The English Department offers three options for the Master of Arts degree:
Our graduate students are strongly supported both in their academic studies and professional development, as evidenced by their conference presentations, grant awards, and publications (see Student News & Notes ). They also support each other academically and personally through workshops, poetry readings, and other social events sponsored by the English Graduate Student Association (EGSA).
Our alumni teach in private and public secondary schools, colleges, universities, and English language institutes (in the U.S. and abroad), work in publishing, creative writing, the non-profit sector, and private industry. M.A. graduates have also been accepted to many outstanding Ph.D. and MFA programs, including Texas A & M, Florida State University, University of Houston, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, University of Louisiana-Lafayette, Southern Illinois University, University of Rhode Island, Carnegie Mellon University, University of New Hampshire, University of Idaho, and Marquette University.
This collection features theses from Master of Arts students in the Department of English Graduate Programs at Central Washington University.
Theses from 2023
Transformation and Embodiment: Posthumanism in Marie Darrieussecq's Pig Tales and Larissa Lai's Salt Fish Girl, Samantha Ludlow
Theses from 2022
Breaking Free: Detectives Let the Guilty Walk, Cassandra Holcombe
Theses from 2021
Women and World War One: Perspectives on Women's Role in WWI Literature, Rachel Michelle Brown
Theses from 2017
The Emergence of the Feminist Fatale in American Film Noir, Anne Dennon
Gender Revolution of the Jazz Age: The Source of Disillusionment in the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, Mary Killeen
Metaphysics of Mania: Edgar Allan Poe's and Herman Melville's Rebranding of Madness during the American Asylum Movement, Alexis Renfro
Charles Dickens in Cinema and the Loss of His Message, Elliot Staatz
Theses from 2016
Illustrations of Nepantleras: Bridge Making Potential in Ana Castillo's So Far From God and The Guardians, Amanda Patrick
Satire and Synthesis: Parody and Satire of Victorian Education in the Works of Lewis Carroll, Cameron D. Sedlacek
Theses from 2015
Moving Foward?: Problematic Ideologies in Twenty-First Century Fairy Tale Films, Alyson Kilmer
Dystopian Cinderellas: "I Follow Him into the Dark", Courtney Lear
Play and Procedural Rhetoric in Composition Coursework: A Rhetorical Analysis of Trivial Pursuit Instructions, Peter Rampa
Theses from 2008
REPOSSESSING IDENTITY: THE WORK OF RITA ANN HIGGINS, Jeanine Alene Bator
Theses from 1972
CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT IN REPRESENTATIVE VICTORIAN NOVELS, George T. Mitchell
Theses from 1971
Mark Twain's Study of the Effects of Slavery and its Relationship to Training, Sharon Faye Nielson
Theses from 1970
The Church in the Dramas of T. S. Eliot, Rebecca Ellen Dunn
Prolegomenon to a Neo-Kantian Student Heuristic, John W. Nageley III
Theses from 1969
Towards a Theory of Metaphor, Lee A. Farr
The Structure of Double Plots in Elizabethan Drama, Nettie J. Olson
Theses from 1968
Rhetorical Model: An Aid for Clarifying Literary Terms and for Teaching Literature, Paul R. Allen
E.M. Forster’s Short Stories, Joan Meredith Kerns