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 2004
World of objects| The poetics of Charles Simic, Siobhan Scarry
Modicum blue: [Poems], Rob Schlegel
Second way out, Kaethe Elizabeth Schwehn
Watching the sun bake| Short stories, Alexander Shapiro
Little deaths| Short stories, Sharma Shields
Sanctions for being| Transvalued ritual in the poetry of Wallace Stevens, Jason F. Sloat
Hal Mathers| An autobiography, Elizabeth D. Troy
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
Brood Emergence 1984| [Poems], Alexander Alviar
Why pay more| A novel, David Berthy
Call it instinct| [Poems and essays], Mandy Smoker Broaddus
Stepping through the metaphor| Literary animism in Barry Lopez's short fiction, Travis Dakota Burdick
I want you| [Short stories], Derek Cavens
Lot of talk about nothing| Wallace Stevens and Eastern thought, Michael A. Hahm
Square of Blue| [Poems], Scott A. Hartwich
Facing the Bridge| [Poems], Claire Hibbs
Apocalyptic Mules, Jonathan Hill
Most hours| [Poems], Anne Holub
Migration Patterns, Jennifer C. Kocher
Curiosities, Emily E. Krag
"Spirits are writing, not me"| Leslie Marmon Silko and the powers that inspired her to write "Gardens In the Dunes", Sigrun Kuefner
Femme, Aryn Kyle
Vigilantes of Montana| The mythic narratives of colonial frontier history, Jeri M. Larsen
Mining City Love Tale| A novel, Milana Marsenich
First Bird Falling| Short stories, Drew Colin McNaughton
Let me know| Poems, Andrew Mister
Maclean's pastoral vision in "A River Runs Through It", Jason Nichols
Obessions and Promiscuities, Azita Osanloo
8 motionless clouds| [Poems], Sandra Isabel Simonds
Apology| [Short stories], Diana Spechler
My Fantastic Bags| [Poems], Christopher D. Theim
Points of disappearance, Stephanie Walkenshaw
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
Water-bridge-for-god, Wyoming| [Poems], Elisabeth Whitehead
Theses/Dissertations from 2002
Unblinking eyes| Stories, Sara Agne
"I will have to look at him"| An ecocritique of Faulkner's "The Bear", Jason J. Barton
Is it all dirty?| [Short stories], Steinur C. Bell
Homunculous| And other stories, Benjamin Bloch
Economy of light| [Poems], Robert D. Buchko
The Event Of: Poems, Martin Cockroft
Immobility as a means to non-violent resistance in the poetical works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Shayne D. Confer
Dead, the Lost, the Dreaming, Michael J. Davis
White numbers, Kurt Cole Eidsvig
Wanting| [Poems], Megan Gannon
No small comfort, Joshua D. Hanson
"Of being numerous" and the Romantic poetics of George Oppen, Joshua D. Hanson
House of Yes| [Poems], Patrick Hutchins
Mating in the bushes| A study of sexual aggression and desire in Shakespeare's comedy, Janaira Paige Johnson
Short stories, Robert D. Kane
Emptiness of "The Wild"| Gary Snyder's eco-Buddhist deconstruction of "self" and "nature", David J. Kerber
Contour Lines| An excerpt from a longer work, Susan Kramer
News and Events of Importance in the World of Women, Katharine Mitchell
Menial Labor, Corey R. Palmer
Madrugada| [Poems], Natalie Peeterse
Snapshots, Christopher Fielding Porter
Beautiful Disaster, Laura Scholes
Notes from the motherland| Global mothering and othering in the works of Elizabeth Gaskell, Christine M. Solomon
"First you talk about love and then you talk about wheat": Portrayals of female community on the Western plains, Randi Tanglen
Performing America: Walt Whitman Erasure and the Politics of Textual Inclusion, Carey R. Voeller
Outside Valentine| [Short stories], Liza Ward
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
Maitreyi Devi and Mircea Eliade| One moment as fractal, Geoffrey James Aguirre
"Old maps" and "new roads"| Confronting neocolonial despair in Sherman Alexie's "Reservation Blues", Matthew R. Burkhart
Plums at junction of two rivers| [poems], Heather M. Cahoon
Dave Cohen's thesis, Dave Cohen
History of barbed wire| [Poems], Chris Dombrowski
Vicinity| [Poems], Wendy N. Erman
Momentum| Poems, Erik Fritz
Transparency| [short stories], Frances Hwang
Fractals| [poems], Romy LeClaire
One horizontal, Sheila Sinead McGuinness
Frankie Thompson Oklahoma story| poems, Bryan Clark Moskop
Way home| And other stories, Laurel Pecukonis
Active rest in Dante's "Purgatory", Ellie I. Pojarska
Support| And other stories, Joel A. Rojek
Flowers for Mrs. Crumpet, Sara A. Smith
Maremoto, the seaquake, Catherine Theis
Phoenix suites| [Poems], Miles Waggener
New Orleans as an American jungle| Colonial roots and capitalist representations, Tracey Ann Watts
Birds that linger, Penelope Whitney
"Parabola and parable" in the zone of Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, Brian D. Zindel
Theses/Dissertations from 2000
Autumn selah| Poems, Mark Daniel Bennion
Some critical mass| [Short stories], Erin Stewart Brown
Dead buffalo| [Short stories], Shannon Bryner
Sliding phonology| [Poems], Colleen Colby
Man of the People| A novel, Giano Cromley
Mrs. Love| [Short stories], Keith Dunlap
Does anyone know you are going this way?| [Five stories and a piece of a novel], Michael Fitzgerald
Ventriloquist's backbone| [Poems], Audrey Freudenberg
Rubricae| Poems, Sarah Conant Gridley
Death is no parenthesis| Stories, Traver Kauffman
Sag-backed barns, Carol Anne Kramer
Misinformed and other stories, Mark Lane
Goldbergs, Richard Lapidus
Dissembly | [poems], Catherine A. Meng
Lesser season, Nils Michals
Following Mateo, Tom Molanphy
Shelterbelt| A novel excerpt, Colleen O'Brien
Our way of living| Poetry in verse and prose, Thomas Riggs
As Close as I could Get Without Spooking It: Essays on Sports, Steven Rinella