A selective of list of student research papers
All students in the Literature Department are required to write a senior paper or to produce a senior creative writing project.Students who choose to take a Creative Writing major are required to involve themselves in a year-long, full-length Senior Creative Writing Project. Under the direction of a creative writing faculty member the student may choose to work in the area of fiction, poetry, or drama. Ramsey Library Special Collections holds bound volumes of senior papers from 1991 and some papers are also available for online viewing, but web-publication and/or copying of bound papers is dependent on the author’s permission. Papers were not received for all years.
Papers from 2016 on are available via NC Docks
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Augspurger, Lillian — Prove It On Me ; can copy/publish
Avery, Keilah — Spirit Shout ; can copy/publish
Danzis, Kinsey — Accidental Necromancer ; can copy/publish
Maffei, Matthew — Versions of My Mother: Essays ; can copy/publish
Novicki, Samuel — Ruin ; can copy/publish
Banner, Emily — The Hourglass Hotel ; can copy/publish
Beck, Zachary — Soil Cries Out ; can copy/publish
Bond, Jonathan — Aurora Slicer ; can copy/publish
Brooks, Markia — Tiny Conclusions ; can copy/publish
Churchwell, McKinely — The Care & Keeping of Demons ; can copy/publish
Gibson, Sarah — Luce ; can copy/publish
Gray, Ryan — Twilight in York ; cannot copy/publish
Hollander, Emily — In England ; can copy/publish
Horner, Jeff — Above It All ; can copy/publish
McDonald, Kathryn — The Anti-Social Network ; can copy/publish
Overly, Wade — Some Reason in Madness ; can copy/publish
Schoenthaler, Madeleine — Ghostly Oaks ; can copy/publish
Sibley, Melissa — Of Mothers and Monsters ; can copy/publish
Sommers, Amily — Magic and Mermaids: Fairy Tales Revisited ; can copy/publish
Talbert, Jared — Hera: A Record of the End of Masculinity ; can copy/publish
Wade, Savannah — Postlapsarian ; can copy/publish
Wyche, Andrew T. — It’s Funny ; can copy/publish
Benbow, Andrew — Miniatures ; can copy/publish
Carson, Zack — Bowersville ; can copy/publish
Clark, Trevor — New Pastoral ; can copy/publish
Donovan, Bill — What We Do Is Secret ; can copy/publish
Drake, Reid — Waiting To Load ; can copy/publish
Holmes, Mel — A Beautiful Haunting: Poems Between Light and Dream ; can copy/publish
Holmes, Patricia — War, And Various Sundries ; can copy/publish
Kendrick, Ted — Journals From The River’s Edge ; can copy/publish
Killam, Abigail — Idiot’s Guide To Dragon Slaying And Child Care ; can copy/publish
Murphy, Dale Marie — Love Songs Of My Twenties ; can copy/publish
Owens, Clint — For Robert Creeley ; can copy/publish
Spaugh, Lavadia — Journey To The Interior: On Livings And Working In Asheville ; can copy/publish
Spong, Kelly — Life Of Sensations ; can copy/publish
Walton, Randal — Day Old Hate ; can copy/publish
Dangelico, Amy — Stronger than the Rockhorse ; can copy/publish
Ensley, Chelsea Nicole — Letters From Mount Mitchell ; can copy/publish
Hegwood, Zac — Girl Gamer Plays Games ; can copy/publish
Keele, Layla — These are the Words I Wanted to Say ; can copy/publish
Lewis, Hannah — Goddamn Those Scientists ; can copy/publish
McClintock, Corey Evans — New Appalachia ; can copy/publish
Scheewe, Karen — Dust ; can copy/publish
Ackley, Michael — Nothing but an Old World ; can copy/publish
Barbeau, Michelle Soenen — In a Place Where We Only Say Goodbye ; cannot copy/publish
Beaver, Kim — Vernacular ; can copy/publish
Bell, Akeem — The Smell of Smoke ; can copy/publish
Brock, Anastasia — The Bulkiness of Words ; can copy/publish
Burk, Christopher N. — Atonal Canon: nocturne – intermezzo – cadence ; can copy/publish
Danner, Kendra — A Collection of Fantasy and Science Fiction Short Stories ; can copy/publish
Epstein, Laura — At Least I’ve Got My Mom ; can copy/publish
Erwin, Caitlin — Catty, Let’s Going ; can copy/publish
Gillan, Flinn — The Thorny Thicket ; can copy/publish
Greene, Veronica — The Warmth of Many Ovens: A Collection of Free Form Poetry ; can copy/publish
Harrison, Hannah Virginia — Don’t Let Me Down ; can copy/publish
Jessup, A. J. — Falling ; cannot copy/publish
Kelly, Adam — The Case: a detective story ; can copy/publish
Lathrop, Lance — Introduction to an Interior ; can copy/publish
McCammon, Andrew — The Capitalist Manifesto ; can copy/publish
McDaniel, Joshua Oliver — Temporal Shock ; can copy/publish
Monley, Haley — On The Way to Montana ; can copy/publish
Nickerson, Jenna A. — Peaches and Penumbras ; can copy/publish
Price, Heather A. — Days Ago and Miles Away: Reconstructed Fairy Tales ; can copy/publish
Reis, Daniel — When the World Smacks you Down…Go to F****Sleep ; can copy/publish
Souther, Justin — A Postcard of the Space Needle ; can copy/publish
Williamson, Alexander — The Sad Gifts ; can copy/publish
Wolfe, Ari — Humanity for You ; can copy/publish
Darty, Anna — Bookends ; cannot copy/publish
Escalante, Miranda — Indigo Journeyman ; can copy/publish
Gagnon, Elizabeth — We Cultivate the Fog ; can copy/publish
Knowles, Joanna — Leading Girls ; can copy/publish
Mickey, Jonathan — a forty-eight year old burglar from San Diego ; can copy/publish
Oberhammer, Tierney — What They Do Versus Who They Are ; cannot copy/publish
Poole, Rachel — Bananas in the Banyan Tree ; can copy/publish
Ward, Cayce — Against His Bones ; can copy/publish
Wilson, Heather — Through the eyes of an Amazon ; can copy/publish
Andrews, Allison — Just You and Me, Baby ; can copy/publish
Claire, Eloiza — Desabafo ; can copy/publish
Cox, Benjamin — Dreams in Real Time ; can copy/publish
Crandall, Roland Kenneth — Family Matters ; cannot copy/publish
Creagh, Anna Brooks — Streets with No Names ; can copy/publish
Dicks, Aaron Wayne — Unto the Hills: Collected Stories from Burden, North Carolina ; cannot copy/publish
Gassier, Gregory Roberts — Fragments of Sappho ; can copy/publish
Goodrich, Kate — Language Lessons ; can copy/publish
Hernandez, Vicente J. — Dubious Voices ; can copy/publish
Hilbert, Jennifer — Just People ; can copy/publish
Hunnicutt, Leigh-Anne — Gently Bent ; can copy/publish
Johnson, Nyssa Mehana — Recycled Pieces ; cannot copy/publish
Marsom, Rachel — The Canvas of Skin ; can copy/publish
McElwee, Caitlin — A Tight Line of Confusion ; can copy/publish
McKinney, Allison — Saint Augustine Transfer ; can copy/publish
Merkle, Allison — The Death of the Honeymoon Fly And Other Poems ; can copy/publish
Mundy, Lyndsay — It’s Funny What I Find Funny ; can copy/publish
Parker, Kamala K. — Living the Craft ; can copy/publish
Reckenwald, Nicholas — The Grotesque Roses ; can copy/publish
Rice, Jeremy Rice — Turning Turtle and Silent Blue ; can copy/publish
Schreier, Rachel — Lessons in Sidewalk Chalk ; can copy/publish
Sneeden, Brian — The Line ; cannot copy/publish
Stephens, John — Two Hands Working ; cannot copy/publish
Stokes, Sally — Transit ; can copy/publish
Thomas, Adam — Lessons in Mediocrity ; can copy/publish
Allen, Daniel Mabry — Any Other Day ; can copy/publish
Atkins, Cyrus — 25 Lives ; can copy/publish
Berlin, Cara F. — Leah and Mercedes ; can copy/publish
Bode, Ashley A. — Travelwise ; can copy/publish
Brown, Corrie Renee — What Eyes Remember and Womb of God ; can copy/publish
Campbell, Catherine J. — The Coyote Fields – A novel in progress ; can copy/publish
Carlson, Arielle — Instructions on How to Build a Tiny Shrine ; can copy/publish
Cox, Megan Taylor — The Wilderness of Betrayal ; can copy/publish
Del Toro, Antonio — Microfictions ; can copy/publish
Elliott, Abigail L. — Pulling Out My Jewish Roots can copy/ cannot publish
Farrell, Matthew — Rock Island Line ; can copy/publish
Gardner, Levi E — The Other Side of Things ; can copy/publish
Gosnell, Russ — Finding the Will ; can copy/publish
Haddon, Charles Drew — Beyond the Door ; can copy/publish
Harkins, Caroline — Flying Fish ; can copy/publish
Logwood, Stephanie — From the Clay ; can copy/publish
Margolese-Malin, Eli — Immortal Shard – A novel in progress ; can copy/publish
Mozley, John — Sinking the Titanic ; cannot copy/publish
Murray, Tamiko — Chains in the Attic ; can copy/publish [Author’s permission required before copying or quoting]
Shamblin, Annabelle — Epitaph: Senior Thesis in Creative Writing; cannot copy/publish [Author restricts the use of this paper to the Special Collections website and reading room only. Citing is prohibited without written permission from the author]
Towle, Derek Michael — Donna ; can copy/publish
Usher, Katrina — Trouble at Home ; can copy/publish
Van Meter, Ashlee Nicole — Scatter the Ashes ; can copy/publish
Walsh, Devin — Hair and Fedora ; can copy/publish
Warren, Sara A. — The Hills of Home ; can copy/publish
Avina, Marie Noelle — Appetites and Dreams: Where Skin Turns to Scales ; can copy/publish
Barrows, Emily Elizabeth — The Smallest Affliction ; can copy/publish
Bennett, Jack — Ode to Joy ; can copy/publish
Brown, Anne Kirkpatrick — From the Inside Out ; can copy/publish
Colahan, Casy — Dinner Conversation (Our Unruly Mouths) ; can copy/publish
Cox, Katherine — Lovely Burdens ; can copy/publish
Darling, Michael — The Magellan Site ; can copy/publish
Daugherty, Allison — Formative Years ; can copy/publish
Davies, Angela M. — Talking Tummies ; can copy/publish
Duncan, Alexandra Scott — Flight ; can copy/publish
Grace, Cameron — Moments Realized in Abstraction ; can copy/publish
Gray, Chapin Rose — Calentures and Other Poems ; can copy/publish
Hecht, Deirde — Fragments of Future Novels ; can copy/publish [author stipulates that material “is not to be used in such a way that may limit or threaten the author’s own future use of the materual”]
Hennessee, Stacey Ryan – Life Rattle ; can copy/publish
Herog, Katie Ronan — Mick and I: Stories from Across the Political Divide ; can copy/publish
Jagdeo, Anushka — The Consequences of Shame ; can copy/publish
Jagdeo, Genessa — Snow ; can copy/publish
Lucman, Truly Irawaty — Hacked: Toxic and Withering ; can copy/publish
Marsh, Shad Daniel — A Season in the Burnet-Over District ; can copy/publish
Moser, Matt — Zippered Pockets ; can copy/publish
Pope, Jennifer — Birth of a Gaytion ; can copy/publish
Schindhelm, Stephanie — The Weeping Tree ; can copy/publish
Shanley, Caitlin — Who Writes Short Shorts? — ; can copy/publish
Strickland, Rachel Lindsay — The Grind: Memoirs From a Strip Club ; can copy/publish
Tray, A. W. — The Foreign Shore ; can copy/publish
Telegen, Joseph E. — The Real Corrine ; can copy/publish
Walker Matthew — For Those Left Behind ; can copy/publish
Bolado, Paula Hutchens –Inside the Shell of Sanibel ; cannot copy/publish
Brommer, Ameria — Superstitions About Human Hair ; cannot copy/publish
Bruner, Amy — Unmentionables ; cannot copy/publish
Gibson, Caryn E. — No More Letters ; cannot copy/publish
Gildersleeve, Beau Nickolas — The Nicholas Chapters ; cannot copy/publish
Guertin, Kathryn E. — Not-Quite-Fiction Non-Essays: A Mixed Genere Collection of Creative Nonfiction ; cannot copy/publish
Guthrie, Rebecca — Deviled Eggs for the Marlboro Man ; cannot copy/publish
Hale, Marguerite — A Familiar Shade of Night ; cannot copy/publish
Hecht, Deidre — Mind Wanderings and Dark Dreams ; cannot copy/publish
Lambert, Matthew — The Street Performer ; cannot copy/publish
Latter, Philip Joseph — The Precipice ; cannot copy/publish
MacWilliams, Emily — Longing is My Drug of Choice ; cannot copy/publish
Prudowsky, Mark — Breaking the Ice and Other Work Poems Mostly ; cannot copy/publish
Rhyne, Carolyn Elizabeth — Foxglove Way ; cannot copy/publish
Rinehart, Audrey Hope — An Excerpt From: The World Outside ; cannot copy/publish
Rohrbough, Jamie — The Brandywine Disease ; cannot copy/publish
Trees, Maghan E. — The Dream Snatcher’s Vice ; cannot copy/publish
Turner, Shawna — In the Kitchen With Mama ; cannot copy/publish
Chang, Leah Grace –Translating Silence ; cannot copy/publish
Lawless, Stacey Austin — Waking the Witch ; cannot copy/publish
Lee, Margaret — The Venus Flytrap ; cannot copy/publish
Sandbank, Matt — Nude Badminton and Other Poems ; cannot copy/publish
Siegwald, Kalin — Pieces of Picasso ; cannot copy/publish
Thomasson, Andrew — All That God Gave Us To Hold ; cannot copy/publish
Thompson, Shelby Lynn — The Big Iron and Other Asheville Oddities ; cannot copy/publish
Toll, Wallace Edwin — Heaven is the Silence After a Period ; cannot copy/publish
Alexander, Druann Holley — Just Load the Wagon ; cannot copy/publish
Almond, Sarah — The Shape of What Was Inside ; cannot copy/publish
Ansaldo, Christopher — Testament ; cannot copy/publish
Aiken, Connie Jones — The Buncombe Turnpike: A Series of Poems ; cannot copy/publish
Berkey, Jonah Isaac — Laughter in the Desert ; cannot copy/publish
Caresito, William — Summer Sin Forgiveness Morning ; cannot copy/publish
Cook, Rachel — For Now I Try that Awful Road ; cannot copy/publish
Corriher, Charles — Everything Balances Itself Out ; cannot copy/publish
de Mattos, Molly — Intentions ; cannot copy/publish
Fields, Alison Jesse — Burning Bridget ; cannot copy/publish
Hunter, Ethan B. — Double Spaced Anachronistic Propaganda in Times New Roman ; cannot copy/publish
Jackson, John Purroy — Fall and Morning ; cannot copy/publish
Jones, Heather L. — Where There Is Darkness ; cannot copy/publish
Lindsey, Melody — Variations on a Theme ; cannot copy/publish
McCallus, Carrie — The Voices of Legacy ; cannot copy/publish
McCausland, J.M. — The Yellow Chair ; cannot copy/publish
Slempa, Christopher Neal — The Lovely Depraved ; cannot copy/publish
Volborth, Miranda — The Other Side of Passports ; cannot copy/publish
Weeks, April Mananita — A Branch of Rowan ; cannot copy/publish
Barrett, Ann — Prime Meridian ; cannot copy/publish
Brestel, Erica Elise — This is Not a Sad Story ; cannot copy/publish
Cain, Clare Frances — Mother Bones Walking ; cannot copy/publish
Carter, Jennifer Frances — Spanish Mackerel ; cannot copy/publish
Diamond, Carol — Forks of Ivy ; cannot copy/publish
Eurey, Judy H. — Exit 117 ; cannot copy/publish
Fauble, Monica Elizabeth — Queer Body Narratives ; cannot copy/publish
Jones, Emma Laurel — Tending Ground ; cannot copy/publish
Mahaffey, David E. — Blowing Smoke ; cannot copy/publish
Phillips, Holly K. — The Savannah Stories ; cannot copy/publish
Tanseer, Chris — What We Take With Us ; cannot copy/publish
Turner, Ann — Seasoning ; cannot copy/publish
Weiss, Rhea DeRose — We Are All In Continuous Motion ; cannot copy/publish
Willows, Steven — The Fallen ; cannot copy/publish
Clifton, W. Scott — Stories of Dejection ; cannot copy/publish
McMillan, Alexis Claire — Common Thread ; cannot copy/publish
Monaco, Karen — A Sweeter Scent ; cannot copy/publish
Powell, Ethel Ann — No Lament ; cannot copy/publish
Cash, Wiley — I Just Wanted to Tell You: A Collection of Stories ; cannot copy/publish
Hall, Jason Parker — Pulse and Return ; cannot copy/publish
Stewart, Heather — Small Hands to Hold ; cannot copy/publish
Wild, Christie Lee Wright — Snow Men ; cannot copy/publish
Broadwater, James — Abraham Two Hill ; cannot copy/publish
Deckard, Angelia C — Black Bird Swing ; cannot copy/publish
Ellenburg, D.L. — Coming to Her Senses ; cannot copy/publish
Farrell, Amanda — Mystery Tramp ; cannot copy/publish
Gupton, Michael C. — On the Mouth ; cannot copy/publish
Lawrence, Arthur — The Land of the New Rising Sun ; cannot copy/publish
Lomac, Philip — Notes From Abroad ; cannot copy/publish
McClellan, Rita — Half Light ; cannot copy/publish
McGrady, Brian — I Always Watch Him ; cannot copy/publish
Morrison, Tim — 3 ; cannot copy/publish
Silver, Jane Rene — Live at the Magic Bus and Other Stories ; cannot copy/publish
Sternberg, Nathaniel — Weaving Knots in Reality ; cannot copy/publish
Harrell, Brad — A Night on Earth ; cannot copy/publish
Carpenter, Jerome — The Bank Job ; can copy/publish
Engel, Mary Ann K. — On This Rock ; cannot copy/publish
Noble, Linda — In the Silence Since ; cannot copy/publish
Dodson, Sarah — The French Speaking Sea Child ; cannot copy/publish
Joyce, Jennifer — Stone Walls ; cannot copy/publish
Lavate, Kayet — The Outer Sanctum ; cannot copy/publish
Ryan, Erin — Various Things ; cannot copy/publish
Santora, Sara — The Sahara Rose ; cannot copy/publish
Brem, E. Robinson — My Stone Mona ; cannot copy/publish
Burroughs, Amy — Crow Songs ; cannot copy/publish
Ellis, Michelle — Resurrecting Thomas ; cannot copy/publish
Hensley,Timothy — Flipper’s Dead ; cannot copy/publish
Hensley, Timothy — The Passing ; cannot copy/publish
Kimbrell, Julie H — East of the Sun, West of the Moon ; cannot copy/publish
Nowlin, Ryan — The Antelope Hide Drum ; cannot copy/publish
King, Julie Anne — Crushing Linoleum ; cannot copy/publish
Reagan, Stephanie — Strange Business ; cannot copy/publish
Reynolds, Patricia Gavin — Five Chapters in Search of a Novel ; cannot copy/publish
Cody, Michael A. — Intro ; cannot copy/publish
Earley, Danielle Cecilia — The Quest ; cannot copy/publish
Fugate, Ethan — The Fear of Italics ; cannot copy/publish
Ward, Linda — A Week in Late April ; cannot copy/publish
Zanzig, Heather — Metamorphosis ; cannot copy/publish
Stamey, Donna — Twilight Reality ; cannot copy/publish
Thorne, Wendell — Untitled ; can copy/publish
Purdee, Judith F. — The Party Line & Other Stories ; cannot copy/publish
LeMasters, Larry — Collected Short Stories ; cannot copy/publish
Shamblin, Elizabeth — Baobab ; cannot copy/publish