Honors Theses
Honors Theses from 2024
Reading Resistance into the Transformed Hero: An Excavation of Race and Gender Identity in The Aeneid and Its Adaptations, Grace Song No
Honors Theses from 2022
Examining Katniss Everdeen's Gender Ambiguity in The Hunger Games : How Suzanne Collins Utilizes the YA Genre to Resist Feminine Stereotypes, Moriah K. McDonald
"A Woman's Lot To Suffer" : Recognizing the Intersectionality of Oppression and Resistance in Min Jin Lee's Pachinko, Elianna Srikureja
Honors Theses from 2021
One Writer, Two Genres: Composing and Analyzing Creative Nonfiction and Fantasy, Kara Herrera
Honors Theses from 2020
The Blame Game : Complicity and Rape Culture in Margaret Atwood's Novel and Hulu's Adapted Series The Handmaid's Tale, Hannah Gallant
Honors Theses from 2019
Where Was I Going? What Was the Point? Archetypes, Frame, and Social Transgressions in Ovid and Twain, Jessica Bates
Honors Theses from 2018
Hollywood Dreams: Postcolonial Nationalism and Gender Oppression in Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeatersp, Andrei Wayne Kyrk Defino
Iago as Moral Other in Jonathan Munby's Production of Othello (2016), Emma Magbanua
Honors Theses from 2017
Political Dissidence in Gregori Kozintsev's Gamlet, Alejandra Castillo
Look at That Little Macho: Surveillance And Hegemonic Masculinity in Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Ludanne Francis
You Tell The Tale: Interactive Retellings Of The Myth Of Orpheus, Christopher McLean-Wheeler
Honors Theses from 2016
A Machiavellian Framing of Power Dynamics in Shakespeare's Henry V as Adapted by Olivier, Branagh, and the BBC's Hollow Crown, Alaryss Bosco
"You Think I Look Marx?": Tracing Hybidity Through the Imagination of God in Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, Shanelle Kim
Of Mermaids, Metal, And Maine: An Illustrated Memoir, Mercedes McLean-Wheeler
Honors Theses from 2015
A Study in Red: The Codification and Practical Application of a Copyediting Procedure, Nathan Berglund
Discourse and Narrative: Creating Gender Control in Junot Diaz's the Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Charles Lee
The Story Which He Never Stops Telling Himself: Autobiography, Narrative Community, and the Deconstruction of Selfhood in Virginia Woolf's The Waves, Melodie Roschman
Honors Theses from 2014
A Republic 'on Earth as it Is in Heaven': the Freedom of the Fall in Paradise Lost and His Dark Materials, Jordan Arellano
Evolution Over Revolution: A Generic Criticism of the Muscle Car Genre, John C. Irvine
Constructing Short Fiction: The Creative Writing Process, Mark Joslin
Jacina's Worldview 2.0: Revisiting, Refinding, and Refining Faith in the University Years, Jacina Shultz
Honors Theses from 2013
Mercutio and Romeo: an Analysis of Male Friendship in the Renaissance, Christian Bacchiocchi
What Women Want: Masculine Images and Gender Construction in the Old Spice and Dos Equis Ad Campaigns, Ashley Meyer
I Account This World a Tedious Theatre: Foucauldian Theatricality and Female Subversion in Webster's The Duchess of Malfi, Samantha Snively
Honors Theses from 2012
Ataraxia: A Modern Platonic Utopia, Jeremy Burton
Never Two Ladies Lov'd as They Do: Queer Theory and As You Like It's Celia, Theron L. Calkins
To the Edge and Back Again: Tanzania as a People and a Place, Kylene Cave
Spenser's Palmer: The Perversion of Right Reason in The Fairies Queene, Book II, Carolyn Davis
A Language Without Words: Music as an Agent of Identity in Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa, Catherine Tetz
Chaos, Fragility, and Change: Revisiting Laura Wingfield, Lydia M. Weiso
Honors Theses from 2011
The Tyrant and the Rogue: Political Implications of Redemption in William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, Jonathan Barrett Koch
Honors Theses from 2010
That Glorious Fire it Kindled: Extremes of (Un)Righteous Sexuality in Books I and III of Spenser's Faerie Queene, S. Erin McLean