Senior Theses in Literary Studies

Students select a topic related to their concentration and submit their thesis proposal in the spring of their junior year. Under the regular guidance of faculty advisors and evaluators, students continue to research, write, and develop the study over the course of their senior year. The result is a significant piece of research and an established skill set that will enable independent research studies going forward.

Past theses in Literary Studies include:

• Kori Brierley Bowers, “Campbell's Broken Model: Women in the Role of the Literary Hero” (2016)
• Isabel J. Filkins, “City.Text” (2015)
• Cary Long, “An Analysis of Gravity’s Rainbow: On the Radical Politics of the Historical Novel” (2015)
• Moe Thet War, “The Pursuit of Reality in the Nineteenth-Century Novel” (2015)
• Izaak Hecht, “‘I Am Obstinate… I Disappear’: Toward a Communism of Reading A Lacanian Thesis” (2015)
• Miranda Jones, “A Translation and Analysis of Christian Kracht's Faserland” (2014)
• Savannah Lamb, “‘A blue vapor rose up into Felicite's bedroom’: An Analysis of Gustave Flaubert's A Simple Heart ” (2013)
• Kathryn Giles, “‘You Shall Know the Truth and the Truth Shall Make You Odd’: Christian Concerns in the Works of Emily Dickinson and Flannery O’Connor” (2012)
• Jillian Hanley, “Literary Revisions and Art” (2012)
• Alexis Wint, “Black Words, White Pages: Challenging American Socialization through Critical and Introspective Writing” (2012)
• Ian Myers, “The Conflict of Modernity and Japanese Traditionalism in the Fiction of Natsume Sōseki” (2011)