M.A. Student Theses

M.A. Received in 2007

• Katja Kurz, "Performing a Liminal Space: Multiple Identities in Three Late-Twentieth-Century Autobiographical Works"

M.A. Received in 2006

• Daniel Alford, "Small Things at the Border: The Writings of Arundhati Roy"
• Jean-Paul Breaux, "Open to Interpretation: Reading and Re-reading Literary Love"
• Matthew Brown, "Socio-Cultural Myth-Breaking I Vonnegut's Player Piano and The Sirens of Titan"
• Ashley Cataldo, "The Measured Philosophy of Alexander Pope's Self-Conscious Monologism in An Essay on Man"
• Tiffany Gordon, "Miss Now: Ellen's Chameleonic Identity in Manhatten Transfer"
• Adam Greenberg, "Story Socialization and Identity in The Crysalids"
• Sandra Jablonske, "The Domestic is the Political: Austen and Woolf Vindicating the Rights of Woman"
• Jennifer McCollum, "A Woman in the Water: Distortions of Nineteenth-Century Female Suicide"
• Georgia Rushing, "The Eastern Philosophy of King Lear and Its Twentieth Century Interpretations"
• Kristen Sixbey, "'Let me not to the Marriage of True Minds Admit Impediments': Companionate Marriage in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and Austen's Sense and Sensibility"
• Ashlye Warner, "Fallen Angels: The Representation of Female Adolescence in Two Late Twentieth-Century Gothic Novels"

M.A. Received in 2005

• Shiva Aliabadi, "Voices from the Labyrinth: Exploring the Poststructuralist Poetics of Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves"
• Jordan DeMaio, "Radical Modes of Presentation in the Work of William Blake and James Joyce"
• Sebastian Fett, "Critiquing the United States' Socioeconomic Machinery: Satiric Dissemblance in George Schuyler's Black No More and Charles Wright's The Wig"
• Jennifer Kosowski, "Her Farmer's Daughter: The Father-Daughter Relationship in William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, Maria Susanna Cummins's The Lamplighter, and Julia Alvarez's How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents"
• Shitao Liu, "Between Wor(l)ds--Chinese Language and Culture in The Woman Warrior and The Joy Luck Club"
• Marina Mertens, "The Impact of the American Dream on Native American Societies: A Case Study of Louise Erdich's Cheppewa in Tracks and Love Medicine"
• Holly Moren, "Conjuring (Hi)stories: Memory and Spirit Mediumship in the Magical Realist Text "
• Natalie Muhlberger, "Female Villany in Antebellum Women's Writing"
• Andrew Rimmington, "The Car of the People: The American Railroad Passenger Car as Literary and Cultural Symbol of Democracy and Egalitarianism"
• Chencheng Wang, "Exploration of Women's Hierarchial Mobility Within the Traditional Chinese Households: From The Plum in the Golden Vase to The Story of the Stone"