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Undergraduate Publication  Departmental Honors Theses

The Department of English Honors Program is designed for English and American Literature and Culture majors interested in pursuing the extra challenges and rewards of the honors curriculum--a course of study that culminates in a substantial critical paper, the honors thesis. After the thesis is completed, the faculty advisor and a faculty reader review the thesis and award it highest honors, honors, or no honors.

There are 84 publications in this collection, published between 2013 and 2023. Showing 1 - 50.

Bhasin, Khushi: Sadomasochism in Jane Eyre: A Psychological Exchange of Power, 2023

Bromberg, Gabby: Nob Hill, 2023

Chan, Kelsey: “The Lines of Influence”: The Occult Recontextualization of Nicholas Hawksmoor’s Churches in From Hell and Lud Heat, 2023

Conley, Kathleen: A War of Roses: An Examination of Tudor Mythography in Shakespeare’s First Tetralogy of History and George R.R. Martin’s, A Song of Ice and Fire Series, 2023

Galloway, Rosemary: Lividity in Pink, 2023

He, Max: The Human Mecha: Titan, Technology, and Self in Attack on Titan, 2023

Huwe, Justin: Utopia by a Thousand Cuts: Melodrama and the Queer Art of Self-Harm in Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life, 2023

Jannol, Hannah: "Before the Natural World Started Dying": Latent Conservatism, Nostalgia, and Dread in the Millennial Novel, 2023

Justad, Miró: The Bildungsroman Transformed Magic, Memories, and the Unpredictable Movements of Growth in Young Adult Speculative Fiction, 2023

Kim, Ashley G: Evergreen, 2023

King, Katherine: A Space for those Memories: The Cultural Memoirs of Eavan Boland and Doireann Ní Ghríofa, 2023

Lacy, Jade: Danielle, 2023

Maher, Tyler: Summer’s Dawn, 2023

Moore, Ella: Histories of Dust and Bone: Mythologizing the Chinese American Past in Contemporary Western Fictions, 2023

Morrissey, Kayleigh: “I’ve Never Heard Silence Quite this Loud”: The Complexity of Taylor Swift’s Neutral Star Text, 2023

Ovsepyan, Ana: Neurodivergent Diagnoses Explained in Abstract Metaphors in Lauren Slater’s Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir, 2023

Roche, Allyson: “Between Gloom and Laughter”: Female Longing, Unhappiness, and Structures of Absence in the Works of Virginia Woolf, 2023

Wong, Jessica: (Re)Creation, 2023

Brown, Woody: Upward Bound: Collected Stories, 2022

Fiona, Deane-Grundman: Preliminary Materials for a Theory of Gossip Girl, 2022

Guzman, Frances: Transmutation, 2022

Haslam, Jeffrey: A Social Disruption: The Decentering of the Individual in Contemporary Dystopian Fiction and its Challenges to Humanism, Posthumanism, and Neoliberal Individualism, 2022

Joseph, Rwiet: Blood as Reference to Fear in Dracula, 2022

Kim, Young G.: Fascination: Sixteen, 2022

Leung, Ashley: Liberate the Asian American Writer: Embracing the Flaws of Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club, 2022

McNeely, Tara: All Things In Situ, 2022

Payton, Dodd: Doomed Voyage: America's Evolving Relationship with Moby-Dick, 2022

Robles, Lillian: "The Spasmodic, the Obscure, the Fragmentary, the Failure": The Negative Formation of Character in A Room of One's Own and Orlando, 2022

Sakuma, Evan: Performing Asian American for the End of the World: Reimagining the Inscrutable as Resistance in Asian/American Theatre, 2022

Sial, Annika: Emotional Objectification: Implications of the Consumer Object in Romantic Poetry, 2022

Sidiqi, Mursal: Experimenting on Oriental Women: Tracing Oriental Women's Representations in Western Discussion of Bodily Autonomy and Desire in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, 2022

Soetirto, Rania: Historical Retrospection and Ambivalence in A Tale of Two Cities, 2022

Steele, Talulla Echo: Sontag and Disability Studies: Chronic Illness, Impairment Effect, and Biomedical Metaphor, 2022

Sukonik, Jolie: Queer Desire as Restoration: The Rejection of Phallic Exchange in Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market”, 2022

Williams, Ellen: Sins of the Father: Race and Genealogy in the Medieval Imagination, 2022

Zheng, Alice: All Rivers Run East to the Sea, 2022

Montecillo, Janice: Baddies & Bodies: Remembering and Dismembering IMVU, 2021

Mottern, Lillian: Sky (Hyper-Chlorinated), 2021

Onarecker, Erin: What is so Ordinary about Literary Studies?, 2021

Reyes, Francisco: "Please Don't Stop Being My Mother!": Attachment Theory and Identity Formation in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five and Hideaki Anno's Neon Genesis Evangelion, 2021

Cepollina, Jacob: Disabling Charlotte Smith: A Marxist, Crip Theory Analysis of Class, Gender, Labor, and Disability in Romantic Poetry, 2020

Choudary, Nida: Troublesome Minorities: Questioning Assimilation in The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Home Fire, 2020

Duncan, Kierra: Mother, May I Please Have Some More: Melancholy, Maternity, and the State, 2020

Gomez, Emiliano: an Elegy for middle america, 2020

Harris, Rome: Songs of Enlightenment: In Collaboration with Light, 2020

Mikhaelpour, Talin: Kingly Infirmity and the Remedy: The Importance of Counsel in Thwarting Divinely Ordained Incompetence, 2020

Peraic, Sebastian: Milton and Empire: Satanic and Edenic Colonization in Paradise Lost, 2020

Rodriguez, Angie: Invisible Labor in the Medieval World, 2020

Tan, Corine: Have You Eaten Yet?  Stories, 2020

Alarcon, Pauline: About Face, 2019

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