Honors

A Sampling of English Honors Projects completed in recent years

"Daughter of God and Man: Reflection, Reality, and Free Will in Paradise Lost"
Claire Melissa Falck '05

"Constituents of Chaos: Land and Sea in Moby-Dick"
Rebecca Follansbee '05

"Reclaiming Onan: Masturbation and Imagination in Whitman's America"
Leah Rose Chernikoff '04

"Queering Intimacies: The Sexual Narrative in Hanif Kureishi's Fiction"
Paige Contreras-Gould '04

"Wing Anatomy"
Elaine Dorothy Johanson '04

"Performing the Artist: Stephen Dedalus and the Aesthetics of Betrayal"
Nicholas Sharpe Hiebert '03

"Sinister Revelations: The Asylum as a Critique of the Domestic Sphere"
Jennifer Rita Laraia '03

"Sentimental Violence: Re-reading the politics of sympathy in Uncle Tom's Cabin and John Brown's Raid"
Marshall R. Escamilla '02

"A Year's Absence"
Kelly Ann Kerney '02

"Civic Misreadership: Deformity, Isolation, and Prophesy in Melville's Moby-Dick"
Nathaniel Chase Vinton '01

"'Schelde vs fro schamesdede': Arthur's 'Worthiness' in the Alliterative Morte Arthure"
Curtis Roberts-Holt Jirsa '01

"Wordsworth's Social Ecology: A Poet's Vision of Sustainability and Stewardship"
Kristin Stewart Awsumb '00

"Opponents Entangled and 'Half in Love': A Reading of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby"
Dorsey Powell Lockhart '00