Below are theses and dissertations completed by graduates of the University of Nevada Las Vegas English Department, including creative works by graduates of the Master of Fine Arts - Creative Writing program.
For the entire collection of UNLV theses and dissertations, visit UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Reality and Nature in Robinson Jeffers, Joshua D. Bartee
Remember the Country and the Age in Which We Live": The British Gothic Novel in the Age of Enlightenment, 1764-1798, Garland David Beasley
Table of the Sun, Christine Bettis
Radio Spring, Kristian Louis Warren Einstman
Cacophony, Noha Elbadry
Learning to Adapt, Kelly Elcock
Everything Is Real, Brett Finlayson
Belt of Pearls, Danielle Lee Henry
Studies in Words: Laborious Ben Jonson's Lexicon, Steven Hrdlicka
Art and The Ordinary: Literary and Visual Constructs of the Mundane, Jenessa Kenway
They Knew Full Well, Matthew Johannes Kollmer
It’s Not about Brooklyn, Elee Maybelle Oak
Strange Wedding, Ariana Nicole Turiansky
Are you grieving girl, Leia Penina Wilson
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Seers In Greensand, Michael Lawrence Berger
The Edge of Mercury, Aurora Brackett
'The Only Thing That Matters': A Critique of the Editorial Practices in The Garden of Eden, Jesse Lee Cook
WOLF!!! VOL. 1, Jamison Crabtree
Crossing, Olivia Clare Friedman
Notes from Reconstructing Illness, Scott Hinkle
The Skinny House, Leo August Jilk
Water, Prestige, and Christianity: An Ecocritical Look at Medieval Literature, Cortney Nicole Lechmann
Mouthy Bones, Shaun Leonard
Mr. Universe Wants To Live Forever, Oksana Marafioti
Of Wolves & Thieves: A Love Story, Kayla Miller
Heaven on Their Minds, Rebecca Kate Robison
Tearing up the Tallgrass, Brett Salsbury
"Mother, I will": Female Subjectivity and Religious Vision in the Brontës Novels, Amanda Scott
Keep Moving: Stories, Syed Haider Shahbaz
Shakespeare's Dowry: Subjectivity and Resistance in The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet, and The Merchant of Venice, Homer Lee Simms
A Natural History of Teasing: British Women Writers and the Shakespearean Courtship Narrative, 1677-~1818, Mary Vance
Stay Brave My Hercules, Ernie Wang
Consanguinity Protocols, Kinship and Incest in Literature of the Anglo-Saxon through Early Renaissance Periods, Richard J. Warren
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Multiplicity, Marianne Leslie Chan
Cycle of Return, Clancy Gabriel Daniell Mcgilligan
Water From the Rain Gauge, Austin Ely
How to Keep the Girls Inside, Regina M. Ernst
The Pleasantly Problematic Nature of J.D. Salinger's Glass Family Stories, Ceasare Joseph Filipelli
The Escape Artists, Daniel Gene Hernandez
misericordia, Brian Morris
Las Vegas Paperboy, Matthew O'brien
Wandering, Idleness, and the Nineteenth-Century Tales Novel, 1836-1895, Molly C. O'donnell
Who is Ophelia? An examination of the Objectification and Subjectivity of Shakespeare's Ophelia, Tynelle Ann Olivas
Without Mandate for Conquest: A Transnational Comparison of Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon and Isabel Allende's Eva Luna, Vivianna Noelle Orsini
Forms Abandon, Derek Pollard
Compass Rose, Rosemary Herman Powers
Women Wooing Men, Aisha Elizabeth Ratanapool
Uncommon Convergences: A Hemispheric and Comparative Approach to The Great Gatsby and Pedro Páramo, Ariel Jade Santos
Moon Called Her Visage Woman, Ann Michelle Villanueva
transplants, Denise Weber
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Behind His Father's Saying: Robert Frost's Wisdom Tradition, James H. Altman
Detecting Arguments: The Rhetoric of Evidence in Nineteenth--Century British Detective Fiction, Katherine Anders
Going Anywhere: Stories, David Armstrong
Hotel Bukovyna, Rebecca Ann Bosshart
Jack Kerouac's Artistic Apprenticeship and the Discovery of His Authentic Voice, Nathaniel Botsis
Takes Dying Animals, Brittany Leigh Bronson
Combining the Names of Ancestors with the Names of Birds, Jessica Sierra Durham
Morning's Porch, Colby Gillette
Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear, Jean Ho
The Dakini Project, Kimberley Harris Idol
All is Ripe for Fire, Dana Marie Killmeyer
A More Perfect World, Amy Katherine Mayo
Before You Knew Me, Isabel Ontiveros
Through the Eyes of the Present: Screening the Male Homoerotics of Shakespearean Drama in Anglophone Cinema, 1936-2011, Anthony Guy Patricia
One Way to Light a Candle, Samantha Samson
The Influence of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick on Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, Ryan Joseph Tesar
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Samsara, Erica Anzalone
Always Away, Mollie Bergeron
Pyramid of the Sun, James Joseph Brown
Due Partly To Inertia, Justin Lee Irizarry
Little Rituals, Bruce Johnson
James Joyce and Post-Imperial Bildung: Influences on Salman Rushdie, Tayeb Salih, and Tsitsi Dangarembga, Robert Michael Kirschen
Flack, Joseph G. Langdon
There Are Moments That Hang Suspended, Mark B. Lennon
Mer, Mary Martin
Strange Little Vehicles, Andrew Merecicky
Maps on the Backs of Our Eyes, Joan Paulette Robinson
"My Words Fly Up, My Thoughts Remain Below": Community and Penance in Early Modern English Drama, Benedict John Whalen
In What Array That They They Were In and Participating Godlike Food, Thomas Jackson Wills
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
"Carefull" Ethos: The Construction of Ethos in Dorothy Leigh's The Mothers Blessing, Julia D. Combs
Wobble, Said the Hedgehog, Mary Elder
Monsters in our Midst: An Examination of Human Monstrosity in Fiction and Film of the United States, Michelle Kay Hansen
Love is Just a Word for the Last Body I'd Like to Keep Vigil Over, Robert Jagger
Archiving Joyce & Joyce's Archive: Ulysses, Finnegans Wake, and Copyright, Jessica Michelle Lucero
On Our Way Out: And Other Stories, Benjamin Champlin Wright Morris
All Aboard the Succulent Wave, Oscar William Oswald
James Jones's Codes of Conduct, Matthew Samuel Ross
About a Yellow Ball, Shannon Alice Salter
Tiny Animals Made To Do Unnatural Things, Ashley Mary Siebels
From Martyrs to Mothers to Chick in Choos: The Medieval Female Body and American Women's Popular Literature, Gina M. Sully
A Turkish Dictionary, Andrew Wessels
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Summerview, Laura Breitenbeck
Prelude to Artifact, Jaclyn Costello
Chaucer’s reading list: Sir Thopas, Auchinleck, and Middle English romances in translation, Ken Eckert
Odd variations on the species: Stories, Sarah Kokernot
Raise the Still Rabbit, Michael Kroesche
To receive my services you must be dying and alone, Kathryn Kruse
Nabokovilia: References to Vladimir Nabokov in British and American Literature and Culture, 1960-2009, Juan Martinez
Woman or warrior? How believable femininity shapes warrior women, Jessica D. McCall
A Montage in Its Leaves, Andrew S. Nicholson