Students in the graduate program for English develop a thesis or composition under the expert guidance of department faculty. Successful candidates earn a Master of Arts in English.
Theses/Dissertations from 2025
Utilizing Creative Writing Techniques in First-Year Composition, Brett Moss
Apotheosis, Cameron Eric Simmermon
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Mother Machines: Deified Domesticity and American Misogyny in Ira Levin’s The Stepford Wives, Emmaline R. Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Accessible And Activist Rhetorics: Tiktok as a Learning Tool, Dany Clem
Hooded, Madison Taylor McGinnis
Transhuman Bodies: A Survey of Three Avenues of Societal Critique from Literature with Cyborg, Android, and Clone Subjects, Wesley Sanders
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Identity Formation and Digital Spaces: A Nexus of Social, Sexual, And Character-Based Development and Their Educational Potential, James Anthony Ottoson
Humor As a Defense Mechanism In 19th-Century Women's Writing, Hannah Mae Shelby
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Metafiction As Anti-Genre Across Narrative Mediums, Jesse Matlock
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
The Pedagogy of Harry Potter: Teaching the Fantastic, Kayla Danielle Davis
A Song of Distant Memory, Andrew Devin Gadberry
The Shadow and the Song, Talena Michele McNeely
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Commune and Cult, Rachel Williamson
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Individualized Teaching in Composition: Finding Answers to Access in Speech-Language Pathology, Robin Everett
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
My Mind Made No Sound: The Downward Spiral of Scholars in One Act, Jacob Lorrin Buechler
Morbid Science & Monstrous Literature: Degeneration & Eugenics in R.L. Stevenson & Oscar Wilde, Justin H. Cook
“A Tool Knows Exactly How It Is Meant to Be Handled”: Posthumanism and Female Agency in the Works of Milan Kundera, Brennah F. Hutchison
Passing for Power: A Literary Look at Passing as a Means of Determining Identity and Claiming Agency, Jeanna Leah Mason
“In the End We All Come to Be Cured of Our Sentiments”: Violence and Cultural Anxiety in Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy, Stephen Michael Turner
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Medical Malpractice, Misdiagnosis, and Tragedy in Modern and Postmodern American Literature, Aaron Danell Hetrick
The Attic, Brandon S. Jones
Rhetoric of the Body: Renaissance Cadaveric Studies and Their Influence in Shakespeare, Leslie Renee Malland
Grrrls in the Underground: Punk Feminism in Composition Studies, Loren Skye Roberson
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
The One: A Comparison of the Solitary Hero in Eastern and Western Narrative Traditions, Mark Lovins
The Long Miles, Mark S. Towell
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
A Freudian View of Dilsey and Fulfillment in Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, Lauren Haley Adams
East Meets West: The Impact of British Novelists Upon Modern Arabic Fiction, Ghada D. Alghamdi
Azzan, Edward Anthony Belly III
The Cowboy Hero in American Fiction: Myth and Realism in The Virginian and Lonesome Dove, Lindsay Lane Penn
Full Metal Baskets, Tena R. Rosse
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Writing La Mestiza: Creating a New Chicana Identity in Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street and Woman Hollering Creek, Amber Lea Strother
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Three Seventeen: A Novel, Kerri Lynn Bennett
In The Slats of This Small Town: A Collection of Poetry, Maegon L. Mayes
Old Crow and Men, Emily Howard Pasmore
Autumn Leaflets: A Collection of Poetry, Kayla I. Shown-Dean
