ScholarWorks@GVSU

Dismantling Dualisms: Jane’s Liminal Agency in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Nicole Baniukaitis
Masters Theses

"Cabined, Cribbed, Confined": Tyrannical Anxiety and Maternal Power in Shakespeare, Elle J. Nieuwsma
Masters Theses

A Call for Planetary Kinship: The Development of New Forms of Subjectivity in Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation, Jennifer Kinne
Masters Theses

Doing the Work -- Collectively Pursuing Anti-Racist and Equitable Teaching: One High School English Department’s Journey, Sharon Murchie, Anthony Andrus, Pat Brennan, Gina Farnelli, Shelby Fletcher, Dawn Reed, Emily Solomon, Benjamin K. Woodcock
Language Arts Journal of Michigan

New Possibilities for the ESL Classroom: Toward an Appreciation of Creative Writing, Alyssa A. Jewell
Language Arts Journal of Michigan

Engaging Students and Teaching Life Skills through Community Collaboration, Kim Stein
Language Arts Journal of Michigan

“The Ugly Truth”: Examining War Trauma and Therapeutic Storytelling through the Works of Tim O’Brien, Meredith Ivy Fedewa
Masters Theses

Beyond All Worlds: George MacDonald, the Pre-Tolkienians, and the Forgotten Possibilities of Fantasy, Ethan Patrick Stevens
Masters Theses

Creating a Generalized Michigan School Constitution, Kurstin K. Frank
Honors Projects

The Syndicate: A Research Play, Rachel Eggenberger
Honors Projects

English-for-Teaching in Higher Education: Discourse Functions and Language Exemplars, Eun-Young Julia Kim
MITESOL Journal: An Online Publication of MITESOL

Muffintops, Fat Rolls, and Self Love: Using Fat Young Adult Texts to Promote Body Positivity, Laura M. Davis
Language Arts Journal of Michigan

Carrying the Stories of Las Mariposas: Literacy as Collective and Transformative, Deborah Vriend Van Duinen
Michigan Reading Journal

Finding Mostly Air: Poems, Sidra Elvey
Honors Projects

“Am I Wrong to Want Justice?”: How J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace Forces Readers to Think through the Problem of Law, Nicholas Langenberg
Masters Theses

The Comfort of Literature in an Age of Uncertainty, Jordan C. Gakle
Language Arts Journal of Michigan

Emily Dickinson, the Tyrant, and the Daemon: A Critique of Societal Oppression, and the Significance of Artistic Truth, Debra Kue
Masters Theses

Book Review: The Book of Joshua: A Novel by Jennifer Anne Moses, University of Wisconsin Press, 2018, Kia Jane Richmond
Language Arts Journal of Michigan

Waiting for Autistic Superman: On Autistic Representation in Superhero Comics, Robert Rozema
Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture

Innocent No More: How Child Vampires Challenge the Social Narrative of Childhood, Ashley Quinn
Masters Theses

Ecuador is Black: Afro-Ecuadorian Literary Resistance in Drums Under My Skin, Gabriella Davis
Student Scholars Day Oral Presentations

Nature over Nurture: The Source of Morality in Oliver Twist, Brandon Burger
Honors Projects

A Wrinkle in Autism Literature: An Analysis of Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time and Hope Larson’s A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel, Marla Larson
Masters Theses

“Arriving at Your Own Door”: Transnational Identity Formation in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah, Julie Oosterink
Masters Theses

Creation, Destruction, and the Tension Between: A Cautionary Note on Individuation in Tristan Egolf, W. G. Sebald, and Niall Williams, Nicholas Kanaar
Masters Theses

“We Are The Walking Dead”: Morality in Robert Kirkman’s Comics Series, Amy L. Jacobs
Masters Theses

Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy and the Modern American Identity Crisis, Michael G. Cox
Masters Theses

“Not to Be Loved but to Lead”: Homosocial Soldiering in Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, Cliffton M. Young
Masters Theses

English in France - Linguistic Dominance and Ambivalence, Chloe Kampf
Honors Projects

The Sandman: The Artifice of Comics and Power of Dreams, Nathan Teft
Masters Theses

Writing on Demand in College, Career, and Community Writing: Preparing Students to Participate in the Pop-Up Parlor, Kelly J. Sassi, Hannah Stevens
Language Arts Journal of Michigan

Language Attitudes of Writing Center Consultants: Perception and Expectation, Benjamin John Sparks
Masters Theses

College, Career, and Community Writer’s Program (C3WP) Data-driven Reports of Literacy Growth, Kathy J. Kurtze
Language Arts Journal of Michigan

Midwestern Writers Need Midwestern Historians, Bonnie Jo Campbell
Studies in Midwestern History

“Who has a right to say what focus is the legitimate focus?” Tennessee Williams and Julia Margaret Cameron’s Theatrical Portraits of Women, Jennifer M. Klug
Masters Theses

Reaching the Sacred Through the Secular: Biblical Elements and the Superiority of Divine Love in Three of Marie de France’s Lais, Sarah J. Kooienga
Masters Theses

Annie Dillard: At the Altar of Nature, Kelley A. Kasul
Masters Theses

Tatyana Markus: Hero of Ukraine, Ariana L. Martineau
Honors Projects

Frankenstein and “The Labours of Men of Genius”: Science and Medical Ethics in the Early 19th Century, Allison Lemley
Grand Valley Journal of History

Reckoning: Detroit’s Literary Crisis of Conscience, Danielle E. J. Cope
Masters Theses

From Subject to Cyborg: Reframing Identity within Female Spaces in Neil Gaiman's Black Orchid and A Game of You, Mary A. Ruge
Masters Theses

Marking Stress ExPLICitly in Written English Fosters Rhythm in the Reader’s Inner Voice, Jennifer Gross, Bo Winegard, Andrea Plotkowski
Funded Articles

Using Visible Thinking Routines to Teach about the Impact of Colonialism on Race Within the Language Arts Classroom, Carol Kelly
Language Arts Journal of Michigan

A Wood Comes Toward Dunsinane: The Synthesis of Traditional and Constructivist Methodologies, Randall L. Kaplan
Language Arts Journal of Michigan

Religion, Science, and Truth in the Human Experience: Poetry as Living Synthesis in Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, Karen E. Luidens
Masters Theses

The Sinister Way to Salvation: Directionality in Dante’s Inferno, Sarah J. Kooienga
Graduate Showcase: Education for the Future

Reading Vice: The Christian Text in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Brittaniae, Nancy S. Bell
Masters Theses

“Such night till this I never passed” : How the Dreams of Adam and Eve Lead to the Decision to Fall in Paradise Lost, Robert B. Chapman
Masters Theses

Chance, Chaos, and Chloral: Lily Bart Gambles It All in The House of Mirth, Stacey L. Fitzpatrick
Masters Theses

Madness, Death, and Civilization: Non-European Women under Patriarchy and Imperialism, Mengying Li
Masters Theses

Becoming Self: A Jungian Approach to Paradise Lost, Geoffrey Kishbaugh
Masters Theses

“Struck with Her Tongue”: Speech, Gender, and Power in King Lear, Kate Downey Hickey
Masters Theses

Advocating for Mother Earth in the Undergraduate Classroom: Uniting Twenty-First Century Technologies, Local Resources, Art, and Activism to Explore Our Place in Nature, Christina Triezenberg, Ilse Schweitzer VanDonkelaar
Christina Triezenberg

Metafiction, Fairy Tale, and Female Desire in A.S. Byatt‘s Possession: A Romance, Susan Marie Kieda
Masters Theses

Bridging the Distances: Women Writers Exploring the Nightmare of Vietnam, Christina Triezenberg
Christina Triezenberg

Salvation and Community in the Works of Charles Williams, Donald Clayton Vander Kolk Jr.
Masters Theses

Think Again: The Decision Making Process in King Lear and Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres, Elizabeth Burgess
Masters Theses

The Depiction of the Holocaust within the Theme of Escape in Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Deirdre Toeller-Novak
Masters Theses

Rescue and Redemption in Moby-Dick: An Answer to the Alienating Forces of Capitalism and Slavery in America, Linda Berlin
Graduate Showcase: Education for the Future

"God Made Me Thisaway": Mary Wilkins Freeman, Flannery O'Connor, and Religiosity as Challenge to Heteronormativity, Anna M. Worm
Masters Theses

Milton‘s Feminized Satan: A Study of Gender Imbalance in Paradise Lost, Kari Anne Wiest
Masters Theses

Relics and Biopower: The Materiality of St. Edward the Martyr Lung, Rachel Anderson
Faculty Scholarly Dissemination Grants

Murder with a Penknife: Individual Identity Formation in Charles Brockden Brown's Ormond, Patrick Prominski
Masters Theses

J.R.R. Tolkien: Influences of His Life, Carl Robinson
Honors Projects

The Edible Body, a Poetry Chapbook: Food and Sex as Pleasure, Disorder, and Commodity, Lena J. Drake, Kathleen Blumreich
Student Summer Scholars Manuscripts

Identity, Language Practices and Ideologies among Nepali-Bhutanese in West Michigan, Trevor DeWaard, Kathryn Remlinger
Student Summer Scholars Manuscripts

The Medieval Influences of Shakespeare’s Richard III: Morality Plays, Miracle Plays, and The Chronicles, Elizabeth Jane Shelley
Masters Theses