Submissions from 2013
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
