Jessica Clem challenged her peers to redefine feminism for contemporary society in her senior thesis, "Wiggle Pen Wisdom."
Emily Cottingham wrote a short story called "Tunnel Vision," accompanied by an analysis that studied the work of writer Amy Bloom and its influence on Emily's fiction.
Kari Fisk analyzed recent One Book One Lincoln novel Bel Canto in light of postcolonial theory, revealing the way author Ann Patchett implicitly valorizes Western culture.
Mike Flowers combined his two majors (English and Art) to produce "Meditations on Rural Highways: A Postmodern Travel Narrative" with accompanying photo collages.
Nicole Frank wrote a creative and rhetorical thesis in which she discussed her own study abroad experience in Finland (in an essay called "Leaving HEL") and analyzed the rhetorical strategies used to market study abroad opportunities to college students.
Katy Givens reflected on the influence sixteenth-century poet Robert Herrick has had on her work in her collection and analysis "'A Society of Men,' and Selected Poems: Poetic Permission from Robert Herrick."
Käj Jorgensen explored the boundary between fictional and non-fictional verse in "Text, Lies, and Home Video Tape: Truth and Genre in the Construction of a Poetic Autobiography"
Will Holmes applied his study of rhetoric to a topic drawn from his History minor, writing "Sell the War: A Rhetorical Analysis of Vietnam War-Era Government Documents"
Jessica Lacy wrote a modern fairy tale as her creative thesis; "A Big Enough Umbrella" deals with some magical goings on at an otherwise ordinary middle school.
Stephen Lambert applied gender theory to F. Scott Fitzgerald's first novel; his thesis was titled "Gender and Identity in Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise.
Mark Larson wrote a thesis called "Get in the Game: Sports Literature in Today's Secondary English Classroom" to demonstrate how a teacher can motivate some recalcitrant English students through a non-traditional curriculum.
Bob Ludwig compiled a short fiction collection entitled "My Unenlightened Midwest", which was accompanied with an analytic essay called "Fabricating Reality: The Lies Within Creative Non-Fiction."
Brooke Pecoraro (English/Theatre/Secondary Education) looked at the relationships among English and Theatre in her pedagogical proposal: "A Cross-Curriculum Method of Teaching Dramatic Literature in the Secondary English and Theatre Classrooms."
Philip Pelster applied his interest in contemporary journalism to his thesis: "Conventional and New Journalism -- A Synthesis in Style."
Kurt Petska wrote a pedagogic thesis based in the question of how to introduce high school students to Shakespeare. His thesis was "The Taming of the Shrew on Film: To Teach or Not to Teach?"
Justin Runge explored the influence of modernism on his own poetry in his collection and essay "The Influence of T.S. Eliot and Vladimir Mayakovsky on 'An Avid Collector of the Dead and the Beautiful.'"
Ben Scheyer explored the categorization of genre fiction in "How Crystal Met Jakob/The State of Horror: Special Two-Paper Set."
Maryl Schock wrote a thesis combining sociolinguistics with secondary pedagogy: "African American English in the Classroom."
Dan Witte explored the pedagogic implications of a widespread cultural phenomenon in "the :-), the :-(, and the :-S ofTxT 'n IM."
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