• Critical Realism and the Biographical Film Project 

    Childress, Stephen E. (Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council at the University of Missouri- Kansas City, 2008)
    This paper explores aspects of a critical realist approach that have practical application to biographical documentary filmmaking as an ontological and methodological guide in the planning, production, and editing processes. ...
  • Goethe's Plant Morphology: The Seeds of Evolution 

    Kelley, Tanya (Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council at the University of Missouri- Kansas City, 2007)
    It has long been debated whether the scientific writing of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) provided the seeds for the theory of evolution. Scholars have argued both sides with equal passion. German biologist ...
  • “I Cannot Rule Myself” The Pitfalls of Sensibility in Mary Shelley's The Last Man 

    Sager, Diane A. (Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council at the University of Missouri- Kansas City, 2007)
  • Penitence, Punishment, and Pain: Negotiating Personal Authority in Francis Lathom's The Midnight Bell 

    Condit, Lorna Anne (Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council at the University of Missouri- Kansas City, 2008)
    Francis Lathom's novel, The Midnight Bell (1798), uses conventional gothic themes of crime, guilt, and punishment to interrogate gender roles and to explore how individuals may conform to, reject, or subvert mechanisms of ...