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 2023
UNSEALED: A Memoir, Alyssa Witbeck Alexander
Theory of Care, Gabriella Ann Graceffo
“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
POLYTROPOS: POEMS FOR THE FALL, Miles Jochem
Monstrous Oil: Theorizing Petromodernity's Monsters, Madalynn Lee Madigar
No Other Gods, Hubble Stark
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
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
The Grow, Kelly Schirmann
Hear Me Roar, Abigail R. Seethoff
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
Ecological Wonder in Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Mary Morgan Beavers
Gendered Melancholy in Lolita: Reading into Humbert Humbert’s Dolorous Haze, Joseph D. Brookbank
Yankee Cannonball, Dwight Livingstone Curtis
The Work of the Living, D'Addario and Thomas J. D'Addario
No Man's Land, Jesse Daniel Durovey
The Litmus Test of Happiness, Eric Lin Hollen
Ugly, Odd, and Gorgeous, Joseph Chamberlain Kirk III
THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMAGINATIONS OF MOBY-DICK: TECHNOLOGY AND VULNERABILITY IN HUMAN/MORE-THAN-HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS, Jensen A. Lillquist
The Forever Baby, Carlos Javier Medina
BORN HERE ALL MY LIFE: A NOVEL, Amelia Morand
Reclamation, Miranda Ruby Morgan
The Last Zamboni, Emma C. Neslund
The Republic of Catatonia: a Novel, David Byron Queen
Statehood in Selves, Maren Schiffer
Essays from In-Between, Jennifer Alyn Sheets
Triple Double Diamond: Nevada Stories, Kylie Michelle Westerlind
The Determination of Longitude at Sea, Amanda Wilgus
2/4 Being, Riley R. Woods
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Beak Doctor, Bryn L. Agnew
Breaking Chains of Oppression: Popular Culture and the Plundering of Blackness, Corina Sacajawea Ambrose
The Fourth Estate, Jason Bacaj
Of Gods and Giants, Pia Baur
Little Jar of Time, Laura Blake
Say What, Anne McCullough Inglis Blessing
Mann Island, a novel, Michael Byrne
It Was Much More Pleasurable To Be A Cephalopod, Jordan N. Chesnut
Common Condition, Georgia D. Dennison
Missed Opportunity: The Strategic and Rhetorical Miscalculations of Deep Ecology, Taylor C. Hastings
Sugarsnap, Liana J. Imam
Beaches without Sand, Connor McElwee
Cut and Run, Hamish Rickett
HEREFROM, Zackariah Rybak
If You Wanted Nice You Could Have Said Something, Skylar R. Salvatore
What Happens That You Cannot See, Aya Satoh
RIB, Taylor White
Three Recoveries, Anna Zumbahlen
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Neon is Trying to Tell You Something, Grace Arenas
And Other Bodiless Powers, Sarah B. Aronson
Disappearing Act, Kate Barrett
The Keeping House, Anna J. Blackburn
The Visitors, Mackenzie Boyd
Sympathetic Lightning, Renee C. Branum
INVOLVEMENT WITHOUT PANIC: ESSAYS ON SHAKESPEARE, WOOLF, AND MUNRO, John L. Cowden
RAISE UP LAKEFOG, DIVE, Joseph N. Duke
Half-life of Empathy, Rebecca A. Durham
WORK IN PROGRESS, Brian H. Groh
Osmoticana: Stories About Boundary, Heather Jurva
Weenie Boys, Kristopher J. Kern