2007
Pitying a Pedophile?: The Ethical Implications of Sympathy and Moral Judgment in Nabokov's Lolita, Lindsay Anne Matin '07
The Vonnegut Paradigm: Reading Alarm Systems in the Automated Worlds of Player Piano and The Sirens of Titan Or Goodbye Senior Thesis!, Ryan McGuirk '07
The Meat of the Culture Industry: Determining the Value of Generic Literature, Laura Oman '07
An Investigation of Gender Relations within the Black Panther Party Through Autobiography: What Are the Men Hiding? What Are the Women Revealing?, Rebecca Wagner '07 and Hannah Winer '07
2006
Self-Reflective Readers & Self-Reflexive Writers: The Logistics of Metafiction, Christopher T. Fazio '06
The Making of Charlotte Smith: Romantic Artist, Successful Businesswoman, Katrina Fredlund '06
Beyond the Controversy: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as a Multicultural Text, Ellen Horbett '06
Dissolving Boundaries: Connecting Nature and Society in The God of Small Things, Anne Schlesinger '06
Women, War, and the Artist: The Destruction of Masculinity in the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Laura Stern '06
The Construction of a Woman's Language in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse and Toni Morrison's Beloved, Jessica Wolinsky '06
2005
Coming of Age of the Little Friend of All the World: A Critical Examination of Identity In Rudyard Kipling's Kim, Katherine Caldwell '05
The Warrior Within: The Anglo-Saxon Phoenix in Cultural Context, Ana Maria Comparetto 2005
Paranoia and Probability in Gravity's Rainbow, Jake Hartnett '05
"A Terrible Beauty:" The Representation of Political Violence in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats, Katie Ladd '05
A Coalescing of Forces: The Expressive Capacity of the New Journalism and Genre Hybridism, Michelle Marjory Levi '05
Surviving the Language Game: Language and Survival in Don Delillo's End Zone, Cyrus Philbrick '05
Rediscovering Ethnic Identity: Irish-American Literature in the 1990's, Molly Wilson '05
2004
Keith Douglas: A New Poetic Response to War, Louis Bosso '04
2003
The West is the Best?: The Revision and Criticism of Frontier Mythology in Cormac McCarthy'd Blood Meridian and E.L. Doctorow's Welcome to Hard Times, Schuyler Chapman '03
Creating a New Identity in Contemporary Drama: Redefining History and Culture, Monica do Outeiro '03
Mallrats' Shakespeare: O and William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet, Rebecca Fabricant '03
The Contrived Honest Liar: Narrative Unreliability in The Yellow Wallpaper and The Turn of the Screw, Allison Courtney Fitch '03
Unearthing The Real Hemingway: Polyphonic Gender Expression in The Sun Also Rises, Schuyler Gellatly '03
Decadent New Women and the Philosophy of Schopenhauer, Cory Lown '03
Disobedient Women: Representations of Gender in Cycle Drama, Alisa Nichols '03
Taking Yeats Out of (a Cultural) Context: An Examination of Critical and Pedagogical Approaches to the Study of W.B. Yeats in Ireland and the United States, Dathalinn M. O'Dea '03
Unreliable Authority in Rushdie's Midnight's Children and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, Linwood Rumney '03
2002
Gender Drama: Misogyny, Homosocial Bonding, and Female Domination in the Work of Harold Pinter and David Mamet, Mike D'Alessandro '02
Misogynist "Mis"-Readings of Milton: A Response to Feminist Critics through an Evaluation of Eve's Birth and Reconciliation with Adam in Paradise Lost, Katherine C. Dewart '02
Empire and Escape Artists: Virginia Woolf as Critic of Imperialism and Englishness, Colleen Fenity '02
Applications of the Postpositivist Reality Theory of Identity to Literature, Ashley Lee '02
"Mirrour of Grace and Majeistie Diuine" The Allegorical Presentation and Formation of Elizabeth I in Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Liam Meyer '02
Rediscovering Chaucer: Preserving Style, Satire, and Sense in High School Literature Textbooks, Celeste R. Passos '02
2001
Hearing Transcendental Voices in James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, James T.C. Bentley '01
Reader Response Theory and The Canterbury Tales: Reading Chaucer's Clerk's Tale Responsibly, Lew Gleich '01
Conceiving a m(O)ther Consciousness: French Feminism, Monstrous Maternity and the Female Gothic Tradition, Christina Marie Parker '01
Rupturing the Text: T.S. Eliot and Gertrude Stein, Erin E. Post '01
2000
The Ambiguity that Shapes Our Ends: Interpretation, Performance, and the Endings of the Renaissance Drama, Daniele J. Berman '00
"Steps to raise me to Fame's tower:" Margaret Cavendish and the Construction of Personal Fame Through Authorship, Bonnie Erwin '00
Shooting Blind: Plot, Genre, and Ideology in Nashville and Blind Man with a Pistol, John Farranto '00
"Better to Reign In Hell Than Serve In Heaven:" Differing Conceptions of Monarchy in Paradise Lost, Joseph Freeman '00
“Ne jo n’ai soig mais de taisir”: Non-binary Gender Expression in Le Roman de Silence, Patricia H. Gagnon
Fractured Unity: the Responses of F.T. Marinetti and Zora Neale Hurston to the Question of National Identity, Lindsay Getman
Moving Through Mediums: Plath Adaptations for Women Today, Katherine Gwydir
Judging a Book by its Own Standards: Using Character to Evaluate the Literary Merit of Susan Warner's The Wide, Wide World, Jennifer Sara Jefferson '00
“The Modern Doctrine”: The Archimedean Point of Drum-Taps in Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, Lindsay Kramer
Negotiating the Color Line: The Transcription of African Folk Tales in Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman, Matthew Linden
Saul Bellow's Solution: Placing the Displaced Modern American and Contemporary Author, Chris Machera '00
A Way out of Loneliness: Connectedness in the Nonfiction of Zadie Smith, George Saunders, David Foster Wallace, and Jonathan Franzen, James O'Connell
The Prevalence of Death and Other Unhappy Endings in Queer Female Narratives and the Impact of These Narratives on Queer Communities, Olivia Paradice
The Triumph of the Screenplay in William Faulkner's The Big Sleep, Andrew Whalen
1998
The Tree, the Mantis, and the Snakeskin: Dillard's Scientific and Spiritual Journal of Tinker Creek, Kate Dalke '98