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In its Honors Program the English Department awards only Honors to successful student research projects (effective May 2017). The projects listed below have been defended successfully, and a copy of the thesis deposited in Swem Library. Click on highlighted links to access the thesis.

Key:

• Student, "Thesis" (Honors level)
  Committee Chair + Other Committee Members

2025-2026

• Jacob Ivan Brown, "" (Honors) 

  Melaine Dawson + Jenny Putzi, Brett Wilson, Kara French

• Matthew Lee Burch, "" (Honors) 

  Keith Johnson + Hermine Pinson, Cyanne Topaum, Aaron Griffith

• Carter S Danto, "" (Honors) 

  Deborah Morse + Kim Wheatley, Arthur Knight, Diya Bose

• Eva H. Hilzenrath,  "" (Honors) 

  Erin Minear + Erin Webster, Suzanne Hagedorn, Tom McSweeney

• Angelina Young Joa, "" (Honors) 

  Brett Wilson + Erin Minear, Alicia Andrzejewski, Madelyn Labella

•  Bailey Nichelle Langhans, "" (Honors) 

  Jennifer Putzi + Melanie Dawson, Lori Jacobson, Carol Sheriff

• Meghan Ray McCarthy, "" (Honors) 

  Elizabeth Losh + Arthur Knight, Addie Tsai, Robyn Schroeder

• Isaiah Jeffrey Riddle, "" (Honors) 

  Adam Potkay + Rich Lowry, Charles McGovern, Jennifer Gully

• Allison Nicole Robinson-Wilson,  " " (Honors) 

  Arthur Knight + Francesca Sawaya, DeLisa Hawkes, Jay Watkins

• Kyle Nikhill Sharma,  " " (Honors) 

  Alicia Andrzejewski + Brian Castleberry, Melanie Marotta, Leisa Meyer

• Adeline Marie Steel,  "" (Honors) 

  Erin Webster + Erin Minear, Alicia Andrzejewski, Dorothy Ibes

• Ava Wladar,  "" (Honors) 

  Kim Wheatley + Erin Webster, Deborah Morse, Kathrin Levitan

2024-2025

• Shawna Alexandria Alston, (Honors) 
  Alicia Andrzejewski + Hermine Pinson, Suzette Spencer, Lily Kunda
• Mia Katherine Carboni,  (Honors) 
  Melanie Dawson + Erin Webster, Brian Castleberry, Leisa Meyer
• Ellen Katherine Downard, (Honors) 
  Henry Hart + Varun Begley, Erin Minear, Paul Davies
• Anna Pearl Harshman, (Honors) 
  Keith Johnson + Alicia Andrzejewski, Chris MacGowan, Talbot Taylor
• Martha Virginia Holler,  (Honors)  
  Richard Lowry + Melanie Dawson, Erin Webster, Carol Sheriff
• Elise Stansbury Norquist, (Honors) 
  Deborah Morse + Kim Wheatley, Erin Minear, Madelyn Labella
• Zoe Beyla Zhe Moore Simon, (Honors) 
  Brett Wilson + Deborah Morse, Jenny Putzi, Chandos Brown
• Kiley Elizabeth Smith,  (Honors) 
  Deborah Morse + Kim Wheatley, Brett Wilson, Katrin Levitan
• Matias Svenning Solberg,  (Honors) 
  Henry Hart + Varun Begley, Rich Lowry, Meghan Quinn
• Crystal Wang,  (Honors) 
  R. Benedito Ferrão + Francesca Sawaya, Lynn Weiss, Chinua Thelwell

2023-2024

• Emily Cameron Faucett,  (Honors) 
  Deborah Denenholz Morse + Kim Wheatley, Simon Joyce, Lily Panoussi
• Allyson Joy Lowe, (Honors) 
  Richard Lowry + Elizabeth Barnes, Suzette Spencer, Laurie Wolf
• Harper Webb McCall,  (Honors) 
  Deborah Morse + Kim Wheatley, Kathrin Levitan, Hermine Pinson
• Chloe Louise Moore, (Honors) 
  Christopher MacGowan + Hermine Pinson, M. Lee Alexander, Timothy Barnard
• Amanda Michelle Mullet,  (Honors) 
  Erin Webster + Keith Johnson, Alicia Andrzejewski, Claire McKinney

2022-2023

• Mariana Rose Kornreich, "" (Honors) 
  Deborah Morse + Liz Barnes, Francesca Sawaya , Xin Conan-Wu
• Catherine Nicole Lashley, "" (Honors) 
  Keith Johnson + Melanie Dawson , Liz Losh , Monica Seger 
• Olivia Jean Little, "" (Honors)
   Kim Wheatley + Deborah Morse, Brett Wilson , Kathrin Levitan
• Trinity Monica Myers, "" (Honors)
  Adam Potkay + Kim Wheatley, Simon Joyce, Lily Panoussi
• Juliet Harris Nierle, "" (Honors) 
  Erin Minear + Erin Webster , Alicia Andrzejewski , Christopher Freiman
• Sarah Catherine Richman, "” (Honors) 
  Alicia Andrzejewski + Erin Minear, Bené Ferrão, Nick Popper
• Mikeila Noel Whitney, "" (Honors) 
  Melanie Dawson + Keith Johnson, Rich Lowry, Alan Braddock

2021-2022

• Sabrien Abdelrahman, "" (Honors)
  R Benedito Ferrao + Hermine Pinson, Chima Osakwe, Chinua Thelwell
• William Brake, "" (Honors)
  Mary Lynn Weiss + Adam Potkay, Francesca Sawaya, Alexander Prokhorov
• Katherine Grotewiel, "" (Honors)
  Jennifer Lorden + Erin Minear, Alicia Andrzejewski
• Cecilia Hughes, "" (Honors)
  Richard Lowry + Liz Barnes, Jenny Putzi, Leisa Meyer
• Mary Kardos, """ (Honors)
  Jennifer Putzi + Chris MacGowan, Rich Lowry, Hannah Rosen
• Kathryn Kowalski, "" (Honors)
  Deborah Morse + Suzanne Raitt, Simon Joyce, Kathy Levitan
• Samantha Murphy, "" (Honors)
  Deborah Morse + Kim Wheatley, Suzanne Raitt, Kathy Levitan
• Hunter Phillips, "" (Honors)
  Jennifer Lorden + Suzanne Hagedorn, Erin Webster, Lu Ann Homza

2020-2021

• Kathryn Dragonetti, "" (Honors)
  Andrew Blossom + Jon Pineda, Alicia Andrzejewski, Dana Willner
• Alexa Kelly, "" (Honors)
  Simon Joyce + Suzanne Raitt, Adam Potkay, Alexander Prokhorov
• Katherine Lucas, "" (Honors)
  Keith Johnson + Kim Wheatley, Brett Wilson, Jerry Watkins III
• Jonathan Malks, "" (Honors)
  Melanie V. Dawson + Elizabeth Barnes, Alan C. Braddock, Francesca Sawaya
• Robert Metaxatos, "" (Honors)
  Brett Wilson + Adam Potkay, Keith Johnson, Giulia Pacini
• Louise Strange, "" (Honors)
  M. Lynn Weiss + Simon Joyce, R. Benedito Ferrao, Chinua Thelwell
• Benjamin Woessner, "" (Honors)
  Suzanne Hagedorn + Richard Lowry, Jennifer Lorden, Alexander Angelov
• Zheng Yu, "" (Honors)
  Jon Pineda + Henry Hart, Erin Webster, Francis Tanglao Aguas

2019-2020

• Quinn Arnone, "" (Honors)
  Suzanne Hagedorn + Adam Potkay, Erin Webster, Lily Panoussi
• Bianca Bowman, "" (Honors)
  Melanie Dawson + Jenny Putzi, Keith Johnson, Claire McKinney
• Aida Campos, "" (Honors)
  Jon Pineda + Hermine Pinson, Silvia Tandeciarz, Scott Challener
• Sarah Elam, "" (Honors)
  Mary Ann Melfi + Suzanne Raitt, Varun Begley, Alexander Prokhorov
• Hunter Hall, "" (Honors)
  Suzanne Raitt + Deborah Morse, Kim Wheatley, Talbot Taylor
  
• Samuel McIntyre, "" (Honors)
  Deborah Morse + Kim Wheatley, Simon Joyce, Leisa Myer
• Edward Millman, "" (Honors)
  Christopher MacGowan + Susan Donaldson, Rich Lowry, Charlie McGovern
• Marriya Schwarz, "" (Honors)
  Brian Castleberry +Jennifer Putzi, Charles McGovern, Thomas Batten
• Sophia Shealy, "" (Honors level)
  Brian Castleberry + Other Committee Members
• Noah Terrell, "" (Honors)
  Keith Leslie Johnson + Rich Lowry, Varun Begley, Monica Seger
• Jessica Urgo, "" (Honors)
  Brian Castleberry + Jon Pineda, John Riofrio, Melanie Dawson
• Kelsey Vita, "" (Honors)
  Richard Lowry + Hermine Pinson, Scott Challener, John Riofrio
• Angela West, "" (Honors)
  Henry Hart + Chris MacGowan, Suzanne Raitt, Leisa Myer    

2018-19

• Katherine Avery, "" (Honors)
  Richard Lowry + Arthur Knight, Bené Ferrao, Charles McGoven
• Devon Boyers, "'" (Honors)
  Deborah Morse + Erin Webster, Mary Ann Melfi, Kathrin Levitan
• Jacqueline Keshner, "" (Honors)
  Erin Webster + Erin Minear, Francesca Sawaya, Dawn Edmiston
• Caroline Kessler, ""
  Keith Johnson + Chris MacGowan, Colleen Kennedy, Leisa Meyer
• Kelsey Llewellyn, "" (Honors)
  Melanie Dawson + Francesca Sawaya, Deborah Morse, A. Angelov
• Anna McAnnally, ""
  Jennifer Putzi + Liz Barnes, Nancy Schoenberger, Jessica Stevens
• Ryan Onders, "" (Honors)
  Hermine Pinson + Jon Pineda, Bene Ferrao, Jonathan Glasser
• Stephen Ryan, "" (Honors)
  Brett Wilson + Kim Wheatley, Adam Potkay, Mitchell Brown
• Richard Stevenson, ""
  Christopher MacGowan + Rich Lowry, Francesca Sawaya, Laurie Wolf
• Katharine Williams, "" (Honors)
  Deborah Morse + Suzanne Raitt, Brett Wilson, Giulia Pacini
• Colleen Wilson, "" (Honors)
  Kim Wheatley + Romuald Lipcius, Junping Shi
• Anna Wingfield, "" (Honors)
  Kim Wheatley + Erin Webster, Adam Potkay, Kathrin Levitan

2017-18

• Christina Danberg, "" (Honors)
  Deborah Morse + Kim Wheatley, Mary Ann Melfi, Claire McKinney 
• Charlotte DeForest, "Myth of a Nation: National Identity in the Fantasy of J.R.R. Tolkien and Neil Gaiman" (Honors) 
  Kara Thompson + Keith Johnson, Brian Castleberry, Joanna Schug
• Elizabeth Flood, "" (Honors)
  Deborah Morse + Simon Joyce, Suzanne Raitt, Leisa Meyer 
• Dana Florczak, "" (Honors) 
  Francesca Sawaya + Suzanne Raitt, Keith Johnson, Hannah Rosen 
• Sarah Heins, "" (Honors) 
  Christopher MacGowan + Robert Scholnick, Henry Hart, Beverly Sher
• Jiayue Jiang, "" (Honors) 
  Suzanne Raitt + Deborah Morse, Liz Barnes, Paul Manna
• Emma Johnson, "" (Honors) 
  Melanie Dawson + Christopher MacGowan, Richard Lowry, Mary Kirsh
• Elijah Levine, "" (Honors) 
  Richard Lowry + Brett Wilson, Christopher MacGowan, Simon Stow 
  
• Annabel McSpadden, "" (Honors)
  Chelsey Johnson + Jennifer Putzi, Suzanne Raitt, Daniel Cristol  
• Jessica Molz, "" (Honors) 
  Melanie Dawson + John Conlee, Philip Daileader, Colin Sargent, Kevin Smith
• Bailey Orr, "The Forgotten Beauty of the Feminine: Elena Guro's The Little Camels of the Sky, Virginia Woolf's The Waves, and the Holy Grail of the 'Women's Sentence'" (Honors) 
  Christy Burns + Robert Mulcahy, Francesca Sawaya, Suzanne Raitt, Alexander Prokhorov
• Bezawit Yohannes, "" (Honors) 
  Hermine Pinson + Keith Johnson, Iyabo Osiapem, Olaocha Nwabara

2016-17

• Emily Armstrong, "" (Honors) 
  Deborah Morse + Elizabeth Barnes, Kathrin Levitan, Mary Ann Melfi
• Kayla Armstrong, "" (Honors) 
  Richard Lowry + Colleen Kennedy, Kara Thompson, Tim Barnard
• Lydia Brown, "" (Honors) 
  Henry Hart + Nancy Schoenberger, Martha Alexander, Brian Hulse
• Sarah Collier, "" (Honors) 
  Melanie Dawson + Christy Burns, Keith Johnson, Carey Bagdassarian 
• Sophia Farion, "" (Honors) 
  Christy Burns + Simon Joyce, Mary Ann Melfi, James Armstrong
• Hayley Hahn, "" (Honors) 
  Brett Wilson + Varun Begley, Laurie Wolf, Elizabeth Wiley
• Cameron Menchel, "" (Honors) 
  Deborah Morse + Kim Wheatley, Kathrin Levitan, Suzanne Raitt
• Holly Reynolds, "" (Honors) 
  Kim Wheatley + Suzanne Raitt, Deborah Morse, Kathrin Levitan 
• Aidan Selmer, "" (Honors) 
  Erin Minear + Brett Wilson, Erin Webster, Nicholas Popper

2015-16

• Noah Brooksher, " " (Highest Honors)
  Henry Hart + Susan Donaldson, Jennifer Putzi, Victoria Castillo 
• Shannon Callahan, "" 
  Chelsey Johnson + Nancy Schoenberger, Hermine Pinson, Paul Davies
• Kathryn Darling, " (High Honors) 
  Kim Wheatley + Brett Wilson, Suzanne Raitt, Jennifer Taylor
• Eamonn deLacy, "" (Highest Honors)
  Christy Burns + Kara Thompson, Nicholas Popper, Elizabeth Losh
• Molly Earner, "" (High Honors) 
  Brian Castleberry + Chelsey Johnson, Jennifer Putzi, Maureen Fitzgerald
• Emily Nye, "" (High Honors) 
  Elizabeth Barnes + Colleen Kennedy, Melanie Dawson, Jennifer Taylor    
• Katianna Tron, "Sarah Josepha Hale: Editorial Advocate for Educational Improvement" (Honors) 
  Jennifer Putzi + Elizabeth Barnes, Karin Wulf, Francesa Sawaya
• Nicole Walsh, "" (High Honors) 
  Deborah Morse + Suzanne Raitt, Simon Joyce, Kathrin Levitan

2014-15

• Leah Bailey, (Honors) 
  Henry Hart + Walter Wenska, Melanie Dawson and Todd Thrash
• Maria Dougherty, (High Honors)  
  Colleen Kennedy + Deborah Morse, Brian Castleberry and Charles Palermo
• Diana Floegel, (High Honors) 
  Mary Ann Melfi + Susan Donaldson, Chelsey Johnson and Megan Sinton
• Amanda Foody, "The Spider & The Fly" (High Honors) 
  Chelsey Johnson + Jennifer Putzi, Nancy Schoenberger, Jennifer Stevens
• Molly Greer, (High Honors) 
  Chelsey Johnson + Hermine Pinson, Brian Castleberry and Lindy Johnson
• Zachary Hardy, (High Honors) 
  Adam Potkay + Simon Joyce, Deborah Morse and Rob Leventhal
• Beatrice Loayza, (Honors)
  Varum Begley + Christy Burns, Colleen Kennedy and Rob Leventhal
• Dana Lotito, (Highest Honors) 
  Chelsey Johnson + Nancy Schoenberger, Walt Wenska and Michele Lelievre
• William Marsh, (Honors) 
  Arthur Knight + Chris MacGowan, Christy Burns and Tim Costelloe
• Stephanie Mason, (Honors) 
  Deborah Morse + Suzanne Raitt, Kim Wheatley and Kathrin Levitan
• Sarah Schuster, : Narrative Fullness and the Feminine Body in the Work of Julia Ward Howe" (Highest Honors) 
  Jennifer Putzi + Melanie Dawson, Kara Thompson and Karin Wulf
• Claire Weaver, (Honors) 
  Simon Joyce + Henry Hart, Chris MacGowan and Charlie McGovern

2013-14

• Nora Riesenberg, (Honors)
  Melanie Dawson + William Fisher, Christy Burns, Mary Melfi
• Catherine Strycharz, (High Honors)
  Deborah Morse, Paula Blank + Suzanne Raitt, Erin Minear, Laurie J. Wolf
• Rory Sullivan, (Highest Honors)
  Suzanne Raitt + Kim Wheatley, Thomas Heacox, Sibel Zandi-Sayek
• Jordan Sutlive, (Highest Honors)
  Chelsey Johnson + Nancy Schoenberger, Brian Castleberry, Joanna Schug
• Olivia Sweet, (Highest Honors)
  Christopher MacGowan + Henry Hart, Christy Burns, Charles Palermo
• Corinne Tucker, (High Honors)
  Adam Potkay + Brett Wilson, Guilia Pacini, Erin Minear
• Rachel Watson, (Honors)
  Deborah Denenholz Morse + Kim Wheatley, Suzanne Raitt, Kathrin Levitan
• Kayla Ainsworth, (High Honors)
  Simon Joyce + Richard Lowry, M. Lee Alexander, Michael Butler
• Hannah Barnhart, (Honors)
  Susan Donaldson + Simon Joyce, Colleen Kennedy, Chitralekha Zutshi
• Madeline Benjamin, (High Honors)
  Jennifer Putzi + Elizabeth Barnes, Melanie Dawson, Karin Wulf
• Hannah Boes, (Highest Honors)
  Chelsey Johnson + Nancy Gray, Kara Thompson, Jennifer Stevens
• Danielle Clarke, (High Honors)           Colleen Kennedy + Varun Begley, Nancy Gray, Charles Palermo
• Miles Drawdy, (High Honors)
  James Savage + Monica Brzezinski Potkay, Brett D. Wilson, Richard H. Palmer
• Elyse Endick, (Highest Honors)
  Nancy Schoenberger + Arthur Knight, Brian Castleberry, Antoine Krieger
• Eleanor Pace, (High Honors)
  Jennifer Putzi + Melanie Dawson, Elizabeth Barnes, Melvin Ely

2012-13

• Arthi Aravind, (Honors)
  Brian Castleberry + Christy Burns. Chelsey Johnson, Alexander Prokhorov
• Emma Aylor, (Highest Honors)
  Christopher MacGowan + Thomas Heacox, Henry Hart, Robert St. Clair
• Aaron Barksdale, (High Honors) 
  Christy Burns + Christopher MacGowan, Brian Castleberry, John Lee
• Elaine Bevington, (High Honors)
  Deborah Morse + Suzanne Raitt, Kim Wheatley, Kathrin Levitan
• Kayla Grant, (Highest Honors)
  Melanie Dawson + Suzanne Raitt, Giulia Pacini, Simon Joyce
• Emily Loney, (Honors) 
  Laura Friedman + Monica Brzezinski, Brett Wilson, Laurie Wolf
• Claire Pittman, (Highest Honors)
  Henry Hart + Nancy Schoenberger, Kara Thompson, Carey Bagdassarian
• Eliza Urban, (Honors) 
  Terry Meyers + John Conlee, Emily Pease, John Lyles 

2011-12

• Ann Allen, ""               (Honors)
  Paula Blank + James Savage, Thomas Payne 
• Kristin Bartschi, "'Something to Say': Transcending Syntax in Kerouac's On the Road (The Original Scroll)" (High Honors)  
  Nancy Gray + Colleen Kennedy, Walter Wenska, Linda Carey
• Matthew Chaney, "'" (Honors)
  Christy Burns + Christopher MacGowan, Colleen Kennedy, Arthur Knight  
• Katelyn Durkin, "" (Highest Honors) 
  Melanie Dawson + Deborah Morse, Jennifer Putzi, Scott Nelson 
• Brianna Frentzko, "" (High Honors)
  Ava Coibion + Hermine Pinson, Emily Pease, Ann Marie Stock 
• Rebecca Koenig, "" (Highest Honors) 
  Terry Meyers + Richard Lowry, Beverly Peterson, Larry Evans 
• Meredith Luze, "" (High Honors)
  Kim Wheatley + Elizabeth Barnes, Brett Wilson, Kathrin Levitan 
• Hannah McCarthy, "" (High Honors) 
  Emily Pease + Colleen Kennedy, Sharon Zuber, Timothy Barnard 
• Elizabeth Powell, "" (Honors)
  Kim Wheatley + Adam Potkay, Deborah Morse, Timothy Costelloe 
• Sarah Ross, "'" (Highest Honors) 
  Suzanne Raitt + Deborah Morse, Charles Palermo, Brett Wilson 
• Elizabeth Wallace, "" (High Honors) 
  Nancy Gray + Christopher Freiman, Chelsea Johnson, Hermine Pinson 
• Caroline Winter, "" (High Honors) 
  Nancy Gray + Richard Lowry, Christy Porter, Sharon Zuber 

2010-11

• Cassandra Adair, (Highest Honors)
  Simon Joyce + Thomas Heacox, Leisa Meyer, Suzanne Raitt
• Virginia Butler, (High Honors)
  Nancy Grey + Suzanne Raitt, Kathrin Levitan, Deborah Morse
• Justine di Giovanni, "" (High Honors)
  John Conlee + Suzanne Raitt, M. Lee Alexander, Naama Zahavi-Ely
• Elizabeth Ferris, "Landscapes of Authenticity: Space and the "Authentic"in Willa Cather" (High Honors)
  Melanie Dawson + Christopher MacGowan, Suzanne Raitt, Regina Root
• Amanda Guiliano, (Honors)
  Erin Minear + Brett Wilson, Paula Blank, Christy Porter
• Brendan Higgins, (Highest Honors)
  Christopher MacGowan + Susan Donaldson,Christy Burns, Vassiliki Panoussi
• Cory Hitt, ""So Much for Norman Blood": Thomas Hardy's Alternate Medievalism" (High Honors)
  Deborah Morse + John Conlee, Mary Melfi, Philip Daileader
• Kathryn Ikeler, (Honors)
  Jacquelyn McLendon + Melanie Dawson, Christopher MacGowen, Charles McGovern
• Megan Keeling, (High Honors)
  Nancy Gray + Nancy Schoenberger, Christopher MacGowen, Francie Cate-Arries
• Christinia Mitchell, (Honors)
  Suzanne Hagedorn + John Conlee, Erin Minear, Phil Daileader
• Maria Moy, (High Honors)
  Nancy Schoenberger + Sharon Zuber, Lee Alexander, Alexander Prokhorov
• Benjamin Norris, "An American Troubador: The Career and Life of Alfred Kreymborg as a Modernist and Beyond" (Highest Honors)
  Christopher MacGowen + Christy Burns, Nancy Grey, Roy Chan
• Victoria Pinkston, (High Honors)
  Susan Donaldson + Nancy Grey, Lynn Weiss, Maryse Fauvel
• Peter Thomas, (Honors)
  Ava Coibion + Elizabeth Barnes, John Moore, Emily Pease

2009-10

• Megan Ammirati, (High Honors)
  Paula Blank + Colleen Kennedy, Erin Minear, Roy Chan
• Sarah English, (High Honors)
  Hermine Pinson + Henry Hart, Emily Pease, Danielle Dallaire
• Aaron Fallon, (High Honors)
  Emily Pease + Henry Hart, Arthur Knight, Nancy Schoenberger
• Leah Fry, (Honors)
  Elizabeth Barnes + Robert Scholnick, Jennifer Putzi, Carol Sheriff
• Margaret Higginbotham,
  Joanne Braxton + Hermine Pinson, Nancy Schoenberger, Danielle Morett-Langholtz
• Margaret Hutchison, (High Honors)
  Walter Wenska + Mary Ann Melfi, Laurie Wolf, Simon Joyce
• Jennifer MacLure, (Highest Honors)
  Christopher MacGowan + Nancy Gray, Leisa Meyer, Henry Hart
• Katherine Merk, (High Honors)
  Christopher MacGowan + Nancy Gray, Jennifer Putzi, Christine Nemacheck
• Emily Newhook, (High Honors)
  Ava Coibion + Hermine Pinson, Joanne Braxton, Anita Angelone
• Jonathan Robinson, , (Honors)
  Thomas Heacox + Adam Potkay, Ronald St.Onge, Christy Burns
• James Staples, (Honors)
  Monica Brzezinski Potkay + John Conlee, Erin Minear, George Greenia

2008-09

• Christoper Adams, (Highest Honors)
  Paula Blank
  
• Lindsay Gibson, (Highest Honors)
  Adam Potkay + Henry Hart, Bill Hutton
  
• Ashley Hockensmith, (High Honors)
  Jenny Putzi + Susan Donaldson, Melanie Dawson, Leisa Meyer
  
• James Hood, (Highest Honors)
  Nancy Gray + Deborah Morse, Maureen Fitzgerald
  
• Brian Mahoney, "¿ Señor Way vivío aqui?: Ernest Hemingway and the Cuban Encounter" (High Honors)
  Timothy Barnard + Arthur Knight, Ann Marie Stock
  
• Sean O'Mealia, (Highest Honors)
  Deborah Morse + Melanie Dawson, Suzanne Raitt, Fred Corney
  
• Ryen Rasmus, (High Honors)
  Kim Wheatley + Linda Quigley, Colleen Kennedy
  
• Elizabeth Sutherland
  Suzanne Hagedorn + John Conlee, Brett Wilson, James Allegro
  

2007-08

• Nathaniel Amos, "The Blood Jet of Poetry: Muse myths, poetic influence, and the common text of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes" (High Honors)
  Henry Hart + Christy Burns, Susan Donaldson. Silvia Tandeciarz
• Christopher Chaulk, (Honors)
  Walter Wenska + Elizabeth Barnes (Advisor), Hermine Pinson
• Joshua Garstka, "Every Way You Look At It, You Lose: Personal Failure to Find an Authentic Sixties Masculinity" (Honors)
  Colleen Kennedy + Susan Donaldson, Simon Joyce, Sasha Prokharov
• James Gertzog, "'Beauty, Enlightenment, and Comfort at Top Speed': Cognitive Spaces and Blending in the Fictional Universes of Kurt Vonnegut and Gabriel Garcia Marquez" (High Honors)
  Colleen Kennedy + Monica Potkay, John Gamber, Kathleen Bragdon
• Margaret Harvey, "From Maiden to Matron: Victorian Heroines and the Creation of Domestic Identity" (High Honors)
  Terry Meyers + Deborah Morse, Kim Wheatley, Kathrin Levitan
• Sarah Klotz, "On the Wings of Language: Authorial Construction, Gender Performance, and Images of Flight in the Poetry of Frances Sargent Osgood" (Highest Honors)
  Kim Wheatley + Jennifer Putzi, Brett Wilson, Margot Weiss
• Katelyn Moscony, "Selling the American Girl: Advertising, Performance, and Gender in the Fiction of Henry James" (High Honors)
  Melanie Dawson + Elizabeth Barnes, Erin Minear, Leisa Meyer
• Daniel Piepenbring, "Jumping the Shark: a novel" (Highest Honors)
  Emily Pease + Colleen Kennedy, Ava Coibion, Tim Costelloe
• Charlotte Savino, "'I Hate, I Love:' How Mothers Fail in Virginia Woolf's Fiction" (Highest Honors)
  Suzanne Raitt + Deborah Morse, Mary Ann Melfi, Carey Bagdassarian
• Sarah Vogelsong, "Between Women: Sisterhood in D.H. Lawrence" (High Honors)
  Suzanne Raitt + Christy Burns, Deborah Morse, John Morreall
• Andrew Zahn, "Qualities of the Businessman, Real and Imagined Figures from Nineteenth-Century Capitalist Culture" (Honors)
  Liz Barnes + Melanie Dawson, Bob Scholnick, Bob Archibald

2006-07

• Ashley Ahlbrand, "Katherine Anne Porter's Search for a Narrative for the Female Artist as a Young Woman" (High Honors)
  Susan Donaldson + Liz Barnes, Walter Wenksa, Kathleen Slevin
• Naomi Dreyer, "'We Belong Nowhere': Exile and Identity in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, Rohinton Minstry's A Fine Balance, and Arundhati Roy's The God of Sma" (Honors)
  Simon Joyce + Deborah Morse, Nancy Gray, Chitralekha Zutshi
• Lauren Klapper-Lehman, "'That All-Presupposing Fact': Darwinian Narratives and Gender Concerns in Elizabeth Gaskell's Sylvia's Lovers and Wives and Daughters and George Eliot" (High Honors)
  Deborah Morse + Christy Burns, Simon Joyce, Kathrin Levitan
• Sally Masters, "Secular Pilgrims: Nineteenth-Century American Refigurations of The Pilgrim's Progress" (Honors)
  Melanie Dawson + Jennifer Putzi, Susan Donaldson
• Kelli Monahan, "Li Chi" (High Honors)
  Henry Hart + Tom Heacox, Emily Pease, Xin Yang
• Jenna Morgan, "Duende's Shadow: A Novel" (High Honors)
  Eva Burch, + Emily Pease, John Gamber, Silvia Tandeciarz
• Brittney Pescatore, "Beyond the Boundaries of Definition: A Vocabulary of Process Applied to the Contemporary American Short Story" (Honors)
  Nancy Gray + Colleen Kennedy, Jackie McLendon, Laurie Wolf
• Vandhana Rao, "The Re-Writing of Feminine Aesthetic in Charlotte Bronte's Villette and George Eliot's Daniel Deronda" (High Honors)
  Deborah Morse + Simon Joyce, Christy Burns, Laurie Wolf
• Colleen Schneider, "Reinterpreting the Word and Redefining the Sacred: Johannine Language and Themes in the Works of the Bronte Sisters" (Honors)
  M. Potkay, D. Morse + Terry Meyers, Mary Ann Melfi, John Morreall
• Matthew Sherrill, "The Anxiety of Acquaintance and the Inevitability of Influence: Matthew Arnold, William Wordsworth, and their Personal and Poetic Relationship" (High Honors)
  Terry Meyers + Deborah Morse, Kim Wheatley, Kathrin Levitan
• Kirsten Simonsen, "A Comedian's Tragedy: Colley Cibber versus the Canon" (Honors)
  Brett Wilson + Paula Blank, Erin Minear, Richard Palmer
• Robin Smith, "The Poetics of Duty: Revovering the Poetry of Rose Terry Cooke" (High Honors)
  Jennifer Putzi + Liz Barnes, Hermine Pinson, Philip Daileader

2005-06

• Margo Dey, "Capturing 'The Whole': The Evolution of Virginia Woolf's Narrative Form" (High Honors)
  Christy Burns + Tom Heacox, Nancy Gray, Clyde Haulman
• Michael Dominguez, "Ben Jonson, George Bernard Shaw, and Political Economy on the English Stage" (Honors)
  Paula Blank + James Savage, Tom Heacox, Christopher Owens
• Thomas Garnett, "The Bildungsroman in World War II Fiction" (Honors)
  Chris MacGowan + John Conlee, Deborah Morse, Chandos Brown
• Carol Gross
  Peter Wiggins + Monica Potkay, Suzanne Hagedorn, George Greenia
• Daniella Grossman, "Rewriting Historical Discourse and Feminine Mythologies in Mexico: Carlos Fuentes' Alternative Modernity in The Death of Artemio Cruz and Terra Nostra" (High Honors)
  Christy Burns + Colleen Kennedy, Nancy Gray, Teresa Longo
• Caitlin Melchior, "'A Lesson in the Effect of Echoes': Decoding Don DeLillo's White Noise and Americana" (High Honors)
  Henry Hart + Christy Burns, Adam Potkay, Max de Gaynesford
• Jessica Miller, "'Of a Multitude Moved by One Sympathy' Charles Dickens and Serial Publishing" (Honors)
  Adam Potkay + Simon Joyce and Deborah Morse, Carter Hailey, Joel Schwartz
• Virginia Pasley, "Attitudes Toward the Antebellum Past in Post-Civil War Southern Literature: Nostalgia, Anti-Nostalgia, and Escapism" (Honors)
  Robert Scholnick + Melanie Dawson, Chris MacGowan, Kim Phillips
• Angela Polidoro, "'The animal withinÉ' The Gentleman and the Animal in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heighs, Charles Dicken's Great Expectations and Robert LouisÉ" (High Honors)
  Monica Potkay + Simon Joyce and Deborah Morse, Mary Ann Melfi, Dan Cristol
• Christina Rodriguez, "The Dolls in the Doll House: Female Sexual Repression in Dickens" (Honors)
  Kim Wheatley + Deborah Morse, Monica Potkay, Leisa Meyer
• Christopher Scheina, "The Authorship of Edward II" (High Honors)
  Carter Hailey + James Savage, Brett Wilson, Dale Hoak
• Kelly Singleton, "On the Use and Abuse of Narrative: A Postmodern Analysis of Terrry Pratchett's Discworld" (High Honors)
  Colleen Kennedy + Christy Burns, John Conlee, Silvia Tandeciarz
• Emily Strauss, "To an Old Poet in Hartford: The Late Poems of Wallace Stevens" (High Honors)
  Henry Hart + Christopher MacGowan, Jack Willis, John Eisele
• Mary Teeter, "Re-humanizing Rochester: Space and Power in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre" (High Honors)
  Kim Wheatley + Deborah Morse & Simon Joyce, Jenny Putzi,, Tamara Sonn
• Julia Tony, "'Remember me, and these my exhortations!': Tracking Wordsworth's Self-Portrayals in 'Vaudracour and Julia,' Tintern Abbey, and 'Strange fits of passion'" (Honors)
  Adam Potkay + Kim Wheatley, Brett Wilson, Giulia Pacini
• Maxwell Uphaus, "'You World Have Stayed Me with Some Parable': J.R.R. Tolkien, David Jones, and the Re-Mythologizing of the Great War" (Highest Honors)
  John Conlee + Walter Wenska, Stanley Kusteski, Melvin Ely
• Meghan Whitehead, "Crossguns: A Novel" (Highest Honors)
  Susan Donaldson + Henry Hart, Emily Pease, John Moore

2004-05

• Abigail Adams
  Chris MacGowan + Suzanne Raitt, Henry Hart, Laurie Wolf
• Bernadette Guthrie
  Monica Potkay + Thomas Heacox, Varun Begley, Laurie Wolf
• Selina Spinos
  Varun Begley + Christy Burns, Simon Joyce, Ron Schechter
• Claire Wimbush
  Henry Hart + Nancy Schoenberger, Christy Burns, William Hutton