The comic book industry is entering an era in which gender is the trending topic of conversation. Historically, comic books have catered to a masculine audience, with th[...]

These four stories are very much a reaction to our current political moment, where mounting complexities in the world are met with untenable simplicity and hostile tribal[...]

In the 1970s in rural North Carolina, in the shadow of Brown Mountain and its mysterious fabled Lights, fifteen-year-old Quinno Moore and his older sister, Gabrielle, are[...]

TRINA RUMFELT. Religious Questioning in Katherine Paterson’s and Judy Blume’s Fiction (Under Direction of DR. MARK I. WEST)Katherine Paterson and Judy Blume both began th[...]

This examination of Modernist literature uses the philosophies of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in close readings of three texts with labyrinthine depictions of socia[...]

In declaring Peter Pan as the only child who will not grow up, J.M. Barrie has developed a character with an unmatched capacity for subverting masculine forms of normaliz[...]

This thesis will analyze four American children’s novels written during the mid to latter part of the nineteen century and demonstrate how a progression of agency of the [...]

Sexual assault is an incredibly mature, sensitive, and disturbing topic to discuss, but it can be even harder to teach. However, by examining literature that depicts sexu[...]

The influence of ancient cultural narratives on contemporary reality, and the construction of literature reflecting the tradition of the past while representing modern cu[...]

In Cynthia Voigt’s Tillerman Cycle, the various novels from Dicey’s perspective (Homecoming, Dicey’s Song, and Seventeen Against The Dealer) show Dicey’s emotional growth[...]