Research

Recent Theses

Fall 2009

Chasteen, Christopher. "Playing With the Elements: An Argument for Game Play Experience Based Video Game Analysis."

Cooper-Murphy, Lisa. "Beyond the Metaphor: Ethically Teaching Literary Depictions of Sexual Assault in a Rape Culture."

Edwards, Kathleen. “Cultural Nationalism and the Black Aesthetic in The Man Who Cried I Am.”

Roder, Claire. “Responsible Use of Technology in the First-Year Composition Classroom.”

Eau Claire's faculty and students truly get to know each other, and there is a tremendous feeling of cooperation and encouragement here.

Jacqueline Bailey
MA, Spring 2005

Summer 2008

Hebel, Krista. “Wielding `A Power the Dark Lord Knows Not’: Harry Potter and the Heroics of Care.” ( Advisor: Dr. Theresa Kemp)

Power, Gregory. “`Neither Angels Nor Beasts’: Language and the Diminished Self in Walker Percy’s The Thanatos Syndrome.” (Advisor: Dr. Charles Hanson)

Spring 2008

Emerson, Kent. “Analysis of the Representations of Subjectivity in James Joyce’s Prose Using Deleuze and Guattari.”
(Advisor: Dr. Bernard Duyfhuizen)

Kohler, Karen. “Our Daily Bread: An Analysis of Scandinavian Lutheran Church Cookbooks.” (Advisor: Dr. Charles Hanson)

Fall 2007

Brey, Judine. “A Radical Lens: Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Austen and Changing Gender Roles.” (Advisor: Dr. Jennifer Shaddock)

Holzinger, Rachel. Performing Gender for Imaginary Audiences in Oates’s “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”
(Advisor: Audrey Fessler).

Polnaszek, Erin. “Intertextuality in Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea.
(Advisor: Dr. Jennifer Shaddock)

Summer 2007

Nowlan, Molly Barnes, "Using Performance to Teach Literature in the Constructivist English Classroom." (Advisor: Dr. Theresa Kemp).

Fall 2006

Heiser, Lindsay, "Meditations on Making it Home: Exploring Product and Place in Wisconsin." (Advisor: Dr. Jack Bushnell).

Lehman, Julia, "Freeform: the Changing Shape of Women in STEM Fields." (Advisor: Dr. Jack Bushnell).

Taylor, Jennifer, "Ecocritical Perspectives on The Left Hand of Darkness: an Annotated Bibliography of Secondary Souces." (Advisor: Allyson Loomis).

Summer 2006

Krotzman, Jasmine L., MA, "Rewriting the Cliché: Jeanette Winterson's Love Story"

Thomas-Card, Traci L., MA, "Defamiliarizing the Frontier: Gender and Sexuality in Ursula K. Le Guin's Sur"

Spring 2006

Bodelson, Amery,
MA, "Breaking through Discourse to Grasp Utopia in The Handmaid’s Tale"

Neff, Angela, MA,
"Shakespeare: Translations and Performances in American Sign Language"

Mortenson, Jed, MA, "The Compromise of 1851: Race and the Deliberate Ending of The House of the Seven Gables"

Summer 2005

Boster, Dan., MA “`What Did You Notice?’: The Ecopoetry of Mary Oliver”

Gibson, Cindy., MST " The Romeo and Juliet Portfolio Project, A Constructivist Approach to a Traditional Text"

Pionkowski, Tenille, MA, "Casting a Spell on the World-Harry Potter and the Fantastic Bildungsroman"

Sparks, Steven P., MA, "Teaching Film Genres"

Steele, Kevin, MA, "The Unlikely Power of the Bene Gesserit in Frank Herbert's Dune”

Spring 2005

Bailey, Jacqueline Myrtle, MA, “The Hero Must Hang: The Postcolonial Swerve and the Re-Visioning of Homer’s Odyssey in Hanif Kureishi’s Sammy and Rosie Get Laid”

Long, Jason K, MA, “Bromden’s Choice: Freudian Lessons of Mitigated Living in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”

Petrashek, Lindsay R., MA, “Rachel Halliday as Christ: The Role of Spirit in Uncle Tom’s Cabin”