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Theses from 2023

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Emerging to Elsewhere: The Giver and The Concept of “Elsewhere” in Secondary Curricula, Kayleigh Capers

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Orientalism in Arthur Golden’s Memoirs of a Geisha, Britany Castilaw

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The Beast Lives Here, Kelli Kirkland

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The Meaning of the Mask: Darth Vader on the Screen and the Page, Brenna Renfroe

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Demigod and Delinquent: Percy Jackson and the American Teenager, Katie Weber

Theses from 2022

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Coded: Dialect Diversity in the Secondary American Classroom, Madeline Dunn

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Problematic Advocacy and Victorian Public Health in Gatherings From Graveyards by Dr. George A. Walker, Olivia Ladner

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Song Lyrics in The Hobbit: What They Tell Us, Thalia McInnis-Trussell

Theses from 2021

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“An Oak in a Flower-Pot”: The Brontë Sisters’ Depictions of Female Agency During the Victorian Era, Jessica Dunn

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How to Defend Those Who Defend: An Examination of the Underfunding of the Public Defender System, Selma M. Newbill

Theses from 2020

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The Typewriter and the Literary Sphere: An Analysis of Turn-of-the-Century Literature, Emma K. Holdbrooks

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Tectonic, Rebecca E. Holifield

Theses from 2019

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Naturalism in City and in War: How Social Orders Determine Fate, Lily M. Brady

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Methods of Domination: Towards a Theory of Domestic Colonialism in Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, Lauren E. Duke

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Women’s Resistance: Patient Pathographies and Medical Authority, Anna Claire Elliott

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To My Room’s Future Tenant, Abigail Garcia

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A Historical Analysis of Non-Normative Embodiment Through the Lens of Frankenstein’s Creature, Ashley H. Hobson

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The Queer Student’s Agenda: Positive Relational, Educational, and Administrative Experiences from Recent LGBTQ High School Graduates in the Deep South, Jack Hoda

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Mother Feminism: A Study in Jewish American Literature, Hannah Jane LeDuff

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Madwomen and Resistance: Gender and Self-Harm in Romantic and Victorian Literature, Emily V. Rasch

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A Psychoanalysis of Rebecca West’s Unfinished Novel The Sentinel, Taylor Vesely

Theses from 2018

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Who is the Fairest of Them All? Disney’s Depiction of Non-Normative Embodiment in its Villainesses, Caroline Bradley

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Indicted Knights: Female Agency and the Adjudication of Rape in Arthurian Romances, Jessica Carrell

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Myriad Routes Out, Madison Etheridge

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Neoliberalism in Contemporary Literature: The Nuclear Family’s Decimation in Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections, Jillianne Larson

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Naturalism and the New Woman: Fated Motherhood in Kate Chopin's The Awakening and Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth, Lindsay J. Patorno

Theses from 2017

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Metagames: Postmodern Narrative and Agency in the Video Games of Davey Wreden, Richard J. Andrews

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Understanding the English Bible: A Comparative Analysis of Four Bible Versions, Michael R. Coats

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The World’s Greatest Detectives: Analyzing the Relationship and Cultural Meaning of Sherlock Holmes and Batman, Emma F. Reeves

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Dreadful Reality: Fear and Madness in the Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft, Phillip J. Snyder

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Correlations between Religion and Book Sales in the Mississippi Gulf Coast Region, Ashley C. Yount

Theses from 2016

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Bodies Unbroken: Disability in Indra Sinha's Animal's People and Katherine Dunn's Geek Love, Hannah C. Baker

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Separate Ways or Til Death Do Us Part?: Divorce in Victorian Literature, Ashley L. Felder

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Fanfiction Communities and Plagiarism: An Academic Inquiry, Claudia I. Hicks

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Facilitating Environmental Literacy in a Socio-Digital Landscape, Anna E. Hotard

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Compassion Fatigue and Educational Preparation Among Mississippi Child Welfare Workers, Meredith D. McPhail

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The Good, the Bad and the Useless: The Perception of Books in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief, and Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story, Morgan Grace Milburn

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Constructing Reality: The Role of Mass Media in The Hunger Games Series, Jordan E. Nettles

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An Experience Like No Other: A Case Study on Summer Camp Culture, Sarah E. Rhett

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Bildungsroman, Mary M. Spooner

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Robert Frost’s Ulteriority: Saying One Thing in Terms of Another – The Inexpressible, Nicolette S. Stackhouse

Theses from 2015

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The Importance of Appearances in Literature: What Does It Mean to Be a Redhead in Literature?, Chelsea J. Anderson

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The Modern and the Celestial: Re-Imagining Hawthorne’s ‘The Celestial Railroad’, Connor J. Bell

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Gender Politics in Beatnik Literature; Sexually Liberating Straight Women and LGBT Individuals in Mid-Twentieth Century America, Marla D. Cooper

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Female Empowerment in Magical Realism: The Marvelous, the Magical, and the Mythic, Jeanette R. deVeer

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“Forget the Old . . . The New Wonder Woman is Here”: The New Wonder Woman and the Feminist Movement, 1968-1972, Kristi N. Fleetwood

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Bakhtin’s Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics and the Ideological Problem of The Brothers Karamazov, Natalie N. Griner

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The Pandemonium of Change: Endurance of the Carnivalesque Mode, Jeremy K. Horton

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The Implementation of Common Core: Graphic Novels In the Classroom, Chesnie R. Keeler

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Out of the Attic: Agency and Narratives of Mental Illness by David Foster Wallace and Lauren Slater, Erin L. McLeod

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A Queen’s Reputation: A Feminist Analysis of The Cultural Appropriations of Cleopatra, Chamara Moore

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Performativity and Jazz in the Fiction of James Baldwin and Ralph Ellison, Drako P. Wells

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Defining Magic: Exploring Productive Forces in the Harry Potter Series, Mary Beth Wolverton

Theses from 2014

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“the impossible that is going to happen”: The Denial of Death in Roth’s Zuckerman Books, Matthew P. Germenis

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Don’t You Be Telling Me How Tah Talk: Education, Ebonics, and Code-switching, LaQuita N. Gresham

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‘My Freedom is a Privilege Which Nothing Else Can Equal’: The Life and Writings of Venture Smith and Phillis Wheatley, American Slaves, Donald Holmes II

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The Complexity of Common Core: Teaching Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince as a 7th Grade Complex Text, Allyson R. Jones

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Deconstructing the Body: The Exploration of the Human Mind through Symbols, Cassandra M. Knudsen

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‘Longest way round is the shortest way home:’ Escapism in the Fictions of James Joyce and Wyndham Lewis, Justin R. Noble

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The Orphan Train Adventures Series: The Kelly Siblings’ Trek to Responsibility, Ashten T. Redell

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Folk After Midnight, or Nobody Listens to Joan Baez Anymore: A Short Story Sequence, E. Cade Varnado

Theses from 2013

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The Search Continues: Modernizing the Quest for the Holy Grail in Film, Jody C. Balius

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Disagreeable, Villainous, and Wimpy: The Child as Antihero in Burnett, Colfer, and Kinney, Blakely J. Owens

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“A Very Different Looking Class of People”: Racial Passing, Tragedy, and the Mulatto Citizen in American Literature, Stephanie S. Rambo

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Changing the Nature of the Beast: An Analysis of Significant Variations From Madame De Beaumont’s La Belle Et La Bête In Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Heather A. Stevens

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“I have beene a reall Actor”: Analyzing the Writings of John Smith Through the Lens of Performative Documentary Theory, Kristen L. Walker

Theses from 2012

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Ghosts of the Mind: The Supernatural and Madness in Victorian Gothic Literature, Stephanie F. Craig

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Matriarchal Monsters: Literary Villians Through the Lens of Gender, Katherine Currie

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The Hero’s Journey: A Postmodern Incarnation of the Monomyth, Sarah Hoffman

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“Critical Habitat” and Other Stories, Jon Michael Mitchell

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“I Have Something to Say, If People Only Would Hear It”: The Voiceless Artist and the Idea of Reform in the Work of Rebecca Harding Davis, Kathryn Plunkett

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English Identity in the Writings of John Milton, Hannah E. Ryan

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What Makes a Man: Social Constructions of Masculinity In the Works of Stanley Kubrick, Michael Cory Taylor

Theses from 2011

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A Critical Edition of Madison Cawein: Examining the Effects of Modernism on Regional Poetry, Kristin Teston

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Keeping It Real: Teaching and Learning in the Harry Potter Series, Mary E. N. Vaughn