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Author:

Greco, Alexandra Christa

Title:

LETTERS TO THE OUTSIDE WORLD: A COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL SHORT FICTION

Area of Honors:

English

Keywords:

short fiction
letters
place
identity
personal realities

File:

Download FINALTHESISPDF.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Charlotte Amalie Holmes, Thesis Supervisor
Charlotte Amalie Holmes, Thesis Supervisor
Janet Wynne Lyon, Thesis Honors Advisor
William James Cobb, Faculty Reader

Author:

Owen, Alexa

Title:

Functions of Irish Famine Poetry: Speaking the Unspeakable through the Written Word

Area of Honors:

English

Keywords:

Irish Famine
contemporary poetry

File:

Download final_complete_thesis.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Janet Wynne Lyon, Thesis Supervisor
Janet Wynne Lyon, Thesis Supervisor
Mark Stewart Morrisson, Faculty Reader
Janet Wynne Lyon, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Gatto, Brandon Elliott

Title:

Doctor on the Warpath: How the Second World War Made Theodor Seuss Geisel

Area of Honors:

English

Keywords:

Theodor Seuss Geisel
Dr. Seuss
Yertle the Turtle
Horton Hears a Who!
The Sneetches
The Butter Battle Book
Second World War
World War II

File:

Download Doctor_on_the_Warpath.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Sanford Ray Schwartz, Thesis Supervisor
Sanford Ray Schwartz, Thesis Supervisor
Janet Wynne Lyon, Thesis Honors Advisor
Daniel Dean Hade, Faculty Reader

Author:

Slagis, Claire O'Leary

Title:

GOTHIC DIMENSIONS OF CAPITALISM IN SIR WALTER SCOTT'S HISTORICAL FICTION

Area of Honors:

English

Keywords:

gothic
capitalism
scott

File:

Download Slagis_Final_Thesis.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Dr. Robert Lawrence Caserio Jr., Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Robert Lawrence Caserio Jr., Thesis Supervisor
Janet Wynne Lyon, Thesis Honors Advisor
Robert Lougy, Faculty Reader

Author:

MacNealy, Courtney Shane

Title:

An Exploration of Motherhood and Sexuality in Late-Twentieth Century African-American Literature

Area of Honors:

English

Keywords:

Toni Morrison
Sula
womanhood
motherhood
sexuality
Moynihan Report

File:

Download MacNealy_Courtney_Honors_Thesis.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Christopher Dean Castiglia, Thesis Supervisor
Christopher Dean Castiglia, Thesis Supervisor
Janet Wynne Lyon, Thesis Honors Advisor
Janet Wynne Lyon, Faculty Reader

Author:

Hillier, David Nathan

Title:

Subjectivity, Language, and Loneliness in the Poetry of John Ashbery: A Social Reading

Area of Honors:

English

Keywords:

Ashbery
Avant-Garde
McCarthy
Subjectivity
Solipsism
Social
The Tennis Court Oath
Three Poems

File:

Download Honors_Thesis_-_D.N.H..pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Mark Stewart Morrisson, Thesis Supervisor
Mark Stewart Morrisson, Thesis Supervisor
Janet Wynne Lyon, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Cramer, Jesse

Title:

Alarm: A Novella in Three Parts

Area of Honors:

English

Keywords:

novella
post apocalyptic literature
third person narration

File:

Download ThesisFormat.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Dr. Richard Matthew Doyle, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Richard Matthew Doyle, Thesis Supervisor
Janet Wynne Lyon, Thesis Honors Advisor
Charlotte Amalie Holmes, Faculty Reader

Author:

Covelli, Julia Kristin

Title:

“HOUSE AND CHILDREN”: LADY BRILLIANA HARLEY AND THE EXPANSION OF DOMESTIC AGENCY

Area of Honors:

English (University College)

Keywords:

domestic agency
English Revolution
women's letter writing

File:

Download JuliaCovelliFinalThesis.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Laura Lunger Knoppers, Thesis Supervisor
Laura Lunger Knoppers, Thesis Supervisor
Janet Wynne Lyon, Thesis Honors Advisor
Dr. Marcy Lynne North, Faculty Reader

Author:

Zinger, Kara Dean

Title:

Blank Feminism: Reading Bret Easton Ellis’ "American Psycho" in a Post-Feminist World

Area of Honors:

English

Keywords:

postmodernism
post-modernism
postfeminism
post-feminism
rape
violence against women
Mary Harron
Bret Easton Ellis
feminism
American Psycho
violence
banned books
satire
misogyny
anti-feminist
antifeminism

File:

Download Zinger_Thesis_AP.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Rosa A Eberly, Thesis Supervisor
Rosa A Eberly, Thesis Supervisor
Janet Wynne Lyon, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Murphy, Kelly

Title:

Untangling Eros from Logos

Area of Honors:

English

Keywords:

deconstruction
performative utterance
performative gender
eros
language

File:

Download Final_KMurphy.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Thesis Supervisor
Janet Wynne Lyon, Faculty Reader
Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Thesis Supervisor
Janet Wynne Lyon, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Albanese, Laura B.

Title:

“PUNISHED IN THE SHAPE HE SINNED”: SIN AS SELF-PUNISHING IN DANTE AND MILTON

Area of Honors:

English

Keywords:

Dante
Milton
contrapasso
punishment
Satan
serpent

File:

Download Thesis.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Laura Lunger Knoppers, Thesis Supervisor
Laura Lunger Knoppers, Thesis Supervisor
Janet Wynne Lyon, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Homol, Lindley K

Title:

Asserting a Self-Concept Through Resistance: Beloved and Their Eyes Were Watching God

Area of Honors:

English

Keywords:

Beloved
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Toni Morrison
Zora Neale Hurston
self-concept
resistance
slavery

File:

Download assertingaselfconceptthroughresistance.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Lovalerie King, Thesis Supervisor
Lovalerie King, Thesis Supervisor
Janet Wynne Lyon, Thesis Honors Advisor
Shirley Moody, Faculty Reader

Author:

Weitz, Michael Steven

Title:

The Devil's Party: Representations of the Miltonic Satan in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials

Area of Honors:

English

Keywords:

john milton
philip pullman
paradise lost
his dark materials

File:

Download thedevilsparty.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Laura Lunger Knoppers, Thesis Supervisor
Janet Wynne Lyon, Thesis Honors Advisor
Laura Lunger Knoppers, Thesis Supervisor
Sanford Ray Schwartz, Faculty Reader

Author:

Moloney, Sean

Title:

The Literature of 9/11

Area of Honors:

English

Keywords:

In the Shadow of No Towers
Art Spiegelman
9/11
Literature
glocalization
Don DeLillo
Falling Man
double consciousness

File:

Download The_Literature_of_9-11.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Sean X Goudie, Thesis Supervisor
Sean X Goudie, Thesis Supervisor
Janet Wynne Lyon, Thesis Honors Advisor
Mark Stewart Morrisson, Faculty Reader

Author:

Wellock, William Anthony

Title:

Rabbit, Running In Place

Area of Honors:

English

Keywords:

John Updike
Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom
Ambition
Setting

File:

Download WilliamWellock_THESIS_April19.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Bernard W Bell, Thesis Supervisor
Bernard W Bell, Thesis Supervisor
Janet Wynne Lyon, Thesis Honors Advisor
Kathryn Hume, Faculty Reader

Author:

Valenta, Zachary

Title:

94'x50': The Dimensions of a Global Game

Area of Honors:

English

Keywords:

NBA
China
Spencer Haywood

File:

Download Thesis-Final_Copy.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Eric Robert Hayot, Thesis Supervisor
Eric Robert Hayot, Thesis Supervisor
Janet Wynne Lyon, Thesis Honors Advisor