English Honors Papers

English Honors Papers

 
Papers accepted for honors in English.

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Submissions from 2023

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Progress, Modernity, and Cather's Discontents: Queer Futurity, Hope, and Imagining Beyond Hegemony in Willa Cather's Narratives of the American West, Nora Cahill

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Passerby to Sonder: How Black Literary Sources Use Dance to Carve Out Relational Possibility, Zion Martin-Hayes

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Anatomy of Reconstruction, Elora Roy

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Versions of a Woman out of Love, Jess Rush

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Vistas of Grief: Virginia Woolf and the Epoch of Climate Change, Zoe Stapp

A Computational Analysis of Hybrid Genome Assembly Strategies, Joseph Walewski

Submissions from 2022

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Best American Girl, Jacqueline Chalghin

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Capitalocene Imaginations: Settler Colonialism, Capitalism, and the Environmental Crisis in Twenty-First-Century U.S. Literature, Zoe F. Pellegrino

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Countering Literary Antisemitism: The Figure of the Jew in the Early Twentieth Century American Novel, Amanda Sanders

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Genre Fluidity in Black Speculative Fiction as an Exploration of Blackness, Jake Upton

Submissions from 2021

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Settling In, Audrey Black

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Recategorizations of Puerto Rican Diasporic Identity in the Poetry of Sandra Maria Esteves and Martín Espada, Natasha Claudio

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From Major to Minor Characters: The Fallen Woman and Her Female Friends in the Novels of Wollstonecraft, Hays, and Austen, Anne McLaughlin

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The Presidential Function: An American Public Performed Through the Rhetoric of Catastrophe, Maxwell Whisnant

Submissions from 2020

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Love and Loss in Willa Cather’s Novels, Sara Abbazia

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Mutterseelenallein: A Memoir of a Mother Tongue, Sophia Angele-Kuehn

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Fecal smearing, teacher pleasing, mistress-having grandfather, Paige Brauser

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Cutterville, Emily Douglas

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BrexLit: The Problem of Englishness in Pre- and Post-Brexit Referendum Literature, Dulcie Everitt

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Queer Substitutions: On Relations Between Women in The Portrait of a Lady and The Wings of the Dove, Rachel Haines

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Black Women Novelists’ Experimentations in Domesticity During the Unveiled Reconstruction (1865-1920), Chanté Morris

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Beyond the Borderlands: Creating a Space for the Non-Citizen Through Mexican Poetry, Deverly Perez

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Passion Fruit, Lucy Sandin

Submissions from 2019

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The Cracks Between, Katie Cowherd

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Spring Elegy, Cameron Dyer-Hawes

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Embracing Foreignness: Transplanting, Trans-nationalizing, and Translating the Stranger in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Works, Suguru Ikeda

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The Pretend Infinite, Kayla Kibbe

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Seasons of Rose, Ashley Myers

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The Evolution of the Caribbean Madwoman: From Trope to Symbol for Postcolonial Healing, Hayley Santaflorentina

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Where We Listen From, Summer Wrobel

Submissions from 2018

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Audible Killings: Capitalist Motivation, Character Construction, and the Effects of Representation in True Crime Podcasts, Maia Hibbett

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Scratch Paper, Hannah Johnston

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Practical Acts, Haley Kachmar

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Renaissance Revenge and the Age of Interiority, Riley Meachem

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Suburban Fears, Isabelle Pieper

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Monological Madness in Nabokov: A Discursive Investigation into the Solipsizing Operations of Really Unreliable Narrators, Jennifer Skoglund

Submissions from 2017

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"Until Death Brings Us Closer Together Forever": Spirituality, Corporeality, and Queer Identification with Nature in Transcendental Literature, Kathryn Alderman

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The Rewards of Impertinence: Happy and Unhappy Endings in Jane Austen's Novels, Elizabeth Bolger

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Serafina, and Other Tales of Haunted Evenings in Rome, Phoebe Corde

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The Small, Feminine Scientist: Novelty, Narrative, and Authority in the Accounts of Women in Science, Mollie Dimise

Submissions from 2016

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Painted Women: Male Representations of Prostitutes in 19th Century American and French Literature and Visual Art, Alexis Cheney

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The Bird Cage, Nicole Hogan

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Searching for God with a Space Ship: Religious Themes in Cold War Science Fiction, Kristian Maestri

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Beasts, Brides, and Brutality: The Intersection of Animalism and Gender in European Fairy Tales, Rachel Matson

Submissions from 2015

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Ruins Ahead: A Short Story Collection, Emily Becker

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Thrill of the Chafe: And Other Tales of Stubborn North Americans, Caroline Lazar

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When Identity Terms Fail: Representing Same-Sex Desire in Literature, Eleanor Merrell

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Ungodly Jews: Stories, Matthew Whiman

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We'll Eat You Up We Love You So: The Narratological Implications of Bodily Harm in the Picture Book, Abigail Woodward

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What If I Told You This Were True?: Stories, Ayla Zuraw-Friedland

Submissions from 2014

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Butterflies in Train Yards, Asia Calcagno

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Flying in Place: Black Superheroes and Their Origin Stories, Kolton Harris

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Traced Waves, Timothy Hartshorn

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Ordinary Magic: D.W. Winnicott and the E. Nesbit Tradition in Children’s Literature, Sarah Pincus

Submissions from 2013

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In a Little While: A Short Story Collection, Munib Khan

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Kings of Infinite Space: Cartography and Identity in Literature, 1599 - 1914, Caroline Mills

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Liminal Leda: A Conversation about Art, Poetry, and Vague Translations of Sex, Molly Pistrang

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All Fur and Bones, Kevin Tyler

Submissions from 2012

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Good Walls, Andrea Amulic

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April Stools’ Day, Alexander Soffron

Submissions from 2011

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The Music Room & Other Stories, Jennifer Milton

Submissions from 2009

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“Who hath the world in honde”: Conflicts of Agency in Three Canterbury Tales, Samantha Anne Streger

Submissions from 2008

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Against Accumulation: Moby-Dick, Mason & Dixon, and Atlantic Capitalism, Scott K. Borchert

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Scatterlings and Orphanages, Taylor M. Katz

Submissions from 2007

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Comunicación: Exploring Language and Cultural Barriers in Healthcare, Jessica Bayner

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Engine Song, Laura Jo Hess

Submissions from 2006

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Constructing Identity: Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand and Passing, Andrew W. Davis