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English MA Theses

Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023

This Passing Shadow: The Role of Trauma in Reforming Individual and Cultural Identity in The Lord of the Rings and Anglo-Saxon Literature, Benjamin C. Benson

Moving Toward Global Feminism: Consciousness of Borders and Implementing Angry Feminism, Cameron Hallman

"Just Don't Frighten the Horses": Discussing Porn and Kink in Fandom Spaces, Hillary Hencely

The Impact of Emma: Destroying Stereotypes through Nuanced Characters in Text and Film, Julia McCool

Christian Allegories and Social Change in Southern Literature: A Comparative Study of Mason Tarwater and Atticus Finch in Flannery O'Connor's The Violent Bear It Away and Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, Marlee Ruark

Across Time and Genre: A Comparative Analysis of Eastern and Western Romanticism, Nayoung Seo

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

What the World Needs Now: Love, Humor and the Shakespeare Connection, Kelly Capers

Freeing the Black Final Girl in Postmillennial Zombie Horror: Race, Gender, and the Strong Black Woman Stereotype in 28 Days Later, The Walking Dead, & Z Nation, Makhalath Fahiym

Female Rage, Revenge, and Catharsis: The "Good for Her" Genre Defined in Promising Young Woman (2020), Tara Heimberger

Reclamation: The Crown of African American Identity, Lindsey Kellogg

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

Video Games are Where the Detective Story Has Always Belonged: The Progression of Detective Stories into Video Games, Robert Palmour

Noisy Transgressions: Gendered Noise, Female Voices, and Noisy Narration in Anne Bronte's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Brianna Phillips

Stand By Me: A Critical Analysis of Child and Young Adult Developmental Understanding of Race and Self Within Affect Theory using I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Between the World and Me, Song of the South, and The Hate U Give, Shereka Poole

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

Trauma, Violence, and Deathly Consequences: Female Justice in Contemporary Literature and Television Adaptations, Allie Owens

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

Beyond Marital Bliss: A Redemption of Motherhood in Jane Austen, Destiny Cornelison

From Terrorism to Feminism: Live-Action Superhero Films as Reflections of American Social Problems Post 9/11, Lindsey Poe

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

Something Rotten: Space, Place, and the Nation in Hamlet and As You Like It, Mikaela LaFave

Leaving Neverland for Narnia: Childhood and Gender in Peter Pan, The Secret Garden, and The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, Calabria Turner

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

The Horse and the Heroic Quest: Equestrian Indicators of Morality in Lancelot, Don Quixote, and Tolkien, Kirsten G. Rodning