English and Comparative Literary Studies

2011     2010     2009     2008     2007     2006     2005     2004     2003     2002     2001     2000     1999     1998

Summer 2011:

• The Givenness of Being in Late Plato
  Peter Beer (Damian Stocking)
   
• “Love too thick?”: Narrative Structure, Reader Response, and Violence in Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Jazz
  Mirin Fader (Jean Wyatt)
   
• Willa Cather, McClure's Magazine and "The Problems of Suicide"
  Will Holmes (John Swift)
   
• (Re)Writing, (Re)Reading: Maurice Blanchot and The Space of Literature
  Rebecca Miller (Damian Stocking)
   
• Toward a Minor-Minor Literature: Bilingualism in Tato Laviera's Poetry
  Danielle Sherman (Raul Villa)
   
• China in Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations
  Joseph Wei (Warren Montag)
   
• Staging the Sacred: Transformation and Miracle in Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale"
  Anne Wolfstone (Martha Ronk)

Summer 2010:

• Allergy, Tolerance, and the Problem of Hospitality
  Agne Jomantaite (Warren Montag)
   
• From Joy to Grief: the Community of Ancient Greek 'Charis'
  Lisa Kraege (Damian Stocking)
   

• Rationally Insane: An Exploration of the Euripidean Effect
  Alyson Melzer (Damian Stocking)
   

• Ecce Homo: A Theory of Nietzsche as Comedian
  Sidney Whitten (Damian Stocking)
   
• Nationalism and the Internal Enemy in Raffi's The Fool
  Anahid Yahjian (Warren Montag)

Summer 2009:

• "I Am Not What I am": Iago's Rhetoric of Identity and Anxiety
  Chloe Jenkins-Sleczkowski (Michael Near)
   
• On Hemingway, Omission, and Nostalgia
  Alexander Manthei (John Swift, Raul Villa)
   
• He Proclaims “Uhuru!”: Understanding Caliban as a Speaking Subject
  Brenda McNary (Leila Neti)
   
• "And they will differ, if they do, As Syllable from Sound-": Synaesthesia, Text, and the Poems of Emily Dickinson
  Molly Quinn (Dan Fineman)
   
• Foucault's Externalized Interiors: The Concept of the Limit in The History of Madness
  Caitlin Warchol (Warren Montag)
   
• Between Two Ecstacies - Two Senses of Love in Post-Modern Philosophy
  Sydney Whitten (Damian Stocking)

Summer 2008:

• Dante's Purgatorio: A Community of Love
  Erin L. Conley (Michael Near)
   
• "It Ain't Safe No More": Risk, Insurance, and Temporality
  Shoshone Johnson (Damian Stocking)
   
• The Value of Form: Tracing the Ode from the Greeks to the Romantics
  Safari Ross (Michael Near)
   
• Taxis in Absence: Elliptical Logic in Emily Dickinson
  Max Weidman (Dan Fineman)
   
• Bitter Wine: Old Comedy and Satyr As Tools of Civic Religion
  Mason Wilkes (Damian Stocking)

Summer 2007:

• Historiography and the Ethical: An Inquiry into the U.S. Postcolonial Relationship to its European Colonial Past
  Alexa Gould-Kavet (Leila Neti/Warren Montag)
   
• Toward a Theory of Musical Production
  Max Read (Warren Montag)
   
• (I) Murder (You) in the Dark: Atwood’s Pronominal Re-vision of Lacan’s Mirror Stage
  Alison Reed (Daniel Fineman)
   
• Making Sense of Ancient Greek: An Explanatory Approach
  Josh Talbot (Damian Stocking)
   

Summer 2006:

• Poetic Duration: A Study of ee cummings Sonnets as a Critique of Scientism's Unreality
  Tracy Bessette (Damian Stocking)
   
• The State of Exception and Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
  Matthew Bonal (Warren Montag)
   
• The Sound of Silence: The Influence of Mahayana Buddhism on Jack Kerouac's Mexico City Blues
  Ian Brown (Richard Berg)
   
• Being-with: A Heideggerian Reading of Sociality and Becoming in The Odyssey
  Zinzi Edmundson (Damian Stocking)
   
• The Joy of Reception
  Mele Ihara (Damian Stocking)
   
• Wholly Sonnet: The Implications of Play Between Speech and Writing in John Donne's Poetry
  Lee Posthuma (Martha Ronk)
   
• Evading Culpability in Postmodernist Second Person Fiction:  To Whom Does the “You” Refer?
  Alison Rose Reed (Dale Wright)
   
• Preversation of Difference or a Call to Sameness?:  Rethinking the Universal in the Letters of St. Paul
  Tim Urista (Warren Montag)
   

Summer 2005:

• Poetic Duration: A Study of ee cummings Sonnets as a Critique of Scientism's Unreality
  Tracy Bessette (Damian Stocking)
   
• A House is Not a Home: Searching for Home in the works of Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan, and Gish Jen
  Erin Lem (Eric Newhall)
  
• The Impossibility of Stepping into the Same Story Twice: Investigating Herodotus as a Presocratic Historian
  Anne K. O'Malley (Damian Stocking)
   
• Creative Dissent: A Multidisciplinary Study of the Activist Art of Mexican Women in the Context of Gender Violence on the U.S.-Mexico Border
  Aleksander Sedzielarz (Alexandra Puerto and Raul Villa)
   

Summer 2004:

• Costume in Sex and the City: Outfitting Ideas of Femininity.
  Rosalba Curiel  (Warren Montag and Martha Ronk)
   
• So What Does God Have to Do with Anything? William Faulkner and Toni Morrison: Christianity in Their Fictions and Their Lives.
  Ann Hong  (Eric Newhall)
   
• Agonistic Metaphysics: The Homeric Origin of Nietzsche's Philosophy of Active Dionysian Joy.
  Laura Warner  (Damian Stocking)

Summer 2003:

• Climbing Mount Olympus: The Moral, Intellectual, and Spiritual Dimensions of the Heroic Dream.
  Libby Evans (Damian Stocking)
   
• Louis Althusser, Georges Canguilhem: Ideology and Normality.
  Spencer Jackson (Warren Montag)
   
• “Colonized Unconscious: A Post-Colonial Exploration of the Incest Narrative in Edna O’Brien’s Down by the River”.
  Anna Noice (John Swift)
   
• The Role of Peaceweaver: Female Sexual Power in Beowulf.
  Kari Vargas (Michael Near)

Summer 2002:

• The Michel Foucault and Jurgen Habermas Debate; What is really at stake?
  Spencer Jackson (Warren Montag)
   
• Willa Cather's The Professor's House and the Socialization of American Law.
  Leah F. Ordonia (John N. Swift)

Summer 2001:

• The Philippine Literary Tradition: Exploring the Relationships Between a Colonial and Imperial Past, Literature and Education.
  Lisa Felipe (Warren Montag)
   
• An Anti-Existentialist Interpretation of Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit.
  Sarah Fones (Warren Montag)
   
• "Desolate Exclamations": Women as the Embodiment of Nature in Conrad's Heart of Darkness.
  Viviana MacManus (Warren Montag)
   
• The Role of Jupiter’s Descent in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline.
  Heather Manley (Michael Near)

Summer 2000:

• Spatial and Place-Consciousness in Urban Nuyorican Literature.
  Marian Gabra (Raul Villa)
   
• Mortera's Influence On Spinoza's Philosophy.
  Axel Montepeque (Warren Montag)
   
• The Systematic Misreading of Michel Foucault.
  Sherri Murata  (Warren Montag)
   
• The Emergence of the Invisible Man: Images of Ascent and Descent in Ralph Ellison's Juneteenth.
  Dawningstar Sikorski (Eric Newhall)

Summer 1999:

• An Application of Vladimir Propp's Morphology of the Folktale to Korean Folktales.
  Myung H. Choi (Warren Montag)

Summer 1998:

• Emerson and Spinoza:Paradoxes of Plotinus' Neoplatonism
  Leakana Nhem (Warren Montag)
   
• The Dissolution of the Subject:The Intersection of Lacan and Faulkner
  Erin Post (Eric Newhall)
   
• Uncovering the Body: Foucalt and the Construction of Race
  Lynn Ta (Warren Montag)