2007–2008 Approved Master’s Theses
Abrahim, Anastasia
"Jane Austen: The Realistic Romance Writer"
Adviser: Geraldine De Luca
Acloque, Serene
"Wandering Women of Turn-of–the Century American Literature: Situating Prostitution in The House of Mirth"
Adviser: Martha Nadell
Ali, Yasmin I.
"Disillusioned Mothers: Portraits of Mothers and Motherhood in Postcolonial Literature"
Adviser: Moustafa Bayoumi
Bethge, John
"The Informed Citizen: The Manchurian Candidate, Catch-22, and the Struggle for Individuality"
Adviser: Thomas Boyle
Bose, Sharbari
"Giving the Moment Whole: Female Narrative Silence in Bloomsbury's Anti-Imperial Dialogue"
Adviser: Wendy Fairey
Callahan, Clare
"'After' Theory"
Adviser: Joseph Entin
Chin, Sarah
"Mirrors and Memories: Dystopian Science Fiction and Empowerment in Young Adult Literature"
Adviser: James Davis
Dance Jr., Alphonso
"Symbolism and Imagery of Denial and Acceptance in Richard Wright's Native Son: Bigger Thomas's Struggle to Express His Humanity"
Adviser: Marie Buncombe
Dougherty, Nivia
"History and Memory in Toni Morrison's Beloved: The Conflict of Remembering and Forgetting the Past"
Adviser: Martha Nadell
Durka, Agnieszka
"The Art of Portraiture in Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady"
Adviser: Geoff Minter
Fairall, Holly
"Gnomon's Land: The Colonial Voids of Dubliners' 'Childhood Trilogy'"
Adviser: Thomas Boyle
Fayerberg, Daniel
"Surviving Austen: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Textual Survival of Jane Austen's Novels During the Twentieth Century"
Adviser: William Reeves
Flippin, Lakiska
"The African American Feminine Gothic"
Adviser: Martha Nadell
Fuks, Yevgenya
"Hyperreality Revealed: The Function and Significance of Hyperreality"
Adviser: Joseph Entin
Georgianna, Don
"Truman Capote and the Nonfiction Novel"
Adviser: Carey Harrison
Gersch, Jason
"Creating the Preface-Lens: Interpreting the Underlying Sociopolitical Dichotomies of Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time"
Adviser: Wendy Fairey
Gjoni, Iva
"Time in Wonderland"
Adviser: Robert Viscusi
Gore, Catherine
"Representing Animals: Animals in Human Consciousness in Romantic Poetry"
Adviser: Nicola Masciandaro
Heffner, Rachel
"Divine Imagination: 'Words About God' in the Children's Fantasy Fiction of Madeline L'Engle"
Adviser: Geraldine DeLuca
Hogan, William
"Funny Bones: Black Comedy and the Body in The Revenger's Tragedy"
Adviser: Ellen Belton
Infortunio Jr.,Thomas
"The Re-Makynge of Gawain: Artifice, Nature and Redemption in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"
Adviser: Nicola Masciandaro
Lenahan, Holly
"Anglo-Norman vs. Parisian Influence on Chancery English"
Adviser: John Roy
Leotaud, Crystal Joanne
"The People Could Fly: An Examination of the Negro Spirit"
Adviser: Mark Patkowski
Lewis, Shell
"An Elevated State of Mind: Woolf's Androgyny and Anzaldua’s Mestiza Consciousness"
Adviser: Wendy Fairey
Mitchell, Kean
"On the Use of Creole in Derek Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain"
Adviser: John Roy
Mondano, Nicole
"A Study of Transnational Women Writers, Their Female Protagonists, and the Criticism That Surrounds Their Work"
Adviser: Wendy Fairey
Nicholson, Charlene
"Sexuality in The House of Mirth and The Awakening"
Adviser: James Davis
Rutman, Sharon
"Twentieth Century Hell and the Possible Utopian Alternative Through the Novels of Upton Sinclair"
Adviser: Geoff Minter
Ryan, Sheila
"Adolescent Girls and the Scarlet Letter"
Adviser: Prof. Viscusi
Sadykov, Leah
"Prisoners of Language: Revisiting the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis"
Adviser: Mark Patkowski
Scanson, Thomas
"Marketing Manhood: Langston Hughes's Queer Passing on The Big Sea"
Adviser: Geoffrey Minter
Simmons, Paulanne
"The Musical as Literature: Notes on the Creative Process"
Adviser: Cary Harrison
Stein, Roberta
"The Key Factors Influencing the Depictions of Male-Female Relationships in the Novels of E.M. Foster and Virginia Woolf"
Adviser: Wendy Fairey
Suszynski, Christina
"If I Am a Woman of My Word, What Words Do I Use?"
Adviser: Nicola Masciandaro
Tavares, Frank
"Complicity and Rebelliousness in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl"
Adviser: George Cunningham
Tepas, Simon
"Hunter S. Thompson and the New Journalism: Fear and Loathing for the Daily News"
Adviser: Geoff Minter
Ucciardino, Jack
"Questions of Identity in Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep, Farewell, My Lovely, The Little Sister, The Long Goodbye, and Playback"
Adviser: Robert Viscusi
Uzzilia, Suzanne
"The Language of Political Estrangement in Three West Indian Novels"
Adviser: Rennie Gonsalves
Wallach, Miriam
"Stand By Me: Defending Lois Lowry's The Giver Against Censorship"
Adviser: Nancy Vighetti
Wilson, Constance
"Gender and Education in the Works of Ama Ata Aidoo and Tsitsi Dangarembga"
Adviser: James Davis
