Graduate Theis Titles
Note: this list does not include all students who earned graduate degrees within this time period and who wrote theses. Last updated Nov. 1, 2010.
M.A. Thesis Titles
2010
John A. Dodd—Folk Hero
Kathryn E. Elgee—Magical and Mythic Realism in the Postcolonial American Mixedblood Novel
Nicholas Patrick Cooley - Radical Pastoral: Replacing Typee and Omoo Beneath the Green Lens
Stephanie Jamie Pung - Reading as a Non-Native Ally: Colonization and Resistance in Sherman Alexie's Reservation Blues and Debra Magpie Earling's Perma Red
Leanne Ralstin - Water and the Search for Healing in Morrison's Beloved and Silko's Ceremony
Elizabeth Ellen Redmon - Theft, Poetry and Other Deadly Sins
2009
Laura A. Powers—Elizabeth Gaskell’s Iconoclastic Fallen Woman Motif
Lucas Brown - Blame, Shame, and Expectations: The Rhetoric of Public Apology
Rhiannon B. Rogstad - "Cruelty is a Failure of the Imagination": Destiny and Empathy in the Fiction of Ian McEwan
Tanya Jolyne Thomas - 'Eyes Glittering with Tears': Interpreting Sentimentalism in Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South, Ruth and Charlotte Bronte's Villette
2008
Wesley A. Andrews - The Rhetoric of Anxiety: What Your Self-Help Book Doesn't Tell You
Saba Gaffur - Gloria Anzaldua's Borderland's Poetry: Cultural Critique and Aquaduct Toward a World Without Borders
Savona D. Holmes - Language as a Healing Agent: Affecting and Effecting Change
Scott McNeill - Rhetorics of Attraction in Western Culture and Video Games
Genevieve Goddard-Pritchett - Phantasmagorical Culture: A Discussion of Disney as a Creator and Cultural Phenomenon
2007
Jeremiah Burt - Becoming Prosthetic: The Gaming Avatar, Digital Text, and the Creation of a Networked Rhetorical Form
Ching-Wen Lan - The Natural Spirituality of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching and Henry David Thoreau's Walden
Peter Stegner - Oscar Wilde's Gothic: The Presence of Edgar Allen Poe in The Picture of Dorian Grey
Heidi Trombley - Falling in Love: Stanley Kubrick's Approach to the Adaptive Process of Story to Script to Screen
Adam Yaghi - Evolution through Violence. Four Novels, One Path, One Destiny: Exploring Cormac McCarthy's Narrative of the Rise and Fall of the American Empire
2006
Shawna Andersen - Teaching Digital Rhetoric, a Workable Curriculum for Incorporating Digital Rhetoric into Freshman Composition
Nathanael Eoff - Caught in the Cave of Consumerism, an Analysis of Fight Club
Tomie Gowdy-Burke - Removing the LD Mask that Imprisons the Voices of Writers with Learning Disabilities
Laura Powers - Elizabeth Gaskell's Iconoclastic Fallen Woman Motif
Aaron Schab - Unrest and Rebirth in John Steinbeck's In Dubious Battle
Melinda White - Rhetorical Literacy, Response and Conventions
2004
Ianina Arnold - Dialogism, Carnival and Identity in Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita
Daniel Christianson - The One and the Many: Jewish Figuration in Charles Dickens
Cheryl A. Dudley - Feminist revision of scripture in Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping
Allison Machlis - "Nature erring from itself": The Unnatural Transgressions of Desdemona and Jessica in William Shakespeare's Othello and The Merchant of Venice
Christopher Ritter - Annular fiction: Recursion in the Works of David Foster Wallace
Patrick Rolland - Nowhere and Everywhere: Migration and National Allegory in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children
Ali Ayed Saeed Al-Shahrani - Error Analysis of Saudi Arabian Writers
2003
Gail Z. Eckwright - Old West/new West in Molly Gloss's The jump-off creek and Wild life
Jerry Entze - "A Hard, Straight Picture": The Adapting of Steinbeck to Film
Rebecca M. Goodrich - Hard proposition: the Klondike diary and imaginary letters of Roscoe Ellsworth Young
Andrew J. Ploeg - Deconstruction and the Divine: Literature, Theosophy, and the Language of Truth
Michael Smith - The Sacred Profanity of Nothing: John Donne's Paradoxes and The First Anniversary
Jesse Thomas - Musical Intermediality in the Novels of Anthony Burgess
2002
Tabetha Bissegger - From Orphan to Angel: The Evolution of Female Identity in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century British Fiction
Brian Clark - Moving Through the Dark: Emily Dickinson as Wisdom Poet
Danielle Jones - It is Her Eye/I That Lingers: The Crypt, Self-Portrait, and Specter in Linda Bierds' The Profile Makers
Clayn Lambert - Liminal Progressions and Rhetorical Development in The Life, History, and Unparalleled Sufferings of John Jea, the African Preacher, Written and Compiled by Himself.
Leisa McCormick - Negotiating Roles in the On-Line Classroom
Molly Michaud - Conquering the "Regne of Femenye": The Dynamics of Power in Chaucer's Knight's Tale
Charles Noble - The Hunter Figure in American Culture: Land Relationships and Representations of Violence
Gwen Sullivan - Guides for the Lost and Wandering: Functions of Riddles and Music in The Hobbitt and The Lord of the Rings
Lisa Tauber-Freeman - The Heart of Motherhood and Motherhood's Heart: Reading the 'Maternal' in Mary Shelley's The Last Man and Lodore
2001
Yulia Borisova - "Exploring the 'Frontiers of Consciousness': Music in T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets and Andrey Bely's Second Symphony
Nathanael Gilbert - Dreams of Paradise, Visions of Utopia: Myth Making in Three Prose Romances by William Morris
Laura Gruber - Writing the West: The Literary Landscapes of Mary Hallock Foote
Monica Hafer - Beowulf, Zarathustra, and Batman: The Communicative Nature of Texts Through Time
Deokja Kim - Survey of Korean Students' Attitudes Toward an Emphasis on English in Korea
Shawn Rider - New Medium, New Masters: Daniel Clowes and the Making of American Comics Literature
Patricia Thomas - 'All That Men Desire': The Plurality of Gender, Desire and Form in Christopher Marlowe's "Hero and Leander"
Thomas Woodley - Moving Toward Stasis: A Textual-Ethical Consideration of the "Elect" in John Fowles' The Magus
2000
William Boni - Contemporary Falconry Literature as Nature Writing: An Ecocritical Interpretation
Kent Sweeney - Reader Response Criticism of the Good Samaritan Parable
M.F.A. Theses
2010
Matthew Kermit Bauman - Bonds and Boundaries
Craig E. Buchner—Life Without Fire and Other Stories
Scott Onak - The Seventh Hour
Deborah Ricks - One Hand Held Up High
David Michael Thacker - The River Conception
Anna Dominica Vodicka - Hope is a Thing
2009
Daniel Berkner - This Time in Purgatory
Sayantani Dasgupta - House of Nails and Other Essays
Robb Kunz - The Gay Boy Rides a Bus
Elizabeth A. Lampman - Yellow Star Thistle
Andrew Millar - Well and Feeling Fine
Russell Richardson - Tuba Confidential
Kendall Sand - Clowning for Beginners
Laura A. Powers--Speak
2008
Kelly Blikre - Shift Work: A Novel in Progress
Brittney Carman - Groundwork: Essays
Robert Campbell - Millenium: Stories
Joshua E. Cilley - Occupational Hazards
Steven Coughlin - Getting it Right
Bryan Fry - Between Here and There
Todd Imus - Grown Up Wrong
Jeff Lepper - Toward Water: Essays
Michael Lewis - You Knew By Touching Her What People Meant When They Said the Dead Had Passed
Jerry D. Mathes - An Unfamiliar Place: Stories
Claire O'Connor - Lariam Dreams
Virginia Shank - The Bringer of Morning Rain
Elizabeth Sloan - When Songbirds Returned to Paris
Kimberly Verhines - The Blue Hour Before Sunrise
Alice Maahs Yaghi - Waiting to Return
2007
Andrea J. Berical - Vacationland
Rachel Berry - The Danger in Sleeping Beside You
Michael Filipowski - The Reluctant Ski Bum: Collected Essays
Anna Fortner - The Heat that Keeps Them Running
Nicholas George - Take Over
Benjamin Gotschall - Where it Happened: Poems
Lucas Howell - Primitive Road
Justin Jainchill - Bad World
Sara Kaplan - Moon Talk
Jill Kupchik - The Desire Manuscripts
Jonathan Rovner - A Drunkship of Cobblers
Joe Wilkins - Ragged Point Road
2006
Brad Babin - South of Little Rock and Other Stories
Lissy Goralnik - The Edge of Wilderness
Brandon Schrand - Ender's Hotel: A Memoir
Rochelle Smith - Wheeling Stranger
Lindsay Wilson - Low Company
2005
Ben George - Eleven Kinds of Longing
Jordan Hartt - Mine Eyes to the Hills
Jeffrey P. Jones - House of Mortals: A People, a Place, and the Making of America's Deadliest School Disaster
Nate Lowe - At the Edge of the Field
Sean Prentiss - Pantheon of Loss
2004
Paul David Cockeram - Saturdays Remain the Same
Jen Hirt - Under Glass
Cynthia J. Hollenbeck - The Cobbler's Daughter
Morgan Hunsaker - Glacé
Stephanie Lenox - Congress of Strange People
Lily Mabura - On the Slopes of Mt. Kenya
Monica Mankin - Notes from the Cadaver Room
Georgia Tiffany Toppe - Playing the Appassionata Again
Alisha Valenzuela - Skating the Palace
2003
Trudy Barnes - The Grotesque Experience: A Play and Two Stories
Karen Hausdoerffer - The Bones of My Hands
Brently Johnson - Looking Through Clear Water
Taya Noland - Dancing on the Ruins
Jessamyn Schnackenberg - Scopophilia
Pamela Yenser - Bundle of Nerves: Introductory Interview and Poems
2002
Shannon Densmore - A Chorus of Dreams
Corinne Flowers - illuminata
Sheryl Grant - Falling Full Circle: A Disease, a Dam, and a Woman's Fight with Depression
Mary Ann Hudson - Wild Yam Dreaming
Clark Karoses - The Way We're Made
Andrea Mason - Jaguar
Kathleen Miller - Marginal Worlds
Matthew Vadnais - Real-Time Video of Dead People You Want to Have Coffee With: Cover Stories and an Original Novella
2001
Savannah Barnes - Monkey Girls
Matthew Blackburn - The DisSolution
Eric Isaacson - Alter Ego
Alletha Saunders - Blue Under the Moon
Matthew Sullivan - Beneath Vietnam, A Novel
Eric Wahl - The Tear-Down Artist
2000
Nancy Casey - Birds of a Feather
Debra Hieronymus - Mending Glass
Ryan Witt - The Story of Falling: A Collection of Poems
1999
Paula Coomer - Indiana Girl
Jason Steed
1999 was the first year that it was possible to earn an M.F.A. degree in Creative Writing at the University of Idaho.