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 2007
Letters from Mrs. Chenowith and other stories, Jill M. Walsh
Wavelengths, Rachel Faith Weaver
CONSIDERING CONNECTIONS: RACE, IDENTITY AND LEADERSHIP IN PAUL BEATTY’S THE WHITE BOY SHUFFLE, Emily Monique Yaksitch
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
Turn and other stories, Sarah Aswell
How Still the Riddle Lies; Emily Dickinson's Sense of Naturalness, Jill M. Beauchesne
North Hill Hawk, Jill M. Beauchesne
Real Wild West, Michael Erik Bigley
Stitching orality into the textual quilt in Derek Walcott's Omeros, Judith Bledsoe
Magnificent mistakes| A collection of stories, Eric Bosse
Shooter's flinch and other stories, Dan Brooks
"Donkey Hammer"| A collection of short fiction and nonfiction, Rose M. Bunch
Outside is a door| Poems, Bridget Carson
From turmoil to discourse | the function of rape and incest in fourteenth-century "popular" Middle English romance, Desiree Cromwell
Lucky human| A collection of stories, Emily M. Danforth
Grampa killed snakes and Indians| Nature and the economy of westering in John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath", Jill R. Demers
Treasure State, Chad Dundas
Dictionary Unreal| [Poems], Kathleen Farragher
This is Normal for People Like Us, Ben Fowlkes
Pack Station, Robert Theodore Gail
Resistance on the Imperial Terrain: Constructing a counter-Empire in Paul Beatty’s The White Boy Shuffle, Brian Grosenbaugh
Severing at the End of the Line, Walker Hunter
HEGEL, MODERNITY, AND TELOS IN CORMAC MCCARTHY’S SOUTHWESTERN NOVELS: AN INQUIRY INTO MCCARTHY’S PHILOSOPHICAL POSITION, Ian K. Jensen
No Moon| [Poems], Annie Mascorro
Peace Jumpers, Mark Matthews
Corn shocks and bitterbrush| [Poems], Jeffrey Ross
Postmodern hybridity| The magical conflation of nature, humankind, and technology in Karen Tei Yamashita 's Through the Arc of the Rain Forest, John Wesley Ross
Clearance| Poems, Elizabeth Sanger
Lake M| [Poems], Brandon Shimoda
Place of invention| Writing western women, Rachel Toor
We eat the color of cake, April Maranda Wilder
Herman Melville, Hannah Crafts and access to authorship: The germination of international copyright law in antebellum America, Lydia A. Willoughby
Landfall| [Poems], Devon Wootten
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
Idiot's Rope| Poems, Nathan Gaeddert Bartel
Middle of everything big [Short stories], David A. Bernstein
Alula| [Poems], Chad Blair
Sky burial| [Poems], Octavia Maie Campbell-Orde
Subjugated bodies| Containing female sexuality in the works of Willa Cather, Darci Andre Cather
Ordinals| Poems, Stephen Crumrine
Baseball and literature| The center field cannot hold| Examining the failure of the American pastoral in postwar baseball literature, David Thomas Holmberg
My Immoderation, Kate Pamela Kostelnik
In the name of love, Tamara Y. Love
Open Earth| A novel excerpt, Joan Maki
Modernist literature as Victorian sexology | Joyce's treatment of sexual aberration and female sexuality in "Ulysses", Chris Mathers
In the Black Pond, Swimming| A collection of stories and a novel excerpt, Rachel May
Conduction| Poems, Adam Phillips
Universe is shaped exactly like the earth| The tape poems of A. R. Ammons, Adam Phillips
Range management| A collection of short stories, Horatio R. Potter
Meaningless words| A collection of stories, Scott Rice
Play matters| Playground hoop, streetball, and possibility in racialized, contested terrain, Rich Roberts
Soteriology in the poetry of William Blake| The turn from fall to salvation in The Four Zoas and Jerusalem, Nicholas Gorman Serres
Strange flesh, Joe Simonsen
Leo, Jeremy N. Smith
Drowning man| A collection of stories, William V. Stevens
Parallel to shore, Alexandra Tinari
Threnody of sutures| Poems, Brian Watson
Posthumanist artificer| Shifting ontologies in cyberpunk literature, Kyle A. Wiggins
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
Mice in the garden| A collection of short-short (and short) stories, Josie Aaronson-Gelb
White Elegies, Daniel Ross Biegelson
People I knew from home| A collection of short stories, Amy Brown
If my mother only knew| A collection of works, Elizabeth Conway
Reworking the picaro| The growth of the marginalized character in the picaresque tradition, Caroline Crittenden
What we live in| [Poems], Elizabeth K. Currey
There's a Song of Distance, Matthew Eck
Still point| [Poems], Clara Emily Everts
From Color Plates, Adam Golaski
Margaret Atwood's evil women in Lady Oracle, Cat's Eye, and The Robber Bride, Laura Gronewold
"Genius of Stone" and other stories, Lyn McCarter
I Chopped Down This House for You, Simeon Mills
Noctiluca| [Poems], Daniel Ostmann
Cautery| [Poems], Addie K. Palin
Grounding| A collection of poems, Amy Ratto Parks
Moving toward perfection| Eliot's ascetic and apophatic quests, Amy Ratto Parks
Body of glass| [Poems], Grier Phillips
Walking distance, Siobhan Scarry
World of objects| The poetics of Charles Simic, Siobhan Scarry
Modicum blue: [Poems], Rob Schlegel
Second way out, Kaethe Elizabeth Schwehn
Watching the sun bake| Short stories, Alexander Shapiro
Little deaths| Short stories, Sharma Shields
Sanctions for being| Transvalued ritual in the poetry of Wallace Stevens, Jason F. Sloat
Hal Mathers| An autobiography, Elizabeth D. Troy
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
Brood Emergence 1984| [Poems], Alexander Alviar
Why pay more| A novel, David Berthy
Call it instinct| [Poems and essays], Mandy Smoker Broaddus
Stepping through the metaphor| Literary animism in Barry Lopez's short fiction, Travis Dakota Burdick
I want you| [Short stories], Derek Cavens
Lot of talk about nothing| Wallace Stevens and Eastern thought, Michael A. Hahm
Square of Blue| [Poems], Scott A. Hartwich
Facing the Bridge| [Poems], Claire Hibbs
Apocalyptic Mules, Jonathan Hill
Most hours| [Poems], Anne Holub
Migration Patterns, Jennifer C. Kocher
Curiosities, Emily E. Krag
"Spirits are writing, not me"| Leslie Marmon Silko and the powers that inspired her to write "Gardens In the Dunes", Sigrun Kuefner
Femme, Aryn Kyle
Vigilantes of Montana| The mythic narratives of colonial frontier history, Jeri M. Larsen
Mining City Love Tale| A novel, Milana Marsenich
First Bird Falling| Short stories, Drew Colin McNaughton
Let me know| Poems, Andrew Mister