2023
Maturity in Children's Literature, Santiago (Santi) Chamorro '25
2022
Expansion and Progress: Walt Whitman’s Visions and Revisions of American Prosperity, Samuel Dils '22
Violent Archetypes in Elfriede Jelinek’s The Piano Teacher and Fernanda Melchor’s Hurricane Season, Gregory Duke '22
Arthur Once and Future: Death, Disunity, and Temporal Disjunction in The Awntyrs off Arthure, Clara Kohrman '22
Imperfect Mirror: Affect, ethics, and homage in E.M. Forster’s Howards End and Zadie Smith’s On Beauty, Garret Lualdi '22
Not Like the Other Girls: Tomboy Narratives in Carson McCullers’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter and Karen Russell’s Swamplandia!, Rachel Lu '22
The Triumph of a Feminine Ethic of Care in Matthew Lewis’ The Monk, Alexandra Millar '22
The War and The Road: Revisiting the Authenticity of Ernest Hemingway and Jack Kerouac in an Age of Evolved Masculinity, John Sullivan '22
‘That Gaze Across the Gulf of Being’: The Culture of Disalienation and its Limits in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed, Samantha Tassillo '22
Bad Blood: Deconstructing Fantasies of Empathetic Capitalism in The Merchant of Venice and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Audrey Wallace '22
2021
Racial Injustice and the Black Lives Matter Movement, Owen Anastas '22, Jade Levitin '23, Lena Schneck '23, Hannah Terao '23, and Kelcie Zarle '22
Loyalty and Lust: A Close Reading of Aaron’s Interactions with Tamora in Modern Productions of Titus Andronicus, Isabel Bates '21
Unlocking the Roman à Clef: Gossip as a Literary Concept in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Blithedale Romance, Genevieve Cohen '21
Contemplating Race and the Sentimental Genre in Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Daniella M. Edwards '21
Labor Trafficking in the U.S., Abby Goodman '21, Laura Jeffries '23, Maeve Wroblewski '23, and Tiffany Lopes '21
Toward a Moral Education in Literature: A Comparison of Lolita and Johnny Mad Dog, Haley Katz '21
Collection of Solitary Confinement Witness Testimony, Brooke Kessler '22, Lynn Kim '21, Drew Frey '23, Percy Mixson '24, and Tatum Barclay '22
Asians at Hamilton: The Asian and Asian American Experience, Jason Le '23, Nyaari Kothiya 23, Crystal Lin '22, Maya Nguyen-Haberneski '23, Min Yu Huang '24, Rachel Lu '22, Allie LeeHoffman '23, Khuslen Tulga '23, Michelle Liu '23, Anna Sakamoto '23, and Michelle Zheng '24
Gloria Naylor’s 1996: Where Form Breeds Content, Philip Marks '21
A Portrait of Gertrice/Altrude: (Self-)Portraiture and Alterity in Gertrude Stein's Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Kyra Richardson '21
Feeling Like a Jew, Leo Ross '21
Performing Queenship: The Fairy Queen in the Elvetham and Ditchley Progresses, Majestic R. Terhune '21
An Incomprehensible Passage of Time: Authorial Control and Bewilderment in “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Swimmer”, Eleonor Wolf '21
The Evolution of the “Woman Warrior”: Reconfiguring Asian American Femininity, Stephanie Wu '21
2019
Representing Childbirth: Making and Unmaking Language to Communicate Experiences of the Body, Sabrina Boutselis '19
Cloaking Desire: Stasis and Sexuality in Nikolai Gogol's Short Stories, Katie Dolan '19
Christine de Pizan as Architect of Women’s Spaces in The Book of the City of Ladies, Allison Donlan '19
Intentional Inheritance: William Faulkner and Gabriel García Márquez in Jeffrey Eugenides’ The Virgin Suicides, Elizabeth Maier '19
Passing: The Performance and Visibility of Identity, Kendall Nichelle Rallins '19
Waving in the Ferns: Nature, Imagination, and Storytelling in Anne of Green Gables and Emily of New Moon, Haley Tietz '19
"A Divided Duty:" Liminal Space and Coming-of-Age in Shakespeare's Father/Daughter Relationships, Alexa Zildjian '19
2018
Autotelia: Composing the Self Through Personal Critical Theory, Annie H. Berman '18
Shamanism in an Inflexible Society: Slaughterhouse-Five and Briefing for a Descent Into Hell, Dana Holloway '18
Valmont and the Allure of Virtue in Pierre Choderlos de Laclos’s Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Sarah Morrill '18
Feminine Heroism in Scandinavian Variants of Aarne-Thompson Uther Tale Type 425A, Paula Weiman '18
Approaching Traditions: the Ideological Ambivalence of Modern Intellectuals in 20th-century Ireland and China, Hou "Chloe" Xiaohan '18
2017
U.S. Geography for Children, Matt Albino '19 and Jared Mandelbaum '18
How Publishing Detrimentally Determines Dickinson's Poetry, Mali Barker '17
Imogene's Antlers, Daniel Berrick '18, Stephen Clement '19, and Fiona Griffin '18
Oceanography, Zach Blumenkehl '18, Alexa Rosella '18, and Emily Liu '19
Wyoming, Luke Carstens '21
Dark Prince, Shelby Amour Castillo '19 and David Dacres '18
Crow Boy, Julia Dupuis '21
Escape, Parker Esty '21
Civilization Before Greece and Rome, Jess Halladay '18, Tripp Miller '18, and Nicole Lyons '18
Humorous Poetry, Kyandreia Jones '19
The Devil Finds Work, Kyandreia Jones '19
Squids Will Be Squids, Meg Josephson '18, Anna Rich '18, and Natalie Burkardt '18
Making a Monster, Amanda Kim '21
Eating at Commons, Sabrina Kleckner '19, Jessie Dromsky-Reed '19, and Cassie Howard '18
The History of Western Civilization, Nate Kremer '18 and Andrew Groll '19
You Don't Need It. You Just Want It!, Madeleine Lepesant '19 and Michelle Guaman '18
A Sociological Almanac for the United States, Claire Lincoln '20 and Alex Straus '18
Slam, Emma Lynam '21
The Dark Wood, Bianca Macdonald '21
Creepy Cards: Henry and Mudge, Christopher Mailman '21
Creepy Cards: The Greedy Grabber, Christopher Mailman '21
Creepy Cards: Zack, Christopher Mailman '21
Body. Found. Dead., Nicole Miller '21
Washington's Revolution, Nicole Miller '21
How to Draw Funny Faces, Claire Nicholson '20, Deirdre Schutzman '20, and Brian Lawson '20
Civilization, Samuel Ntim-Addae '21
Fraud, Waste, Life, Samuel Ntim-Addae '21
Victims Unit, Samuel Ntim-Addae '21
Spelling Test, Sarah Ostrow '18, Rachel Cooley '18, and Kate Gwydir '18
Blue Mrs. Margery Cannon and Other Poems, Quentin Reynolds '21
How to Deal with Monsters, Quentin Reynolds '21
The Emperor, Gray, Quentin Reynolds '21
The Invasion of the Soviet, Quentin Reynolds '21
Fantasy of His Friends, Emily Rivito '21
The Egg Tree, Reilly Shew '19, Dana Marrocco '19, and Chris Cuomo '18
Richard, Haruna Shimizu '21
Tobacco, Lauren Stoddart
Effective Psychotherapy, Maura Torres '18 and Cilly Geranios '19
It Wasn't What She Expected, Alina van den Berg '21
Dusty and His Dogs, Alexander Walen '21
The Brain, Max Zimmerman '21
2015
Constructed Intimacy: How Christian Devotional Poets Manage Audience, Emma Bowman '15
“Eddying with the vowels of all rivers”: Language, Body, and Gender in Finnegans Wake, Hannah Chappell '15
2014
Color Theory in Tess of the D’Urbervilles: The Elicitation of Sympathy through a Verbal Palette, Abigail Saks '14
“Gatherers of Flowers” and Introductions to “Greatness and Variety”: Anthologists' Roles in the Formation and Interpretation of the Canon, Grace Parker Zielinski '14
2013
“Thy Love to Empire I Prefer!” The Function of Romantic Love in Nahum Tate’s King Lear, Cooper Creagan '13
A&Q Presents: September 11, 2013, Naomi Guttman and Nick Geisler '14
A&Q Presents: November 13, 2013, Doran Larson and Emma Laperruque '14
“Colours Intolerably Bright”: The Presence of the Past In Sean O’Faolain’s The Man Who Invented Sin and Frank O’Connor’s Crab Apple Jelly, Genevieve Davinia Nierman '13
A&Q Presents: December 11, 2013, Jane Springer and Kina Viola '14
2012
Jane Austen’s Censure of Mercenary Marriage: Who Crosses the Line and How Do We Know?, Laura Gilson '12
Modernism and Cultural Economies: Neo-Marxian and Keynesian Anticipations in T.S. Eliot, Pat McNally '12
Prison Writing and Beckett, Andrew Taub '12
“Once Upon a Time in Victorian England: Translating the Brothers Grimm for a British Audience”, Chelsea Wiggins '12
2011
Empowered Ladies and Gentlemen of Grass-Green Complexions: Feminist and Post-Colonial Close Readings of Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World, Caitlin C. Fitzsimons '11
2008
F. Scott Fitzgerald's Short Fiction and the Literary Values of the Jazz Age, Ali Fisher '08
In Sickness and in Hell: a Study of Religious Fantasy and Satire in Good Omens and The Screwtape Letters, Whitney P. Kimmel '08
Ceremonies and Song: Folklore in the Works of Silko and Morrison, Katherine Minton '08
Performing the Polite Young Lady: Frances Burney and the Politics of the Manners Novels, Victoria Schacht '08