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UNCA SENIOR PAPERSLITERATUREStudent papers collected since 1995 -All students in the Literature Department are required to write a senior paper or to produce a senior creative writing project. Senior Theses constitute the majority of Senior Papers. These are written on a variety of literature topics and fulfill the departmental requirement for graduation. Ramsey Library Special Collections holds bound volumes of senior papers from 1966 to the present. Below, you will find a list of all papers collected since 1995, and we are presently compiling lists from 1966 to 1994. Please check back for updates. Students in the Literature Department who choose to take a Creative Writing major are required to involve themselves in a year-long, full-length Senior Creative Writing Project. Under the direction of a creative writing faculty member the student may choose to work in the area of fiction, poetry, or drama. The projects, called Senior Papers - Creative Writing, are collected by the department and housed in the Special Collections of Ramsey Library. Senior papers are also required for those students who choose to teach English. Students wishing to release their papers for inter-library loan and/or for publication will need to sign and date a RELEASE AGREEMENT.
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pre-1995 Sr. Papers |
PERMISSION INFORMATION photocopy / publish |
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| Yazan, Murat | Fuzuli: An Introduction | yes/yes |
1995
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PERMISSION INFORMATION photocopy / publish |
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Allen, Dorothy Ann |
Feminist Messages in The Joys of Motherhood and The Handmaid's Tale |
no/no |
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Bakkegard, Koren L. |
Influence, Imitation, and Originality: Finding the Boundaries of the Effects of Shakespeare's Sonnets on the Sonnets of John Keats |
no/no |
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Blevins, Andrea |
Responsibility for the Fall: Adam Versus Eve |
no/no |
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Bryan, Saskia Nora |
Existentialism and Absurdist Theatre: Connections and Interpretations |
no/no |
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Bynum, Angela Genair |
Sermons as Literature: Civil Rights Sermons of Dr. Martin Luther King |
no/no |
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Cloherty, Tyler Lynn |
Craving Alms of the Sun: Isolation of the Spirit in Wuthering Heights |
no/no |
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Craddock, John |
Widsio and the Construction of Anglo-Saxon Narrative |
no/no |
| Evans, Rick | What Mask Do You Wear? | no/no |
| Forga, Donna | Suicide : Victimization or Liberation? | no/no |
| Jones, Jessica | Life in Literature: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | no/no |
| Jordan, Jay | The Great Language Debate: French, English and Indigenous Tongues in Post- Colonial African Literature | no/no |
| Keller, Seth | Self-Portraiture With a Twist Within Tolstoy's Anna Karenina | no/no |
| King, Melissa E. | Feminist Messages in The Joys of Motherhood and The Handmaid's Tale | no/no |
| Laurie, Julie | Postmodernism: The Problem of Definition | no/no |
| Nolte, Theresa M. | Sula: A Lesson in Women's Friendship | no/no |
| Sconyers, AllyeB Grace | Religious Vision and the Poetry of Dylan Thomas | no/no |
| Smith, Clasina Leslie | The Garden of Instability: The Interrelationships Between Relativity Theory, Quantum Mechanics, and T.S. Eliot's Burnt Norton | no/no |
| Sykes, Tracy | And All Our Songs Are Not Mourning: H/Eros Tales in Audre Lorde's Zami: A New Spelling of My Name | no/no |
| West, Carla D. | Christine de Pizan: Can We Call Her a Feminist? | no/no |
1996
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Andrews, Laura Louise |
Hemingway's Women |
no/no |
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Carey, Jennifer |
Man's Power, Woman's Power: Gender Roles and Sexuality in Dracula |
no/no |
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Hall, Kim Marie |
The Legacy of Barabas and Shylock |
no/no |
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James, Christine |
The Influence of Autobiography in Kate Chopin's The Awakening |
no/no |
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McCauley, Sara E. |
Travels from the Fifth Dimension to Western Mysticism: Quantum Physics as the Bridge between Madeleine L'Engle's Time Trilogy |
no/no |
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Mehlen, Shelley |
Finding Fertile Ground in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God |
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| Morgan, Benjamin | Virginia Woolf, the Real and the Reflected | no/no |
| Neaves, Joy |
Wild Women's Legacies: Community and Heritage in Gloria Naylor's Fiction |
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| Sellers, Jennifer | The Questions of Conflict, Choice, and Transformation in Victor Hugo's Les Miserables | no/no |
| Thomas, Jonathan | What Are You Reading? | no/no |
| Trimmer, Kathleen K | Jane Austen: What History Would Be Like | no/no |
1997
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| Allison, Dusty L. | Two Toads Diverged in a Yellow Wood, and Sorry I Could Not Travel Both: Ways of Looking at Place, Natural World, and Spirituality in the Works of Gary Snyder and Wendell Berry. | no/no |
| Broaddus, Margot A. | A Perspective of Jeannette Winterson: Strength Through the Use of Androgyny and Magic | no/no |
| Chandler, Donna N. | Reading With a Blindness of Faith and a Vision of Mystery: Reconsidering Problems of Interpretation of Flannery O'Connor's Fiction | no/no |
| Christopher, Stephanie L. | Where the Lines of Fact and Fiction Blur: A Study of Dorothy Allison's Life | no/no |
| Cody, Brook | Addie's Chapter: Faulkner, Modernism, and the Failure of Language | no/no |
| Delinger, Summer | Edna Pontellier's Defiant Awakening | no/no |
| Fellers, Stephanie | The "Unbridaled" Woman: Did Shakespeare Want to Tame the Shrew | no/no |
| Gant, Wanda | David Copperfield Rewritten into Great Expectations: The Individuation of Protagonist | no/no |
| Gary, Jessica Cassie | Manipulating Gender for Meaning and Equality in the Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale | no/no |
| Gauthier, Timothy | Borgesian Time | no/no |
| Gibson, Matthew | Mario Vargas Lllosa's Constantly Recurring Story: The Storyteller as Postmodern Panacea for the Dilemma of Modernism | no/no |
| Gupton, Michael | Sacrificial Pawns: The Anti-War Themes of Johnny Got His Gun and Slaughterhouse Five | no/no |
| Holloway, Joi | World War I: Ripples In Our Time | no/no |
| Horton, Malcolm Eric | Toward a Universal Poetics: Race and Religion in the Works of Robert Hayden | no/no |
| Pisano, Jessica Snow | Strindberg's Dream-like Atmosphere: A Modern Realism | no/no |
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Price, Stephanie |
In Defense of Carl Sandburg: Pedagogue of the Common Folk | no/no |
| Ramsey, Tonna | Reverse Psychology: Bad Becomes Good in Hamlet | no/no |
| Rosefield, Scott | A Place Between God and Man: The Anti-parable in Cormac McCarthy's The Crossing | no/no |
| Speer, Julie | The Moral Development of Edna in Kate Chopin's The Awakening | no/no |
| Spotts, Laura | Yeats, the Mask, and Contemporary Irish Theatre | no/no |
| Sutherland, Catharine | Intimacy in the Art of Eudora Welty | no/no |
1998
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| Austin, Carrie Michelle | The Economic Base and the Superstructure of Social Class in Honore de Balzac's Le Pere Goriot | no/no |
| Bolick, Arami H. | The Poetics of Juggling: "Combinatorial Play" as NeoRealismo in Italo Calvino's The Castle of Crossed Destinies | no/no |
| Broadway, Gina Marie | The Meaning and the Myth: Iconic Animals as Agents of Meaning in Alice Walker's Novel The Temple of My Familiar | no/no |
| Broadway, Matthew | Arafa and Gebelaawi: The Relation Between God and Man | no/no |
| Crown, Marissa | Truth Telling: Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and Men | no/no |
| Cuttler, Steven | Singing of Walls: The Limitations of John Gardner's Grendel | no/no |
| Harrell, Jr., Kenneth L. | From Acceptance to Autonomy: Ralph Ellison's Engagement with Black Freedom in Invisible Man | no/yes |
| Hollifield, Heather Dawn | Mythical Rebellion: The Inverted Myth Structure of Wuthering Heights | no/no |
| Kent IV, Richard Peabody | No Circle, No Orbit: Time, Space and Time-Space (Film) in Gravity's Rainbow | no/no |
| Krape, Monique Victoria | The Making and Unmaking of Leonard Bast | no/no |
| LaSpaluto, DeAlva Carraway | The One Thing Needful: The Ethics of Education in Charles Dickens's Hard Times | no/no |
| Millspaugh, Scott Sims | On Earth as it is in Heaven: The Politics of Decadence in D'Annunzio's Il Piacere | no/no |
| Perry, Ellen J. | 'Had Such a Lady Spoken for Herself': Christina Rossetti's Tribute to Women | no/no |
| Pirkle, Jacqueline M. Podelski | Comparison of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Man of Law's Tale: Chaucer's Intended Associations and Bias | no/no |
| Ramuten, Cayanne | Langston Hughes' Transformation of Blues into Poetry | no/no |
| Roy, Amber | Venice: Setting as Character in Mann's Death in Venice and James's The Aspern Papers | no/no |
| Troxler, Elizabeth Engle | Recycling Time in Magic Realism: Toward an Understanding of the Mythic in Contemporary Literature | no/no |
| Wilbur, Peter | Re-Membering the Past as Presence: Robert Creeley's Memory Gardens | no/no |
1999
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| Buchanan, Bonnie Blue | Facing Dark Comedy: William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying | no/no |
| Byington, Jonathan C. | The Emasculation of Hamlet: The Effects of Spiritual Turmoil | no/no |
| Donaldson, Jr., Alphonso | Salvador Dali and Andre Breton's Struggle for the Surrealist Identity through History, Paintings, Prose and Poetry | no/no |
| Fravel, Tamara A. | Conrad's Heart of Darkness: A Romantic Hero's Quest | no/no |
| Gaither, Alicia Sunyel | Images of Emily Brontë Within Wuthering Heights | no/no |
| Giles, Ryan | The Earnest Game of Geoffrey Chaucer and Juan Ruiz | no/no |
| Hall, April DéShawn | Themes of Social Protest in the Work of Two Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance | no/no |
| Heald, Candice (now Candice Heald Cunningham) | The Virgin, the Wife and the Widow: Perception and the Power of Choice in the Canterbury Tales | yes/yes |
| Hutchens, Elizabeth Jacobi | Solutions to the Marriage Problem: Congreve's The Way of the World | no/no |
| Junge, Troy Alexander | Perspectives: On Understanding Charles Olson's The Special View of History | no/no |
| Kirbach, Stephen Mark | Epic Convention and the Suspect Structure of Meaning in Susan Howe's Secret History of the Dividing Line | no/no |
| Lowder, David Eugene | From the American Dream to the American Nightmare | no/no |
| Monaco, Karen | Holden Caulfield's Critique of American Society | no/no |
| Phillips, Sara Elizabeth | Patterns of Experience: Augustinian Spiritual Autobiography and T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets | no/no |
| Sanderson, Angela Reneé | The Handmaid's Tale as a Postmodern Dystopian Text | no/no |
| Taylor, Amanda Elise | Walt Whitman's "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd": A Study of Transcendental Art | no/no |
| Varner, Miriam Elizabeth | "I'm telling you stories. Trust me." : Jeanette Winterson's The Passion as a Work of Metafiction | no/no |
| Vess, Laura Beth Lavender | A Disappointing Leader and Judge: The Host in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales | no/no |
| Williams, June Henrichson | Isolation, Sorrow, and Disappointment: Anne Brontë and the Shaping of Agnes Grey | no/no |
| Winzeler, Alison Christine | Female Resistance in The Tragedy of Mariam: Speech as a Means of Rebellion | no/no |
2000
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| Browning, Victoria T. | Creating Authority through Experience: Christine de Pizan and Her Feminization of the Misogynist Literary Tradition | no/no |
| Caudill, Gray | Looking In and Reaching Out: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and the Transcendence of Documentary Tradition | no/no |
| Clere, Sarah Elizabeth | What Work Is: Labor’s Relation to Gender in My Antonia and The Professor’s House | no/no |
| Clossey, Brian William | The Myth of Disillusionment in the Fiction of the Great War | no/no |
| Cozzarin, Andrew | Exceeding Expectations: The Importance of Women in Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath | no/no |
| Davis, Alixanne Erin | Renaissance Anxieties Concerning Ambiguous Bodies: "Did Clothes Make the Man – or Woman ?" | no/no |
| Duffy, Katrina | Forces of Vision: Defining Pecola Breedlove in The Bluest Eye | no/no |
| Gregoire, Terese Annette | Publishing Women: Virginia Woolf and the Freedom of the Private Press | no/no |
| Kader, Emily L. | Revising and Reclaiming the Myth of Deirdre in Ann Devlin’s Ourselves Alone | no/no |
| Kowal, Julia | "This World is Not Conclusion": Emily Dickinson’s Rejection of Determinism | no/no |
| McCraw, J. Aletha | Negotiating Nationhood: Sexual Anxiety and Female Rule in Elizabethan England | no/no |
| Miller, Janice E. | "Surviving a Small Place with Grace and Intelligence": A Study of Social Convention in Pride and Prejudice | no/no |
| Mitchell, Nona | The Empowerment of Women in Fiction Through Fairy Tales | no/no |
| Powell, Ethel Ann | Trouble in the Margins: More and Less "The Parts" in Twelfth Night | no/no |
| Ramsey, Lisa Marie | One Telling of the Kentucky Tragedy: William Gilmore Simms’ Adaptations of History | no/no |
| Saxman, Elizabeth A. | A Construction of Feminism: In Defense of Scarlett O’Hara | no/no |
| Schuller, Tracy | A Projection of Self: A Study of Emily Brönte’s Wuthering Heights as Continuation of the Literary Device of Doubling | no/no |
| Scruggs, Kelly E. | Identifying Millay: The True Value of a Poet | no/no |
| Sheppard, Debbie | "The Clerk’s Tale": Submissive Wives, Child Abandonment, and Limitless Patriarchy | no/no |
| Snipes, Amber | Predictions for Reform: Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Feminist Ideals in a Utopian Setting | no/no |
| Strivelli, Rachel Astra | The Destruction of the Greater Community in One Hundred Years of Solitude | no/no |
| Swing, LeAnna Earls | Appalachia’s Celtic Roots: Feminist Deconstruction of Dichotomy and Hierarchy in Lee Smith’s Fair and Tender Ladies | no/no |
| Thurston, Wendolyn L. | Irvine Welsh’s Marabou Stork Nightmares: Scottish National Development and the Novel Politic | no/no |
| Tuttle, Johnathan L. | Patti Smith and Arthur Rimbaud: Joined at the Soul | no/no |
| Westmore, Gillian | "Uncase Thee": Confounding Class Hierarchies in The Taming of the Shrew | no/no |
| Wilson, Sunshine | Reflecting Changes: Inclusion of George Herbert in The Norton Anthology of English Literature | no/no |
2001
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| Allgood, Amanda Lee | Women as Texts: How are They Read? | no/no |
| Benton, Katharine | Angela Carter’s The Magic Toyshop: The Magical Power of Art | yes/yes |
| Bowles, Elizabeth (now Elizabeth Bowles Johnson) | Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: A Critique of the Effects of Patriarchal Nineteenth Century Europe on Women and Children | yes/yes |
| Calnan, Camilla S. | William Carlos Williams’ Levels of Memory: Explored through "Shadows" and "The Descent" | no/no |
| Corriher, Charles | Futile Gestures: Aggression, Ethics, and Entropy in Raymond Carver’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Love | no/no |
| Currey, Mason | "The Refuge of Art:" Aesthetics, Escapism and Redemption in Lolita | no/no |
| Gallagher, Theodore Miles | A Little More Is Revealed: A Study of the Epiphanies in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | no/no |
| Galloway, Amy | Wicked Women or Admirable Ladies?: The Portrayal of Medieval Females in Boccaccio’s Decameron | yes/yes |
| Goffin, Jordan | Mason and Dixon: Drawing Menippean Lines through American History | no/no |
| McDonald, Rachel | Confessions of a White Widowed Male: Redefining Narrative Unreliability in Nabokov’s Lolita | no/no |
| Moore, Genevieve | " To show my sex the way to freedom’s door" : Divorce and Women’s Dissent in Elizabeth Cary’s The Tragedy of Mariam | no/no |
| Newton, Jessica | The Role of Sacrifice in Flannery O’Connor’s Short Stories | no/no |
| Padgett, Kristen M. | The Controlling Woman in Eudora Welty’s: A Curtain of Green and Other Stories | no/no |
| Penland, Alison Metcalf | Fear in The Cancer Journals: Audre Lorde and Autopathography | no/no |
| Schwartz, Christina S. | Storytelling in Full Color or Black and White: Frazier, Chekhov, and Lake Wobegone | no/no |
| Thuot, Christopher | Louisa May Alcott’s Moods: A Nineteenth Century Woman’s Struggle Against Nature and Society | no/no |
| Whisenhunt, Laura Adair | The Exploration of Reality in Jeanette Winterson’s The Passion | no/no |
| Whitmire, Lesley | "They Wasn’t Mine to Love": Motherhood in Beloved | no/no |
| Zace, April | The Autobiography of Madame Jeanne-Marie de la Motte-Guyon: Breaking Out of the Traditional Mystical Mold | no/no |
2002
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| Arbegust, Bonnie | The Construction of Maternal Power in Macbeth | no/no |
| Ashe, Ariel | The Furies of Athena: Expressions of Cultural Change in Aeschylus' The Eumenides | no/no |
| Davis, Jennifer L. | The Sound and Fury of Faulkner's Continuum | no/no |
| Dunlap, Noah Daniel | Not By Force: Cromwell as the Archetype for Satan in Paradise Lost | no/no |
| Harbinson, Heather Ashley | An Inveterate Novel Reader Makes But a Miserable Wife and Mother: Novels that Instruct as Well as Delight | no/no |
| Heimer, Robin | Expansion and the Domestic Frontier: Gender Transposition and Its Consequences in Willa Cather's O Pioneers! | no/no |
| Henderson, Stephanie | Love, Passion, and Interlocking Triangles in Emily Bronte's: Wuthering Heights | no/no |
| Huskey, A. Hope | Defying Womanhood: Exploring the Power of Choices by Catherine Earnshaw and Jane Eyre | no/no |
| Knox, Helena M. | Harry Potter, the Un-Dead, and the Dark Expanse of the Unknown: The Reinvention of the Gothic Novel in Bram Stoker's Dracula and the Works of J.K. Rowling | no/no |
| Lewis, Megan L. | Boundary-Crossing Queens: Shakespeare's Cleopatra and Elizabeth I | no/no |
| Machalek, Katherin Elizabeth | What Makes Reason Right?: Education, Obedience and Duality of Reason in Paradise Lost | no/no |
| McGahey, Jacob Ramana | The Literary Prophet's Search for Meaning: A Close Look at the Lives and Literary Works of Franz Kafka and Allen Ginsberg | no/no |
| Oelschlaeger, Eric S. | Dissemblance and Agency in Elizabeth's Cary's: The Tragedy of Mariam | no/no |
| Williams, Kendra | Ecofeminism in Barbara Kingsolver's: Prodigal Summer | no/no |
| Wilson, Kellie | Creative Destruction: Images in Sylvia Plath's Poetry | no/no |
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2003
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| Doshier, Elise | This Twittering World: Women and Voice in the Poetry and Plays of T.S. Eliot | no/no |
| Fennell, Julie | Wallace Stevens' Neo-Pagan Cosmos | no/no |
| Goode, Mollie | East of Eden: Representations of Samuel, Cathy, and Lee. | no/no |
| Hall, Jennifer E. | Making Your Own Bed and Laying in it: A Spectrum of Women in Lee Smith's Fiction. | no/no |
| Hansen, Kelly | Within the Acceptable Norm: A Study of Jane Austen's Matron Characters | no/no |
| Killerlane, Lisa | Theirstory: The Fictional Character's Guide to History. | no/no |
| Lee, Margaret | "Faulkner Predicts the Future Through Sons in As I Lay Dying" | no/no |
| McCall, Kristina L. | The Plight of the "Slave Mother" and her Desire for Freedom as Told Through Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in Life of a Slave Girl and Toni Morrison's Beloved | no/no |
| McGuire, Meghan H. | The Walk of a Queen: The Aisling Echoed in Yeats' Cathleen Ni Houlihan | no/no |
| Parenti, Suzanne Lyn | Hemmingway's Habits: A Writer's Life Explained in A Moveable Feast | no/no |
| Pearson, Kimberly | Half Savage ...But Hardly Free: Women and Animals in Agnes Grey and Wuthering Heights. | yes/yes |
| Rodevick, Stephanie | Penelope and Circe: Powerful Feminine Influences in Homer's Odyssey. | no/no |
| Rutledge, Cassie | In the Name of Love: A Closer Look at Love in Shakespearean Comedy and Tragedy. | no/no |
| Shell, Traci | Banishing a False Image: A Critique of Eve's Representation in John Milton's Paradise Lost and her character in Genesis | no/no |
| Zuehlke, Marian | "Mary Shelley's Use of Victor's Relationship To Critique Patriarchal Society" in her novel Frankenstein | no/no |
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2004 Sr. Papers |
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| Atkins, Emily | Theory in Practice: Merging the Political and the Theoretical in Gloria Naylor's Bailey's Cafe | no/no |
| Bishop, Lisa Dawn | John Milton's Hell and Hell on Earth in Paradise Lost: Mental Hell Verses Physical Hell and Features of the Fallen | no/no |
| Brookshire, Sherry | Gothic Perversions in Matthew Lewis's The Monk | no/no |
| Burns, Dennis | On Kerouac and Buddhism: A Study of On the Road and The Dharma Bums | no/no |
| Chastain, Charlotte | Teh "Good Shepherd": Representation of Authority and Leadership in the Inferno and the Canterbury Tales. | no/no |
| Combs, Kim | Medb: A Unique Female Voice in the Old Irish Epic the Tain | no/no |
| Credille, Alyse | Translating the Soul: A Look Inside Brian Friel's Translations | no/no |
| Day, Josh T. | Horror-Craft: The Fear of Formula and Suspense. | no/no |
| Early, Martha | The Structure of The Grapes of Wrath. | no/no |
| Edwards, Susan M. | Vulnerable to Interpretation: The Fairies and Craftsmen of A Midsummer Night's Dream. | no/no |
| Ginnane, Michael | "You strikes me as ornery": The Function of the Blackface Character in John Berryman's The Dream Songs | no/no |
| Hammond, Shelly | Exploration of Womanist Traditions in Gloria Naylor's Bailey's Cafe | no/no |
| Hudson, Elizabeth | The Art of Fred Chappell's Narrative Techniques in I Am One of You Forever. | no/no |
| Hunsicker, Daven A. | The Father, Actual and Literary, In the Poetry of Seamus Heaney. | no/no |
| Hussey, Maya L. | Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South: Improving Factory Relations Through Dialogue and Sympathy. | no/no |
| Knight, Carleigh Kate | Ruins Where There Was Never a House: Historical Reconstruction in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia. | no/no |
| Lusk, Ashley | Male Bonds in William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and Twelfth Night. | no/no |
| MacDonald, Benjamin | "I Ain't Saying Nothing": A Study of the Political Ambiguity of the Poetry of W.B. Yeats. | no/no |
| Monk, Dickson | Relying on the Unreliable: Postmodern Narrative in Salman Rushdie's Midnight Children. | no/no |
| Peck, Marshall | The Hemingway Hero: Characterization of the Undefeated | no/no |
| Rhodes, Amanda M. | Domination of "the Other": Rape and Power in The Metamorphoses. | no/no |
| Scovil, Matthew | Ambiguity in Milan Kundra's The Unbearable Lightness of Being. | no/no |
| Straub, Nicole | Social Emptiness and Disconnection in Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho: Superficiality and the Search for Identity. | no/no |
| Turner, Mea | Reworking Conceptions: Eve, Mary, and Chaucer's Feminine Characters. | no/no |
| Warren, Adam R. | The Regeneration of Innocence: William Blake's "Songs of Innocence and of Experience" as a Paradigm for Understanding the Spirituality of Literature. | no/no |
| Wilson, Sarah M. | From America to the Congo: An Exploration of the Cultural Transitions Made by the Price Family in The Poisonwood Bible Through the Eyes of Leah Price. | no/no |
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2005 Sr. Papers |
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| Alvarez, Margaret Mao | By Way of Neither: Elusive Language/Meaning in The Satanic Verses. | yes/yes |
| Anderson, Laura DeBerry | Charting the Mysteries of Suicide & the Adolescent Mind: A Study of the Virgin Suicides and Girl, Interrupted. | yes/yes |
| Asbill, Christopher R | The Rhetoric of the Perilous Realm | yes/yes |
| Aultowski, Adam | The Unreal City: Holden, Ducks, and Catching in the Rye | yes/yes |
| Averette, Sally | The Reformation of Boundaries in Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping. | yes/yes |
| Becker, John Alexander | Reconciliation and Sundering: The Hermeneutical Experience in James Joyce’s Ulysses & A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | yes/yes |
| Cooper, Routh Allison | Transgressing the Machinery of Myth In As I Lay Dying | yes/yes |
| Drye, Kimberly | Voices in the Wind | yes/yes |
| Foster, Nicole | Where Do We Go From Here? The Inherent Instability of Jim Coetzee's Disgrace. | yes/yes |
| Gilbert, William C | History, Culture, and the Search for Individual Identity in Invisible Man. | yes/yes |
| Gnidovic, Daniel J. | Twilight on Corrugated Iron: Steinbeck's Artistry in Cannery Row | yes/yes |
| Goodman, Sarah Vance | Seduction of the South: Faulkner's Alluring Character. | yes/yes |
| Judd, Nancy Thompson | “History’s Journey” A Quest for Identity In Charles Johnson’s Middle Passage | yes/yes |
| Leonard, Zach | Seraph on the Suwanee: A Second Look | yes/yes |
| Levine, Elisa | Engaging Struggle, Finding Hope: A Revolution of Emergence in Alejo Carpenter’s The Kingdom of this World | yes/yes |
| Ludwick, Erin | Images of Duplicity: From Maternal Rejection to Male Identification in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath | yes/yes |
| McManus, Mary Frances Rusk | The Significance of Metaphor, Imagery & New Technology in Milan Kundra's The Unbearable Lightness of Being & Immortality. | yes/yes |
| Ryan, Dustin | Converting the Bread of Everyday Life: Moral Resistance and the Futility of Repression In the “Nausicaa” Chapter of James Joyce’s Ulysses | yes/yes |
| Schiefer, Elizabeth | Kafka’s Little Modern Fable | yes/yes |
| Schuyler, Rebecca | The Metafictional Power Struggle: If on a winter’s night a traveler | yes/yes |
| Smith, Jennifer Lynn | The Ambiguous Persona in the Caberet Poems of Langston Hughes’s The Weary Blues | yes/yes |
| Squires, David D. | “Reciprocally Rendered Invisible”: Sexual and Textual Representation in the“Ithaca” Episode in James Joyce’s Ulysses | yes/yes |
| Stapleton, Laina M. | 'Atticus is a Gentleman, Just Like Me': Morality in To Kill a Mockingbird, | yes/yes |
| Tinsley, Joshua | Waging the War of Words: Mythmaking in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian. | yes/yes |
| Walker, Will | The Blending of Genres in King Lear. | yes/yes |
| Woodside, Jessica Carolyn | "Tyler, Please Deliver Me": A Comparison between Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club and Jack Kerouac's On the Road. | yes/yes |
| Zynda, Danielle | 'Reader, I Married Him': Jane Eyre's Problematic Ending | yes/yes |
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2006 Sr. Papers |
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| Chapman, Melissa | Fiction to Film: The Transference of Morals in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | yes/yes |
| Cheuk, David |
Maxing Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior: Forming Identity through Silence |
yes/yes |
| Crowder, Travis | Shakespeare's Twelfth Night: Disguise, Gender Roles, and Goal-Setting | yes/yes |
| Draughon, John | Masculinity and Gender in A Farewell to Arms: Creating Understanding in the Secondary School Classroom | yes/yes |
| Hyder, Scott Adam | Broken Expectations of Sleeping Beauty in Robert Coover's Briar Rose | yes/yes |
| Jacobs, Debra | Orality and the Art of Survivance: The Trickster Figure in Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven | yes/yes |
| Lee, Kara A. | yes/yes | |
| Mozley, John |
Sinking the Titanic: The Iceberg and its Minimalist Implications on Raymond Carver’s Fiction * |
no/yes |
| Ogle, Talia Rebecca | Jane Austen, Marry Wollstonecraft and Feminism | yes/yes |
| Popkin, Luanne | yes/yes | |
| Robinson, Bridget | Who Belongs? Insiders and Outsiders in Lee Smith Oral History | yes/yes |
| Wallace, Jessica Lynn | "To Be Concerned about Being Grown Up": Preoccupation with the Adult in C.S. Lewis's Boxen Juvenilia | yes/yes |
| Watson, Christopher | Reading Against the Grain: The Nature of Interpretation and Critical Appropriation in J.M. Coetzee's Life and Times of Michael K. | yes/yes |
| Wheatley, Matthew |
The Role of Phrasal stress in Shakespeare’s Lucrece and the Winter’s Tale |
yes/yes |
| Wyatt, Denise | A Defense for Milton | yes/yes |
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2007 Sr. Papers |
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| Bennett, Emily | The Noise of a Hero: Finding the mock Heroic in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children | yes/yes |
| Brumley, Emily Ann | Wariinga's Got a Gun: Feminism and Revolution in Devil on the Cross | yes/yes |
| Cox, Tamsen Meserve | A Vastness of the Soul: Ethnic Realism and Magical Realism in Amy Tan's The Hundred Secret Senses | yes/yes |
| Hartis, Daniel A. | The Pirate and Rogue in Donald Barthelme's Anti-Fairy Tales | yes/yes |
| Herring, Joel | Surface without Aperture: Interpretive Uncertainty in J.M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians | yes/yes |
| Huntley, Sandra Searcy | Finding Their Places in Time: An Examination of Alexandra Bergson and Julie Richards | yes/yes |
| Klerekoper, Andrew | The Tool of Civilization: The Use of Violence in W.B. Yeats's The Tower | yes/yes |
| Krulikas, Viktorija | Aberrant Characters in Four Flannery O'Connor Stories | yes/yes |
| Martin, Candace | Language, Identity, and Oppression: Reading Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale as Slave Narrative | yes/yes |
| Mattison, William | Courtesy of the Green Knight: Spirituality and Religious Ritual in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | yes/yes |
| McManus, Kim | Rabindranath Tagore: A Voice for the Downtrodden | no/no |
| Parrish, Richard Jeremy | William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch: Drugs, Satire, and the Metaphor of Control | yes/yes |
| Plemmons, Kellie S. | What Lies Beneath: Motivations for Emma Bovary's Suicide? | yes/yes |
| Salomon, Nicholas | Conspiracy or Delusion?: Paranoia in Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 | yes/yes |
| Sheehan, John Patrick | Montage and Self-Reflexivity in the "Wandering Rocks" Episode of Ulysses | yes/yes |
| Vernon, Robert D. | Boats Against the Current Born Back Ceaselessly into Our Past: Narrative Fragmentation and the Construction of Meaning in The Great Gatsby | yes/yes |