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English Honors Thesis

Nikki Rafferty

Thesis title: “Beyond the Home: An Analysis of Women in Work in the Domestic Noir” dir. by Sarah Boyd

Danielle Richmond

Thesis title: “Jane Austen’s ‘Simpleton:’ What Studying a Single Word Can Teach Us About Austen’s Writing” dir. by Inger Brodey

X Eros Ramos Lara

Thesis title: “Queering Performance and Community: Ballroom Culture as the Subversion of Hegemonic Gender, Race, and Sexuality in “Queer” Identity Formation” dir. by Tyree Daye

Sophie Hass

Thesis title: ““It Sucks Here”: The Absence of Gen Z Ideals in Southern Young Adult Fiction” dir. by Søren Palmer

Alex Benedict

Thesis title: “litany of the green lion: returning the concrete to the concrete and the concrete to the grass, or how grass conquers the necropolis in d.a.levy’s Cleveland undercovers” dir. by Hassan Melehy

Olivia Kersten

Thesis title: “Reader, I Broke the Formula: A Study of Bertha Mason’s Intersectional Identity and the Gothic Double Formula” dir. by Jeanne Moskal

Mary-Elisabeth Combs

Thesis title: “Bitches, Bastards, and Book Bans: Finding Space for William Faulkner in The Face of False Canonization” dir. by Henry Veggian

Leo Bautista

Thesis title: “Queer Aesthetics: Oscar Wilde and the Development of the “Queer Artist”” dir. by Kim Stern

Elizabeth Leonard

Thesis title: “The Joke Is on Us: An Analysis of the Purpose and Techniques of Eighteenth- and Twenty-First Century Western Satire” dir. by Joe Fletcher

Ben Foster

Thesis title: “The Big Sky over Fair Land: The Influence of 20th Century American Environmental Discourse in A.B. Guthrie’s “Dick Summers” Western Trilogy” dir. by Mark Cohen

Elsa Karcher

Thesis title: “Looking Medusa in the Eyes: The Monster Who Shaped Classical Culture” dir. by Jessica Wolfe

Ash Radtke

Thesis title: “THIS PLACE IS HAUNTED: ON THE DEPICTION OF TRAUMA IN HORROR LITERATURE, PARTICULARLY THROUGH HAUNTED HOUSES” dir. by Gabe Bump

Benjamin Linford

Thesis title: “IMAGE EMPIRE: The Chaos of the Images in INLAND EMPIRE” dir. by Gregory Flaxman

Creative Writing Thesis

Fiction

Simon Palmore

Thesis title: Do You Hear What I’m Saying?

Jessica Jones

Thesis title: “A (Short Story) Collection of My Sweat and Tears”

Ian Washabaugh

Thesis title: The Tundewan and Other Stories

Sa’Tia Brown

Tiosa Iyamu

Susan Jones

Jay Moran

Aryan Rai

Maggie Hall

Molly James

Poetry

Caroline Brogden

Gina Flow

Chelsea Hignite

Cecil May

Mike O’Brien

Quinton Okoro

Aryani Pallerla

Megan Pramojaney

Lila Richardson

Creative Non-Fiction

Alexis Dumain

Molly Herring

Ruth Jeffers

Mia Lerner

SamLevi Middleton-Sizemore

Emma Nelson

Maia Sheets

Cecelia Tucker

Teresa Ruiz Vazquez

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