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 2012
Densely Forested with Clearings as Seen from Above, Nathan George Yrizarry
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Torrents and Groundviews, Kerry Alexis Banazek
Gun Stories, Craig Matthew Barnes
WRITING NEXT TO THE WEST: A SPATIAL CONSIDERATION OF WOMEN IN THE AMERICAN WEST, Elizabeth Anne Boeheim
Black Hole, Alice Elizabeth Bolin
No Star Galore, Zachary Cody Lee Carlsen
CHARLES OLSON AND THE AESTHETICS OF NEGATIVE CAPABILITY: A DRAFTING OF POSTMODERNITY’S “PLAN FOR A CURRICULUM OF THE SOUL”, Timothy James Cook
Ezekiel, Brett Bennett DeFries
Literature Meets Biology: An Evolutionary Approach to Literary Studies, Samantha Reneé Dwyer
We All Make Mistakes, Elisabeth Marie Geier
The Worst, Molly Laich
Elizabeth Bishop's Photographic Poetics: The Peripheral Vision, Lise Lalonde
Once Removed, Rebecca Rodes Leaphart
The Looking and the Seeming, Melissa Catherine Leavitt
Tell Me Again What I'm Doing Here, Rebecca Margolis
Ransacked, Theodore Louis McDermott
Gaze Toward the City They Won't Enter Again, Mehgan McKenna
Directions To My Place, Nathaniel Ian Miller
VIOLENCE AND RHETORIC: NARRATIVE PRODUCTION IN THE WAKE OF HARPER’S FERRY, Nicholas Myers
The Dissociation of Darren Gregory Taylor: A Memoir, Doron Nadler
Breaking Sound Barriers: Reading the Jazz Novel as a Model for More Flexible Social Interaction in a Globalized World, Dustin Pace
Orphanhood and the Search for Home in L. Frank Baum's "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" and Boris Pasternak's "Doctor Zhivago", Amanda Marie Peterson
Aesthetics of the Brink: Environmental Crisis and the Sublime in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Aaron Francis Schneeberger
This Must Not Be the Place, Laura Lampton Scott
There Is No Light But for This Girl's Oil Stare, Hannah Christine Soukup
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