Presentation for the 2011 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on popular resistance, leadership attitudes, and Turkish accession to the European Union (EU).

Presentation for the 2010 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research the noble appeal and establishing truth in true reports from the early modern era.

Presentation for the 2010 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on the effect of Queen Elizabeth I's sovereignty as a monarch on English literature in the 17th century England, especially the work of John Milton's 'Paradise Lost'.

Poster presentation for the 2012 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on factors that affect children's literacy.

Poster presentation for the 2012 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas. This presentation discusses research on an excerpt of a confessional narrative in an early 15th century manuscript known as Cambridge, Magdalene College, Pepys 2125 against 'The Clensyng of Mannes Sowle', found in Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 923.

Poster presentation for the 2011 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing a creative thesis consisting of two parts: a critical preface and a chapbok of original poetry.

Poster presentation for the 2012 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on media coverage of modern environmentalism.

Poster presentation for the 2011 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on portrayals of abortion in mid-twentieth century literature.

Presentation for the 2005 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on identifying and analyzing the poetic qualities of The Beatles' lyrics from 1965-1970.

Poster presentation for the 2005 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas. This poster analyzes and identifies the poetic elements of The Beatles' lyrics from 1965 to 1970. The primary goal is to demonstrate that the band's lyrics are serious poetry, not merely performance.

Poster for the 2012 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on the narration of a narrative.

Presentation for the 2005 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on the conflicted self in the life and art of Carlo Gesualdo.

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.