Theses/Dissertations from 2018
The End of Want, Anthony Blake
In the House of the Wise Are Stores of Choice Food and Oil, Kirsty Bleyl
It is Not My Birthday, Collin Callahan
Activating Schemata in ESL Writing, Uyen Dang
A Streetcar Named Kanye West, Frisco Edwards
Best Practice: Bringing the Elements of Effective Practice to the College Writing Classroom, Jonathan Montgomery Green
Jarfly, Zachary Harrod
Ham Radio Operator, Zachary Michael Hester
Middle Eastern Themes in Contemporary American Fantasy: The Political and Socio-Religious Implications, Sait Ibisi
May It Come Easy, Joshua Idaszak
Insect Light: Stories, Sacha Michael Idell
Gothic Voids: Nineteenth-Century Reader Experience and Participation, Garrett Chapman Jeter
Presumed Innocent: The Child Figure in U.S. Southern Literature, 1945 – 2004, Yendountien Noellie Lare-Assogba
Translation of View from the Ossuary by Antoine Volodine, John Thomas Mahany
We're All Girls Here, Suzanne Danielle Monroe
Pynchon and Place: A Geocritical Reading of Thomas Pynchon, John Stout
A Flourynge Aege: Tracing the Sacred and Secular in the Book of St. Albans, Allison Treese
The Challenge of Anonymous and Ephemeral Social Media: Reflective Research Methodologies & Student-User Composing Practices, Sara Elyse West
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
The Net of Nostalgia: Class, Culture, and Political Alienation and Nostalgia in Contemporary Latino and South Asian American Literature, Farzana Akhter
"A Magic Deeper Still": Sacramental Poetics in William Wordsworth, Christina Rossetti, and C.S. Lewis, Eric Michael Bontempo
Mechanisms and Implications of Identity Hybridization in Online Advertorials, Christopher Lee Borntrager
"The Caribbean Imaginary in Southern Women's Literature", Christy Delaine Davis
Race, Place and Young Adulting in Southern and Adolescent Literature, Karly Eaton
Persistence of Memory: Revision, Nostalgia, and Resistance in Contemporary American Drama, Sinan Gul
The Hollow Class: African-American Class-Passing and the Popular, Whitney Martin
Curricular Analysis of the University of Arkansas Composition I Pilot Course: ENGL 1013, Community Ethnography, Morgan Lindsay Scholz
Cultural Reimagining and Literary Voice: Southeastern Tribal Women Negotiate Cultural, Social, and Political Identity through Literature, Linda Sue Shaffer
We Can Come Back From This: Navigating the Perils of the Anthropocene in The Walking Dead, Shavawn Smith
The Two-Sided Coin: Madness and Laughter as Subversion in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and The Sandman, Tessa Starr Swehla
Wayward Women, Macho Men: Linguistic Construction of Gender Binaries in Yxta Maya Murray's Locas and Denise Chavez's Loving Pedro Infante, Stephanie Tangman
Indigenous Resistance: Settler-Colonialism, Nation Building, and Colonial Patriarchy, Megan E. Vallowe
Understanding Discourse Transition, Taylor Weeks
The Black Maternal and Cultural Healing in Twentieth Century Black Women's Fiction, Paula Wingard White
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
“Deliberate Voluptuousness”: The Monstrous Women of Dracula and Carmilla, Judith Bell
Spirits Here, Megan Blankenship
Divining the Southwest: Liminality, Pragmatism, and Regionalism in "Death Comes for the Archbishop", Alex C. Blomstedt
The Debt and Other Poems, Kevin Corbett
The Power Fantastic: How Genre Expectations Mediate Authority, Angela Rose Cox
[Re]Visiting the Rime: A Case Study of Adaptation as Process and Product with The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Sally Ferguson
Dandy as Disease: Gender Hygiene and British Nineteenth-century Literature, Sharon Louise Fox
Between Night And Day: Selected Poems of Mario Luzi 1947 - 1963, Anne Marie Greeott
Selling College: Student Recruitment and Education Reform Rhetoric in the Age of Privatization, Paige Marie Hermansen
Designing Place-sensitive Professional Development: A Critical Ethnography of Teaching and Learning Argumentative Writing, Sarah N. Holland
Why Everything Is a Whole Lot of Nothing Worth Losing or Getting Back, David Kinzer
Telling New Tales: Modernizations of Chaucer in the Eighteenth Century, Eric Duane Larson
The Stories of Junot Díaz: Genre and Narrative in Drown and This Is How You Lose Her, Luis Fernando Marin
The Threat at Court: Subversive Uses of Translation, Transcription, and Tradition in the Henrician Court, Rebecca Marie Moore
Invention's Enemy: Twentieth-Century American Poetry and the Performance of Medieval Authorship, Sara Nicholson
Hoc Est Corpus Meum: The Eucharist in Twelfth-Century Literature, Lindsey Zachary Panxhi
"Good to Think With": Women and Exempla in Four Medieval and Renaissance English Texts, Jennifer Fish Pastoor
Soldier's Heart, Thomas Henry Pate IV
"Everyone Has Thought about Killing Someone - One Way or Another": Cannibalism and the Question of Morality in Bryan Fuller's Hannibal, Kristi Michelle Pierse
Beyond "Main Street": Small Towns in Post-"Revolt" American Literature, Rachael Price
Grieve If You Want, Travis Scott Ray
A Band of Sisters: Female Detectives, Authority, and Fiction from 1864 to the 1930s, Amanda Renee Schafer
Literature as Virtual Reality: An Exploration of Subjectivity Formation in the Digital Era, Jessica Danielle Schnebelen
Future Flowers, Eszter Takacs
Ecological Approaches to Modernism, the U.S. South, and 20th Century American Literature, Justin Ford Tinsley
Revision and Re-Writing as Adaptation: Using Adaptation Theory to Encourage Student Recognition of Rhetorical Situations, Alicia Claire Troby
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Past Traumas, Present Griefs: Exploring the Effects of Colonialism, Microaggressions, and Stereotyping from Wild West Shows to Indigenous Literature, Kimberly Dawn Allen
Immigrant Labor in Contemporary Southern Literature, 1980-2010, Huseyin Altindis
Azalea, Kimberly Renee Driggers
The Sorcerer, William Carlisle Goehring
Architectures for a Future South: Posthumanism and Ruin in the Novels of Cormac McCarthy, Joshua Ryan Jackson
Intersectionality in Jane Eyre and its Adaptations, Laurel Loh
Engineer as Writer and Woman: Gender, Identity, and Professional Discourse, Jennfer C. Mallette
Animal Poems, Elian Mota
The Quiet of the Church: A Novella, William Pittam
“Maybe It Was You”: The Implications of Southern Gothic Elements of Criminality, Sexuality, and Race in Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, Shirley Ellen Rash
What the Fuck is This?: Aesthetic Nature of Being or Ontology in the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Alexis Stephenson
The Technological Singularity: An Ideological Critique, Phillip Stephens
Immigrant Cosmopolitanism: Jewish-American Immigrant Narratives and Modernist Cosmopolitan Aesthetics, Mindy Renee Trenary
At Home In Exile: Ezra Pound and the Poetics of Banishment, Andy Kay Trevathan
(Re)Animating the Horror Genre: Explorations in Children's Animated Horror Films, Megan Estelle Troutman
"Keep Funding or Else... It's Mustaches": Building a Community of Literacy at Owl Creek, Ian Whitlow
The Spectacle of Orphanhood: Reimagining Orphans in Postbellum Fiction, Afrin Zeenat
The Anti-Crusade Voice of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Malek Jamal Zuraikat
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Salman Rushdie in the Postmodern Current: New Venues, New Values, Aya Akkawi
"We can't reclaim what we don't understand": Teachers' Perceptions of Advocacy and Voice in a Rural Institute of the National Writing Project, James Anthony Anderson
Monsters in Common: Identity and Community in Postapocalyptic Science Fiction After 9/11, Jeremy J. Burns
Lamb of Gods, Stuart Dearnley
Still Circling the Sun, Stefan Rafael DeLaGarza
The Influence of Literacy on the Lives of Twentieth Century Southern Female Minority Figures, Laura Leighann Dicks
Cascadia Don't Fall Apart, John Lewis Englehardt
Embouchure, Zachery Gardner
Queer Tastes: An Exploration of Food and Sexuality in Southern Lesbian Literature, Jacqueline Kristine Lawrence
The Cultural Crime of Femininity: Advocating for Viable and Successful Womanhood in Charles Dickens and George Eliot, Mary K. Leigh
Shape-Note Singing, Traci Rae Letellier
Dead Dad Project, Adrian McBride
Welsh Manipulations of the Matter of Britain, Timothy J. Nelson
Middle-earth's War on Terror: a Post-9/11 Reception Study on the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien, James William Peebles
Facing the Wreck: Death, Optimism, and the Fragmented Form, Rachael Marie Schaffner
Perimeter Roads, John Isaac Austin Scott
Transitioning to Writing about Writing: A Consideration of the Metawriting Teaching Approach at the University of Arkansas, Katie Michelle Smith
Trashed: The Myth of the Southern Poor White, April Elizabeth Thompson
A Melting Pot of Voices: Public Discourse and the Latino Immigrant Experience in the United States, Elizabeth Katherine Vammen
You Can't Get There from Here: Movement SF and the Picaresque, Robert Glen Wilson