Theses/Dissertations from 2025
Creative Energies: Unearthing the Role of Romantic Ecocriticism, Nicole Marie Chambers-Stahl
If Heaven Has a Heart, Benjamin A. Clabault
The Wick of Youth, Brent Cronin
Mourning and Haunting in Irish Gothic Fiction from the Victorian Era to Modernism, Wenyu Kong
Romantic Materialities and the Politics of Care: Negotiating Movement in a More-Than-Human World, April J. McGinnis
Rivers, or Anything So Blue, Pilar Sophia Randolph
The Personal, the Political, and the Hope for a Better Future: Disrupting the Traditional Rape Narrative in Young Adult Fiction, Melissa Roberson
Disaster Supplies Kit, Sam Stebbins
Material Girls: Stories of Appalachian Women's Forgotten Work Culture, Sarah Ann Trautwein
Return to Me, Kelly Lynn Ward
Intersectional Embodiment: An Exploration of Women's Bodily Experiences in Contemporary American Literature, Olivia Marie Wertz
Kizuna, Emily Ann Yandel
Tiny Silent Deaths: A Novel, Elise V. Zukowski
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
ANF, Jackson R. Buttery
Your Eyes, Two Niles, Ola ElWassify
The Names of All Wild Things: Field Guides and Environmental Thinking, Frank Izaguirre PhD
Fire Sings in the Dark, Emily Merrick
Reimagining the Refugee Figure: Survival Migration and Its After-Affects, Gabriella Pishotti
Time On the Mountain, Matthew T. Powney
Reconceptualizing South Asia: Bangladeshi Literature and the Politics of Representation, Qazi Arka Rahman
The Closet of My Tennessee Mountain Home, Jonah Gabriel Stokes
Psychogenic, Shannon Lindsay Virtue
A Legacy of Labor: Maternity Narratives in 1960s and 1970s North American Life Writing, Katelynn Ann Vogelpohl
Control Freak Loser Bitches Need Love, Too, Megan Lynne Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
“I’ll Tell You No Lies”: An Exploration of Trauma, Memory, and Violence Against Women in North Carolina Murder Ballads, Madison Ava Helman
Looking Inward, Looking Back: John le Carré and the Spy Narrative after the Cold War, Rachel Lynn Hoag
TED Talk at the End of the World, Maryelizabeth Koepele
Rather Than to Seem: Black and Indigenous Narratives in a Stormy, Swampy South, Jennifer Denise Peedin
Headcase, Ashley Marie Preece
Epistemological Insecurity in the Anthropocene, Dustin Purvis
What’s Long about Long John Silver: Anormative Masculinities and Histories in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, David V. Riser
An Alternate History of the Bad Years: A Novel, Anna Hamilton Schles
Water in a Model River, Grace O'Neill Smith
All Signs Are Good, Liam Timothy Wholihan
A Practical Spellbook for the Bereft, Leslie B. Wilber
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Eco-material Rifts in South Asian Anglophone Fiction, Muhammad Manzur Alam
Bloomland and Other Stories, Vahid Arefi
Fasciotomies, Gabriel Bass
The Way Things Come Back And Other Essays, Rachael Taylor Bradley
Cattywampus, Katie Mae Clendenin
Jiří’s Ghosts, Karen Jean Klein
Bristle, Sharon Reynolds
Brideprice: Poems, Caroline Margaret Riley
In the Stomach of the Mud Pit, Morgan A. Roediger
Sacramental Ethnicity: Women’s Culture and Vernacular Religion in Twentieth-Century America, Aaron J. Rovan
On Taking Care, Kasey Renee Shaw
Beyond What's Missing: Silence in Women-Authored Novels from Wollstonecraft to Shelley, Kelli Wilhelm
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
In the Wild Night and Other Stories, Christl M. Caspar
Forty Weeks in 2020: A Future Father Faces his Fears, Storey William Clayton
Autumn Town, Matthew Dougherty
Past the Floral Cape, Vincent Frontero
Children of Sons, Cameron T. Green
With All Things Gone: Essays on Missing, Kenneth Joon Lee
One Hundred Wounded Men, Sarah Anne Lullo
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Black Walnuts and Other Stories, Jordan MacKenzie Carter
It Feels Like This: A Memoir, Anna K. Davis-Abel
We All Run in Circles: Essays on Belonging, David Joel Frame
Inside the Dollhouse, Amanda Marie Gaines
Recalling the Georgic: Land, Labor, and Literature in American Ecological Consciousness, Sam Horrocks
Early Black Poetry, Social Justice, and Black Children: Receptions of Child Activism in African American Literary History, Tabitha LaShay Joy Lowery
When We Go Back Forward, Luke Daniel McDermott
Storyland, Andy McIntyre
Sunday Born, Matthew Joseph Saporito
It's Getting Dark and Other Stories, Ellen Clark Skirvin
Bright Bones, Gabriel Sean Tapia
Prescribing the Profession: Representations of Medical Professionalization Debates in American Literary Forms, 1830-1940, Jeffrey Wayne Yeager
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Employment, Daniel Abdul-Latif Al-Daqa
Gevalt, or And Then the Strings Come In, Jacob C. Block
Material Disease: Agency and Illness in Early American Literature, Mariah Crilley
Color and Music, Shapes and Music, Kacey Lauren Ingram
The Quiet Art of Mourning, Kanza Javed
The Poet and the Prizefighter: Essays, Ryan A. Kalis
Red Like A Clown, Evan M. Kertman
It Wasn't That Fun But It Was Better Than Being Dead, Thomas W. Martin
I Can't Wait to be Water Again, Kayla McCormick
Before the Confetti, Everything on Fire, Lauren Elaine Milici
If Something Should Grow, Heather V. Myers
From Inside the House, Emilie Claire Shumway
Emily Dickinson's Echology: A Listener's Reconceptualization of Citizenship, Consciousness, and the World, Beth Ann Staley
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Constitutional Rhetoric: The Genre Performances of the Written Constitution in Transnational, Transcultural Contexts, Bhushan Aryal
Bermuda Ferris Wheel, Bryce Aaron Berkowitz
Affected Behavior: Deceptive Unities in Eighteenth Century Conduct Books, Dominique Angela Bruno
Urban Exile: City Poetry by Modern American Women, Hatley Clifford
Dissensual Women: Modernist Women Writers, the Senses, and Technology, Allyson DeMaagd
The Policy Dynamics of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (2000), Samantha E. Godbey
Under the broom tree, Natalie Kay Homer
Nobody laughed but me, Meredith Jeffers
Late Victorian Sexuality and Spiritualism: The Place of the Paranormal in Queer Erotic Partnerships, Sharon E. Kelly
Bloodroot, begonia, and goldenrod, Elizabeth Ann Leo
No ash will burn: stories, Jacob Charles Maynard
We still have time, Maggie Elizabeth Montague
Medical Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Katherine Richards
Strike anywhere, Katherine Margaret Saunders
The Semantics of Spanish Compounding: An Analysis of NN Compounds in the Parallel Architecture, Luis Miguel Toquero Perez
Ride, Natalie Nicole Updike
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Confessions of a tadpole, Whitney Allen Arnold
Metaphors of Reading: Cognition and Embodiment in Contemporary Metafiction, Amanda L. Bailey
Challenging the Dark Pools of Neoliberal Affect in Materialist Theories, Stephanie Buongiorno
"Here There Is No Plague": The Ideology and Phenomenology of AIDS in Gay Literature, Michael Alan Buso