Senior Theses
A collection of senior theses written by students in the English Department at Linfield University.
Theses from 2024
Mexican-American Literature Is American Literature, Davia Ellen Guzman
The Complexity of the Veil, Muskan Khan
Theses from 2021
Who Is Neil Wells?, Colin Anderson
The Butte, Natasha Bailey
The First Flowers of Spring, Gretel Valdes
Artificial Magic, Tawny Ventura
Theses from 2020
Self · ish: Examining and Reshaping Filipino & Filipinx Identities within the Continental United States and Hawai’i via Post-Colonial Literature, Kiana Anderson
In Memoriam, Clara Jones
The Paradise People, Tiani Kaneakua
Look to the Quiet Sky, Jordan Keller
Theses from 2019
Things That Happened, Christian Chase
The Process of Writing, Nikolai Ortiz
Theses from 2018
Surviving the Origin Story, Benjamin Bartu
The Middle of Fucking Nowhere, Vera Heidmann
Climbing the Cerulean Butte, Emma Knudson
Behind the Lines, Idalis Nieves
The Role of Light in Creating Space, Tor Strand
Nature's Paths, Chloe Switzer
The Lady Automaton: Part 1, Josie Tilbury
Theses from 2017
Differences, Mitch Blatt
Monstrous Dolls: The Abject Body in Rosario Ferré’s Works, Mackenzie Fraser
The Penobskan Porcupine Panic, Quinn Riesenman
Lesbian Love Sonnets: Adrienne Rich and Carol Ann Duffy, Robin Seiler-Garman
Theses from 2016
Nuanced Translations: The Search for Unity between Text, Image, and Self in Oscar Wilde's Fairy Tales, Jana Purington
The Awkward Year(s), Kate Seaholm
A Defense of Offred's Agency, Camille Weber
Theses from 2015
Witches, Bitches, and the Patriarchy: Gender and Power in the Harry Potter Series, Delaney Bullinger
Jane Eyre's Masculine Crisis, Samantha Hilton
Theses from 2014
Mix Tape, Michael Davis
Forget the Dreamer and Remember the Dream: A Study of Sylvia Plath's Fiction, Summer Yasoni
Theses from 2013
Taking Back the Pen: Sensation, Sanity, and Subversion in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret, Kelsey Hatley
Theses from 2012
Artist Spaces: Knowing the Studio Life, Joanna Peterson
Theses from 2011
Neurologist Watches Football, Stephen Dennis
Being an Oreo: A Novel, Lauren Gabrielle Funtanilla
Angelu Demonai, Caitlin Leigh Halvorson
The Mercy of His Means, Jamie Lyon
In the Hours between You and Me, Amanda Mattern
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of P. E., Rachel Mills
