Presentation for the 2012 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing "That One Congenial Friend" and a study on Nathaniel Hawthorne's political aims and divided audience.

Poster presentation for the 2010 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on mental illness in literature and a case study of Sylvia Plath and Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

Poster for the 2010 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on William Blake's modern-day influence on the visual word.

Poster presentation for the 2009 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on William Blake's influence on popular culture.

Poster presentation for the 2009 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on the self and personal essays.

This paper discusses research on popular resistance, leadership attitudes, and Turkish accession to the European Union (E.U.).

This paper discusses research on Nathanial Hawthorne's political aims and divided audience.

This paper discusses research on literature by Joseph Conrad.

This paper reports on the author's research, which is fundamentally an exploration into the dynamics of what has been conceptualized as the "New Soviet Man."

Undergraduate thesis exploring criticisms of patriarchy in women's captivity narratives by examining Mary Rowlandson's The Sovereignty and Goodness of God (1862) and Sarah Wakefield's Six Weeks in the Sioux Tepees: A Narrative of Indian Captivity (1862). Both used their socially acceptable roles in order to assert their own ideas regarding the patriarchy. The author concludes that both narratives therefore assert that patriarchal societies did not necessarily produce justice for English or American women who were a part of these societies, or for the Dakota Indians who lived in close contact with a patriarchal society.

Undergraduate thesis examining representations of media and technology in two contemporary American novels, "White Noise" by Don DeLillo (1985) and "Super Sad True Love Story" by Gary Shteyngart (2010), with the goal of elucidating the attributes and significance of the technological contexts in fiction as well as contributing to a broader discussion of its operations on consciousness, society, and the cultural imagination.

Undergraduate thesis expanding exploring the 1836 captivity narrative "An Authentic Narrative of the Seminole War; and the Miraculous Escape of Mrs. Mary Godfrey, and Her Four Female Children." Unlike Mary Rowlandson's "The Sovereignty and Goodness of God," the anonymously-authored "An Authentic Narrative" is almost certainly fabricated. There are no records of a Mrs. Mary Godfrey being captured and redeemed, or even existing at all. However, like Rowlandson's captivity narrative, it attempts to use a woman's experience of captivity to defend and stabilize a national male identity. "An Authentic Narrative" is a variation on the captivity genre that indicates a shift toward the white fraternal national identity described by Dana E. Nelson, even as the female captive's rescue by an escaped slave and the deaths of the white, male rescuers point to the fundamental incoherence of this national identity.

Undergraduate thesis that is a collection of short stories preceded by critical preface. The preface, which is divided into two sections, contextualizes the function and presence of the modular narrative. The first section explores the criticism of the form and the second section provides contextual examples of contemporary stories which more or less exhibit elements of the modular. This collection entitled "We Were Once All Gentle Creatures" employs the many conventions and elements of the modular story as means to show how the modular replicates the atemporal qualities of human experience.

Undergraduate thesis biographically examining the lives, deaths, and works of Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath, including their roles as daughters, wives, mothers, and female writers. This thesis has implications for the relevancy and pertinence of Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath to literary, gender, and even political studies today as evident in their being namesakes of their crafts, hallmarks of the literary periods in which they wrote, and some of the most recognized and referenced literary names in popular culture.

Paper investigates how Gertrude Stein uses photographic theory in the formal construction of her literary portraits in order to create an autonomous work of art and an authentic resemblance to her human subjects.

Paper discusses how changing gender roles in the 1920s, particularly for mothers, are depicted in the novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald, and how mother figures influence the development of his leading male characters.

Paper discusses the ways in which the play Hamlet frames homosocial relationships, arguing that the homosocial relationship of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern serves as a counterpoint to the Neo-Platonic friendship represented by Horatio.

Paper describes study exploring parliamentary speakers’ orientation toward reconciliation (OTR) over a period of one year in Kenya after the Kenyan election crisis of 2007-2008.

Paper explores the difference in the portrayal of Native Americans in captivity narratives that did result in acculturation and those that did not.

Introduction to the special section on English Literature for the 2014 edition of The Eagle Feather, written by Kelly Wisecup.

Paper analyzes Mary Rowlandson's The Sovereignty and Goodness of God, arguing that she Rowlandson resists patriarchy by working within her socially accepted roles.

Paper discusses issues of sexism and anti-feminist sentiment in the modern organized skepticism movement.

Paper analyzes song lyrics written by The Beetles from 1965 to 1970 as poetry.

Paper discusses the efforts of the National Writing Project (NWP) to mitigate the effects of high-stakes testing on teachers and students.