Honors Theses

Author/Title Research Type Related Fields
Julia Kugel: The Feminist Critical Dystopia, Diluted: Adaptation and The Handmaid’s Tale Undergraduate, Honors Theses
Riley Hull: Why does anyone care about hockey?': Disrupting the Sports Literature Genre in Fredrik Backman's Beartown Undergraduate, Honors Theses
Nico Matsumoto: Embracing the Void: The Intersection of Audience and Performance and the Importance of Community in Respect to Concerns Over an Uncertain Future in Daniel Howell’s We’re All Doomed Undergraduate, Honors Theses
Lilly May Doughty: The Toxicity of Victorian Masculine Ideals: An Analysis of Jane Eyre’s Male Characters Undergraduate, Honors Theses
Adam Ramer: A Decent Education: A Reflection on Homeschooling, the Conservative Christian Right, and Tara Westover’s ‘Educated’ Undergraduate, Honors Theses
Khanh Nguyen: Cyberpunk 2077: Techno-Orientalism in Gaming Narratives, 2024 Undergraduate, Honors Theses
Noah Kirk: Trial By Fire: Comparing Punishment and Redemption in Inferno and Pilgrim's Progress, 2024 Undergraduate, Honors Theses
Wen Eckelberg: 為胡 Woo Way: The Path of My Maternal Family, 2024 Undergraduate, Honors Theses
Preston Rowley:  Father: The Modern Reflections of Toxic Men, 2024 Undergraduate, Honors Theses
Abbey Melendez: Murder May Maketh Man: Exploring Masculinity and Murder in Doctor Glas, 2024 Undergraduate, Honors Theses
Stephanie Yu: Alien Language and Human Empire: Language Acquisition in Science Fiction as a Subversion of Imperial Relations with ‘Alien’, 2024 Undergraduate, Honors Theses
Vinh Wong: The Wheel, 2024 Undergraduate, Honors Theses
Maxwell Landon: Grafting the Gaze: Masculinity and Queer Desire in Beau Travail’s Free Adaptation, 2024 Undergraduate, Honors Theses
Samuel Abraham: The Gospel of Dracula: Learning to Believe, 2024 Undergraduate, Honors Theses
Atticus Chanse: Creation Stories: Exploring the Creative Process and State of Art through the Medium of the Comic, 2024 Undergraduate, Honors Theses
Paulina Orrantia: Invasion, Criminality, & Replacement: Conceptualizing Border Myths Undergraduate, Honors Theses
Daisy Schreiber: More Than Just Tropes: How Moving Beyond True Crime Offers a Transformative Understanding of Violence, 2024 Undergraduate, Honors Theses
Alex Kim: Self-Translation/Self-Transfiguration: Rewriting and Unwriting Identities Through Languages in E.M. Cioran and Samuel Beckett, 2024 Undergraduate, Honors Theses
Gargi Pradhan: Both the Killer and the Final Girl: Dissecting Gender and Race in Horror Undergraduate, Honors Theses
Jordan Lull Creating Oneself: A Monster Story, 2024 Undergraduate, Honors Theses
Maasaru Chida: The ego, the downfall, the individualism, the anti-capitalism, and the symbolism: What connects 𝘖𝘯𝘦 𝘏𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘠𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘦 and the post-World War II Italian films, 2024-06-05 Undergraduate, Honors Theses
Tristan Walde: Catching the Catcher in the Rye: Charles Taylor’s Ideal of Authenticity’s Attempt to Save Holden Caulfield from His Naïve Navigation of Modernity’s ‘loss of meaning’ Undergraduate, Honors Theses
Nola Peshkin: Flowing with milk and honey: how the fertile powers of women and nature create patriarchal fear and the desire for control and commodification Undergraduate, Honors Theses
Ricky Spaulding:Really Really Real: Reality in Performance and the Hyperreal in the Plays of Annie Baker Undergraduate, Honors Theses
Hannah Bauermeister Degrees of Loneliness in 20th Century America Undergraduate, Honors Theses