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 2015
Religious Drama: Seeing Religion for What it Really is Through the Lens of 1950s Drama, Marchand Kevin
Holden Caulfield’s and Sal Paradise’s Relationship Failures due to a Lack of Familial Connection, Connor Lahey
Eugene O’Neill’s lo mg Day’s Journey Into Night: A Milestone in American Religious Skepticism, Margaret Ann McLaughlin
"Exploring the Wreck:" The Poetic Conversation about Domesticity in 1950s America, Christie Mercuri
The Longing for the Natural World in the Literature of the 1950s, Steven Scherer
“Guy Montag and the Characters at Fahrenheit 45 ll Their Desire of the Impossible Escape from Dystopian Society“, Jennifer Stanley
Submissions from 2014
Into the Light: Stylistic Reflections of the Enlightenment in Voltaire’s Candide, Rachel Caruso
Trapped Inside "The Man Box" : The Victorian Med of Gustave Flaubert and Thomas Hardy, Stephanie Coyle
“An Order of Christianity, Hold the Christ”: Thomas Hardy’s “Religious Menu” in Tess of the d’UrberviIIes, Erin R. Giroux
School’s Out For Women: Skills, Schooling, and Successin Daniel Defoe’s MoU Flanders, Alexandra Godino
“The StrumpetTriumphs: Evangelicalism, Mary Magdalene, & Daniel Defoe’s Moll“, Aimee Kaufman
Individualism vs. Communitarianismin Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones, Stephanie MacLaughlin
“Sancho Panza, Illiterate Voice of Reason: A Study of Irony in Miguel De Cervantes’ Don Quixote“, Matthew Manfredi
From Jail-Bird to Gangsterto Gentlewoman: The Rise of the Female Hero in Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders, Jesse Ramos
Yes, Women Are Human: Gender Confusion in Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders and Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D 'Urbervilles, Alexi Schwartzkopff
"Wonder-Bookof the MysteriousEast": Othering through Defamiliarization in English Translations of The Arabian Nights, Chelsea Silva
“The Grassisn’t Always Greener: Realism and the Transformative Motif of Country and City in Voltaire’s Candide", Gregory Wolf
Submissions from 2012
Dawson’s Creek'. Complexity vs. Didacticism in Youth Culture, Sprague Abigail
Justifying the Finale: Hierarchical Truths in The X-Files, Ashley Aliengena
"Because it’s Where My Family Goes": An Ideological Analysis of Racism and Anti-Racism in The Blind Side, Silva Amanda
Drive: Deconstructing the Hero, Alexandra Artiano
I Love The Hunger Games-. What Does That Mean?, Mallorey Blake
“I’m Finished!”: Yielding to Capitalist Ideology in There will Be Blood, Studley Caitlin
Once Upon a Time: Breaking the Binary between Fiction and Reality, Reagan Danielle
From the Shadows of Fangorn to the Fires of Mount Doom: Individuation in the Hobbits of The Lord of the Rings, Chapleau David
Incommensurate Values: An Ideological Analysis of Breaking Bad, Zucker Devin
“The Pirates Don’t Eat the Tourists”: Jurassic Park and The Dangers of Frankenstein’s Creation, Mullin Elizabeth
Imploding False Consciousness and Igniting Praxis: A Marxist Analysis of WALL-E, Perreca Elizabeth
Forrest Gump: Promoting “Conservative Acceptance”, Rann Emily
Childhood Lessons of Evil: An Examination of Disney Villains, Davis Hailey
Breaking the First Rule of Fight Club: An Analysis of Gendered Social Reformation, Wolf Jared
“How Do You Like Them Apples?”: Good Will Hunting’ s Alternative Path to Success, Wilson Kaleigh
Convincing Matthew Arnold to Read Jodi Picoult: The Plain Truth about Popular Culture, DeAngelis Kara
Facebook Phenomenon: Becoming the "Authors'’ of Our Own Selective Fiction, Marshall Katherine
From Apocalyptic Realism to Utopian Idealism: Illuminating Studio Ghibli’s Transnational Resonance, Torres Kathrine
The Princess Fantasy: Does Disney Poison Consumer Culture?, Sweeney Kayla
Dissolving Barriers: Across the Universe, Rae Kelly Anne
Invisible Hegemony: An Examination of Patriarchal Structures in Harry Potter, Tangled, and Shrek, Ragone Kristina
Redefining the American Family: A Feminist Analysis of Juno and Knocked Up, Dzialo Laura
Christopher McCandless: Into the Wild’s Marxist Martyr, St. Aubin Laura
Rubbernecking the Jersey Shore, Meinzer Marguerite
Star, Stripes, and Spandex: Captain AmerIca Retconning the America Heroic Ideal, Rafferty Mary
Lotso Love is Missing in the Toy Story Series, Lee Michelle
Mocking the American Dream?: An Ideological Analysis of The Offlce, Duncan Samantha
“Time is Money, and Money is Time:” A Marxist Analysis of in Time, Zatir Sara
Seeking Balance: A Sustainability Framework Analysis of Into The Wild, Jessica Sasso
A Transformation in Popular Culture Stereotypes: Changing Representations of the LGBTQQ Community, Tracy Smith
