This page collects the digitized full text Masters theses and Doctoral dissertations of the Department of English at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.

The following broadly describes library holdings for UA theses and dissertations:

Category print 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.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2024

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Ripperature: Crossing Gender and Genre, Gracie M. Bain

One Year Longer, Sam Campbell

Among These Roses, Kristin Entler

Life with Wings: Poems, Christopher Eskilson

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Wayward: a Novel, Brendan Conor Flannery

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Echoes of Silence: A Translation of Fathia al-Assal’s Women’s Prison, Mayssa Hashaad

Halved Shells, Dylan Hopper

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Killdeer, Elizabeth Muscari

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Desire Lines: Reading Queerly Through the Forests of Medieval Love Literature, Brianna Skye Oliver

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Oyster Pond, Caitlin Anne Plante

Hole, Lucy Shapiro

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As You Lay There in Your Blood, Eden Shulman

Theses/Dissertations from 2023

The Family Extended, Michael R. Chamberlain

Hewn, Amelie Pierrot Hermann Langland

Love, Beasts & Nightmares, Audrey Scrafford

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Poesis and Sympathy: Community Through Craftsmanship, Braden Dodds Taylor

Theses/Dissertations from 2022

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Media Ideologies and the Politics of Digital Literacy: Discourses on Technology and Media in a Small School District in the U.S. Heartland, Chris Borntrager

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Bubbles, Sarah Browning

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The Valiant Woman, Ann Louise Cole

Firebirds, Sarah A. Dutton

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Kaboom, Karstin Margaret Johnson

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Ghosts and Ethics in the Early Works of James Joyce, Michael Menase

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Elis Gruffydd and the Welsh Historical Tradition, Ann Dobbs Riley-Adams

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100 Million, Cade Scott

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The Phenomenon, Marigold Stratford

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The Child in the Basement: Debilitating Mechanisms in American Science Fiction, Tessa Swehla

We Settled on Sea Monkeys, Hiba Tahir

Theses/Dissertations from 2021

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Diversifying Woolf’s Room: Private Spaces and Creativity in The Works of Willa Cather, Kate Chopin, Gayl Jones, and Alice Walker, Ebtesam M. Alawfi

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Self-Deceive and Conquer: A Rhetoric of Cunning, David Manuel Cajias

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Mapping the Pathways to Campus Writing Sites: Implications for Writing Program Administrators, Meagon Clarkson-Guyll

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Rewriting Web 2.0 Discourses of the Local for Socio-Spatial Literacy Theory, Erin Daugherty

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Adapting Animals: Nineteenth-Century British Literature, Science, and Media, Kristen Layne Figgins

Poems and Translations, Rome Hernandez Morgan

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Poems and Translations, Rome Hernández Morgan

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Love Paint and Other Private Vegetables, Victoria Hudson

After Our Mothers Turned Into Coyotes, Emma Thomas Jones

Olta's Summer, Samantha Kirby

If We So Choose, Josh Luckenbach

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The Same River Twice, Claire Remy Pincumbe

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Memory and Rememory: Critically Cultivating an Appropriate Response Through a Storied Approach to Listening, Katie W. Powell

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Queering the Metanarrative of Domesticity: Chosen Families in Late Nineteenth- Century American Women's Literature, Sharla Rosenbaum

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Mineral Rites, Emma Van Dyke

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Yumiko Ōshima’s The Star of Cottonland: A Translation, Sheena Woods

Theses/Dissertations from 2020

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Self, Emily Aguayo

There May Be Bones, Hannah Bradley

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Always on the Clock, Patrick Font

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Providence Lost: Natural and Urban Landscapes in H. P. Lovecraft's Fiction, Dylan Henderson

Unplanting a Seed, Gwendolyn Ann Hill Mauroner

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The Medieval British Legacy of the Founding Myth of Britain, Timothy J. Nelson

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Empire Rules: Cultures of U.S. Imperialism in Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S., Luis Paganelli Marin

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From the Womb to the Word: Pregnancy and Pregnancy Metaphors in 16th and 17th Century English Literature, Kelly S. Westeen

Theses/Dissertations from 2019

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Shadows of Indignant Birds, Hannah Susanne Allen

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Feeling Clumsy, Feeling Alien: Gender and Affect in Victorian Sensation Fiction, Gracie Mae Bain

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Christ His Grace Is Sufficient Mobile Home Service and Transporting Inc., Andrew Lee Butler

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Nantucket, Elizabeth DeMeo

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Recovered Images: Medieval Echoes in C. S. Lewis’s Space Trilogy, Nathan Earl Houston Fayard

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The Anonymous Web in Adichie’s Americanah, Michelle Jude Gibeault

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Fieldnotes and Select Translations from Middle Scots, Jesse Greenhill

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"We Are Strangers in this Life": Theology, Liminality, and the Exiled in Anglo-Saxon Literature, Nathan John Haydon

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Losing Faith: Emily Brontë's Revolutionized Religion, Emily Renee Holmes

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“A Woman’s Story”: Lady Macbeth and Performing Femininity in the Early 1600s – Late 1900s, Phyllis LeBert

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A Sense of Unending: Apocalypse and Post-Apocalypse in Novels of Late Capitalism, Brent Linsley

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Gender in Apocalyptic California: The Ecological Frontier, MaryKate Eileen Messimer

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The Hanging Poems of Love and Loss: Translations from the Classic Poetry of Pre-Islamic Arabia, Joshua Michael Moore

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Remembering How to Listen: A Theoretical and Pedagogical Approach to Literacy, Adolescence, and Young Adult Literature, Stuart A. Morris

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On the Variations of 'Occupatio' in "Richard II", William Kelly Reeder

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Spirit Don't Ever Die: Apocalypse and Denial in an Infinite Universe, Nathan Riggs

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Monstrous Mobility in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Dracula, Autumn Danielle Weese

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People Loved or Killed, Benjamin Earl Whisman

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Commonest Crockery, Jacob Jeffrey Yordy

Theses/Dissertations from 2018

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The End of Want, Anthony Blake

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Activating Schemata in ESL Writing, Uyen Dang

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A Streetcar Named Kanye West, Frisco Edwards

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Best Practice: Bringing the Elements of Effective Practice to the College Writing Classroom, Jonathan Montgomery Green

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Jarfly, Zachary Harrod

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Ham Radio Operator, Zachary Michael Hester

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Middle Eastern Themes in Contemporary American Fantasy: The Political and Socio-Religious Implications, Sait Ibisi

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May It Come Easy, Joshua Idaszak

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Insect Light: Stories, Sacha Michael Idell

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Gothic Voids: Nineteenth-Century Reader Experience and Participation, Garrett Chapman Jeter

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Establishing Influence and Authority in Ancient Civilizations and Modern Politics: The Rhetoric of Oracles and the Oracular Maneuvers of Political Action Committees, Michel C. LaCrue

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Presumed Innocent: The Child Figure in U.S. Southern Literature, 1945 – 2004, Yendountien Noellie Lare-Assogba

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Translation of View from the Ossuary by Antoine Volodine, John Thomas Mahany

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We're All Girls Here, Suzanne Danielle Monroe

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Pynchon and Place: A Geocritical Reading of Thomas Pynchon, John Stout

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A Flourynge Aege: Tracing the Sacred and Secular in the Book of St. Albans, Allison Treese

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The Challenge of Anonymous and Ephemeral Social Media: Reflective Research Methodologies & Student-User Composing Practices, Sara Elyse West

Theses/Dissertations from 2017

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The Net of Nostalgia: Class, Culture, and Political Alienation and Nostalgia in Contemporary Latino and South Asian American Literature, Farzana Akhter

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"A Magic Deeper Still": Sacramental Poetics in William Wordsworth, Christina Rossetti, and C.S. Lewis, Eric Michael Bontempo

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Mechanisms and Implications of Identity Hybridization in Online Advertorials, Christopher Lee Borntrager

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"The Caribbean Imaginary in Southern Women's Literature", Christy Delaine Davis

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Race, Place and Young Adulting in Southern and Adolescent Literature, Karly Eaton

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Persistence of Memory: Revision, Nostalgia, and Resistance in Contemporary American Drama, Sinan Gul

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The Hollow Class: African-American Class-Passing and the Popular, Whitney Martin

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Curricular Analysis of the University of Arkansas Composition I Pilot Course: ENGL 1013, Community Ethnography, Morgan Lindsay Scholz

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Cultural Reimagining and Literary Voice: Southeastern Tribal Women Negotiate Cultural, Social, and Political Identity through Literature, Linda Sue Shaffer

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We Can Come Back From This: Navigating the Perils of the Anthropocene in The Walking Dead, Shavawn Smith

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The Two-Sided Coin: Madness and Laughter as Subversion in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and The Sandman, Tessa Starr Swehla

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Wayward Women, Macho Men: Linguistic Construction of Gender Binaries in Yxta Maya Murray's Locas and Denise Chavez's Loving Pedro Infante, Stephanie Tangman

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Indigenous Resistance: Settler-Colonialism, Nation Building, and Colonial Patriarchy, Megan E. Vallowe