Literature Track: Student Projects
2021
| Taylee Helms, "Allegories of Constancy in Chaucer's Legend of Good Women and Christine's The Book of the City of Ladies: Thisbe's Retelling Twice" |
Detail of a miniature of Christine de Pizan presenting her manuscript to Queen Isabeau of Bavaria, France (Paris), c. 1410 – c. 1414, Harley MS 4431, f. 3r |
| Monica Kopenhaver, "Lena Grove's Emersonian Nature in William Faulkner's Light in August" |
Book Cover, Light in August by William Faulkner, 1946; Graphic design by Alvin Lustig (American, 1915–1955); USA; photo offset lithograph on white coated paper; 21.7 x 17.1 cm (8 9/16 x 6 3/4 in. ); Gift of Susan Lustig Peck; 2001-29-4 |
2020
Cailey McCabe, "'My Mill is My Castle': An Analysis of Shirley's Pessimistic Ending of Middle-Class Women and Working-Class Men"
Gehric Milton, "'I desired dragons with a profound desire': Exploring Desire and Dragons in J. R. R. Tolkein’s The Children of Hurin"
Courtney Thompson, "Tending the Fire: Indigenous Masculinities in The Birchbark House Series"
2019
Gabriela De Anda, "Don’t Look Back: Harry Potter, the Ghosts of Hogwarts and the Next Great Adventure"
Jenna Hejnar, "Acts of Enclosures: Landscapes, Gender, and Class in Charlotte Brontë's Shirley"
Susanna Millsap, "Beyond the 'angel monitress': An Analysis of Universalism and Self-Improvement in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"
2018
Daniel Gillespie, "'And the Next Ten Minutes': Present and Future Love in Jason Brown’s The Last Five Years"
Christopher Stanulonis, "'One Ring to Rule Them All?': A Comparative Analysis of Peter Jackson’s Film Trilogy and J. R. R. Tolkein’s Novels"
2017
Brennan Saddler, "Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth, A Digital Scholarly Edition"
2016
Sarah Brooks, "'The Fallen Angel Becomes a Malignant Devil': Monstrous Legacies of Femininity in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein"
Liz Case, "'To Un-English the Very Soul': Politics of Dress in A Narrative of the Life of Mary Jemison"
Henry Giovannetti, "You're Hired: An Exploration of Adulthood and Occupational Tropes in A Confederacy of Dunces"
Jesse Lobbs, "'Weeping in the Savannah': Finding a Place for Masculine Sympathy in Stedman’s Narrative"
Robert Probst, "Cognitive Analysis of Decision-Making in Life is Strange"
Thomas Webb, "Modus Operandi: Employing Distant Reading to Assess the Presence of John G. Cawelti’s “Hard-Boiled Formula” in Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler’s Short Fiction"
2015
Megan Birdsey, "Sex, Self-Service, and Satisfaction: An Exploration of Feminist Themes in Fleur Adcock's 'The Ex-Queen Among the Astronomers,' 'Against Coupling,' and 'Happy Ending'"
Zian Butler, "Rookie Rhymes: A Digital Selection of American WW1 Poetry"
Elizabeth Hoyt, "'Visions are seldom all they seem': The Modernity of Disney's Sleeping Beauty"
Brandon Schneeberger, "The Affable Ambler: Analogies in G. K. Chesterton"
Eric Tippin, "Evoking Heaven by Looking at Earth: Rudyard Kipling's Metaphysical Materialism"
2014
Alicia Beeson, "Powers Influence on Familial and Charitable Relationships in Flannery O’Connor’s Short Stories"
Rachel Ohmes, "Threatening the English Female Ideal in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette"
Kaylea Pallister, "Emily Brontë’s Heathcliff: A Case Study of U.S. Reader Response from 1848-1925"
Courtney Ress, "Dark Materials of the Beowulf-poet: The Mere that Bounds the Undiscovered Country"
2013
Ryan Bruce, "In Fellest Manner: Achilles and the Transfiguration of Masculine Power Acquisition in Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida"
Dory Cochran, "The True Woman Strikes Back: Paradoxical Representations of Motherhood and Space in Works by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and Mary Wilkins Freeman"
Pallabi Gupta, "The Fallen Woman in Alfred Tennyson’s 'The Lady of Shalott'"
Hannah Learned, “'A Dance of Domination and Submission': The Importance of Narrative Patterns to Determine the Mutual Subjectivity of Hero and Heroine"
Brian McCarty, "Connoisseurs of Chaos: Robert Frost and Wallace Stevens Explore the Neglected Domestic Space"
Kate Nygren, "Blanche DuBois and Bewitchment: The Magic of Glamour in a Streetcar Named Desire"
Cameron Seifert, "Yossarian Does Not Live: Death, Limbo, and the Redemption of Authenticity in Catch-22 and Closing Time"
2012
Katherine Damman, "Mean Girls, Queen Bees, and Witches: Witchiness in Macbeth and Mean Girls"
Stephen Harmon, "Joyce's Expressionist Portrait"
Kelly O'Sullivan, "'Chasing the sunbeams': Transient Utopia in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford"