MASTER'S STUDENT THESES
Recent thesis titles:
A Work in Progress: Recovering the Filipino Literary Voice of Survival
Normative Violence and Trans Masculinity in Macbeth and Twelfth Night
Literature for the Common Woman: Reading Early Novels, Penny Journals, and Fanfiction
Reimagining "Human": Anthropocene Small-Scale Readings of Inter- and Intra-Species Relationships in the Work of T.C. Boyle
Prism, Mirror, Lens: A Critical Companion to Samuel R. Delany's Dhalgren
Let's Disco: The Dance of Dark Ecology & Ecotheology in The Year of the Flood & Parable of the Sower
The Mediated, Medicalized, and Mortal: Tracing the Body through Don DeLillo's White Noise and The Day Room and Noah Baumbach's White Noise
"Customs Handed Down to Us": Colonialism and Healthcare in Nurse Bridget Hedderman's Glimpses of my Life in Aran
Parched: Thirst in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Being Nothing: Marguerite Porete's Mirror of Simple Souls and the Poethics of Annihilation
Tragedy of the Teenage Girl: Female Characters in Contemporary Shakespearean Commercial Film Adaptations
Predestination, Textuality, and Cosmic Horror in the Works of H.P. Lovecraft and Their Comics Adaptations
Chawlistan: Infrastructure, Form, and Development in Postcolonial Indian Literature
Folklore鈥檚 Potency in Addressing Irish Women鈥檚 Trauma
Architectural Poetry and the Museum Space
Haunting: Trauma and the Supernatural on the Contemporary Irish Stage
The Post-Agreement Northern Irish Bildungsroman
Stagecraft and Warcraft: Toward Theatrical Game Design
Robert Duncan and the Ethics of Poetry
Zero Hour, Neomedievalism in Margaret Atwood鈥檚 Dystopias
鈥淎 Place Already Made for Me鈥�: Reading the 鈥淏ody at Home鈥� in the Novels of Toni Morrison
Composing Home: Things, World, and Futurity in the Poetry of George Oppen
Adichie鈥檚 鈥淯nited League of the Oppressed鈥�: Du Bois and Double-Consciousness in Conversation with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Hiding in Plain Sight: Disability, Gender, and Race in 20th Century Literature
Exploring the Minds of Lost Souls in Contemporary Society: Jennifer Egan鈥檚 Portrayal of Globalization and its Effects on Selfhood
Recent field exam titles include:
"So Speaking as I Think, Alas, I Die": A Survey of Gendered Portrayals of Death and Dying Among Shakespeare's Tragic Women
Gothic Modernism: Exploring Race, Gender, and Sexuality through Haunted Women
Existential Literature: A History and Model
Screening Modernists: Reading Literary Modernism Through Cinema and Race
The Missing Mother: An Exploration and Analysis of Maternity in 18th and 19th Century Children鈥檚 Literature
The Thornton Manuscript: Popular Gentry Literary Consumption and Shifting Social Power in Mid-fifteenth-Century England
20th and 21st Century Queer and Feminist American Science Fiction
New Bodies and Enhanced Software: Constructing the Posthuman in Science Fiction
Space and the Nation-state in 21st Century American Immigrant Narratives
Seneca, Shakespeare, and the Silver Screen: The Ritual of Revenge
Lord Byron: Relationships, Character, and Lost Memoirs
Prison Witness Literature: Challenging the US Prison System and Conventions of Readership
DEADLINES
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STUDENT/ALUMNI NEWS
Alexandra Edwards '12 MA Awarded Honorable Mention from the MLA
Edwards received the honor from the Modern Language Association for their Prize for Contingent Faculty and Independent Scholars. She received the mention for her book, Before Fanfiction: Recovering the Literary History of American Media Fandom.