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.
2003
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
Observational limits on quantum geometry effects, Tomasz J. Konopka '02 and Seth Major
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