Striking through the pasteboard mask: a stylistics analysis of the works of Herman Melville

Specter of the past and vision of the future: the long shadow of Bram Stoker's Dracula

"The Arsenal of grace": understanding the role of violence and redemption in Flannery O'Connor's The Violent bear it away

Imperialism, neo-colonialism and international politics in Aldous Huxley's Island

The Nineteenth-century woman's modern reflection: female ego formation in Charlotte Brontë's Villette

Sexual slavery and the hope for the future in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet letter

Check and mate: Chaucer's clerical tale of oppression, submission, and obligation

Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and nineteenth-century Christianity

"Against either scale": analyzing Jesuitical equivocation in the porter scene in William Shakespeare's Macbeth

The Role of Tiresias in T. S. Eliot's The Waste land

Style, rhetoric, and ambiguity in Henry James's The Turn of the screw

Perspective made visible: the intellectual relationship of Ralph Ellison and Kenneth Burke

Aesthetic humanism: the radical romantic vision of Blake and Byron

The Politics of cultural trauma and violence in Junot Díaz's The Brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao

Violence begetting reverence: natural evil as "the pulsebeat of the world" in Cormac McCarthy's Blood meridian

Performance and grief: an analysis of Djuna Barnes's Nightwood

The Great Gatsby and the struggle for wealth, purity, and the pursuit of identity

Chaucer's criticism of the church in The Canterbury tales

Context: reading and writing in today's world

The Wife of Bath's true quest for sovereignty

Girls just wanna have fun: the truth behind the desiring nun archetype and the stereotypical use of the convent as a setting in the 18th century literature of Aphra Behn and Eliza Haywood

Othello: a tragedy of perception

Persistence, completion, and the basic writer

Ghosts, zombies, and angels: an exploration of metaphysics and the possibility of redemption in W. G. Sebald's prose narratives

Academic Literacy Acquisition (ALA)

A Lexical and Syntactical Analysis of Beowulf: a comparative analysis between the original manuscript and many translations of the 19th- and 20th-centuries

"Rooms, streets, streets, rooms": seeing one's self in the spaces of Mrs. Dalloway and Good Morning, Midnight

Sappho of Lesbos: influences in English literature and art

The colonization of Quincey Morris: the American other in Bram Stoker's Dracula

Darkness visible: Milton, seventeenth- century perspectives, and the changing Miltonic Canon

In formal contexts: the paratextual features of historiographic metafiction

Ever-Becoming Whitman: mythic perceptions cast long showers

Metamorphosis and metaphysics: an exploration of man and beast, good and evil, Christian and Pagan through Dichotomous Werewolves of the Middle Ages

Shakespeare as wordsmith of feeling: a stylistic analysis of word formation in Hamlet, King Lear, and The Tempest

“I Have Suffered With Those That I Saw Suffer”: Proximity, Trauma, and Shakespeare’s Tragic Women