Theses/Dissertations from 2014
The Subjection of Authority and Death Through Humor: Carnivalesque, Incongruity, and Absurdism in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian and No Country for Old Men, Ruth Ellen Covington
Echoes of Peace: Anti-War Sentiment in the Iliad and Heike monogatari and Its Manifestation in Dramatic Tradition, Tyler A. Creer
"No Goin' Back": Modernity and the Film Western, Julie Anne Kohler
In Search of an Author: From Participatory Culture to Participatory Authorship, Rachel Elizabeth Meyers
I Get a Thrill from Punishment: Lou Reed's Adaptations and the Pain They Cause, Jonathan B. Smith
Cathy Trask, Monstrosity, and Gender-Based Fears in John Steinbeck’s East of Eden, Claire Warnick
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Speaking for Himself: Odysseus and Rhetoric in Sophocles' Philoctetes, Christian Wiggo Axelgard
Going the Distance: Themes of the Hero in Disney's Hercules, Amy Elizabeth Burchfield
Devastating Diva: Pauline Viardot and Rewriting the Image of Women in Nineteenth-Century French Opera Culture, Rebecca Bennett Fairbank
Giving Birth to Empowerment: Motherhood and Autonomy in Greek Tragedy, Maggie Sharon Hoyt
Style, Discourse, and the Completion of the Vernacular Style in Modern Japanese Literature, Jacob Zan Adachi Lee
The Boreal Borges, Jonathan C. Williams
Memory as Ecology in the Poetry of Tomas Tranströmer, Richelle Jolene Wilson
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Building the New Rome: Charles Cameron as the Architect of Catherine the Great's New Eternal City, Inna A. Bell
Monsters and Mayhem: Physical and Moral Survival in Stephen King's Universe, Jaime L. Davis
Horace's Ideal Italy: Sabines and Sabellians in Odes 1-3, Keith R. Fairbank
Haunting the Imagination: The Haunted House as a Figure of Dark Space in American Culture, Amanda Bingham Solomon
Caesar's Bellum Gallicum Book 1 with Vocabulary, Notes, and Clause Subordination, James A. Stephens
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Embodied Culture: An Exploration of Irish Dance through Trauma Theory, Erica Burgin
Indigenismo in the Mexican Photographs of Tina Modotti: The Revolutionary and the Indigenista, Shannon Dame
Literary Love(r)s: Recognizing the Female Outline and its implications in Roman Verse Satire, Kaitlyn Marie Klein
From Obsurity to Fame and Back Again: The Caecilii Metelli in the Roman Republic, Dustin Wade Simmons
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Tensions Between Word and Image in Amalie Skram's Professor Hieronimus, Benjamin A. Bigelow
Aesthetic Self-Reliance: Emersonian Influence on American Art, Adrienne Lynn Rumsey
Crosses, Flowers, and Toads: Classic Maya Bloodletting Iconography in Yaxchilan Lintels 24, 25, and 26, Kirsten Rachelle Steiger
Ghouls, Hell and Transcendence: The Zombie in Popular Culture from "Night of the Living Dead" to "Shaun of the Dead", Jasie Stokes
Marilynne Robinson's Gilead as Modern Midrash, Robert J. Taggart
Paradox and Paradise: Conflicting Perspectives on Race, Gender, and Nature in Aminata Sow Fall's Douceurs du bercail, Catherine Gardner Guyon van Uitert
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Map, Manuscript, and Memory: The Emergence of an Anglo-Saxon Identity Between Origins and Apocalypse, Juliana Marie Chapman
Modernity and the Good Death: Heidegger and Jose, Anna M. Jensen
Interpreting the Sacred in As You Like It: Reading the "Book of Nature" from a Christian, Ecocritical Perspective, Candice Dee Wendt
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
The Conception of Irony with Continual Reference to Kierkegaard: An Examination of Ironic Play in Fear and Trembling, Julie Ann Parker Frederick
About the Gospel of John: Considering P66: A Literary History, or a Categorical Hermeneutic, Christopher Ryan Haney
Nineteenth-Century Theatrical Adaptations of Nineteenth-Century Literature, Kathryn Hartvigsen
Negotiating Identity in the Transnational Imaginary of Julia Alvarez's and Edwidge Danticat's Literature, Erik R. Kerby
Blurring the Lines: The Intermingling of Garden and Theater in Seventeenth Century France, Abbie Elizabeth Rufener
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Mythic Symbols of Batman, John J. Darowski
The Writing on the Wall: Chinese-American Immigrants' Fight for Equality: 1850-1943, Elizabeth Lyman
Liminal Butlers: Discussing a Comic Stereotype and the Progression of Class Distinctions in America, Katie Smith
Erring Knights of Desire: The Romance in Santa Teresa's Libro de la vida and Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Emily Marie Stanfill
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
The Birth of Sacrifice: Iconographic Metaphors for Spiritual Rebirth in Master Matthias' Isenheim Altarpiece, Katherine Lena Anderson
Willa Cather: Male Roles and Self-Definition in My Antonia, The Professor's House, and "Neighbor Rosicky", Kristina Anne Everton
Once Upon a Time in a Single-Parent Family: Father and Daughter Relationships in Disney's The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast, Ashli A. Sharp
Animism in Whitman: "Multitudes" of Interpretations?, Rachelle Helene Woodbury
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
Ironic Multiplicity: Fernando's "Pessoas" Suspended in Kierkegaardian Irony, Michelle Pulsipher Hale
Through the Eyes of Shamans: Childhood and the Construction of Identity in Rosario Castellanos' "Balun-Canan" and Rudolfo Anaya's "Bless Me, Ultima", Tomas Hidalgo Nava
P. Herc. 1570 Pieces 4, 5, 6a, 6b: [Philodemi] [De divitiis], Joseph Anton Ponczoch
Theses/Dissertations from 1995
"Properly Presented": The Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt, Taunalyn Ford Rutherford
Theses/Dissertations from 1985
The LDS Temple Baptismal Font: Dead Relic or Living Symbol?, Dale Verden Boman
Theses/Dissertations from 1984
A Pale Reflection: American Indian Images in Mormon Arts, P. Jane Hafen