Brainstorming some interesting Master's Thesis topic ideas
Thankfully the library administration was able to figure out a way give me a full-time position again (which officially begins today) so I should be able to get free tuition at my university if I decide to work on another master's degree. I already have a master's in library science and my undergrad majors were history and French, but literature would interest me the most now or maybe popular culture studies, but I'm pretty sure my university doesn't have that.

So I was thinking about possible subjects for my master's thesis if I do work on literature. I hope to take some creative writing classes for my degree so maybe I could finagle my way into doing a fiction project for my thesis. But all my fiction ideas these days are fanfictional so I don't know how that would play with my adviser. Or I could do a non-fiction piece on some aspect of fanfiction, probably in relation to science fiction. Another idea I've kicked around for awhile is a study of the military and war experiences of SF authors like David Drake, Joe Haldeman, Jerry Pournelle and John Ringo and how it affects their writing. Maybe I could compare them to "mainstream" literature vets like Tim O'Brien. Or perhaps I could do something about how the political views of certain SF authors (Orson Scott Card, Pournelle, Ringo, Larry Niven etc) do or don't affect their fiction.

I probably won't start working on my degree for at least a year (I have to take care of the admissions stuff and probably study for and take the GRE again) but I wanted to write this down so I could come back to it when its time to actually chose a topic. What are your thoughts on this and do you have any stuff you personally would like to do a thesis on or see someone do a thesis about?