Alaina Bartunek is studying Shakespeare's literary sources for A Comedy of Errors to see how plot informs setting, which informs character.
Libby Fangmeier is arguing that Milton, while not a feminist by modern definitions, had a view of women more liberal than those of his contemporaries.
Jeff Hardy is analyzing the iconography and rhetoric of drunkenness in Disney films. He is interested in the effects such representations have on child viewers of the films.
Katie Dangler is writing a short story about German Russian immigrants to Nebraska, focusing on the teenage daughter. Her analysis contextualizes her story in the U.S. tradition of the journey story.
Laura M. S. Fortney is working on revising some of her poetry into songs and exploring the way the new context informs both the metre, the content, and the genre of the poems.
Scott Gealy is writing a postmodernist analysis of Sam Shepard's play True West, focusing in particular on the commodification of the idea of "the West."
Lindy Hart is writing a biographical analysis of the work of Flannery O'Connor, reading O'Connor's fiction through the lens of her own essays on writing.
Leslie Ianno is writing a study of female literary madness, particularly two of English literature's most famous madwomen: Ophelia and Bertha Rochester.
Luke Klinker is writing a Foucauldian analysis of illicit sexuality in two turn of the (twentieth) century British and American novels, Jude the Obscure and Ethan Frome.
Eric Mittan is analyzing Spenser's use of the Book Proems to create a double voice in the Faerie Queene.
Heather Petska is writing a study of Susan Glaspell's play Trifles and short story "A Jury of Her Peers" as a regional work, contextualizing them in the tradition of prairie literature.
Brynley Thomas is writing a creative thesis which will be a collection of her own poetry with an analysis of the role of conscious and unconscious processes in the act of poetic composition.
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