2008–2009 Approved Master’s Theses
Akyeampong, Claudia (M.F.A. Poetry)
Rumblings from A Talking Drum
Adviser: Lou Asekoff
Baez, John (M.A. English)
Oral Otherness: Written Utterance in the Prison Writings of Oscar Wilde and Jean Genet
Adviser: Mark Patkowski
Bagatourian, Bianca (M.F.A. Playwriting)
Remnants of a Liquid World
Adviser: Mac Wellman
Baker, Annie (M.F.A. Playwriting)
Circle Mirror Transformation
Adviser: Mac Wellman
Barker, Tanya (M.A. English)
The Paradox of the Thing: British Imperialism and the Making of a British National Identity
Adviser: Wendy Fairey
Bartnik, Catherine (M.A. English)
Becoming the Grail King: Fate and Development in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival
Adviser: Karl Steel
Beckim, Chad (M.F.A. Playwriting)
Mercy
Adviser: Mac Wellman
Brown, Donald (M.A. English)
Impressionism Along the Shores of Balbec: The Practice of Impressionism in Proust's In Search of Lost Time
Adviser: Janet Moser
Brule, Michelle (M.F.A. Poetry)
Where the Wind Blows
Adviser: Julie Agoos
Carey, Anna (M.F.A. Fiction)
The Leftovers
Adviser: Fiona Maazel
Childers, Jodie (M.F.A. Poetry)
Private Property
Adviser: Julie Agoos
D'Alessandro, Mario David (M.A. English)
Contextualizing Alisoun: A Survey and Evaluation of Competing Critical Approaches to "The Wife of Bath" and her Quest for Power and Ability to "Speak"
Adviser: Karl Steel
Deal, Lance (M.F.A. Poetry)
The Spine of the Snowman
Adviser: Julie Agoos
DiGiacomo, Jason (M.A. English)
Waugh in the 21st Century: An Examination of Evelyn Waugh's Comedic World
Adviser: Geoffrey Minter
Dobran, Ryan (M.A. English)
Clarity and Silence in George Oppen's "Of Being Numerous"
Adviser: Nicola Masciandaro
Fraggetta, Amanda (M.A. English)
Discovering America: Reimagining Nabokov's Lolita as a Travel Narrative
Adviser: Martha Nadell
Gartland, Neal (M.F.A. Poetry)
The Viscous Jamboree
Adviser: Julie Agoos
Ginger, Kelly (M.F.A. Poetry)
Here, Now, Always
Adviser: Julie Agoos
Gioe, Jamie (M.A. English)
Oedipa and the Riddle of Reality in Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49
Adviser: Mark Patkowski
Goettel, Diane (M.A. English)
Identity in Space and Place: Perspectives on Jonathan Lethem's The Fortress of Solitude
Adviser: Martha Nadell
Grushkin, Daniel (M.F.A. Fiction)
Stories of the Hour
Adviser: Jenny Offill
Harte, Erin (M.F.A. Fiction)
Don't Scare Her Off Before She Starts: A Short Story Collection
Adviser: Fiona Maazel
Hauser, Christina (M.F.A. Fiction)
Coast is Clear: A Novel
Adviser: Jenny Offill
Herceg, Jozeph (M.A. English)
Live Through This: J.G. Ballard's Crash, Martin Amis's London Fields, and the New Necropolis
Adviser: James Davis
Holland, Timothy (M.A. English)
The Troubles in Joyce's Dublin: Political, Religious, and Literary Hegemony in Ulysses and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Adviser: Moustafa Bayoumi
Hopes, Adrianne (M.F.A. Fiction)
Dirty Little Animals
Adviser: Ernesto Mestre
Islam, Tanwi (M.F.A. Fiction)
Bright Lines
Adviser: Fiona Maazel
Kikoler, Jennifer (M.F.A. Fiction)
On the Head of a Thief Burns His Hat: Stories
Adviser: Amy Hempel
Krywicki, Jarad (M.A. English)
Hamlet Goes Whaling: Suspension and Interpretive Deferment in Hamlet and Moby-Dick
Adviser: Geoffrey Minter
Ladjache, Siobhan (M.A. English)
Derrida's Hostile Hospitality: Re-imagining Belonging
Adviser: Moustafa Bayoumi
Lemkowitz, Jake (M.F.A. Fiction)
Alante!
Adviser: Catherine Texier
Lewington, Robert (M.A. English)
The Alchemist in Performance: Staging Ben Jonson for the Contemporary Audience
Adviser: Martin Elsky
Lioce, Michael (M.A. English)
An Introduction to Flashman
Adviser: Wendy Fairey
Lucadamo, Elizabeth (M.A. English)
The Struggle for Identity: Individual Identity as defined by Individual Trial and Experience versus Identity as a Function of Societal Enforced Roles
Adviser: Carey Harrison
Macrides, Kalle (M.F.A. Playwriting)
NOIR
Adviser: Mac Wellman
Mantia, Cheryl (M.A. English)
The Gothic Catholic: A Study of How Catholicism is Presented in Ann Radcliffe's The Italian, or The Confessional of the Black Penitents (1797)
Adviser: Carey Harrison
Marschall, Wythe (M.F.A. Fiction)
The Gyrosphyrinx; or, L'Incroyable Pouvoir Des Filature Harpie: A Novel
Adviser: Jenny Offill
McQuibban, Samantha (M.F.A. Poetry)
Split Tongue
Adviser: Julie Agoos
Miller, David (M.F.A. Poetry)
Field Recordings
Adviser: Marjorie Welish
Murtha, Megan (M.A. English)
"Time Passes" in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse as a Framed Work of Post-Impressionism
Adviser: Wendy Fairey
Neale, Julia (M.A. Liberal Studies)
Conscious Identity: An Introductory Analysis of the Components of Personal Identity
Adviser: Mark Patkowski
Olga Pester (M.F.A. Poetry)
window open/window closed
Adviser: Julie Agoos
Ostrowski, Julie (M.A. English)
How Joyce Carol Oates Explores Urban Crises in Them and The Falls
Adviser: Julia Hirsch
Oyola, Osvaldo (M.A. English)
Collection, Identity and the Narratives of Brooklyn in Jonathan Lethem's The Fortress of Solitude
Adviser: Martha Nadell
Parfrey, Ian (M.F.A. Poetry)
Brain Surgery with Fork
Adviser: Richard Pearse
Plaunt, Chloe (M.F.A. Fiction)
New Moon: Stories
Adviser: Josh Henkin
Price, Jeffrey (M.F.A. Fiction)
Brothers in Time
Adviser: Fiona Maazel
Quartuccio, Peter (M.A. English)
The Analyst and the Unknown: Objective and Subjective Detective Fiction in Poe and Joyce
Adviser: Geoff Minter
Russo, Joseph (M.A. English)
Queer Shamanism: Genet's Thresholds of Becoming
Adviser: Karl Steel
Sande, Melissa (M.A. English)
Double Entendre: Hybrid Culture as the Psychological Equivalent of Sexual Trauma in Jean Rhys's Postcolonial Novels
Adviser: Moustafa Bayoumi
Sherwood, Normandy (M.F.A. Playwriting)
Switch Blade Girls
Adviser: Mac Wellman
Skinner, Deborah (M.A. English)
The Issue of Women and Voice in Henry James' The Portrait of a Lady and Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome
Adviser: James Davis
Stevens, Elizabeth (M.F.A. Fiction)
The Crony: A Novel
Adviser: Jenny Offill
Tandy, Catherine (M.A. English)
My Soul is a Pawn Shop: Consumerism and Numinism in Saul Bellow's Henderson the Rain King
Adviser: Nicola Masciandaro
Tucker, Lindsey (M.A. English)
Lisette Model: Obscuring the Identities of Art and Documentary in Photography
Adviser: Joseph Entin
Wolff, Ian (M.A. English)
Nonquest of Nonidentity in Nonplace: Postotherness in Roberto Bolano's The Savage Detectives
Adviser: Joseph Entin
Workman, Emily (M.A. English)
Gender Binaries and Imperialism: Milton's Paradise Lost
Adviser: Kathleen Haley
