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Recent Theses and Dissertations

M.A. Theses (Spring 2002-Fall 2007

  • Allen, Stephanie Andrea.  “The Right to Represent:  The Transformation of Topsy in Robert Alexander’s “I Ain’t Yo’ Uncle”.   (2007)
  • Arnold, Robert Jason.  "Rivers of Babylon."  (2002)
  • Bowden, Antonia Michelle.  “Stitching Individuality Through Conformity:  Reading Samplers from the Sarah Stivours Embroidery School.” (2007)
  • Brewer, McDonald Katherine.  "Paint."  (2005)
  • Brown Jr., Joseph Franklin.  "Violence and the Apocalyptic Aesthetic."  (2004)
  • Conway, Timothy Joel.  "Multigenre Rhetoric: Where Genre Theory and Feminist Composition Theory Meet." (2006)
  • Dillman III, Raymond E.  “Fat Bob.”  (2007)
  • Doggett, Margaret Wren.  AThe American Wanderer: A Collection of Poetry.” (2003)
  • Godwin, Sarah Catherine.  "Usurping Authors: A Case Study of Authority Displacement in Richard II."  (2006)
  • Finch, Heather Marie.  “Surviving the Storm:  The Representation of African Americans from Gee’s Bend to Hurricane Katrina.”  (2007)
  • Hasty, James Daniel.  "What Do Y'all Think?: A Study of Language Attitudes in the South."  (2006)
  • Hinnen, Gerrit Jan.  "Every Item in This Machine Can be Won."   (2003)
  • Jones, KanFinae Fayette.  "Tongueless Conveniences."  (2005)
  • Kittle, Derek.  "Strangers in the Vines.”  (2003)
  • Liechty, Sarah Joy.  "Literacy as Ideology in J.M. Barries' Peter Pan."  (2005)
  • Locklear, Amy Lee Marie.  "Expressing the Inexpressible: An Alternative Rhetorical Approach to Eli Wiesel's Night."  (2003)
  • Morgan, Maggie Lynn.  “The Polyphonic ‘Voice of Society’:  A Stylistic Analysis of Our Mutual Friend.”  (2007)
  • Miller, John Douglas.  "NASCAR and Its Southern Simulacrum."  (2002)
  • Nichols, Dana Elise.  "Reconstructing the Audience: Toward a Composition Pedagogy."  (2002)
  • Pharr, Saiward H.  "Hand's Own Tamar: Sources, Coding and Psychology."  (2006)
  • Pagans, Christy L.  "Despondent Domestic Derivatives: Domesticity in the Plays of Tennessee Williams."  (2002)
  • Parrott, Jill M.  "Mestizaje Ecriture: The Rhetorical Voices and Choices of Gloria Anzaldua and Leslie Marmon Silko."  (2005)
  • Pojasek, Melissa Lorraine.  “That Minds are not Alike’: Implications of Gendered Literacy and Education in Revolutionary America.”  (2007)
  • Powell, Kia Amanda.  "Shake Down the Stars: Poems."  (2005)
  • Previte, Suzanne.  "John Weever's Faunus and Melliflora: A Modern Tale of Love."  (2005)
  • Privett, Katharyn Michelle.  "Writing in Another Strain: The Epistolary Text of Abigail Adams." (2002)
  • Quinn, Michael Kevin.  AShifting Borders and Changing Boundaries: A Continuum: Homosexuality and Homoerotic Desire in Nineteenth-Century American and British Literature.  (2005)
  • Reid, Jennifer.  "Not so Much Written as Dreamed': Quaker Dream-Work in Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly."  (2006)
  • Sims, Jessica Lauren.  “What Would Mother Do?:  Boys as Mothers in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. (2007)
  • Smith, Adriane L.   "Archiving the Empire: A.J. Mounteney Jephson's Cultural and Literary Collection."  (2005)
  • Styron, Jill Mayranda Frank.  "'A Proper Subject for Delineation': The Memoir Writing of Zillah Haynie Brandon."  (2005)
  • Van Horn, Cayce Gordy.  "Now."  (2006)
  • Walling, Deborah Kay.  "'The Trance of Ecstatica': Margaret Fuller, Animal Magnestism and the Transcendental Body." (2005)
  • Whitaker, Laura Leigh.  “Unstable Subjects’:  Gender and Agency in Caryl Churchill’s Cloud 9.”  (2007)
  • Wood, Amanda Leigh.  "Anti-Catholic Polemic in Jacobean Print Culture: Contextualizing Westward for Smelts (1620)." (2006)
  • Zwerling, Michelle Alyce.  "'Kathleen ni Houlihan': Empowering Femininity by Severing if From Myth.” (2005)

Dissertations (Spring 2002-Fall 2007)

  • Bates, Robin Elizabeth.  "Shakespeare and the Cultural Impressment of Ireland." (2005)
  • Binney, Matthew W.  "The Cosmopolitan Evolution: Travel, Travel Narratives, and the Revolution of the European Consciousness in Eighteenth Century Society." (2004)
  • Boyd, Diane Elizabeth.  "Working Fictions: Representations of Middle-Class Working Women in Eighteenth-Century Fiction."  (2002)
  • Brodie, Mark Phillip.  “From Darwin to the Death Camps:’ A Collage of Holocaust Representation Focusing on Perpetrator Atrocity Discourse in Literature, Drama and Film.”  (2007)
  • Campbell, Jennifer Riley.  "Long Strange Trip: Mapping Popular Culture in Composition."  (2006)
  • Chowdhury, Ahsan Habib.  "The Fabulous Nabob: Miscegenations of Empire and Vocation in Eighteenth-Century British Literature."  (2006)
  • Elmore, Owen Wayne.  "The Stereoptic Whole=: Regenerate Movement, Form, and the Color of Life from the Art of William Faulkner."  (2003)
  • Fowler, Patsy S.  "A Woman Writing Among Men: Eliza Fowler Haywood=s Dialogue with her Male Contemporaries."  (2002)
  • Garlen, Jennifer Christian.  "Flowers of the British World: British National Identity and the Late Eighteenth-Century Courtship Novel."  (2003)
  • Holladay, Linda W.  “Language Development of Same-Sex Multiple-Birth Siblings:   A Retrospective Nature/Nuture Study.”  (2006)
  • Insenga, Angela Suzanne.  "Looking Together United Them': The Party at Play in Virginia Woolf's Canon." (2004)
  • Perry Katherine D.  “Gender on Paper:  Gender Performances in American Women’s Poetry 1650-Present.” (2007)
  • Peters, Jeri Lynn.  “The Trouble with Gender in Othello:  A Butlerian Reading of William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice(2007)
  • Privett, Katharyn M.  "Insurrection in Red Ink: The Literary Murder of a 20th Century Goddess."  (2006)
  • Qualls, Amy N.  "Reading Testimony, Reading of the Body: An Examination of the Legal Trials of Sarah Taylor, Seventeenth-Century Indentured Servant." (2003)
  • Reagan, Lori Michelle Maybee.  "Literature, Drama and Film About the Vietnam War: Postmodern and Postcolonial Perspectives."  (2003)
  • Spradlin, Derrick Loren.  "Drawn into Unknown Lands': Frontier Travel and Possibility in Early American Literature."  (2005)
  • Stuart, LaShea Simmons.  “The Arbitress of Passion and of Contract:  Eliza Haywood and the Legality of Love.”  (2006)
  • Swilley, Kelley Pamela.  "Choosing' the Slipper: Fairy Tales, Novels and the Construction of the Feminine in the Nineteenth Century."  (2002)
  • Thorp, Shawna.  "And This is Yet Aneurin's Land': The Creation of Welsh Identity in the Romantic Era."  (2004)
  • Tidwell, Joanne Campbell.  "'Almost a Face of Its Own': Politics and Aesthetics in The Diary of Virginia Woolf."  (2005)
  • VanSlooten, Jessica Lyn.  "Amen the Thunderbolt and The Dark Void: Spirituality and Gender in the Works of Male and Female Writers of the Beat Generation."  (2003)
  • West, Anne Patrick.  "Breaking the Silence: Dialogic Imagination in Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy."  (2003)

 

 

 

 

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