Honors Theses from 2023
Indigenous Storytelling as Decolonial Praxis, Ceremony and at Colby, Georgia Goodman
Honors Theses from 2022
Honors Theses from 2021
Beyond Realism: Reading the Ongoing Wounds of Enslavement in Beloved and Kindred, Stephanie Fawell
Bitter Waters: And Other Stories, Sydney R. Koeplin
Honors Theses from 2020
"They Shall be a Kosmos:" Alexander Von Humboldt and the Ecopoetics of Walt Whitman, Benjamin Theyerl
Where virtue goes: Stories, Radhika Vu Thanh Vy
Honors Theses from 2018
African-American Poetry, Music, and Politics, Tyler H. Macdonald
Honors Theses from 2016
There and Back Again: The Enchanted Otherworlds of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Sir Orfeo Prefiguring the Structure of Disenchantment, Andrew D. Finn
Alexander the Great Cultural Chameleon: Changing Character & Purpose Over Time, Eva Neczypor
Honors Theses from 2015
Beer Stein Poem, True Poem, Sick Poem, Erotic Poem, and Other Poems, Margaret Bower
The Destabilization of Hierarchy: Counter-hegemonic Attitudes in Works by Herman Melville, Morgan C. Gallagher
Along the Cliffs of Bray, Elizabeth J. Woodbury
Honors Theses from 2014
Illusion of Control: The Struggle for History and Humanity, Samantha R. Nystrom
The Social Media Tango, Anne E. Papadellis Ms.
Failures of Chivalry and Love in Chretien de Troyes, Adele Priestley
Honors Theses from 2013
The Value of Truth: The Elijah Parish Lovejoy Story and an Examination of the Idea of “Truth” in Journalism, Eliza R. Larson
From the Slums of Shaolin to the Bard of Avon: The Homosocial Bond in Shakespeare and Hip Hop, Camilla Ostrow
Gender, Nature, and the Fairytale Structure in Robin McKinley's Works, Molly Rogers
Honors Theses from 2012
In Favor of Riding Bikes and other poems, Jenny Chen
Virginia Woolf and the Language of the Mind, Angelica D'Aiello
Knocking from the Inside: Poems, Elise DeSimone
Like a Fish in Dark Water, Lucy Dotson
A Violent Language: An Exploration of Gender, Class, and the Possibility of Narrative Transcendence, Veronica Foster
After the Rush and other poems, Rachel Goff
The Foundling, Jenna Gundersen
Island Voices, Sarah Hirsch
Revisions of Day, Matthieu Nadeau
Swim Swam Swum, Grant Patch
Damaged Pieces, Lindsay Putnam
'The saddest word[s] of all': Quentin Compson's Derridean Obsession with a Great Southern Babel of Myth, Time, & Language in a Selection of William Faulkner's Fiction, Dashiell Wasserman
MILLENNIALS: A Collection of Short Stories, Aliya Weiss
Clamor and other poems, Winsor Wesson
Life in Color, Lucy Wilhelms
Mediums Change, Fears Stay the Same, Lucy Wilhelms
Let Them Eat Cake, Courtney Yeager
Honors Theses from 2011
Lawns and Backyards, Darcy K. Bullock
The Director as God: Pedro Almodóvar's Quest for Ultimate Control in Relation to his Representations of Spanish Women, Elizabeth A. L. Fort
Unpacking the Past: Collection and Recollection in Virginia Woolf and Walter Benjamin, Duncan H. Hardock
Who Shall Trace the Void?’ The Marginalization of the Modern City in Lord Byron and the Shelleys’ Authoritative Representations of Rome, Elizabeth A. Hathaway
The Biased White Reader: Reading, Revisiting, and Revising Racial Identity through Mark Twain’s Pudd’nhead Wilson and Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Catherine W. Hawkins
’Is Blooming Budding Withering?’: A Study of Samuel Beckett’s Extension into the Poetics of James Joyce, Kevin Lucas
The Tubercular Prostitute: Contaminating the Consumptive Courtesan in La Dame Aux Camellias, Katherine W. Muto
Stasis Past Living and other poems, Nicole Ziemlak
Honors Theses from 2010
Shakespeare and Homoeroticism: A Study of Cross-dressing, Society, and Film, Leigh Bullion
Shakespeare and Homoeroticism: A Study of Cross-dressing, Society, and Film, Leigh Bullion
Hiding, Jean M. Burnet
Beneath the dark and equivocal and symbolical archways of midnight:' An Exploration of Twilight as a Narrative Device in Three Faulkner Novels, Alison B. Madison Davis
When You are Gone, and Reason Gone with You': The Rhetoric of Love and Gender in John Donne’s Songs and Sonnets, Francesca R. Gentile
Fast: The Stories of a Team, Katrina J. Gravel
Right On Poole, Dana L. Himmelstein
Stopgap: Short Stories, Eric T. McDowell
Realistic Fantasy: A Study of the Effects of the Women's Movement on Harlequin American Romance Novels, Samantha G. Smith
Honors Theses from 2009
Janeiteism: An Exploration of the Pleasures of Jane Austen in Contemporary Popular Culture, Cynthia C. Anderson-Bauer
Family Plots, Michael P. Barrett
Places that Slip, Elly K. Bookman
Calamities: A Quintet of Short Stories, Kat R. Brzozowski
Black Lung Trust, John P. Campbell
Carnivores and Other Consumers: A Quartet of Short Stories, Elana Cogliano
Beneath the Surface: The Struggle to Accommodate the Complexity of Personal Experience in Postmodern Art and Poetry, Charlotte K. Cutter
Four Stories, Tucker L. Hancock
Jane Austen's Emma and the Progressive Plot: The Cloak of Virtue in the Marketplace, Emily L. Hansen
The Trouble with Treacle: Social Class and Wordplay in Lewis Carroll's Alice Books, Katja E. Jylkka
Emerge in Costume and Smash, Peter J. Kirn
Bird of Paradise, Brianna N. Kondrat
Romantic Representations: The intercultural translation of body and commodity in Orientalist discourse, Ellen J. London
The Blue Hour, Elizabeth K. O'Neill
Shedding Spectatorship: An Examination of Immersion in Experience in the Travel and Art Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop, Lauren M. Pongan
The Realization of Eisenstein's Excitation Factor: Grierson, Wiseman, and the Vietnam Documentaries of the 1960s and 1970s, Victoria A. Starr
Negotiating Gender and Lyric Tradition in Two Nineteenth Century Cultures, Po Yin Wong
Emily Dickinson and Wu Zao: Negotiating Gender and Lyric Traditionin Two Nineteenth-Century Cultures, Po Yin Wong
Honors Theses from 2008
A collection of short stories titled: 'Our Pompeii', Elizabeth O. Clark
William Blake’s Transatlantic Vision of Power and Agency, Charles H. Eichacker
Rhythm in This Life: A Collection of Poetry, Maya E. Klauber
Louisa May Alcott and the Little Woman, Allison S. Michalski
Moral Philosophy in 20th Century Legal Dramas, Emily M. Parker
Representations of Grief in Akhmatova’s Requiem and Pushkin’s the Bronze Horseman, Hillary R. Smith
Stranger in a Strange Land: The struggle for cultural and personal identity in Haruki Murakami's Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Laura E. Smith
Poisonous Books and Corrupting Influences: Walter Pater and Oscar Wilde, Jessie C. Tang
Riley’s Story, Juliana N. Wilson
Honors Theses from 2007
Agent of Change: Trickster in Ojibwa Oral Narratives and in the Works of Louise Erdrich, Patrick B. Benton
Antarctica – Poems by Jessica Bernhard, Jessica Bernhard
Carry the Fire or the Sunset Limited: Determinism and the Illusion of Free Will in the Works of Cormac McCarthy, Peter Carty
Home: A Collection of Short Stories, Allison E. Cole
“Nothing that is so, is so”: Indeterminate Language in Shakespeare, Matthew K. Crane
The Destablilization of Gender & Religious Identity in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, Megan Deeley
Messy Love: Collection of Short Stories, Mindy Favreau
What Changes a Person – A Collection of Short Stories, Mindy Favreau
Apple and The Tree: Shakespeare’s Use of Father-child Relationships in Character Construction, Elizabeth Finn
Women Making Progress?: a Study of Wide Sargasso Sea as a Response to Jane Eyre, Kaitlin M. Gangl
Was Austen a Pro-Feminist? Education In Austen’s Novels, Anna Gillespie
Cold and Silver – A Novella, Kyle Haskett
Religion and Renunciation in Wordsworth: the Progression of Natural Individualism to Christian Stoicism, Geoffrey L. Meldahl
Fun World – Pilot' A Television Screenplay, Drew Moreland
The Politics of the Spoken Word in African American Poetry and the Vernacular Tradition, Charlie Patton