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 2019
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
You are one, Lisbet H. Portman
The Grand Gallery, Nicole Roché
Bridgehead Dreams, Claire Bogue Voris
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Wellspring, Alicia Bones
from A Poetry Handbook for Mining Engineers, Jolene M. Brink Mrs
From Existentialism to Ecology: A Phlosophical Analysis of Crisis in Samuel Beckett, Sean P. Collins
Reflections on Water, Kimberly A. Covill
Islanders, Alida M. dean
Before the Wind, Charles R. Decker
Close Call With Nonexistence: A Memoir, Jeff Gailus
Rain Follows The Plow, Riley Gillan
Uncolonized: A Clueless American in Ethiopia, Brooke Glass-O'Shea
A Beginner's Guide to Coming Back from the Dead, Derek M. Heckman
Eating the World: Food Production and Consumption and Cultural Resistance in Minority Literature, Brittani Hissom
The Light Outside: Stories and a Novella, Roland Jackson
The Promise Myth, Sierra Jacob
TOWARD AN ONTOLOGY OF EXHAUSTION: ON THE AFFECTIVE STRUCTURES OF MASCULINITY IN THE AMERICAN OILFIELD, John W. Jepsen
Hellbent on Heaven, Sarah Kahn
QUEEN OF KINGS: BEYONCÉ POLITICS AND PEDAGOGY IN THE JUVENILE DETENTION CENTER CLASSROOM, Sarah Kahn
NOT WOMAN, VOWEL, Eve E. Kenneally
This Is the Part Recreating River, Lauren Loftis
Pious Mysticism, As Evening Shadows Fall, Boom, Prologue and Introduction to the Selected Poems of Manazar Gamboa, Rosemary Madero
OBECALP, Kelly McClorey
Matagorda, Phillip Meek
Shelterbelts, Stefan Olson
How Much & How Often, Rachel Richardson
What Do You Do Every Day, Diana Roffman
HATCHET JACK AND THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN EMPIRE, Read C. Trammel
Three Stories about Nuns, One about a Brother, Alana B. Trumpy
Hope Spots, William R. Wallace
Progressions, Lauren D. Ward
What Do You Think I Am?: On Perceiving Unintelligibility in the Nonbinary Gender Experience, James Warwood
Affluenza, Hannah Withers
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
THE ETHICS OF MOURNING: THE ROLE OF MATERIAL CULTURE AND PUBLIC POLITICS IN THE 'BOOK OF THE DUCHESS' AND THE 'PEARL' POEM, Tarren Andrews
Essays About Leaving, Sometimes About Arriving, Christopher Benz
It Looks Something Like This, Courtney M. Bird
All Lit Things Predict Their Own Demise, Caylin Capra-Thomas
RED DAYS, Sarah Dozor
Long Time Gone, Brendan Fitzgerald
"Art Should Comfort the Disturbed and Disturb the Comfortable:" Examining Twenty-First Century Aesthetics Through Banksy's Socially Engaged Art, Margaret Henry
Beyond the Prow, Michael Hicks
The Sun House, Max Kaisler
JP's Thesis, JP Kemmick
Askesis, Jordan Konkol
Melville's Mardi and the Book of Mormon, Giordano Lahaderne
Unexpected Zeus, Adam Lambert
All the Clouds in Between, Allison Linville
The Mountains and The Men, Caitlin MacDougall
HALLUCINATIONS OF GOD, Daniel Meyer
Good Reasons, Rachel Mindell
WHAT IS A HOLE MADE OF: QUEER IDENTITY AND GRIEF IN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF RED AND RED DOC>, Rachel Mindell
High Ground Coward, Alicia M. Mountain
Lacuna (or, Sometimes They Break), Meghan H. O'Brien
BETTER PEOPLE: A NOVEL, Julia D. Ohman
Acolytes, William B. Puryear
CUL-DE-SAC, Michelle N. Seibert
Caitlin Stainken's Thesis, Caitlin Stainken
"Horses and Oil in His Blood": Mythopoetics and Western Petromelancholia in Alexandra Fuller's The Legend of Colton H. Bryant, Lindsay Stephens
House of Stone and Light, Michele D. Van Haecke
BELLY WRITING: READING THE ALIMENTARY IN CONTEMPORARY WESTERN LITERATURE, Michele D. Van Haecke
BEST PLAYED IN E MINOR, Connor D. Willett
Luxurious Habits, Exciting Fictions, Rikka Wommack
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
THE POLITICS OF MELANCHOLY IN ALFONSO CUARÓN’S Y TU MAMÁ TAMBIÉN, CHILDREN OF MEN AND THE POSSIBILITY OF HOPE, Jessica Anderson
The Queer Fantasies of Normative Masculinity in Middle English Popular Romance, Cathryn Irene Arno
Book of Antoine, Joseph Babcock
The Why to Live, Catherine Elizabeth Bailey