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Theses from 2022
A Brief Approximation, Scott Borbas
Theses from 2019
Performance Pedagogy and Skeletal Scripts: Shakespeare in the College English Classroom, Mary Booth
Theses from 2018
Trauma and Remedies for Traumatic Experiences in Four of Austen’s Novels, Sheelan S. Kamal
Theses from 2017
Toward a Unified Reading-Writing Curriculum: Mindful Reading in WAC/WID Courses, Melanie A. Doyle
Theses from 2015
: : poof : :, Caleb Nelson
Theses from 2013
Can Women Have It All?: Hesitant Feminism in American Women's Popular Writing, Anne Aramand
Gender Games: A Goddess Inspired Rereading of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Trina Marie Johnson
The Elusiveness of the Technology in the Classroom: How Teachers Might More Effectively Address Digital Literacy and Adhere to the Frameworks, Daisy Elizabeth Penney
Theses from 2012
Protest on the Page: The Art of Political Fiction, Alexandra Corey
Fragments from a Childhood: A Collection of Short Stories, Blair Reynolds Fross
On The In: A Memoir of Teaching English to Incarcerated Youth, Evan Gentler
The Coquette and the Changing Role of Women in Revolutionary America, Serap Hidir
Maternal Responsibility: An Examination of the Relationship between Mothers and Daughters in Maria: The Wrongs of Women, Zofloya, and Jane Eyre, Keriann McLaughlin
Theses from 2011
"Ashes Denote that Fire Was": The Poetics of Space in Melville and Dickinson, Kacie M. Fodness
Merely Celestial: A Poetry Collection, William Andrew Hughes
Do I Contradict Myself?: Self-Reliance and Interdependence in Walden and the Tao Te Ching, Dustin Lee
"Keep the inmost me behind its veil:" Nathaniel Hawthorne's Manipulation of Boundaries as Lessons in Craft, Molly Mary McLaughlin
Theses from 2010
Halfway-in-Between: A Collection of Interrelated Short Stories, Kevin Collins
"The Most Horrific Tale": Violent Modernity and the Changing South in Faulkner's Sanctuary, Chad Martin Jewett