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