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 2025
Ornament and Crime, Norma Barksdale
The Evening Gardener, Samuel Bovard
Eros and the Sublime: Tools for Reaching Toward an Altered Ecological Consciousness, Aineka Carlson
Jokers, Kimberly Elizabeth Carson
A BI-OPENING ACCOUNT: TRAUMA NARRATIVES IN LIFE-WRITING BY BISEXUAL WOMEN, Gabriella Ann Graceffo
HUNGRY ANIMALS, Trinity Herr
Slaying the Windigo: Fear and Faith in the Anthropocene, Daniel J. Irwin
Cutting the Ice, Andrew Sage Marshall
Federal Dust, David R. Phares
Alive for the Wake, Anna Kate Powell
"A CHANGED UNDERSTANDING OF OUR PRESENT": MOBY-DICK AS PROPHETIC ECOLOGICAL ACTIVISM, Katie Ann Schini
The Filament, Elena Skibicki
Workable Seams, Jackson Mills Smith
The Third Woman, Nikki L. Zambon
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Andrew Tate, Matt Walsh, and the Discursive Production and Policing of Gender, Alan J. Bandyk and Alan J. Bandyk
Lick: A Novel, Robin Tiffany Bissett
Field/Museum: Poems + Studies, Em Bober
A CONSTELLATION IN TRAINING, Marko C. Capoferri
Phoenicians: Stories, Anthony Gregory Cardellini
Islands in the North, Kirstie Catriona Clinko
Green Poems, Lillian I. Emerick Valentine
brat olympics, Caroline Ganci Patterson
Foreign Expert: a memoir manuscript, Jenny L. Rowe
Field of Play, Lauren Ariana Tess
Motion and Rest, Claire M. Tuna
Westward, Onward, Willa Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
UNSEALED: A Memoir, Alyssa Witbeck Alexander
BLOOD AND OIL: HOW VAMPIRIC LITERATURE BOLSTERS BIG OIL’S POWER, Sarah Marie DeMond
Haunted Forms: Intermediality, Trauma, and Literary Memory, Gabriella Graceffo
Theory of Care, Gabriella Ann Graceffo
Fire Finder: Life as a Lookout in the Northern Rockies, Austin Gregory Hagwood
AND THE MACHINE CONTINUES WITHOUT PAUSE, Mark Hernberg
“HOW DO WE CARRY ALL THESE STORIES ON OUR BACKS?” AN INVESTIGATION OF VIOLENCE IN NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE AS SEEN IN THE WORKS OF JAMES WELCH, JOY HARJO, & LOUISE ERDRICH, Madison R. Hinrichs
Self-Portrait of the Artist Stupid with Grief, Franziska C. Hofhansel
Sofia: A Novel, Anna S. Jedrzejczyk
POLYTROPOS: POEMS FOR THE FALL, Miles Jochem
Rules for Talking, Joanna Lee Keilp
Monstrous Oil: Theorizing Petromodernity's Monsters, Madalynn Lee Madigar
Asked for Another Mountain, Nichole Lynn Moore
ESSAYS AND NOVEL EXCERPT, Mirela Music
Beulahland: A Novel, Emily Ann Marie Nelson
Wayfinding, Kalani N. Padilla
WET SPECIMEN, Abigail Lee Raley
Undammed: a narrative, Mark Abram Schoenfeld
We Are Larger Than Ourselves, Mark Spero
What This Body Needs, Mark Aaron Spero
No Other Gods, Hubble Stark
Renata, Cheyenna Watson
Unlikely Choices, Kathryn Lackey Werts
Witness This Thing So Tender, Erin Marie White
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
The Changing, Sabrina B. Black
Squatters, Alina Cerisse Cohen
And The Busy World Is Hushed, Emily Elizabeth Collins
The Waning Days of Projection in the Mountain West, Samuel Gwinn Dunnington
Sunbaby, Katelyn Eva Garcia
Mother Superior, Brandon R. Hansen
GIGI, Helen Wesley Kapp
In Crumbling Water, Winthrop Emmett Knowlton
Kid Gloves, Anne North Kolle
Ghosts, Hauntings, Kinship, and Contamination: Key Tropes for Narrating Extinction in Jeff VanderMeer's Hummingbird Salamander and James Bradley's Ghost Species, Christopher Hardesty Nicholson
Other Orchards, Sam B. Robison
INTO THE TIDY SHAPE IMAGINED, Hope Isabella Ruskaup
The Curiosociety, Luke G. Smith
Sexual Whatever, Madeline Rose Tecmire
El Camino: Essays, Richard Harrison White
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
No Answering Riot, Jacob Z. Bienvenue
A Personal History of Invasive Hands and Endangered Lovers, Samuel Paul Boudreau
End of an Animal, Alyx Brittany Chandler
End of the Long Year, William Doehring
Stories from the Clever Earth, Natalie Elliot
Albuquerque, Suzanne Joy Garcia Pino
The Worm in Heaven, Daniela Rae Garvue
Mary of the Yellow Sea, Nicole Rose Gomez
Like Skipping Stones, Stacia Lynn Hill
Under the Orchard - Novel Excerpt, Madison Rose Hinrichs
A Large Flock of Small Birds: Essays, Rebecca Hanna Jacobson
GOING BACK THROUGH, Cassandra Rae Lee
Admissions & Bitterroot, Jesse Thomas Nee-Vogelman
Where We Go to Live: A Collection of Stories, Erik Norbie
FOURTH WALL AN EXPLORATION OF LYRIC POSSIBILITY, Emma Pfeiffer
Cobalt Blue, Connor W. Southard
OUT INTO THE WILDS: A GAY MARINE'S JOURNEY TOWARDS SELF-ACCEPTANCE, David Harris Stalling
Put Eyes On Me Not Like a Curse, Alyssandra Tobin
Adobe Sugar, Liana Espey Woodward
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Son of Red Earth or The George Story: Novel Excerpt, Callie Ann Atkinson
Nerve Endings, Danielle Nicole Cooney
Montana Dream Book, Will Fesperman
BURDEN OF PROOF AND OTHER ESSAYS, Regina Rae Fitzsimmons
Demon Theory, Beatrice Garrard
Dark-Night and Nameless:Globalization in Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore and The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Thomas Velazquez Herring
Somebody Told Me You Died, Barry E. Maxwell
The Grow, Kelly Schirmann
Hear Me Roar, Abigail R. Seethoff
Sing, Woman!, Emma Marie Spencer
Hand Signs, Rebecca Kristine Swanberg
No Quantum of Eden: The Apocalyptic Frontier and Endtime Ecology in Peter Heller’s The Dog Stars, Anna Wilson
The Anaerobic Lives of Oysters, Benjamin Yeager
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
POCO A POCO, SE VA LEJOS: A COLLECTION OF NOVEL EXCERPTS AND SHORT STORIES, Catalina Mullan Baker