The literary critic Keith Fort claimed that academic essays requiring a thesis that must be proved ultimately limit what students can write about, since “the only ideas that are acceptable are ...

Every Creative Writing and Literature major in U-M’s Residential College has the option to write a thesis over the course of their senior year, working with a faculty advisor to produce a polished ...

Plath’s thesis begins its influence on The Bell Jar’s first page, an opening that revises Dostoyevsky’s. Esther Greenwood, the novel’s protagonist, recalls New York City in the morning.

Literary scholar Ally Louks poses with a bound copy of her Cambridge thesis on the politics of smell. Louks, 26, shared the photo of her achievement on social media in November, drawing both ...