This page collects the digitized full text Masters theses and Doctoral dissertations of the Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies Program at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.
The following broadly describes library holdings for UA theses and dissertations:
| Category | online | |
| Dissertations |
1953-2006 in MAIN 1950s-2012 in Special Collections |
1989 - present are full-text in ProQuest 2012 - present in ScholarWorks 1950s - present indexed in ProQuest |
| Master's theses |
1910s-2006 in MAIN 1910s-2012 in Special Collections |
2006 - present are full-text in ProQuest 2012 - present in ScholarWorks Theses were not systematically indexed in ProQuest prior to 2006. |
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Decolonizing Neo-liberalism, Empowering the Local: A Global South Reading of Noir in the 2000s., Jean-Hugues Bita’a Menye
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
From Periphery to Center: Re-presenting Black and Afro-Arab Characters in Contemporary Arabic Literature, Samer Ahmad Mayyas
Who Sings and Who Falls Silent? A Spatial and Social Analysis of Virgilian Graffiti in Pompeii, Rachel Murray
"Perché il mondo è cambiato": Second Generation Italian Hip Hop and the Authorization of Postcolonial Italian Identities, Anthony Sargenti
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
La Mutación del Pensamiento: Las Repercusiones Filosóficas y Literarias de Friedrich Nietzsche en la Obra de Miguel de Unamuno., Raúl E. Garriga
Archivos del Fracaso: La Escritura de la Memoria Histórica en Cuatro Novelas Documentales Latinoamericanas del Siglo XXI, Vanessa Guerrero
Decolonizing Female Archetypes: Creating an Oppositional Consciousness in Contemporary Chicana and Iraqi Women’s Fiction, Semah Salih Hussein
Streaming Gender, Masculinity, and Race: Luke Cage's Impact on the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Samual Madison McMillen
Demarginalizing Black Ordained Women’s Voices in the Black Baptist Church: A Phenomenological Study of Black Women Ministers’ Lived Experiences When Seeking Cleric Leadership Roles, Angela Mosley-Monts
Possession: The Struggle for Female Bodily Agency in Exorcism Cinema, Michelle Lynne Pribbernow
“Young Adult Books Don’t Realize They Have that Power”: Reader Response to Ideology in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction, Zane Emīlija Sarma
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
The Jordanian Novel in Postmodern Context, Hamed Alalamat
Badnaam Women of Bollywood: The Combative Sexual Politics of Item Songs in India, Ketaki Deshpande
Designing Digital Antiquity: Classical Archaeology in New Virtual Applications, William Loder
Methods and Effects of Shadowing Using Online Authentic Videos on L2 Acquisition of Mandarin Chinese Tones, Ai-Ling Lu
Screening for Our Fathers: Representations of Native American Masculinity in American Film, Jeromy Duane Miller
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Reactions to Gulf War I and Gulf War II in American and Iraqi Cinema and Theatre: The Quest for a Global Utopia, Tajaddin Salahaddin Noori
Gynocentric Apuleius: Female Agency in 'The Golden Ass', Kelsey Schalo
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Representations of Domestic Workers in Modern Arabic Fiction, Samaher Aldhamen
American and Iraqi Prose Fiction of the Iraq War: Traumas of the Self, Traumas of the Nation, Ghyath Manhel Alkinani
Female Experience of Trauma and Mourning in two Postconflict Novels of El Salvador and Peru: Roza, tumba, quema by Claudia Hernández, and La sangre de la aurora by Claudia Salazar, Raquel Castro Salas
Maternal Criticism: Reading Two Middle Eastern Women Writers as Nonviolent Peace Activism, Charlyn Marie Ingwerson
Archive and Repertoire of the Esala Perahera Performance in Sri Lanka, Hashintha Jayasinghe
Sastra Buruh Migran Indonesia: Crossing Borders and Proposing a New Concept of Indonesian Domestic Workers, Tri Murniati
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
The Nature of Influence: Fu'ad Rifqa's Wilderness Poetry at the Intersection of Nation and Modernity, Delilah Clark
Queer Arab Writing Across Borders: Sexual Citizenship and Acts of Belonging, Nicole Fares
Mumbai Macbeth: Gender and Identity in Bollywood Adaptations, Rashmila Maiti
Paulo Coelho: Transnational Literature, Popular Culture, and Postmodernism, Anna Pavlova Murta
Historicizing Muslim American Literature: Studies on Literature by African American and South Asian American Muslim Writers, Wawan Eko Yulianto
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
The Postmodern Novel in Saudi Arabia and America, Mohammed Lafi Alshammari
Modern Palestinian Filmmaking in a Global World, Sarah Frances Hudson
Literary and Cinematic Representations of Neoliberal Forms of Contemporary Violence in Latin America with Special Interest in Mexico and Colombia, Ivan De Jesus Iglesias
The Dialectics of the Community: Mexican Production of Death, Blanca Judith Martinez
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Negotiating the Politics of Representation in Iranian Women’s Cinema before and after the Islamic Revolution, Alshaatha Sultan Al Sharji
Ciudad Letrada y poder en la novela del Caribe hispánico contemporáneo: La noche oscura del Nino Avilés, Bachata del ángel caído y La cazadora de astros, Amilkar Ernesto Caballero
“Between the Yes and the No”: Alternative Ontologies and Literary Depictions of Mysticism in Borges and Mahfouz, David Shane Elder
Twice Heard, Paradoxically (Un)seen: Walking the Tightrope of Invisibility in Palestinian Translated Fiction, Mona Nabeel Malkawi
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Human Nature and Cop Art: A Biocultural History of the Police Procedural, Jay Edward Baldwin
Becoming All Things to All Men: The Role of Jesuit Missions in Early Modern Globalization, Ann Louise Cole
The Literary Unconscious: Ideology and Utopia in the Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel in England and Russia, Isra Ahmed Daraiseh
Interpretation at the Controller's Edge: The Role of Graphical User Interfaces in Virtual Archaeology, Tyler Duane Johnson
Dramatizing Power and Resistance: Images of Women in Pakistani and Indian Alternative Theater, Sobia Mubarak
The Fascination of Manga: Cross-dressing and Gender Performativity in Japanese Media, Sheena Marie Woods
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
The Art of Lebanese Verbal Dueling: The Battle of Beit Mery and Beyond, Paula Marie Haydar
Transnational Historical Fiction in a Postsecular Age: A Study of the Spiritual Theses in the Works of Luis Alberto Urrea and Bahiyyih Nakhjavani, Mary Anna Sobhani
Politics of Writing: Latin American Testimonio, Brazil's Literatura Marginal and the Question of Neoliberalism, Ana Maria Todescan Young
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Nature and the Environment in Ana Castillo's So Far From God and Elmaz Abinader's Children of the Roojme, Rosario Nolasco-Bell
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
The Journey Narrative: The Trope of Women's Mobility and Travel in Contemporary Arab Women's Literary Narratives, Banan Al-Daraiseh
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Multiple Literacies, Fragmented Identities: Arab Students at American Universities, Gamil Mohammed Al-Amrani
Palestinian Film: Hyperreality, Narrative, and Ideology, Sarah Frances Hudson
Postmodern Subjects and the Nation: Contemporary Arab Women Writers' Reconfigurations of Home and Belonging, Ghadir Khalil Zannoun
