The study of English develops essential skills for professional success and personal fulfillment: an understanding of language and its functions in society; fluency in written communication, in both practical and artistic applications; and a critical appreciation of literary works from diverse time periods and cultures. The most common career paths for English majors are writing, editing, and publishing; advertising and public relations; business administration and management; technical writing; and teaching at middle school, high school, or college levels.
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Seeking Infinity: Exploring the Meaning and Potential of Young Adult Literature, Jacinta Yanders
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
“All Things Forget the Forest:” The Convergence of the War and the Pastoral in Edward Thomas’s Body of Work, Nicole Trobaugh
"All Things Forget The Forest": The Convergence of the war and the Pastoral in Edward Thomas's Body of Work, Nicole Trobaugh
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Before It Rains, Veronica O. Parkman
Before It Rains, Veronica O. Parkman
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Naïve Narrators: The Voice of the Child in the Poetry of Paul Muldoon, Stephanie Jean Osburn Alexander
Into the Void: Danielewski and the Uncanny Novel, Chad Bebee
Conquering the Sublime: Terror and Control in Moby-Dick, Matthew William Burkett
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Myth and Ideology in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion, Walter Jan Padgett
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
The Concentration of Carnivalesque Themes In the Shared Fabliaux of the Decameron And The Canterbury Tales, Timothy R. Jordan
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
The House at the Edge of the World, Darla Beasley
The Voice of the Artist: Lessons in Life and Narration, Nelson C. Bogren
Brain Storm, Gary J. Bray
The "Essential Renewing Fantasy": The Vietnam Experience in American Literature, Jeffrey Gross
A Pastiche of Hope: Ethnography, Community, And Reconstructive Politics in the Performance of Interview Texts, George Potter
Ascending Into Ecstasy: Sex and Religion in Three Albee Plays, Carolyn M. Rodkey
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
Carnival Glass: A Collection of Poems, Rachel Marie Fairbanks
The Life Within, The Life of a Runner, Eric Jobert Fruth
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
The Last Kiss, Uma Devi Doraiswamy
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
Connection of the Neolithic Cultures of Ireland and Brittany As Revealed by Their Passage Graves, Jennifer L. Harney
Theses/Dissertations from 1995
The Double in The Bell Jar, Kimberly Kae Allen
A Collection of Gay Plays, Floyd Edward Reed
Theses/Dissertations from 1993
Visions of the Supreme Goddess: A Study in the Iconography of the Hindu Goddess Kali, Carol Marie Angel
Silko and Erdrich: Paradigm for Multicultural Education, Jean Kathryn Como Sando
Theses/Dissertations from 1992
Computers in the Revision Process, Patrick James Clauss
Theses/Dissertations from 1991
The Spanish Chapel of Santa Maria Novella: a Document of Dominican Dogma, Dale Hoover
Theses/Dissertations from 1989
The Epic of Ezra Pound: A Modern Poet's Quest In China's Antiquity, Sun Hong
Theses/Dissertations from 1963
An analysis of the influence of the Spiritual exercises of St. Ignatius on the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Mary Suzanne Wills
Theses/Dissertations from 1962
Roman Catholicism in selected novels of Willa Cather, Irma Aloysius Sister Derck
A midsummer night's dream in relation to the Endymion legend, Dorothy Evelyn Sister Laughlin
The changing plans for the teaching of grammar and their relationships to the teaching of written composition, James Donald Quisenberry
A historical and critical study of John William De Forest's Washington novels, Eugene W. Saxe
Theses/Dissertations from 1961
Lessons in analytical English, Bertrand Field Richards
Theses/Dissertations from 1959
A study of ninth grade remedial reading programs, Jean Marilou Furry
Theses/Dissertations from 1958
The boyhood influences reflected in Ernie Pyle's life and writing, Sidney M. Silverman
Theses/Dissertations from 1957
A study of place names in Lawrence County, Indiana, Florence Elise Gratzer
An analysis of nautical influence on Ole Rolvaag's fiction, Iona Hershberger Nale
A study of imagery in the poetry of Edward Taylor, Cynthia Nash Wolfe
Theses/Dissertations from 1956
A study of the evidences of local color in Willa Sibert Cather's stories of the Midwestern plains, Charles Thomas Keller
An analysis of the techniques of characterization in selected fiction of Jack London, David Vermillion
A study of naturalism in Stephen Crane's short stories, Richard G. Whitworth
Theses/Dissertations from 1955
Nature in the poetry of Emily Dickinson, Charles Mitchell Watson
Nature in the poetry of Emily Dickinson, Charles Mitchell Watson
Theses/Dissertations from 1951
The practicability of Latin in the secondary school, Samuel Nisbet
Theses/Dissertations from 1950
Criticism of Anne Brontë's two novels, Betty Jean Johnson
Theses/Dissertations from 1949
An evaluation of the twentieth century British and American criticism of Sir Walter Scott's major narrative poems, Roseanna Burke
The Renaissance movement in the Irish theatre, 1899-1949, Margaret Flaherty Diehl
A critical estimate of alliance between the art theory and the art practice of Willa Cather, Betty Bohannon Forsyth
A comparison of the religious beliefs of some students of Indiana State Teachers College with the beliefs of their parents, Naomi Pauline Guyer
John Galsworthy's theory of the novel, Mary McKnight
Theses/Dissertations from 1944
A Study of the Background Scenes in the Life of John Milton, Frieda Bedwell
A Study of the Background Scenes in the Life of John Milton., Frieda Bedwell
Theses/Dissertations from 1942
Henry David Thoreau and Amos Bronson Alcott : a study of relationships, Frances Harriet Henry
Theses/Dissertations from 1941
The revolutionary elements in Ibsen's plays, Alice Peters
The social philosophy of some contemporary American authors, Lela Walls