Submissions from 2018
Being Vicariously Criminal: Sherlock Holmes' Dualistic Nature as a Placebo for Degeneracy, Elizabeth Fisher
The Centrality of Human Freedom in Dostoevsky and Huxley, Evelyn J. Hylton
Prolepsis through Poe's Narrators: The Prophetic Demise of the Obsessive Protagonist, Bailey Jarnagin
Restoring What Has Been Lost: The Mythic Journey of Shakespearean and Tolkien Heroes After the Fall in Eden, Taylor LoForti
Theology and Poetry: Literary Aesthetics in the Writing of Ann Voskamp, Erin Peters
Iarwain Ben-adar on the Road to Faerie: Tom Bombadil's Recovery of Premodern Fantasy Values, Greta Rogers
What’s in the Potato Barn: A Discourse of Redemption in Three of Kurt Vonnegut’s Novels, Rebecca Tutton Parker
The Buffered Slayer: A Search for Meaning in a Secular Age, Kari Willinger
Death, Friendship, and the Power of Words: Reflections of the Holocaust in Liesel Meminger’s Traumatic Story, Jerusha J. Yoder
Submissions from 2017
Choosing a Moral Compass: The Journey towards Moral Maturity in Harry Potter, Tricia Mieden
The Polyphonic Survivor: Dialogism and Heteroglossia in Art Spiegelman's "Maus: A Survivor's Tale", Joshua Novalis
Keep Moving Forward: A Postcolonial Interpretation of Narration in Barbara Kingsolver's "The Poisonwood Bible", Katherine Pagan
Shifting Focus: The Role of Visual Literacy in the Twenty-First Century English Classroom, Bryanna Tester
Submissions from 2016
Defining Afghan Women Characters as Modern Archetypes using Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns and Asne Seierstad’s The Bookseller of Kabul, Alexandra Andrews
Real or Not Real: Fragmentation, Fabrication, and Composite Identity in The Hunger Games and the Mass Effect Trilogy, Tessanna Curtis
The Adventure of the Immortal Detective: Adaptation and Audience Investment in the Cases of Sherlock Holmes, Corey Hayes
“First-Rate Eddication”: The Educational Roles of Merlyn and Dumbledore, Carissa Johnson
The Library Under the Sun: Knowledge and Vanity in Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose, Elizabeth Lamont
The Quotidian in Naguib Mahfouz’s The Cairo Trilogy, Kenneth Strickland
“You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful”: The Adolescent Identity in J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, Whitney Thacker
Flannery O'Connor and the Poetics of Prayer: The Analysis of A Prayer Journal, Emily Wilson
Junot Díaz’s The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and Its Punishment of Failed Gender Performances, Bruno Yupanqui Tovar
Submissions from 2015
The Romantic Egoist: Fitzgerald's View on Identity and Culture, Tara Bender
Samwise Gamgee: Beauty, Truth, and Heroism in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Christine Loraine Chichester
Mad to be Sincere: Authenticity, Irony, and Kerouac’s Response to Modern Reality, Jonathan Michael Devin
Flannery O'Connor's Redemptive Violence in Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club and Invisible Monsters, Caitlin Elliot
Mad Hero in a Box: Christianity, Secular Humanism, and the Monomyth in Doctor Who, Sabrina Hardy
American Dreams and Dystopias: Examining Dystopian Parallels in The Great Gatsby and To Kill a Mockingbird, Samuel Nathan Harris
A Culture in Change: The Development of Masculinity through P.G. Wodehouse's Psmith Series, Allison Thompson
Submissions from 2014
Dish and Pot: Scatology and Liminal Space in Samuel Beckett, Keegan Bradford
A Professorial Nation: The Pedagogical Gardens of William Crimsworth, Jane Eyre, and Lucy Snowe, Elise Green
Hippie Caulfield: The Catcher in the Rye's Influence on 1960s American Counterculture, Richard Neffinger
Victorian Domesticity and the Perpetuation of Childhood: an Examination of Gender Roles and the Family Unit in J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan, Abigail Nusbaum
Scientism, Satire, and Sacrificial Ceremony in Dostoevsky's "Notes From Underground" and C.S. Lewis's "That Hideous Strength", Jonathan Smalt
Detective Fiction Reinvention and Didacticism in G. K. Chesterton's Father Brown, Clifford Stumme
Submissions from 2013
Women as Victims in Tennessee Williams' First Three Major Plays, Ruth Foley
Life Inside the Spectacle: David Foster Wallace, George Saunders, and Storytelling in the Age of Entertainment, John Hawkins
Spice Sisters: Religion, Freedom and Escape of Women in African American and Indian Literatures, Lovely Koshy
Conforming to Conventions in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma, Veronica Olson
Charles Dickens' Great Expectations: The Failed Redeemers and the Fate of the Orphan, Rebekah Overbey
No Greater Love: Recognition, Transformation, and Friendship in the Harry Potter Series, Stephen Parish
Putting Down Roots: A Tolkienian Conception of Place, Kayla Snow
Subverting a Mythology: Examining Joseph Campbell's Monomyth in the Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft, Wesley VanDenBos
Submissions from 2012
And Then, He Folds His Patterned Rug: Repressive Reality and the Eternal Soul in Vladimir Nabokov, Elizabeth Cook
Humor Me to Heaven: Humor's Redemptive Role in the Works of Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, and Marilynne Robinson, Stephanie Johnson
The Significance of Silence: The Muted Voices of Count Fosco and Laura Fairlie in The Woman in White, Melanie Page
A Hierarchy of Love: Myth in C.S. Lewis's Perelandra, Joseph Walls
Don't Take Orpheus without the Lyre: The Intricacies of Using Pagan Myths for Christian Purposes in The Divine Comedy and Paradise Lost, Rebekah J. Waltmann
Submissions from 2011
"I Hear America Singing": An Approach to Poetry's Coalescent Intricacies of Sound, Structure, and Content, Meagan Ashleigh Brooks
A Myth Retold: How Till We Have Faces Confirms that a Myth is not a Fairytale, Rachel Elizabeth Burkholder
Perception and Action: Sympathy, Charity and Ideal Communities in Eliot's Middlemarch and Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, Katherine Ruth Curtis
Language and Identity in Postcolonial African Literature: A Case Study of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, Abigail Guthrie
The Eternal Stranger: The Superfluous Man in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature, Kelly L. Hamren
Redeeming Proper Taste: Food as an Emblem of Luxury in Eighteenth Century England, Hannah R. Hinkson
It Is Well With My Soil: Ecocriticism of Wendell Berry's Jayber Crow and Hannah Coulter & Marilynne Robinson's Gilead and Housekeeping, Lauren Hoessly
Controlling the Sandman: The Function of the Grotesque in the Ninth Art, Jill A. Johnson
Dancing Through Life: Symmetry and Balance within Dance and the Form of Jane Austen's Novels, Elizabeth Ellen Jones
"Between th'extremes to move": Antithesis in Alexander Pope's Art, Kyra Elizabeth Marken
Living in the Tensions: Camus, Qohelet, and the Confrontation with the Absurd, Justin Keith Morgan
Tickled to Death: The Consistency of Tones in the Arts of Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor, Ramona Dale Myers
The Power of Words: The Use of Language In Ethan Frome, Heather Faye Spear
"In Our Sleep We Ran After Them": Daughters Defining Families and the Act of Storytelling in Sandra Cisneros, Cortney Thomas
Creating Home-Plate in America: American Exceptionalism and Baseball as Imperialistic Home in Irwin Shaw's Short Fiction, August Wilson's Fences, and William Kennedy's Ironweed, Nathaniel Ross Valle
Miming the Poem: Influence and Imitation in Robert Lowell's Poetic, Andrew Walker
Submissions from 2010
Style as a "[M]anner of Seeing": The Poetics of Gustave Flaubert, Nicole Lyn Brownfield
"Alfred Hitchcock Presents; `Propaganda'": A Rhetorical Study of Alfred Hitchcock's World War II Propaganda Films, Jennifer Renee Brown
Hues, Tresses, and Dresses: Examining the Relation of Body Image, Hair, and Clothes to Female Identity in Their Eyes Were Watching God and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Alisha Priolo Castaneda
The Doppelgänger Tale and the Masquerade of Race: The Enduring Influence of Dumas` Iron Mask and Twain`s Switched Heroes, Virginia Payne Dow
Man Thinking the World: Contemporary American Authors and the Nobel Prize in Literature, Christopher Ryan Knight
The "Mother Tongue" in a World of Sons: Language and Power in The Earthsea Cycle, Daniel Newell
Groping for Intimacy: Modern Man's "Pressure" and the Onanistic Inversion of Christianity, Marriage, and the Nuclear Family in Three American Novels, Nicholas Scott Olson
Lofty Depths and Tragic Brilliance: The Interweaving of Celtic and Anglo-Saxon Mythology and Literature in the Arthurian Legends, Melissa Rogers
Submissions from 2009
Disenchantment: The Formation, Distortion, and Transformation of Identity in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, Lydia K. Christoph
Poe's Poisoned Pen: A Study in Fiction as Vendetta, Charity Lea Givens
The Legacy of a Failing Father: Dysfunctional Father Figures in William Faulkner's Fiction, Travis V. Holt
Symptomatic of Excess: Apocalypse in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut, Katie Elizabeth Robinson
Bewilderment and Illumination: Catch-22 and the Dark Humor of the 1960s, Kirsten Staaby
"Life Wants Padding": Food, Eating, and Bodies in George Eliot's Novels, Tess Rebecca Stockslager
Expunging Father Time: The Search for Temporal Transcendence in the Novels of Aldous Huxley and Tom Robbins, Stephanie Abigail Taylor
Towards Understanding: The Study of Hughes' Poetry as the Epitome of the Expressive, Cultural, and Political Elements of African American Literature, Brianne Nicole Trudeau
Hauntings in the Church: Counterfeit Christianity through the Fin de Siècle Gothic Novel, Melissa Ann West
