2006–2007 Approved Master’s Theses
Agius, Ryan
"Narrative Voice and Authorial Presence in Melville's 'Bartleby, the Scrivener' and Kafka's 'A Hunger Artist'"
Adviser: Thomas Boyle
Arts, George
"Reference as a Text Construction Agent with a Focus on Anaphora"
Adviser: John Roy
Beharry, Anjinie
"What Explains Milton's God in Paradise Lost?"
Adviser: Ana Acosta
Berardi, Diane
"An Evaluation and Case Study of E-Learning"
Adviser: Geri DeLuca
Carosone, Michael
"The Marginalization of Italian-American Writers and Italian-American Literature"
Adviser: Geri DeLuca
Chwala, Gregory
"Byron in Missolonghi: Greek Love and The Private Gone Public"
Adviser: Geoffrey Minter
Cohen, Diane
"The Female Bildungsroman During Colonialism and Dictatorship"
Adviser: Rennison Gonsalves
Coiffe, Dorothea
"The Alphabet is Never a Neutral Technology: A History of Writing Systems in Twentieth-Century Turkmenistan and Other Areas of Central Asia"
Adviser: Mark Patkowski
Cox, Margaret
"Evolution of the African American Woman's Psyche"
Adviser: Geoffrey Minter
Cucaj, Xhenete
"Re-Positioning the Feminine Role: A Study of Assia Djebar's Quartet"
Adviser: Moustafa Bayoumi
Davis, Maudelin
"Henry James and His Feminine Influences"
Adviser: William F. Browne
DePasquale, Elizabeth
"A Lady's 'Verily' is as Potent as a Lord's: A Search for Non-Binary Female Subject Positions in Antony and Cleopatra and The Winter’s Tale"
Adviser: Ellen Belton
English, Bridget
"The Splendid Mirage: Bohemian New York and the Search for a Modern American Identity in Fitzgerald and Cather"
Adviser: Martha Nadell
Esdaille, Elroy
"Race as a Social Construction in the Works of Charles Chestnutt and James Weldon Johnson"
Adviser: James Davis
Everitt, Ryan
"The Connotative Denaturalization of Bleak House"
Adviser: Ellen Tremper
Fogarty, Patrick
"Exodic or Hybrid Literature? A Post-Colonial Analysis of Swift's Drapier's Letters and Joyce's
Ulysses"
Adviser: Patricia Laurence
Gaske, Jaime
"Realizing Myths and Symbols in Contemporary Literature"
Adviser: Nancy Vighetti
Gutman, Emilya
"To Be or Not to Be 'Black No More': The Essential Dilemma of the Harlem Renaissance"
Adviser: Martha Nadell
Hoffman, Rabecca
"Gender Differences in Cinematic Storytelling Styles: Bound vs. High Art"
Adviser: Mark Patkowski
Holmes, Renee
"Charles Chestnutt's Paul Marchand, FMC and Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson: The Reconstruction of Race and the Revision of Slavery"
Adviser: George Cunningham
Huliaris, Eugenia
"The Paradigm Shift from New Criticism to Feminism in Daisy Miller and The Age of
Innocence"
Adviser: James Davis
Jones, Tashara
"An Investigation Through the Thinking of Bigger Thomas: In Richard Wright's Native Son"
Adviser: Joseph Entin
Korbl, Angela
"Out of the House of Arabic into the House of Latin"
Adviser: Nicola Masciandaro
Lemma, Erica
"The Battle for Equality: Huck Finn and the Color Line"
Adviser: Wendy Fairey
Lukszo, Ursula
"Geography of the Ordinary: Locating BioPolitics in 'The Time Before' and the Time Now in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaids Tale"
Adviser: Rowena Lee Quinby
Maharaj, Nira
"Mule/Muse: Women in Jean Toomer's Cane and Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and Men"
Adviser: Martha Nadell
McCabe, Matthew
"An Examination of January in Chaucer's 'Merchant’s Tale'"
Adviser: Nicola Masciandaro
McGee, Kristi
"Oedipa Maas in Pursuit of Signs"
Adviser: Mark Patkowski
Murphy-Wedlock, Kristine
"Female Empowerment in a Time of Crisis: Fierce and Forceful Females in The Grapes of Wrath"
Adviser: Joseph Entin
Moss, Tinamarie
"Children's Literature: An Archetypal Journey"
Adviser: Geri DeLuca
Navarro, Lauren
"Jane's Mission of Agency: An Ethos of Domestic Happiness"
Adviser: Ellen Tremper
Nemtsin, Karina
"The Demystification of Female Sexuality and Identity in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood"
Adviser: Wendy Fairey
Nugent, Patrick
"Gifts for the Great Potluck: Metaphor and Form in Danger on Peaks"
Adviser: Matthew Burgess
Plunkett, Michael
"The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Flann O'Brien's At Swim Two Birds and the Horizontal Use of Literary Reference"
Adviser: Robert Viscusi
Polenski, Michael
"Ernest Hemingway's Nick Adams: In the Woodlands of the Ojibway"
Adviser: Robert Viscusi
Porter, Julia
"'There Be Soul-Artists': The Effects of the Spiritualism Movement on Harriet Beecher Stowe's The Minister's Wooing"
Adviser: Patricia Laurence
Roslyn, Rey
"Empowering Women Through African Literature"
Adviser: Geri DeLuca
Shetty, Shilpa
"Globalization and Tourism in A Small Place, The God of Small Things and Transmission"
Adviser: Wendy Fairey
Shury, Donna
"African Guyanese Folk Music: A Cultural Heritage"
Adviser: Mark Patkowski
Starr, Jessica
"The Shadow Heroics of Social Masochism in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre"
Adviser: Wendy Fairey
Teitel, Michael
"The Imperial Smile: Notes on the Face of Imperialism"
Adviser: Dillon Brown
Tescher, Jeremy
"Words are Things: The Significance of Language in Blood Meridian"
Adviser: James Davis
Thame, Nicola
"Ideologies Challenged and Then Reaffirmed: Wide Sargasso Sea's Assumption of Colonial Power"
Adviser: Dillon Brown
Vella, Tinamarie
"The Forgotten Blemish: Remembering Filipino History Through Literature"
Adviser: Renison Gonsalves
Washington, Phyllis
"Ebonics – A Legitimate Language"
Adviser: Mark Patkowski
Wei, Zhaoxia
"Nineteenth-Century New York City in Washington Square and The House of Mirth"
Adviser: Martha Nadell
Willis, Karen
"Black Women Writers and Virginia Woolf's Androgynous Mind"
Adviser: Nicola Masciandaro
John Yi
"Identity and Chinese Aesthetics in Ezra Pound's The Cantos"
Adviser: Nicola Masciandaro
