Undergraduate Honors Theses in English
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Nothing Monstrous Existed Here: Uncanny Nature in The Southern Reach Trilogy, Morgan Mundy
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Haunted Mississippi: Ghosts, Identity, and Collective Identity, Hailey Cooper
Reevaluating Religion: A Case for Inclusivity of LGBTQ Christians in the Church, Amber Erin Dupree
A Modernized Fairy Tale: Speculations on Technology, Labor, Politics, and Gender in the Oz Series, Zachary Hez Hollingsworth
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
There's Only This: Atheism and the Search for Meaning in Ian McEwan's Fiction, Olivia Hope Davis
All Things Loved and Unlovable: Discovering Southern Identity in Black Migration Novels, Michael Holman
Photographic Representations of the South: Eudora Welty and Doris Ulmann, Molly Maher
Macbeth in Film: Directorial Choices and Their Impact on the Audience, Kellie Suzanne McClelland
Everybody's Story: Gertrude Stein's Career as a Nexus Connecting Writers and Painters in Bohemian Paris, Elizabeth F. Milam
Nella Larsen: An Untold Story of Race through Literature, Bria Stephens Stephens
From the Attic to the Screen: An Adaptation of Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea, Farrah F. Sunn
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
A Neural Network Approach to Handwriting Recognition in the Codex A, Eleanor C. Anthony
The Evolution of the Vampire Other: Symbols of Difference from Folklore to Millennial Literature, Kate Buckley
OneWorld Stories: Intercultural Competence Through Literature, Jessica M. Bunch
The Mockingjay Phenomena: A Study on the Position of Young Adult Women in Dystopia, Hannah Hultman
Economic Enchantment in Eudora Welty's A Curtain of Green, Elizabeth Moore
Read Me: The Emergence of Female Voice in American Epistolary Fiction, Allison Melissa Ramsey
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Colorism and African American Women in Literature: An Examination of Colorism and its Impact on Self-Image, Jakira Davis
Gender Performance, Trauma, and Orality in Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun and Purple Hibiscus, Lauren Elizabeth Rackley
Honestly, woman, you call yourself our mother?: Mothers and Witches in Harry Potter, Mary-Eileen Rankin Rankin
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Suffering and Coping in the Novels of Anne Tyler, Camden Story Hastings
A Joy Observed: The Study of Transformation through the Life and Literature of C.S. Lewis, Meagan Henry
The Reality of Utopian and Dystopian Fiction: Thomas More's Utopia and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Casey Holliday
Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Aurora Floyd Revisited: an Experiment in Neovictorianism, Vivian Walker Lang
Physicians, Patients, and Poets, Mary Ball Markow
Gravity in a Jar: A Poetic History of the People, Places, and Events of Detroit, Morgan McComb
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
A Comparative Analysis of the Trickster Figure in Africa, the Caribbean, and North America, Douglas Odom
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Love's Labour's Lost 2.0: exploring identity formation on Facebook and beyond, Mitchell Watson Hobbs
Shakespeare's Newest Stage: The Reshaping of Cultural Capital Through Youtube, Ben G. Long
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Assia Djebar and the Algerian Woman: From Silence to Song, Mary Maher