KIMBA WISOTSKY, MA

 “Warmblooded: Abjection and the Rise of the Sympathetic Vampire” 

Major Professor: Richard Menke 

CANON JACKSON, MA 

“Percy Shelly from QUEEN MAB to PROMETHEUS UNBOUND: Imagining Secular Resistance” 

Major Professor: David Diamond 

KAITLYN WHITNER, MA 

“Limited Edition: How Media Reconfigures The Positive Intentions Of The Black American Princess Archetype” 

Major Professor: Barbara McCaskill 

KATIE RANDALL, MA 

“Measuring the Impact: Assessing Emotional Transformation in the Writing Center” 

Major Professor: Rebecca Hallman Martini 

MORIAH MARY-ELIZABETH ALFORD, MA 

“‘Empathy is Fossilized in Our Bones’ and Books: The Power of Contemporary Appalachian Literature as Rhetorical Rememberings” 

Major Professor: Rebecca Hallman Martini 

EMILY JACQUEZ, MA

 “Hózhó and Healing: Identity Formation in Dine’ Coming-Of-Age Films” 

Major Professor: Channette Romero 

KRISTEN LOCKE, MA

“The “L” Comes First: Censorship, Flânerie, and Space in Hope Mirrlees’s Paris and Gertrude Stein’s Lifting Belly” 

Major Professor: Susan Rosenbaum

EDEN GILLEY, MA 

“The Editor (Dys)Function: Changes and Challenges to Editorship in the Digital Age” 

Major Professor: Richard Menke 

RACHEL WARNER, MA

“Angry Women and their Hounds: The Medieval Hunt in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.” 

Major Professor: Cynthia Camp 

LILY WILSON, MA

 “The Public Nature of Private Life: Race, Gender and Citizenship in Post-Civil War Women’s Diaries” 

Major Professor: Barbara McCaskill 

JOHANNA BAILIE,  PhD 

“The Theater of Abolition: Representations of Transatlantic Slavery on the British Stage” 

Major Professor: Casie LeGette 

KATIE HURLOCK, PhD 

“Brave Spaces: Pro-Abortion Praxis and Feminist Pedagogy” 

Major Professor: Roxanne Eberle 

BRIANNA PHILLIPS, PhD 

“The Fall of the House of Realism: Sonic Subversion and Narrative Discord in the Nineteenth-Century British Woman’s (Audio) Novel” 

Major Professor: Roxanne Eberle 

SAYANTIKA MANDAL, PhD 

“Driftwood: A Novel” Major 

Professors: Aruni Kashyap & LeAnne Howe 

LIZ WAYSON, PhD 

“Keeping the Writing Center Weird: Neurodivergent Agencies  in Writing Center Spaces” 

Major Professor: Rebecca Hallman Martini 

CHRISTINA WOOD, PhD 

“Escapes”

 Major Professor: Reginald McKnight