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
Ryan Mills, Planetary Praxis in a Petrofictional World: An Ecocritical Reading of Joseph Conrad's Victory, 2024 Undergraduate, Honors Theses 20th Century, Ecocriticism, Environment
Khanh Nguyen: Cyberpunk 2077: Techno-Orientalism in Gaming Narratives, 2024 Undergraduate, Honors Theses 21st Century, Asian American, Critical Theory, Game Studies
Noah Kirk: Trial By Fire: Comparing Punishment and Redemption in Inferno and Pilgrim's Progress, 2024 Undergraduate, Honors Theses Medieval
Wen Eckelberg: 為胡 Woo Way: The Path of My Maternal Family, 2024 Undergraduate, Honors Theses 20th Century, 21st Century, Asian American, Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing, Creative Writing
Preston Rowley:  Father: The Modern Reflections of Toxic Men, 2024 Undergraduate, Honors Theses 21st Century, Creative Writing, Drama, Gender
Abbey Melendez: Murder May Maketh Man: Exploring Masculinity and Murder in Doctor Glas, 2024 Undergraduate, Honors Theses 20th Century, 21st Century, Novel/Prose Fiction
Stephanie Yu: Alien Language and Human Empire: Language Acquisition in Science Fiction as a Subversion of Imperial Relations with ‘Alien’, 2024 Undergraduate, Honors Theses 21st Century, Language Policy, Linguistics
Vinh Wong: The Wheel, 2024 Undergraduate, Honors Theses 21st Century, Critical Race Theory, Diaspora 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
Samuel Abraham: The Gospel of Dracula: Learning to Believe, 2024 Undergraduate, Honors Theses 19th Century, Novel/Prose Fiction
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
Paulina Orrantia: Invasion, Criminality, & Replacement: Conceptualizing Border Myths Undergraduate, Honors Theses 21st Century, Latin American, Latino/a Studies
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
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
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
Jordan Lull Creating Oneself: A Monster Story, 2024 Undergraduate, Honors Theses 19th Century, 21st Century, Poetry and Poetics
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 20th Century, Film/Cinema, Latino/a Studies
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 20th Century, American
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
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
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
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
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
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