Students in the Language, Literature & Writing Department not only have the opportunity to take exciting and diverse classes, develop digital projects, participate in service learning, and complete individualized research and writing projects, but also the flexibility to pursue their passions as double majors, minors or in extracurricular programs. Students in the Department of Language, Literature and Writing – whether focusing on Chinese, English, French, Spanish, creative writing, professional writing or teaching - they become leaders on our campus and in the world.

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Submissions from 2024

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Words Without Faces: Anonymous Social Media on Campus, Evelyn Kelly

Submissions from 2023

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Watching the Storm: Old Testament Reinvention of God in Their Eyes Were Watching God, Evelyn Kelly

Submissions from 2021

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Hablar en dos mundos: Explorando los papeles del bilingüismo español-inglés en las vidas de los adultos bilingües en español e inglés en la región sur central de Pensilvania, Amalia Robinson

Submissions from 2020

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Sustainable Community in Literature and Lancaster County: Finding a Way Forward on Small Farms, Christine Bye

Submissions from 2019

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The Stars in the Tunnel, Marianna Cava

Submissions from 2018

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Nuestros países inventados: Las narrativas nacionales en la obra de Isabel Allende, Hannah Eckstrom

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Till Human Voices Wake Us, Alicia Fleming

Submissions from 2017

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From Edenville: Essays, Abigail Koontz

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Splitting the Avocado: Short Fiction on Themes of Power, Gender, and the Hope of Change, Abigail McBride

Submissions from 2016

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The Hegemonic Construction of the Modern Fairytale: Wonderland, Oz, and Enchanting Ideologies of Lost Little Girls, Karin Holvik

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Down or Be Drowned: Gender Constructions in The Mill on the Floss, Elena Patton

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Father Face in the Dark, Dallas Saylor

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“Call Your Brothers Magnificent, Call All the Sisters Queens”: Kendrick Lamar and the West African Griot Tradition, Jonathan Barry Wolf

Submissions from 2015

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From Pacifist to Patriot: The Manipulation of Tolstoy’s Legacy in Russian Culture and Society, Rachel Bauman

Submissions from 2010

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The Novels of Wendell Berry and Cormac McCarthy: Persons Attempting to Find a Motive in these Narratives will be Prosecuted, Ray Yaegle

Submissions from 2009

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Uncensored Grief: Suffering in George Herbert's Temple, Karen Garven

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From Memory to Meaning, Brittany Lodge

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Nesting in Text: A Poetry Collection, Rachel McGahey

Submissions from 2008

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The Best We Were, Andrew Heil

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Ascend: An Epic Poem in Forty Days, Daniel Wheatley

Submissions from 2007

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La condicion politica de la comunidad latina en los Estados Unidos, Jordan Brensinger

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On the dust of its husk: Evidence for an alternative Shadean theory in Pale Fire, Tiffany DeRewal

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But the Flesh Is: A Collection of Essays, Julia Sanders

Submissions from 2006

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"Disposed To Be Communicative": Conversations about Literacy Among Four Texts, Danina Garcia

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The Gothic Tower: How the Genre has Lent Itself to Depictions of Evil throughout the 18th, 19th, and 20th Centuries, Kristine N. Harvey

Submissions from 2004

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Putting Us In Our Place: An Ecological Literary Reading of Barbara Kingsolver, Janel Atlas

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Self in Struggle: Levels of Resistance in Nonwestern Autobiography, Christina Moyer

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Seeking the white rabbit: The ethical and religious journey of Rabbit Angstrom, Amy Raj

Submissions from 2003

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Shades of Dresden: Kurt Vonnegut and the Artist's Responsibility in Responding to and Representing War, Marissa S. Brown

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"As if language had surrendered": Transcending Speech in the Plays of Brian Friel, Debbie DeGeorge

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The Threefold Journey: Development of Home, Society, and Psyche, Nathan Heller

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Chivalry and the Tournament in Chaucer's Knight's Tale; History, Subjectivity, and the Subaltern in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things, Nicholas Lauer

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Exploring Greeneland: Examining Duality in Graham Greene's Life and Works, Kristin Masters

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Rigorously Unrevised, Unapologetically Uncensored: An Experiment in Creative Nonfiction Writing, Heather Ross

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Songs of the South and the East: Disney and (Consumer) Culture (or, "Everybody Has a Laughing Place [and wherever it is, Disney owns it]"), Alicia Watkins

Submissions from 2002

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Invitation to Deixis: Bilingualism, Identity and the Reader in Latina Literature, Tana Liu

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Women of the Bible: Nearly Nameless--Never Forgotten, Noreen M. Livoti

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[Writings], Lisa Rieck

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The Search for Salman Rushdie: Migration and Identity in "The Satanic Verses", Victor James Sensenig

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Piecing Together Tom, Sarah Cathleen Smith

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Filling in the Blanks: Juxtaposition in Creative Writing, Carl Yost

Submissions from 2001

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'Use Desdemona Well': Orson Welles's and Oliver Parker's Filmic Interpretations of Shakespeare's Othello, Kimi Cunningham

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Dante's Virgils, Victor James Sensenig

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Promising Regeneration: Religious Symbolism in Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment", Sarah Cathleen Smith