Teresa Costanzo wrote a children's book: Lucy's Fairy Tale, and an accompanying essay, "Boox R 4 N3rds" that argued for the importance of children's literature.
Noelle DeLaet wrote a creative thesis that consisted of three stories: "Blossom," "Stunted," and "Mange." Her accompanying critical essay was "Casting a Non-Theological Light on the Grotesque of Flannery O'Connor: Alternate Readings of the Short Stories."
Katie Gram wrote a thesis exploring gender roles in Shakespeare: "Masculine Disguise: Powerhouse or Prison?" Katie argued that female characters' use of masculine disguise reinforces rather than subverts traditional gender roles.
Katie Hilger studied "The Literature of Genocide and its Influence on Americans." Her work contrasted the reception of The Diary of Anne Frank and Left to Tell by Immaculee Ilibagiza, a contemporary novel about the Rwanda genocide.
Bruce Johnson wrote a fiction thesis. His short story "Curricular" was accompanied by an essay entitled: "Literary Pleasure
Shayna Miller studied the gender roles of the Twilight series, and the impact of those roles on adolescent girls, in a thesis called: "The (Not So) Modern Romance Novel."
Mary Schweitzer analyzed the importance of setting in fiction. Her two stories were "The World on a String" and "Night Crawlers," and her analytic essay was "Understanding Identity and Defining the Self Through Place.
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