Katie Caudill analyzed reader's responses to a popular novel's heroine in "Scarlett will never be Gone With the Wind.
Jeff Gilbreath argued for the expansion of the U.S. Literature canon in order to include the popular voice in his thesis "Bob, Baez, the Beatles, and the Literature We've Ingored.
Allison Hunzeker used her thesis "Characterization in Pedagogy: Methods and Implementation" to articulate her teaching philosophy in relationship to trends in writing pedagogy.
Knox Jones wrote a fiction thesis, producing a short story collection entitled "Veiled Works You Never Knew Spelled Redemption." Knox's collection was an experiment in non-traditional storytelling, arranging the interconnected stories in reverse chronological order.
Michelle Pohl drew on theories within both of her majors, English and Psychology, to write "Excising the Soul Mate: Arundhati Roy's Deconstruction of the Twin Relationship in The God of Small Things.
Mitch Raftery wrote scenes for a family theatre production of Roald Dahl's "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar," and wrote an analysis about the process of converting narrative to drama.
Jessica Rivera used her student-teaching experience to research linguistics pedagogy at the secondary level. Her thesis was entitled "Simple Complexity: A Study in Sentence Instruction."
Amanda Rucker brought rhetoric out of the classroom and into popular culture, writing "You Have to Hate Her: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Magazine Coverage of Britney Spears
Jeff Salem returned to one of his favorite novels in his thesis, "Expect the Unexpected: Autobiography and Irony in Hemingway's Farewell to Arms.
Carl Schneider explored the relationship of form and meaning in his poetry thesis "Rhythm and Rust," a collection of poems about his native Buffalo, NY.
Sam Segrist explored narratology and the theme of the journey in his creative thesis "The Road TRIPtych: a Postmodern Analysis of Three Interconnected Journey Stories
Antonia Welsch wrote a modern adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello, focusing on contemporary gender stereotypes by reversing the gender of the play's protagonists.
Sarie Whitson brought to light a now little-read author from Nebraska's past. Her thesis "Recovering History: The Fiction of Kate Cleary" showed how gender biases have shaped the literary canon.
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