Undergraduate Honors Thesis Spotlight

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

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

Aryani Pallerla

Thesis title: Red Dirt Mosaic

Caroline Brogden

Gina Flow

Chelsea Hignite

Cecil May

Mike O’Brien

Quinton Okoro

Megan Pramojaney

Lila Richardson

Ruth Jeffers

Thesis title: “Bodies of Salt”

Alexis Dumain

Molly Herring

Mia Lerner

SamLevi Middleton-Sizemore

Emma Nelson

Maia Sheets

Cecelia Tucker

Teresa Ruiz Vazquez