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.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2007

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Silent Cowboys and Verbose Detectives: Masculinity as Rhetoric in Wister, Hammett, and Chandler, Maria Carla Nissi

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Possible Boats, Jeremy Pataky

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CRACKING OUR WEARINESS AND CONTRITION: CONFRONTING THE LAST STATE OF THE HEART IN JORGE LUIS BORGES’S “THE GARDEN OF FORKING PATHS” AND JORGE VOLPI’S IN SEARCH OF KLINGSOR, Agatha Kathleen Shwayder

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Bishopness, Lauren Goodwin Slaughter

The Legacy of Dysfunction, Patia Stephens

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A Revision of Family and Domesticity in Michael Cunningham's A Home at the End of the World, Flesh and Blood, and The Hours, Tracy Joy Struck

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Letters from Mrs. Chenowith and other stories, Jill M. Walsh

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Wavelengths, Rachel Faith Weaver

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CONSIDERING CONNECTIONS: RACE, IDENTITY AND LEADERSHIP IN PAUL BEATTY’S THE WHITE BOY SHUFFLE, Emily Monique Yaksitch

Theses/Dissertations from 2006

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Turn and other stories, Sarah Aswell

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How Still the Riddle Lies; Emily Dickinson's Sense of Naturalness, Jill M. Beauchesne

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North Hill Hawk, Jill M. Beauchesne

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Real Wild West, Michael Erik Bigley

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Stitching orality into the textual quilt in Derek Walcott's Omeros, Judith Bledsoe

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Magnificent mistakes| A collection of stories, Eric Bosse

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Shooter's flinch and other stories, Dan Brooks

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"Donkey Hammer"| A collection of short fiction and nonfiction, Rose M. Bunch

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Outside is a door| Poems, Bridget Carson

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From turmoil to discourse | the function of rape and incest in fourteenth-century "popular" Middle English romance, Desiree Cromwell

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Lucky human| A collection of stories, Emily M. Danforth

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Grampa killed snakes and Indians| Nature and the economy of westering in John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath", Jill R. Demers

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Treasure State, Chad Dundas

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Dictionary Unreal| [Poems], Kathleen Farragher

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This is Normal for People Like Us, Ben Fowlkes

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Pack Station, Robert Theodore Gail

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Resistance on the Imperial Terrain: Constructing a counter-Empire in Paul Beatty’s The White Boy Shuffle, Brian Grosenbaugh

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Unsettling nature at the frontier| Nature, narrative, and female empowerment in Willa Cather's "O Pioneers!" and Mourning Dove's "Cogewea, the Half-Blood", Erin E. Hendel

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Severing at the End of the Line, Walker Hunter

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HEGEL, MODERNITY, AND TELOS IN CORMAC MCCARTHY’S SOUTHWESTERN NOVELS: AN INQUIRY INTO MCCARTHY’S PHILOSOPHICAL POSITION, Ian K. Jensen

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No Moon| [Poems], Annie Mascorro

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Peace Jumpers, Mark Matthews

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Corn shocks and bitterbrush| [Poems], Jeffrey Ross

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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

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Clearance| Poems, Elizabeth Sanger

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Lake M| [Poems], Brandon Shimoda

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Place of invention| Writing western women, Rachel Toor

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We eat the color of cake, April Maranda Wilder

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Herman Melville, Hannah Crafts and access to authorship: The germination of international copyright law in antebellum America, Lydia A. Willoughby

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Landfall| [Poems], Devon Wootten

Theses/Dissertations from 2005

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Idiot's Rope| Poems, Nathan Gaeddert Bartel

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Middle of everything big [Short stories], David A. Bernstein

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Alula| [Poems], Chad Blair

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Sky burial| [Poems], Octavia Maie Campbell-Orde

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Subjugated bodies| Containing female sexuality in the works of Willa Cather, Darci Andre Cather

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Ordinals| Poems, Stephen Crumrine

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Baseball and literature| The center field cannot hold| Examining the failure of the American pastoral in postwar baseball literature, David Thomas Holmberg

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My Immoderation, Kate Pamela Kostelnik

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In the name of love, Tamara Y. Love

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Open Earth| A novel excerpt, Joan Maki

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Modernist literature as Victorian sexology | Joyce's treatment of sexual aberration and female sexuality in "Ulysses", Chris Mathers

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In the Black Pond, Swimming| A collection of stories and a novel excerpt, Rachel May

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Conduction| Poems, Adam Phillips

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Universe is shaped exactly like the earth| The tape poems of A. R. Ammons, Adam Phillips

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Range management| A collection of short stories, Horatio R. Potter

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Meaningless words| A collection of stories, Scott Rice

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Play matters| Playground hoop, streetball, and possibility in racialized, contested terrain, Rich Roberts

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Soteriology in the poetry of William Blake| The turn from fall to salvation in The Four Zoas and Jerusalem, Nicholas Gorman Serres

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Strange flesh, Joe Simonsen

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Leo, Jeremy N. Smith

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Drowning man| A collection of stories, William V. Stevens

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Parallel to shore, Alexandra Tinari

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Threnody of sutures| Poems, Brian Watson

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Posthumanist artificer| Shifting ontologies in cyberpunk literature, Kyle A. Wiggins

Theses/Dissertations from 2004

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Mice in the garden| A collection of short-short (and short) stories, Josie Aaronson-Gelb

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White Elegies, Daniel Ross Biegelson

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People I knew from home| A collection of short stories, Amy Brown

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If my mother only knew| A collection of works, Elizabeth Conway

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Reworking the picaro| The growth of the marginalized character in the picaresque tradition, Caroline Crittenden

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What we live in| [Poems], Elizabeth K. Currey

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There's a Song of Distance, Matthew Eck

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Still point| [Poems], Clara Emily Everts

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From Color Plates, Adam Golaski

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Margaret Atwood's evil women in Lady Oracle, Cat's Eye, and The Robber Bride, Laura Gronewold

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"Genius of Stone" and other stories, Lyn McCarter

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I Chopped Down This House for You, Simeon Mills

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Noctiluca| [Poems], Daniel Ostmann

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Cautery| [Poems], Addie K. Palin

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Grounding| A collection of poems, Amy Ratto Parks

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Moving toward perfection| Eliot's ascetic and apophatic quests, Amy Ratto Parks

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Body of glass| [Poems], Grier Phillips

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Walking distance, Siobhan Scarry

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World of objects| The poetics of Charles Simic, Siobhan Scarry

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Modicum blue: [Poems], Rob Schlegel

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Second way out, Kaethe Elizabeth Schwehn

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Watching the sun bake| Short stories, Alexander Shapiro

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Little deaths| Short stories, Sharma Shields

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Sanctions for being| Transvalued ritual in the poetry of Wallace Stevens, Jason F. Sloat

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Hal Mathers| An autobiography, Elizabeth D. Troy

Theses/Dissertations from 2003

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Brood Emergence 1984| [Poems], Alexander Alviar

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Why pay more| A novel, David Berthy

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Call it instinct| [Poems and essays], Mandy Smoker Broaddus

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Stepping through the metaphor| Literary animism in Barry Lopez's short fiction, Travis Dakota Burdick

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I want you| [Short stories], Derek Cavens

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Lot of talk about nothing| Wallace Stevens and Eastern thought, Michael A. Hahm

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Square of Blue| [Poems], Scott A. Hartwich

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Facing the Bridge| [Poems], Claire Hibbs

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Apocalyptic Mules, Jonathan Hill

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Most hours| [Poems], Anne Holub

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Migration Patterns, Jennifer C. Kocher

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Curiosities, Emily E. Krag