The Department of English offers a 30 hour program of study leading to the Master of Arts degree in English. The Department of English also offers a 48-hour program of study leading to the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (MFA-CW) degree.
Graduate students in English may: prepare for careers of teaching on the college and pre-college levels; engage in literary research and composition on advanced levels; prepare for further advanced study and degrees; or pursue other pre-professional goals.
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Ellipses of Gravel, Brandyn Christian Johnson
Fragments of Joshua, Bruce Chandler Lewis
Judgment, Joseph M. Mau
We Bare All, Wesley Shane Parsons
Rhaptein/Aidein, Kristen Roach Thompson
Saul Cyriaque & the Siren of Jean Lafitte, Laura E. Wooffitt
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
"It's Like We Were Being Watched ... Like There Were Only 3 Walls, And Not a Fourth Wall": Manifestations of Metafiction in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Caleb Randall Dempsey-Richardson
Confessions of a Scaredy Cat, Todd King
Like So Many Purple Boughs, Lisa M. Schmidley
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Civilian Aviation Screening: A Time-Series Analysis of Confiscated Firearms at Screening Checkpoints, Shon Agard
Subversive Liminality and Ideological Warfare: The Zombie Mash-Up as Resistance to Hypermasculine Revenge Narratives Post-9/11, Veronica L. Cooper
The Painted Box, Veronica Louise Harryman
The Black Gum Well, Carolyn Ruth Pennington
The Rhetorical Criteria of Kennedy's Camelot, Stacy Fawn Wilder
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Postwar Media Manifestations and Don DeLillo, Joshua Adam Boldt
Identity, Reality, and Truth in Memoirs from the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, Travis L. Martin
We May or May Not Rock You, Ryan Matthew Rodgers
