Theses from 2011
No Pretty, Lauren Consuelo Tussing-White
From Native to Nation: Copway’s American Indian Newspaper and Formation of American Nationalism, David Shane Wallace
Birth matters: discourses of childbirth in contemporary American culture, Jennifer Ellis West
Dissertations from 2010
Other tomorrows: postcoloniality, science fiction and India, Suparno Banerjee
Bears Wearing Clothes, Alison Barker
Cheap and Delicious, DeWitt Brinson
The State of Discontent, Shelby Lynn Goddard
In the White, Jason Matthew Hardy
Writing about the South "in her own way": gender and region in the work of southern women playwrights, Casey Kayser
Idle As A Painted Ship, Susan C. Kirby-Smith
Early American self-reflexive writing: revising the tradition, Susie Scifres Kuilan
Invisible links, abject chains: habit in nineteenth-century british literature, Daniel R. Mangiavellano
Monstrous bodies: femininity and agency in Young Adult horror fiction, June Pulliam
Kudzu Boy & Lucian Tyro, Tyler Smith
In Stellations, Jordan Soyka
Read Coordinates, Jennifer Tamayo
Ephemeral media, persistent action: public pedagogies of collective resistance, Jessica Ketcham Weber
Dissertations from 2009
The virgin's daughters: Catholic traditions and the post-colonial south in contemporary women's writing, Elizabeth M. Beard
Children of men: the American jeremiad in twentieth and twenty-first century science fiction and film, Joseph Franklin Brown Jr.
How to Break Article Noun, Carolyn Barlow Chun
Home of the Brave: Vigilante Women in Contemporary American Fiction, Alison Graham-Bertolini
Strangers in the postcolonial world, Thomas F. Halloran
The anatomy of anatomia: dissection and the organization of knowledge in british literature, 1500-1800, Matthew Scott Landers
Nighthawk Zebradangle, Benjamin Samuel Lowenkron
Lay Her Down, Melinda Mauntel
Religion and realism in late nineteenth-century American literature, Lisa Irene Moody
While You Were Looking Elsewhere, Jennifer Marie Nunes
Mime, Kristin Diane Sanders
Vulgar Remedies, Christopher Randall Shipman
(Im)possible encounters, possible (mis)understandings between the west and its other: the case of the Maghreb, Tanja Stampfl
The Imp of the Perverse, Jane Beverly Stubbs
Dissertations from 2008
Elements of mythmaking in witness accounts of colonial piracy, Plamen Ivanov Arnaudov
Dead Letters, Andrew Hutton Banecker
An Easy Place/To Die, Vincent Anthony Cellucci
The Missing Links, Penelope Dane
Stone Blossoms, Eric Elliott
How to remember thee?: problems of memorialization in english writing, 1558-1625, Sean Flory
Music City, Kristen Ashley Foster
"I will learn you something if you listen to this song": southern women writers' representations of music in fiction, Courtney George
Apocalypse South: Judgment, Cataclysm, and Resistance in the Regional Imaginary, Anthony Hoefer
The songs of black (women) folk: music, politics, and everyday living, Rasheedah Quiett Jenkins
The perils and empowerments of mountain literacies: reading loss and shifting identities in Appalachian memoirs and novels, Erica Abrams Locklear
The Beekeeper's Son, Stephanie Alexandra Nash
"The Manes", Shane Noecker
Dissertations from 2007
The symbolism of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie: an inductive approach, D. Brent Barnard
A Minor Miracle, Craig Brandhorst
Occupied Territory, Amanda Briggs
Who Speaks and Who Listens? Genre, Gender, and Memory in Holocaust Discourses, Lisa A. Costello
The Secret of Everything, Caroline Claire Dixon
Synaptic boojums: Lewis Carroll, linguistic nonsense, and cyberpunk, Jennifer Kelso Farrell
The Past Half Hour, Brock Randall Guthrie
Against the Spread, Frank Winter Hardie
The Dream Singers, Jamey Maria Hatley
Soliciting desire: the ad-man as narrative negotiation between art, desire, and consumer capitalism in twentieth-century novels, Jessica McKelvie Kemp
Byron and "scribbling women": Lady Caroline Lamb, the Brontë sisters, and George Eliot, Denise Tischler Millstein
Three Sides to Every Story, Clarence Nero
Seasonal, Bobbi Parry
The Winter Circus, Emilie Ann Staat
Boundaries of Identity, Michael Douglas Walter
Dissertations from 2006
Viewing novels, reading films: Stanley Kubrick and the art of adaptation as interpretation, Charles Bane
Painful Discourses: Borders, Regions, and Representations of Female Circumcision from Africa to America, Tameka Latrece Cage
Considering blackness in George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead: an historical exploration, Jennifer Whitney Dotson
RVFO HONNV, June Ann English
Sketch Monster: A Novel, Anna Darvin Hirsch
The manner of mystery: free indirect discourse and epiphany in the stories of Flannery O'Connor, Denise Hopkins
Lubbers: A Novel, Duncan S. Kemp, IV
The ABC's of HIV: When "Just Say No" Is Not Enough-Queer Critique of AIDS Policy, Lisa Laura Ladwig
Devour the Kingdom: A Novel, McHenry Lee II
Reinscribing the Revolution: Genre and the Problem of National History in Early American Historical Novels, Joseph John Letter
Roving 'twixt land and sea: Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad, and the maritime world-system', James W. Long
Brackish, Hillary Dalton Major
Kids Will Be, Thomas E. Moran
Separation anxieties: representations of separatist communities in late twentieth century fiction and film, Brett Alan Riley
Using the Rod: Education, Punishment, and the New Woman in fin de siècle British Literature, Kristin C. Ross
The scent of a new world novel: translating the olfactory language of Faulkner and García Márquez, Terri Smith Ruckel
Face Blindness, Megan A. Volpert
Interior revolutions: doing domesticity, advocating feminism in contemporary American fiction, Kalene Westmoreland
"To Live Outside the Law, You Must Be Honest" -- Words, Walls, and the Rhetorical Practices of the Angolite, Scott Howard Whiddon
Theses from 2005
Cane Burning Season, Ashley K. Berthelot
Still Images, Elizabeth Blandin
Good to Be Gone, Robert George Bloom
Feminism in Frances Trollope's Domestic Manners of the Americans, The Vicar of Wrexhill, The Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw and Jessie Phillips, Jessica S. Boulard
"We are no preacher" [electronic resource] : Margaret Oliphant's textual authority, Shannon Landry Brown
"Let me play a while": storytelling characters and voices in the works of Mark Twain, William Faulkner, and Lee Smith, Kenneth Mark Broyles
Lying in Translation, Brooke Rachel Champagne
The foundation of an apparel factory: culture's place becomes a practiced space, Kim T. Chavis
Power, money, and sex(uality): the Black Masculine Paradigm, Kendric Coleman
Castle to condo, country to corporation: what becomes of Hamlet in Almereyda's modern world, Melissa Trosclair Daigle
Adventures of a Former Girlfriend: A Novel, Colleen Helen Fava
The Gurgitators, Scott Gage
Sites of resistance: language, intertextuality, and subjectivity in the poetry of Diane Wakoski, Cordelia Maxwell Hanemann
The literary frontier: creating an American nation (1820-1840), Tena Lea Helton
Ball and Chain, Eloise Holland
Conspiracy culture in America after World War II, Valerie Rose Holliday
The iconography of nationalism: icons, popular culture, and American nationalism, Dallas Hulsey
The hobbledehoy's choice: Anthony Trollope's awkward young men and their road to gentlemanliness, Mark King
After Scotland: Irvine Welsh and the Ethic of Emergence, Benjamin George Lanier-Nabors
Solitary blessings: solitude in the fiction of Hawthrone, Melville, and Kate Chopin, Virginia Massie