Theses & Dissertations
This collection contains theses and dissertations by graduate students in the Department of Languages and Literatures at the University of Northern Iowa.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Positioning Paperback Books as Americana: Cultural and Historical Impacts of the Wadle Pocket Book Collection, Jake Volk 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 Thesis (UNI Access Only)
The Pandemic-Uncanny: Self-Estrangement and Environment in Out There and Bliss Montage, Kersten Khaley Open Access Thesis
From Art to Propaganda: The Shift in the Concept of the “Most Dead” in True Crime Literature, Hannah McConkey Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Tell me, which realm do I remember?, Danielle Dunagan Thesis (UNI Access Only)
The trouble with floating, Alyssa Minch Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Doing corpus pragmatics: Variations in speech acts performed in conversations occurring naturally in academic contexts, Jacob Philip Rigal Open Access Thesis
The new independents: A historical analysis of webcomics and webtoon, Leonal A. Sepúlveda S. Open Access Thesis
Prophet loss, Brooke Marie Wiese Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Ecocriticism in young adult dystopian literature: Revealing a generation's desire to reconnect with nature, Alexus Williams Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Hybridity, border-crossings and the homeland in contemporary literature by women, Rand Omar Khalil Khalil Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Gio's story, Sermantha Louisy Thesis (Electronic Copy Not Available)
Deities and dumbasses, Isaac Nielson 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 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 Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Guardian, a novel, John Ross Mason Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Evercross, Randi Ann Smith Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Stained glass, synthetic web: The simultaneous rise and fall of something person, Seth Thill 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 Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
"Something beyond ordinary love": (Re)covering the extraordinary in Compton Mackenzie's Extraordinary Women, Hannah Lane Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
The girl who lost her shadow: A collection of short fiction, Paola Alfano Thesis (UNI Access Only)
"Among the unspeakable foundations": Melville's use of the book of Job in Moby-Dick, Andrew S. De Luca Thesis (Electronic Copy Not Available)
Banging spinning hallelujahs, Moriah Henkelman Thesis (UNI Access Only)
It starts with "F": A collection of short stories, Arielle Irvine Open Access Thesis
Waiting for the mail: A collection of short stories, James Matthew Keane 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 Open Access Thesis
The moth-eaters & other stories, Adrianne Lea Lloyd Thesis (UNI Access Only) 2019 Award
In the hollow of a tree, Lisa A. McClurg Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Affects and absences: Public memory at the Oklahoma City National Memorial, Jeremy Roberts Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Ecocritical post-colonial studies on humans, land, and animals, Alia Afzal Open Access Thesis
A "Little House on the Prairie" education: Creating a Wilder identity, Victoria Anez Bertelsen Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Viride: An Iowa gothic, Rachel Iolene Bing Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Wearable and other stories, Jennifer Corrigan Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Code of conduct, Kathryn Keene Wohlpart Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Momentum: Stories, Cody Michael Chesmore Thesis (UNI Access Only)
The cultural and rhetorical elements of American picaresque, Cory James Dahlstrom Open Access Thesis
Romantic melancholy: European post-Enlightenment protest in the Age of Reason, Erin Renee Frink Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Degausser and other stories, Jake Limburg Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
All fortune is good fortune: the role of Fortuna in a monotheistic literary world, Kimberly Bridgewater Open Access Thesis
Reconciling the two cultures : A case study of the University of Northern Iowa, Elizabeth Ann Collins Open Access Thesis
The Untitled Life of Oliver Murphy, Michael Jackson 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 Thesis (UNI Access Only) 2016 Award
The manual disconnect: narratives in prose and verse, Brian Pals Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Between strangers, Sarah Pauls Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Resurrecting the hip-hop and Christian cultures: Lecrae's unashamed use of the rap narrative, persona, and language, Marci Swank Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Contemporary gothic literature: The need for fear, Erica Schael Kaitlin Engel Thesis (UNI Access Only)
The gay rites of passage, Zachary Paul Lowe Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Amalgamation: A collection of poetry, prose, and process, Grant Andrew Riedel Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Vodka lullabies and purple skies: A collection of creative works, Rachel Routier Thesis (UNI Access Only)
Solitary, Anita Ellen Schuck Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Postmodern humanism and the "exhaustion of easy life", Mason Beets Open Access Thesis
Batman and the superhero fairytale: deconstructing a revisionist crisis, Travis John Landhuis Open Access Thesis
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Producing early modern space and the mind in public and closet drama, Megan M. Gallagher 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 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 Open Access Thesis 2010 Award
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Bomb Media 1951-1964, Tristan Edward Abbott Open Access Thesis
