Student Works is a growing list of scholarship by Hamilton students that will include course projects, public presentations, grant-supported research, and senior theses.
Browse student works below by year or visit featured projects.
2001
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