Dissertations from 2005
Leona Queyrouze (1861-1938): Louisiana French Creole poet, essayist, and composer, Donna M. Meletio
Mordred: treachery, transference, and border pressure in British Arthurian romance, George Gregory Molchan
Feminist hard-boiled detective fiction as political protest in the tradition of women proletarian writers of the 1930s, Laura Ellen Ng
Hosni and the Lamb, Kevin Phillips
Alice's shadow: childhood and agency in Lewis Carroll's photography, illustrations, and Alice texts, R. Nichole Rougeau
When I Die, I Won't Stay Dead: The Poetry of Bob Kaufman, Mona Lisa Saloy
"To the latest generation": Cold War and Post Cold War U.S. Civil War novels in their social contexts, Jeffrey Neal Smithpeters
Milton's "covering cherub": the influence of Stanley Fish's Surprised by Sin on twentieth-century Milton criticism, Thomas Thoits
Dissertations from 2004
Against biopoetics: on the use and misuse of the concept of evolution in contemporary literary theory, Bradley Bankston
William Faulkner and the oral text, Gregory Alan Borse
My Maiden Cowboy Names: Poems, Victoria Brockmeier
Storytelling from the margins: the healing narratives of J. California Cooper, Cynthia Downing Bryant
Becoming the Cat Lady, Melissa Anne Goslin
Ethics and literature: love and perception in Henry James, Sarah Hamilton
Pan African narratives: sites of resistance in the Black diaspora, Anita Louise Harris
Routes of freedom: slave resistance and the politics of literary geography, Judith Louise Kemerait
Mothering modes: analyzing mother roles in novels by twentieth-century United States women writers, Preselfannie Whitfield McDaniels
Black women writing black mother figures: reading black motherhood in Their Eyes Were Watching God and Meridian, Alexis Durell Powe
B.S., Michael P. Redmond
The Innocent Age: Stories, Joseph Scallorns
Theses from 2003
Out the Loop, Matthew Christian Anderson
Caller ID, Plamen Ivanov Arnaudov
"Above the noise and the glory": tiers of propaganda in great war literature, Margaret L. Clark
"Baleful weeds and precious-juiced flowers": Romeo and Juliet and Renaissance medical discourse, Erica Nicole Daigle
Between, Ronlyn A. Domingue
How to Tell a Sea Story, Brock Yusef Hamlin
Power and empowerment in writing center conferences, Kerri Stanley Jordan
Robert Lowell's life-writing and memory, Gye-Yu Kang
Of fathers and sons: generational conflicts and literary lineage--the case of Ernest Hemingway and Ernest Gaines, Wolfgang Lepschy
Radical dialectics in the experimental poetry of Berssenbrugge, Hejinian, Harryman, Weiner, and Scalapino, Camille Martin
Strange Fire, Sharon Nelson
"Science in skirts": representations of women in science in the "B" science fiction films of the 1950s, Bonnie Noonan
Narrative immediacy and first-person voice in contemporary American novels, Amy Faulds Sandefur
Subversive bodies: embodiment as discursive strategy in women's popular literature of the long eighteenth century, Phyllis Ann Thompson
Keys of War, Clay Carter Weill
How to make a girl: female sexuality in young adult literature, Ann Elizabeth Younger
Dissertations from 2002
Body and soul: food, the female (in) corporeal, and the narrative effects of mind/body duality, Andrea Adolph
Pink paper and the composition of Flann O'Brien's At-Swim-Two-Birds, Samuel Kauffman Anderson
Narrative patterns of racism and resistance in the work of William Faulkner, Janet Elizabeth Barnwell
Advent, Gregory Baxter
Standing Liberty and Other Stories, Richard Buchholz
Explaining the explanation: Byron's notes to Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Cristina M. Caminita
Prisoners like Us, Sean P. Cavanaugh
"Getting above your raising" : the role of social class and status in the fiction of Lee Smith, Sharon Elizabeth Colley
Backwaters, Tamika L. Edwards
The culture of crime: representations of the criminal in eighteen-century England, Daniel Gonzalez
Men, Women, and Children, Marie Dufour Goodwin
Violence and the scapegoat in American film: 1967-1999, Paul E. Graham III
"Uncouth Shapes" and sublime human forms of Wordsworth's The Prelude in the ligh of Berdyaev's personalistic philosophy of freedom, Elena V. Haltrin Khalturina
In the Temple of Off-Ramps, Nat W. Hardy
Christio-Conjure in Voodoo dreams, Baby of the family, The salt eaters, Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo, and Mama Day, Laura Sams Haynes
The "minor" author and the major editor: a case study in determining the canon, Christopher Andrew Healy
Prophet singer: the voice and vision of Woody Guthrie, Mark Allan Jackson
The Blues in Three Parts: A Collection of Poetry, Short Stories, and a Screenplay, DeSha Tolar Kelly
An analysis of the plays of Margaret Macnamara, Patricia Ellen Lufkin
Dust and Sin, Mary Nita McMyne
Audience and the African American playwright : an analysis of the importance of audience selection and audience response on the dramaturgies of August Wilson and Ed Bullins, Ladrica C. Menson-Furr
Clear-cutting eden: representations of nature in Southern fiction, 1930-1950, Christopher B. Rieger
Her Still Singing Limbs: A Collection of Poetry, Anthony William Rintala
The future in feminism : reading strategies for feminist theory and science fiction, Alcena Madeline Davis Rogan
American transcendental vision: Emerson to Chaplin, Bill R. Scalia
After the Orange Glow, Mark Stevens Spitzer
It came from outer space: the virus, cultural anxiety, and speculative fiction, Anne-Marie Thomas
Spirit matter(s): post-dualistic representations of spirituality in fiction by Walker Percy, Toni Morrison and Gloria Naylor, Likourgos James Vassiliou
Eden, Olympia Vernon
Doing homework: negotiations of the domestic in twentieth-century novels of teaching, Margaret M. Watson
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
Faulkner and the Great Depression: Aesthetics, Ideology, and the Politics of Art., Theodore B. Atkinson III
"Of one kind or another": rape in the fiction of Eudora Welty, Nicole M. Donald
Wake Rites: the Ancient Irish Rituals of "Finnegans Wake"., George Cinclair Gibson
Near the Lewis & Clark Trail, Chad Colin Husted
Auto Shop Boys: A Collection of Short Stories, Daniel T. McNamara
The Anxious *Double: Twins in Plays of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s., Shellie Kaye O'neal
A World of Deference: Paradoxes of Victorian Paternalism in John Ruskin, Charles Dickens, and John Stuart Mill., Peter Mitchell O'neill
I Won't Be Blue Always: Music as *Past in August Wilson's "Joe Turner's Come and Gone", "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom", "The Piano Lesson" and "Fences"., Yolanda Williams Page
Translating Exile in Panait Istrati's "Mes Departs", Samuel Beckett's "Fin De Partie" and Selected Poems by Paul Celan., Ina Alice Pfitzner
Girls Who Would Be Gods: The Poetry of Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Bishop, and Sylvia Plath., Anna Lynn Priddy
Theses/Dissertations from 2000
SuburbiaNation: Reading Suburban Landscape in Twentieth -Century American Fiction and Film., Robert Andrew Beuka
Successful Pirates and Capitalist Fantasies: Charting Fictional Representations of Eighteenth- And Early Nineteenth -Century English Fortune Hunters., Robert Gordon Dryden
"That Preacher's Going to Eat All the Chicken!": Power and Religion in Richard Wright., Tara Tanisha Green
Coming Home: Homecomings and Return Migration in African -American Folklore and Literature Since 1970., Stephanie Gail Hall
The Children of Molemo: an Analysis of Johnny Simons' Performance Genealogy and Iconography at the Hip Pocket Theatre., Tony Earnest Medlin
"A Secret! a Secret!": Confession and Autobiography in the Poetry of Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, and Ted Hughes., Helen Lynne Sugarman
Silencing Dreiser: Textual Editing and Theodore Dreiser's "Jennie Gerhardt"., Annemarie Koning Whaley
Theses/Dissertations from 1999
Reawakening Sleeping Beauty: Fairy -Tale Revision and the Mid -Victorian Metaphysical Crisis., Cynthia Lynn Demarcus
How the Villanelle's Form Got Fixed., Julie Ellen Kane
You Can't Imagine This Life. Diaries and Letters of a Southern-Jewish Grande Dame, Josephine Joel Heyman, 1901-1993., Cynthia Betty Levy
Practicing Freedom With Care: The Development of Warrior-Caregiving in Contemporary Literature From the Americas., Joanna Barszewska Marshall
Unrestrained Women and Decadent Old Aristocrats: the Nineteenth-Century Middle Class Struggle for Cultural Hegemony., Ronald Hamilton May
Theses/Dissertations from 1998
All Blues: A Study of African-American Resistance Poetry., Anthony Jerome Bolden
The Flesh and the Spirit: The Female Subject and the Body in the Spiritual Autobiographies of Anne Hutchinson, Anne Bradstreet and Mary Rowlandson., Mary Clare Carruth
Computer-Assisted Instruction: Enhancements for Language-Learning Applications., William Lawrence Harrell Jr
Daniel Defoe's "An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions": A Critical Edition., Kathleen Louise Kincade
The Clarity of the Modern: Or, the Ambiguities of Henry James and Wallace Stevens., Gregory Angelo Marks
Coincidence and Class in the Victorian Novel., Beverly Maddox Moon
A Descriptive Assessment Model for Writing Programs: A Plan for Louisiana College., Linda Pettus Peevy
The "Power...to Alter and Amend": Textual Production and Editorial Actions in Samuel Richardson's "Clarissa"., Steven Robert Price
The Socialization of Indian Scientific Writers Into Western Scientific Discourse Communities., Sumita Roy