written in 1968 and Fictional Short Stories of North American History, Tasha Stuart
Department: English

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Tainted and Redemptive Re-Creations of the Homeric Circe, Nicole J. Sullivan
Department: English

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Ernest Hemingway and Henry Miller: a Study of Expatriation, Mark P. Timken
Department: English

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Absolution and Other Stories, Christopher Chase Walker
Department: English

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Life Like This: A Compilation of Short Stories, Kimberly M. Walker
Department: English

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Issues of Form and Meaning in the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, James A. Wallace
Department: English

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Charles Dickens: His Visions of True Womanliness, Wendy L. Walland
Department: English

Senior Independent Study Theses from 1991

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Politics of Political Slogans, Pauline W. Ach
Department: English

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Sweet November and Other Stories, Therese Adams
Department: English

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Stories of a Young White Male, Gregory M. Bailey
Department: English