Student Research from 2024
Old Wives’ Tales: Collections from Beneath the Floorboards, Layla Barnes
The Metaphor of Ekphrasis: or Why does your Ekphrasis look different from mine?, William Butler
“4, 24”, and 4c”: The Shared Knowledge of Hair Terminology and Cultural Pride Among Black Women., Aliya J. Claiborne
"The Service of Bleakest Realism": Authorship, Guilt, and Forgiveness in Ian McEwan's Atonement, Emily Kile
Diaspora and Identity in Jhumpa Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth, Riley Prater
Who’s Laughing Now? Comedy as Coping Mechanism and Critique in Paul Beatty’s The Sellout, Mihaughany Redd
Fallen Creator and Failed Christ: An Exploration of Religious Imagery and Metafiction in Ian McEwan’s Atonement, Tabitha Robinson
Unraveling the Threads: Memory and Narrative in Ian McEwan's Atonement, Emily Rooksby
Student Research from 2023
goddess of., Megan Childs
Lady Winters, Madeline Ice
Save the Dragon, Emily Malone
Dorian and the Double: Repressed Homosexual Desire in The Picture of Dorian Gray, Alexandra Wohlford
Student Research from 2022
Rank versus Romance: The Relationship of Class and Courtship in Burney's Evelina, Lucy Clark
Bildungsroman and Trauma in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird and Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina, Bernadette D'Auria
Russian and Ukrainian: Like Two Drops of Water, Elizabeth Edwards
Mutually Exclusive: Being Gay and Being a Man in E.M. Forster’s Maurice, Kimber Foreman
Novella, Sydney German
The Fate of Her Heart, Elizabeth Gisselquist
Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, QAnon and Blood Libel, Georga Hackworth
The Science of Art “Faithfully Presented”: Entropy in British Victorian Literature, Hannah Harris
Inferno of the Mind, Amber M. Harvey
“The Battle Against Sameness”: Queer Marriages in Forster and Woolf, Lindsey Hatton
The Garden of Secrets and Truths, Chloe Martin
Dorothy Allison's Gothic Poverty, Jessica Morin
Prosodic and Deictic Features as Performance Markers in Southern Baptist Sermons, Matt Nelson
“Hysteria Abated”: Forster’s Treatment of Women’s Mental Health in Howards End, Rosemary Pauley
Little Women, Little Houses: Authorship and Authority in Louisa May Alcott and Laura Ingalls Wilder, Katia Savelyeva
The Dissection of Twins, Amber Zipfel
Student Research from 2021
Songs of Eden, Emma Atkinson
I Like To Think I’m Making Something New: An A. I. Attempts Narrative, Kelly Donaghey
Christian Imagery in the Short Stories of Flannery O'Connor, Vanessa Fickes
Creative Writing in Multiple Mediums, Piper Giannini
The Pensieve Podcast, Alexandra Slaughter
Student Research from 2020
Dimensions of the DSM, Emma Snyder
Representations of Disability in Literature and Elementary Education, Rebecca Young