This page contains honors theses produced by senior English majors. For a list of all honors theses since 2011, click here.

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Theses from 2023

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Encountering Impossibility: Georges Bataille’s Acéphalic Lifework, Trijit Pico Banerjee

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Conflict Reconciliation in Natalie Diaz’s Postcolonial Love Poem (2020), Juan Goytisolo’s Landscapes of War: From Sarajevo to Chechnya (2000), and Jean-Luc Godard’s Notre Musique (2004), Khadeeja Qureshi

Theses from 2022

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Flatness, Distortion, Nonsense, and the Ordinary in the Novels of Bolaño, O'Brien, and Bernhard, Elizabeth Claire Kissane

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“Dear You”: Witnessing Trauma in the World of The Handmaid’s Tale, Caroline Wood

Theses from 2021

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“What We Do Minister to Our Gross Selves”: Afflicted Bodies, Illicit Sex, and the Agency of Disease in Romeo & Juliet and Measure for Measure, Deon J. Custard

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Choosing the Fall to Rise Up: Gender Consumption and Eve’s Culinary World, Sarah Catherine Herde

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Beguiling time, making air, and taking milk for gall: queerness in Macbeth, Erin Lyons

Theses from 2020

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“At the heart of legend”: Feminist Revisionist Mythology in Twentieth-Century Poetry, Madison Rozells

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Cosmopolitan Americanisms: Post-9/11 Transnational Immigrant Narratives, Bence Xavier Szechenyi

Theses from 2019

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The Matrilineal Specter in Kingston's Woman Warrior and Keller's Comfort Woman, Theodore V. Burns

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Sentimental Arcs From Grief to Mourning in An Unnecessary Woman and Koolaids: The Art of War by Rabih Alameddine, Carl D. Deakins Mx

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De-Centering the Bildungsroman: Identification, Trauma, and the Female Double in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar and Toni Morrison’s Sula, Lily Kip

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Caught Between: Achille, the Instar and Intention/Reception in Walcott’s Omeros, Peter Nadel

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Modernist Temporalities: Figures of Time in the Novels of Virginia Woolf, Tyler Parke

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Dickens and Trauma: The Art of Autobiographical Fiction, Sarah M. Rothmann

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Some Strive to Remember, Others Wish They Could Forget: The Intersection of Culture and Trauma in Vietnam War Literatures, William Sanders

Theses from 2018

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Queering Adrienne Rich: The Poetics of Radical Thought and Transformative Vision, Justin Ameen Hoden

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Of Bucks, Butterflies, and Black Lives: An Analysis of Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly, John C. McWilliams

Theses from 2017

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Finding Closure: Trauma Narratives in Graphic Literatures, Katharina Harling

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Waste, Time and Film in Don DeLillo’s Underworld and David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, Nathan T. Moreau

Theses from 2016

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Chaucer's Women and Women Chaucerians: Unveiling the Modern Academy as a Medieval Institution through Chaucer's Poetry, Cheyenne J. Cannarozzo

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Poetics of the Heartland: The Lyric Voices of James Wright and Stanley Plumly, William R. Cleaves

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Safely Shooting a Quiet Woman: A Study of Patriarchy, Sexuality, Racism, and Putrefaction in John Webster’s Plays, Rebecca C. Dobbin

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Reading "A Politics of Location": An Ethical Mapping of Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony, Michela J. Moscufo

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La Mujer en La Frontera: Gender and Assimilation in Pedro Juan Soto’s Spiks, Joseph Foster’s Stephana, and José Antonio Villarreal’s Pocho, Jacqueline L. Paredes

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Empathy, Medicine, and the Novel, Anna Sophia Williams

Theses from 2015

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"She among them but never of them": Race and Sexuality through Tomboy Transformation Narratives of the Postwar Era, Michael John Creedon

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Reflections in the Author's Eye: Optics, Involution, and Artifice in the Novels and Short Stories of Vladimir Nabokov, Amelia J. Oliver

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"Infinitesimal Progress": Rethinking Bergsonian Modalities of Time in William Faulkner's Novels, 1929-1932, Beau P. Sperry

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“To my virginity!”: Queerness, Silencing, and Dominicanity in Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Nicholas Jason Steverson

Theses from 2014

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Scottish Nostalgias: Evocations of Home in the 1990s Poetry of Carol Ann Duffy, Jackie Kay, and Kathleen Jamie, Kathryn A. Ailes

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Materiality and the Literary Letter, Alexandra McDowell Carley

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How the Mind Refigures Memory: The Role of Social Construction and Fallibility in the Fictions of Faulkner, Woolf, and Nabokov, Rebecca H. Salzman-Fiske

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Religion and the Postmodern in Contemporary North American Fiction, Alexandra T. Sentner

"Another Landscape, Another Tongue:" The Queer Language of Silence in Virginia Woolf's Fiction, Sarah Streat

Theses from 2013

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Satire and the Necessity of Locale: Genealogical Readings in Max Beerbohm and Karl Kraus, Matthew Joseph Bettles

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Jane Austen and the Art of Revision: Reading, Fiction, Feminism, Natalie R. Thompson

Theses from 2012

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Child of the Black Atlantic: Negotiating Identities in Helene Cooper’s Memoir, Tasheana S. Dukuly

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Love, Crime, and Township Identity in Fred Khumalo's "Bitches' Brew" and "Seven Steps to Heaven", Erica Rose Long

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The Problem of the Ordinary: Liberating the Fantastic and the Uncanny, Meghan R. Napier

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Charles Dickens and Elizabeth Gaskell: Authorship, Collaboration, and Divergence, Maria J. Rouvalis

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Counting "Whole Persons" in David Foster Wallace's Fiction, Charles J. Thaxton

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The Evolution of Chivalric Values in the Order of the Garter: Edward III to Elizabeth I, Sarah Joy Vigne Ms.

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"The Vindication of Spinsters: Winifred Holtby's Case for Female Satisfaction", Katherine Ann Wiryaman