Master of Arts in Liberal Studies
Graduate Seminars
Titles of Recent Degree Papers
American Frontiers: Historical and Literary Representations of Gauchos and Cowboys
Claude Lefort and the Illegitimacy of Modernity
Death and Wellbeing: a Reply to the Epicurean Puzzle
Documenting Louisiana: Rural and Industrial Photographs of Elemore Morgan 1942-1952
Du-Partzufim: Androgyny in Antiquity and Early Midrashic Literature
Elevators for Freight and Disabled Only: Making the Case for a Strong Disability Culture in Defining the Disability Experience
Engaging Music: The Ernste Gesänge of Hanns Eisler and How One Cycle Affects Another
Female Rulers in Aristophanes' Ecclesiazusae and Plato's Republic V
Form of One’s Own: A Study of Playwright Maria Irene Fornes Accompanied by an Original Play
Galileo: His 17th-Century Trials and 20th-Century Rehabilitation
Garcilaso de la Vega’s Incas as Civilizers of the Andes and Quasi-Christians: Defending the Incas through Reason and Natural Law
Image and Controversy: Brother Elias and the Basilica of St. Francis at Assisi
Interpreting Women’s “Privileges” after the Fourteenth Amendment: Ideas, Litigation, and Politics in the “New Departure,” 1868–75
Looking for Homosexuality as “Disease” in Thomas Mann
“Lucifer Joy”: Complexities of Tone in Gregory Corso’s Poetry
Moral Imagination and Compassionate, Just Attention in Iris Murdoch’s The Good Apprentice
Observations of Resilience and Defeat in Arthur Runquist’s Paintings of Labor and the Land
Orphan of the Camus Storm: The Poetics of Bob Kaufman
Paracelsus and the Decline of Galenism
Putting the Faust Back in Faustus: Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus and the Court of the Faust Myth
Pessimism and Enlightenment in the Philosophy of Schopenhauer
Reenvisioning the Marketplace: A Radical Redesign of the Modern Supermarket
Still Unredeemed: On the Centennial of Herbert David Croly's The Promise of American Life
The Black and Blue Collar Blues: Examining Notions of Labor in Langston Hughes’ Poem Good Morning Revolution
The Decline of Wild Salmon and the Industrialization of Aquaculture: How the Trend toward the Adoption of Transgenics in Aquaculture Threatens Wild Salmon
The Domestic Roles of the "Flax Mother of Oregon": Juliette Montague Lord and the Politics of the Oregon Fiber Flax Industry
The Equant: Contemporary Reconsiderations of Celestial Mechanics
The History of the Portland Story: Looking for Native Americans in the Popular Historiography of Portland, Oregon
The Language of the Making: Nominative Conflict in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea
The Southern Oregon Chautauqua Association: Building the Foundation of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival
The Work of Art in the Age of Nuclear Enchantment
The Xianglian run se: A Late Ming Beauty Manual
“These Two Emerge Together But Have Different Names”: Chuang-tzu Meets Nagarjuna in the Excluded Middle
Transgressing the Boundaries: South Seas Hybridity in the Work of Paul Gauguin and Robert Louis Stevenson
Ursa Minor: An Exploration of the Present Moment, the Personal Essay, and Virginia Woolf
Virna Haffer: Regional Artist and Photographer
Wrestling Shakespeare: Excerpts from a Novel
"You're so Known to Me.": Construction of Lesbian Identity in Two Novels by Gale Wilhelm