Below is a selection of dissertations from the English program in Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences that have been voluntarily included in Chapman University Digital Commons. Additional dissertations from years prior to 2019 are available through the Leatherby Libraries' print collection or in Proquest's Dissertations and Theses database.
If you are a previous student and would like to include your dissertation or thesis in Chapman University Digital Commons, please contact Kristin Laughtin-Dunker at laughtin@chapman.edu.
Theses from 2021
Feminist Rhetorics: Theory and Practice of Strategic Silence, Paolena Comouche
Fanfiction As: Searching for Significance in the Academic Realm, Megan Friess
"A Mind of Metal and Wheels": Agrarian Ruralism in Joss Whedon's Firefly and J.R.R Tolkien's The Lord of The Rings, Christopher Hines
Decolonizing the Body, Daniel Miess
Monstrous and Beautiful: Jungian Archetypes in Wilde’s Salomé, Nayana Rajnish
Journeying to a Third Space of Sovereignty: Explorations of Land, Cultural Hybridity, and Sovereignty in Ceremony and There There, Jillian Eve Sanchez
The Tiered Workshop: The Effects of Using a Paced Workshop in a Composition Classroom, Madison Shockley
Aztlán Potentialities: Queer Male Chicanx Affect and Temporalities, Ethan Trejo
Theses from 2020
Stephen Dedalus and the Mind as Hypertext in Ulysses, Ariel Banayan
Dawn of the Undead Classroom: Pop-Culture in the First-Year Composition Classroom, Sierra A. Ellison
Moving Beyond Grades: A Shift in Assessing First-Year Composition, Matthew Goldman
Murmurs of Revolution: Mythical Subversion in Dostoevsky, Connor Guetersloh
The Fallen Woman: An Exploration of the Voiceless Women in Victorian England through Three Plays of Oscar Wilde, Marco Randazzo
The Ubume Challenge: A Digital Environmental Humanities Project, Sam Risak
Student Disposition Towards Discussing Race in the Classroom, Natalie Salagean
Trauma Begetting Trauma: Fukú, Masks, and Implicit Forgiveness in the Works of Junot Díaz, Jacob VanWormer
‘Amore Captus:’ Turning Bedtricks in the Arthurian Canon, Candice Yacono
Theses from 2019
Terrence McNally’s Universalizing Model: The Role of Disability in Andre’s Mother; Lips Together, Teeth Apart; and Love! Valour! Compassion!, Alexa Burnstine
A Way to Persist: Storytelling and Its Effect on Trauma in Gábor Schein’s The Book of Mordechai and Lazarus, Duncan Capriotti
Language: A Bridge or Barrier to Social Groups, Adina Corke
Haole Like Me: Identity Construction and Politics in Hawaii, Savanah Janssen
The Efficacy of Varying Small Group Workshops in the Composition Classroom, Daniel Strasberger
Does Money Indeed Buy Happiness? “The Forms of Capital” in Fitzgerald’s Gatsby and Watts’ No One is Coming to Save Us, Allie Harrison Vernon
Theses from 2018
Player-Response: On the Nature of Interactive Narratives as Literature, Lee Feldman
Theses from 2017
The Rhetoric of Disability: an Analysis of the Language of University Disability Service Centers, Katie Ratermann
Theses from 2016
The Ritualization of Violence in The Magic Toyshop, Victor Chalfant
Concrete Reality: The Posthuman Landscapes of J.G. Ballard, Mark Hausmann
Readers in Pursuit of Popular Justice: Unraveling Conflicting Frameworks in Lolita, Innesa Ranchpar