Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Diversifying Woolf’s Room: Private Spaces and Creativity in The Works of Willa Cather, Kate Chopin, Gayl Jones, and Alice Walker, Ebtesam M. Alawfi
Self-Deceive and Conquer: A Rhetoric of Cunning, David Manuel Cajias
Mapping the Pathways to Campus Writing Sites: Implications for Writing Program Administrators, Meagon Clarkson-Guyll
Rewriting Web 2.0 Discourses of the Local for Socio-Spatial Literacy Theory, Erin Daugherty
Poems and Translations, Rome Hernández Morgan
Love Paint and Other Private Vegetables, Victoria Hudson
Altar to the Unknown, Landon McGee
The Same River Twice, Claire Remy Pincumbe
Memory and Rememory: Critically Cultivating an Appropriate Response Through a Storied Approach to Listening, Katie W. Powell
Queering the Metanarrative of Domesticity: Chosen Families in Late Nineteenth- Century American Women's Literature, Sharla Rosenbaum
Furthermore, Carthage (Selected Fragments), Steven Thomas Rybnicek
Mineral Rites, Emma Van Dyke
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Self, Emily Aguayo
Always on the Clock, Patrick Font
Providence Lost: Natural and Urban Landscapes in H. P. Lovecraft's Fiction, Dylan Henderson
The Medieval British Legacy of the Founding Myth of Britain, Timothy J. Nelson
Empire Rules: Cultures of U.S. Imperialism in Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S., Luis Paganelli Marin
From the Womb to the Word: Pregnancy and Pregnancy Metaphors in 16th and 17th Century English Literature, Kelly S. Westeen
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Shadows of Indignant Birds, Hannah Susanne Allen
Feeling Clumsy, Feeling Alien: Gender and Affect in Victorian Sensation Fiction, Gracie Mae Bain
Christ His Grace Is Sufficient Mobile Home Service and Transporting Inc., Andrew Lee Butler
Nantucket, Elizabeth DeMeo
Recovered Images: Medieval Echoes in C. S. Lewis’s Space Trilogy, Nathan Earl Houston Fayard
The Anonymous Web in Adichie’s Americanah, Michelle Jude Gibeault
Fieldnotes and Select Translations from Middle Scots, Jesse Greenhill
"We Are Strangers in this Life": Theology, Liminality, and the Exiled in Anglo-Saxon Literature, Nathan John Haydon
Losing Faith: Emily Brontë's Revolutionized Religion, Emily Renee Holmes
“A Woman’s Story”: Lady Macbeth and Performing Femininity in the Early 1600s – Late 1900s, Phyllis LeBert
A Sense of Unending: Apocalypse and Post-Apocalypse in Novels of Late Capitalism, Brent Linsley
Gender in Apocalyptic California: The Ecological Frontier, MaryKate Eileen Messimer
The Hanging Poems of Love and Loss: Translations from the Classic Poetry of Pre-Islamic Arabia, Joshua Michael Moore
Remembering How to Listen: A Theoretical and Pedagogical Approach to Literacy, Adolescence, and Young Adult Literature, Stuart A. Morris
On the Variations of 'Occupatio' in "Richard II", William Kelly Reeder
Spirit Don't Ever Die: Apocalypse and Denial in an Infinite Universe, Nathan Riggs
Monstrous Mobility in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Dracula, Autumn Danielle Weese
People Loved or Killed, Benjamin Earl Whisman
Commonest Crockery, Jacob Jeffrey Yordy
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
The End of Want, Anthony Blake
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
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
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