2012–2013 Approved Master’s Theses
Andrews, Suzette (M.A. English)
After the Towers Fell: Between the African Burial Ground and Ground Zero, a Revival of the Amerieuro Narrative
Adviser: Geoff Minter
Ardolic, Rizo (M.A. English)
A Fatal Discord: An Adaptionist Examination of Inherent Nature in Relation to Culture in Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure
Adviser: Geoff Minter
Bernstein, Joshua (M.A. English)
Richard Brautigan's "Trout Fishing in America" as an Allegory for the Futile Pursuit of the American Dream
Adviser: Carey Harrison
Bradley, Beatrice (M.A. English)
"Defac't, deflourd, and now to Death devote": The Mother of Mankind and Ovidian Metamorphosis in Paradise Lost
Adviser: Kathleen Haley
Brannon, Norman (M.A. English)
Queering Koinéization: Polari as a Contact Language
Adviser: Mark Patkowski
Continues, Michael (M.A. English)
Of Arts and Minds: Towards a Cognitive Approach to Aesthetics
Adviser: Mark Patkowski
Grossfield, Rebecca (M.A. English)
Women and Space in 19th Century New York: Stephen Crane's Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (A Story of New York) and Henry James's Washington Square
Adviser: Martha Nadell
Gruss, Yasmin (M.A. English)
The Conditions of Spectatorship in Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Adviser: Karl Steel
Hanna, Ayanni (M.A. English)
"Spirit in a Plastic Package": A Study of Womanhood and Humaneness in Alessandro Barbucci and Barbara Canepa's "Sky Doll"
Adviser: Karl Steel
Harouch, Alana (M.A. English)
The Construction of Self through the Modern Poetic Image: An Evolution of Imagery from Romanticism to Symbolism
Adviser: Marjorie Welish
Husband-Clarke, Sheervon (M.A. English)
Women, War & Peace
Adviser: Moustafa Bayoumi
Hussain, Farzeen (M.A. English)
Global and Transnational Trauma in Post 9/11 Fiction
Adviser: Martha Nadell
Jean-Francois, Joan (M.A. English)
A Man of Many Faces: Understanding Karl Marx and Frantz Fanon in Ngugi Wa Thiong'o's A Grain of Wheat and Petals of Blood
Adviser: Moustafa Bayoumi
Jones, Chad (M.A. English)
Bridging Difference: Baseball and Cricket as Cosmopolitan Tropes
Adviser: Martha Nadell
Lattanzio, Joseph (M.A. English)
"The Better Fortitude" or Christian Heroism in Paradise Lost
Adviser: Ana Acosta
Maher, Alyssa (M.A. English)
"Dear Maid, Kind Sister, Sweet Ophelia": The Manipulation of Ophelia in William Shakespeare's Hamlet
Adviser: Tanya Pollard
Marchiano, Marie (M.A. English)
Time, Narrative, and Memory in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea
Adviser: Robert Viscusi
Martin, Tanesha (M.A. English)
Michelle Cliff's Use of the Language or Resistance: Her Role in the Empowerment of Women of Color
Adviser: Rosamond King
Mayer, Sari (M.A. English)
Interpreting Peter Pan: A Reader-Response Approach
Adviser: Geoff Minter
Mendelson, Eric (M.A. English)
Status Update: Reviving the Rhetorical Canon of Memory for the Digital Age
Adviser: Martin Elsky
Nassif, Farid (M.A. English)
The Intimacy of Murder
Adviser: Carey Harrison
Nuzzo, Natalie (M.A. English)
Profiles of Intentional Exposures: The House of Mirth in the Age of Facebook
Adviser: Robert Viscusi
O'Shea, Brendan (M.A. English)
Orlando as Exposition of National, Racial and Sexual Mythologies
Adviser: Geoff Minter
Padilla, Janine (M.A. English)
(S)expression: Existentialism and Eroticism in the Marquis de Sade's Philosophy in the Bedroom
Adviser: Carey Harrison
Rafferty, Philip (M.A. English)
Flying Forward: Making the Link between Borges and the Literary Tao of Cesar Aira's Continuum
Adviser: Karl Steel
Riemer, Kristina (M.A. English)
Henry James and The Awkward Age between Realism and Modernism
Adviser: Geoffrey Minter
Rooke, Thomas (M.A. English)
Trauma and Making Sense in Post-9/11 Narrative
Adviser: Martha Nadell
Rose, Elizabeth (M.A. English)
The Gothic Mode in George Eliot's Middlemarch
Adviser: Rachel Brownstein
Shtein, Eva (M.A. English)
Chekhov: Nastroenie in Uncle Vanya and Other Plays
Adviser: Carey Harrison
Specland, Jeremy (M.A. English)
The Mystery of Truth: Grace and Human Agency in Milton's Areopagitica
Adviser: Ana Acosta
Sy, Cherry Lou (M.A. English)
The Plastic Colored Body in Absalom, Absalom!
Adviser: Rosamond King
Thek, Katrina (M.A. English)
Burning Sensations: On the Authorial Urge to Destroy One's Work
Adviser: Nicola Masciandaro
Urias, Antonio (M.A. English)
"Haunted Landscapes": The Inenarrable War of Ambrose Bierce
Adviser: Mac Wellman
Winslow, De'Shawn (M.A. English)
Motherhood and Patriarchy in Toni Morrison's Sula and Tar Baby
Adviser: Geoff Minter
Yeasin, Rummanu (M.A. English)
Middlemarch and Mr. Lydgate, Good Teachers for Contemporary Medical Students
Adviser: Rachel Brownstein
