Honors Theses from 2007
Saturday Night Random, Elizabeth Stovall
An Epistolary Heritage: An Examination of the Influence of Clarissa, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and Julie on Lady Caroline Lamb’s Glenarvon, Delwyn Webster
Confronting Convention: Ideologies of Gender & Marriage in the Works of Edith Wharton, Naomi Wilson
Dialectics of Diaspora Space: a Study of Contemporary, Diasporic, South Asian Fiction, Christopher A. Zajchowski
Honors Theses from 2006
Awakenings: A Collection of Short Fiction and Memoir, Emily Allen
League of their own: the competition for Jewish-American identity in the novels of Philip Roth, Rebeccah Amendola
The Virtues of Impurity: Exploring Repulsion in the Works of Samuel Beckett, Marissa Chin
Northern Door, Emilie Coulson
Carrying Emptiness: the Ecology and Zen Buddhism of Gary Snyder’s Poetry, Erica Dorpalen
Some Big Tragedy, Travis Downs
Modernist Success in a Postmodern Failure: Jackson Pollock and Abstract Expressionism, the Avant-Garde and the Ascension of Late Capitalism, Art after 1945, Russell Gullette
Land, Consciousness and Continuance: The Poetry of Simon J. Ortiz and Joy Harjo, Ashley Jones-Pierce
The Tastes of a Nation: M.F.K. fisher and the Genre of Culinary Literature, Melina Markos
A Journey Through Memory and Self in the Works of Edwidge Danticat and Julia Alvarez, Kara McCabe
The travel imagination and the hybrid reality in the wake of colonialism, James McLaughlin
The Case of Raging Bull: Homophobia and the Masculine Cinema of Martin Scorsese, Michael O’Brien
Beautiful Reckonings: Thought, Pain, and Complexity in John Keats’s Letters and Poetry, Erin Rhoda
Let Us Now Praise Famous Women, Erin Rhoda
Infinite Jest’s Spectacular Resistance: Subversion and Hope in a Pluralizing Entertainment Culture, Samuel Stark
Politics and Poetry: The Evolution of Adrienne Rich, Eleanor Thermansen
Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, Liz Wyckoff
Honors Theses from 2005
The Use and Characterization of Rivers in Modern Literature, Jessica Beetz
Speechless, Caitlin Dennehy
Sew and Tell: Making Rebozos, Stories and Thinking about Sandra Cisneros’ Caramelo, Melissa Hernandez
Finding Family Trees: Barbara Kingsolver’s Creation of An Ecological Community, Melissa Hinkle
How Unpleasant It is to be Locked Out' Gender, Value and The Canon, A Reception Study of Three Modernist Women Writers, Elizabeth Johnson
On Messalonskee Lake, Michael King
Quite Off the Beaten Track: The Emergency of Sentimental Travel Writing and Its Influence on Anglo-American Society, Daniel Lynch
The Extraordinary Ordinary West: Humanity and Realism in McMurty’s Old West Narratives, Ann MacDonald
So I Guess You Know What I’m Thinking: A Collection of Short Stories, Mary Medlin
Beyond the Ordinary: The Consoling Power of Fantasy Literature in War, Todd Moore
Timing is Everything, Gillian Nadel
Maternal and Cultural Influences on Individual Identity: The Novels of Toni Morrison and William Faulkner, Rebecca Nisetich
Witchcraft, Madness, and Misogyny: A Macbeth Production, Catherine Pappas
Murder She Wrote, Setting She Did Not: The Creation of Mise-en-Scene in the Film Adaptations of Christie’s Poirot, Nathan Quigley
Precarious Properties: Constructions of Body and Soul in John Donne and Emily Dickinson, Rachel Ritchie
Repetition and Revision: Mythology in the Novels of Toni Morrison and William Faulkner, Toni-Lynn Robbins
Education for the Oppressed: An Examination of the Effects of Literacy on Minority Groups in America, Rachel Sheinbaum
Exploring the World of Hollywood Through Literature, Lauren Smith
Honors Theses from 2004
Reinforcement of Patriarchal Society Through Film: An Examination of the Mother-Daughter Relationship in Literature and Film, Rebecca Avrutin
Hidden Remains: Freud, The Unconscious, and the Irrational in Contemporary American Poetry, Jared Berezin
The Evolution of Language: Rock-Talk to Earth-Talk, Kristin Flanders
Breakdancing on Thin Ice, Sarah Getchell
The Noble Savage in Jean Jacques Rousseau and Three Successors, Chelsie Gosk
The Musical Idiom: an Exploration of the Language of Music in African American Literature, Laurel Haeusslein
High Art: Expedition Literature, Erick Lambert
Searching for the Rules: A Study of John Updike’s Harry Angstrom in Rabbit, Run and the Rabbit Tetralogy, Andrew Lizotte
Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke, Lilla Lund
The Aesthetics of Adaptation: Plain Jane Goes to the Movies, Emma McCandless
Writing on the River: Kayak Stories, Henry Munter
Nikki (a screenplay), Amanda Stanke
Honors Theses from 2003
The Tender Desire of Ownership: The Function and Construction of Masculinity in Owen Wister’s The Virginian, Jayant Alter
Screenplay: When It All Comes Down, Anna Capezzera
Unwilling to Explain: Deceptiveness in Robert Frost, Jamie Cowan
To Cheer or Jeer: The American Indian Mascot Dilemma, Jonathan Eck
Appearing Proper: The Woman’s Dilemma in Fanny Burney Evelina and Jane Austen’s Novels, Katrina Fletcher
A Poster, A Surfer, and E-text: Reconciling the newest roles in literary communication, Erin Hanrahan
The Bildungstroman: An Examination of Narratives of Female Development, Megan Hoar
Portraits of Poshlust in Nabakov’s Lolita and Gogol’s Dead Souls, Dennis Kuhnel
The Surface Tension of Water, Neil Reynolds
Small Castles, Christiana Salah
On the Edge of the Shadow: Searching for Evil in a Cross Cultural Comparison Of Native American and Scandinavian Trickster Figures, Justin Stempeck
Christine De Pizan and (Re)-Visionary Narratives: Writing Women in Fifteenth-Century France, Laura Thomason
The White-Picket Divide Between Self and Society: Analyzing the Contradictory Ideology of the American Dream, Kira Vassar
Negotiating Womanhood: Nineteenth-Century American Woman Writers and Constructions of Femininity, Kathleen Zimmerman
Honors Theses from 2002
Open to Detection:' Dickens’ Bleak House and the Compromise for Social Candor, Todd Bergstrom
The Angel in the Devil’s Mirror: Victorian Paintings and the Poetry of Tennyson’s The Lady of Shalott, Noah Londer Charney
Wordsworth’s Bioregional Imagination: How Location and Dislocation Contribute to the Poetic Expression of Ecological Values, Jennifer Dakin
Devilish Icons: Dante’s Christian Depiction of Classical Antiquity in the Inferno, Alexis Detwiler
A Gaze Redirected and a World Redefined: The Power of Black Female Artists to Revise their Images in Literature and Film, Katherine Dunn
Watching Fish Swim, Erin Gardner
The high, pale cast of light': Talking, Touching, and Trauma in Raymond Carver’s Cathedral, Nick Gaubinger
The Price of Bread and other Stories, Eleanor Jackson
Life Scars. Art Scars. A Collection of Sonnets, Jaime Muehl
Chekhov and Carver: Defining Masculinity, David Prinstein
Knowing God and Nature: A Thesis on The Writing of Annie Dillard and Wendell Berry, David Seel III
Frontiers of Spirit, Frontiers of Land: Investigating Representations of and by Pioneer Women, Katherine St. Germaine
Misogynists, Madwomen, and Mistresses: Relocating D.H. Lawrence in the Women’s Literary Tradition, Ericka Thoreson
Nightmares at Noonday': Hemingway, Bullfights, and Healing the Wound, Eric Washer
The Effect of Childhood Trauma on Contemorary American Poets, Katherine Wentzell
Honors Theses from 2001
Journey to the Source of Healing: The Nature of Healing and the Healing Nature In Two Native American Works, Melissa Alioto
From the Frontier to the ‘Rez’: The Evolving Role of Native Americans in Film, Stephen Bigelow
Inside jokes & silence, Jeff Calareso
Envisioning the ‘Present As History’: Historical Understanding and Interiority In the Works of Sir Walter Scott and George Eliot, Sarah Castille
Mansfield Park - Jane Austen’s Conservative Social Vision, Michelle Chandler
Nathaniel Hawthorne: Relics From the Primeval Past Blueprints to the Psychoanalytic Future, Cara Erdheim
US, Elizabeth Frankel
Seceding Alice, Allyson Giard
A Search for 'Life Itself': Looking Beneath the Fetish in Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse, Marybeth Maney
Tomato’s End, Jesse Randzio
Representation of Mortality in the Sonnets of Keats and Shakespeare, Rachel Rokicki
Refractory Realities: Imagination, Space, Freedom and the Writings of Wole Soyinka and Toni Morrison, Kimberly Schneider
Words About People…, Kirsten Sisk