2010-2011
Lauren E. Wilwerding: The Anxieties of Common Life: Tracing the Gothic in Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, and Pride and Prejudice (with Professor Ann Kibbie)
2009-2010
Jenna Breiter: Charting (with Professor Anthony Walton)
Kristina M. Goodwin: Reliquary: A Novella (with Professor William Watterson)
Samuel I. Smith: Terror and Possibility: Walt Whitman, Henry James and Democracy Unbound (with Professor David Collings)
Tara S. Rajiyah: Fragments are India and India is Fragments: The Feminine, Fragmentation and Nationalist Yearning in Emergency Literature (with Professor Hilary Thompson)
Eleanor T. West: No Vacancy: Nabokov’s Use of Space in Lolita, Ada, and Pale Fire
(with Professor Marilyn Reizbaum)
2008-2009
Maude G. Taber-Thomas: Fairy Roads to Science Town: Fairies and the Enchantment of Science in Victorian Children’s Literature (with Professor Mary Edsall)
Jason E. Finkelstein: Beyond the Hoax: The Literary World of the False Witness in Kosinski’s The Painted Bird and Wilkomirski’s Fragments (with Professor Ann Kibbie)
Kristen E. Gunther: Mobtown (with Professor Anthony Walton)
Katharine M. Sherman: Cassandra (with Professor Aaron Kitch)
Ikumi E. Crocoll: The Best Thing She Was: American Women Writing With and Against the Conventions of 19th Century Sentimental Motherhood (with Professor Tess Chakkalakal)
Genna Ruth-Louise Duplisea: Pseudonym-Function: Poaching Gender in Victorian Britain (with Professor Aviva Briefel)
2007-2008
Amy Ahearn : The Explosive Aftermath of Empire: Nuclear Weaponry in South Asian Diaspora Fiction (with Professor Belinda Kong)
J. Patrick Brown : Stress Fracture: The Israel Trope and the Holocaust in Modern Writing (with Professor Marilyn Reizbaum)
June Kyuha Lee : Model Gestures and Manly Butterflies: Chang-rae Lee’s and David H. Hwang’s Subversive Stangings of Asian American Emasculation (with Professor Belinda Kong)
Rogan C. McCally : And Mani Ther Beth of Faerie: Social Criticism and the Workings of Faerie in the Medieval Breton Lai (with Professor Mary Edsall)
Zachary J. Roberts : Will Polar Bears Be OK?: The Fate of the Text in the Postnuclear Era (with Professor Marilyn Reizbaum)
Deborah Anne Theodore : Politics, Puerility, and Personal Happiness:Trollope’s Version of the Female Bildungsroman (with Professor Aviva Briefel)
Xiao di Tong : Passing as an Interior Journey:Unintentional Acts on the Color Line in Toi Derricotte and Danzy Senna (with Professor Elizabeth Muther)
2006-2007
Jamie E. Knight : The Science of Sympathy: Darwin and Community in George Eliot’s Middlemarch (with Professor Aviva Briefel)
Taylor C. White: One Piece at a Time (with Professor Anthony Walton)
Katherine H. Kirklin : Narrative Capability in the New Millenium (with Professor Marilyn Reizbaum)
Taneisha T. Wilson : Self-Sacrifice as Agency in George Eliot’s Middlemarch and the Mill on the Floss (with Professor David Collings)
"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