The Honors Project:
For most students the Honors Project will be a multi-chapter critical thesis. The thesis is expected to be a major project that makes an original critical argument, includes a review of relevant scholarship, and is firmly grounded in the appropriate theoretical frameworks. For more info on the guidelines and submission process please Click Here for Honors Project Information.
Past Projects:
Student | Title | Faculty |
2016-2017
Courtney Kalafsky (Highest Honors) | Authenticity and Witnessing in Postmemorial Holocaust Literature | Friedman |
Richard Petruccelli | Queering Our Curriculum: Approaching LGBTQ Themes in School-Aged Literature | Meixner |
2015-2016
Alissa Cappelleri | Motivated and Meaningful Reading: Linguistic Identity, Cultural Capital, and Educational Expecttations | Steele |
2014-2015
Neepam Shah (Highest Honors) | The Political and the Personal: Religious and Emotional Negotiations in Post-9/11 South Asian-American Literature | McMann |
Steven Thompson (High Honors) | One Eye Open: Pre- and Processions of Simulacra and Surveillance in Modern Dystopian Literature | Robertson |
2013-2014
Jennifer Doughan (Honors) | Modern Sensibilities and Textual Sensitivities: Peter Pan and the Twenty-First Century | McCauley |
Eowyn Winchester (Honors) | Compulsory Heterosexuality Across Women’s Retellings of “Beauty and the Beast”: Exploring Iterations by Madame Beaumont, Angela Carter, and Emma Donoghue | Carney |
2012-2013
Casey Coley (Honors) | Contemporary Appropriations of the Fairy Tale: The Post-Angela Carter Generation | Carney |
Brian Hartt (High Honors) | Men Playing Man: Reconfiguring Fragmented Masculinity in Postmodern American Fiction | Robertson |
Tiffany Teng (Honors) | Reconfiguring Eco-Poetics of Waste and Toxicity in Beat Literature | Mi |
2011-2012
Kristen Comerford (Honors) | Coleridge’s Psychological Curiosity: A Romantic and Psychoanalytic Approach to “Kubla Khan” | Venturo |
Justin Mancini (Honors) | “These Bloody Irishmen”: Deconstruction of Masculine Identities in the Work of Martin McDonagh | Konkle |
Rebecca McNulty (Honors) | Self-Aware Narration and Symbols of Mythology in Robert Coover’s Short Fiction | Blake |
2009-2010
Nicole Freeto (High Honors) | Gender Performativity and Euripidean Drama: The Manipulation of Gender Roles in the Alcestis, the Hippolytus, and the Bacchae | G. Steinberg |
Adam Engel (Highest Honors) | Poetic Pilgrimages to the Creative Word: Experiencing Reality through the Poetry of T. S. Eliot and Wallace Stevens | Venturo |
Bess Myers (Honors) | The Iliads of Chapman and Pope: The Trials of Translation in the Invocation of the Muse, Achilles’ Reaction to Patroclus’ Death, and Achilles’ Pursuit of Hector | Venturo |
Jason Toncic (High Honors) | Invisible Atom Bombs: Spectrality and Testimonial Potency of the Atomic Bomb in Hibakusha and Post- Hibakusha Narrative | Mi |
2008-2009
Sam Bednarchik (Honors) | The Secular and the Sacred in the Language of Love: The Presence of John Calvin and Bernard de Clarivaux in the Union Theology of John Donne | Graham |
Susan Pedersen (High Honors) | Text Machines and Talking Houses: Gulliver’s Travels and the Fallen Word | Venturo |
Jenna Geiger (High Honors) | “She’s an Honour to Her Sex!” The Domestic Criminal in Dickens | McCauley |
Matthew Pihokker (Honors) | A New Reading of Apuleius’ The Metamorphoses : Creation of the Novelistic | Steinberg |
2007-2008
Trista Alstadt (Honors) | The Pilgrim’s Purpose: Allegorical Intention in John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress and The Life and Death of Mr. Badman | Venturo |
Lindsey Warren (High Honors) | Engendering the Long Form in William Carlos Williams | Bennett |
2006-2007
Meghan Linck (High Honors) | Christianizing Catharsis: Milton, Morality, and the Classical Tradition | Venturo |
Gina Vanuzzi (Honors) | Behind the Curtain: An Exploration of Theatre and Race Theory | Kendrix- Williams |
Lindsay Knight (High Honors) | The Old English Orosius as Original Anglo-Saxon Prose | Steele |
Stephanie Busalacchi (High Honors) | Passing the Torch: Understanding John Dryden’s Imitations | Venturo |
Laura DeSciolo (Honors) | Jonathon Swift: Theory of Language and Behavior | Venturo |
2005-2006
Courtney Rydel (High Honors) | Lost In Translation: Mechtild of Hackeborn and The Booke Of Gostlye Grace | Steele |
Anthony Milici (Honors) | “More Myself Then I Am”: The Homoincestuous in Literature | Biggs |
Nicole Kukawski (High Honors) | The Pedagogue as Poet: Walt Whitman and The American Education System | Blake |
2004-2005
Christopher Vona (Honors) | “’Tis as Good as a Lord!’” –Masculine Identity and Social Morality of The Novels of Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Mansfield Park. | D. Steinberg |
Matt Miller (High Honors) | The Blake Legend: A Brief History of the Creation of An Artist | Venturo |
Andrew Sarrol (Honors) | From Self-Annihilation to Identity: A Lacanian Analysis of Blake’s Milton | Venturo |