Undergraduate

For general information about research opportunities, see our Humanities Research page.
For examples of specific project types, see Independent Research, Honors Theses., or Undergraduate Research Symposia.

Author/Title Research Type Related Fields
"Alexei Rasputin" Undergraduate, Independent Research 16th Century
Abbey Melendez: Murder May Maketh Man: Exploring Masculinity and Murder in Doctor Glas, 2024 Undergraduate, Honors Theses 20th Century, 21st Century, Novel/Prose Fiction
Alex Kim: Self-Translation/Self-Transfiguration: Rewriting and Unwriting Identities Through Languages in E.M. Cioran and Samuel Beckett, 2024 Undergraduate, Honors Theses 20th Century, Language, Translation and Interpretation
Annie Melnick : Sexuality As Agency: Gender and Class Disparity in Wilkie Collins’ The Moonstone, 2024 Undergraduate, Honors Theses 19th Century, Feminism and Feminist Theory
Atticus Chanse: Creation Stories: Exploring the Creative Process and State of Art through the Medium of the Comic, 2024 Undergraduate, Honors Theses 21st Century, Comics
Cen Wei. Chinese International Students in American Colleges: Origin, Process, and Influence. 2018 Undergraduate, Honors Theses Culture
Collin Sprenkle. Fly Fishing and the Female Form: Meditations and Investigations into the Corporeal Transformations Experienced in the River. Undergraduate, Honors Theses Literary Criticism
Daisy Schreiber: More Than Just Tropes: How Moving Beyond True Crime Offers a Transformative Understanding of Violence, 2024 Undergraduate, Honors Theses 21st Century, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Poetry and Poetics
Elise Stefanou.Demonic Liminality: Unsettling an Anthropological Concept Through the Work of Sylvia Wynter, 2018. Undergraduate, Honors Theses Anthropology, Culture, Indigenous
Gargi Pradhan: Both the Killer and the Final Girl: Dissecting Gender and Race in Horror Undergraduate, Honors Theses 20th Century, 21st Century, Gender, Race and Ethnicity
Hannah Bauermeister Degrees of Loneliness in 20th Century America Undergraduate, Honors Theses 20th Century, American
Hannah Nguyen; Cyclicity in Natural Landscape: Its Clash with Human Civilizational Progress Undergraduate, Honors Theses Environment
Jazzy Hothi. "I am Here: Illuminating Black Women’s Resistances to Individualistic Notions of Self-Care," 2018. Undergraduate, Honors Theses African American, Feminism and Feminist Theory
Jordan Lull Creating Oneself: A Monster Story, 2024 Undergraduate, Honors Theses 19th Century, 21st Century, Poetry and Poetics
Kavinila Rengaraju: The Flood of Flowers: An Exploration of the Effects of Western Capitalism on Identity Formation in the Colonized Woman Undergraduate, Honors Theses Feminism and Feminist Theory, Postcolonial
Khanh Nguyen: Cyberpunk 2077: Techno-Orientalism in Gaming Narratives, 2024 Undergraduate, Honors Theses 21st Century, Asian American, Critical Theory, Game Studies
Lauren Davis: An Investigation of the Unique Ways Speculative Fiction Can Interrogate Systems of Power, Through an Analysis of N. K. Jemisin’s The Broken Earth Trilogy Undergraduate, Honors Theses Experimental, Science Fiction
Leah Cantor: Stolen Autonomy and Futile Rebellion:  Deriving Power form the Oppression of Women Under the Declining British Empire  Undergraduate, Honors Theses British, Feminism and Feminist Theory
Maasaru Chida: The ego, the downfall, the individualism, the anti-capitalism, and the symbolism: What connects π˜–π˜―π˜¦ 𝘏𝘢𝘯π˜₯𝘳𝘦π˜₯ 𝘠𝘦𝘒𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘰𝘭π˜ͺ𝘡𝘢π˜₯𝘦 and the post-World War II Italian films, 2024-06-05 Undergraduate, Honors Theses 20th Century, Film/Cinema, Latino/a Studies
Maxwell Landon: Grafting the Gaze: Masculinity and Queer Desire in Beau Travail’s Free Adaptation, 2024 Undergraduate, Honors Theses 19th Century, Film/Cinema, Novel/Prose Fiction
Noah Kirk: Trial By Fire: Comparing Punishment and Redemption in Inferno and Pilgrim's Progress, 2024 Undergraduate, Honors Theses Medieval
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 20th Century, Environment, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Women Writers
Paulina Orrantia: Invasion, Criminality, & Replacement: Conceptualizing Border Myths Undergraduate, Honors Theses 21st Century, Latin American, Latino/a Studies
Preston Rowley:  Father: The Modern Reflections of Toxic Men, 2024 Undergraduate, Honors Theses 21st Century, Creative Writing, Drama, Gender
Ricky Spaulding:Really Really Real: Reality in Performance and the Hyperreal in the Plays of Annie Baker Undergraduate, Honors Theses 21st Century, American, Drama, Performance Studies