English Department
Capstone Showcase
2020-2021
Capstones are the culminating academic experience of an English major. We are proud to present the work of our majors. This page is organized by the course in which the students did their senior seminar. You may click on the title to see more about their work in the format of their choice. Congratulations for all of the amazing work!
ENGL 494-01 A New Decameron: Fictions and Nonfictions
with Professor Marlon James - Fall 2020
ENGL 400-01 Seminar: Special Topics in Literary Studies
with Professor Amy Elkins - Fall 2020
Xochitl Quiroz '21
"Pa’lante: The Poetics of Hope in the Puerto Rican Literary Diaspora"
Nicolle Donaire '21
Ash Ma '21
Tyler McFarland '21
Jackson Ullmann '22
"Evolution and Progress in Adaptation: Disability in Dororo"
ENGL 401-01 Projects in Literary Research
with Professor Penelope Geng - Spring 2021
Conor Broderick '21
"A Reparative, Queer Reading + Adaptation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"
Sadia Mohammed '21
"The Sea as a Repository in Olaudah Equiano’s narrative and M. NourbeSe Phillip’s Zong!"
Kelsey Stender-Moore '21
Gabriel Fisch '21
"A Note on Vaseline: Theorizing Raw Sex, HIV, and Black Gay Sexual Subjectivity in Don’t Call Us Dead"
Malcolm Cooke '21
"At the Center of the Spider’s Web: Throne of Blood and Indigenization"
Lauren Adams-Plehal '21
Teddy Holt '22
"Mothers, Murder, and Meeds: Unearthing Indigeneity in The Kalevala and Beowulf"
ENGL 406-01 Projects in Creative Writing
with Professor Michael Prior - Spring 2021
Asher de Forest '21
Gianella Rojas '21
Becca Lewis '21
Eric Fong '21
"Georgiana of the Earth"
Abby Lawrence '21
"Testimonies of a Triplet"
Ben LeBlanc '21
"Where and When I've Been So Far"
Katie Woodhouse '21
Title: pending
English Honors Project 2021 and Capstone from 2020
Betsy Barthelemy '21
Honor's Project: "Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: Girlhood in the Creation, Content, and Consumption of Victorian Children’s Fantasy Versus Fiction"
Albert Lee '21
2020 Capstone: "線TENSE (pronounced "sentence"): A Poetic Peregrination of Japanese Imperial Postmemory and Korean Diasporic Intimacy in a Nuclearized Sinosphere"
Ben White '21
"One Mic: Reevaluating Rap in Contemporary Culture"
Senior Slideshow
Want to learn more about our amazing seniors?
Watch our 2021 Senior Slide Show
To start the slideshow, press the play button (>) at the top of that page.