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Honors Theses from 2024

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Feminist Realizations of Assisted Reproductive Technology in Contemporary Science Fiction, Amanda Mullet

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George Eliot’s Tragic Heroines: The Legacy of Antigone and Other Greek Tragedies in The Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch, Emily Faucett

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Stretching the Hard-Boiled Detective: From Hammett and Chandler to Paretsky and Himes, Chloe Moore

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The Catch Up, Katie Taguchi

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There Is No Instruction Manual for This, Jenna Massey

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THE WEIGHT OF US, Susannah Perry

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To Memory Now I Can't Recall, Woojin Yoon

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Trace, Abigail Clark

Honors Theses from 2023

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A Journal of Those Times, Alexander Wolff

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A World Half Created: The Imaginative Power of Sound in the Poetry of William Wordsworth, Trinity Myers

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Beyond a Partnership Ethic: Evolutions of Ecofeminism in the Post-Apocalyptic Landscapes of Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy and Jean Hegland's Into the Forest, Catherine Lashley

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“Deforesting the ‘Princely Trunk:’ Deforestation and Invasion in Shakespeare’s Plays”, Sarah Richman

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Goodbye, You: Stories of Loss and Life, Marissa Ho

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Haunted Panes and Psychic Casements: Windows in Wuthering Heights and Villette, Mariana Kornreich

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I Do: Historicizing Marriage and Courtship in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (1813) and Emma (1816) and Their Screen Adaptations, Olivia Little

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Linda Brent’s Condition(s) in "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl": Medical, Physical, Emotional, and Authorial, Allyson Lowe

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"My daughter, flee temptation!" "O, do go, dear mother!": Gender, Race, and Body Politics in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harper McCall

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Pastries and Plots: Food Rhetoric and Gender Struggles in Shakespeare’s Plays, Juliet Nierle

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Thrice They Ring, Natalie Berner

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Uncivilized Lullaby: Poems, Yalda Al-Ani

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Visualizing the Liminal: Confrontations with Female Passivity in Edith Wharton's Gothic Short Stories, Mikeila Whitney

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well/good, Azraf Khan

Honors Theses from 2022

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Afro-Diasporic (Dis)Illusionment: Perceptions of the American Dream in Americanah and Behold the Dreamers, Sabrien Abdelrahman

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Ambitious Boys and Girls: Childhood Failure and Gender Norms in Little Women and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Ceci Hughes

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"But a Contraband is a Free Man:" Civil War Literature and the Figure of the "Contraband", Mary A. Kardos

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'Carcern' and 'Wordcræft': Enclosure, Connection and Gender in Cynewulf's "Juliana" and "Elene", Katherine Grotewiel

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Feelings of Fallenness: Affect and Gender in Victorian Fallen Woman Novels, Kate Kowalski

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Framing the Female Narrative: Male Audiences and Women's Storytelling Within Two Brontë Novels, Sammy Murphy

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'Geomorlic' or 'Eorlic?' Uncovering Early English Emotional Communities in "The Wanderer," "Deor," and "The Wife’s Lament", Hunter Phillips

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Remystifying the Modern World: Magical Realism and the Reappropriation of the Christian Imaginary in Beloved and The Master and Margarita, William Brake

Honors Theses from 2021

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Flipping the Castle: Evolution of Gothic Spaces in the Domestic Sphere, Kate Lucas

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“Garden-Magic”: Conceptions of Nature in Edith Wharton’s Fiction, Jonathan Malks

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Laurence Sterne: A Different Way of Approaching the Notion of Life in the Early Novel, Robert Metaxatos

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mo(u)rning person, Kate Dragonetti

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Purple Magpie Terrace: A Story of His and Hers, Zheng Yu

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The Humorous Tradition in Arthurian Grail Literature, Benjamin Woessner

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Whole and Hybrid: Resisting Essentialism in The Satanic Verses and The Impressionist, Louise Strange

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With Inviolable Voice, We Melt into Each Other with Phrases: The Construction and Deconstruction of Heteroglossia in T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land and Virginia Woolf's The Waves, Alexa Kelly

Honors Theses from 2020

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Blue Cathedral, Jessica Urgo

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Charlotte Brontë's Victorian Women: A Psychological Analysis in Light of Jungian Theory, Virginia Elam

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Confronting Toxicity from the Beehive: Ecofeminist Alternatives to Capitalism, Bianca Bowman

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Emergency Contact, Sophia Shealy

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Inherited Reproduction of Violence and Trauma in 1990’s Literary Immigrant Families: An Exploration of Lucy; Breath, Eyes, Memory; and Drown, Kelsey Vita

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J.G. Ballard and the Anthropocene, Noah Terrell

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Resurrecting the Women of The Waste Land, Angela Rose Granados West

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Speaker into Specimen: The Representation of Dialect in Victorian Fiction, Hunter Hall

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Tell Me What You Really Think (A Novel), Marriya Schwarz

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The Commodification of Helen: Tracing the Phallic Economy of Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida, Quinn Arnone

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The Homoerotic Architectures of Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Samuel McIntyre

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The Sun Sets on Chinchontepec: (Re)productions of Salvadoran Memory, Aida Campos

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“You Only Have Time to Explode’”: Nathanael West’s Novels, Mass Media, and Illusory Dreams, Edward Millman

Honors Theses from 2019

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An Incongruous Present: Identifying the Absurd Aesthetic in William Faulkner’s "Requiem for a Nun" (1951), Blake Hani

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A Portrait of Women’s Property: An Analysis of Married Women’s Property Rights in The Portrait of a Lady, The Spoils of Poynton and Howards End, Kelsey Llewellyn

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Billy's Burg: Investigating Colonial and Capitalist Constructions through Poetry, Ryan Onders

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Creative Currencies: Circulation and Sovereignty in The Alchemist, Urania, and The Blazing World, Jacqueline Keshner

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Haunted Housewives: Shirley Jackson’s Domestic Gothic, Caroline Kessler

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(In)Human Anatomies: Constructions of Whiteness and Otherness in the Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft, Katherine Avery

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'I walk pure before God!': Narrative Structure and Reimagined Negotiations in the Victorian Female Bildungsroman, Devon Boyers

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Mine, Brooke Stephenson

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Recovering Affiliates: Reclassifying Emily Dickinson's Variant Poems, Anna McAnnally

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Sensational Investigations: Social decay and reform in the Victorian sensation novel, Colleen Wilson

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The Sacred Touch of Hallowed Hands: Tracing the Holy through the Haptic in George Eliot’s Early Work, Katharine Isabel Williams

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"This Great Theatre of Nature": Henry Fielding and the Ancient Comic Stage, Stephen Ryan

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Thoughtful Books and Thoughtful Lives: Androgyny and Gender Dynamics in the Works of Sherwood Anderson, Rick Stevenson

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Wordsworth's British Empire: Property, Liberty, and the Slave Question, Anna Wingfield

Honors Theses from 2018

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Education in the Novels of Thomas Hardy, Jiayue Jiang

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"Glimmerings, Hints, and Secret Amazements": William Blake, Walt Whitman, and the Spiritual Incantations of Allen Ginsberg's "Howl", Elijah Levine

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"O God Within My Breast": The Religion of Emily Brontë, Christina Danberg

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“Reader, I Did Not Marry Him:” Marriage Proposals, Choice, and Female Desire in the Victorian Era, Elizabeth Rose Flood

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Resistance and Women's Solidarity in The Handmaid's Tale, from 1985 to 2017, Dana S. Florczak

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Stripping the Paint: Uncovering the Self-Made Man in The Rise of Silas Lapham and The Great Gatsby, Emma Elena Johnson

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The Forgotten Beauty of the Feminine: Elena Guro’s The Little Camels of the Sky, Virginia Woolf’s The Waves, and the Holy Grail of the “Woman’s Sentence”, Bailey Orr

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Transparent Sketches: A Field Journal of Silence, Annabel McSpadden

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Virginia Woolf and the 'Objective' Camera: The Relationship Between Text and Image in Three Guineas and Orlando, Meilan Solly

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Winter's Bane: Part One, Jessica Molz

Honors Theses from 2017

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Aphra Behn, One of Churchill’s Top Girls?: Assessing Caryl Churchill’s Lack of Deference to Behn’s Legacy, Hayley A. Hahn

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Defining Ambiguous: Lesbianism and the Vampire in “Christabel” and Carmilla, Holly E. Reynolds

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"If there be such space:" Haunted Landscapes and Crises of Sonhood in Cormac McCarthy's Westerns, Kayla M. Armstrong

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Love on a Blighted Star: Nature and Female Sexuality in the Novels of Thomas Hardy, Emily M. Armstrong

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Patients, Prose, and Poetry: The Medical and Literary World of William Carlos Williams, Sarah Heins

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Rites: Poems, Lydia G. Brown

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Scattered Prizes: Colonial Fantasies and the Material Body in the English Renaissance Blazon, Aidan J. Selmer

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The Northern Novel of Manners: Wuthering Heights & The Invention of a Genre, Cameron I. Menchel

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The Subversion of Wagnerian Gender Dynamics in James Joyce’s Ulysses, Sophia S. Farion

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Working the Garden: Women and Religion in Apocalyptic Fiction, Sarah C. Collier

Honors Theses from 2016

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Catharsis, Shannon Callahan

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“Insane for the destination:” Disrupting the Teleological Impulses of Sylvia Plath’s Ariel and Adrienne Rich’s Diving into the Wreck, Noah Christopher Brooksher

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Our Lady (a novel in progress), Molly Earner

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Renegotiating the Apocalypse: Mary Shelley’s "The Last Man", Kathryn Joan Darling

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Telling the Stories that Can't Be Told: Translating War in Hemingway, Vonnegut, and O'Brien, Emily A. Nye

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The Ludic Life of Things: Explorations in the Vitality of the Ludic Object in Contemporary Narratives, Eamonn deLacy

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The Revolutionary New Woman: Renegotiating her Social Contract through Sex, Nicole Walsh

Honors Theses from 2015

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“A Constant Unfolding of Far-Resonate Action”: George Eliot’s Middlemarch, Spinoza, and the Ethics of Power, Zachary J. Hardy

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"A product of her body as well as soul": Narrative fullness and the feminine body in the work of Julia Ward Howe, Sarah J. Schuster

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Bouts of Brain Fever: Female Rebellion and the Dubiety of Illness in Victorian Fiction, Stephanie R. Mason

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Deconstructing Terror: The Political Theatre of Harold Pinter, Caryl Churchill, and Martin Crimp, Beatrice Loayza

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Eugenides' The Virgin Suicides and Zuzak's The Book Thief: Impossible Narration in Millennial Fiction, Maria Dougherty

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Girls without Faces & Other Stories, Molly E. Greer

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He Do the Police in Different Voices: the Influence of Detection Fiction in T. S. Eliot's Works, Claire Weaver

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"How Do I Know What I Think Till I See What I Say?" William James's and Carl Jung's Ideas on the Unconscious Mind As Applied to Stegner, Diana J. Floegel