Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Ground Level: Poems, Margaret Graber
"Sealed with a Kiss on Your Artery": An Archive of Southern Lesbian Desire, Sarah Margaret Heying
Alternative Southern Communities: Cultural Other "Asians" in Contemporary Fiction about the American South, Mariko Hiwatashi
The Politics of Being a Black Southern Belle, Latrice M. Johnson
Gym Theory: A Guide to Maximize Your Gains & Minimize Your Trauma by the End of the World, Joshua Nguyen
Reimagining the Radical: Gender, Genre, and Anti-Fascism in Women's Writing at Mid-Century, Allison Nick
The World Wide Web of Women: A Case in Favor of Global Feminist Coalitions in the Information Age, Hannah S. Phillips
“The War Will Be Over Sometime”: Female Authorship, Time, Trauma, and Healing in H.D.’s Wartime Works, Loren Samons
Assembled Authorship: American Women Writers and the Culture of Commonplacing, Seth Spencer
“To Save My Own Life:” The Revisionary and Sustaining Practice of Autotheory, Margaret Zee
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Cosmology of Wanderers, Hussain Ahmed
Chasing the Light, Nadia Alexis
Visitation, Ellie Black
Domestic Lives of the Worthless and Insignificant: Land and Labor in Eighteenth-Century British Literature, Mellissa Black
Down the Stream: The Evolution of Queer Stream-of-Consciousness Novels Through the Works of Virginia Woolf and Ali Smith, Turner Nat Byrd
The Taxidermist, Abigail R. DelBianco
A Clear View of the Mountain, Sarah Helen Huddleston
Foolish Games: Stories, Victoria Jayne Hulbert
FUGITIVITY, CONFINEMENT, AND THE AFTERLIFE OF SLAVERY IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN AMERICAN MIGRATION NARRATIVES, Juyoun Jang
Blood Tide: A Novel, Teagan Kessler
Bland Treacherous Water: Diluvial Epistemologies in Flood Narratives of the US South Since 1927, Sara Stephens Loomis
UNEARTHING THE OLD SOUTH/WEST: HISTORIES OF RACIAL CAPITALISM IN MODERNIST BORDER NARRATIVES, Bailey Moorhead
Clean. Freaks., Christopher Jackson Morris
Performance Cultures and Black Atlantic Literature, 1750-1833, Chinaza Amaeze Okoli
Mississippi Modernism: The River Valley and Race in American Culture, 1892-1945, William C. Palmer
The Queer and Trans Ecologies of Shakespeare's Ocean, Elijah Two Bears
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Nature's Converts: Reading The Land And Nature In The Early American Conversion Narrative, 1727-1831, Cullen Rex Brown
TEACHERS PERCEPTIONS OF USING YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE AS A CATALYST TO DISCUSS SOCIAL JUSTICE IN MISSISSIPPI CLASSROOMS, Shimikqua Ellis
Gestures of Dissent: Self-fashioning Performance from Southern Women Writers during the Fin de Siécle, Elisa Fuhrken
As Close As I Can Get To It, Kathryn Leland Henricks
The Meat of the Gothic: Animality and Social Justice in United States Fiction and Film of the Twenty-First Century, Amber Hodge
Dragon on a Dog Chain, Stephen M. Hundley
Less the Light, Michael Martella
The Black Petromodernism of Zora Neale Hurston: Energy, Race, and Mobility, Stuart Mullet
Philophilia, Andy Sia
Masculinity and Cold War Fairy Tales: Eudora Welty, Vladimir Nabokov, Donald Barthelme, and Ross Macdonald, Susan E. Wood
The Undoing, Mason Wray
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Lavender, Helene Achanzar
Candy Land, Hallie Beard
Beautiful And Terrible In The Face: Reconfiguring The Southern Beauty Myth Through The Short Fiction And Autobiographical Writings Of Eudora Welty, Katherine Elizabeth Howell
Konduga Dreams, Linda Masi
Come Clean, Joshua Nguyen
Carceral Matrix: Black Women's Writing In Response To Mass Incarceration, 1963-2019, Allison Michelle Serraes
The Killing Fields, Tyriek White
On Southern Soil: The Art And Ecology Of Racial Uplift, 1895-1950, Laura Wilson
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
The Plantation Pull: Modernities and Genre in the Anglo-Hispanic-Dutch Caribbean-Atlantic, 1831-1935, Natalie Magdalena Aikens
We know where you belong at: Institutions and Marginalized Bodies in the Literature of Charles Chesnutt, William Faulkner, and Eudora Welty, Michelle Lynn Ayers
Vicar Victoria: Writing the Church of England in Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Rachel Elizabeth Cason
Alaska and the arctic in the U.S. Imaginary, Ryan Charlton
Dialogic feedback and its effects on English language learners’ writing development: a case study, Shokhsanam Djalilova
Rambling blues: mapping contemporary North American blues literature, Josh-Wade Ferguson
Activist Modernisms: Human Rights and Anti-Totalitarianism in Mid-Twentieth Century Literature, Mary Ellen Gray
Of Mules and Mamas: Four Women, Africana Mothering, and Resistance, Ebony Olivia Lumumba
Decolonial resistance in latinx writings from Peru to the United States: a portfolio, Isabel Norwood
Road Trippin': Twentieth-Century American Road Narratives from On The Road to The Road, Scott M. Obernesser
Disturbing the Ecological Pastoral: An Examination of Willa Cather's Fictional Spaces in My Ántonia and Death Comes for the Archbishop, Anne Carter Stowe
Subverting the patriarchal panopticon: challenges to eugenics rhetoric in the novels of McCullers and Welty, Regina Marie Young
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
She is Right to Behave Thus: Implications of Illicit Rendezvous in Medieval Narrative, Catherine Albers
Medium Extra Vlue, Andrew Ryan Dally
RiverRoad, Reginald Fontenot
Freedom At The Freak Show: Carnivalesque Imagery In The Fiction Of Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor And Katherine Anne Porter, Virginia Mccarley
A Righteousness Housed in the Body: The Conception and Division of Kings' Bodies in Early Medieval Northwestern Literature, Sharon Miller Wofford
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
One or Two Things I Know About Us: Narrative Strategies for Autoethnography, Self-Representation and Healing in Four Memoirs by Poor-white Women from the U.S. South, Joseph Aaron Farmer
Book of Empire: The Political Bible of U.S. Literary Modernism, Barry Hudek
Speak'st, Art Sound: The Material Voice in Early Modern England, Nathaniel Philip Likert
A “Human Endeavor”: Killing In Contemporary U.S. Combat Narratives, William Mackenzie
Cold War New York: Postmodernism, Lyricism, And Queer Aesthetics In 1970s New York Poetry, Jared James O'Connor
Stand Perfectly Still: Statues, Nudity, and the Pygmalion Myth in Victorian Theatre and Culture, Maggie Elizabeth Wallen
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Strangers Among Us: Invasive Plants In British Literature, 1669-1800., Thomas Lance Bullington
How the soul slips in: Virginia Woolf's (un)natural history of dogs, Allison Castle Combs
The radical south: Grassroots activism, ethnicity, and literary form, 1960-1980, Elizabeth Fielder
Between Species: Biopolitics, Resistance, and Interspeciesality, Temple Jo Gowan
Chaucerian imperfections: The other and the turbulant self, Ahmed Seif
Maternal Melodrama and Modern Horror: Genre Hybridity in Southern Film, Sara Marcella Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
I eat shit food and am not worthy: Negotiating the queer weight of "white trash" embodiment in Dorothy Allison's Corpus, Rebecca Albright
Craig Santos Perez: Poetry as Strategy Against Military Occupation in Guåhan (Guam), Robert John Briggs
Material Melancholy: Stranded Objects In Modern Southern Women's Writing, James Travis Rozier
The dead rise the dead and walk among the living: An examination of the haunting South, queerness, and grotesqueries in Truman Capote's "Other Voices, Other Rooms" and "Local Color", Jordan Alexis Savage
Organic Angels: Innocence, Conversion, and Consumption in the Antebellum American Novel, Laura Jean Schrock
Kierkegaard And Byron: Disability, Irony, And The Undead, Troy Wellington Smith
The Delicate Art of Being: Psychological Responses to Environmental Damage in American Fiction of the 1970s, Andrew Timothy Thomas
Speaking in Wild Tongues: The Borderlands of Eudora Welty and Alice Walker, Sara Gabler Thomas
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
The Beowulf Poet's Accommodation Of Pre-Christian Germanic Culture, Walter Beverly
Modern(izing) Burial in Interwar American Literature, Victoria Marie Bryan
Uneven Ground: Figurations Of The Rural Modern In The U.S. South, 1890-1945, Benjamin S. Child
The Devotional Significance of the Cross in Medieval Literature, Laura Christine Godfrey
Cold War Pulp: Gender And Fiction In The Age Of Liberation, James Lewis Hood
The Ghost Of Ravishment That Lingers In The Land: The Beginnings Of Environmentalism In Seraph On The Suwanee And Go Down, Moses, Elisabeth Anne Wagner
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Generative Space: Embodiment And Identity At The Margins On The Early Modern Stage, Sallie Anglin
Dictated But Not Read, Kevin Cifarelli
The Epitome And Portrait Of Modern Society: Ouida As Social Barometer Of The Victorian Era, Lorraine Michelle Dubuisson
Gay Faulkner: Uncovering a Homosexual Presence in Yoknapatawpha and Beyond, Phillip Andrew Gordon
Re-Imagining America: Twenty-First Century Disaster And Salvation In Contemporary Fiction, Mary Ellen Gray
Narratives Of Southern Contact Zones: Mobility And The Literary Imagination Of Zora Neale Hurston And Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Kyoko Shoji Hearn
The Song We Sing: Negotiating Black Nationalism And Queerness In James Baldwin's Late Novels, Elliot N. Long
Matrices Of Disorder: Class, Race, And The Policing Of Normative Southern Femininity In William Faulkner's The Sound And The Fury, As I Lay Dying, Sanctuary, And Requiem For A Nun, Claire B. Mischker
Pedagogy And Identity In "The Night Lessons" Of Finnegans Wake, Zachary Paul Smola
Faulkner And "The Football", Jason Joseph Zerbe
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Wild & Wonderful: a Collection of Stories, Thomas Bennitt
One Time, One Place? Richard Wright and Eudora Welty's Shared Visual Politics in the Depression Era, Mallory Blasingame