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 2017
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
Intersectionality in Jane Eyre and its Adaptations, Laurel Loh
Engineer as Writer and Woman: Gender, Identity, and Professional Discourse, Jennfer C. Mallette
“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
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
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Decoding Literary AIDS: A Study On Issues of the Body, Masculinity, and Self Identity In U.S. AIDS Literature From 1984-2011, Alexander Shimon Abrams
Mossy Bottom Golf and Hunt Club, Andrew Joseph Albertson
After Orwell: Totalitarian Fears and the English Political Novel, 1950-2010, Jackson Ayres
Reading and Religion: Reconciling Diverse Reading Patterns and the First Year Composition Classroom, Evelyn Baldwin
Contentious Conversations, Missing Voices: The Ongoing Debate about Style, Megan Yates Grizzle
Occupying the Pedestal: Gender Issues in Ellen Gilchrist, Karon Reese
Winter Burial, Corrie Williamson
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Paradigms of Style: A Study of Zulfikar Ghose's Novels, Abu Ul Wafa Mansoor Ahmed Abbasi
Shark, Remembered: Stories, Benjamin Kaj Anderson-Bauer
Happily Ever After? Redefining Womanhood and Marriage in Nineteenth-Century Novels, Laura Elizabeth Cox
Becoming Pearls: Patterns of Social Reading in Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Rachel Elizabeth Gould
Playing Devil's Advocate: The Attractive Shakespearean Villain, Jonathan Montgomery Green
Wayfaring Strangers: A Case Study of Rural Developmental Writers in the Missouri Ozarks, Robert Andrew Griffith
Performing Literacy: How Women Read the World in the Late Eighteenth-Century British Novel, Amy Hodges
Creating and Maintaining a Community Literacy Project in Northwest Arkansas, Sarah Nicole Holland
Dickensian Characters in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter, Alison McKeever
Two Radio Plays by Günter Eich: The Hundredth Name of Allah and Zabeth, Thomas Andrew Meunier
The Children of Cain: Melville's Use of the Abject Lineage from the Bible, Joseph Matthew Meyer
The Literacy Practices of Law Enforcement, Leslie Eames Seawright
Girls Who Live Alone: Stories, Erika Seay
Whores & More: Selected Stories by Hernán Migoya, Nikki Noreen Settelmeyer
Ideology in Popular Late Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Children's and Young Adult Literature and Film, Iris Grace Shepard
The Androgynous Tomboy: Adolescent Liminality in the Contemporary Southern Bildungsroman, Brooke Alexandra Shippee
A Proposal for a Writing Center and a Peer Tutor Training Course at Fayetteville High School, Katie Colleen Stueart
Happily Ever After Take Two: Rewriting Femininity in Hybridization Fairy Tale Films, Megan Estelle Troutman
Public Parks and Private Ideologies: Building Nineteenth-Century British National Identity Through Landscape, Laura Swaim Witherington
This Chance Map, Tobias Wray
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Sublime Beauty & Horrible Fucking Things - The Finer Worlds of Warren Ellis, William James Allred
Early Modern Evil Genius: Hyperconformity and Objectivity in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century English Literature, Christine Hoffmann
The Thundering Throne: Personality, Poetics, and Gender in the Court of King Henry VIII, Rebecca Marie Moore
Returning the Ticket: Rejecting God in Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov and Hardy's Jude the Obscure, Molly Throgmorton
When Men Cry: Male Demonstrations of Grief in Beowulf, The Song of Roland, and Sir Orfeo, Lindsey Beth Zachary
