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The Department of English, one of the academic units of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Missouri-Columbia, with more than one hundred M.A. and Ph.D students and about five-hundred undergraduate majors, is one of the larger and more diverse departments on the Columbia campus. They offer a wide range of courses in British and American Literature and Creative Writing, as well as special emphases in African Diaspora Studies, Critical Theory, English Language and Linguistics, Folklore and Oral Tradition, and Rhetoric and Composition. The Department of English also maintains close working relationships with other units on campus such as Black Studies, Film Studies, Women's & Gender Studies, and the Honors College.
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A world without end : queer liminality, futurity, and other-world speculative visioning
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2024)In A World Without End: Queer Liminality, Futurity, and Other-World Speculative Visioning, I argue that the genre of speculative fiction is an ideal sandbox from which to explore and imagine alternative presents and futures ... -
Crime and punishment in the novels of Defoe, Fielding, and Godwin
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1961)"The eighteenth century is characterized by lawless activity, economic growth seemingly as productive of poverty as of wealth, and certain spasmodic efforts to establish justice and render society less corrupt. The records ... -
Background and applications of the honor code in Dryden's four Spanish-oriented heroic plays
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1973)The treatment of honor in John Dryden’s four Spanish oriented heroic plays--The Indian Queen, The Indian Emperour, and both parts of The Conquest of Granada--follows dramatic patterns conspicuously parallel to those in ... -
Miltonic criticism and the problem of the reader's belief
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 1964)This study examines the literary criticism of Milton’s late poems from the seventeenth century to the present as that criticism deals with the problem of the reader’s belief. The general question which is investigated is ... -
A thematic study of reality, death, order and imagination in the poetry of Wallace Stevens
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1963)The poetry of Wallace Stevens presents a complex pattern of involvement in the worlds of both physical phenomena and abstract ideology, and it is the purpose of this dissertation to formulate some tenable approach to a ... -
The moral vision in The Canterbury Tales
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1964)"The purpose of this study is to explain certain aspects of the moral vision in The Canterbury Tales. Such an explanation will serve two important functions: 1) it will bring into sharper focus the divergent moral elements ... -
A re-examination of Darwin's argument in On the Origin of Species
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1969)Darwin's argument for the mutability of species in the Origin is generally regarded as a successful and skillful presentation of ideas important to the biological sciences, to the history of science, to philosophy, and to ... -
Phenomenological criticism : an analysis and an application to the fiction of John Updike
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 1975)Although phenomenological criticism of literature varies in its appearance, it is all based upon the seminal studies in phenomenology of Edmund Husserl (1859-1938). The value of Husserl's phenomenology to literary criticism ... -
Queer readings and humor in contemporary Gothic film and television
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2024)[EMBARGOED UNTIL 08/01/2025] In this dissertation, I examine queer spectatorship and interpretations of popular media through queer humor. To that end, I analyze canonical Gothic texts, such as Rebecca (1938) and Interview ... -
She kills you in the end
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2024)Across the slasher genre of horror films and other media, there exists the trope of the Final Girl. The Final Girl, a bookish, wary, virginal, always female figure, is the final survivor of a brutal onslaught, a systematic ... -
Your dazzling death
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2024)[EMBARGOED UNTIL 05/01/2029] The critical introduction to this dissertation is an essay exploring the concept of an ecopoetics of reintimation. Examining the work of poets Vanessa Angelica Villarreal, Tommy Pico, and Natalie ... -
Being and belonging in Victorian fiction, science, and medicine (1847-1897)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2024)[EMBARGOED UNTIL 05/01/2025] This dissertation examines the processes of individual subject formation and affective possibilities enacted by nonnormative, Othered, or otherwise "deviant" identity groups within the Victorian ... -
A world to hold us all
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2024)[EMBARGOED UNTIL 05/01/2025] A World to Hold Us All is a mythological biography about growing up queer in an evangelical household and being raised alongside the internet in the early 2000s. The manuscript revolves around ... -
The opposite of gone
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2024)[EMBARGOED UNTIL 05/01/2025] Sandra Gilbert writes, "What if, cries the griever, just as the sci-fi writer does." Tentatively titled The Opposite of Gone, this nonfiction project employs personal narrative in experimental ... -
Marathon
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2024)[EMBARGOED UNTIL 05/01/2025] Marathon is a work of historiographic metafiction that seeks to shed light on the social and psychological ramifications of traumatic events and the art of storytelling itself. It is an extension ... -
Thirty pieces of silver
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2024)This creative thesis utilizes history, theory, Christianity, music, and poetry to critically discuss and creatively engage with the intersections among each of these subjects. The critical introduction chronicles the history ... -
An ecofeminist creation : how Poor Things rewrites and re-animates Frankenstein
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2024)Alasdair Gray was one of the preeminent Scottish writers in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. His 1992 novel, Poor Things, represents a culmination of his carefully curated and craftily charged textual ... -
How the BTS fandom promotes transculturalism through social media
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2024)This paper attempts to examine an ethnographic study into cultural immersion via activity in a digital fandom of a foreign popular culture and how these fandoms are undeniable forces in the transmission of foreign cultures ... -
Authenticity, authorship, and autofiction : an autofictional reading of Elena Ferrante
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2024)The autotheoretical practice of "life-thinking" provides rich spaces for considering when, how, and if the personal can be theoretical. Autofiction, however, complicates these questions even further. Italian novelist Elena ... -
Breakable binaries : representations of twins in African and African American literature, film, television, and cultures
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2024)This project explores the fascinating trope of twins in our cultural imaginary, examining representations of twinship in twentieth- and twenty-first-century African and African American literature, film, and television. ...