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 2003

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"Spirits are writing, not me"| Leslie Marmon Silko and the powers that inspired her to write "Gardens In the Dunes", Sigrun Kuefner

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Femme, Aryn Kyle

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Vigilantes of Montana| The mythic narratives of colonial frontier history, Jeri M. Larsen

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Mining City Love Tale| A novel, Milana Marsenich

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First Bird Falling| Short stories, Drew Colin McNaughton

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Let me know| Poems, Andrew Mister

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Maclean's pastoral vision in "A River Runs Through It", Jason Nichols

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Obessions and Promiscuities, Azita Osanloo

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8 motionless clouds| [Poems], Sandra Isabel Simonds

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Apology| [Short stories], Diana Spechler

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My Fantastic Bags| [Poems], Christopher D. Theim

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Points of disappearance, Stephanie Walkenshaw

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Finding and understanding the elusive self: Changing identities in Amy Tan's The Hundred Secret Senses and Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior, Jennifer Walworth

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Water-bridge-for-god, Wyoming| [Poems], Elisabeth Whitehead

Theses/Dissertations from 2002

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Unblinking eyes| Stories, Sara Agne

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"I will have to look at him"| An ecocritique of Faulkner's "The Bear", Jason J. Barton

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Is it all dirty?| [Short stories], Steinur C. Bell

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Homunculous| And other stories, Benjamin Bloch

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Economy of light| [Poems], Robert D. Buchko

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Charting the development of the artistic imagination while undermining the writer's story| Meta-fictive contemplation and narrative indeterminacy in Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children", Joseph M. Campana

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The Event Of: Poems, Martin Cockroft

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Immobility as a means to non-violent resistance in the poetical works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Shayne D. Confer

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Dead, the Lost, the Dreaming, Michael J. Davis

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White numbers, Kurt Cole Eidsvig

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Wanting| [Poems], Megan Gannon

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No small comfort, Joshua D. Hanson

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"Of being numerous" and the Romantic poetics of George Oppen, Joshua D. Hanson

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House of Yes| [Poems], Patrick Hutchins

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Mating in the bushes| A study of sexual aggression and desire in Shakespeare's comedy, Janaira Paige Johnson

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Short stories, Robert D. Kane

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Emptiness of "The Wild"| Gary Snyder's eco-Buddhist deconstruction of "self" and "nature", David J. Kerber

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Contour Lines| An excerpt from a longer work, Susan Kramer

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News and Events of Importance in the World of Women, Katharine Mitchell

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Menial Labor, Corey R. Palmer

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Madrugada| [Poems], Natalie Peeterse

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Snapshots, Christopher Fielding Porter

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Beautiful Disaster, Laura Scholes

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Notes from the motherland| Global mothering and othering in the works of Elizabeth Gaskell, Christine M. Solomon

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"First you talk about love and then you talk about wheat": Portrayals of female community on the Western plains, Randi Tanglen

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Performing America: Walt Whitman Erasure and the Politics of Textual Inclusion, Carey R. Voeller

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Outside Valentine| [Short stories], Liza Ward

Theses/Dissertations from 2001

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Maitreyi Devi and Mircea Eliade| One moment as fractal, Geoffrey James Aguirre

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"Old maps" and "new roads"| Confronting neocolonial despair in Sherman Alexie's "Reservation Blues", Matthew R. Burkhart

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Plums at junction of two rivers| [poems], Heather M. Cahoon

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Dave Cohen's thesis, Dave Cohen

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History of barbed wire| [Poems], Chris Dombrowski

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Vicinity| [Poems], Wendy N. Erman

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Momentum| Poems, Erik Fritz

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Transparency| [short stories], Frances Hwang

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Fractals| [poems], Romy LeClaire

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One horizontal, Sheila Sinead McGuinness

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Frankie Thompson Oklahoma story| poems, Bryan Clark Moskop

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Way home| And other stories, Laurel Pecukonis

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Active rest in Dante's "Purgatory", Ellie I. Pojarska

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Support| And other stories, Joel A. Rojek

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Flowers for Mrs. Crumpet, Sara A. Smith

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Maremoto, the seaquake, Catherine Theis

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Phoenix suites| [Poems], Miles Waggener

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New Orleans as an American jungle| Colonial roots and capitalist representations, Tracey Ann Watts

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Birds that linger, Penelope Whitney

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"Parabola and parable" in the zone of Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, Brian D. Zindel

Theses/Dissertations from 2000

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Autumn selah| Poems, Mark Daniel Bennion

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Some critical mass| [Short stories], Erin Stewart Brown

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Dead buffalo| [Short stories], Shannon Bryner

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Sliding phonology| [Poems], Colleen Colby

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Man of the People| A novel, Giano Cromley

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Mrs. Love| [Short stories], Keith Dunlap

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Black penis and the demoralization of the Western World| Sexual relationships between black men and white women in the works of Chester Himes and Dany Laferriere, Kristen Fink

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Does anyone know you are going this way?| [Five stories and a piece of a novel], Michael Fitzgerald

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Ventriloquist's backbone| [Poems], Audrey Freudenberg

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Rubricae| Poems, Sarah Conant Gridley

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Death is no parenthesis| Stories, Traver Kauffman

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Sag-backed barns, Carol Anne Kramer

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Misinformed and other stories, Mark Lane

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Goldbergs, Richard Lapidus

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Dissembly | [poems], Catherine A. Meng

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Lesser season, Nils Michals

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Following Mateo, Tom Molanphy

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Shelterbelt| A novel excerpt, Colleen O'Brien

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Our way of living| Poetry in verse and prose, Thomas Riggs

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As Close as I could Get Without Spooking It: Essays on Sports, Steven Rinella

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Before it even began| [Stories], Jill Rosenberg

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Sacred language, sacred land| Journeys in and around the Black Hills, Terry Ryan

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Myth of the West| A collection, Matthew Skinner

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Animal Luggage| [Poems], Tammie Slater Smith

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Emergency Broadcast Haywire, Eric Springer

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Another Extremely Lucky Thing, Lise Victoria Thompson

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More truly and more strange| [Short stories], Elizabeth Urschel

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Tigersprung, Kenneth White

Theses/Dissertations from 1999

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Myaamia iilaataweenki (the Miami language), Daryl Wade Baldwin

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Riparia| [Short stories], Danis Banks

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Three wonder stories, Dave Barrett

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Cloudberries, Marie Beaver

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Blindspots| [Short stories], Elizabeth Blake Burnett

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Candidacy| Poems, Matt Byrne

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Exercises for independence of the fingers| Stories, Nicole Cordrey

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Gay revolte the Marlovian dandy in Edward II, Joshua Corey

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News of the blazing world| Poems, Joshua Corey

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Midstream| [Poems], Jean Croxton

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"New life for me"| Samsaric existence in Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums and Desolation Angels, Paul Dreisbach