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 2008
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
The Dwarf: From Pagan Deity to Christian Deceiver, Michael Hodgson
“Allusive Echoes: Harry Potter and Hogwarts Meet King Arthur and His Court ”, White Karen
Merlin as Cultural Metaphor: Pagan Warrior to Christian Prophet, Andrew LaCroix
Miles Davis Meets Toni Morrison in a “ 'Round Midnight” Beloved, Ashley Lago
“Androcentrism and the Iconographic Holy Grail: Re-Envisioning Chr6tien de Troyes’ Perce\JaI“, Wind Laura
“The Truth About Stories is That’s All We Are”: Form and Meaning in Louise Erdrich’s Fiction, Wells Lee-Ann
The Medieval Chivalric Knight: Seeking Sexual Pleasures or Spiritual Attainment?, Tijani Mouad
Sustaining Storytelling Tradition: Narrative Choice in Louise Erdrich’s Fiction, Ashley Pappas
American Beauty: Walt Whitman in Maxine Hong Kingston’s Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book, Neil Phillips
Beloved: A Post-Modernistic Mother-Daughter Ghost Story, Linda Pratson
"The Knight of the Lion and The Hunt of the Unicorn: Pagan and Christian Synergy in Medieval Arts”, Kelly Ridge
Tongues and Tradition: Cultural Identity through Narrative Voice in Louise Erdrich’s Fiction, Zemina Sharon
Factors That Shape a Child’s Identity in Sandra Cisneros’s Caramelo: Parenting First, Cultural Influence Second, Shunsuke Shiga
“No Fair! Why Does He Get to Rule? He Ate the Fruit Too’: Inverted Gender Roles as Cultural Commentary in Aucassin et Nicolete, Shocki Stephanie
Submissions from 2007
"Blake's Joy and Sorrow: Intertwining, Contrary Emotions of the Human Soul in Songs", Nicole Cochrane
“Holy Thursday“ and the Hypocrisy of False Charity, Christal DaSilva
William Blake’s “The Lamb“ and “The Tyger“: Innocent and Experienced Visions of the Moral and the Aesthetic, Anne Eckstrom
“weep weep“: Blake’s Cry for the Chimney Sweepers, Carrie Fair
William Blake: An Early Feminist, Allison Frascatore
The Ambiguity of the Angel Archetype in Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Erin Landers
Peaches in the Mid-Day Hour: A Process of Spiritual Discovery in William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Anthony MacDonald
About a Boy? Archetypal and Structural Ambiguity in Blake’s “The Little Black Boy“, Colleen Olsen
Clues from the “Caves of every beast“: Lions as Exemplars of William Blake’s Vision of Spiritual Potential, Frances Parise
Moral and Immoral Authoritarianism in William Blake’s Nurses’ Songs of Innocence and Experience, Lauren Perreca
Blake’s Gnosticism: Heretical Visions of Man, Christ, and God in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, “The Divine Image,“ and “The Human Abstract“, Alexander Ruggeri
Blake’s Condemnation of a Suppressed Society: “ London“, Paul Sousa
Submissions from 2006
These fragments I have shored against my ruins-. Time as a Reconstructed Unity in T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, Amy Christine Albrecht
falling in love, the noise of the typewriter, the smell of cooking: Disparate Experience and the Metaphysical Tradition in The Waste Land, Marissa L. Carrere
“I do not find The Hanged Man“: The Presence of the Myth of the Fisher King in T.S.Eliot’s The Waste Land, Elizabeth L. Courcelle
“'Tell us something Sir.’ And he told them 'DA’.“ Buddhism and Hinduism in T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, Daniel Michael Jensen
Songs of Lament: The Waste Lands Bird Imagery, Theresa Page
If there were only water amongst the rock: Earth and Water Imagery in T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, Laura Jean Rickmyre
I was neither / Living nor dead, and I knew nothing: The Theme of Loss in T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, Alison Robbins
Sibyl, what do you want?-. The Sibyl of Cumae and Themes of Entrapment, Solitude, and Stasis, Alexandra Waltien
Submissions from 2005
"That Pebble's Watery Echo": William Faulkner's View of History and Time informs his Narrative Style in Absalom, Absalom!, Elizabeth Ayer
"Symbols of the Woods in O'Connor's Short Fiction", Ross Baker
Domestic Abuse in A Streetcar Named Desire: Why Stella stays with Stanley, Shana Barrett
Myth and Folklore in Eudora Welty's Short Stories, Keri Blais
"Broken on the Rock of the World": Blanche in Tenessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire, Melissa Bourque
