Theses/Dissertations from 2026
Beautiful Killer, Curtis Becker
Tethering Rage, Madeline Craig
Shattered Glass, Rebekah Heintz
Balancing Act, Luci Henriksen
Breath is a Kind of Home, Shukura Z. Huggins
Lost Things, Tony Johnson
BORN AS WOMAN, Vanessa Kalil
Interrogating the Cultural Mythology of the Midwest through Fiction, Trudy Nielsen Kimble
The Magic of Empowerment: A Playwright’s Journey, Emily Klaumann
Shadow Memories and Crafting Characters, Alisa O'Neal
Urgently, Violently, Fervently: Writing Women for the Stage & Screen, Emmy Potter
Writing the Literary Fantastic, Elsa Rasmussen
Shattered Illusions, Rebecca Ringer
A Touch of Gold, Lori Vermeulen
Put Me Down, Moon Young Yang
Theses/Dissertations from 2025
Atoning Rebel, Kodzo Akoto
Writing into Fear: Facing Monsters on the Page, Allissandra Bequette
The Boy He Loved, Bryce Blair
Here's to Strong Women — May We See Them, May We Be Them: Judy & Dolly, Jo, Harriet, Lizzie, and ART, Alisha Christiansen
Apertures, Ashley DeVrieze
This is What Normal Feels Like, Elizabeth Courtney Drucker
Odd Doxology, Cheryl E. Dyer
Drawn on Women, Kiley M. Freeman
Creative Mayhem, Jack Greenwood
The Bones of the Journey and Quest for the Jeweled City, Dani Holdeman
The Mechanics of Breathing: A Memoir on Trauma and Love, Alexander M. Hollister
Absurdist Laughter and Hope: A Fat, Childless Woman's Journey of Healing, Melissa Jackson Burns
Wither and Bloom, Meg Jenkins
Who Speaks? Free Indirect Style: A Tool for Effective Fiction, Anne Osmer
Momming Is a Verb and Other Essays, Lisa Sieczkowski
No Worries, Andrew Christopher Stone
The Ralls County Line, Jude MacAllen Tatman
I Would Be a Writer, Jennifer Vaughn
Reflections of Grief: Essays of Living and Losing, Jill Veltkamp
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Finding Your Way: From Fantasy to Dystopian, Arianna Ashby
Althea and Elsie, Allison Bayne
World Building, Elijah Buckhold
The River Styx, April Renee Christensen
The Horroromedy: What I Write and Why I Write It, Lena Cigleris
Red Hot and Grounded, Rachel Kay Curtiss
Beyond the Mother Tongue: Identity and Expression in Exophonic Authors, Diane Holliday
Writing Beyond the Veil, Deidre Mattox
Superheroes Being People, Gable Meade
The Person Behind the Wheel: A Study and Application of Character Driven Stories, Caleb Narva
Finding Humor - Finding Voice, Christine R. Nessler
Surviving: Insanity, Religion, and Fandom, Aury Pilachai
Filling the Empty Page, Paula Ray
“What We Say in The Dark” and Other Essays, Faith Vawter
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Woman and Butterfly, Toni Allen
The Deep Blue of Neptune, Terry Belew
Breaking Curfew, Getting Naked and Burying Bodies with Women, Christine Burright
Johnson Carlysle: Scared, Sexy, and Sick, Vito Cole
Voyeurism Through Dialogue, Janet E. Cook
Stripped Down With A Purpose, Jeffery Cook
The Acts Of The Brethren, Jason Evans
if i live scared i won't live too long, Kisha Nicole Foster
Creative Emergence Through Observation, Empathy, and Suffering, Cid Galicia
Respect Commands Itself, Derek Kinnison
Oil City, Newbear Lesniewski
Beyond Sam Shepard: Ludicrous and Pulchritudinous, Michael Matthews
Hunger of a Lost God, Patrick O'Dell
We Were Here, Sal Ragen
My Creative Output and The Perfect Diet, Julia Michelle Sample
Last Leg, David W. Snee
The Veil: Essays on Living and Dying, Gina Marie Wagner
Scars Do the Talking, Linda Raphael Young
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Out into the Ether: Thus Spoke an Afro American, India Burton
Beyond Tennessee and Sweet Tea: A Collection A Thesis, Randall David Cook
Engaging a Scientific Mindset for Creative Processes, Kara Davidson
Isi: La Estátera, Carina Faz
Hope - Shaping Art and Engaging Audiences: A Thesis, David Mathew Graham
Golden Age, a feature screenplay, and Genre Development in the TV and Feature Space, Olivia Lilley