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 1999
Liar's jacket, Richard Greenfield
Moustache| Stories, Jon Groebner
Being and Southernness| The contemporary Southern writer's delemma, Betsy Herring
Power of negativity in the wastelands of T. S. Eliot and Samuel Beckett: A study of absence in The waste land and Endgame, Dennis Hockman
Distances, Catherine Jones
Woman troubadour| H.D.'s version of love in the western world, Melissa Kwasny
Beagle's son| A novel [excerpt], Matt Lanzdorf
Watercolored monkey| Stories, Tom Lombardi
Xenophobia| [stories], Stephen Randall Meyer
"She will be a poet[...]in another hundred years' time"| Virginia Woolf's "Orlando" as a quest for incandescence, Christopher Piazzola
Housebreaking, a memoir, Mark Ratledge
Flatus vocis, Tiffany A. Rayl
Arrow of hours, Christopher Leonard Spinelli
Poison apparatus, Todd Struckman
Underwear and Other Personal Effects, Margaret A. Tilton
Venery, Tiffany L. Trent
Salt in the form of sacrifice, Deborah Wardlaw
Redeye Waking| [Poems], Caeli R. Wolfson
Theses/Dissertations from 1998
This engine| Poems, Amy Barnes
Lectures on vanishing| [Poems], Emily Bedard
Cartographies of flight| [Poems], Sheila Fiona Black
"Cleft of light"| the divided female subject in Adrienne Rich's "Twenty-one love poems", Sheila Fiona Black
Instructions for a burial, Elizabeth Brinsfield
Licking the beaters, Shereeliz E. Caldwell
Encounters with the Lacanian Real| The bear as phallic mother in Doug Peacock's "Grizzly Years" and Marian Engel's "Bear", Leeann R. Drabenstott
Breath of the voyeur| [Poems], Sharon Eiler
Form after Whitman| A lateral step to Hopkins, Berryman, and the art of strict wildness, Sharon Eiler
Connemara Moonshine, Mark Gibbons
Paying attention| Time and form in the work of James Galvin, Henrietta S. Goodman
Slip, Cathleen M. Haglund
Dapper Men| Stories, Arden Hendrie
Pawn Shop, Dennis Hockman
1001 beauty secrets, Gerri Jardine
Camphorweed, James Jay
Blood signs| [Stories], Pamela Ann Kennedy
Bright absentee| [poems], Melissa Kwasny
Performing identity | Denise Chavez's "Face of an Angel", Margaret E. Lojek
"Perversion of self-torture"| The role of conscience and guilt in James Agee's "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men", John T. McManus
Hysterical release, Erica Soon Olsen
Between two texts| Translating James Welch's Fools Crow into German, Andrea Opitz
Exceptionalism of Mina Loy and the gender politics of canon formation, Karin Schalm
Consolation, Deborah Siegel
Mark Twain and Hank Morgan| A microscopic atom of faith, William Isham Stearns
Our Fathers, Nancy Stevens
Watch, Martha Sutro
Greater Rules are Breaking, Marisa Taylor
Balance| Skeletons of a travel memoir, J. Rick Thompson
The Stranger's Craft, Kim Todd
Self-portraits| [Poems], Ryan Turner
Lightbox| [Poems], Joni M. Wallace
Tornadoes and other quarrels, Sandy Woodson
Theses/Dissertations from 1997
Bloody contradictions| Difference and identity in Jo Sinclair's "Wasteland", Mona Bachmann
Big house stories, Kristina Danilchik
Heart language, Harry Dyer
Bane, James Hart
Faster horses, Woody Kipp
Adventures in dot to dot| [poems], Aaron Q. Long
Undertow | [poems], Ann McGlinn
Hockey tale and other stories, Stephen Morison
Breaking open the monologic| Re-reading the Haitian Revolution in Herman Melville's "Benito Cereno" and Madison Smartt Bell's "All Souls' Rising", Beth Marie Moynihan
Living with haiku| [poems], Jamie Nicholson
In Love with the Boogeyman: Compulsion Desire and Heisenbergian Literary Uncertainty in Stephen King's "Pet Cematary", Melodi S. Sherman
Integrated self| Assimilated surrealism in later 20th Century American poetry and music, Ryan Turner
How could we be wrong?, Amanda Eyre Ward
Lively Becky Sharp performs as the Queens of Vanity Fair| A study in the mythical & historical allusions and intertexts employed by William Makepeace Thackeray in "Vanity Fair", Kenneth Galen York
Theses/Dissertations from 1996
Cruel mistress| Poems, Charles N. Blakemore
Hell or high water| The horrors of the Lacanian Real in Algernon Blackwood's "The Willows", Charles N. Blakemore
Heart stains| A novel excerpt, Dugan Brown
Ejo| [Poems], Derick Burleson
In the arboretum, Sally Cobau
Some kind of permanent record| Stories, Francis G. Davis
In love with a miner| Poems, Sarah Davis
Arriving at America| [Poems], Robert Firth
Travels with the lord of misrule| [Excerpts], Jenny Rachel Flynn
Dearest darling, darling dear| A collection of short stories, Allyson Ann Goldin
Suspension| Poems, Adelle Graham
Blue Lusitania| A novel excerpt, Andrew Sean Greer
Visible means of support| Seven chapters of a novel, Helen Joyce Harris
Full Moon's Dust, Marsha Hauck
All the wild and lonely places, Lawrence Hogue
Lights I leave on| Poems, Meghan Howes
Dandelions, and other stories, Alicia Ieronemo
Let's have a war| A punk perspective on Operation Desert Storm and other tales of nihilistic horrors, Michael Jarnevic
Hot seat| A selection of essays and short fiction, Steve Kalling
Throat| Poems, Paul Keller
Fourth world| [Poems], Lary Kleeman
Silicon poetics| The computer as author and artifice, Lawrence Andrew Koch
Dear piscatorial partners, or, Elliott fishes the West with the best| A novel, Robert E. Lee
Fish story and other American myths, Anita Leverich
Cat scratch fever, Jill Marquis
Evening of desire, Patrick J. McCormick
Room poems, Patrick J. McCormick
Dance outside the light, Michael McKerley
Sea of history, sea of stories| Piroguing with Derek Walcott and Salman Rushdie, Eric J. Reimer
Oh, what tangled webs we read| Revaluing unresolvable tensions in American Indian literature, Cindy Denise Richter
Bottomless blue and other stories, Mary Stewart Sale
Twenty-nine points of reference, Karin Schalm
Cargo| Poems, Shan Simmons
King of Sweden| [Poems], Ed Skoog