Honors Theses from 2024
THE TOWER’S LONG SHADOW: THE ROLE OF THE TRANSLATOR PROTAGONIST IN ANN PATCHETT’S BEL CANTO AND R.F. KUANG’S BABEL, Amberle Heuiser
Honors Theses from 2023
A Short History of a Small Prep School, Elizabeth Motes
The Bard and the Myth of Universality: Decentering Shakespeare in Asian American Appropriations, Sarah Pita
Honors Theses from 2022
How to Do Things with Magic: Yeat's Incantatory Performatives, Zoe E. Grout
The Fire of Love: Medieval Mysticism and the Role of Women in Religion and the Production of Texts, Claire Siewert
Honors Theses from 2021
Woolf’s Antigone: Modeling Antifascist Feminism Through a Tragic Lens, Hannah Kyle Friedrich
Shakespeare, Universality, and High-Profile Legal Proceedings: The Case of Othello and O.J. Simpson, Elena Nusloch
Honors Theses from 2020
“And By Drawing, She Will Find It Again,”: Identity & Memory in Contemporary Third- and Fourth-Generation Holocaust Graphic Memoir, Emily Josephine Bourgeois
Making Kin with Kudzu, Abigail Davidovna Bowen
What We Ought to Say: An Appropriation of King Lear, Theresa Ho
Barbary: Creating Theater to Give a Voice and a Name to Black Women in Shakepeare and Beyond, Lindsay Jasmine Morgan
Tenues Grandia: Lyric Performance in Horace and Marvell, Tiffany Diem-Suong Nguyen
Honors Theses from 2019
you tried to explain something to me, Brian Holmes
Honors Theses from 2018
Indivisible, Julia Camp
Honors Theses from 2017
Cancer as Metaphor: The Metaphorical Implications of Romanticized Illness in Young Adult Fiction, Bridget Bey
Homeward Bound: Wordsworth, Shelley, and the Long Search for Home, Samantha Heffner
Stepping out of the Shadows: Second Generation Holocaust Representation, Olivia Erin Mill
Honors Theses from 2016
“King? Well I didn’t vote for you!”: The Necessity of Narrative Distance and Political Awareness in Arthurian Adaptation, Mallory Mazzarella
Kerouac’s Noble Savage: The Tragic Fate of the Primitive Man Trapped Within Modernity, Megan Reynolds
Flannery O'Connor's Theology of a Disabled Woman's Body, Mariah Wahl
Honors Theses from 2015
Inventing my Grandfather, Heather Bush
Honors Theses from 2014
Making Sense of Mina: Stoker's Vampirization of the Victorian Woman in Dracula, Kathryn Boyd
Two Hands, Samuel Milton Jensen
Honors Theses from 2013
To Someone Who Will Understand, Margaret Browne
Honors Theses from 2012
HEARING “SORDELLO’S STORY TOLD”: READABILITY AND NARRATIVE PROCESS IN ROBERT BROWNING’S SORDELLO, Jessica Abel
Pick A Card, Emily Allen
The Political Conscience: Paradise Lost, Political Allegory, and the Origins of Stanley Fish’s “Interpretive Communities”, Zachary D. Sharp
Honors Theses from 2011
I Know I Haven’t Said a Thing, Layla Benitez-James
A Stillness Has Come, Nana Ama Buckman
Delicate Maps, Ashley Gabbert
Honors Theses from 2010
What Humans Sound Like, Lauren Browning
Mythology Redefined: A Creative Thesis, Tracy Carlin
A Tent for the Sun, David McFarlane
The Management of Hope, Brianna Young
Honors Theses from 2008
The Pantanal, Eleanor Frisch
Rhyme or Reason?: Successfully Translating the Poetry of Paul Celan, Jeanna Goodrich
Where Have the Men Called Heaven Gone?, Analicia Sotelo
Stephen King’s The Dark Tower and the Postmodern Serial, Jessica Waller
Honors Theses from 2006
Unearthing Revolution: the Awakening of Man Unknown to Himself in Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly, Halvorson J. Nathaniel
The Institution of the American Poet Laureate: Mark Strand and the Laureateship's Indication of Poetic Voice, Alexandra Seifert