Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Text, Taboo, and Pleasure in the Resolution of the Chaotic Narrative, Augustus D'Amore
The Portrayal of Mexican (Im)migration in Children's Literature, Kimberlyn Falcon
Vouvant, Graham Kaplan
The Dream Thief, Isabella Russell
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Fight Like a YA Girl: Fourth Wave Feminism, Defense, and Weaponization Through the Lens of Object Relations, Amanda Blakeman
Women Are More Likely to Use Tentative Language, I Think: A Literary and Statistical Analysis of Ulysses by James Joyce and Debate Speech, Cozette Blumenfeld, Claire Bracken, and Tomas Dvorak
Screwed? Interactive Interpretation of The Turn of the Screw, Ava Bowen
Strangers on Earth, Frank Caccioppoli
Fantastic Lies, Kaleigh Conte
Bilingual Byproducts of the Brahmanical Patriarchy: Stories from Contemporary India, Akriti Dhasmana
Mapping Power: Hierarchical Social Network Analysis of Short Fictional Text, Akriti Dhasmana
Latinx Portrayal on the American Stage, Erick Miron
What I Knew Then, and What I Know Now, Madeline Schaeffer
"Meatheads" Redefined: An Analysis of the Union College Football Team, Michaela Wood
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Singular yet Shared: Willful Heroines and their Willful Communities in Young Adult Fantasy, Shea Delehaunty
The Poetry of Revolution: The Legacy of a Written Rebellion, Eva Erickson
Mapping the Queer Ephemeral, Mitchell Famulare
An Analysis of Religious Extremism Through Memoir, Sydney Lewis
Nymphettamine, Rebekah Lindsey
Provenance, Jennifer Ann Mutch
The Witch of Thessaly, Julia Pogge
Vibrant Darkness, Alexandra Trousilek
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
"With Great Power...": Post-9/11 Politics in Superhero Comics, TV, and Film, Caroline Ristaino
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Aphasia & Stutter Therapy: An Ailment Not to be Treated, Janae Nieto
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Interwoven: A Historical Fiction, Hope Relly-Cobb
Jasmine Burning: Emulating the "King" of Horror, Jenna Salisbury
The Eternal Rehearsal: Judith Butler's Gender Performativity in Wilkie Collins, Sarah Waters, and Tana French, Jillian Slezek
Jane, Judith, and Gender Performance: A Butlerian Approach to Feminine Identity in Mansfield Park, Hallie Stone
Desire in the Bildungsroman: Construction and Pursuit of an Ideal Self Through the Ideal Other, Ethan Watson
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
The Children Who Became Men Overnight: Memories of Love and Violence in Afghanistan, Jamaluddin Aram
A Monumental History: Stories of the Berkshires, Kimberly Bolduc
Sexuality Exposed: Homosexual Stereotypes and the Victorian Gothic Horror Novel, Olivia M. Estes
Combatting Human Extinction: Biblical Archetypes and Environmental Apocalypse in Contemporary Dystopian Fiction, Elizabeth Hurley
Living Within the Margins: The Constitutional Culture of Irish Life Law and Literature, Meghan Keator
The Ambiguity of Antony and Cleopatra: Interrupting Phallocentric Schemes of Objectification through the Mutual Gaze, Sydney Paluch
Conceptualizing Nature: New England Nature Writers, Robert Pinkham
Desecrate: An Original Feature-Length Screenplay, Justin Zorn
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
A Gilded Cage: A Feminist Analysis of Manor House Literature, Katelyn Billings
No Measure of Good Health: "True Stories of Mental Illness", Dorothy Hazan
Voices Trapped within the Portrait: Annetje Kool Pieter Vanderlyn and the Expectations Regarding Gender in Public and Private Spheres in a Burgeoning Nation, Abigail Hollander
De-Shelving Woolf: A Poetic Response to the Life and Work of Virginia, Cara Peterhansel
Faithlessly or Faithless Lie?: The Name Symbolism Conundrum in Sedgwick's Hope Leslie, Erin Wade
Yellow Window into the Soul: Creative Explorations of Surrealism, Elora Weil
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
What's "Really Real": David Foster Wallace and the Pursuit of Sincerity in Infinite Jest, Henry Clayton
“Listen to Many”: Intersectionality, Tragedy, and William Shakespeare, Anna Flores
Bridging the Works of Horace, Catullus, Ovid, and Haydock, George Bishop Haydock
A Comparative Analysis of Character Depiction in the Grimms’ Kinder-und Hausmärchen and Modern Fairytale Adaptations, Meghan Hill
The World Is Yours: The Radical and Deterritorializing Nature of Hip-Hop, Ethan Pearce
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Nora and Cece: A Contemporary Adaptation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, Samantha Bertschmann
Back to the Beginning, Carla Duval
Who's Laughing Now? From Lovable Lucy to Top-of-the-Rock Tina: How Women in Comedy Changed from 1950-2014, Caroline Hershey
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
De-gendering the Tragic Hero(ine): An Exploration of Female Protagonists in Tragedies of Sophocles and Shakespeare, Ceillie Clark-Keane
Running to Lose: Gender Stereotypes in Memoirs by Geraldine Ferraro Pat Schroeder and Nancy Pelosi, Meredith Fierro
Resistance is Futile: The Tragedy of Female Entrapment in Faulkner and O Connor's Short Stories, Victoria McIntyre
You Saw You See: Wrestling With and Learning to Trust God Through 1st and 2nd Samuel A Collection of Poems, Paul Stack
Do You Believe? Peter Pan and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz as Historical Artifacts, Tamara Stone
Redefining the "Reality Picture" by Reassessing Feminist Themes in the Early Cyberpunk Works of William Gibson and Philip K. Dick, Samuel J. Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Our Future Ambiguity: Broadening Sexual Definitions, Emilie Arseneault
When Mountain meets Road: Mfankind's connection to nature through sublime theory in Shelley's Mont Blanc and McCarthy's The Road, Catherine Elliott
A Long Goodbye, Jenna Hiltsley
The Monster in the Mirror: Challenging the Glorification of Humanity in Human and Monster Literature, Hanna Squire
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Ordinary Explorations, Amelia M. Endo
The Leech World, Daniel J. Kason
To be alive - is Power: Fullers Feminine Ideal Realized in Dickinsons Poems, Emma A. Krosschell
The Girl in the Postfeminist World: Rethinking the Impact of Chick-Lit Fiction, Sarah T. O'Connor
Sex Text and Screen: Kubricks Adaption of Sexually-Explicit Scenes from Text to Film, Elsa A. Perushek
If you label it this then it cant be that: Revisiting New Journalism in Mailer, Didion, and Wolfe, Jill E. Radwin
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Visual elements of the poetic : re-representing identities of the Harlem renaissance, Emily A. Burgess
Literary bridges to confronting the problem of evil : using fiction for education in philosophy, Ian M. Clemente
A dialogue across generations : the search for identity in contemporary Irish writing, Thomas B. Fagin
Mutation and proliferation of the grotesque in the works of Charles Dickens (Oliver Twist, The Old Curiosity Shop, and Great Expectations), Courtney A. Foster
Ideology in political children‘s literature : informing and socializing America‘s youth, Bridget N. Jameson
Woolf, Le Guin and Winterson : androgyny as a literary strategy in twentieth century women's writing, Cristina E. Liquori
The rhetoric of change : exposing the prose of America’s activist food writers, Lauren R. Randall
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
“Doctoring is a human act” : emotions, connections, and relationships in medical memoirs, Randel C. Bleeker
Social constructs : the American dream and masculinity, Jenna Brynne Frisch
From Hanoi to Baghdad : an analysis of mainstream press in times of foreign conflict, Cara Meghan Gallivan
Creating feminine science fiction : a cixousian analysis of Ursula Le Guin, Margaret Ann Levine
Political implications in rock and roll music from the Vietnam War era, Meredith Anne Lippman
The struggle of love and sex : a study of D.H. Lawrence’s relationship to women in The Rainbow and Women In Love, Kara Mary McCabe
Enchanted reflections : transforming through Beauty and the Beast’s Looking Glass, Lauren Carissa Obst
Changed light : a poetry collection, Erin Leigh Schumaker
Sketches of life : a collection of short works, Wesley Raymond Whitaker
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Live free or die : women who choose death in twentieth-century American literature and film, Carly B. Chasin
"Changing the story" : a study of the portrayal of women in twentieth-century Irish literature, Rebecca A. Chawner
Stained glass windows : early collected poems, Sarah K. Samson