Access to the collection of English theses from 2023 and earlier is restricted to RWU English faculty members for curriculum-related purposes and is not available to the public. To view or download a thesis, please contact the English Department to obtain a password.
Submissions from 2024
All art is quite useless:" Uncovering Narrative Insincerity in The Picture of Dorian Gray, Alexander Davis Aiken
Frankenstein as Therapy: Mary Shelley's Journey Through Loss and Trauma, Laylo Makhkamdjanova
The Message Behind the Aesthetic: Intersections of Class and Sexuality in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, Matthew J. Milotakis
Character and Change in The Picture of Dorian Gray, Nicholas Morais
Alice's Possession in Wonderland: Controlling Girlhood in Alice in Wonderland, Callie Moran
Universal Deterioration: How Frankenstein's Failure to Adapt its Villain Stunts Literary Villains in Film Through to Modernity, Aidan Strahowski
Submissions from 2023
Time Has Not Been Kind: Adrienne Rich’s Portrayal of the Treatment of Women, Jorda Durfee
The Works of A Raisin in The Sun, The Bell Jar As Well As The Heidi Chronicles And The Feminism Shown Throughout, Rache Herren
Country of Atrocities: How if I Die in a Combat Zone and Sticks and Bones Depict Racism Against the Vietnamese During the Vietnam War, Jaden Militello
Our Normal Hearts Beat as One: Larry Kramer’s Use of W.H. Auden’s “September 1, 1939” in The Normal Heart, Mayson O’Marra
A White-Centric American Dream Exposed in ' A Raisin in the Sun’ and 'The Fire Next Time’, Zachary Reis
Shifting to Solitude: The Solo Female Identity in Late 20th-Century Feminist Literature, Sarah Skinner
The Silent Struggle: Misogynoir in RaIsIn in the Sun, Ana Swansey
Shattering The Jars: Exploring Feminist Narratives of Confinement, Agency, and Identity in The Bell far and The Heidi Chronicles, Jacqueline Tosi
Submissions from 2022
A Country of Unsettled Opinion: An exploration of W.B. Yeats' Irish Identity, Jackson Curran
"Can Irish Literature Be Considered Post-Colonial?": A Study of William Butler Yeats and James Joyce, Quinlan Finnegan
Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen's Anticipation of Modern Critical Theory, Maddie Geary
Employing Character: Jane Austen and the Reading Woman, Alison Henderson
As She Fills Her Dreams: Ninetheenth Century Women Poets Reclaiming Agency with the Sonnet, Sydney Lauer
Michelle Cliff's Abeng: Culturally Responsive Teaching in Context, Nicholas Ouellette
The Relationship Between Art and The Artist: Culturally Responsive Teaching in Context, Jacob Rodrigues
“Some Other Where”: Amy Levy’s Poetics of a Radical Queer Identity, Parker L. Schwartz
Submissions from 2021
Zootopia: Utopic American Dream… or Racist Reality?, Salvamarie Alifonso
Bridgerton: A Second Story of a White Washed Era, Libby Bennett
Storytelling Through Taylor Swift’s Folklore, Olivia DellIsola
The Uncanniness of Get Out and Stepford Wives, Samantha R. Gosselin
The Gilmore Girls’ Blind Subscription to Classism, Alexandra Lombardo
Jujutsu Kaisen: Akutami’s Radical Evolution of Shōnen Anime Protagonists, Ari Massos
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Satirical Parallels of Social Problems, Liadan O’Neill
Fight Like A Girl: A Feminist Analysis of Game of Thrones, Hailey Reed
Breaking Bad: Breaking the Pattern of the “American Dream”, Alexander Sanchez
An Attack on Japanese History and Nordic Myths Through Hajime Isayama’sAttack on Titan, Kara Sylvia
“Don’t Hold it Against Us”:An Appearance and Reality Analysis of Five Nights at Freddy’s: Sister Location, Amanda C. Vesey
The Loman’s and The Younger ’s Search for the American Dream, Gabriella Villanova
Submissions from 2020
The Challenge of Conformity and Censorship of the 1950s Criticized in Fahrenheit 451, Courtney Caouette
Redefining the American Man: Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, Emily Chaves
James Baldwin and Allen Ginsberg's Fervor For Social Change: Blasphemous Allegories, Jillian Damiani
The Myth of the Happy, Homecoming Soldier: J.D. Salinger's Exposé on Post-War, Lexi Dubovic
Dean Moriarty, Sal Paradise, and the Mechanical Hound: Technology's Negative Impact on Society, Edward Jackson
Searching for the 'Ancient Heavenly Connection': 1950s Faith Movements and the 'Counter-Religion' of the Beats, Megan Peters
The Myth of the Happy Woman in the 1950s: Lorraine Hansberry and Adrienne Rich, Kailyn Preston
Fahrenheit 451 and A Raisin in the Sun: Nonconformity and Family and Gender Roles in the 1950s American Texts, Bridget Shea
Fahrenheit 451 and On the Road: The Critque of Family Values, Joshua Spicer
The Influence of the Court Case, Hansberry v. Lee, on the Play, A Raisin in the Sun, Caitlin Wright
Submissions from 2019
A Dirtbag’s American Dream: An Ideological Analysis of Rugged Individualism in Free Solo, Garrett Bolton
The Dark Knight of Morality v. The Clown Prince of Crime, Jennifer L. Bryan
“A Man’s (Wo)Man:”A Gender Role Critique on Seinfeld’s Elaine and Susan, Kayla Meagan Fuller
