Past Honors Projects

Halina Bennet: Art of the Profile: Profile Journalism in Theory and Practice (with Professor Meredith McCarroll)

Philip Bonanno: Guarding Whiteness: Disability, Eugenics, and Rhetorical Agency in Southern Renaissance Fiction (with Professor Meredith McCarroll)

Andrew Chang: "What’s Outside the Window?": Evil, Literature, and Detection in Roberto Bolaño’s Fiction (with Professor Marilyn Reizbaum)

Catherine Crouch: This Is All for You: Stories (with Professor Brock Clarke)

Jane Godiner: Invisible Ailments: A Collection (with Professor Brock Clarke)

Natsumi Meyer: Bodies, Memories, Ghosts, and Objects or Telling a Memory (with Professor Belinda Kong)

Bobby Murray: Poems: The Vienna Secession, Waltzes, Short Talks, Other (with Professor Anthony Walton)

Rebecca Norden-Bright: Seán O’Faoláin and Ireland of the 1930s (with Professor Marilyn Reizbaum)

Josh-Pablo Patel: The Crossroads We Make: Intergenerational Trauma and Reparative Reading in
Recent Asian American Memoirs (2018-2022) (with Professor Belinda Kong)

Lily Randall: Neptune City (with Professor Brock Clarke)

Ella Schmidt: Divinity School : A Novel (with Professor Anthony Walton)

Jack Wellschlager: James Joyce’s Prose Pedagogy: Language in Freirean Dialogue (with Professor Marilyn Reizbaum)

Zoe Wilson: When There's a Fire - Short Stories (with Professor Brock Clarke)

Ella Crabtree: "Wanting 'possessive gentleness": Insecure Attachments in American Literature (with Professor Tess Chakkalakal)

Kyubin Kim: Minor, Ugly, and Meta: Feelings in Contemporary Korean American Literature (with Professor Belinda Kong)

Grace Monaghan: Empire of Horror: Race, Animality, and Monstrosity in the Victorian Gothic (with Professor Aviva Briefel)

Andrew Nicholson: Ink (with Professor Emma Maggie Solberg)

Micaela Simeone: Anatomies of the Body in European Culture (with Professor Aaron Kitch)

Miranda Viederman: The Frenzy of the Womb: Staging the Virgin Body in the Renaissance (with Professor Aaron Kitch)

Clayton Wackerman: Theories of Thanks: Affect Studies, Reciprocity, and Theoretical Perspectives on Gratitude (with Professor Hilary Thompson)

Claire Burns: Seasons Without Borders:The Ali Smith Quartet (with Professor Marilyn Reizbaum)

Alicia Echavarria: Possessing Her: Embodying Identity in Exorcism Cinema (with Professor Aviva Briefel)

Lily Fullam: They Used to Be Castles (with Professor Brock Clarke)

Lianna Harrington: Diverse Ecotopias: Collaborative Survival and Communal Healing in a Climate-Changed World (with Professor Belinda Kong)

Mitchel Jurasek: A Foray into the Camp: Human and Ecological Liberation in Contemporary Queer Conversion Therapy Literature (with Professor Hilary Thompson)

Mishal Kazmi: (with Professor Hilary Thompson)

Hallowell Lyne: "Unstuck in Time and Space": Time Travels in Teen Cinema (with Professor Aviva Briefel)

Aida Muratoglu: Errandsphere (with Professor Anthony Walton)

Emma Bezilla: Advanced Mammals (with Professor Brock Clarke)

Nathan Blum: Nonprophets: a novel (with Professor Brock Clarke)

Ben Bousquet: Human Today, Posthuman Tomorrrow in Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam Trilogy (with Professor Samia Rahimtoola)

Sophie Friedman: Reading & Teaching Chaucer: the "Good Wif"? (with Professor Maggie Solberg)

Sam Milligan: Tapping at the Windows (with Professor Brock Clarke)

Jack Rodgers: The Future Regained: Toward a Modernist Ethics of Time (with Professor Marilyn Reizbaum)

Ellie Sapat: Food Comes First: Growing Up at My Family's Table (with Professor Alex Marzano-Lesnevich)

Jack Tarlton: It's All Under Control: Essays (with Professor Alex Marzano-Lesnevich)

Sydney Benjamin: I Am Full of Evil Things (with Professor Brock Clark)

Emily Brown: Perpetual Augusta (with Professor Brock Clark)

Dakota  Griffin: Pactmaker (with Professor Brock Clark)

Andrew McGowan: Superhero Ecologies: An Environmental Reading of Superhero Cinema (with Professor Aviva Briefel)

Surya Milner: Closer to Home: Essays from India to Here (with Professor Hilary Thompson)

Aleksia Silverman: Hunting Panthers and Other Stories (with Professor Brock Clark)

Jon Luke Tittmann: Countering the Exception: Resistance in Contemporary South Asian Fiction (with Professor Hilary Thompson)

Sydney To: The Vietnamese Undead: Transpacific War Memory in Contemporary Fiction (with Professor Belinda Kong)

Sarah Bonanno: The Epistemology of Observation: Performance, Power, and The Regulation of Female Sexuality in The Duchess of Malfi and The Changeling (with Professor Aaron Kitch)

Sophie de Bruijn: From Diller to Schumer: the History, Practice, and Future of Women in Stand-up Comedy (with Professors Aaron Kitch and Sarah Bay-Cheng)

Sarah Jane Weill: Here in This Place (with Professor Brock Clark)

Tully Moyer: "Lovely, trustful, dreamy, enormous" : Vladimir Nabokov's Representations of America in Lolita (with Professor Morten Hansen)

June Lei: Lustre (with Professor Anthony Walton)

Rachael Allen: I Rispettosi: The Making an American Family (with Professor Anthony Walton)

Carly Berlin: To Preserve and to Renovate : Essays on Atlanta, Family, and Memory (with Professor Meredith McCarroll)

Alexandra Moreno: Browse for Related Content (with Professor Brock Clarke)

Katherine Churchill: Fashion Agency: Gender, Fiber Work, and Irony in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (with Professor Maggie Solberg)

Alexandra Glass-Katz: The Civil War Diet: A Novel (with Professor Brock Clarke)

Derek Hoyt: Salvation for a Preterite Crew: Determinism and the Hope of Freedom in Moby-Dick and Gravity's Rainbow (with Professor Morten Hansen)

Maria Kennedy: Earth, Borders, and Magic: A Study of Place in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (with Professor Maggie Solberg)

Jesse Ortiz: "One Never Knew": David Foster Wallace and the Aesthetics of Consumption (with Professor Marilyn Reizbaum)

Charlotte Rutty: Bad Eggs: Stories (with Professor Brock Clarke)

Hallie Schaeffer: "This people which I made": The Character of King Arthur as a Mechanism of Unification in Medieval Arthuriana and the Idylls of the King (with Professor Aaron Kitch)

Margaret Seymour: 15 Villainous Fools: A Two-Woman Clowning Adaptation of The Comedy of Errors (with Professor Aaron Kitch and Professor Davis Robinson)  

2014-2015

Molly MacVeagh: Where's the Boeuf?: Food and Empire in the Work of Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf (with Professor Marilyn Reizbaum)

Golden Owens: Producing "Reality": "Authentic" Representations of Black Women in Reality Television (with Professor Elizabeth Muther)

Elisabeth Strayer: Palimpsestuous London: Spatial and Temporal Layering in Fin-de-Siècle Victorian Fiction (with Professor Aviva Briefel) 

2013-2014

Emily Powers: People Who Press Play (with Professor Brock Clarke)

Amanda Minoff: Visions/Revisions (with Profesor Brock Clarke)

Monica Das: This is Postmodernism: A Legacy of Literary Autoreferentiality (with Professor Marilyn Reizbaum)

2012-2013
Linda Kinstler: Writing Grounds Zero (with Professor Marilyn Reizbaum)

Kailana Durnan: De-Composing London: Urban Gothic at the Fin de Siècle (with Professor Aviva Briefel)

Katherine Kinkel: Sleep of Reason (with Professor Anthony Walton)

Caitlin O’Keefe: Emerson’s Imprisoned Spirits: Freedom, Slavery, Liberalism (with Professor Peter Coviello)

Parker Towle: Projections at Midnight (with Professor Anthony Walton)

2011-2012
Lucia Cowles: Ada/m (with Professor Brock Clarke)

Samuel Hollingsworth Hanson: The Gift: A Collection of Short Stories (with Professor Brock Clarke) 

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 Goodwin: Reliquary: A Novella (with Professor William Watterson)

Samuel Smith: Terror and Possibility: Walt Whitman, Henry James and Democracy Unbound (with Professor David Collings)

Tara Rajiyah: Fragments are India and India is Fragments: The Feminine, Fragmentation and Nationalist Yearning in Emergency Literature (with Professor Hilary Thompson)    

Eleanor West: No Vacancy: Nabokov’s Use of Space in Lolita, Ada, and Pale Fire  (with Professor Marilyn Reizbaum)

2008-2009
Maude Taber-Thomas: Fairy Roads to Science Town: Fairies and the Enchantment of Science in Victorian Children’s Literature (with Professor Mary Edsall)

Jason 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 Gunther: Mobtown   (with Professor Anthony Walton)

Katharine Sherman: Cassandra (with Professor Aaron Kitch)

Ikumi Crocoll: The Best Thing She Was: American Women Writing With and Against the Conventions of 19^th 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 McCally: And Mani Ther Beth of Faerie: Social Criticism and the Workings of Faerie in the Medieval Breton Lai (with Professor Mary Edsall)

Zachary 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 Knight: The Science of Sympathy: Darwin and Community in George Eliot’s Middlemarch (with Professor Aviva Briefel)

Taylor White: One Piece at a Time (with Professor Anthony Walton)

Katherine Kirklin: Narrative Capability in the New Millenium (with Professor Marilyn Reizbaum)

Taneisha Wilson: Self-Sacrifice as Agency in George Eliot’s Middlemarch and the Mill on the Floss (with Professor David Collings)

2000 to 2005
"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