English Honors Papers
Submissions from 2024
As Lambs Among Wolves, Ava Ferrigno
The Capacity of An Unfaltering Duress: America's Lost Love Stories, Seth Shimmelfarb-Wells
Submissions from 2023
Passerby to Sonder: How Black Literary Sources Use Dance to Carve Out Relational Possibility, Zion Martin-Hayes
Anatomy of Reconstruction, Elora Roy
Versions of a Woman out of Love, Jess Rush
Vistas of Grief: Virginia Woolf and the Epoch of Climate Change, Zoe Stapp
Submissions from 2022
Best American Girl, Jacqueline Chalghin
Capitalocene Imaginations: Settler Colonialism, Capitalism, and the Environmental Crisis in Twenty-First-Century U.S. Literature, Zoe F. Pellegrino
Countering Literary Antisemitism: The Figure of the Jew in the Early Twentieth Century American Novel, Amanda Sanders
Genre Fluidity in Black Speculative Fiction as an Exploration of Blackness, Jake Upton
Submissions from 2021
Settling In, Audrey Black
Recategorizations of Puerto Rican Diasporic Identity in the Poetry of Sandra Maria Esteves and Martín Espada, Natasha Claudio
From Major to Minor Characters: The Fallen Woman and Her Female Friends in the Novels of Wollstonecraft, Hays, and Austen, Anne McLaughlin
The Presidential Function: An American Public Performed Through the Rhetoric of Catastrophe, Maxwell Whisnant
Submissions from 2020
Love and Loss in Willa Cather’s Novels, Sara Abbazia
Mutterseelenallein: A Memoir of a Mother Tongue, Sophia Angele-Kuehn
Fecal smearing, teacher pleasing, mistress-having grandfather, Paige Brauser
Cutterville, Emily Douglas
BrexLit: The Problem of Englishness in Pre- and Post-Brexit Referendum Literature, Dulcie Everitt
Queer Substitutions: On Relations Between Women in The Portrait of a Lady and The Wings of the Dove, Rachel Haines
Black Women Novelists’ Experimentations in Domesticity During the Unveiled Reconstruction (1865-1920), Chanté Morris
Beyond the Borderlands: Creating a Space for the Non-Citizen Through Mexican Poetry, Deverly Perez
Passion Fruit, Lucy Sandin
Submissions from 2019
The Cracks Between, Katie Cowherd
Spring Elegy, Cameron Dyer-Hawes
Embracing Foreignness: Transplanting, Trans-nationalizing, and Translating the Stranger in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Works, Suguru Ikeda
The Pretend Infinite, Kayla Kibbe
Seasons of Rose, Ashley Myers
The Evolution of the Caribbean Madwoman: From Trope to Symbol for Postcolonial Healing, Hayley Santaflorentina
Where We Listen From, Summer Wrobel
Submissions from 2018
Audible Killings: Capitalist Motivation, Character Construction, and the Effects of Representation in True Crime Podcasts, Maia Hibbett
Scratch Paper, Hannah Johnston
Practical Acts, Haley Kachmar
Renaissance Revenge and the Age of Interiority, Riley Meachem
Suburban Fears, Isabelle Pieper
Monological Madness in Nabokov: A Discursive Investigation into the Solipsizing Operations of Really Unreliable Narrators, Jennifer Skoglund
Submissions from 2017
"Until Death Brings Us Closer Together Forever": Spirituality, Corporeality, and Queer Identification with Nature in Transcendental Literature, Kathryn Alderman
The Rewards of Impertinence: Happy and Unhappy Endings in Jane Austen's Novels, Elizabeth Bolger
Serafina, and Other Tales of Haunted Evenings in Rome, Phoebe Corde
The Small, Feminine Scientist: Novelty, Narrative, and Authority in the Accounts of Women in Science, Mollie Dimise
Submissions from 2016
Painted Women: Male Representations of Prostitutes in 19th Century American and French Literature and Visual Art, Alexis Cheney
The Bird Cage, Nicole Hogan
Searching for God with a Space Ship: Religious Themes in Cold War Science Fiction, Kristian Maestri
Beasts, Brides, and Brutality: The Intersection of Animalism and Gender in European Fairy Tales, Rachel Matson
Submissions from 2015
Ruins Ahead: A Short Story Collection, Emily Becker
Thrill of the Chafe: And Other Tales of Stubborn North Americans, Caroline Lazar
When Identity Terms Fail: Representing Same-Sex Desire in Literature, Eleanor Merrell
Ungodly Jews: Stories, Matthew Whiman
We'll Eat You Up We Love You So: The Narratological Implications of Bodily Harm in the Picture Book, Abigail Woodward
What If I Told You This Were True?: Stories, Ayla Zuraw-Friedland
Submissions from 2014
Butterflies in Train Yards, Asia Calcagno
Flying in Place: Black Superheroes and Their Origin Stories, Kolton Harris
Traced Waves, Timothy Hartshorn
Ordinary Magic: D.W. Winnicott and the E. Nesbit Tradition in Children’s Literature, Sarah Pincus
Submissions from 2013
In a Little While: A Short Story Collection, Munib Khan
Kings of Infinite Space: Cartography and Identity in Literature, 1599 - 1914, Caroline Mills
Liminal Leda: A Conversation about Art, Poetry, and Vague Translations of Sex, Molly Pistrang
All Fur and Bones, Kevin Tyler
Submissions from 2012
Good Walls, Andrea Amulic
April Stools’ Day, Alexander Soffron
Submissions from 2011
The Music Room & Other Stories, Jennifer Milton
Submissions from 2009
“Who hath the world in honde”: Conflicts of Agency in Three Canterbury Tales, Samantha Anne Streger
Submissions from 2008
Against Accumulation: Moby-Dick, Mason & Dixon, and Atlantic Capitalism, Scott K. Borchert
Scatterlings and Orphanages, Taylor M. Katz
Submissions from 2007
Comunicación: Exploring Language and Cultural Barriers in Healthcare, Jessica Bayner
Engine Song, Laura Jo Hess
Submissions from 2006
Constructing Identity: Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand and Passing, Andrew W. Davis