Graduate Student Research

Researching North America: Sir Humphrey Gilbert's 1583 Expedition and a Reexamination of Early Modern English Colonization in the North Atlantic World

• Nathan J. Probasco
• Department of History
• Graduated: January 2013
• Faculty supervisor: Dr. Carole Levin

Performing Arguments: debate in early English poetry and drama

• Maura Giles-Watson
• Department of English
• Graduated: 2012
• Faculty supervisors: Dr. Paul A. Olson and Dr. Stephen M. Buhler

"The Future in an Instant": Posthumanism(s) in early modern English drama

• Farrah Lehman
• Department of English
• Graduated: 2010
• Faculty supervisor:Dr. Stephen M. Buhler

Lifting up the serpent in the wilderness: the reader's journey through John Milton's "Paradise Lost"

• Matthew Scott Stenson
• Department of English
• Graduated:2009
• Faculty supervisor:Dr. Stephen C. Behrendt

Anglo-Swedish Foreign Relations During the Reign of Elizabeth I

• Nathan James Martin
• Department of History
• Graduated:2008
• Faculty supervisor:Dr. Carole Levin

Borrowed Authority, Satirized Genre: Appropriations of Shakespeare in Charlotte Smith's poetry and novels

• Joy Marie Currie
• Department of English
• Graduated:2006
• Faculty supervisor: Dr. Stephen M. Buhler

Ritual Speech Acts and the Shakespearean Stage 

• Matthew C. Hansen
• Department of English
• Graduated:2005
• Faculty supervisor:Dr. Paul A. Olson

Shylock and the Economics of Subversion in "The Merchant of Venice"

• Hesham Khadawardi
• Department of English
• Graduated:2005
• Faculty supervisors:Dr. Stephen M. Buhler and Dr. Carole Levin

Almost the Perfect Woman: Public and Private Expectations of Catherine of Aragon

• Timothy G. Elston
• Department of History
• Graduated:2004
• Faculty supervisor:Dr. Carole Levin

Origin and Adaptation of the medieval Theban narrative from Gildas to Shakespeare

• Jason Gildow
• Department of English
• Graduated:2004
• Faculty supervisor:Dr. Robert S. Halle

Geistliche Gesangbuch, geistreiche Gesangbuch: The development of confessional unity in the evangelical hymnbook, 1524-1587

• Christine Anne Hancock Dempsey
• Department of History
• Graduated:2003
• Faculty supervisor: Dr. Amy N. Burnett

A Sound Theology: The Vital Position of Sound and Music to Hildegard of Bingen's Theology and Public Identity

• Geraldine E. Henderson
• Department of English
• Graduated:2003
• Faculty supervisor:Dr. Paul A. Olson

Women's Dress Lexicon from Fourteenth-Century England

• Traci Leigh Austin
• Department of English
• Graduated:2003
• Faculty supervisor:Dr. Paul A. Olson

Studies in African and medieval European mysticism

• Finnian Ndukwuegbulem Nwaozor
• Department of English
• Graduated:2002
• Faculty supervisor:Dr. Paul A. Olson

Bensington Manor and ultimogeniture: A Study of the Influence of Family Dynamics on Manorial Inheritance Practices in Early Modern England

• Shawndra Lynn Holderby
• Department of History
• Graduated:2001
• Faculty supervisor:Dr. Carole Levin

Shakespeare the political man: The second tetralogy and its historical moment

• Hyo Sik Hwang
• Department of English
• Graduated:2000
• Faculty supervisor:Dr. Leslie T. Whipp

Under My Thumb: Women and authority in the literature of Renaissance England

• Linda A. Krisa
• Department of English
• Graduated:1999
• Faculty supervisors:Dr. Stephen M. Buhler and Dr. Leslie T. Whipp

Rhetoric, Romance, and the Structure of Authority in the "Canterbury Tales"

• Kurtis Boyd Haas
• Department of English
• Graduated:1998
• Faculty supervisor:Dr. Paul A. Olson

A Critical Edition of Thomas Heywood's "The First and Second Partes of King Edward the Fourth"

• Whitney Anne Peterson
• Department of English
• Graduated:1997
• Faculty supervisor:Dr. Howard B. Norland

David of Augsburg's "Profectus Religiosorum" in the Middle English Translation for the Nuns of Syon Abbey: an edition

• Stephen Eric Hayes
• Department of English
• Graduated:1997
• Faculty supervisor:Dr. Paul A. Olson

"Don Quijote": A Numismatic and Economic Analysis -- Literary Images of Coinage, Wealth, and Poverty

• David Brian Fiero
• Department of Modern Languages and Literatures [Spanish]
• Graduated:1997
• Faculty supervisor:Dr. Elizabeth Wilhelmsen

Chaucer's Vergil, Troy, and the medieval commentary tradition

• Patricia Heumann Scudder
• Department of English
• Graduated:1996
• Faculty supervisor:Dr. Paul A. Olson

John Donne's "Songs and Sonnets": In the Light of Renaissance Traditions

• Linda Ann Schmidt
• Department of English
• Graduated:1996
• Faculty supervisor:Dr. Leslie T. Whipp

"Assay the power you have": Compromised Subjectivities and English Renaissance literary women

• Suzy Beemer
• Department of English
• Graduated:1996
• Faculty supervisor:Dr. Moira Ferguson

The Image of the Blind Cupid in Dream-Vision Poems in the Late Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and early Sixteenth Centuries in England

• Richard John Cupich
• Department of English
• Graduated:1992
• Faculty supervisor:Dr. Paul A. Olson

Shakespeare in Korea: 1906-1989

• Jong-hwan Kim
• Department of English
• Graduated:1992
• Faculty supervisor: Dr. Paul A. Olson and Dr. Robert Knoll

"Paradise Lost" and the commented epic

• Dennis Scott Brooks
• Department of English
• Graduated:1991
• Faculty supervisor: Dr. Paul A. Olson

Reading the Bower: Critical responses to Edmund Spenser's Bower of Bliss in the 1980's

• Robert Charles Miliken
• Department of English
• Graduated:1990
• Faculty supervisor: Dr. Robert D. Stock

"Paradise Lost" as Reformation history

• Joseph David Boocker
• Department of English
• Graduated:1988
• Faculty supervisor: Dr. Paul A. Olson

The Master Mined and Mimed: Shakespeare's use of Chaucer in The Two Noble Kinsmen

• Nancy Bernhardt Holland
• Department of English
• Graduated:1987
• Faculty supervisor: Dr. Paul A. Olson

Titanic Rebellion: the promethean iconography of Milton, Blake, and Shelley

• Linda M. Lewis
• Department of English
• Graduated:1984
• Faculty supervisor: Dr. Paul A. Olson and Dr. Leslie Whipp

Musical Imagery in the Poetry of Juan Ruiz, Guillaume de Machaut, and Chaucer: a comparative study

• David G. Lonoue
• Department of English
• Graduated:1981
• Faculty supervisor: Dr. Paul A. Olson

Genius and Other Related Allegorical Figures in the De Planctu Naturae, the Roman de la Rose, and the Confessio Amantis, and the Faerie Queene

• Herbert David Brumble
• Department of English
• Graduated:1970
• Faculty supervisor: Dr. Paul A. Olson

Chaucer and the Just Society: conceptions of natural law and the nobility int he Parliament of Fowls, the Knights Tale, and the Portraits of Miller and Reeve

• Bruce Kent Cowgill
• Department of English
• Graduated:1970
• Faculty supervisor: Dr. John W. Robinson

Middle English Debate Poems: a genre study

• Dvaid Elwood Lampe
• Department of English
• Graduated:1969
• Faculty supervisor: Dr. Paul A. Olson

Chaucer and Lydgate, and the uses of history

• Curtis Lee McCray
• Department of English
• Graduated:1968
• Faculty supervisor: Dr. John W. Robinson

The artes praedicandi and Chaucer's Canterbury preachers

• Doris Evaline Thompson Myers
• Department of English
• Graduated:1967
• Faculty supervisor: Dr. Paul A. Olson

The Canterbury Tales and late fourteenth-century chivalry: literary stylization and historical idealism

• Thomas Jension Hatton
• Department of English
• Graduated:1966
• Faculty supervisor: Dr. Paul A. Olson

Shakespeare and the golden world of the pastoral

• Richard Harold Henze
• Department of English
• Graduated:1965
• Faculty supervisor: Dr. Robert E. Knoll

Hercules and the Faerie Queene

• Anthony William Wolk
• Department of English
• Graduated:1965
• Faculty supervisor: Dr. Paul A. Olson

The Pilgrimage of the Red Cross Knight

• Vernon James Torczon
• Department of English
• Graduated:1960
• Faculty supervisor: Dr. Paul A. Olson