Theses from 2024
Religious Extremism and Female Autonomy: How Dystopian Literature Reflects Contemporary Issues, Jessica Briscoe
The Offering, William Campbell
Player Exposition: Education and Immersion in JRPGs, Callan Danenhower
“The Wonderful Improvement”: Landscape and Morals in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park, Montanah Middleton
Theses from 2023
Emerging to Elsewhere: The Giver and The Concept of “Elsewhere” in Secondary Curricula, Kayleigh Capers
Orientalism in Arthur Golden’s Memoirs of a Geisha, Britany Castilaw
The Beast Lives Here, Kelli Kirkland
The Meaning of the Mask: Darth Vader on the Screen and the Page, Brenna Renfroe
Demigod and Delinquent: Percy Jackson and the American Teenager, Katie Weber
Theses from 2022
Coded: Dialect Diversity in the Secondary American Classroom, Madeline Dunn
Problematic Advocacy and Victorian Public Health in Gatherings From Graveyards by Dr. George A. Walker, Olivia Ladner
Song Lyrics in The Hobbit: What They Tell Us, Thalia McInnis-Trussell
Theses from 2021
“An Oak in a Flower-Pot”: The Brontë Sisters’ Depictions of Female Agency During the Victorian Era, Jessica Dunn
How to Defend Those Who Defend: An Examination of the Underfunding of the Public Defender System, Selma M. Newbill
Theses from 2020
The Typewriter and the Literary Sphere: An Analysis of Turn-of-the-Century Literature, Emma K. Holdbrooks
Tectonic, Rebecca E. Holifield
Theses from 2019
Naturalism in City and in War: How Social Orders Determine Fate, Lily M. Brady
Methods of Domination: Towards a Theory of Domestic Colonialism in Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, Lauren E. Duke
Women’s Resistance: Patient Pathographies and Medical Authority, Anna Claire Elliott
To My Room’s Future Tenant, Abigail Garcia
A Historical Analysis of Non-Normative Embodiment Through the Lens of Frankenstein’s Creature, Ashley H. Hobson
Mother Feminism: A Study in Jewish American Literature, Hannah Jane LeDuff
Madwomen and Resistance: Gender and Self-Harm in Romantic and Victorian Literature, Emily V. Rasch
A Psychoanalysis of Rebecca West’s Unfinished Novel The Sentinel, Taylor Vesely
Theses from 2018
Who is the Fairest of Them All? Disney’s Depiction of Non-Normative Embodiment in its Villainesses, Caroline Bradley
Indicted Knights: Female Agency and the Adjudication of Rape in Arthurian Romances, Jessica Carrell
Myriad Routes Out, Madison Etheridge
Neoliberalism in Contemporary Literature: The Nuclear Family’s Decimation in Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections, Jillianne Larson
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
Metagames: Postmodern Narrative and Agency in the Video Games of Davey Wreden, Richard J. Andrews
Understanding the English Bible: A Comparative Analysis of Four Bible Versions, Michael R. Coats
The World’s Greatest Detectives: Analyzing the Relationship and Cultural Meaning of Sherlock Holmes and Batman, Emma F. Reeves
Dreadful Reality: Fear and Madness in the Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft, Phillip J. Snyder
Correlations between Religion and Book Sales in the Mississippi Gulf Coast Region, Ashley C. Yount
Theses from 2016
Bodies Unbroken: Disability in Indra Sinha's Animal's People and Katherine Dunn's Geek Love, Hannah C. Baker
Separate Ways or Til Death Do Us Part?: Divorce in Victorian Literature, Ashley L. Felder
Fanfiction Communities and Plagiarism: An Academic Inquiry, Claudia I. Hicks
Facilitating Environmental Literacy in a Socio-Digital Landscape, Anna E. Hotard
Compassion Fatigue and Educational Preparation Among Mississippi Child Welfare Workers, Meredith D. McPhail
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
Constructing Reality: The Role of Mass Media in The Hunger Games Series, Jordan E. Nettles
An Experience Like No Other: A Case Study on Summer Camp Culture, Sarah E. Rhett
Bildungsroman, Mary M. Spooner
Robert Frost’s Ulteriority: Saying One Thing in Terms of Another – The Inexpressible, Nicolette S. Stackhouse
Theses from 2015
The Importance of Appearances in Literature: What Does It Mean to Be a Redhead in Literature?, Chelsea J. Anderson
The Modern and the Celestial: Re-Imagining Hawthorne’s ‘The Celestial Railroad’, Connor J. Bell
Gender Politics in Beatnik Literature; Sexually Liberating Straight Women and LGBT Individuals in Mid-Twentieth Century America, Marla D. Cooper
Female Empowerment in Magical Realism: The Marvelous, the Magical, and the Mythic, Jeanette R. deVeer
“Forget the Old . . . The New Wonder Woman is Here”: The New Wonder Woman and the Feminist Movement, 1968-1972, Kristi N. Fleetwood
Bakhtin’s Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics and the Ideological Problem of The Brothers Karamazov, Natalie N. Griner
The Pandemonium of Change: Endurance of the Carnivalesque Mode, Jeremy K. Horton
The Implementation of Common Core: Graphic Novels In the Classroom, Chesnie R. Keeler
Out of the Attic: Agency and Narratives of Mental Illness by David Foster Wallace and Lauren Slater, Erin L. McLeod
A Queen’s Reputation: A Feminist Analysis of The Cultural Appropriations of Cleopatra, Chamara Moore
Performativity and Jazz in the Fiction of James Baldwin and Ralph Ellison, Drako P. Wells
Defining Magic: Exploring Productive Forces in the Harry Potter Series, Mary Beth Wolverton
Theses from 2014
“the impossible that is going to happen”: The Denial of Death in Roth’s Zuckerman Books, Matthew P. Germenis
Don’t You Be Telling Me How Tah Talk: Education, Ebonics, and Code-switching, LaQuita N. Gresham
‘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
The Complexity of Common Core: Teaching Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince as a 7th Grade Complex Text, Allyson R. Jones
Deconstructing the Body: The Exploration of the Human Mind through Symbols, Cassandra M. Knudsen
‘Longest way round is the shortest way home:’ Escapism in the Fictions of James Joyce and Wyndham Lewis, Justin R. Noble
The Orphan Train Adventures Series: The Kelly Siblings’ Trek to Responsibility, Ashten T. Redell
Folk After Midnight, or Nobody Listens to Joan Baez Anymore: A Short Story Sequence, E. Cade Varnado
Theses from 2013
The Search Continues: Modernizing the Quest for the Holy Grail in Film, Jody C. Balius
Disagreeable, Villainous, and Wimpy: The Child as Antihero in Burnett, Colfer, and Kinney, Blakely J. Owens
“A Very Different Looking Class of People”: Racial Passing, Tragedy, and the Mulatto Citizen in American Literature, Stephanie S. Rambo
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
“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
Ghosts of the Mind: The Supernatural and Madness in Victorian Gothic Literature, Stephanie F. Craig
Matriarchal Monsters: Literary Villians Through the Lens of Gender, Katherine Currie
The Hero’s Journey: A Postmodern Incarnation of the Monomyth, Sarah Hoffman
“Critical Habitat” and Other Stories, Jon Michael Mitchell
“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
English Identity in the Writings of John Milton, Hannah E. Ryan
What Makes a Man: Social Constructions of Masculinity In the Works of Stanley Kubrick, Michael Cory Taylor
Theses from 2011
A Critical Edition of Madison Cawein: Examining the Effects of Modernism on Regional Poetry, Kristin Teston
Keeping It Real: Teaching and Learning in the Harry Potter Series, Mary E. N. Vaughn