Honors Theses from 2024
To Be Still: Poetry Portfolio, Leo Balaban
The Powerful Union of Emily Dickinson and Aaron Copland: Creation of Musical Silence through Transcendent Negation, Jessica Byers
Good Girls Don't, Tess Fresco
Other Bodies and Their Other Worlds: Reimagining the Victorian Femme Fatale, Tess LaMontagne Gordon
The Illuminating Power of Christmas: Stories of Community, Chloe Hanrahan
The World Ends One Last Time, Winter Qiu
Open Letters & Impersonal Forms: Diaries, Letters, and Self-Disclosure in Rilke’s Prose, Abigail Svetlik
The Collective, Skye Thomson
Honors Theses from 2023
Mooncussers, Tait Brencher
Trapped in Time: Examining the Academy's Temporal Confines in the Works of James Joyce and Sally Rooney, Alice Condry-Power
Gendered Submission and the Poetics of Privacy: Devotional and Domestic Poetry of the 17th and 20th Centuries, Aoife Keefe
Ugly Feet, OCD, and Other Intimations of Resistance, Aymon E. Langlois
An Exhibit to the Impossible: Finding Oneself Through Wonderland’s Agential Objects, Fiona Promisel
The Secret Life of a Black Aspie: A New Form of Slave Narrative, Justin Rizzi
The Last Puritans: Confessional Poetics in the New England Gothic, Emma Stratman
Honors Theses from 2022
Relandscaping Eden: Northern European Topography as Theology in Auden’s Poems, Merrill Brouder
No Canon We Die Like Men: The Oppositional Power of Fanon on Different Social Media Platforms, Jamie Eason
The Faustian Deal: What is Good and Evil?, Jaclyn Elmquist
Iliadic Voicings, Maggie Guarino-Trier
Looking Butch Through the Years: Intergenerationality and Gazing in Lesbian Literature and Photography, Miriam Harrow
Wilderness Is Not a Safe Space: How Nature Has Been Used as a Form of Oppression Towards Black People Throughout American History, Dorothy Irrera
The Laurels, Emma MacKinnon
All The Better To See You: An Analysis of the Fairy Tales by Angela Carter, Jack Olson
Disorientation of Memory: Trauma, the 9/11 Novel, and Don DeLillo’s Falling Man, Julia Walsh
Honors Theses from 2021
Simulating America: Ludocapitalism of the 1990s in Wall Street Kid and Animal Crossing, Emily C. Byrne
Fall in Love, Jamie Caron
"A Kindler, Gentler Time": How Pleasantville and The Truman Show "Fix" the 1950s Suburban Ideal, Sophie Cohen
Blood-Ties and Misfortune, Justin Frasier
Finding Tomahna: Myst as 1990s Time Capsule and Community, Maxx Hirsch
Twistin’ the Night Away: Perverted Nostalgia in How I Learned to Drive, Coco McNeil
Verity, Olivia Sun
Men Will Be Boys: Regressive Nostalgia in The Virgin Suicides, Gabrielle Vuillaume
Honors Theses from 2020
A Social Change-Maker and a Dreamer: Olive Schreiner’s Figures for an Ideal Future, Jessica Ampel
Local, Jane Barnes
The Other Eve: How Reading Lilith Reveals the Maternal Gothic, Emma Berkowitz
Dirty London: How Victorian Filth Formed the Urban Detective, Hannah Curtis
Blue Harbor (A Linked Story Collection), Sam Florsheim
"Wake up in Moloch:" Modernity, "Howl," and the Beats' Spiritual Quest, Felix Freeland
Embodying Everyman: Allegory in Medieval and Contemporary Performance, Cara Geser
Carpenters: A Short Story Collection, Grace Keir
"You Your Best Thing”: The Anti-Colonial Power of the Mind in Black and Chicanx American Literature, Grace Keir
Repressing Deviance: The Discourse of Sexuality in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and The Portrait of Dorian Gray, Olivia Blake Mendlinger
Origin of Doubts: The Victorian Quest for Proof and Radical Manifestations of Spirit, Holly O'Byrne
A Ray of Moonlight Falls: Casting Light on Oscar Wilde's Dissident Decadence, Hannah Rose Sacks
Within a Farewell, Elsa Schollmaier
Adapting to Adaptation: Turning YA Literature into Television, Adam Weinreb
The Philosophy of Environmental Revolution: Walden, the Unabomber, and Finding Existential Purpose in Nature, Seth Westerman
Honors Theses from 2019
The Presence of Disability in Horror Films: Ableism and Counter Discursivity, Samantha Bluth
The Blonde Welfare Queen and The Teen Maneater: Antifeminist Backlash in Citizen Ruth and Election, Kallan Dana
Pink Elephant, Aimee Hall
Severed Soul: Disenchantment and the Evolution of the American Novel, Lauren Jaeger
Mantis, Olivia Lipkin
The Professional Disabled Dancer and the Cripping of Western Concert Dance, Kailey McLaughlin
The Queering of Family Values in Angels in America, Megan Muratore
Utilizing Fear: A Paranoiac's Approach to Dismantling a Capitalist Foundation, Jung Won Park
Stay in Motion, Rebecca Sohn
Weird Internet Aesthetics: Are Lo-Fi Media Inherently Revolutionary?, Brendan Wright
Honors Theses from 2018
The Power of Submissiveness in Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom, Jessica Aoyagi
Lost Cause Memoirs, Connor Batsimm
Thin Places, Mary Cook
Essential Narrative Structure of Medieval Romance and Video Games, Benjamin Eskin Shapson
Fatally Masculine Gender Performativity: The Overreacher’s Gendered Downfall Across Marlowe’s Tamburlaine I and II, Anna Garfinkel
The Eternal Tension: An Exploration of the Relationship between Textual and Performative Forms in Regards to Doctor Faustus, Katie Jacobsen
“A Pool of Red and Undulating Light”: Supernaturalism and Trauma in Morrison’s Novels, Rachel Karp
FARM TO TABLE, Eliza Mittelstead
More Severe than Scripture, Kellina Moore
Navigating the In-Between: Cultural Uneasiness and Hybridity in Native American Captivity Narratives, Laura Pierson
The Forgotten Women of Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and Song of Solomon, Rachel Rest
“Influence of Locality” in Dickens, Austen, and Hardy: Placing Nineteenth-Century British Literature, Jessica Shapiro
The “Fatal Labyrinth” of Doubt and Disbelief: Refractions of Politic Religion in Dr. Faustus and The Jew of Malta, Eve Stewart
“Yes We Did”: Barack Obama, Narrating Change, and Redefining America, Allison Trunkey
Race, Form, and Tamburlaine, Benjamin Tuck
Mother Memory: The Maternal Figure and Memory in Song of Solomon and Beloved, Hannah Zinker
Honors Theses from 2017
The Soul of Faustus: Through Blood and Body, Louise Athens
Undoing Their Masks: An Exposé of Elite Male Power Dynamics in 'Fin de Siècle' Sexuality, Eliza Burr
English Through the Emigrant’s “I”: Lost in Translation by Eva Hoffman & Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje, Claire Foster
Notes on the Pharmakon, Samuel Graboys
Made Lovely by Sorrow, Devin McDonough
Bodies and Money: Mapping Homosexual Interactions in Late-Victorian London, Emily Robinson
For Those Who Have Kept the Childlike Faculties of Wonder and Joy: Oscar Wilde's Intervention Within the Fairy Tale Tradition, Adriana Snow
Connection, Chance, and the Cosmos in Ulysses, Kaitlyn Spina