Stanford MLA: Thesis Titles
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Thesis Titles of MLA graduates

Name Adviser YearThesis Title
Carol AbateLinda Paulson1997 The Woman Within and Without: Cross-Gendered Narration in Dicken's Bleak House and Beyond

Daniel AlegriaMarsh McCall1999 The Agon in Aeschylus' Prometheus, Sophocles' Antigone, and Euripides' Medea

Aline Baeck Scott Delp 2005 "This Machine of Ours": The Role of Biomechanics and Ergonomics in Leonardo da Vinci's Machine Designs

William Baeck Bobn Gregg 2005 Psalm 23: A Near-East Hero Tale
M. Lee Bangerter Hester Gelber 2004 Margery's Good Words: Orality in the Book of Margery Kempe

Sarah Bates Janice Ross 2004 Movement and Mythology: A Study of Martha Graham's Retellings of Greek Tragedies

Garnet Ayers Batinovich Ken Fields 2005 "Her Position in the Universe": The God Factor in Kate Chopin's Life and Works

Bob BaxleyPaula Findlen2000 A Desperate Mission: The Origins, Meanings, and Purpose of Recreation, Science, Education, and Conservation in Modern Zoos

Blair Beebe Marc Bertrand 2007 Balzac's Rubempre Cycle: A Social History of Early 19th Century Paris
Milada BelayaJames March1998 Approaches to Reality in the Paintings of Salvador Dali

Theodore BiaginiPaula Findlen2003 Machiavelli in a World of Furbi and Fessi

Louise M. BilterPaul Robinson1998 The Victorian Marriage of Isabel and Richard Burton: Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy

Leonard D. BoenigClifford Barnett1998 Death Management: Forging the Last Link in the Health Care Paradigm

Tonya BookerLuis Fraga2003 Reconciling Multiracial Identity in America: The U.S. Census and the Biracial Experience

Brenda R. BorovoyGeorge Dekker1999 The "Jane Austen Revival": Reading and Misreading in a Contemporary Cultural Context

Jean BozmanMark Mancall1999 Richard Gottheil, Reluctant Leader of Early American Zionism

Maureen Breakiron-EvansLinda Paulson1996 Berthe Morisot: Nineteenth-century Woman and Professional Artist

Lynn BriodyGerald Dorfman2003 The Partition of Ulster: The English Answer to the Irish Question

Judith BrodskyBill Durham1998 Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle: Turning Point for Charles Darwin

Kevin BruceAlex Nemerov1999 Narrative Illusionism: The Extraordinary Trompe-l'oeil Murals of John Pugh

Katherine BuchananJane Emery2002 Making an Ending: Hazel Barnes, Simone de Beauvoir, and the Final Project

Jennifer J. Burton Martin Evans 2005 Making Room for a View: Tourism and the Search for Authenticity in E. M. Forster's Italian Works
Alice CarterLinda Paulson1997 The Red Rose Girls: A Cooperative of Women Illustrators, Philadelphia, 1900

Alice Cekleov Marc Bertrand 2004 A Pleasure of One's Own: Female Sexuality in Pablo Picasso's Painting La Reve

Sheila ChandrasekharEstelle Freedman2003 The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name Just Got a 20 Share! (""Not That There's Anything Wrong With That""): How TV Writers are Normalizing the Queer

Stanley ChismTom Wasow2003 The Biology of the Past Tense

Judith L. ChovanHester Gelber and Christy Junkerman2001 Breaking the Mold: Artistic Experimentation with Sacred and Secular Imagery in Trecento Sienese Maest‡ Paintings

Gay Clyburn Ken Fields 2007 Literary Alchemy: Raymond Chandler's Unintended Harmonic Convergence
Melanie M. ColeLinda Paulson1998 The Garden Parlors of Gertrude Jekyll

George Coombe Ken Fields 2005 Wilfred Owen: War Poetry and the Advent of Modernism
Robert E. CookTom Mosen1997 American Dream or American Tragedy: An Analysis of Myth in The Great Gatsby and Absalom, Absalom!

Constance CramerHester Gelber2000 Culture and Religious Expression: The Voices and Visions of Joan of Arc

Lisa DaidoneCheri Ross2000 William Carlos Williams, The Early Years: Portrait of an American Avant-Garde Modernist

Tamara DiGregorioLarry Diamond2003 Terrorism and U.S. National Security in the New World Order

Lisa Domitrovich Albert Gelpi 2006 William Carlos Williams and the Spirit of the Frontier: Individualism, Violence, and Pioneering in In the American Grain

Katherine DunlapLuis Fraga2003 A Rising Tide: California Educational Reform

Fred DuselMichael Jameson1998 Pharmakos: Myth, Ritual, and Reality

Marie EarlNancy Packer1998 The Geography of Hope in Wallace Stegner's Angle of Repose

John Farnsworth Charles Junkerman 2007 What Does the Desert Say? A Rhetorical Analysis of Desert Solitaire

Oscar FirscheinTim Lenior2000 The Hypertext Novel: A New Way of Reading and Writing

Mary Ellen Foley Richard Terdiman 2004 Reading Woolf Under the Influence of Einstein

John FrancoErnle Young2001 The Sheep in Lambís Clothing: An Ethical Analysis of Cloning Experimentation

James G. GambleDenis Philips1997 Out of the Mainstream: A Social History of People with Physical Disabilities

Joan GarvinMarsh McCall1997 Caveat Judex: Let the Juror Beware

Kathryn GillamArnie Eisen2003 Dag Hammarskjöld's Markings: A Narrative in Aphorism and Poem

Bliss GoldsteinAlex Woloch2003 The "Truth" Behind the Dream-child: Viewing Alice through Freud's Looking-glass

Gail Curtis Graham Rae McDermott 2005 Students Teaching Students: Celebrating the Quality of Learning from Both Sides of the Desk
Denise GreenGordon Bloom2001 The Sistine Chapel Gamble

Andrew GroseJim Fox2001 Of Two Minds: Language Reform and Millennialism in the Deseret Language

Richard J. Harris Paul Robinson 2007 Women, Gender, and Hysteria in the 19th Century: A Study of Alice James

Heidi HeilemannPaula Findlen2003 Envisioning the Unborn: Art, Anatomy, and The Printing Press in the Early Modern Era

Susan HendersonLinda Paulson1998 Music Hall in High Victorian Britain: A New Art for a New Life

Mihran HerardianTim Lenoir1996 From Artificial Intelligence to Cognitive Science: Changing Concepts of Intelligence and the Mind

Mary Lou HesletIris Litt1998 Self-Starvation and Charlotte Bronte

Sally Lindsay HoneyBarbara Gelpi1997 Three Poets: Structural Changes in Perception and Technique from the Romantic to the Modern Period

Terry HuntPaul Seaver2000 The Fiscal Restructuring of the English State in the 1640's and the Genesis of England as an Imperial Power

Naomi Hunter Barbara Gelpi 2004 Finishing a Conversation Between Friends: Elizabeth Gaskell and The Life of Charlotte Bronte

Katrina Alison JaggearsJohn Rickford2000 The Ann Arbor Black English Case and the Oakland Ebonics Controversy: What Have We Learned?

Kathleen Kearney Keeshen, Ph.D. Marc Bertrand1995 Palais Royal: Witness to History

Kurt KeilhackerGerald Dorfman2002 A Tarnished Strategy? Five Economic Tests and the Political Contest Behind the Scrapping of the British Pound Sterling

Elizabeth A. KernEdie Gelles1996 The Minister, the Mother, the Midwife, and the Physician: Childbearing in Colonial and Revolutionary New England, 1620-1820

Kara KirkWanda Corn2001 Museum Without Walls: Grace McCann Morley and Modern Art Education

Jack R. KirkpatrickRobert Weisberg1995 Revocation and Recidivism of M-Case Parolees: the Santa Clara County Experience, August 1988 to December 1993

Carla KirschenbaumBarbara Gelpi2003 Those Dreadful Hammers; Wuthering Heights and the Ecology of Heaven

Betje Black KlierMarc Bertrand1998 The Myth of Champ d'Aisle: The Iconography of a Bonapartist Colony in Texas, 1818

Richard Lane Nadeem Hussain 2004 Charles Dickens and Jeremy Bentham

Ines LeiferGerald Dorfman2001 Swiss Neutrality: An Instrument of Peace at War with Itself

Kristin LeoPaula Findlen2003 The Sforza Equestrian Monument: Interpreting the Monument that Never Was

Karen B. LetendreRichard Fendeman1998 A Modernist Reconstruction of Reality in Proust's Swann's Way and Monet's Rouen Cathedral Series

Barbara Waite LittleMarsh McCall1995 Dike in the Oresteia

Peter LordJohn Freccero2002 Dante's guiding Light: The Astronomy of The Divine Comedy

John Lowry, III Albert Gelpi1995 The Zones of War and Poetic Expression: Private Rosenberg's Vision

Wanda LukeP. J. Ivanhoe1998 Friendship: The Bridge Between Modern Individualism and Community Within the Liberal Society

Mary A. MacKinnonTim Lenoir1997 The Ultimate Beta Test

Kerry MacLennan Martin Evans 2004 John Milton: A Portrait in Microeconomics

Denise M. Shea MalcolmClifford Barnett2000 Has the U.S. Become a Ritalin Nation?

Jeanne G. MartinEdith Gelles1997 Women on the Overland Trail

Albert K. MartinMarc Bertrand1998 The Political Evolution of Eighteenth-Century Lawyers

Susan C. MathesonDiane Wood Middlebrook1999 Iola Brubeck's Contributions to Jazz

Ronald Kim MaxwellMartin Evans2000 If Art Could Tell: Intentional Failure in Paradise Lost

Ann McArtorJoe Corn2002 These Pushful Days: How the Speed of the Railroad and the Internet Accelerated Everyday American Life

John P. McCaskeyMark Edwards1997 Chronology and Causes of the Ancient Mystery Religions

Evelyn McMillanErnle' Young2001 A Bioethical Analysis of the Case of David, "The Boy in the Bubble"

Kathleen K. MelonakosDenis Phillips1997 WK Clifford vs. William James: The Right to Believe

Joan MerrillKennell Jackson2000 Jazz or Ersatz? The Criteria of Authentic Jazz Singing

Martha E. MertzVan Harvey1997 Egon Schiele: The Soul Mirrored in Art, Seen Through a Glass Darkly

Jonathan M. MetzlPaul Robinson1995Idem the Same: the Poetics of Repetition in Mental Illness

Christopher MeyercordArnold Rampersad2000Telling Stories About Skinny Mules and Flying Africans: Folklore in the Fiction of Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison

Julia G. Michael-CharmesMonika Greenleaf2002Outsmarting the System: Transformations Through Fashion in Nineteenth-Century France

Dare T. MichosPaul Robinson1995 Distributed Power: The New Tyranny?

Sandra MillerJoe Manning2002 The Queen of Egyptology: Amelia R. Edwards, British Egyptology, and Egyptian Archaeology, 1873-1892

Claudia NewboldErnle Young2001Direct-to-Consumer Marketing of Rx Phamaceuticals: An Ethical Analysis

Sharon NiederhausCliff Barnett2001The Accessory Apartment: A Viable Housing Option for the New Longevitiy

Sheryl NonnenbergWanda Corn2000Women's Culture In The West: The Philanthropy and Art Patronage of Jane Stanford and Alma Spreckels

Maurice V. O'FlynnGeorge Brown1994Geoffrey Chaucer: Religious Critic and Humane Reformer

Phoebe A. OlcottGerry Dorfman1997Spain in Transition: from Franco's Dictatorship to the Consolidation of Spanish Democracy Under Juan Carlos

Maximilian PollakTim Lenoir1996 Virtual Communities: Postmodern Playgrounds

Sharon PragerGerald Dorfman1996Mining in Today's Environment: A New Paradigm

Linden PressMarsh McCall2003Transgressions Against Xenia in Fifth-Century Greek Tragedy (The Unkindness of Strangers)

Phillip B. ProdgerTim Lenoir1994Illustration as Strategy in Charles Darwin's The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals

Cynthia Reed Hester Gelber 2004 Margery Kempe: Pilgrimage as a Means to Spiritual Maturity

Robert P. ReklisHester Gelber1995The Life of Saint Wilfrid and the Coming of Christianity to Anglo-Saxon England

Evangeline RochaHank Greely2001Icelandís Decode Genetics: Bellwether for Population Genomics Research

Corinne S. RoeCarolyn Lougee-Chappell1998A Tale of Two Villages: Huguenot Settlements in Colonial New York

Diane C. RogersEllen Neskar1999Korean Comfort Women in World War II: Aided and Abused by the United States Military

Ian RogoffTim Lenoir1996The Threat of the Microsoft Corporation to Silicon Valley

Kirsten Romer Peter Stansky 2004 Reconciling the Conflict Between Masters and Men: Christian Socialism and the Evolution of Elizabeth Gaskell's Industrial Novels

Frank RovittoKen Fields2003 James Jones and the Eternal Strife

Allen RudolphJack Rakove2003A Most Unintended War: The New England Powder Alarms and the Coming of the American Revolution

Maxine R. SchurMarc Bertrand1999 Geroges de La Tour: A Singular Artist

Wendy ShattuckAlex Nemerov & Scott Bukatman2000 "It's the Life That We Want": Frank Norris, Erich von Stroheim, and the Art of Truth in Fiction and Film

Marie SiganPaul Robinson2002 Freud, Schoenberg, Brecht: Three Minds Tell the Story of Moses

David Soward Joshua Landy 2004 Albert Camus: A Philosopher Interrupted

Peter StevensLinda Paulson1994 The Character of the Detective

Joyce ThompsonPaul Robinson2003The Flame of a Single Lamp: Sir Edwin Arnold's The Light of Asia and the Victorian Roots of Western Enlightenment

Mason TobakJohn Perry2002An Expanded View of Common Sense in the Modern Philosophy of Mind

James P. ToomeyGerald Dorfman1997 The Irish Republican Movement in America

James TorreJack Rakove2001 The Politics of Constitution-Making

William M. TuckerTim Lenoir1998 Emma Martin: Pioneer Female Atheist

Phyllis VillecGeorge Barth2000 A Magnificent Synthesis: Mozart's Transformation of Entertainment to Drama in His Piano Concertos

Bonnie VolkmanRobert Gregg1996 Augustine's Mother: Monica in The Confessions

Daniel J. WalshPaul Robinson1996 Freud's Psychology: A Critical Assessment

Marguerite J. WattFranÁios Bar1997 The New Web Press: Print Journalism's Role and Responsibility in Digital Media

Kathleen WeberDiane Wood Middlebrook1993Seize the Fire: A Journey into the Spiritual Meaning of William Blake's The Tyger

Roberta S. WeinmanMary Wach1994 The Wife of Bath's Prologue: From Sovereignty to Self

Suzanne WestWanda M. Corn and Christy Junkerman2001 (Re)Constructing Suzanna: The Framing of Meaning in Paintings of Suzanna and the Elders from 1500 to 2000

Whitney WoodErnle Young2003No Justice Without Universality: Fair Equality of Opportunity and the Need for Comprehensive Health Care Reform

Lawrence I. ZaroffBliss Cannochen1997 Medicine and Poetry in George Crabbe