Theses & Dissertations
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Theses/Dissertations from 2026
A Hero For Whom: The Caped Crusading State Apparatus, Jonathan Bethards, Department of Languages and Literatures, Thesis (UNI Access Only)
The Sisterlands, Elise McDowell, Department of Languages and Literatures, Thesis (UNI Access Only)
The ABC’s Few Chapters, Kaleb Soucie, Department of Languages and Literatures, Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Theses/Dissertations from 2025
Sunlight through Stained Glass, Lauren Hanssen, Department of Languages and Literatures, Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Material Sins: A Novel Excerpt, Patrick Markovich, Department of Languages and Literatures, Open Access Thesis
Rural Girl Comedy Hour, Riley McCall, Department of Languages and Literatures, Open Access Thesis
Censorship: Through an Iowan’s Eyes, Erin McRae, Department of Languages and Literatures, Open Access Thesis
The Eights, a Play by Katrina Sandvik, Katrina Sandvik, Department of Languages and Literatures, Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Positioning Paperback Books as Americana: Cultural and Historical Impacts of the Wadle Pocket Book Collection, Jake Volk, Department of Languages and Literatures, Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Unlocking Possibility: The Influence of the Oulipo Movement on Language, Semantics, and Politics in Modern Literature, Sidney M. Haren, Department of Languages and Literatures, Thesis (UNI Access Only)
The Pandemic-Uncanny: Self-Estrangement and Environment in Out There and Bliss Montage, Kersten Khaley, Department of Languages and Literatures, Open Access Thesis
From Art to Propaganda: The Shift in the Concept of the “Most Dead” in True Crime Literature, Hannah McConkey, Department of Languages and Literatures, Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Tell me, which realm do I remember?, Danielle Dunagan, Department of Languages and Literatures, Thesis (UNI Access Only)
The trouble with floating, Alyssa Minch, Department of Languages and Literatures, Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Doing corpus pragmatics: Variations in speech acts performed in conversations occurring naturally in academic contexts, Jacob Philip Rigal, Department of Languages and Literatures, Open Access Thesis
The new independents: A historical analysis of webcomics and webtoon, Leonal A. Sepúlveda S., Department of Languages and Literatures, Open Access Thesis
Prophet loss, Brooke Marie Wiese, Department of Languages and Literatures, Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Ecocriticism in young adult dystopian literature: Revealing a generation's desire to reconnect with nature, Alexus Williams, Department of Languages and Literatures, Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Hybridity, border-crossings and the homeland in contemporary literature by women, Rand Omar Khalil Khalil, Department of Languages and Literatures, Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Gio's story, Sermantha Louisy, Department of Languages and Literatures, Thesis (Electronic Copy Not Available)
Deities and dumbasses, Isaac Nielson, Department of Languages and Literatures, Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Exploring the rhetorical constitution of a safe space for women in Begum Rokeya and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's works, Rifat Rezowana Siddiqui, Department of Languages and Literatures, Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
An elephant is in the lake: How a nice girl navigated growing up amidst murder and madness in suburban Chicago, Mary Chipman, Department of Languages and Literatures, Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Guardian, a novel, John Ross Mason, Department of Languages and Literatures, Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Evercross, Randi Ann Smith, Department of Languages and Literatures, Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Stained glass, synthetic web: The simultaneous rise and fall of something person, Seth Thill, Department of Languages and Literatures, Thesis (Electronic Copy Not Available) 2020 Award
"This is how we play destroy": Deconstruction and the construction of a cyborg future in Poppy's Am I a Girl?, Stevie Eve Sanchez, Department of Languages and Literatures, Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
"Something beyond ordinary love": (Re)covering the extraordinary in Compton Mackenzie's Extraordinary Women, Hannah Lane, Department of Languages and Literatures, Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
The girl who lost her shadow: A collection of short fiction, Paola Alfano, Department of Languages and Literatures, Thesis (UNI Access Only)
"Among the unspeakable foundations": Melville's use of the book of Job in Moby-Dick, Andrew S. De Luca, Department of Languages and Literatures, Thesis (Electronic Copy Not Available)
Banging spinning hallelujahs, Moriah Henkelman, Department of Languages and Literatures, Thesis (UNI Access Only)
It starts with "F": A collection of short stories, Arielle Irvine, Department of Languages and Literatures, Open Access Thesis
Waiting for the mail: A collection of short stories, James Matthew Keane, Department of Languages and Literatures, Open Access Thesis
They that go down to the sea in ships: Richard Henry Dana, Jr.'s Two Years Before the Mast and the Sublime, Laurie Anne Lee, Department of Languages and Literatures, Open Access Thesis
The moth-eaters & other stories, Adrianne Lea Lloyd, Department of Languages and Literatures, Thesis (UNI Access Only) 2019 Award
In the hollow of a tree, Lisa A. McClurg, Department of Languages and Literatures, Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Affects and absences: Public memory at the Oklahoma City National Memorial, Jeremy Roberts, Department of Languages and Literatures, Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Ecocritical post-colonial studies on humans, land, and animals, Alia Afzal, Department of Languages and Literatures, Open Access Thesis
A "Little House on the Prairie" education: Creating a Wilder identity, Victoria Anez Bertelsen, Department of Languages and Literatures, Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Viride: An Iowa gothic, Rachel Iolene Bing, Department of Languages and Literatures, Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Wearable and other stories, Jennifer Corrigan, Department of Languages and Literatures, Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Code of conduct, Kathryn Keene Wohlpart, Department of Languages and Literatures, Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Momentum: Stories, Cody Michael Chesmore, Department of Languages and Literatures, Thesis (UNI Access Only)
The cultural and rhetorical elements of American picaresque, Cory James Dahlstrom, Department of Languages and Literatures, Open Access Thesis
Romantic melancholy: European post-Enlightenment protest in the Age of Reason, Erin Renee Frink, Department of Languages and Literatures, Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Degausser and other stories, Jake Limburg, Department of Languages and Literatures, Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
All fortune is good fortune: the role of Fortuna in a monotheistic literary world, Kimberly Bridgewater, Department of Languages and Literatures, Open Access Thesis
Reconciling the two cultures : A case study of the University of Northern Iowa, Elizabeth Ann Collins, Department of Languages and Literatures, Open Access Thesis
The Untitled Life of Oliver Murphy, Michael Jackson, Department of Languages and Literatures, Thesis (Electronic Copy Not Available)
The traumatic incursion of the Old South on gender and motherhood in William Faulkner's novels The sound and the fury, As I lay dying, and Light in August, Jordan Lea Ludwig, Department of Languages and Literatures, Thesis (UNI Access Only) 2016 Award
The manual disconnect: narratives in prose and verse, Brian Pals, Department of Languages and Literatures, Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Between strangers, Sarah Pauls, Department of Languages and Literatures, Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Resurrecting the hip-hop and Christian cultures: Lecrae's unashamed use of the rap narrative, persona, and language, Marci Swank, Department of Languages and Literatures, Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Spillway: A Novella, Kyrie Dora Borsay, Department of Languages and Literatures, Open Access Thesis
Contemporary gothic literature: The need for fear, Erica Schael Kaitlin Engel, Department of Languages and Literatures, Thesis (UNI Access Only)
The gay rites of passage, Zachary Paul Lowe, Department of Languages and Literatures, Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Amalgamation: A collection of poetry, prose, and process, Grant Andrew Riedel, Department of Languages and Literatures, Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Vodka lullabies and purple skies: A collection of creative works, Rachel Routier, Department of Languages and Literatures, Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Solitary, Anita Ellen Schuck, Department of Languages and Literatures, Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Postmodern humanism and the "exhaustion of easy life", Mason Beets, Department of Languages and Literatures, Open Access Thesis
Storm’s Lake and Stories, A.J. Bernhagen, Department of Languages and Literatures, Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Apothecary and Other Stories: A Short Fiction Collection, Alissa Brianne Cornick, Department of Languages and Literatures, Open Access Thesis
Batman and the superhero fairytale: deconstructing a revisionist crisis, Travis John Landhuis, Department of Languages and Literatures, Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Before Words, There Were Leaves: A Collection of Poems, Jason Bradford, Department of Languages and Literatures, Open Access Thesis
A Wave Frozen in Bone and Flesh, Tiffany L. Bullen, Department of Languages and Literatures, Open Access Thesis
In a Complex Plane, Todd Dralle, Department of Languages and Literatures, Open Access Thesis
Producing early modern space and the mind in public and closet drama, Megan M. Gallagher, Department of Languages and Literatures, Open Access Thesis 2013 Award
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Kurt Vonnegut, Authorship and the Purpose of Literature: A Study of Kilgore Trout, Danielle M. Benesh, Department of Languages and Literatures, Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Captivating emotions: Sentiment and the work of rhetorical drag in colonial and early national captivity narrative, Gleidson Gouveia, Department of Languages and Literatures, Open Access Thesis 2010 Award
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Bomb Media 1951-1964, Tristan Edward Abbott, Department of Languages and Literatures, Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
Up Wau Hollow and Other Stories, Deborah J. Bloom, Department of Languages and Literatures, Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 1966
The Shift in Focus From the Group to the Individual in the Later Novels of John Steinbeck, Sandra Lee Gabel, Department of Languages and Literatures, Open Access Thesis
