2010–2011 Approved Master’s Theses
Berenstein, Ari (M.A. English)
A Nation of Holdens: The Relevance of Holden Caulfield as a Critical Lens of American Youth in the Twenty-First Century
Adviser: Geoffrey Minter
Clay, Weston (M.A. English)
Material Girl-Killer: Consumerist Discourse and the Sociopathic Narrator in Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho
Adviser: Janet Moser
Davis, Annette (M.A. English)
Isabella's Trial and Execution in Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure": Guilty of Non-Conformance
Adviser: Geoffrey Minter
De Piper, John (M.A. English)
Blood Meridian and Antic Clay: Cormac McCarthy's Violent Worldview
Adviser: Carey Harrison
Dell'Aquila, Michael (M.A. English)
Writing Against the Dusk: Ethnic Twilight and the Persistence of the Italian-American Sign
Adviser: Robert Viscuisi
DiBerardino, Michael (M.A. English)
The Impersonal Turn: Keats's Romantic Modernism
Adviser: Rachel Brownstein
Dunn, Andrew (M.A. English)
Mass Perversion: Cinema, the Psyche, and the Possibility of Collective Action in The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West and The Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Adviser: Joseph Entin
Feldnov, Amy (M.A. English)
The Wartime Child in Contemporary Children's Literature: Self-Writing and Sarajevo's Anne Frank
Adviser: Marie Rutkoski
Friedman, Carly (M.A. English)
Joe Orton: Gender Rebellion of Mythic Proportions
Adviser: Carey Harrison
Goykadosh, Brachah (M.A. English)
Lacanian Desire and Kristevan Abjection in T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
Adviser: Karl Steel
Hamilton, Debbie (M.A. English)
Metonymy in Charles W. Chesnutt's The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories
Adviser: Geri DeLuca
Janisch, Rebecca (M.A. English)
Making Gold Stay
Adviser: Carey Harrison
JeanBaptiste, Darise (M.A. English)
Toni Morrison's Trajectory of Death
Adviser: Martha Nadell
Jennings, Rachel (M.A. English)
"What Counts Counts": Understanding How Media Inspire and Thwart Progress in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things
Adviser: Jason Frydman
Johnson-Harriott, Judine (M.A. English)
Fleeing an Unjust Society or Finding Themselves?: A Study of Two African-American Writers' Quest for Social Mobility and Personal Dignity
Adviser: James Davis
Katz, Nechama (Nikki) (M.A. English)
Does Biphobia Exist in the Literary Criticism of Shakespeare's Sonnets?
Adviser: Carey Harrison
Klein, Tamara (M.A. English)
On the Edge: Woman and Marginality in the Short Stories of Katherine Mansfield
Adviser: Martha Nadell
Marquez, Patricia (M.A. English)
Intentionality and the New Signification: Language Theory from Saussure, Barthes, and Searle
Adviser: Mark Patkowski
McCarthy, Eileen (M.A. English)
The Function of Geography in Paule Marshall's The Chosen Place, the Timeless People
Adviser: Renison J. Gonsalves
McLinden, Cameron (M.A. English)
The Banks of Poverty: Lack and the Threat of Lack in Continental Drift
Adviser: Joseph Entin
Mulcahey, Laura (M.A. English)
The Loss of Anonymity: Public Exposure from Tabloid Reporting to the Pages of Facebook
Adviser: Robert Viscusi
Nance, William (M.A. English)
Duality in Dialectics: Uncertainty in Samuel Beckett's Trilogy
Adviser: Carey Harrison
Orlando, Anthony (M.A. Fiction)
The Strange Stranger: Isolation and Guilt in the Lyrical Ballads
Adviser: Karl Steel
Othman, Rihab (M.A. English)
"Isnad" The Islamic Chain of Narrators: Adherence to the Cultural Echo
Adviser: Karl Steel
Parasram, Shoba (M.A. English)
A Barbaric Civilization: A Look at Blacks and Whites in Behn's Oroonoko and Earle's Obi
Adviser: Ana Acosta
Pazmino-Martinez, Ivette (M.A. English)
Sarah Stickney Ellis: Angel and Antagonist
Adviser: Geoffrey Minter
Pierluigi, Melanie (M.A. English)
Trauma in the Body: Memory and Dissociation in Anne Michaels's Fugitive Pieces
Adviser: Geoffrey Minter
Pike, Stephanie (M.A. English)
On the Waterfront: Modernity and Modernism in South Brooklyn
Adviser: Martha Nadell
Ralph, Aubria (M.A. English)
Time and Creativity: Defining the Relationship Between Time and Creativity
Adviser: Nicola Masciandaro
Reilly, Abby (M.A. English)
Seeing and Remembering September 11th in Post-9/11 Literature
Adviser: Martha Nadell
Roy, Suklima (M.A. English)
Language Bytes: Linguistic Changes Arising from Electronic Communication
Adviser: Mark Patkowski
Siskind, Andrew (M.A. English)
Motions of Abstraction and Entropy: The Ecology of A. R. Ammons' Garbage
Adviser: Ben Lerner
Sotirakis, Sia (M.A. English)
Jane Eyre: Adaptability and Ascendancy
Adviser: Wendy Fairey
Spencer, Stephen (M.A. English)
Matter and Metaphor, Memory and Narrative: A Study of John Milton's Paradise Lost
Adviser: Kate Haley
Tekten, Tutsak (M.A. English)
"An Incurable Imperfection in the Very Essence of the Present"
Adviser: Janet Moser
Telesford, Nadine (M.A. English)
Whiteness in The Bluest Eye and Song of Solomon
Adviser: James Davis
Truscello, Joseph (M.A. English)
The Commodified Self: Identity in Philip Roth's Goodbye, Columbus and John Updike's Rabbit, Run
Adviser: Martha Nadell
Vogl, Raquel (M.A. English)
An Examination of Voice, Class, and Gender in The Nun's Priest's Tale and The Owl and the Nightingale
Adviser: Karl Steel
Waller, Samantha (M.A. English)
The Construction of Sexual Identity in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway and Michael Cunningham's The Hours
Adviser: Geoffrey Minter
Walsh, Trevor (M.A. English)
Dining from His Plate: Union with God in Angela of Foligno
Adviser: Nicola Masciandaro
Warsager, Allegra (M.A. English)
"It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City": Negotiating Race and Class in Jonathan Lethem's The Fortress of Solitude and Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities
Adviser: Martha Nadell
Washington, Donna-lyn (M.A. English)
The Theme of Diaspora in the Edwidge Danticat Novel
Adviser: Renison Gonsalves
