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 2011
Confucian Relationships in the Twentieth Century: Revolutionary Road and the Five Basic Human Relationships, Dominic Lombardi
Living in a Petrified Forest: Exploring the World of Wheelers through an Ecocritical-Thoreauvian Lens“, Marie Palma
Reinforcing Indoctrinability: The Rejection of the Fortuitous Feminist Mutation, Lisa Pellacchia
Nightmare in Suburbia: Frank Wheeler in Revolutionary Road, Omar Reyes
Submissions from 2010
Spontaneous Me" to "Trickle Drops": The Progressive Change of Sex and Nature in Whitman's Leaves of Grass, Kacie Danielsen
“The Severance of a Powerful Bond: The Mother and Child Relationships in Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin", Samantha Davidson
Tragedy on the Wine-dark Sea: Ahab as Tragic Captain, Christopher James O’Brien
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Religious Crisis in Uncle Tom ’s Cabin, Emily Pratt
From the Mundane to the Spiritual : Connection and Camaraderie in Walt Whitman’s leaves of Grass, Elise Squillante
The Symbolism of Plants and Nature: A Transcendental Critique of Puritan Values in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Danielle Zoller
Submissions from 2009
Colonized: The Everlasting Effects of White Colonialism on Indigenous People, Meaghan Attella
Good Books: The Search for a Moral Center in John Steinbeck's Fiction, Kathleen Coleman
“From 'an inborn suffer’ to 'star crossed lovers’: William Shakespeare’s take on the Medieval French Courtly Love Tradtion”, Heather Dowds
Paving the Road to Identity: Landscape’s Impact on Character Disposition in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, Amanda Haskins
“'For stony limits cannot hold love out’: Examining Adult-Child Relationships in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations, Criste Linkletter
“'Then I defy you, stars’: The Loci of Free Will in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and Othello“, Kelli Mecartney
“'The ends justify the means’: Erasmian- Machiavellian Synergy in William Shakespeare's Ideal Leader”, Amanda Musto
“An Intertexual Tale of Two Mercutios: Baz Luhrmann Meets William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Sara Panaccio
Scalpers, Cannibals, and Babies Hung from Bushes: Justifying Violence in Cormac McCarthy’s Landscapes, Alyssa Schankman
Romanticizing Flawed Morality in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Kurt Schlangenhauf
Tracing Footsteps: Landscape’s Construction of Character in John Irving’s The Cider House Rules, Jamie Silva
“When I Love Thee Not, / Chaos is Come Again”: “Order,” the “Norm” and the “Other” in Shakespeare's Venetian Plays., Gregory Souza
Carrying the Fire: The Rebuilding of Morality and Identity in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, Sarah Stewart
Submissions from 2008
“Writing Oneself Free: ” Rewriting African American Feminine Identity in Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Ventura Adrien
"Ethereal Awakenings in Sir Orfeo: A Pagan Pilgrimage to Christian Enlightenment“, Danielle BaldassinI
“'Inside’/ 'Outside’ Courts: Ironic Inversions in Gottfried’s Tristan”, Danika Bishop
“American-Born Confused Deshi“: Marital and Farnilial Compromise in the Indian American Family, Jayda Laurel Blinn
“'Oh, it’s terrible being a woman’”: A Mexican Woman’s Struggle Against Invisibility in Sandra Cisneros’s Caramelo, Lindsay Marie Bourgeois
Weltanschauung!: Richard Wagner’s Variations on Gottfried Von Strassburg’sTristan in the Historicists’ mode, Jeff P. Brennan
“Caught between Here and There” : The Creation of the Transnational Bildungsroman in Sandra Cisneros’s Caramelo, Tavares Brian
“King Arthur and the 'Historical Imagination’: A De-Evolutionary Study”, Haleigh Bronson
“A Rose by Any Other Name”: A Cultural and Personal Perspective of Identity in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake, Meghan Kathleen Burt
Confronting a Dark Past: Overcoming Abuse and Securing a Bright Future in Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News, Rachel Chasse
“From Greek Epic to Medieval Romance: Heroic Journeys across Genre,Time, and Culture”, Sarah K. Chrapek
“A dissolving and a becoming all at once:” The Progression of the Female Bildungsroman from Sandra Cisneros’s Life and The House on Mango Street to Caramelo, Jana Heath Clark
“Pagan? Christian? Both of the Above? : Narrative, Arts, Architecture, and Religious Schizophrenia in the Middle Ages", Caroline Corr
Broken Bonds: The Ties between Love and Healing In Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine, Sarah Cournoyer
Countering Christian Cosmology: Louise Erdrich’s Animation of “The Great Earth Mother” through Rushes Bear and Marie, Smith Courtney
Motherhood: Marie Kashpaw’s Love Medicine, Kathleen Elizabeth Day
Chaucer’s Wife of Bath: The Birth of Superwoman, Amy Dornfried
When the Hyphen Clashes: Contexts of Literature and Identity in Lahiri’s The Namesake, Jessica Leigh Finocchiaro
“'Too wise to woo peaceably’ : Rebellious Women in Medieval Romance and Shakespearean Comedy", Nicole Greenspun
Don’t Stand Still, Wittman: Confronting Collective Cataloging, Michelle Grimaldi
The Stranger Within: The Close Connection between Pregnancy and Foreignness in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake, Mallory E. Haddon
“Am I My Brother's Keeper?: Ancient Iconographic Pairings in the Arthurian Cycle”, Amanda Harkness
