Submissions from 2023
Thesis Proposal and Project: The Cave, Jennifer Lee Bailey
Writing for the Fantasy Genre through the Christian Worldview, Angelina Rose Butters
There Must Be More: God's Prescription for Living the Abundant Life, Rodney Gerald Coe
The Fire Behind My Passion: Thief's Fire, Jessica Lacey Hackett
Resurrecting Olympus, Jordan Ashley Miller
Journey Through the In-Between: A Haibun Anthology, Jonathan Andrew Painter
Personal Touches: Translation Poetics in Chinese Translations of Shakespeare Plays, Gabriella Smith
Submissions from 2022
Save Our Love, Jaime Constance Belk
Understanding Toxic Cycles and How to Defeat Them: How Poetry Can Heal, Tosha Marie Brown
The Struggle for Identity: How Female Writers Find Their Voice, Allison Joanne Call
Creating a Solid Mystery: Solving the Case for Plot, Michelle Grace Cannon
Family Lore and Believability in Historical Fiction, Amy Elizabeth Cimino
Mini Memoirs: Poetry as a Medium for Memories, Liesl Anna Counterman
Thesis Defense: The Yellow Wallpaper, Madison Hope Greathouse
Bibliotherapy in the Helping Professions: A Heuristic Model for Intervention Design, Natalie Marie Haney
The Deep End: A Journey of Faith, Janet M. Henderson
The Advantage of an Iterative Writing Process for Novels and Short Stories, Annie Jackson
Praise, Prayer, and the Power of God: Modern Miracles, Leslie Parker Jackson
Free Slave: Artist Statement, Thesis, and Working Novel, Leeland Francis Johnson
Finding Faith Within the Fantasy: Helping Middle Graders Conquer Foes and Fears, Joy Johnson-Summerville
Discovering “God Almighty”: An Exploration of Kurt Vonnegut’s Mythmaking in Sirens of Titan, Cat’s Cradle, and Slaughterhouse-Five, Megan Joy Kehoe
An Exploration of the Axiom “Show, Don’t Tell” in Fiction Writing, Tina Matras
Weight of the Sword and the Hero's Journey, Chase Baylor Moore
Christian Values Guide Generation Z to a Better Future in Post-Apocalyptic Screenplay, Charlotte Ashleigh Rice
How the Power of Film Inspires Christianity, Stephanie Mullins Sellers
Developing Biblical, Community-Based Resources for Military Wives Entering the Empty Nest and Midlife Transition Period, Cynthia Louise Stumme
The Inner Dialogue of Cultures: "Core-to-core confrontation" in My Name is Asher Lev and Davita's Harp, Sara Marie Williams
Agatha Christie: Poisons and Prose, A Critical and Creative Consideration, Laurie Kay Wolf
Bearing Witness to Human Value: Race Relations under the Apartheid Regime in Select Works of Athol Fugard, Cameron Alex Yngsdal
The Pastoral Connection - Examining Parallels Between Pastoral and Political Rhetoric During the Revolutionary War, Abigail A. Zedwick
Submissions from 2021
Don't Kill Mockingbird: An Educator's Guide to Teaching To Kill a Mockingbird in the 21st Century, Rachel Mayes Allen
The Voyage of the Reunion, Hamilton Keller Bright
In the Straits: Making History Accessible Through the Parent-Child Relationship, Grace Elizabeth Crocker
Restoring Female Agency: Wicked as a Feminist Fairy-Tale Revision, Erica Nicole Fox
The Writer’s Grit Guide: Practical Methods for Effective Writing, Victoria Renee Gomez
The Supporting Role: Cultivating a Writing Life to Prevent and Combat Writer's Block, Molly Elizabeth Hanberry
“You Never Get it Out of Your Bones”: The Christ-Haunted Security of Jean Louise “Scout” Finch in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman, Corley E. Humphrey
Standard Operating Procedures (SOP): A Must for Non-Profit Organizations, Lolita Joyce Law
Crumbs on the Counter: A Study of the Ability of the Food Memoir To Reveal a Writer's Identity through Culinary Experience, Danielle Courtney Ledoux
Wheels of Love: Turning Souls to the Saviour, Amy Leah Berry Magaw
The Particle Thì in Vietnamese, Mai Chi Nguyen
Finding Home in Merry Hill: Appalachia Beyond the Mountains in Arnow's The Dollmaker, Adrienne Oliver
Placing Social Emotional Learning at the Forefront of Public Education, Amy Joy Pedroza
Tomb and Temple : The Poet’s Use of Positive Body Imagery To Communicate Messages of Psychological Wellbeing, Shelby Elizabeth Poulin
The Prevalence of Grammar in Virginia Higher Education, Caroline Nicatie Stimpson
Bridging the Gap between Secondary Writing Instruction and Post-Secondary Writing Needs, Elexcia S. Washington
Submissions from 2020
Originality, Decorum, and Fantastic Sight in Dostoevsky's The Idiot, Richard A. Decker
Global Englishes: Variations of a Single Language in All English Classrooms, Amanda Leigh Faulkenberry
The Quest of Love: A Liturgical Reading of The Pilgrim's Progress, Matthew Charles Fox
“Is [he] a man? If so, is he mad? And if not, is he a devil?”: The Influence of Culture Versus Experience on the Brontë Sisters’ Perception of Mental Illness, Catrina May Mehltretter
Mother Heart, Elisa Miriam Palumbo
The Storying of Colombian Writing Centers, Jennifer Erin Pretzer
"Lead Us Not": Linguistic and Exegetical Considerations for Translating the Sixth Petition of the Lord's Prayer, Brodie Allan Robinson
English as a Lingua Franca: Improving Technical Writing and Communication Methods for International Audiences, Lauren Alyssa Serrani
Submissions from 2019
"Thus Saith the Lord": The Theological Rhetoric of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Nathaniel Ryan Davis
Writing with Incarcerated Students Towards Humanization: A Christian Critical Perspective, Deanna C. Kabler
Breaking the Fourth Wall, Esther Elizabeth Karram
Meeting the Stranger: Closing the Distance in Ernest Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast, Brett Joseph Raszinski
Persecutor’s Remorse: Mimetic Desire, Institutions, and Shūsaku Endō’s Loving Gaze on Persecutors, Jirayu Smitthimedhin
左興萬, Hsing Wan Tso: Against the Current, Deryka D. Tso
Submissions from 2018
The Problem of the Stigma of Marxism for Christian Advocacy Writers Whose Focus is Historical, Social Inequalities, Kandy Crosby-Hastings
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
