Theses/Dissertations/Capstones from 2026
IMMORTAL BLACKNESS: BLACK QUEER DESIRE, KINSHIP, AND FUTURITY IN SPECULATIVE FICTION, Dakota Darwin
ANY ONE & EVERY ONE, Sarah V. Dumitrascu
TRANSLATION TO ADAPTATION: GENDER, AUTHORITY, AND THE LYTIL BIBELL OF KNYGHTHOD, Cameron Esparza
BURY THEM AT HOME, Pilar Guzmán García
IN THE RUINS OF MEMORY: ERASURE AND SURVIVAL IN CONTEMPORARY FEMINIST DYSTOPIA, Faith Jackson
THE CRANE AND THE TURTLE DANCE: EXPLORING MONO NO AWARE, NATURE, AND ONTOLOGY IN THE STORY OF URASHIMA TARO, THE FISHER LAD, Rachel Martin
SALTFISH AND SEEDCAKE: EXAMINING FANTASY THROUGH FOOD STUDIES, Isabella Martins-Simonsen
TELL ME WHAT YOU SEE, Christopher Alan McDaniel
CHIVALRY’S ONGOING CHANGE: THE DEVELOPMENT OF WOMAN KNIGHTS IN FANTASY LITERATURE, Miranda Miller
THE HATE CIRCUIT: A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS ON HATE AND HEALING, Vivian Murphy
THE OVERVIEW EFFECT: A POETRY COLLECTION, Crystal Murr
LEGENDS TO BE (RE)BORN: INTERSECTIONAL FEMINIST REIMAGININGS IN YOUNG ADULT FANTASY LITERATURE, Ashley Perry
AN AUTISM-CENTERED ANALYSIS OF THE AESTHETICS AND NARRATIVE OF GENE WOLFE’S BOOK OF THE NEW SUN, Sebastian Peterson
UNTITLED 01, Mattie Denise Reaves
REPAIR: REFLECTIONS ON POVERTY, PLACE, AND PERSPECTIVE, Jonathan Rockford
PASSING ON AND PASSING THROUGH: BLACK VAMPIRISM AS THE MIRROR OF RACIAL PASSING IN SINNERS AND INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE, Elizabeth Searles
RITUAL PRACTICES IN REBECCA ROANHORSE’S INDIGENOUS FUTURIST TRILOGY: RITUAL BEYOND REASON, Sebastian Sosa-Reese
DEATH AND THE UNCANNY: FREUD, GRIEF, AND THE HORROR OF INEVITABILITY IN ARI ASTER’S HEREDITARY AND MIDSOMMAR, Courtney Michelle Taylor
TO BUILD A HOUSE, Carrie-Anna Wade
THE PLACE WE LIVE WHICH DOES NOT EXIST, Jonathon Parker Yontz
Theses/Dissertations/Capstones from 2025
DIGITALLY COLLABORATIVE: AN ANALYSIS OF PEER REVIEW IN FYC CLASSES AND THE AFFORDANCES OF DIGITAL TOOLS, Arianna Bartolone
THE QUIET GNOSTICISM OF SAMUEL BECKETT’S ENDGAME, Andrew Dean Chapman
THEY WHISPERED, HANDS OVER THEIR MOUTHS: STORIES, Javier Cedrón Farfán
HOW TO NOT LOSE A BLACK DAUGHTER, Shaquera Johnson
THE CURRENT OF ANXIETIES: GHOSTS AND CAPITAL FOR THE LIMINAL BRIDE IN HIROKO OYAMADA’S THE HOLE, Maliha Kabir
THE META-PORTAL FANTASY, Alex Lawrynas
THE SOULS OF BLACK GHOSTS: CENTERING INTERGENERATIONAL TRAUMA OF BLACK AMERICANS FROM HARRIET TUBMAN TO BELOVED, Jasmine McCray
EXTRACTING THE FUTURE: AN ANALYSIS OF PETROCULTURE IN APOCALYPTIC WORKS, Cailey Poirier
PRESS PASS: A MIDDLE EAST MEMOIR OF IDENTITY AND EMPATHY, Ilene Prusher
UNKNOWN COSTS, Wilson M. Sims
MAKING HOT CHOCOLATE: CONNECTING HYPERSEXUALITY AND VIOLENCE AGAINST BLACK AMERICAN WOMEN IN 20TH AND 21ST CENTURY LITERATURE, Ashlan Stewart
XENOTYPICAL: A LYRICAL MEMOIR, Sierra Lin Yetka
MATERIA NON MEDICA: READING DISABILITY AND MEDICAL NARRATIVES IN THE DAUGHTER OF DOCTOR MOREAU, Jessica Elizabeth Young
NO NEUTRAL GROUND: SPORTS POLITICAL IDEOLOGY IN THE 1936 OLYMPIC GAMES, Lea Zeitler