English Department student theses, 1957-2023.
2023. Bui, Linh Ngoc. More Than “Vietnam Flashbacks” and Trauma: Quiet Images of Vietnamese Women As Disidentification With Nationalist Framing.
2023. Kilroy, Rebecca. The Taste of Spoiled Earth
2023. Xue, Emma. Myth Adaptations in Chinese American Literature
2022. Hirth, Lauren. From Celluloid to Satellite: The Evolution of the Cinematographic Apparatus in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest
2020. Rottger, Sara Gender, Genre, and Looking in Motion: Dorothy Wordsworth & Mary Shelley’s Travel Writing
2019. Cacciatore, Olivia. Who is Alice? An Analysis of the Character of Alice From the Origins of Her Representation to Surrealist Interpretations
2019. Groves, Sabrina. The Rhetoric of Environmental Change Narratives
2019. Lofstrom, Sarah. A Spectrum of Ethical Witnessing in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, Sula and Beloved
2018. Xu, Yinzhi. Blossoms of the Apricot: Representations of Confucianism and Confucian China in the Writings of Henry Thoreau, Ernest Fenollosa, and Ezra Pound
2017. Kao, Libby. In But Not Of the Model Minority: Myth and Discipline in Asian American Literature
2017. Pahari, Aria. No Name Women Write Back: Silence and Transnational Subjectivity in Asian American Women's Literature
2017. Ryerson, Anna Eby. George Eliot’s Romola: A Victorian Perspective on Renaissance Florence
2017. Westcott, Isabel. Virginia Woolf and the Art of Biography
2016. DeJesus, Veronica. Studies
2016. Kimball, Grace. Poking the Puck: An Examination of Puck from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
2016. Marciezyk, Savannah. My Self Was Reborn of the Union: A Poetic Contexture
2016. McLean, Hattie. “Glyphing” at Black Mountain College: New Artistic Languages in the Work of Anni Albers, John Cage, and Charles Olson
2016. Mosman, Jocelyn. The Voice of the American Female Poet: Tradition and Innovation
2015. Anderson, Emma. America’s White Whale: The Inescapable Search for an Impossible Identity
2015. Book, Bella. Disobedient Bodies: The Intersection of Class and Sensation in the Victorian Novel
2015. Diamond, Aidan Dubhain. "It's a Batman's World": Regulations of Gender, Sanity, and Justice in Batman Comics, 1986-2011.
2015. Spivack, Caroline. Unhinging the Closet Doors: The Evolution of Mount Holyoke College’s LGBT Movement
2015. Swami, Poorna. Khayali Pulao: Dreaming up the Family
2014. Doolittle, Samantha. "Time that won't quit": Recurrence, Reclamation, and Black Identity on the American Stage
2014. Murphy, Emily. From “Wholesome Discipline” to “Something Fatal”: Portraiture in the Victorian Novel
2014. Tishler, Rebecca. Reconsidering Literary Onomastics: Names and Naming in Faulkner and Morrison
2013. Amerson, Layli. Stepping into Academia: First-Year Students' Experiences of Writing at Mount Holyoke
2013. Bushnell, Megan. Poet and Politician Reconciled: How Gavin Douglas Navigates the Scots Language and Nationalism in the Prologues to the Eneados
2013. Bussiere, Katherine. Tongue-Tied in America: The Decline of Foreign Language Education in an Age of Globalization
2013. Capeloto, Cynthia. Tales of Ophelia
2013. Mitchell, Holly. The Buttermilk Casket
2013. Oliver, Genevieve Marie She's Filled With Secrets: the Mythology of Landscape in the American Western
2013. Parker, Rachel. Voicing the Feminine in J.M. Coetzee's Fiction
2012. Chow, Emily. The Significance of Satan: Eikonoklastes as a Guide to Reading the Character in Milton's Paradise Lost
2012. Kass, Katrina. The Interpretation of the Shrew
2011. Fitzpatrick, Katherine. “A Document in Madness": Representations of Ophelia as Lovesick Madwoman in the Mid-Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
2011. Maryeski, LeeAnn. Stories from the Workplace
2011. McGahan, Catherine. Passages and Parallels: Forty Days in Cape Town
2010. Foley, Vera. A Reimagined Influence: Finding Nathaniel Hawthorne in Henry James
2010. Georgieva, Magdalena. Reshaping the Media Landscape: From the Birth of Journalism to Social Media Preservation of Ethics and the Rise of Niche Audiences
2010. Mariano, Nora. The Craft(ing) of Reynard: Dissecting the Trickster Fox in Medieval England
2010. Robbins, Lauren. Science and The Lost World: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Reworking of the Vernian Adventure Novel
2010. Sladky, Alexandra. "Empty's Always Empty"
2009. Lockwood, Elizabeth. Sites of Resistance: Writing as Protest in Black Anti-Apartheid South Africa
2009. Tallon, Laura. Silencing Sirens: Love, Sexuality, Marriage and Women's Voices in Shakespeare
2008. Bailey, Hannah. Inventing Englishness: 13th Century Narratives of Anglo-Saxon England
2008 Binns, Sarah. Fragments
2008. Cohn, Mallory. Suffering, Self-Creation and Survival: Victimized Children in the Novels of Charles Dickens
2008. Shields-Mas, Chelsea. The Irish Christian Holy Men: Druids Reinvented?
2007. Gracey, Amy B The Hidden Journey of Margery Kempe
2007. Kharpertian, Kiara. Little Slothrop and the Big Bad Rocket
2007. Waddell, Heather. Reading with Thought and Effort
2006. Giglierano, Emily. Stoppard Gone Wilde: The Invention of Identity
2006. Giragosian, Sarah. At the Edge of Print
2006. Hakala, Marjorie. Are All the Fairies Dead? Fairy Tales and Place in Victorian Realism
2006. Marquis, Kathryn. What About Walter? Polity, Power, and Obedience in the Griselda Story
2006. Tung, Jaime. "The Sea Is History": Reading Derek Walcott Through a Melancholic Lens
2005. Murphy, Mary. Love, Marriage, and Happiness: Changing Systems of Desire in Fourteenth-Century England
2005. Richardson, Rebecca. The Garden Party Must Go On: Class Sympathy and Characterization in Katherine Mansfield's Short Stories and "A Surprise" and Other Original Short Stories
2002. Amberg, Andrea. A Story of Names: A zigzag road to finding my own two feet by way of Mexico, India, England, Sweden, Italy and Iceland.
2002. Bustion, Olivia. Coffee with Aquinas: poems
2002. Czwartacky, Rachel. In Time o' Strife: Joe Corrie and the British Workers' Theatre Movement
2002. Foran, Kate. The big book of how and why: poems
2002. Gibbons, Zoe. A Dedicated Follower of Fashion: The Ahistoric Rake in Restoration Literature
2002. Grimm, Valerie Louise. Folk Verse
2002. Hall, Sarah Kristin. Mad Sweeney: translations of old Irish poems and sagas
2002. Johnson, Kara. Living Picture, Living Voice
2002. Kahn, Rachel. A habit of breaking: poems
2002. Kleinhans, Edana A. Inklings of Faërie: myth and Tolkien's quest for truth in "The Lord of the Rings"
2002. Kupersmith, Violet. Adrift: Ghost Stories
2002. LeClair, Andrea Lee. Kessler for Senate: a work in progress
2002. Lee, Bridgit. "Answer answerless": Queen Elizabeth I's speeches and the art of self-construction
2002. Maciel, Amanda. How I spent my summer vacation
2002. Maclaughlin, Laura. The defeat of manhood: World War I in the American novel
2002. Miller, Tracy Jordan. "I shall get wild": reading resistance in "Wuthering Heights" and Victorian domestic fiction
2002. Mucher, Christen Anne. The body that talks: hysteria in late nineteenth-century American literature
2002. O'Leary, Glynis Caroline. Representing loss: gendered affect and politics in Irish famine narratives
2002. Ponichtera, Sarah. "Everything that happened, happened because of me": authorial agency in the novels of Salman Rushdie
2002. Putnam, Katie. Troublesome women: British female writers of anti-slavery poetry and prose
2002. Scibelli, Angela Rose. Media transitions: an examination of the phonetic alphabet, the printing press, and the digital computer
2002. Selleck, Kristen L. Faulkner's Women: a reexamination of the Southern ideal
2002. Starkins, Rebecca H. "The perfect happiness of the union": Jane Austen and the construction of English national identity
2002. Stein, Sarah. Young Americans: the "Blank Generation" writes the postmodern
2002. Weiss, Sarah Elizabeth. Rethinking Wollstonecraft: a vindication of fictional women
2002. Yates, Emily. Dickinson and Her Disciples: The Poetry of Belief
2002. Zerillo, Nicole. Passing preconceptions
2000. Rainson, Diane E. Stations of the day: a book of hours
2000 Raitcheva, Raya. Theatricality in Charles Dickens and George Eliot: conventions and subversion of dominant culture
1999. Alberts, Crystal. The evolution of the Anti-jeremiad in postmodernist American literature
1999. Ashcroft, Amy. Our cloud of knowing: Don DeLillo's Libra, Underworld and Mao II
1999. Call, Stephanie. Mama-loshen: a memior
1999. Craig, Courtney Alice. On the Divide: Willa Cather's changing depictions of the West
1999 Gold, Miriam Elizabeth. Ambivalent identities: gender and ethnicity in Annie Hall, The wedding banquet, and True love
1999. Gubernatis, Catherine Elizabeth. Dismantling the cathedral: a study of the influence of the Romantic poets on James Joyce
1999. Jensen, Kristen H. Romeo & Juliet: parallel texts of the first and second quartos
1999 Levinson, Emily Claire. Transcendence in a fallen world: the art of Anthony Hecht
1999. November, Elizabeth. The relation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight to E's Ywain and Gawain, Chretien de Troyes' The knight and the lion, Heinrich von dem Turlin's The crown, and Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival
1999. Swanson, Amanda Judith. Filming Jamesian ambiguity
1998. Hoffman, Michelle Smith. Chivalry of the Sankgreal: an interpretation of Malory's Grail Quest
1998. Olmstead, Amity H. Possession and desire: failure of identity in the fiction of Henry James
1998. Sriharan, Yasotha. New Guinea days and other poems
1998. Waring, Jennifer. The integration of "I" and "we": a study of egoism in the novels of George Meredith and George Eliot
1997. Amy E. Auzenne. A race of one's own: Nella Larsen, Jean Toomer, and the 'tragic' mulatto in American literature
1997. Baker, Lucia. The development of Sir Gawain in 14th century English romance
1997. DeVito, Melissa Claire. Ishmael's fiction: the early novels of Cormac McCarthy
1997. Kussman, Deana. Blind Man's Bluff
1997. Prince, Jessica Ann. Establishing a poetic voice: the achievement of Edna St. Vincent Millay
1997. Ross, Anna VQ. Architecture
1997. Sanni, Simisola. Ominira
1996. Parmar, Priya. Who's stolen my sleep?: the novels of Jean Rhys
1996. Pickett, Nancy Louise Maggie's daughters: the changing role of women in urban literature
1996. Ward, Judi Rowena. Shadows, silhouettes and reflections
1996. Wroth, Katharine Lawrence. Stranger than fiction: narrative truth in works of Poe and Dostoevsky
1995. Dickens, Allison. Words and pictures: the Victorian illustrated novel
1995. Jaeger, Judith Grandmother's flower garden: eight women spanning four generations tell the story of their heirloom quilt
1995. Kamrowski, Julie A. Reservoir
1995. Surrisi, Magda. The vicarious paper life of Henry James
1994. Rodrigo, Nanditha. Michael Ondaatje: denying history: narrative strategies to supplement recorded history
1994. Collins, Kathleen. What does it mean to be old, woman?: three biographical profiles
1994. Dubey, Mandakini. Bastard child of history: the fiction of Salman Rushdie
1994. Fiskett, Ellen Anne. Guinevere, the adulteress in the Arthurian legends of Robert Wace, Layamon, Cretien de Troyes and Sir Thomas Malory
1994. Gittins, Anne Kane. Triumph: a collection of short stories
1994. Lowe, Jennifer S.A. Boxes of light
1994. Sorge, Samantha A. The search for God in man: a reading of Alfred Lord Tennyson's Idylls of the King
1994. Tabari, Nadene Joy. Contending voices: the female body and the politics of culture and gender in American women's captivity narratives
1994. Taylor, Michelle L. Mother-daughter relationships in literature by and about black women
1993. Albinak, Amy Jo. Storytelling and fairy tales: the fiction of Graham Swift
1993. Boggess, Amy L. Mental travelers: the journey to higher innocence in the work of William Blake
1993. Dick, Jennifer Kay. The possibility of motion
1993. Laughlin, Corinna. "Where we may walk with children": Victorian fantasies for children, 1862-1872
1993. Merton, Vikki. Poetry
1993. Piehler, Liana Frances. Opening the door on fantasy in the fairy tale world
1993. Rodrigue, Jennifer. One thousand worn pathways
1993. Taketa, Halina. Homegoing: a story
1992. McMartin Bivens, Jennifer. Learning to walk again: crisis and recovery in James Joyce's Ulysses and Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus
1992. Gallagher, Maura Elizabeth. "Tainted hearts"
1992. Garrett, Anne Elizabeth. Voices of influence: the politics of William Butler Yeats and Seamus Heaney
1992. Grunes, Dorothy T. Wolfman: an adaptation of Sigmund Freud's case history
1992. Hogan, Kelly Ann. Porcelain hole: a novella
1992. Kreider, Catherine E.F. The lens of Tehanu: an analysis of the books of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
1992. Markis, Anastasia K. "Groping for the latch of a closed door": collectors and artists in the fiction of Henry James
1992. O'Donnell, Alethea. Faith: a collection of original short stories
1992. Peterson, Karin. The metaphysics of intimacy: an essay on W. H. Auden's The double man
1992. Pugh, Anne Ellen. Quest for righteousness: a study of Matthew Arnold's mystical intuitions
1992. Sloper, Karen. Echoes of grief: William Faulkner and the polyphonic narrative
1991. Beal, Heather Nadine. Leaving a harbor: a collection of short stories
1991. Becker, Sarah. Hothouse flowers
1991. Chirico, Miriam Madeline. Memory and modernity: a comparative literature study of the poetry of Charles Baudelaire and Thomas Stearns Eliot
1991. Cressman, Jodi R. The search for an absolute meaning: narrative and self in Middlemarch, To the Lighthouse and The golden notebook
1991. Gillespie, Christine Elizabeth. Forgiving Shakespeare: an illumination of The taming of the shrew
1991. Miller, Lona Faulkner. The role of women in the novels of Henry James and Edith Wharton
1991. Pickett, Nancy Louise. Maggie's daughters: the changing role of women in urban literature
1991. Richard, Nancy L. The legacy of the nineteenth century to the study of English literature and language
1991. Roider, Carrie. "I was born a slave but I go to be free": the development of William Blake's Gothic vision
1991. Trabucchi, Julianne C. An unclean break: the Catholic unconscious in the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald
1991. Vidalakis, Nicole Kyria. Revolutionary wit: the development of Donne's early prose personae
1991. Wilcauskas, Sherri L. Rejoice in the lamb: text-music relationships
1985. Parks, Susan L. The Simm's Place: a drama in two acts
1984. Gutzmer, Susan Ellen. External images, internal visions: class definition in George Eliot's Middlemarch and Henry James's The Bostonians
1980. Kiffin, Diane Elizabeth. "... and the other words that are not deeds": A study of the diminishing vitality in William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha novels
1964. Pierson, Elizabeth D. No such "fairy precint . . . " : a study of Hawthorne's view of the artist and his environment in three stories and the marble faun
1963. Cass, Madeline. "A wisdom that is woe": an essay on Herman Melville's Moby Dick, Battle-pieces, and Billy Budd
1961. Antalocy, Stephanie C. Mark Twain's masks: a study of the narrative persona in his works from The Innocents Abroad to The Mysterious Stranger
1960. Marsden, Christina C. Edward Taylor's "Song": a reflection in poetry of a Puritan's search for grace
1959. Spencer, Virginia R. Edward Taylor's "Sacramental Meditations": some major aspects of the backgrounds, purpose and methods of his poetry
1958. Maxwell, Nancy. The catnip and the amaranth, an essay on thematic relations in Billy Bud, The Confidence Man, Pierre, and Moby Dick
1957. McKenzie, Ruth M. The concept of personal relationships in the novels of E. M. Forster