M.A. Thesis Direction/Committees

M.A. Thesis Direction/Committees

M. A. Thesis co-chair with Linda Shenk for Jacob Oliver. "Echoes of Laughter and Sorrow: Black Humor's Revelation of Trauma in Vietnam and Gulf War Experiences" (May 2025).

M.A. thesis, external committee member for Courteney Reeves-Allen (May 2022).

M.A. thesis co-chair with Linda Shenk for Ashleigh Mills, writing on F. Scott Fitzgerald (Scheduled spring 2017).

M.A. thesis committee member for Kara Davis. “Cain in Early Nineteenth-Century Literature: Traditional Biblical Stories Revised to Encompass Contemporary Advances in Science.” Spring 2012.

M.A. thesis co-chair with Barbara Ching for Natalie Albertson. “The Private Conversion of a Public Man: Timeless Presence and Disparate Linking in T.S. Eliot's Poetry." Spring 2012.

M.A. thesis committee member for Katie Fuller. "Victorian Airbrushing: Cultural, Physical and Artistic Representations of Upper-class Women of Then and Today." Fall 2009. 

M.A. thesis committee co-chair with Susan Yeager for Michelle Lecuyer. "Dante's Literary Influence in Dubliners: James Joyce's Modernist Allegory of Paralysis." Spring 2009. 

M.A. thesis committee member for Jeffrey Alan Arp. "Urban Trenches: War Poetry and the Unreal City of the Great War in T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land." Summer 2005.