English

In its Honors Program the English Department awards only Honors to successful student research projects (effective May 2017). The projects listed below have been defended successfully, and a copy of the thesis deposited in Swem Library. Click on highlighted links to access the thesis.

Key:

Student, "Thesis" (Honors level)
Committee Chair + Other Committee Members

2022-2023

Mariana Rose Kornreich, "Haunted Panes and Psychic Casements: Windows in Wuthering Heights and Villette" (Honors)
Deborah Morse + Liz Barnes, Francesca Sawaya , Xin Conan-Wu
Catherine Nicole Lashley, "Beyond a Partnership Ethic: Evolutions of Ecofeminism in the Post-Apocalyptic Landscapes of Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy and Jean Hegland's Into the Forest" (Honors)
Keith Johnson + Melanie Dawson , Liz Losh , Monica Seger
Olivia Jean Little, "I Do: Historicizing Marriage and Courtship in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (1813) and Emma (1816) and Their Screen Adaptations" (Honors)
Kim Wheatley + Deborah Morse, Brett Wilson , Kathrin Levitan
Trinity Monica Myers, "A World Half Created: The Imaginative Power of Sound in the Poetry of William Wordsworth" (Honors)
Adam Potkay + Kim Wheatley, Simon Joyce, Lily Panoussi
Juliet Harris Nierle, "Pastries and Plots: Food Rhetoric and Gender Struggles in Shakespeare’s Plays" (Honors)
Erin Minear + Erin Webster , Alicia Andrzejewski , Christopher Freiman
Sarah Catherine Richman, "Deforesting the ‘Princely Trunk:’ Deforestation and Invasion in Shakespeare’s Plays” (Honors)
Alicia Andrzejewski + Erin Minear, Bené Ferrão, Nick Popper
Mikeila Noel Whitney, "Visualizing the Liminal: Confrontations with Female Passivity in Edith Wharton's Gothic Short Stories" (Honors)
Melanie Dawson + Keith Johnson, Rich Lowry, Alan Braddock

2021-2022

Sabrien Abdelrahman, "Afro-Diasporic (Dis)Illusionment: Perceptions of the American Dream in Americanah and Behold the Dreamers" (Honors)
R Benedito Ferrao + Hermine Pinson, Chima Osakwe, Chinua Thelwell
William Brake, "Remystifying the Modern World: Magical Realism and the Reappropriation of the Christian Imaginary in Beloved and The Master and Margarita" (Honors)
Mary Lynn Weiss + Adam Potkay, Francesca Sawaya, Alexander Prokhorov
Katherine Grotewiel, "Carcern' and 'Wordcræft': Enclosure, Connection and Gender in Cynewulf's "Juliana" and "Elene"" (Honors)
Jennifer Lorden + Erin Minear, Alicia Andrzejewski
Cecilia Hughes, "Ambitious Boys and Girls: Childhood Failure and Gender Norms in Little Women and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (Honors)
Richard Lowry + Liz Barnes, Jenny Putzi, Leisa Meyer
Mary Kardos, ""But a Contraband is a Free Man:" Civil War Literature and the Figure of the "Contraband"" (Honors)
Jennifer Putzi + Chris MacGowan, Rich Lowry, Hannah Rosen
Kathryn Kowalski, "Feelings of Fallenness: Affect and Gender in Victorian Fallen Woman Novels" (Honors)
Deborah Morse + Suzanne Raitt, Simon Joyce, Kathy Levitan
Samantha Murphy, "Framing the Female Narrative: Male Audiences and Women's Storytelling Within Two Bronte Novels" (Honors)
Deborah Morse + Kim Wheatley, Suzanne Raitt, Kathy Levitan
Hunter Phillips, "Geomorlic' or 'Eorlic?' Uncovering Early English Emotional Communities in "The Wanderer," "Deor," and "The Wife’s Lament"" (Honors)
Jennifer Lorden + Suzanne Hagedorn, Erin Webster, Lu Ann Homza

2020-2021

Kathryn Dragonetti, "mo(u)rning person" (Honors)
Andrew Blossom + Jon Pineda, Alicia Andrzejewski, Dana Willner
Alexa Kelly, "With Inviolable Voice, We Melt into Each Other with Phrases: The Construction and Deconstruction of Heteroglossia in T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land and Virginia Woolf's The Waves" (Honors)
Simon Joyce + Suzanne Raitt, Adam Potkay, Alexander Prokhorov
Katherine Lucas, "Flipping the Castle: Evolution of Gothic Spaces in the Domestic Sphere" (Honors)
Keith Johnson + Kim Wheatley, Brett Wilson, Jerry Watkins III
Jonathan Malks, "“Garden-Magic”: Conceptions of Nature in Edith Wharton’s Fiction" (Honors)
Melanie V. Dawson + Elizabeth Barnes, Alan C. Braddock, Francesca Sawaya
Robert Metaxatos, "Laurence Sterne: A Different Way of Approaching the Notion of Life in the Early Novel" (Honors)
Brett Wilson + Adam Potkay, Keith Johnson, Giulia Pacini
Louise Strange, "Whole and Hybrid: Resisting Essentialism in The Satanic Verses and The Impressionist" (Honors)
M. Lynn Weiss + Simon Joyce, R. Benedito Ferrao, Chinua Thelwell
Benjamin Woessner, "The Humorous Tradition in Arthurian Grail Literature" (Honors)
Suzanne Hagedorn + Richard Lowry, Jennifer Lorden, Alexander Angelov
Zheng Yu, "Purple Magpie Terrace: A Story of His and Hers" (Honors)
Jon Pineda + Henry Hart, Erin Webster, Francis Tanglao Aguas

2019-2020

Quinn Arnone, "The Commodification of Helen: Tracing the Phallic Economy of Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida" (Honors)
Suzanne Hagedorn + Adam Potkay, Erin Webster, Lily Panoussi
Bianca Bowman, "Confronting Toxicity from the Beehive: Ecofeminist Alternatives to Capitalism" (Honors)
Melanie Dawson + Jenny Putzi, Keith Johnson, Claire McKinney
Aida Campos, "The Sun Sets on Chinchontepec: (Re)productions of Salvadoran Memory" (Honors)
Jon Pineda + Hermine Pinson, Silvia Tandeciarz, Scott Challener
Sarah Elam, "Charlotte Brontë's Victorian Women: A Psychological Analysis in Light of Jungian Theory" (Honors)
Mary Ann Melfi + Suzanne Raitt, Varun Begley, Alexander Prokhorov
Hunter Hall, "Speaker into Specimen: The Representation of Dialect in Victorian Fiction" (Honors)
Suzanne Raitt + Deborah Morse, Kim Wheatley, Talbot Taylor
Samuel McIntyre, "The Homoerotic Architectures of Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (Honors)
Deborah Morse + Kim Wheatley, Simon Joyce, Leisa Myer
Edward Millman, "You Only Have Time to Explode’”: Nathanael West’s Novels, Mass Media, and Illusory Dreams" (Honors)
Christopher MacGowan + Susan Donaldson, Rich Lowry, Charlie McGovern
Marriya Schwarz, "Tell Me What You Really Think (A Novel)" (Honors)
Brian Castleberry +Jennifer Putzi, Charles McGovern, Thomas Batten
Sophia Shealy, "Emergency Contact" (Honors level)
Brian Castleberry + Other Committee Members
Noah Terrell, "J.G. Ballard and the Anthropocene" (Honors)
Keith Leslie Johnson + Rich Lowry, Varun Begley, Monica Seger
Jessica Urgo, "Blue Cathedral" (Honors)
Brian Castleberry + Jon Pineda, John Riofrio, Melanie Dawson
Kelsey Vita, "Inherited Reproduction of Violence and Trauma in 1990’s Literary Immigrant Families: An Exploration of Lucy; Breath, Eyes, Memory; and Drown" (Honors)
Richard Lowry + Hermine Pinson, Scott Challener, John Riofrio
Angela West, "Resurrecting the Women of The Waste Land" (Honors)
Henry Hart + Chris MacGowan, Suzanne Raitt, Leisa Myer

2018-19

Katherine Avery, "(In)Human Anatomies: Constructions of Whiteness and Otherness in the Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft" (Honors)
Richard Lowry + Arthur Knight, Bené Ferrao, Charles McGoven
Devon Boyers, "'I walk pure before God!': Narrative Structure and Reimagined Negotiations in the Victorian Female Bildungsroman" (Honors)
Deborah Morse + Erin Webster, Mary Ann Melfi, Kathrin Levitan
Jacqueline Keshner, "Creative Currencies: Circulation and Sovereignty in The Alchemist, Urania, and The Blazing World" (Honors)
Erin Webster + Erin Minear, Francesca Sawaya, Dawn Edmiston
Caroline Kessler, "Haunted Housewives: Shirley Jackson’s Domestic Gothic"
Keith Johnson + Chris MacGowan, Colleen Kennedy, Leisa Meyer
Kelsey Llewellyn, "A Portrait of Women’s Property: An Analysis of Married Women’s Property Rights in The Portrait of a Lady, The Spoils of Poynton and Howards End" (Honors)
Melanie Dawson + Francesca Sawaya, Deborah Morse, A. Angelov
Anna McAnnally, "Recovering Affiliates: Reclassifying Emily Dickinson's Variant Poems"
Jennifer Putzi + Liz Barnes, Nancy Schoenberger, Jessica Stevens
Ryan Onders, "Billy's Burg: Investigating Colonial and Capitalist Constructions through Poetry" (Honors)
Hermine Pinson + Jon Pineda, Bene Ferrao, Jonathan Glasser
Stephen Ryan, "'This Great Theatre of Nature': Henry Fielding and the Ancient Comic Stage" (Honors)
Brett Wilson + Kim Wheatley, Adam Potkay, Mitchell Brown
Richard Stevenson, "Thoughtful Books and Thoughtful Lives: Androgyny and Gender Dynamics in the Works of Sherwood Anderson"
Christopher MacGowan + Rich Lowry, Francesca Sawaya, Laurie Wolf
Katharine Williams, "The Sacred Touch of Hallowed Hands: Tracing the Holy through the Haptic in George Eliot’s Early Work" (Honors)
Deborah Morse + Suzanne Raitt, Brett Wilson, Giulia Pacini
Colleen Wilson, "Sensational Investigations: Social decay and reform in the Victorian sensation novel" (Honors)
Kim Wheatley + Romuald Lipcius, Junping Shi
Anna Wingfield, "Wordsworth's British Empire: Property, Liberty, and the Slave Question" (Honors)
Kim Wheatley + Erin Webster, Adam Potkay, Kathrin Levitan

2017-18

Christina Danberg, "'O God Within My Breast': The Religion of Emily Brontë" (Honors)
Deborah Morse + Kim Wheatley, Mary Ann Melfi, Claire McKinney
Charlotte DeForest, "Myth of a Nation: National Identity in the Fantasy of J.R.R. Tolkien and Neil Gaiman" (Honors)
Kara Thompson + Keith Johnson, Brian Castleberry, Joanna Schug
Elizabeth Flood, "'Reader, I Did Not Marry Him:' Marriage Proposals, Choice, and Female Desire in the Victorian Era" (Honors)
Deborah Morse + Simon Joyce, Suzanne Raitt, Leisa Meyer
Dana Florczak, "Resistance and Women's Solidarity in The Handmaid's Tale, from 1985 to 2017" (Honors)
Francesca Sawaya + Suzanne Raitt, Keith Johnson, Hannah Rosen
Sarah Heins, "Patients, Prose, and Poetry: The Medical and Literary World of William Carlos Williams" (Honors)
Christopher MacGowan + Robert Scholnick, Henry Hart, Beverly Sher
Jiayue Jiang, "Education in the Novels of Thomas Hardy" (Honors)
Suzanne Raitt + Deborah Morse, Liz Barnes, Paul Manna
Emma Johnson, "Stripping the Paint: Uncovering the Self-Made Man in The Rise of Silas Lapham and The Great Gatsby" (Honors)
Melanie Dawson + Christopher MacGowan, Richard Lowry, Mary Kirsh
Elijah Levine, "'Glimmerings, Hints, and Secret Amazements': William Blake, Walt Whitman, and the Spiritual Incantations of Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl'" (Honors)
Richard Lowry + Brett Wilson, Christopher MacGowan, Simon Stow
Annabel McSpadden, "Transparent Sketches: A Field Journal of Silence" (Honors)
Chelsey Johnson + Jennifer Putzi, Suzanne Raitt, Daniel Cristol
Jessica Molz, "Winter's Bane: Part One" (Honors)
Melanie Dawson + John Conlee, Philip Daileader, Colin Sargent, Kevin Smith
Bailey Orr, "The Forgotten Beauty of the Feminine: Elena Guro's The Little Camels of the Sky, Virginia Woolf's The Waves, and the Holy Grail of the 'Women's Sentence'" (Honors)
Christy Burns + Robert Mulcahy, Francesca Sawaya, Suzanne Raitt, Alexander Prokhorov
Bezawit Yohannes, "Black Girl Magic: Intersectional Self-Definition in Young Adult Afrocentric Fantasy" (Honors)
Hermine Pinson + Keith Johnson, Iyabo Osiapem, Olaocha Nwabara

2016-17

Emily Armstrong, "Love on a Blighted Star: Nature and Female Sexuality in the Novels of Thomas Hardy" (Honors)
Deborah Morse + Elizabeth Barnes, Kathrin Levitan, Mary Ann Melfi
Kayla Armstrong, ""If there be such space:" Haunted Landscapes and Crises of Sonhood in Cormac McCarthy's Westerns" (Honors)
Richard Lowry + Colleen Kennedy, Kara Thompson, Tim Barnard
Lydia Brown, "Rites: Poems" (Honors)
Henry Hart + Nancy Schoenberger, Martha Alexander, Brian Hulse
Sarah Collier, "Working the Garden: Women and Religion in Apocalyptic Fiction" (Honors)
Melanie Dawson + Christy Burns, Keith Johnson, Carey Bagdassarian
Sophia Farion, "The Subversion of Wagnerian Gender Dynamics in James Joyce’s Ulysses" (Honors)
Christy Burns + Simon Joyce, Mary Ann Melfi, James Armstrong
Hayley Hahn, "Aphra Behn, One of Churchill’s Top Girls?: Assessing Caryl Churchill’s Lack of Deference to Behn’s Legacy" (Honors)
Brett Wilson + Varun Begley, Laurie Wolf, Elizabeth Wiley
Cameron Menchel, "The Northern Novel of Manners: Wuthering Heights & The Invention of a Genre" (Honors)
Deborah Morse + Kim Wheatley, Kathrin Levitan, Suzanne Raitt
Holly Reynolds, "Defining Ambiguous: Lesbianism and the Vampire in “Christabel” and Carmilla" (Honors)
Kim Wheatley + Suzanne Raitt, Deborah Morse, Kathrin Levitan
Aidan Selmer, "Scattered Prizes: Colonial Fantasies and the Material Body in the English Renaissance Blazon" (Honors)
Erin Minear + Brett Wilson, Erin Webster, Nicholas Popper

2015-16

Noah Brooksher, " “Insane for the Destination:” Disrupting the Teleological Impulses of Sylvia Plath’s Ariel and Adrienne Rich’s Diving into the Wreck" (Highest Honors)
Henry Hart + Susan Donaldson, Jennifer Putzi, Victoria Castillo
Shannon Callahan, "Catharsis"
Chelsey Johnson + Nancy Schoenberger, Hermine Pinson, Paul Davies
Kathryn Darling, "Renegotiating the Apocalypse: Mary Shelley’s "The Last Man" (High Honors)
Kim Wheatley + Brett Wilson, Suzanne Raitt, Jennifer Taylor
Eamonn deLacy, "The Ludic Life of Things: Explorations in the Vitality of the Ludic Object in Contemporary Narratives" (Highest Honors)
Christy Burns + Kara Thompson, Nicholas Popper, Elizabeth Losh
Molly Earner, "Our Lady (a novel in progress)" (High Honors)
Brian Castleberry + Chelsey Johnson, Jennifer Putzi, Maureen Fitzgerald
Emily Nye, "Telling the Stories that Can't Be Told: Translating War in Hemingway, Vonnegut, and O'Brien" (High Honors)
Elizabeth Barnes + Colleen Kennedy, Melanie Dawson, Jennifer Taylor
Katianna Tron, "Sarah Josepha Hale: Editorial Advocate for Educational Improvement" (Honors)
Jennifer Putzi + Elizabeth Barnes, Karin Wulf, Francesa Sawaya
Nicole Walsh, "The Revolutionary New Woman: Renegotiating her Social Contract through Sex" (High Honors)
Deborah Morse + Suzanne Raitt, Simon Joyce, Kathrin Levitan

2014-15

Leah Bailey, "Open Wounds, Shrunk...but Wounds Still: Mental Illness in the Life and Literature of F. Scott Fitzgerald" (Honors)
Henry Hart + Walter Wenska, Melanie Dawson and Todd Thrash
Maria Dougherty, "Eugenides' The Virgin Suicides and Zuzak's The Book Thief: Impossible Narration in Millennial Fiction" (High Honors)
Colleen Kennedy + Deborah Morse, Brian Castleberry and Charles Palermo
Diana Floegel, ""How Do I Know What I Think Till I See What I Say?" William James's and Carl Jung's Ideas on the Unconscious Mind as Applied to Stegner" (High Honors)
Mary Ann Melfi + Susan Donaldson, Chelsey Johnson and Megan Sinton
Amanda Foody, "The Spider & The Fly" (High Honors)
Chelsey Johnson + Jennifer Putzi, Nancy Schoenberger, Jennifer Stevens
Molly Greer, "Girls Without Faces and Other Stories" (High Honors)
Chelsey Johnson + Hermine Pinson, Brian Castleberry and Lindy Johnson
Zachary Hardy, "A Constant Unfolding of Far-Resonate Action': George Eliot's 'Middlemarch,' Spinoza, and the Ethics of Power" (High Honors)
Adam Potkay + Simon Joyce, Deborah Morse and Rob Leventhal
Beatrice Loayza, "Deconstructing Terror: The Political Theatre of Harold Pinter, Caryl Churchill, and Martin Crimp" (Honors)
Varum Begley + Christy Burns, Colleen Kennedy and Rob Leventhal
Dana Lotito, "Portraits of Strangers" (Highest Honors)
Chelsey Johnson + Nancy Schoenberger, Walt Wenska and Michele Lelievre
William Marsh, "Thrown Into America: Existentialism in the New World" (Honors)
Arthur Knight + Chris MacGowan, Christy Burns and Tim Costelloe
Stephanie Mason, "Bouts of Brain Fever: Female Rebellion and the Dubiety of Illness in Victorian Fiction" (Honors)
Deborah Morse + Suzanne Raitt, Kim Wheatley and Kathrin Levitan
Sarah Schuster, "A Product of Her Body As Well As Soul" : Narrative Fullness and the Feminine Body in the Work of Julia Ward Howe" (Highest Honors)
Jennifer Putzi + Melanie Dawson, Kara Thompson and Karin Wulf
Claire Weaver, "He Do the Police in Different Voices: the Influence of Detective Fiction in T.S. Eliot's Works" (Honors)
Simon Joyce + Henry Hart, Chris MacGowan and Charlie McGovern

2013-14

Nora Riesenberg, "Taboos and Primitivism: James Frazer, H.G. Wells, and the Intersection of Anthropology and Science Fiction" (Honors)
Melanie Dawson + William Fisher, Christy Burns, Mary Melfi
Catherine Strycharz, "A New Wessex: The Influence fo Shakespeare on Genre in the Novels of Thomas Hardy" (High Honors)
Deborah Morse, Paula Blank + Suzanne Raitt, Erin Minear, Laurie J. Wolf
Rory Sullivan, "'A Density of Meaning': Literary Representations of the British Museum, 1818-1929" (Highest Honors)
Suzanne Raitt + Kim Wheatley, Thomas Heacox, Sibel Zandi-Sayek
Jordan Sutlive, "Memory Dress: Fiction and Nonfiction Inspired by Fukushima" (Highest Honors)
Chelsey Johnson + Nancy Schoenberger, Brian Castleberry, Joanna Schug
Olivia Sweet, "'Things as they are/Are changed upon the blue guitar': Wallace Stevens and the Visual Arts" (Highest Honors)
Christopher MacGowan + Henry Hart, Christy Burns, Charles Palermo
Corinne Tucker, "The Reverie Genre: Rousseau, Dostoevsky, Eliot, and the Roots of Modern Consciousness" (High Honors)
Adam Potkay + Brett Wilson, Guilia Pacini, Erin Minear
Rachel Watson, "Charlotte Brontë's Other Belgian Novel: Sex, the Foreign Body, and the Legacy of Brussels in Jane Eyre" (Honors)
Deborah Denenholz Morse + Kim Wheatley, Suzanne Raitt, Kathrin Levitan
Kayla Ainsworth, "'Can't They Stop the Guns?' Trauma and Inter-War Detective Fiction" (High Honors)
Simon Joyce + Richard Lowry, M. Lee Alexander, Michael Butler
Hannah Barnhart, "'The Art of Questioning': Interrogations of Exceptionalist History and Cultural Mythology in the Novels of Salman Rushdie and William Faulkner" (Honors)
Susan Donaldson + Simon Joyce, Colleen Kennedy, Chitralekha Zutshi
Madeline Benjamin, "'Wit so rare and grace so peerless': The Collaborative Construction of Frances Sargent Osgood's Public Image" (High Honors)
Jennifer Putzi + Elizabeth Barnes, Melanie Dawson, Karin Wulf
Hannah Boes, "A Love Story, a Tragedy, or Both" (Highest Honors)
Chelsey Johnson + Nancy Gray, Kara Thompson, Jennifer Stevens
Danielle Clarke, "'All Persons Living and Dead are Purely Coincidental': Unity, Dissolution, and the Humanist Wampeter of Kurt Vonnegut's Universe" (High Honors) Colleen Kennedy + Varun Begley, Nancy Gray, Charles Palermo
Miles Drawdy, "'See here my show': Providence and the Theatrum Mundi in Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy" (High Honors)
James Savage + Monica Brzezinski Potkay, Brett D. Wilson, Richard H. Palmer
Elyse Endick, "Freedomland" (Highest Honors)
Nancy Schoenberger + Arthur Knight, Brian Castleberry, Antoine Krieger
Eleanor Pace, "'As the Work has its Origin in Love': Masculine Responsibility and the Economy of Sympathy in Anti-Tom Novels, 1852-1854" (High Honors)
Jennifer Putzi + Melanie Dawson, Elizabeth Barnes, Melvin Ely

2012-13

Arthi Aravind, "The Aftertaste of Memories: Capturing the Cultural Zeitgeist in Fiction" (Honors)
Brian Castleberry + Christy Burns. Chelsey Johnson, Alexander Prokhorov
Emma Aylor, "'The Vernacular Light': Wallace Stevens' Constructions of Belief" (Highest Honors)
Christopher MacGowan + Thomas Heacox, Henry Hart, Robert St. Clair
Aaron Barksdale, "Voyages" (High Honors)
Christy Burns + Christopher MacGowan, Brian Castleberry, John Lee
Elaine Bevington, "The Gaze of the Woman Artist in Novels by the Sisters Bronte" (High Honors)
Deborah Morse + Suzanne Raitt, Kim Wheatley, Kathrin Levitan
Kayla Grant, "Letters, Desire, and the Novel in the Late Nineteenth Century" (Highest Honors)
Melanie Dawson + Suzanne Raitt, Giulia Pacini, Simon Joyce
Emily Loney, "Liminal Agency: Texts, Textiles, and Gendered Agency in the Courtship Narrative of The Two Gentlemen of Verona" (Honors)
Laura Friedman + Monica Brzezinski, Brett Wilson, Laurie Wolf
Claire Pittman, "Still Lives" (Highest Honors)
Henry Hart + Nancy Schoenberger, Kara Thompson, Carey Bagdassarian
Eliza Urban, "Crossroads College: A Novella" (Honors)
Terry Meyers + John Conlee, Emily Pease, John Lyles

2011-12

Ann Allen, "Divine Harmony Amongst Many Spheres: The Relationship Between Literal and Metaphoric Music in Shakespeare and its Religious Implications" (Honors)
Paula Blank + James Savage, Thomas Payne
Kristin Bartschi, "'Something to Say': Transcending Syntax in Kerouac's On the Road (The Original Scroll)" (High Honors)
Nancy Gray + Colleen Kennedy, Walter Wenska, Linda Carey
Matthew Chaney, "'No Order Save That Which Death Has Put There": An Examination of How Identity is Formed in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy" (Honors)
Christy Burns + Christopher MacGowan, Colleen Kennedy, Arthur Knight
Katelyn Durkin, "The (Re) Production Craze: Taylorism, the Modern American Family, and Non-Progressive Narratives in Edith Wharton's Late Fiction" (Highest Honors)
Melanie Dawson + Deborah Morse, Jennifer Putzi, Scott Nelson
Brianna Frentzko, "Mirrors in the Sky: A Novel" (High Honors)
Ava Coibion + Hermine Pinson, Emily Pease, Ann Marie Stock
Rebecca Koenig, "Playing in the Big Leagues" (Highest Honors)
Terry Meyers + Richard Lowry, Beverly Peterson, Larry Evans
Meredith Luze, "Courting Revitalization: Companionate Marriage and the Problem of the Landed Gentry's Reform in Jane Austen" (High Honors)
Kim Wheatley + Elizabeth Barnes, Brett Wilson, Kathrin Levitan
Hannah McCarthy, "Hit: A Novella" (High Honors)
Emily Pease + Colleen Kennedy, Sharon Zuber, Timothy Barnard
Elizabeth Powell, "The Sublime Uniting Romanticism and Feminism in Jane Austen" (Honors)
Kim Wheatley + Adam Potkay, Deborah Morse, Timothy Costelloe
Sarah Ross, "'A Counterfeit Presentment': The Duality of Portraiture in the Novels of George Eliot and Thomas Hardy" (Highest Honors)
Suzanne Raitt + Deborah Morse, Charles Palermo, Brett Wilson
Elizabeth Wallace, "Lurch: Short Stories on Revolution" (High Honors)
Nancy Gray + Christopher Freiman, Chelsea Johnson, Hermine Pinson
Caroline Winter, "Courage to Write" (High Honors)
Nancy Gray + Richard Lowry, Christy Porter, Sharon Zuber

2010-11

Cassandra Adair, "Between Waste and Efficiency: Reading Virginia Woolf's Orlando as Co-Operative Text" (Highest Honors)
Simon Joyce + Thomas Heacox, Leisa Meyer, Suzanne Raitt
Virginia Butler, "Black Brides: Examining the Eastern Threat to Victorian Womanhood in Fiction" (High Honors)
Nancy Grey + Suzanne Raitt, Kathrin Levitan, Deborah Morse
Justine di Giovanni, "I Am No Man: J.R.R Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings as Gender-Progressive Text" (High Honors)
John Conlee + Suzanne Raitt, M. Lee Alexander, Naama Zahavi-Ely
Elizabeth Ferris, "Landscapes of Authenticity: Space and the "Authentic"in Willa Cather" (High Honors)
Melanie Dawson + Christopher MacGowan, Suzanne Raitt, Regina Root
Amanda Guiliano, ""That Thing that Ends All Other Deeds": Silence as a Literary Device in the Suicides of Shakespeare's Female Characters" (Honors)
Erin Minear + Brett Wilson, Paula Blank, Christy Porter
Brendan Higgins, "Translation, Criticism, and/or Politics: Assessing and Contextualizing Ezra Pound's Homage to Sextus Propertius" (Highest Honors)
Christopher MacGowan + Susan Donaldson,Christy Burns, Vassiliki Panoussi
Cory Hitt, ""So Much for Norman Blood": Thomas Hardy's Alternate Medievalism" (High Honors)
Deborah Morse + John Conlee, Mary Melfi, Philip Daileader
Kathryn Ikeler, "The Marginal Man: An Exploration of Hypermasculinity in Black Male Protagonist in Light in August, Native Son, and Invisible Man" (Honors)
Jacquelyn McLendon + Melanie Dawson, Christopher MacGowen, Charles McGovern
Megan Keeling, "On the Margins of Cool: Women Poets of the Beat Generation" (High Honors)
Nancy Gray + Nancy Schoenberger, Christopher MacGowen, Francie Cate-Arries
Christinia Mitchell, "Scottish Chaucerians: Transforming and Reclaiming a Discarded Category" (Honors)
Suzanne Hagedorn + John Conlee, Erin Minear, Phil Daileader
Maria Moy, "The Leningrad Symphony: A Screenplay" (High Honors)
Nancy Schoenberger + Sharon Zuber, Lee Alexander, Alexander Prokhorov
Benjamin Norris, "An American Troubador: The Career and Life of Alfred Kreymborg as a Modernist and Beyond" (Highest Honors)
Christopher MacGowen + Christy Burns, Nancy Grey, Roy Chan
Victoria Pinkston, "'Our Voices will not be Silenced': Edwidge Danticat, Haiti, and the Silences of History" (High Honors)
Susan Donaldson + Nancy Grey, Lynn Weiss, Maryse Fauvel
Peter Thomas, "'To Travel and Write': A Literary Pilgrimage and a Collection of Short Stories" (Honors)
Ava Coibion + Elizabeth Barnes, John Moore, Emily Pease

2009-10

Megan Ammirati, "For ne'er was a story of such wit: Nostalgic Tragicomedy in Chinese Romeo and Juliets" (High Honors)
Paula Blank + Colleen Kennedy, Erin Minear, Roy Chan
Sarah English, "Paralysis: A Collection of Short Stories" (High Honors)
Hermine Pinson + Henry Hart, Emily Pease, Danielle Dallaire
Aaron Fallon, "Skunk Ape" (High Honors)
Emily Pease + Henry Hart, Arthur Knight, Nancy Schoenberger
Leah Fry, "Between Two Truths: Herman Melville's New Patriotism" (Honors)
Elizabeth Barnes + Robert Scholnick, Jennifer Putzi, Carol Sheriff
Margaret Higginbotham, "Toward Full Stature: A Boarding School Novel"
Joanne Braxton + Hermine Pinson, Nancy Schoenberger, Danielle Morett-Langholtz
Margaret Hutchison, "The Cast-off Mistress: The Changing face of Seafaring in Conrad's middle-fiction" (High Honors)
Walter Wenska + Mary Ann Melfi, Laurie Wolf, Simon Joyce
Jennifer MacLure, "I refuse these givens: Reintegrating the Split Self in the Poetry of H.D. and Adrienne Rich" (Highest Honors)
Christopher MacGowan + Nancy Gray, Leisa Meyer, Henry Hart
Katherine Merk, "The silent dialogue: Parallel Trajectories of H.D.'s and Adrienne Rich's Poetic Treatment of Patriarchal Violence" (High Honors)
Christopher MacGowan + Nancy Gray, Jennifer Putzi, Christine Nemacheck
Emily Newhook, "Open Water: A Collection" (High Honors)
Ava Coibion + Hermine Pinson, Joanne Braxton, Anita Angelone
Jonathan Robinson, "Decentering Narcissism: The Problem of Swann in Proust's In Search of Lost Time", (Honors)
Thomas Heacox + Adam Potkay, Ronald St.Onge, Christy Burns
James Staples, "Dangerous Sanctity: John Capgrave's The Life of St.Norbert and its Literary and Cultural Significance" (Honors)
Monica Brzezinski Potkay + John Conlee, Erin Minear, George Greenia

2008-09

Christoper Adams, "The History, Printing, and Editing of The Returne from Pernassus" (Highest Honors)
Paula Blank
Lindsay Gibson, "Wordsworth and the Odic Tradition" (Highest Honors)
Adam Potkay + Henry Hart, Bill Hutton
Ashley Hockensmith, "Voicing the Mutilated Woman's History: The Intertextual Realationships between Katherine Anne Porter and William Faulkner" (High Honors)
Jenny Putzi + Susan Donaldson, Melanie Dawson, Leisa Meyer
James Hood, "Revealing the Wizard Behind the Curtain: Deconstructivist Fairytale Politics in the Works of Margaret Atwood, Anne Sexton, and Angela Carter" (Highest Honors)
Nancy Gray + Deborah Morse, Maureen Fitzgerald
Brian Mahoney, "¿ Señor Way vivío aqui?: Ernest Hemingway and the Cuban Encounter" (High Honors)
Timothy Barnard + Arthur Knight, Ann Marie Stock
Sean O'Mealia, "Consuming Fictions: Trauma and Ideology in Irish Famine Literature" (Highest Honors)
Deborah Morse + Melanie Dawson, Suzanne Raitt, Fred Corney
Ryen Rasmus, "Hill House, Not Sane: Shirley Jackson's Subversion of Conventions and Conventionality in The Haunting of Hill House" (High Honors)
Kim Wheatley + Linda Quigley, Colleen Kennedy
Elizabeth Sutherland
Suzanne Hagedorn + John Conlee, Brett Wilson, James Allegro

2007-08

Nathaniel Amos, "The Blood Jet of Poetry: Muse myths, poetic influence, and the common text of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes" (High Honors)
Henry Hart + Christy Burns, Susan Donaldson. Silvia Tandeciarz
Christopher Chaulk, "Damned Woman" (Honors)
Walter Wenska + Elizabeth Barnes (Advisor), Hermine Pinson
Joshua Garstka, "Every Way You Look At It, You Lose: Personal Failure to Find an Authentic Sixties Masculinity" (Honors)
Colleen Kennedy + Susan Donaldson, Simon Joyce, Sasha Prokharov
James Gertzog, "'Beauty, Enlightenment, and Comfort at Top Speed': Cognitive Spaces and Blending in the Fictional Universes of Kurt Vonnegut and Gabriel Garcia Marquez" (High Honors)
Colleen Kennedy + Monica Potkay, John Gamber, Kathleen Bragdon
Margaret Harvey, "From Maiden to Matron: Victorian Heroines and the Creation of Domestic Identity" (High Honors)
Terry Meyers + Deborah Morse, Kim Wheatley, Kathrin Levitan
Sarah Klotz, "On the Wings of Language: Authorial Construction, Gender Performance, and Images of Flight in the Poetry of Frances Sargent Osgood" (Highest Honors)
Kim Wheatley + Jennifer Putzi, Brett Wilson, Margot Weiss
Katelyn Moscony, "Selling the American Girl: Advertising, Performance, and Gender in the Fiction of Henry James" (High Honors)
Melanie Dawson + Elizabeth Barnes, Erin Minear, Leisa Meyer
Daniel Piepenbring, "Jumping the Shark: a novel" (Highest Honors)
Emily Pease + Colleen Kennedy, Ava Coibion, Tim Costelloe
Charlotte Savino, "'I Hate, I Love:' How Mothers Fail in Virginia Woolf's Fiction" (Highest Honors)
Suzanne Raitt + Deborah Morse, Mary Ann Melfi, Carey Bagdassarian
Sarah Vogelsong, "Between Women: Sisterhood in D.H. Lawrence" (High Honors)
Suzanne Raitt + Christy Burns, Deborah Morse, John Morreall
Andrew Zahn, "Qualities of the Businessman, Real and Imagined Figures from Nineteenth-Century Capitalist Culture" (Honors)
Liz Barnes + Melanie Dawson, Bob Scholnick, Bob Archibald

2006-07

Ashley Ahlbrand, "Katherine Anne Porter's Search for a Narrative for the Female Artist as a Young Woman" (High Honors)
Susan Donaldson + Liz Barnes, Walter Wenksa, Kathleen Slevin
Naomi Dreyer, "'We Belong Nowhere': Exile and Identity in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, Rohinton Minstry's A Fine Balance, and Arundhati Roy's The God of Sma" (Honors)
Simon Joyce + Deborah Morse, Nancy Gray, Chitralekha Zutshi
Lauren Klapper-Lehman, "'That All-Presupposing Fact': Darwinian Narratives and Gender Concerns in Elizabeth Gaskell's Sylvia's Lovers and Wives and Daughters and George Eliot" (High Honors)
Deborah Morse + Christy Burns, Simon Joyce, Kathrin Levitan
Sally Masters, "Secular Pilgrims: Nineteenth-Century American Refigurations of The Pilgrim's Progress" (Honors)
Melanie Dawson + Jennifer Putzi, Susan Donaldson
Kelli Monahan, "Li Chi" (High Honors)
Henry Hart + Tom Heacox, Emily Pease, Xin Yang
Jenna Morgan, "Duende's Shadow: A Novel" (High Honors)
Eva Burch, + Emily Pease, John Gamber, Silvia Tandeciarz
Brittney Pescatore, "Beyond the Boundaries of Definition: A Vocabulary of Process Applied to the Contemporary American Short Story" (Honors)
Nancy Gray + Colleen Kennedy, Jackie McLendon, Laurie Wolf
Vandhana Rao, "The Re-Writing of Feminine Aesthetic in Charlotte Bronte's Villette and George Eliot's Daniel Deronda" (High Honors)
Deborah Morse + Simon Joyce, Christy Burns, Laurie Wolf
Colleen Schneider, "Reinterpreting the Word and Redefining the Sacred: Johannine Language and Themes in the Works of the Bronte Sisters" (Honors)
M. Potkay, D. Morse + Terry Meyers, Mary Ann Melfi, John Morreall
Matthew Sherrill, "The Anxiety of Acquaintance and the Inevitability of Influence: Matthew Arnold, William Wordsworth, and their Personal and Poetic Relationship" (High Honors)
Terry Meyers + Deborah Morse, Kim Wheatley, Kathrin Levitan
Kirsten Simonsen, "A Comedian's Tragedy: Colley Cibber versus the Canon" (Honors)
Brett Wilson + Paula Blank, Erin Minear, Richard Palmer
Robin Smith, "The Poetics of Duty: Revovering the Poetry of Rose Terry Cooke" (High Honors)
Jennifer Putzi + Liz Barnes, Hermine Pinson, Philip Daileader

2005-06

Margo Dey, "Capturing 'The Whole': The Evolution of Virginia Woolf's Narrative Form" (High Honors)
Christy Burns + Tom Heacox, Nancy Gray, Clyde Haulman
Michael Dominguez, "Ben Jonson, George Bernard Shaw, and Political Economy on the English Stage" (Honors)
Paula Blank + James Savage, Tom Heacox, Christopher Owens
Thomas Garnett, "The Bildungsroman in World War II Fiction" (Honors)
Chris MacGowan + John Conlee, Deborah Morse, Chandos Brown
Carol Gross
Peter Wiggins + Monica Potkay, Suzanne Hagedorn, George Greenia
Daniella Grossman, "Rewriting Historical Discourse and Feminine Mythologies in Mexico: Carlos Fuentes' Alternative Modernity in The Death of Artemio Cruz and Terra Nostra" (High Honors)
Christy Burns + Colleen Kennedy, Nancy Gray, Teresa Longo
Caitlin Melchior, "'A Lesson in the Effect of Echoes': Decoding Don DeLillo's White Noise and Americana" (High Honors)
Henry Hart + Christy Burns, Adam Potkay, Max de Gaynesford
Jessica Miller, "'Of a Multitude Moved by One Sympathy' Charles Dickens and Serial Publishing" (Honors)
Adam Potkay + Simon Joyce and Deborah Morse, Carter Hailey, Joel Schwartz
Virginia Pasley, "Attitudes Toward the Antebellum Past in Post-Civil War Southern Literature: Nostalgia, Anti-Nostalgia, and Escapism" (Honors)
Robert Scholnick + Melanie Dawson, Chris MacGowan, Kim Phillips
Angela Polidoro, "'The animal withinÉ' The Gentleman and the Animal in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heighs, Charles Dicken's Great Expectations and Robert LouisÉ" (High Honors)
Monica Potkay + Simon Joyce and Deborah Morse, Mary Ann Melfi, Dan Cristol
Christina Rodriguez, "The Dolls in the Doll House: Female Sexual Repression in Dickens" (Honors)
Kim Wheatley + Deborah Morse, Monica Potkay, Leisa Meyer
Christopher Scheina, "The Authorship of Edward II" (High Honors)
Carter Hailey + James Savage, Brett Wilson, Dale Hoak
Kelly Singleton, "On the Use and Abuse of Narrative: A Postmodern Analysis of Terrry Pratchett's Discworld" (High Honors)
Colleen Kennedy + Christy Burns, John Conlee, Silvia Tandeciarz
Emily Strauss, "To an Old Poet in Hartford: The Late Poems of Wallace Stevens" (High Honors)
Henry Hart + Christopher MacGowan, Jack Willis, John Eisele
Mary Teeter, "Re-humanizing Rochester: Space and Power in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre" (High Honors)
Kim Wheatley + Deborah Morse & Simon Joyce, Jenny Putzi,, Tamara Sonn
Julia Tony, "'Remember me, and these my exhortations!': Tracking Wordsworth's Self-Portrayals in 'Vaudracour and Julia,' Tintern Abbey, and 'Strange fits of passion'" (Honors)
Adam Potkay + Kim Wheatley, Brett Wilson, Giulia Pacini
Maxwell Uphaus, "'You World Have Stayed Me with Some Parable': J.R.R. Tolkien, David Jones, and the Re-Mythologizing of the Great War" (Highest Honors)
John Conlee + Walter Wenska, Stanley Kusteski, Melvin Ely
Meghan Whitehead, "Crossguns: A Novel" (Highest Honors)
Susan Donaldson + Henry Hart, Emily Pease, John Moore

2004-05

Abigail Adams
Chris MacGowan + Suzanne Raitt, Henry Hart, Laurie Wolf
Bernadette Guthrie
Monica Potkay + Thomas Heacox, Varun Begley, Laurie Wolf
Selina Spinos
Varun Begley + Christy Burns, Simon Joyce, Ron Schechter
Claire Wimbush
Henry Hart + Nancy Schoenberger, Christy Burns, William Hutton