Honors

Honors will be awarded by the department to students who produce an outstanding senior thesis. The thesis, to be completed in the Spring of the senior year, is a revision and expansion of a Fall semester senior-seminar paper. Students are invited to propose an honors thesis project if they have done exceptional work in the senior seminar and have a major GPA of 3.500 or above. Thesis proposals are due shortly after the end of fall semester. If the proposal is approved by the department, the student will work with an honors committee, submit the finished thesis to the department for approval, and present a summary of the thesis at a departmental forum.

 

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Past Honors Thesis Projects:

2011 

Andrew Lyle, “Customs and Customers in Two Novels by Hawthorne”

2010

Asher Katz, “Models of Art and Love in the Work of Nathaniel Hawthorne”

Kit Shields, “Misguided Lovers and Ghost Writers: Submission and Authorship in Hawthorne”

2009

Alyssa Perkins, “To Play on my Bones: Anorexia in the Life and Stories of Katherine Mansfield”

Jessica Cartwright, “Less to Lose, Less to Gain: Exploring Marriage and Fantasy in Katherine Mansfield’s ‘At the Bay’”

2005

Stasia Honnold, “Sentimental Values: Narratives of Identity and Objects of the Past in Virginia Woolf’s ‘Street Haunting’ and The Years; Rushdie’s Midnight’s Chlidren”

2004

Ariel Homan, “Rough-Hewing Hamlet’s Heart of Heart: The Problematics of Individual Self-Fashioning”

2003

Emma Weinberg, “Vertigo”

Jonas Lerman, “Second Person”

2002

Andrew Zahler, “Building a Better Bird’s Nest: Poetic Language and Dwelling in the Poetry of John Clare”

Rose Masterangelo, “‘So Much of Gratitude and Verity’: Jane Austen’s Vision of Erotic Love”