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Jane Austen, "A judicious person with some turn for humor"

McLaughlin, Melanie (2020-01-02)

This thesis discusses Jane Austen’s use of humor in her written works and the role humor plays to impart moral lessons to her readers. I borrow from a quote in Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman to ...
What is in a name: Olga Grushin's nameless protagonist, Mrs. Caldwell, in Forty Rooms as an "everywoman"

Gates, Andrew E. (2020-01-02)

This thesis is an investigation into the role of names within Olga Grushin’s Forty Rooms, in order to in understand the protagonist, Mrs. Caldwell, as an “everywoman” in which readers can see themselves. I use the names ...
"This fenced-off narrow space": an analysis of race and place in Maud Martha, All They Will Call You, and Owls Don't Have to Mean Death

Ellet, Hannah Camille (2020-01-02)

American contemporary and multicultural literature focuses on issues surrounding race. This project analyzes race through differing spaces, places, and environments in three works of 20th and 21st century American literature. ...
Mother outsider

D'Augelli, Carissa (2019-11-07)

“Mother Outsider” is a collection of poems that explores non-conventional motherhood while also pushing against cultural assumptions of motherhood. Questioning these societal assumptions and the speaker’s own questions of ...
How emotion works for both instructors and students in first year composition

Wallace, Ginamarie R. (2019-10-02)

Traditionally, emotion was viewed as something occurring only within individuals with those emotions being expressed outwards. Emotion is now being recognized as having relational and embodied components outside of the ...

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