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 2011
Private Life, Lindsey Elizabeth Wallace
Inside Passages, Keema Waterfield
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Red Trees and Why, July Oskar Cole
Foxgloves, Molly Gartland Curtis
Taming the Wild: On Womanhood, Nation and Nature in Ann-Marie Macdonald's Fall on Your Knees and The Way the Crow Flies, Yvonne Michelle Hammond
WHEN WHO YOU ARE IS SOMEONE ELSE, Robert Brandon Henderson
Salman Rushdie's Fiction in a Global Perspective: Hybridity and Fundamentalism in The Satanic Verses and The Moor's Last Sigh, Matthew Henry
The Meaning of Pain in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy, Glenn Alton Jackson (III)
Far Toward the Bottom, Megan Nicole Kruse
Lotus-Eater, Gregory Lee Lickenbrock
Sabotage! And Other Stories, Gregory Elliott Luther
Bending Gen(re)der: A Negotiation of Identity through Language in Helene Cixous and the Self, Marley McKenna
Moments of Being: Beauty in Virginia Woolf's Works, Kyndra Elizabeth Meusel
Very Old Buildings that Must have Been Something Once, Dylan Mohr Mohr
Flightless, Elizabeth Anne Newlon
Small Bird My Heart, Carrie Ojanen
The Last Ice Age, Sara Lynn Pevar
Sudden Fortune, Lehuanani Marie Shelton
Gypsum Bonnet, Maren Vespia
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
There Will Be Waffles!, Christopher Joel Alexander
Reinvention in the Line of Death: A Reconsideration of Geoffrey Hill's Commemorative Verse, Michael Christopher Bartch
Gelatwirl, Caren Beilin
To What They Saw As Ritual, Lindsay Kay Bland
Searching for the Real McCoy, Carrie Adams Braman
The Politics of the Real: Jazz, Hip Hop, and Satire - Conceptions of Consciousness in the Twentieth Century African American Novel, Peter Thomas Clavin
"The Last of the True:" The Kid's Place In Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, William Dean Clement
The Blue Word, Laura Christina Dunn
Five Stories, Bradin M. Farnworth
Homemade, Jennifer Nicole Gann
In Our Defense, Kristen Jean Gleason
Erosion, Lauren Kearns Hamlin
One Day There Will Be Nothing to Show That We Were Ever Here, Scott Alexander Jones
One Last Chance, Michael Quist Kautz
Quiet People, Abigail Hope Keller
Get Back to Where You Once Belonged: Essays on Purpose and Perpetuity and to a Lesser Extent Gospel Music, Recycling, Bikes, Life, Death and Things Found in Alleys, Brian Lukas Kevin
Sorting Yard, Lauren Diana Leslie
“The Sort . . . of People to Which I Belong”: Elizabeth Gaskell and the Middle Class, Allison Masters
Every Clear Day So Far, Edward Mooney McFadden
Shooting the Wall, Caitie Moore
Nameless Heroines, Kate Elizabeth Murphy Ristow
The study of the Private: Eudora Welty's Short Stories and Photography, Mary Elizabeth Painter
Negative Proof, Kathryn Margherita Puerini
DESART, Lisa Schumaier
RIDING THE CLUTCH, Marvin Lee Shackelford
Varieties of Disappearance: The Beginnings of a Novel, Aaron Michael Shulman
Protest and Proximity: The World Revolution of 1968 in Philip Roth’s American Pastoral and Mahasweta Devi’s Mother of 1084, Clare Marie Sigrist-Sutton
Inversion, Anne Marie Spidahl
Lake Unloosed, Julie Ellen Taylor
Homing to Authenticity: Iowa Testimony in "Gilead", Christina Marie Van Roekel
"This Blessed Plot": Negotiating Britishness in Sam Selvon's The Lonely Londoners, Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia, and Zadie Smith's White Teeth, Kathleen Vickers
Dwelling in Ecological Poetry: Emily Dickinson's Nature Poems and Henry David Thoreau's Walden, Veronica Ellen Vold
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Woman in Islam: A Stereotyped Westernized Imagee in Nawal Al Saadawi's "Woman at Point Zero", Ahlam Attyya Abulaila
The Millennial Garden: A Post-hybrid Reading of Zadie Smith's White Teeth and On Beauty, Andrea Lea Armstrong
Traps: Stories and a One-Act Play, James Blanks
Zooxanthellae, Christine Bown
Confinement in a Strange Hour, Trina Burke
Six Stories, Tim Coffield
The Gospel According to Carey: Christian Hermeneutics in Bliss and Oscar and Lucinda, Jason Lee Cooper
Richard Rorty and the Cultural Politics of Literary Criticism, John Copeland
William Apess: Autobiography and the Conversion of Subjectivity, Carly Jean Dandrea Madson
Debris: stories, Nick E. Ekkizogloy
Generation of Bird, Lucas Andrew Farrell
The Law of Meat, Kelly Kathleen Ferguson
Lines of Motion: Streets and Shores, Ellen Maureen Finnigan
The People Who Loved Made This, Travis J. Fortney
THE BOOK OF LEFT TURNS, Gregory Trent Hill Jr.
Recreating Beowulf’s “Pregnant Moment of Poise”: Pagan Doom and Christian Eucatastrophe Made Incarnate in the Dark Age Setting of The Lord of the Rings, Scott Davis Howard
Scalped, Anne-Marie Waterman Inge
The Variances, Matthew Devon Kaler
The Heart Radical, Kristin Marie King-Ries
Wallace Stevens's "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven": A Form of Farewell, Brenda Y. Lamb
Dwelling and the Woman Artist in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Rebecca L. Lupold
Cinema's Green is Gold: The Commodification of Irishness in Film, Erika Noelle Mann
Hauntings: Juliet's Elegy for Past in Alice Munro's Chance, Soon and Silence, Rachel May
Close Correspondences, Near Transmissions, Catherine Venable Moore
Getting Personal: Collected Essays, Anna Rebecca Mueller
the silent choir, Jessie Spring Sobey
The Mermaid of Champion Mill, Jane Elizabeth St. John
"Words Are No Good": The Curse of Signification and the Curse of Faulkner's South, Michael Joseph St. Thomas
CHARCOAL, Jasmine Dreame Wagner
This Piece is a Coverup, Clayton James Webber
Stare Meal, Laurie Elizabeth White
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Disrupted Conventions: Gender Roles in Mildred Walker's The Curlew's Cry and Winter Wheat, Pandora Andre-Beatty
Musicality, Subjectivity, and the Canterbury Tales, Michael Erik Bigley
Written on the Rocks': The Mythopoetics of the Almo Massacre, Ann Emmons
Reading Placelessness and Suburbanization in Richard Yates, Darcy Anne Feder
Tracking the Trickster Home: The Animal Nature of Words in the Writing of Gerald Vizenor and Barry Lopez, Steven Jubitz Hawley
The Sins I Saw, Kimberly Henderson
First, Plant Your Feet, Peter Francis Jones
HUNTERS IN THE GARDEN: YUP’IK SUBSISTENCE AND THE AGRICULTURAL MYTHS OF EDEN, Benjamin Kuntz
Increments of Green, Molly K. McDonald
Split Rock Sky, Jason McMackin
Year of the Snake, Annie Hoang Nguyen
Silent Cowboys and Verbose Detectives: Masculinity as Rhetoric in Wister, Hammett, and Chandler, Maria Carla Nissi
Possible Boats, Jeremy Pataky
CRACKING OUR WEARINESS AND CONTRITION: CONFRONTING THE LAST STATE OF THE HEART IN JORGE LUIS BORGES’S “THE GARDEN OF FORKING PATHS” AND JORGE VOLPI’S IN SEARCH OF KLINGSOR, Agatha Kathleen Shwayder
Bishopness, Lauren Goodwin Slaughter
The Legacy of Dysfunction, Patia Stephens
A Revision of Family and Domesticity in Michael Cunningham's A Home at the End of the World, Flesh and Blood, and The Hours, Tracy Joy Struck