Thesis Title Form - to be filled out
and then signed by your thesis advisor and the graduate deputy before you enroll in English 7810
(Thesis Project)
Thesis Approval Form - to be filled out
and then signed by your thesis advisor and the graduate deputy once you have completed writing
your thesis and are submitting it for official approval
 The M.A. English program
includes a thesis requirement. Writing
the thesis (30-50 pages, not including the bibliography) is a two-step process which normally takes place during the
students' last two semesters. In their second last semester, students
take ENG 7800, which is basically a "thesis proposal" class.
It is highly recommended that, at this point, they should be finishing
up the last of the nine courses under the distribution requirement (see
"Degree Requirements"); ideally, they should have already completed
their foreign language requirement and be currently signed up for the
comprehensive exam.
Upon completing ENG
7800, students must find a professor who will supervise their thesis project;
this is formalized by having the professor sign off on the "thesis
title" form, which is turned in to the Graduate Deputy in order to
obtain permission to register for ENG 7810 Thesis Project the following
semester. Ideally, in their last semester, students are working exclusively
on their thesis, all other requirements having been completed.
The course descriptions
for ENG 7800 and 7810 make the process clear:
English 7800X ..Introduction to Literary Research: Introduction to methods of research as preparation for the MA thesis. Topics include: building a bibliography, using print and on-line research sources; incorporating secondary critical resources; and the varieties of criticism practiced in recent decades. The final assignment is to produce a thesis proposal.
English 7810X ..Thesis
Project: An extensive research project, normally based on the thesis proposal
developed in English 7800X, which is supervised by a member of the faculty,
and which leads to the submission of a master's thesis. Students may receive
credit for this course only after approval of the completed thesis.
To obtain permission,
you must submit to the Graduate Deputy the Thesis Title Form signed by the
faculty member who will supervise the thesis project. Completion of English
7800 is a prerequisite for this course.
For a
copy of the MA Thesis formatting requirements, please
click here (pdf file).
2010-2011 Approved Master's Theses
Berenstein, Ari (M.A. English)
A Nation of Holdens: The Relevance of Holden Caulfield as a Critical Lens of American Youth in the Twenty-First Century
Advisor: Geoffrey Minter
Clay, Weston (M.A. English)
Material Girl-Killer: Consumerist Discourse and the Sociopathic Narrator in Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho
Advisor: Janet Moser
Davis, Annette (M.A. English)
Isabella’s Trial and Execution in Shakespeare’s “Measure for Measure”: Guilty of Non-Conformance
Advisor: Geoffrey Minter
De Piper, John (M.A. English)
Blood Meridian and Antic Clay: Cormac McCarthy’s Violent Worldview
Advisor: Carey Harrison
Dell’Aquila, Michael (M.A. English)
Writing Against the Dusk: Ethnic Twilight and the Persistence of the Italian-American Sign
Advisor: Robert Viscuisi
DiBerardino, Michael (M.A. English)
The Impersonal Turn: Keats’s Romantic Modernism
Advisor: Rachel Brownstein
Dunn, Andrew (M.A. English)
Mass Perversion: Cinema, the Psyche, and the Possibility of Collective Action in The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West and The Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Advisor: Joseph Entin
Feldnov, Amy (M.A. English)
The Wartime Child in Contemporary Children’s Literature: Self-Writing and Sarajevo’s Anne Frank
Advisor: Marie Rutkoski
Friedman, Carly (M.A. English)
Joe Orton: Gender Rebellion of Mythic Proportions
Advisor: Carey Harrison
Goykadosh, Brachah (M.A. English)
Lacanian Desire and Kristevan Abjection in T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
Advisor: Karl Steel
Hamilton, Debbie (M.A. English)
Metonymy in Charles W. Chesnutt’s The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories
Advisor: Geri DeLuca
Janisch, Rebecca (M.A. English)
Making Gold Stay
Advisor: Carey Harrison
JeanBaptiste, Darise (M.A. English)
Toni Morrison’s Trajectory of Death
Advisor: Martha Nadell
Jennings, Rachel (M.A. English)
“What Counts Counts”: Understanding How Media Inspire and Thwart Progress in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things
Advisor: Jason Frydman
Johnson-Harriott, Judine (M.A. English)
Fleeing an Unjust Society or Finding Themselves?: A Study of Two African-American Writers’ Quest for Social Mobility and Personal Dignity
Advisor: James Davis
Katz, Nechama (Nikki) (M.A. English)
Does Biphobia Exist in the Literary Criticism of Shakespeare’s Sonnets?
Advisor: Carey Harrison
Klein, Tamara (M.A. English)
On the Edge: Woman and Marginality in the Short Stories of Katherine Mansfield
Advisor: Martha Nadell
Marquez, Patricia (M.A. English)
Intentionality and the New Signification: Language Theory from Saussure, Barthes, and Searle
Advisor: Mark Patkowski
McCarthy, Eileen (M.A. English)
The Function of Geography in Paule Marshall’s The Chosen Place, the Timeless People
Advisor: Renison J. Gonsalves
McLinden, Cameron (M.A. English)
The Banks of Poverty: Lack and the Threat of Lack in Continental Drift
Advisor: Joseph Entin
Mulcahey, Laura (M.A. English)
The Loss of Anonymity: Public Exposure from Tabloid Reporting to the Pages of Facebook
Advisor: Robert Viscusi
Nance, William (M.A. English)
Duality in Dialectics: Uncertainty in Samuel Beckett’s Trilogy
Advisor: Carey Harrison
Orlando, Anthony (M.A. Fiction)
The Strange Stranger: Isolation and Guilt in the Lyrical Ballads
Advisor: Karl Steel
Othman, Rihab (M.A. English)
“Isnad” The Islamic Chain of Narrators: Adherence to the Cultural Echo
Advisor: Karl Steel
Parasram, Shoba (M.A. English)
A Barbaric Civilization: A Look at Blacks and Whites in Behn’s Oroonoko and Earle’s Obi
Advisor: Ana Acosta
Pazmino-Martinez, Ivette (M.A. English)
Sarah Stickney Ellis: Angel and Antagonist
Advisor: Geoffrey Minter
Pierluigi, Melanie (M.A. English)
Trauma in the Body: Memory and Dissociation in Anne Michaels’s Fugitive Pieces
Advior: Geoffrey Minter
Pike, Stephanie (M.A. English)
On the Waterfront: Modernity and Modernism in South Brooklyn
Advisor: Martha Nadell
Ralph, Aubria (M.A. English)
Time and Creativity: Defining the Relationship Between Time and Creativity
Advisor: Nicola Masciandaro
Reilly, Abby (M.A. English)
Seeing and Remembering September 11th in Post-9/11 Literature
Advisor: Martha Nadell
Roy, Suklima (M.A. English)
Language Bytes: Linguistic Changes Arising from Electronic Communication
Advisor: Mark Patkowski
Siskind, Andrew (M.A. English)
Motions of Abstraction and Entropy: The Ecology of A. R. Ammons’ Garbage
Advisor: Ben Lerner
Sotirakis, Sia (M.A. English)
Jane Eyre: Adaptability and Ascendancy
Advisor: Wendy Fairey
Spencer, Stephen (M.A. English)
Matter and Metaphor, Memory and Narrative: A Study of John Milton’s Paradise Lost
Advisor: Kate Haley
Tekten, Tutsak (M.A. English)
“An Incurable Imperfection in the Very Essence of the Present”
Advisor: Janet Moser
Telesford, Nadine (M.A. English)
Whiteness in The Bluest Eye and Song of Solomon
Advisor: James Davis
Truscello, Joseph (M.A. English)
The Commodified Self: Identity in Philip Roth’s Goodbye, Columbus and John Updike’s Rabbit, Run
Advisor: Martha Nadell
Vogl, Raquel (M.A. English)
An Examination of Voice, Class, and Gender in The Nun’s Priest’s Tale and The Owl and the Nightingale
Advisor: Karl Steel
Waller, Samantha (M.A. English)
The Construction of Sexual Identity in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and Michael Cunningham’s The Hours
Advisor: Geoffrey Minter
Walsh, Trevor (M.A. English)
Dining from His Plate: Union with God in Angela of Foligno
Advisor: Nicola Masciandaro
Warsager, Allegra (M.A. English)
“It’s Hard to Be a Saint in the City”: Negotiating Race and Class in Jonathan Lethem’s The Fortress of Solitude and Tom Wolfe’s Bonfire of the Vanities
Advisor: Martha Nadell
Washington, Donna-lyn (M.A. English)
The Theme of Diaspora in the Edwidge Danticat Novel
Advisor: Renison Gonsalves
2008-2009 Approved Master’s Theses
Akyeampong, Claudia (M.F.A. Poetry)
Rumblings from A Talking Drum
Advisor: Lou Asekoff
Baez, John (M.A. English)
Oral Otherness: Written Utterance in the Prison Writings of Oscar Wilde and Jean Genet
Advisor: Mark Patkowski
Bagatourian, Bianca (M.F.A. Playwriting)
Remnants of a Liquid World
Advisor: Mac Wellman
Baker, Annie (M.F.A. Playwriting)
Circle Mirror Transformation
Advisor: Mac Wellman
Barker, Tanya (M.A. English)
The Paradox of the Thing: British Imperialism and the Making of a British National Identity
Advisor: Wendy Fairey
Bartnik, Catherine (M.A. English)
Becoming the Grail King: Fate and Development in Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival
Advisor: Karl Steel
Beckim, Chad (M.F.A. Playwriting)
Mercy
Advisor: Mac Wellman
Brown, Donald (M.A. English)
Impressionism Along the Shores of Balbec: The Practice of Impressionism in Proust’s In Search of Lost Time
Advisor: Janet Moser
Brule, Michelle (M.F.A. Poetry)
Where the Wind Blows
Advisor: Julie Agoos
Carey, Anna (M.F.A. Fiction)
The Leftovers
Advisor: Fiona Maazel
Childers, Jodie (M.F.A. Poetry)
Private Property
Advisor: Julie Agoos
D’Alessandro, Mario David (M.A. English)
Contextualizing Alisoun: A Survey and Evaluation of Competing Critical Approaches to “The Wife of Bath” and her Quest for Power and Ability to “Speak”
Advisor: Karl Steel
Deal, Lance (M.F.A. Poetry)
The Spine of the Snowman
Advisor: Julie Agoos
DiGiacomo, Jason (M.A. English)
Waugh in the 21st Century: An Examination of Evelyn Waugh’s Comedic World
Advisor: Geoffrey Minter
Dobran, Ryan (M.A. English)
Clarity and Silence in George Oppen’s “Of Being Numerous”
Advisor: Nicola Masciandaro
Fraggetta, Amanda (M.A. English)
Discovering America: Reimagining Nabokov’s Lolita as a Travel Narrative
Advisor: Martha Nadell
Gartland, Neal (M.F.A. Poetry)
The Viscous Jamboree
Advisor: Julie Agoos
Ginger, Kelly (M.F.A. Poetry)
Here, Now, Always
Advisor: Julie Agoos
Gioe, Jamie (M.A. English)
Oedipa and the Riddle of Reality in Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49
Advisor: Mark Patkowski
Goettel, Diane (M.A. English)
Identity in Space and Place: Perspectives on Jonathan Lethem’s The Fortress of Solitude
Advisor: Martha Nadell
Grushkin, Daniel (M.F.A. Fiction)
Stories of the Hour
Advisor: Jenny Offill
Harte, Erin (M.F.A. Fiction)
Don’t Scare Her Off Before She Starts: A Short Story Collection
Advisor: Fiona Maazel
Hauser, Christina (M.F.A. Fiction)
Coast is Clear: A Novel
Advisor: Jenny Offill
Herceg, Jozeph (M.A. English)
Live Through This: J.G. Ballard’s Crash, Martin Amis’s London Fields, and the New Necropolis
Advisor: James Davis
Holland, Timothy (M.A. English)
The Troubles in Joyce’s Dublin: Political, Religious, and Literary Hegemony in Ulysses and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Advisor: Moustafa Bayoumi
Hopes, Adrianne (M.F.A. Fiction)
Dirty Little Animals
Advisor: Ernesto Mestre
Islam, Tanwi (M.F.A. Fiction)
Bright Lines
Advisor: Fiona Maazel
Kikoler, Jennifer (M.F.A. Fiction)
On the Head of a Thief Burns His Hat: Stories
Advisor: Amy Hempel
Krywicki, Jarad (M.A. English)
Hamlet Goes Whaling: Suspension and Interpretive Deferment in Hamlet and Moby-Dick
Advisor: Geoffrey Minter
Ladjache, Siobhan (M.A. English)
Derrida’s Hostile Hospitality: Re-imagining Belonging
Advisor: Moustafa Bayoumi
Lemkowitz, Jake (M.F.A. Fiction)
Alante!
Advisor: Catherine Texier
Lewington, Robert (M.A. English)
The Alchemist in Performance: Staging Ben Jonson for the Contemporary Audience
Advisor: Martin Elsky
Lioce, Michael (M.A. English)
An Introduction to Flashman
Advisor: Wendy Fairey
Lucadamo, Elizabeth (M.A. English)
The Struggle for Identity: Individual Identity as defined by Individual Trial and Experience versus Identity as a Function of Societal Enforced Roles
Advisor: Carey Harrison
Macrides, Kalle (M.F.A. Playwriting)
NOIR
Advisor: Mac Wellman
Mantia, Cheryl (M.A. English)
The Gothic Catholic: A Study of How Catholicism is Presented in Ann Radcliffe’s The Italian, or The Confessional of the Black Penitents (1797)
Advisor: Carey Harrison
Marschall, Wythe (M.F.A. Fiction)
The Gyrosphyrinx; or, L’Incroyable Pouvoir Des Filature Harpie: A Novel
Advisor: Jenny Offill
McQuibban, Samantha (M.F.A. Poetry)
Split Tongue
Advisor: Julie Agoos
Miller, David (M.F.A. Poetry)
Field Recordings
Advisor: Marjorie Welish
Murtha, Megan (M.A. English)
“Time Passes” in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse As A Framed Work Of Post-Impressionism
Advisor: Wendy Fairey
Neale, Julia (M.A. Liberal Studies)
Conscious Identity: An Introductory Analysis of the Components of Personal Identity
Advisor: Mark Patkowski
Olga Pester (M.F.A. Poetry)
window open/window closed
Advisor: Julie Agoos
Ostrowski, Julie (M.A. English)
How Joyce Carol Oates Explores Urban Crises in Them and The Falls
Advisor: Julia Hirsch
Oyola, Osvaldo (M.A. English)
Collection, Identity and the Narratives of Brooklyn in Jonathan Lethem’s The Fortress of Solitude
Advisor: Martha Nadell
Parfrey, Ian (M.F.A. Poetry)
Brain Surgery with Fork
Advisor: Richard Pearse
Plaunt, Chloe (M.F.A. Fiction)
New Moon: Stories
Advisor: Josh Henkin
Price, Jeffrey (M.F.A. Fiction)
Brothers in Time
Advisor: Fiona Maazel
Quartuccio, Peter (M.A. English)
The Analyst and the Unknown: Objective and Subjective Detective Fiction in Poe and Joyce
Advisor: Geoff Minter
Russo, Joseph (M.A. English)
Queer Shamanism: Genet’s Thresholds of Becoming
Advisor: Karl Steel
Sande, Melissa (M.A. English)
Double Entendre: Hybrid Culture as the Psychological Equivalent of Sexual Trauma in Jean Rhys’s Postcolonial Novels
Advisor: Moustafa Bayoumi
Sherwood, Normandy (M.F.A. Playwriting)
Switch Blade Girls
Advisor: Mac Wellman
Skinner, Deborah (M.A. English)
The Issue of Women and Voice in Henry James’ The Portrait of a Lady and Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome
Advisor: James Davis
Stevens, Elizabeth (M.F.A. Fiction)
The Crony: A Novel
Advisor: Jenny Offill
Tandy, Catherine (M.A. English)
My Soul is a Pawn Shop: Consumerism and Numinism in Saul Bellow’s Henderson the Rain King
Advisor: Nicola Masciandaro
Tucker, Lindsey (M.A. English)
Lisette Model: Obscuring the Identities of Art and Documentary in Photography
Advisor: Joseph Entin
Wolff, Ian (M.A. English)
Nonquest of Nonidentity in Nonplace: Postotherness in Roberto Bolano’s The Savage Detectives
Advisor: Joseph Entin
Workman, Emily (M.A. English)
Gender Binaries and Imperialism: Milton’s Paradise Lost
Advisor: Kathleen Haley
2007-2008 Approved Master’s Theses
Abrahim, Anastasia
“Jane Austen: The Realistic Romance Writer”
Advisor: Geraldine De Luca
Acloque, Serene
“Wandering Women of Turn- of –the Century American Literature: Situating Prostitution in The House of Mirth”
Advisor: Martha Nadell
Ali, Yasmin I.
“Disillusioned Mothers: Portraits of Mothers and Motherhood in Postcolonial Literature”
Advisor: Moustafa Bayoumi
Bethge, John
“The Informed Citizen: The Manchurian Candidate, Catch-22, and the Struggle for Individuality”
Advisor: Thomas Boyle
Bose, Sharbari
“Giving the Moment Whole: Female Narrative Silence in Bloomsbury’s Anti-Imperial Dialogue”
Advisor: Wendy Fairey
Callahan, Clare
“’After’ Theory”
Advisor: Joseph Entin
Chin, Sarah
“Mirrors and Memories: Dystopian Science Fiction and Empowerment in Young Adult Literature”
Advisor: James Davis
Dance Jr., Alphonso
“Symbolism and Imagery of Denial and Acceptance in Richard Wright’s Native Son: Bigger Thomas’s Struggle to Express His Humanity”
Advisor: Marie Buncombe
Dougherty, Nivia
“History and Memory in Toni Morrison’s Beloved: The Conflict of Remembering and Forgetting the Past”
Advisor: Martha Nadell
Durka, Agnieszka
“The Art of Portraiture in Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady”
Advisor: Geoff Minter
Fairall, Holly
“Gnomon’s Land: The Colonial Voids of Dubliners’ ‘Childhood Trilogy’”
Advisor: Thomas Boyle
Fayerberg, Daniel
“Surviving Austen: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Textual Survival of Jane Austen’s Novels During the Twentieth-Century”
Advisor: William Reeves
Flippin, Lakiska
“The African American Feminine Gothic”
Advisor: Martha Nadell
Fuks, Yevgenya
“Hyperreality Revealed: The Function and Significance of Hyperreality”
Advisor: Joseph Entin
Georgianna, Don
“Truman Capote and the Nonfiction Novel”
Advisor: Carey Harrison
Gersch, Jason
“Creating the Preface-Lens: Interpreting the Underlying Sociopolitical Dichotomies of Lermontov’s A Hero of Our Time”
Advisor: Wendy Fairey
Gjoni, Iva
“Time in Wonderland”
Advisor: Robert Viscusi
Gore, Catherine
“Representing Animals: Animals in Human Consciousness in Romantic Poetry”
Advisor: Nicola Masciandaro
Heffner, Rachel
“Divine Imagination: ‘Words About God’ in the Children’s Fantasy Fiction of Madeline L’Engle”
Advisor: Geraldine DeLuca
Hogan, William
Funny Bones: Black Comedy and the Body in The Revenger’s Tragedy”
Advisor: Ellen Belton
Infortunio Jr.,Thomas
“The Re-Makynge of Gawain: Artifice, Nature and Redemption in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”
Advisor: Nicola Masciandaro
Lenahan, Holly
“Anglo-Norman vs. Parisian Influence on Chancery English”
Advisor: John Roy
Leotaud, Crystal Joanne
“The People Could Fly: An Examination of the Negro Spirit”
Advisor: Mark Patkowski
Lewis, Shell
“An Elevated State of Mind: Woolf’s Androgyny and Anzaldua’s Mestiza Consciousness”
Advisor: Wendy Fairey
Mitchell, Kean
“On the Use of Creole in Derek Walcott’s Dream on Monkey Mountain
Advisor: John Roy
Mondano, Nicole
“A Study of Transnational Women Writers, Their Female Protagonists, and the Criticism That Surrounds Their Work”
Advisor: Wendy Fairey
Nicholson, Charlene
“Sexuality in The House of Mirth and The Awakening”
Advisor: James Davis
Rutman, Sharon
“Twentieth Century Hell and the Possible Utopian Alternative Through the Novels of Upton Sinclair
Advisor: Geoff Minter
Ryan, Sheila
“Adolescent Girls and the Scarlet Letter”
Advisor: Prof. Viscusi
Sadykov, Leah
“Prisoners of Language: Revisiting the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis”
Advisor: Mark Patkowski
Scanson, Thomas
“Marketing Manhood: Langston Hughes’s Queer Passing on The Big Sea”
Advisor: Geoffrey Minter
Simmons, Paulanne
“The Musical as Literature: Notes on the Creative Process”
Advisor: Cary Harrison
Stein, Roberta
“The Key Factors Influencing the Depictions of Male-Female Relationships in the Novels of E.M. Foster and Virginia Woolf”
Advisor: Wendy Fairey
Suszynski, Christina
“If I Am A Woman Of My Word, What Words Do I Use?”
Advisor: Nicola Masciandaro
Tavares, Frank
“Complicity and Rebelliousness in Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”
Advisor: George Cunningham
Tepas, Simon
“Hunter S. Thompson and the New Journalism: Fear and Loathing for the Daily News”
Advisor: Geoff Minter
Ucciardino, Jack
“Questions of Identity in Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep, Farewell, My Lovely, The Little Sister, The Long Goodbye, and Playback”
Advisor: Robert Viscusi
Uzzilia, Suzanne
“The Language of Political Estrangement in Three West Indian Novels”
Advisor: Rennie Gonsalves
Wallach, Miriam
“Stand By Me: Defending Lois Lowry’s The Giver Against Censorship”
Advisor: Nancy Vighetti
Wilson, Constance
“Gender and Education in the Works of Ama Ata Aidoo and Tsitsi Dangarembga”
Advisor: James Davis
2006-2007 Approved Masters Theses
Agius, Ryan
“Narrative Voice and Authorial Presence in Melville’s ‘Bartleby, the Scrivener’ and Kafka’s ‘A
Hunger Artist’”
Advisor: Thomas Boyle
Arts, George
“Reference as a Text Construction Agent with a Focus on Anaphora”
Advisor: John Roy
Beharry, Anjinie
“What explains Milton’s God in Paradise Lost?”
Advisor: Ana Acosta
Berardi, Diane
“An Evaluation and Case Study of E-Learning”
Advisor: Geri DeLuca
Carosone, Michael
“The Marginalization of Italian-American Writers and Italian-American Literature”
Advisor: Geri DeLuca
Chwala, Gregory
“Byron in Missolonghi: Greek Love and The Private Gone Public”
Advisor: Geoffrey Minter
Cohen, Diane
“The Female Bildungsroman During Colonialism and Dictatorship”
Advisor: Rennison Gonsalves
Coiffe, Dorothea
“The Alphabet is Never a Neutral Technology: A History of Writing Systems in Twentieth Century Turkmenistan and Other Areas of Central Asia”
Advisor: Mark Patkowski
Cox, Margaret
“Evolution of the African American Woman’s Psyche”
Advisor: Geoffrey Minter
Cucaj, Xhenete
“Re-Positioning the Feminine Role: A Study of Assia Djebar’s Quartet”
Advisor: Moustafa Bayoumi
Davis, Maudelin
“Henry James and His Feminine Influences”
Advisor: William F. Browne
DePasquale, Elizabeth
“A Lady’s ‘Verily’ is as Potent as a Lord’s: A Search for Non-Binary Female Subject Positions in Antony and Cleopatra and The Winter’s Tale”
Advisor: Ellen Belton
English, Bridget
“The Splendid Mirage: Bohemian New York and the Search for a Modern American Identity in Fitzgerald and Cather”
Advisor: Martha Nadell
Esdaille, Elroy
“Race as a Social Construction in the Works of Charles Chestnutt and James Weldon Johnson”
Advisor: James Davis
Everitt, Ryan
“The Connotative Denaturalization of Bleak House”
Advisor: Ellen Tremper
Fogarty, Patrick
“Exodic or Hybrid Literature? A Post-Colonial Analysis of Swift’s Drapier’s Letters and Joyce’s
Ulysses”
Advisor: Patricia Laurence
Gaske, Jaime
“Realizing Myths and Symbols in Contemporary Literature”
Advisor: Nancy Vighetti
Gutman, Emilya
“To Be or Not to Be ‘Black No More’: The Essential Dilemma of the Harlem Renaissance”
Advisor: Martha Nadell
Hoffman, Rabecca
“Gender Differences in Cinematic Storytelling Styles: Bound vs. High Art”
Advisor: Mark Patkowski
Holmes, Renee
“Charles Chestnutt’s Paul Marchand, FMC and Mark Twain’s Pudd’nhead Wilson: The Reconstruction of Race and the Revision of Slavery”
Advisor: George Cunningham
Huliaris, Eugenia
“The Paradigm Shift from New Criticism to Feminism in Daisy Miller and The Age of
Innocence”
Advisor: James Davis
Jones, Tashara
“An Investigation Through the Thinking of Bigger Thomas: In Richard Wright’s Native Son”
Advisor: Joseph Entin
Korbl, Angela
“Out of the House of Arabic into the House of Latin”
Advisor: Nicola Masciandaro
Lemma, Erica
“The Battle for Equality: Huck Finn and the Color Line”
Advisor: Wendy Fairey
Lukszo, Ursula
“Geography of the Ordinary: Locating BioPolitics in “The Time Before” and the Time Now in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaids Tale”
Advisor: Rowena Lee Quinby
Maharaj, Nira
“Mule/Muse: Women in Jean Toomer’s Cane and Zora Neale Hurston’s Mules and Men”
Advisor: Martha Nadell
McCabe, Matthew
“An Examination of January in Chaucer’s ‘Merchant’s Tale’”
Advisor: Nicola Masciandaro
McGee, Kristi
“Oedipa Maas in Pursuit of Signs”
Advisor: Mark Patkowski
Murphy-Wedlock, Kristine
“Female Empowerment in a Time of Crisis: Fierce and Forceful Females in The Grapes of Wrath”
Advisor: Joseph Entin
Moss, Tinamarie
“Children’s Literature: An Archetypal Journey”
Advisor: Geri DeLuca
Navarro, Lauren
“Jane’s Mission of Agency: An Ethos of Domestic Happiness”
Advisor: Ellen Tremper”
Nemtsin, Karina
“The Demystification of Female Sexuality and Identity in Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood”
Advisor: Wendy Fairey
Nugent, Patrick
“Gifts for the Great Potluck: Metaphor and Form in Danger on Peaks”
Advisor: Matthew Burgess
Plunkett, Michael
“The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Flann O’Brien’s At Swim Two Birds and the Horizontal Use of Literary Reference”
Advisor: Robert Viscusi
Polenski, Michael
“Ernest Hemingway’s Nick Adams: In the Woodlands of the Ojibway”
Advisor: Robert Viscusi
Porter, Julia
“ ‘There Be Soul-Artists’: The Effects of the Spiritualism Movement on Harriet Beecher Stowe’s The Minister’s Wooing”
Advisor: Patricia Laurence
Roslyn, Rey
“Empowering Women Through African Literature”
Advisor: Geri DeLuca
Shetty, Shilpa
“Globalization and Tourism in A Small Place, The God of Small Things and Transmission”
Advisor: Wendy Fairey
Shury, Donna
“African Guyanese Folk Music: A Cultural Heritage”
Advisor: Mark Patkowski
Starr, Jessica
“The Shadow Heroics of Social Masochism in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre”
Advisor: Wendy Fairey
Teitel, Michael
“The Imperial Smile: Notes on the Face of Imperialism”
Advisor: Dillon Brown
Tescher, Jeremy
“Words are Things: The Significance of Language in Blood Meridian”
Advisor: James Davis
Thame, Nicola
“Ideologies Challenged and Then Reaffirmed: Wide Sargasso Sea’s Assumption of Colonial Power ”
Advisor: Dillon Brown
Vella, Tinamarie
“The Forgotten Blemish: Remembering Filipino History Through Literature”
Advisor: Renison Gonsalves
Washington, Phyllis
“Ebonics – A Legitimate Language”
Advisor: Mark Patkowski
Wei, Zhaoxia
“Nineteeth Century New York City in Washington Square and The House of Mirth”
Advisor: Martha Nadell
Willis, Karen
“Black Women Writers and Virginia Woolf’s Androgynous Mind”
Advisor: Nicola Masciandaro
John Yi
“Identity and Chinese Aesthetics in Ezra Pound’s The Cantos”
Advisor: Nicola Masciandaro
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