Senior Independent Study Theses from 2017
Absurdism and Comics: A Philosophical Exploration of the 'Animal' in Franz Kafka and Grant Morrison, Brendan P. Walsh
Department: English
"Learning to Live": A Critique of Misrepresentations of Black Women in Toni Morrison's Paradise and Through an Original Screenplay Entitled the Tenth, Jessica Waters
Department: English
“Reading” Glacier Bay: a landscape of cultural and physical glaciation from the Little Ice Age to the 21st century, Andrew D. Wayrynen
Department: English; Geology
Instagram and "Natural Femininity": A Version of Femininity Coded as "Natural" Through the Emphasis of The Female Body, Natural Settings and Authentic Moments., Lydia Webster
Department: English
Finding Salvation Through Pilgrimage: Dante’s Influences on Hell scenes and Chaucer and the Relationship to Salvation, Alexandra Wendt
Department: Art and Art History; English
How Do You Want to Die? Analyzing the Importance of Humanities, Ethics and Conversation in Healthcare, Jackie White
Department: English
Seer of Myrn: A Novella of Second Sight, Alisha D. Wies
Department: English
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2016
Anonymity, Environmental Destruction, and Bearing Witness to a Trauma: A Study of Themes within Emily Dickinson's Poetry in the Context of the American Civil War, Lauren A. Breck
Department: English
Project SuperNatural, Brittany Brewer
Department: English
Authorship, Utterance, and Meaning, Warner S. Brownfield
Department: English; Philosophy
Heading Home: A Screenplay Adaptation of The Wizard of Oz, Travis H. Burgess
Department: English
Voices in the Wilderness: Methods and Messages across 200 Years of Environmental Writers, Gregory Butler
Department: English
Home Is Where…? : A Visual And Textual Exploration Of Home, Nostalgia, And Persona, Dallas K M Dickey
Department: Art and Art History; English
SO MANY AROUND THE TABLE: THE MULTIPLICITY OF NARRATIVES WITHIN THE MYTH OF “THE POOR”, Danielle D. Gagnon
Department: English
Muzzled and Mutilated: The Commodification of Black Women in Alice Walker’s In Love and Trouble and Ann Petry’s The Street and their Artful Escape from the Patriarchal System, Seonna Gittens
Department: English
I Don't Trust Me and Neither Should You: A Collection of Comedic Essays, Michael Hatchett
Department: English
From Archives to Code: Gladys Fornell’s Montel, Tess A. Henthorne
Department: English
Treatment in the Waiting Room: A Poetry Collection Exploring Perceptions and Experiences of Chronic Illness, Victoria M. Horvath
Department: English
Joyce's Musical Doublespeak, James May
Department: English
Homonyms: A Collection of Short Stories, Kieran Mundy
Department: English
It’s Not About The X’s and O’s But The Billy’s and Joe’s: An Examination of the Intangible Characteristics Valued Most in Successful Football Teams, Ethan R. Nichol
Department: English
The Town Near the Moon, Mickey Osthimer
Department: English
"Don't Read This!": Lemony Snicket and the Control of Youth Reading Autonomy in Late-Nineteenth-Century Britain, Brittany A. Previte
Department: English; History
Sexuality and Repression in Dracula: a Psychoanalytic Look at Shifting Notions of Gender and Sexuality Within Dracula and Subsequent Adaptations, Lillian Rose Shepherd
Department: English
Climbing Uphill, Ananya Shrestha
Department: English
The Somewhere We Wish Were Nowhere: Dystopian Realities and (un)Democratic Imaginaries, Benjamin B. Taylor
Department: English; Political Science
The Vision of Thomas Malory: The Failure of an Ideal, Mark F. Trankina Jr
Department: English
“I cannot for an instant recognize that political organization as my government which is the slave’s government also”: Forms of resistance in Antebellum Literature, Jacob D. Vellucci
Department: English
Fifty-One Shades of Grey: New Readings of the Black Female Body in Literature, Pop Culture and Film, Ashanti Wallace
Department: English
Pine River Camp: Welcome Home, Griffin A. White
Department: English
Euskaldunak or Amerikanuak: An Introduction to the Folklore of the Boise Basques and its Contribution to the Basque-American Identity, Leah Zavaleta
Department: English; Sociology and Anthropology
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2015
The Right Combination: How the Coen Brothers Challenge the Boundaries of Genre and Postmodernism in Film, Olivia Baum
Department: English
Total Film Nerd: An Exploration of Film Criticism and Film Adaptations, Margot Bruce
Department: English; Film Studies
Imprisoned Beyond Walls: the Prison Wife Perspective and the Manifestation of Internal Confinement, Cora W. Bucher
Department: English
The Adulteress and the Patriarchy: The Search for Female Independence and Autonomy in Anna Karenina and The Awakening, Sarah Carracher
Department: English; Russian Studies
State of Grace: How Grace Kelly Rose to Prominence and Fell to Irrelevance Through Her Sense of Style and Self Preservation, Rachel J. Clark
Department: English
Your Worst Nightmare: The Uncanny Female Double in 3 Women, Mulholland Drive, and Persona, Clara Cuccaro
Department: English
Silver Hair and Golden Hearts: Stories of the Residents, Staff, and Caregivers at West View Healthy Living, Anna K. Duke
Department: English
Mad Dogs, Trent D. Dunn
Department: English
"I Am 'Is'": Reconciling Grief, Language, and Being in William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, Chelsea Frey
Department: English; Philosophy
Lovers Without Mentors: The Lover-Mentor Tradition and Counter-Tradition in Eighteenth-Century Women's Epistolary Fiction, Ryan T. Grow
Department: English
For Aspiring Artivists, Sydney R. Jones
Department: English
"Do You Know Who I Am?": My Two Years of Serving Suburban Socialites and Stuck-Up Stock Brokers, Dakota Alling Judy
Department: English
"On my honour as a Tully, on my honour as a Stark": An Analysis of Catelyn Stark in George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire, Nicole Marton
Department: English
That Hat Makes You Look like a Lesbian, Megan McGinley
Department: English
Mainland, Patrick McGowan
Department: English
Memsahibs at Work: British Women's Political Participation in the Raj, 1858-1914, Laura Y. Merrell
Department: English; History
Finding Vlad: A Historical Fiction Novella, Caroline M. Mount
Department: English; History
Literature of Imprisonment: Creativity and Constraint, Charlotte B. Papp
Department: English
Foxes and Hounds, Sam Patch
Department: English
Blicero, Pointsman, and the Domination of Differance: Deconstruction of Villainy in Gravity's Rainbow, Jacob Gideon Pine
Department: English
Narrative Agency in Native America: Overcoming the Myth of "Native American Fiction", Audrey G. Platt
Department: English
Imagining Spaces: Representations of Gender and Social Space in Modern to Contemporary Fiction, Colleen Robinson
Department: English
"I'm neither man nor beast, I'm something new entirely": The Evolution of the Contemporary Hero and the Justification of Violence in the Sons of Anarchy and Dexter Television Series, Bianca A. Rocco
Department: English
Blood Status, "Wizard-Washing," and Heirarchy: A Study of Racism and Racial Relations Between the Wizard and "The Other" in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter Series, Ellen M. Skonce
Department: English
“The Gang of Virtue”: Colonial South Africa, Congo and Kenya in British Imperial Literature and Media, 1870-1970, William Swank
Department: English; History
Root Cause, Shannon M. Thanasiu
Department: English
Melville in the Anthropocene: The Ecological Ethics of Moby-Dick, Jesse H. Tiffen
Department: English; Environmental Studies; Sociology and Anthropology
How Do We Get There From Here, Emily Watt
Department: English
"The Living Tree": a Conservationist Journey Through J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, Robert C. Worrell
Department: English
The Mind, Body, and Identity through Trauma in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon: A Psychoanalytic and Poetic Reflection on Healing, Juan Wynn
Department: English
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2014
The Dogeater, Nicholas J. Barrow
Department: English
Goodbye to All of That: 104 Days of Cancer, Ian T. Benson
Department: English
Words of Silence, Morgan H. Blake
Department: English
Pieces of Petersburg, Alexandra Boyer
Department: English
A Comparative Analysis of Contemporary Spanish and American Journalism Using El País and The New York Times, Anya Cohen
Department: English; Spanish
The Life and Times of the Aspiring Professional Athlete, William M. Farrow IV
Department: English
Windy City Radicals: Sister Carrie, Organized Labor, and the Problem of Chicago, Ben Fuqua
Department: English; History
Our Father Who Art in Georgia: Case Studies of the Family and Christian Mythology in Southern Gothic Short Fiction, Eleanor K. Godbey
Department: English; Religious Studies
The Quest for an Inclusive Understanding of Heroism: A Feminist Analysis of the Hero's Journey in Young Adult Fantasy Literature, Julia A. Hart
Department: English
Internalized Racism, The Nadir, and Lynching: A study of George Schuyler’s Black No More and Countee Cullen’s “Heritage”, Randie D. Henderson
Department: Africana Studies; English
Belonging(s): A Short Story Cycle and Artworks, Maria Janasz
Department: Art and Art History; English
Who is the Who: Lost Boys of Sudan in Language and Narrative, Devin Johns
Department: English; Sociology and Anthropology
Under Construction, Kara Johnson
Department: English
"Jezephied": Re-Telling Black Women's Stories in the Quest for Self-Definition, Ashley T. Jones
Department: English
Gypsy Girl: A Criticial Examination of the Female Gypsy Masquerade in British Literature, Zoe Kopp-Weber
Department: English
YUMA, Delia A. Loughrey
Department: English
The Immortal Story: An Examination of J.M. Barrie's Myth-Tale Peter and Wendy and an Explanation of its Relevance and Permanence within Society, Andrea C. Luedtke
Department: English
The Desegregation of Boston Public Schools: A Collection of Short Stories, Matthew J. Magoon
Department: English
Urban Folktales: Poems and Stories from Society's Underbelly, Jacob N. Malone
Department: English
Reflecting on Roeper: Thirteen Years in a School for the Gifted, Travis Marmon
Department: English
Smells Like Teen Spirit: A Middle School Survival Guide, Molly McCartt
Department: English
The "Other": An Exploration of the Fear of Mormonism in the 19th Century, Mariah A. McGovern
Department: English; History
Why Can't I Take My Parrot to the Pool?, Stephanie N. Nuber
Department: English
Voices From the Woods: Classic Fairy Tales Revisited and Revised, Amanda C. O'Donnell
Department: English; Theatre and Dance
"Enter Bottom With the Ass Head": A Critical Study of the Metacognitive Effects of Comedy, Chelsey Porter
Department: English
Voices Now Heard: Familial Experiences with Autism, Danielle N. Reeder
Department: English
"A Separate Peace": Modern Masculinity in Hemingway's In Our Time, John A. Schulz
Department: English
Becoming Home: Shaped by the Seasons, Whitney E. Siders
Department: English; Environmental Studies
Inviting Gender Literacy into the Classroom: An Analysis of Gender Portrayal Issues in YA Realistic Fiction, Brooke Skiba
Department: English
The Wizard of Oz: A Feminist Allegory, Lorraine C. Sullivan
Department: English
I Should Google That: A Collection of Essays, Kristen M. Sween
Department: English
Songbird: Stories of African American Women, Salena Wagstaff
Department: English
A Smithy to Myself: The Narratival Structure of Selfhood and James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Aaron D. Winston
Department: English; Philosophy
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
The Fish Brothers, Sarah Allard
The Truth That Lies in Fiction: Magical Realism and the Subaltern in the Americas, Andrea Arguera
Department: English
Memories of a Senegalese Boy / Souvenirs D’Un Fils Sénégalais: A Collection of Poems, Baba Badji
Department: English; French and Francophone Studies
Route 28, Ilana R. Ben-Zvi
Department: English
Breaking (Amish) News: Citizen Journalism in the Digital Age, Leah M. Brown
Department: English
Breaking Patriarchy: the Utopias and Discontents of Gilman, Atwood, Le Guin, and Burgess, Milo Carpenter
Department: English