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 2021
The Castles We Built, Therin Aloïs Alrik
The Silence She Broke: Black Women Escaping Abuse Narratives, Regaining Personal Agency, and Healing, Tajanae LaBria Barnes
Monumentalizing a Political Candidacy: Robert Lowell and Eugene McCarthy’s History, Jeremy Freeman
The Old Brag of My Heart: Essays, Cody James Gambino
Thanks for Your Gift, Ruth Larmore
"Till This Moment, I Never Knew Myself": Letters in Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park, Renee Maalouf
A World of Infinite Possibilities: Recoding Popular Culture in Modern U.S. Ethnic Fiction, Todd Martinez
The Unfinished Enlightenment Novel: Comparative Studies in Indeterminacy and Democracy, Andrew Joseph Rhoades
Soft Machinery, Chelsi Sayti
The Concept Album as Postmodern Literature: A Critical Examination of Nine Inch Nails' The Downward Spiral, Kelly E. Stith
Hybridity, Ecocriticism, and Feminist Perspectives in She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, Sarah Warso
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Ricky & Grams, Berthold Brock Albin
The Economy of (Dis)Honor in the Americas: A Transnational Rupturing of American Literature through Faulkner, García Márquez, and Silko, Clayton Neil Cobb
Nothing Orphic, Nothing Foreign, Samuel Merriman Gilpin
A Bara by Any Other Word: Female Subjectivity and Cultural Crises in Japanese Adaptations of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Gary Dean Lindeburg
Thatcherism in the Contemporary British Novel, 1978-2012, David Mowatt
Beyond Maidens and Mothers: A Study of Till We Have Faces, Tamar Peterson
Madres, Hijas, y la Frontera: an Analysis of the Relationship Between Mexican Mothers and Mexican-American Daughters, Arianna Gabriela Razo
Sad Water and Sand, Karli Tokala Rouse
Narratives of Belonging and Citizenship: Race and Gender in the Hemispheric American Novel, Ariel Jade Santos
The Transformation of Edgar Huntly: An American Awakening, Willie C. Sosa
Shakespeare’s As You like It and James Cameron’s Avatar: Reharmonizing Society with Nature, Erin Rebecca Turner
Gender and Race in Four Contemporary Productions of The Duchess of Malfi and Antony and Cleopatra, Dorothy Christine Vanderford
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Does It Mean? Gene Wolfe: Perverse Puzzle Maker, Marc Anthony Aramini
Floating Head Touching Earth, Carrieann Cahall
Blanche DuBois: A Woman's Journey from Belle Reve through Tarantula Arms to The Elysian Fields, Raluca Daniela Comanelea
The Search For Home: An Analysis of American-Socialized Filipino American Identity in Literature, Julianna Marie Crame
Encyclopedia of My Body, Alice Hastings
Riding My Bike in Paradise with Margaret Fuller: A Phenomenological Study, Nanette Rasband Hilton
An Alternative Reading of Feminist Criticism on S. Weir Mitchell, Erika Hylton
Literal Dope, Frank Johnson
Stone Bouquets, Angelo Santino Ligori
How to Break Your Own Heart, Ryan Molloy
Irredenta, Oscar Oswald
The Pleasures of Conversation: Samuel Johnson's Social Epistemology, Brandon Schneeberger
Breaking Free from the Snake Strangling America, Kate Marjorie Shapiro
Amasamiento, Lorinda G. Toledo
Forget Me Not & Other Stories, Zach Wilson
The Ruins of Doves, Mariah Tahera Yusofzei
Empire and Other Stories from the Black Rock, Alex Zenz
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Shakespeare's Hamlet as a Pilgrimage of the Soul, Joyce Ahn
Utilizing Teacher Response to Help Students Meet and Transfer First-Year Composition Course Objectives, Clyde Aidoo
& One Night the World Will Have Changed, Hanna Andrews
Before and After Her Body, Shannon Austin
A Land to Call Their Own, Timothy James Buchanan
Literature in the World: A Critical Discourse Study of World Literature Pedagogy, Elisa Cogbill-Seiders
Virginia Woolf and the Flâneuse: A Geocritical Approach to Mrs. Dalloway and the Voyage Out, Kayla Dean
Waiting For Nothing, Jiwoong Hyun
Memories of Three Rivers, Olufunke Ogundimu
Epidemiology of Love: A Survey, Maegan Poland
Envisioning Shadows in Romantic Ekphrasis and Early Photography, Joseph Kevin Tuvera Sebastian
Milk Teeth and Other Stories, Timea Sipos
Beyond All of This, Jack Stilwell
The New Cambrian Children, Shin Watanabe
Hallucination Machines, Autumn Widdoes
Cosmic Valentine, Gabrielle Faith Williams
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