Graduate Courses
Sampling of Thesis Projects
"A Plausible Witness:" Helen of Troy and the Problem of Truth and Representation in Early Greek Literature
American Frontiers: Historical and Literary Representations of Gauchos and Cowboys
An Abundance of Deficits (creative writing)
An Examination of How and Why Divided Political Allegiances Destroyed the German Community in the Mohawk Valley of New York During the Revolutionary War
Anti-Immigration Legislation in Alabama: Comparing House Bill 56 to Jim Crow Segregation
Arendt's Empirical Theory of Judgment
Bob Moses's Voter Registration Work and the Algegra Project: Organizing to Create Political and Economic Access for All Citizens
Corporeal Texts: Writing, Bodies, and Identities in Kafka's Short Fiction and Fin-de-Siecle Prague
Death and Wellbeing: a Reply to the Epicurean Puzzle
Early Modern Science as an Institutional Project: Insights from Thomas Sprat's History of the Royal Society (1667)
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
False Fathers: Marlen Khutsiev’s Ilich’s Gate and the Myth of Soviet Paternity
Form of One’s Own: A Study of Playwright Maria Irene Fornes Accompanied by an Original Play
From Banned to Celebrated, yet Regulated and Segregated: The Struggles of the Female Footballer
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
How Can Feedback Increase Self-Determined Motivation to Keep Writing?
Images of Muteness: A reading of Anne Carson's "Nox"
Looking for Homosexuality as “Disease” in Thomas Mann
Magazine as World in Miniature: S.M.S. Makes Visible the Invisible Frames of Perception
Minsky, Behavioral Economics, and the Long Trend Toward the Great Recession
Moral Imagination and Compassionate, Just Attention in Iris Murdoch’s The Good Apprentice
Muslim Nationalism: Allama Muhammad Iqbal and The Origins of an Ideal
Orphan of the Camus Storm: The Poetics of Bob Kaufman
Planet of the Apes and the Destruction of the Earth: Visions of Post-Apocalypse, Eden, Wasteland, and Wilderness
Plato's Lost Lecture "On the Good." Normative Ethics and Intellectual History
Redemption Songs, Rebel Music: Peter Tosh, Bob Marley, and a History of Reggae as Resistance
Reenvisioning the Marketplace: A Radical Redesign of the Modern Supermarket
Rethinking the Imperial Archive: The Colonial Office Visual Instruction Committee (COVIC) Digitalo Photographic Archive, Powered by Omeka and WordPress
Selfhood and the Problem of Authenticity: the Politics of the Personal in Rousseau's Second Discourse
Smelter Pollution, Environmental Health, and the Narrative of American Progress in Bute, Montana, 1880-1910
The Black and Blue Collar Blues: Examining Notions of Labor in Langston Hughes’ Poem Good Morning Revolution
The Domestic Roles of the "Flax Mother of Oregon": Juliette Montague Lord and the Politics of the Oregon Fiber Flax Industry
The Mormon Stories (creative writing)
The Southern Oregon Chautauqua Association: Building the Foundation of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival
The Xianglian run se: A Late Ming Beauty Manual
Transgressing the Boundaries: South Seas Hybridity in the Work of Paul Gauguin and Robert Louis Stevenson
Utopia, Allegory, and Palimpsest: Trajectories of Intercultural Exchange in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Word for World is Forest
Virna Haffer: Regional Artist and Photographer
"You've Got to be Carefully Taught": Messages of Tolerance in Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1949 Broadway Musical South Pacific