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Honors Theses from 2024

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To Be Still: Poetry Portfolio, Leo Balaban

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The Powerful Union of Emily Dickinson and Aaron Copland: Creation of Musical Silence through Transcendent Negation, Jessica Byers

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Good Girls Don't, Tess Fresco

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Other Bodies and Their Other Worlds: Reimagining the Victorian Femme Fatale, Tess LaMontagne Gordon

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The Illuminating Power of Christmas: Stories of Community, Chloe Hanrahan

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The World Ends One Last Time, Winter Qiu

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Open Letters & Impersonal Forms: Diaries, Letters, and Self-Disclosure in Rilke’s Prose, Abigail Svetlik

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The Collective, Skye Thomson

Honors Theses from 2023

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Mooncussers, Tait Brencher

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Trapped in Time: Examining the Academy's Temporal Confines in the Works of James Joyce and Sally Rooney, Alice Condry-Power

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Gendered Submission and the Poetics of Privacy: Devotional and Domestic Poetry of the 17th and 20th Centuries, Aoife Keefe

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Ugly Feet, OCD, and Other Intimations of Resistance, Aymon E. Langlois

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An Exhibit to the Impossible: Finding Oneself Through Wonderland’s Agential Objects, Fiona Promisel

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The Secret Life of a Black Aspie: A New Form of Slave Narrative, Justin Rizzi

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Uncovering an "Arcane" History: How R.F. Kuang Demystifies the Entanglement of Translation, Academia, and Colonialism, Kari Stein

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The Last Puritans: Confessional Poetics in the New England Gothic, Emma Stratman

Honors Theses from 2022

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Relandscaping Eden: Northern European Topography as Theology in Auden’s Poems, Merrill Brouder

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No Canon We Die Like Men: The Oppositional Power of Fanon on Different Social Media Platforms, Jamie Eason

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The Faustian Deal: What is Good and Evil?, Jaclyn Elmquist

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Iliadic Voicings, Maggie Guarino-Trier

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Looking Butch Through the Years: Intergenerationality and Gazing in Lesbian Literature and Photography, Miriam Harrow

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Wilderness Is Not a Safe Space: How Nature Has Been Used as a Form of Oppression Towards Black People Throughout American History, Dorothy Irrera

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The Laurels, Emma MacKinnon

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All The Better To See You: An Analysis of the Fairy Tales by Angela Carter, Jack Olson

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Disorientation of Memory: Trauma, the 9/11 Novel, and Don DeLillo’s Falling Man, Julia Walsh

Honors Theses from 2021

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Simulating America: Ludocapitalism of the 1990s in Wall Street Kid and Animal Crossing, Emily C. Byrne

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Fall in Love, Jamie Caron

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"A Kindler, Gentler Time": How Pleasantville and The Truman Show "Fix" the 1950s Suburban Ideal, Sophie Cohen

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Blood-Ties and Misfortune, Justin Frasier

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Finding Tomahna: Myst as 1990s Time Capsule and Community, Maxx Hirsch

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Twistin’ the Night Away: Perverted Nostalgia in How I Learned to Drive, Coco McNeil

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Verity, Olivia Sun

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Men Will Be Boys: Regressive Nostalgia in The Virgin Suicides, Gabrielle Vuillaume

Honors Theses from 2020

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A Social Change-Maker and a Dreamer: Olive Schreiner’s Figures for an Ideal Future, Jessica Ampel

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Local, Jane Barnes

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The Other Eve: How Reading Lilith Reveals the Maternal Gothic, Emma Berkowitz

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Human Monsters/Monstrous Humans: Victorian Gothic Constructions of Unnamed Monsters in Wuthering Heights and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Madeline Bonin

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Dirty London: How Victorian Filth Formed the Urban Detective, Hannah Curtis

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Blue Harbor (A Linked Story Collection), Sam Florsheim

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"Wake up in Moloch:" Modernity, "Howl," and the Beats' Spiritual Quest, Felix Freeland

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Embodying Everyman: Allegory in Medieval and Contemporary Performance, Cara Geser

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Carpenters: A Short Story Collection, Grace Keir

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"You Your Best Thing”: The Anti-Colonial Power of the Mind in Black and Chicanx American Literature, Grace Keir

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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

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Origin of Doubts: The Victorian Quest for Proof and Radical Manifestations of Spirit, Holly O'Byrne

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A Ray of Moonlight Falls: Casting Light on Oscar Wilde's Dissident Decadence, Hannah Rose Sacks

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Within a Farewell, Elsa Schollmaier

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Adapting to Adaptation: Turning YA Literature into Television, Adam Weinreb

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The Philosophy of Environmental Revolution: Walden, the Unabomber, and Finding Existential Purpose in Nature, Seth Westerman

Honors Theses from 2019

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The Presence of Disability in Horror Films: Ableism and Counter Discursivity, Samantha Bluth

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The Blonde Welfare Queen and The Teen Maneater: Antifeminist Backlash in Citizen Ruth and Election, Kallan Dana

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Pink Elephant, Aimee Hall

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Severed Soul: Disenchantment and the Evolution of the American Novel, Lauren Jaeger

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Mantis, Olivia Lipkin

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The Professional Disabled Dancer and the Cripping of Western Concert Dance, Kailey McLaughlin

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The Queering of Family Values in Angels in America, Megan Muratore

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Utilizing Fear: A Paranoiac's Approach to Dismantling a Capitalist Foundation, Jung Won Park

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Stay in Motion, Rebecca Sohn

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Weird Internet Aesthetics: Are Lo-Fi Media Inherently Revolutionary?, Brendan Wright

Honors Theses from 2018

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The Power of Submissiveness in Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom, Jessica Aoyagi

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Lost Cause Memoirs, Connor Batsimm

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Thin Places, Mary Cook

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Essential Narrative Structure of Medieval Romance and Video Games, Benjamin Eskin Shapson

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Fatally Masculine Gender Performativity: The Overreacher’s Gendered Downfall Across Marlowe’s Tamburlaine I and II, Anna Garfinkel

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The Eternal Tension: An Exploration of the Relationship between Textual and Performative Forms in Regards to Doctor Faustus, Katie Jacobsen

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“A Pool of Red and Undulating Light”: Supernaturalism and Trauma in Morrison’s Novels, Rachel Karp

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FARM TO TABLE, Eliza Mittelstead

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More Severe than Scripture, Kellina Moore

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Navigating the In-Between: Cultural Uneasiness and Hybridity in Native American Captivity Narratives, Laura Pierson

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The Forgotten Women of Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and Song of Solomon, Rachel Rest

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“Influence of Locality” in Dickens, Austen, and Hardy: Placing Nineteenth-Century British Literature, Jessica Shapiro

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The “Fatal Labyrinth” of Doubt and Disbelief: Refractions of Politic Religion in Dr. Faustus and The Jew of Malta, Eve Stewart

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“Yes We Did”: Barack Obama, Narrating Change, and Redefining America, Allison Trunkey

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Race, Form, and Tamburlaine, Benjamin Tuck

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Mother Memory: The Maternal Figure and Memory in Song of Solomon and Beloved, Hannah Zinker

Honors Theses from 2017

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The Soul of Faustus: Through Blood and Body, Louise Athens

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Undoing Their Masks: An Exposé of Elite Male Power Dynamics in 'Fin de Siècle' Sexuality, Eliza Burr

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English Through the Emigrant’s “I”: Lost in Translation by Eva Hoffman & Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje, Claire Foster

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Notes on the Pharmakon, Samuel Graboys

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Made Lovely by Sorrow, Devin McDonough

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Bodies and Money: Mapping Homosexual Interactions in Late-Victorian London, Emily Robinson

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For Those Who Have Kept the Childlike Faculties of Wonder and Joy: Oscar Wilde's Intervention Within the Fairy Tale Tradition, Adriana Snow

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Connection, Chance, and the Cosmos in Ulysses, Kaitlyn Spina