This collection includes theses, dissertations, and professional papers from the University of Montana Department of English. Theses, dissertations, and professional papers from all University of Montana departments and programs may be searched here.
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
The Claw & Other Stories, Virginia Coughlin
A Different Kind of Vision: The Critique of Consumerism in Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood, Nicholas L. Eilts
The H_Box, Rachel Finkelstein
“WE ON THE LAND”: COLLECTED ESSAYS IN ECOCRITICISM, Michelle Gullickson
WOMEN AND HORSES: THREE CENTURIES OF PATRIARCHAL CONTROL IN BRITISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE, Kaitlynn Hanna Hirst
ORPHIC ECOLOGY: MELANCHOLY AND THE POETICS OF ROBERT DUNCAN, Robert Nolan Knapp
TEACHERS AS WRITERS: OPENING THE DOOR TO DIALOGISM, Eric Mark Lynn
The Tonight, James Quentin McCrone
Red Line: Poems, Elliott James Niblock
Near Death Awareness by Sea and by Land, Kate Nitze
Brigham City, Brenden Clark Oliva
Eltopia, Brian Pillion
"What is Peoria for?": Reading as Spiritual Practice in David Foster Wallace's The Pale King, Jeremy Reed
Modern Fears, Julie Alisa Rouse
Stand Up Straight, Candie S. Sanderson
Animalia, Philip J. Schaefer
Fountain Keeper and the Away Mother: A Collection of Stories and Essays, Asta So
Stepping Outside: The Shifting Subjectivities of Post-Romantic Poetry, William John Soloy
Disappointing the Bouviers, Maud Eugenie Streep
An Anxious State: The Search for Identity and the Struggle for Peace in Irish and Palestinian Literature, Benjamin Patrick Sweeney
Space, Time, and Dominance in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Women's Gothic Short Stories, Katherine Wise
Here is the Church, Here is the Steeple, Dandan Diana Xin
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
This Particular Life, Elisabeth Ambury
Livewire, Jon James Backmann
The Utterly Complete History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Sean Alan Cleary
Narrative Reflection and Anatomical Introspection in Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus and Herman Melville's Moby Dick, Torey Elizabeth Davie
Queer Panic in Native American Literature, Theodore Cecil DeCelles
The Seeker Loves the Burden, Lauren de Paepe
OTHERLIFE, Kate Di Nitto
When the night hour stalks about the steeple that is when it's fine to look., Myrrah Dubey
Liars Like Him, Samantha Lynne Duncan
Here for Life: A Chapter & Stories, Gil Filar
THOUGH WE BLED METICULOUSLY, Josh Fomon
Gospel Night, Dana Fitz Gale
Pastureland, Mary Kathleen Harrington
Library Shipwreck Mountain Forest, Samuel Tyson Jack
Searching for a Place to Land, Carrie Ruth Laben
Performing at the Block: Scripting Early Modern Executions, Jennifer Lillian Lodine-Chaffey
The Normal Girl, Kaylen Mallard
Cool For America, Andrew Haig Martin
Variant Definitions: Essays and Ruminations, Johnathan Randall Moore
Getting on Nicely in the Dark: The Perils and Rewards of Annotating Ulysses, Barbara Nelson
Fiction Selection, James William Nokes
TOUCH-SCREAN MSS, Colin Post
Under The Bodhi Tree: Essays On Faith, Ryan Anthony Rickrode
ORDINAL, Alison Elizabeth Riley
You Thrive Now and Other Stories, Jordan Rossen
Excerpt from an Untitled Novel, Peter Kent Schumacher
The Sung Dynasty & Other Disaster Songs, William John Soloy
Imagining Boundaries: (Post) Humanist Understandings and Ecological Ethics in the Fiction of Margaret Atwood, Megan Kathleen Telligman
Poor Anima, Khaty Xiong
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Natural Disasters, Brittany Beth Barr
Fences & Fault-lines, Deadfalls & Snares, Mackenzie Cole
Monarchs, Carl Scott Corder
The Ecology of Empowerment: Gardens and Machines in Leslie Marmon Silko's Gardens in the Dunes and Almanac of the Dead, Adrianna C. Ely
Collections: Essays & Prose Poems, Zoey Ariel Farber
Straddling, Jayme Feary
Dirge in Georgia Minor, Clinton Wesley Garner, Jr.
People Pay To See This, James Andrew Gray
California City, Shawn Briana Haggerty
Talk About the Weather, Kate Rutledge Jaffe
Real Live Girls and Other Stories, Emily Karen Jones
Rostok, Kevin Kalinowski
MOVING TOWARD UNCERTAINTY: TRAUMA AND COMMEMORATION IN JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER’S EXTREMELY LOUD & INCREDIBLY CLOSE AND COLUM MCCANN’S LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN, Meghan Patrice Lewis
EXTREMELY VISUAL & INCREDIBLY COMMUNAL: TRAUMA, MULTIMODALITY, AND 9/11 LITERATURE, Katy Lynn McAlary
Element & Origin, Melissa Mylchreest
Bassalia, Laurel Nakanishi
The Whale and the World in Melville’s Moby-Dick: Early American Empire and Globalization, Zachary Michael Radford
Doublevision, Anthony Charles Ruzicka
Apples to Apes: Comparative Freedom in Modern Literary Art, Thomas Seiler
Etymology of the Word Haunt, Noel Elizabeth Thistle Tague
Immaculate and other stories, Emma Torzs
All The Ways Out of Here, Jennifer Duffield White
The First Gesture, Jeffrey Ryan Whitney
Densely Forested with Clearings as Seen from Above, Nathan George Yrizarry
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Torrents and Groundviews, Kerry Alexis Banazek
Gun Stories, Craig Matthew Barnes
WRITING NEXT TO THE WEST: A SPATIAL CONSIDERATION OF WOMEN IN THE AMERICAN WEST, Elizabeth Anne Boeheim
Black Hole, Alice Elizabeth Bolin
No Star Galore, Zachary Cody Lee Carlsen
CHARLES OLSON AND THE AESTHETICS OF NEGATIVE CAPABILITY: A DRAFTING OF POSTMODERNITY’S “PLAN FOR A CURRICULUM OF THE SOUL”, Timothy James Cook
Ezekiel, Brett Bennett DeFries
Literature Meets Biology: An Evolutionary Approach to Literary Studies, Samantha Reneé Dwyer
We All Make Mistakes, Elisabeth Marie Geier
The Worst, Molly Laich
Elizabeth Bishop's Photographic Poetics: The Peripheral Vision, Lise Lalonde
Once Removed, Rebecca Rodes Leaphart
The Looking and the Seeming, Melissa Catherine Leavitt
Tell Me Again What I'm Doing Here, Rebecca Margolis
Ransacked, Theodore Louis McDermott
Gaze Toward the City They Won't Enter Again, Mehgan McKenna
Directions To My Place, Nathaniel Ian Miller
VIOLENCE AND RHETORIC: NARRATIVE PRODUCTION IN THE WAKE OF HARPER’S FERRY, Nicholas Myers
The Dissociation of Darren Gregory Taylor: A Memoir, Doron Nadler
Breaking Sound Barriers: Reading the Jazz Novel as a Model for More Flexible Social Interaction in a Globalized World, Dustin Pace
Orphanhood and the Search for Home in L. Frank Baum's "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" and Boris Pasternak's "Doctor Zhivago", Amanda Marie Peterson
Aesthetics of the Brink: Environmental Crisis and the Sublime in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Aaron Francis Schneeberger
This Must Not Be the Place, Laura Lampton Scott
There Is No Light But for This Girl's Oil Stare, Hannah Christine Soukup