2010 Senior English Course Majors’ Senior Essay Topics
Anderson, Roshé, “Spurning a Mother’s Love in John Gardner’s Grendel”
Berty, Apolline, “A Humble Sorcerer’s Apprentice: The Uncertainties of Science in Frankenstein”
Bond, Johanna, “Narrative Identities in Chaucer and Gilman”
Chu, Nancy, “Humanity and Monstrosity in Kafka’s Metamorphosis”
Chung, Daniel, “Failed Exegesis: A Dialectic Trap” [The Wife of Bath]
Davis, Chelsea, “Confining Houses, Stifled Minds: A Case Study of Gilman’s and Jackson’s Uses of the Female Gothic”
Friedenberg, Kevin, “Death is Not the Answer: Lack of Resolution at the Close of Shakespeare’s Hamlet”
Getachew-Smith, David, “Still Alive: The Existence of the Slave Narrative”
Gopal, Ramya, “Hybrid Spaces in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth”
Kahn, Jeffrey, “The Plural Poets Unshaping: An Exploration of Natural Destructive Sequences in the Beowulf Poem”
Khan, Rayan, “The Vampire Phantasmagoria: Literary and Socio-Cultural Evolutions of the Vampire”
Kim, Rosa, “‘The Most Refined Form of Sensual Lust’: Music and Extramarital Affair in Tolstoy’s Kreutzer Sonata”
Lugo, Christel, “Instances of the Uncanny in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights”
Myers, Robin, “The Fantastic Ague: Worldliness, Anxiety, Desire, and Devotion in John Donne’s Holy Sonnets”
Noonan, Chloe, “Beowulf Lesson Plan”
Osborn, Casey, “The ‘Uncanny’ Abbey” [Northanger Abbey]
Tettey-Fio, Ama, “Uncanniness in The Bluest Eye”
Trabert, Dustin, “Selling the Self of a Stranger: Alienation from the American Dream in Miller’s Death of a Salesman and Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross”
Zhuang, Xiaoxia, “The Woman Warrior and Middlesex: Anxieties in Assimilation”