Honors Essay Abstracts

2009 Abstracts

• John Andrews
Crane's Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and the parable of the Good Samaritan


• Elizabeth Vanderlip Cairns
Imagining Oscar Wilde
Faculty Advisor: Aliki Barnstone


• Kyle Gottuso
The Fiction Behind Surfiction: The Influence of Surrealism on Raymond Federman and Surfiction
Faculty Advisor: Raymond Ronci


• Leah Halley
One Woman's Poetic Bible: Biblical Revisionism in the Poetry of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Faculty Advisor: Alexandra Socarides


• Mallory Herrmann
Only Revolutions: Understanding Text Through Reading Participation
Faculty Advisor: Raymond Ronci


• Brett Kelley
Reactionary Nationalism and the Political Poetry of W.B. Yeats
Faculty Advisor: Elizabeth Chang


• Elise Kunkel
Beloved Master: Representations of Rochester within Film Adaptations of Jane Eyre and their Effect on the Feminist Meaning of the Film
Faculty Advisor: Nancy West


• Lindsey Lanfersieck
Faculty Advisor: John Evelev


• Ian Larson
The Weary Pilgrims: Bradstreet, Hutchinson, and the Puritan Paradox


• Amy Pennington
Time, Existence, and the Religious Solution in Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying


• Crystal Smith
Faculty Advisor: Alexandra Socarides


• Alex Streiff
"A Memory for the Boy": Fathers, Sons and History in Don Delillo's Underworld
Faculty Advisor: Sam Cohen


• Stephanie Strinko
A "Splendid Connection": An Exploration of Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics in Don Delillo's White Noise
Faculty Advisor: Sam Cohen


• Kathryn Weller
To Adapt a Mockingbird: Recreating Harper Lee's Novel for Film


• Emily Wunderlich
Faculty Advisor: Raymond Ronci

2008 Abstracts

• Anne Case-Halferty
Faculty Advisor: Anne Myers


• Jennifer Howard
The Matter of Tears: Tears of Repentance in John Donne and Robert Southwell
Faculty Advisor: Anne Myers


• Michelle D. Linke
Social Perceptions of Speakers Across Ethnic and Speech Variations
Faculty Advisor: Matt Gordon


• Matt Pearce
The Literary Interview as a Postmodern Genre
Faculty Advisor: Speer Morgan


• Rebecca Pettyjohn
Cracking the Fundamentalist Majority: A Literary Look at the Reactionary Oppression in Fundamentalist Islam


• Ashley Thomas
A Love Affair with Russia: The Figure of Sasha in Virginia Woolf's Orlando
Faculty Advisor: Elisa Glick


• Matthew Wall
Colonialism and the Corruption of Good Character within Aphra Behn's Oroonoko
Faculty Advisor: Devoney Looser

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