Research and Awards

Recent Theses

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 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”

Awards

2007-08 Academic Year

Mary Barnes Nowlan recieved the Distinguished Thesis Award for her thesis "Using Performance to Teach Literature in the Constructivist English Classroom."

Josiah P. Peeples IV article was accepted for publication in the Fall 2007 issue of The Explicator. "Sassoon's 'The One-Legged Man': Life through Death and Destruction." Explicator 66.2 (2008): 97-99.

PDF of "Sassoon's 'The One-Legged Man': Life Through Death and Destruction"

The panel "Women in War Literature" will be presented at the 49th Annual M/MLA Conference in Cleveland, Ohio, November 8-11. Panelists include Kent Emerson, Krista Hebel, and Claire Hedrington.

2006-07 Academic Year

Daniel Hardy was awarded a 2006-07 graduate assistantship. The assistantship involves working in the Writing Center, researching for faculty, and managing the Kate Gill library.

Student Representative, Midwestern Region, Sigma Tau Delta 2006-2007; Presenter & Lead Organizer, Regional Conference, Sigma Tau Delta-Midwestern Region, Fall 2006.

Lindsay Heiser was awarded a 2006 graduate assistantship. The assistantship invovles working in the Writing Center, researching various topics for faculty, and serving a member on the Graduate Executive Commitee

Tom Pamperin had his essay "All Right, Then, I'll Go to Hell" published in the New Voices column of the November 2006 English Journal; copyright 2006 by the National Council of Teachers of English. The essay was given an honorable mention in the 2006 Kay W. Levin Short Nonfiction Award--this is an annual contest for previously published work sponsored by the Council for Wisconsin Writers. Essay posted with permission from the author.

2005-06 Academic Year

Amery Bodelson, with advisor Stacy Thompson presented "Redemptive Restrooms: Moments of Utopia in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale" at the Midwest Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, WI, 10-13 Nov. 2005. Film II Panel: Utopia & Dystopia.

Midwest/Modern Language Association (M/MLA) Journal accepted her paper, "Redemptive Restrooms: Moments of Utopic Possibility in The Handmaid's Tale," for publication in the Spring 2006 issue.

Jasmine Krotzman was awarded a 2005-06 graduate assistantship. The assistantship involves working in the Writing Center, researching for faculty, managing the Kate Gill library, and serving as a member on the Graduate Executive Committee.

Jed Mortenson was awarded a 2005-06 graduate assistantship. The assistantship involves working in the Writing Center and researching various topics for faculty.

Tom Pamperin was a finalist for the Phyllis Smart Young Prize in poetry awarded by The Madison Review. One of his poems will be appearing in their Spring 2006 issue.

Traci Thomas-Card Student Representative, Midwestern Region, Sigma Tau Delta 2005-2006; Presenter, United Council Women's Leadership Conference, UWEC, Fall 2005; Presenter & Organizer, Sigma Tau Delta Convention, Portland OR, 2006; Lead Organizer, Graduate Conference, UWEC English Festival, 2006; Organizer, Regional Conference, Sigma Tau Delta-Midwestern Region, Fall 2006

Traci also won the 2005-2006 Arts and Sciences Outstanding Graduate Student Award.

2004-05 Academic Year

Jackie Bailey won the 2004-2005 University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Distinguished Thesis Award for "The Hero Must Hang: the Postcolonial Swerve and Re-visioning of Homer's Odyssey in Hanif Kureishi’s Sammy and Rosie Get Laid.”