About this Collection
The works in this student research collection have been approved by the Graduate Faculty of Georgia Southern University as partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Arts in English from the College of Arts and Humanities.
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- Legacy Theses and Dissertations (1964-2006)
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Theses/Dissertations from 2024
There and Back Again: Nick Adams' Masculine Journey from 'Indian Camp' to 'Fathers and Sons.', Michael F. Basista
The Monster Mash: A Monster Studies Approach to Literature in the University Classroom, Megan L. Bowen
Ethics in Literature: A Case Study of Hades and Persephone, McKenzie A. Howard
Religious Iconography, Expressionist Lighting, and the Antihero's Spiritual Journey in Marvel's Daredevil, Savannah L. Pruett
The Othered Mothers: Monstrous Motherhood in Dracula, Dawn, and Nightbitch, Makay C. Walsh
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Constructing (un)Situated Women: Situated Knowledges in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things (1997) and Balli K. Jaswal's Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows (2017), Necole T. DeLoach
Nice Girls, Wild Women: The Call of the American Wilderness and Feminine Rejection of the American Dream, Alice Paige Dillard
Ruptures in Indentures in Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies and Unaccustomed Earth, Prabal D. Gupta
Maternal & Spiritual Healing in J.D. Salinger's Nine Stories, Emily Pittman Hoste
"Why do you keep alone?:" Isolated Women in the Plays of Shakespeare, Alexus Litchfield
The Portrayal of Disability in 19th and 20th Century American Novels, Taylor Whittington
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
American Performance: Artistic Experience and the American Dream, Savannah M. Barrow
The Heroine’s Journey: Reimagining Le Morte D’Arthur And The Star Wars Saga From A Female Point Of View, Ashley Campbell
The Tragedy of Caspian: C. S. Lewis and His Trauma, Chandler Hanton
Murder She Wrote: Victorian Women and Deviant Desires, Sarah E. Knowles
The Funeral's the Thing: Unification Through the Burial Rite in Hamlet, Ferrell J. Mowell
The Medieval “Chosen One” In Modern YA Series: A Cultural Wonder, Emily S. Nipper
Crippling Stagnation: Disability Imagery and the Handicapped South, Amber L. Stickney
"A World of Mists and Shadows": Women's Experience in Ireland as Portrayed in James Joyce's "The Dead" and Kate O'Brien's Without My Cloak, Megan S. Stone
Femininity Reclaiming Chivalry in the Harry Potter Series, Ashley M. Watson
A Form Of Our Own: An Examination of Black Sonnet-Samplers, LaVonna D. Wright
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Cultures and Colonization in Tamora Pierce's Young Adult Novels, Jessica R. Dube
The Significance of the Automobile in 20th C. American Short Fiction, Megan M. Flanery
The Language of Trauma in Roxane Gay's Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, Cydney Price
Teaching Trauma in Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life, Kat Shuman
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Images of Ancient Egypt and the Gender Politics of The Faerie Queene, Genavieve Alt
Whitewashing Who We Worship: Amelioration and Cultural Imperatives in Neil Gaiman’s American Gods, Samantha Bauer
Representing the Holocaust: Bearing Witness in Levi, Wiesel, and Sebald, Marissa Capizzi
Imagined Communities: The Individual and the Nation in Aw's Map of the Invisible World and Rushdie's Midnight's Children, Yu Chia Chang
Nine Stories and the Society of the Spectacle: An Exploration into the Alienation of the Individual in the Post-War Era, Margaret E. Geddy
Maladaptive Grief: Irish and American Experiences of Loss, Mourning, and Trauma, Abby Hey
On Voyeurism: Being Seen on the Modern Stage, Megan M. Mobley
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
From Wanderer to Warrior: Martin's Journey to Sainthood in Brian Jacques's Redwall Series, Marie A. Bliemeister
From Beyond The Grave: Dead Narrators In Young Adult Literature, Jessica L. Branton
"Solace for [the] very soul": The Role of Trees within the American Short-Story Cycle, Breanna B. Harris
A Critical Introduction of the Life and Poetry of Mary Gardiner, Michael F. Maloney
The Subaltern as Surrogate: Identity and Gender in Contemporary Postcolonial Novels, Jackson T. Turner
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Not Cruel, Blessed, or Merciful: Pratchett, Gaiman, and the Personification of Death, Kiki V. Canon
Sacred and Profane Loves: The Renaissance Influence in C.S. Lewis' Till We Have Faces, Kevin Corr
The Significance of the Game of Pool in Ernest Hemingway’s “Soldier’s Home”, Molly J. Donehoo
Imperial Anxiety and Irish Myth: A Case-Study of T.C. Boyle’s Water Music, Connor Mabry
The Miseducation of Irie Jones in Zadie Smith's White Teeth, Amanda S. Medlock
Androgyny and Success in Willa Cather's O Pioneers! and My Antonia, Dana Price
The Classical Versus the Grotesque Body in Edith Wharton's Fiction, Joshua T. Temples
The Quest for Autonomy in the Postmodern Fiction of Breece D'J Pancake and Adrian Tomine, Jonathan H. Walsh Mr
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
The American Pastoral Tradition and The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake, Christopher Blackburn
“There Was That in Her Face and Form Which Made Him Loathe the Sight of Her”: Disfiguration and Deformity of Female Characters in 19th Century American Women’s Literature, Kelsi E. Cunningham Miss
Jackson & Jones: Black Nihilism and the African-American Condition, Ray Andrew Delva
'Light Passed on from an Original Flame': Marilyn Nelson's Cross-Writing, Amanda H. Ford
“We're All Part of Each Other's Harmony and Everything”: Vedantic Influence in J.D. Salinger's Nine Stories, Kaitlyn Johnson
Counterrevolutionary Matters: Women's Issues in Nikki Giovanni's Black Feeling Black Talk/ Black Judgement, Kendra Mazeke
"Goo-prone and generally pathetic": Empathy and Irony in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, Benjamin L. Peyton
Femme Fatales and the Shifting Gender Norms of the 19th Century, Esther M. Stuart
Female Art and Artisans in Edith Wharton’s the House of Mirth, the Custom of the Country, and “Roman Fever”, Julia B. Welch
Shakespeare's "Honest and Vertuous" Ensigns: Transgressing the Military/Domestic Divide in the Henriad and Othello, Matthew R. Wentz
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Egypt's Struggle Between Islamic Traditions and Western Modernity in Midaq Alley (Zuqaq al Midaq) and The Yacoubian Building (Omaret Yacoubian), Asmaa S. Mansour Ms.
The Performance of Gender in Sir Philip Sidney's Astrophil and Stella, Desiree' M. Riley Miss
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Living in the Margins of Life: The Intersectionality of Identity, Race, and Sexuality in the Selected Works of Audre Lorde, Briona S. Jones
Not (Just) Donne: Alchemical Transmutation as Immortality in Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Brandi L. Moody
The Significance of a Religious Pilgrimage in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, Sheila R. Nielsen Ms.
Functional Violence in Martin McDonagh's The Lieutenant of Inishmore and The Pillowman, Lindsay Shalom
From This Dark Place to the Other: Violence and Connection in the Poetry of Brian Turner, Alan R. Swirsky
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Creating Socialization and Empathy through Athletics in Chris Crutcher’s Fiction, Joseph P. Korwin
Eye for the Gap: Frenzy, Liberty, and the Nietszchean Chorus in Conor McPherson's The Weir and Shining City, Frances Krieg
Amongst Women”: O’Brien, Beckett, and The Magdalen “Réamhscéal, Tiffany N. Manning
Blood as a Binding Agent in Cormac McCarthy's _The Crossing_, Erin M. Martin
Folklore for a New Generation: Charles Chesnutt's Updated Trickster Figure, Peter McCollum
The Biopolitics of Famine: British Means of Colonial Control, Aaron E. Roberts
“For He Contained Within Him a Largenesss Of Spirit:” The Duality of Billy’s Spirit, The Hope for Humanity in Cormac Mccarthy’s Border Trilogy, Jessica Y. Spearman
Questing the Beast: From Malory to Milton, Malorie A. Sponseller
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
The New Man: Evolving Masculinity in F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise, "Winter Dreams," and "The Swimmers", Adrian Nicole Coursey
Irreconcilable Oppositions: "Es Muss Sein" and The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Angela C. Milton
Narrating Literary Transnationalism in Zake Smith and Dave Eggers, Nelson Shake
Nothing More Delicious: Food as Temptation in Children's Literature, Mary A. Stephens
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Feminine Critique and Domestic Mystique: Representations of the Home in Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Lyndsey Brown
Portraits of Progress: The Rise of Realism in Jane Austen's Clergy, Rachel Elizabeth Cason
"What shall we use to fill the empty spaces?": Displacement in Frank Norris's McTeague, Jennifer Bugna Lambeth
Monster Quest: Background Myth and Contemporary Context of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Conqueror Worm", Farrah Senn
On the Verge of Change: Eudora Welty's Delta Wedding, Mallary Taylor
With Cordelia in His Arms: The Impact of Gender Roles in Shakespeare's King Lear, Charles J. Yow
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
The Sun Also Sets: British Authors and the Death of the Empire, Brian Butler
Appealing to the Middlebrow Reader: Changes Made to Richard Wright's Black Boy, Donald R. Hatcher
Te Sequor: A Study of Pope's Observations on The Iliad of Homer, Drew Nathaniel Keane
Fear and Fascination: A Study of Thomas Hardy and the New Woman, Anita Sandlin
"Oberon's Henchman; Or The Legend of The Three Sisters" by Matthew Gregory Lewis: A Critical Edition, Erin Waddell
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
The Effect of Mentorship: A Test of Strength and Survival in Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie & Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth, Kathryn Agliata
"A Soft Lad the Like of You": Complex Father-Son Relationships in Three "Millennial" Irish Texts, Marla Suzanne Bruner
Scouting for a Tomboy: Gender-Bending Behaviors in Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird, Laura Hakala
Kinship: Margaret Mitchell's Gone With The Wind and the Irish Big House Genre, Patricia Homer
The Village Mother in Selected Works of Toni Morrison, Taqwaa Falaq Saleem
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Cultural Power and Utopianism in Laurie Halse Anderson's Prom and M.T. Anderson's Feed, Leah Dinatale
Distance and Intimacy in Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad, Dara Gibson
Love, Lust and Literature in the Late Sixteenth Century, Kristin J. Johnson
All the Beef to the Heels Were in: Advertising and Plenty in Joyce's Ulysses, Mindy Jo Ratcliff
In Fairyland Or Thereabout: The Fairies as Nationalist Symbol in Irish Literature by and after William Allingham, Cassandra M. Schell
Troubling Women: Female Texts and Voices of the Northern Irish Conflict, 1969-1998, Kelly M. Twilley
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
"As-Yet-Still-Forgiven Past": Dylan Thomas and Nostalgia, David Bradley Bailey
Resurrecting the Anonymous: An Introduction To Mary Steele, the Author of Danebury and The Power of Friendship, A Tale with Two Odes by a Young Lady, Amanda J. Holmes
