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2007–2008 Approved Master’s Theses

Abrahim, Anastasia
"Jane Austen: The Realistic Romance Writer"
Adviser: Geraldine De Luca

Acloque, Serene  
"Wandering Women of Turn-of–the Century American Literature: Situating Prostitution in The House of Mirth"
Adviser: Martha Nadell

Ali, Yasmin I.    
"Disillusioned Mothers: Portraits of Mothers and Motherhood in Postcolonial Literature"
Adviser: Moustafa Bayoumi

Bethge, John   
"The Informed Citizen: The Manchurian Candidate, Catch-22, and the Struggle for Individuality"
Adviser: Thomas Boyle

Bose, Sharbari   
"Giving the Moment Whole: Female Narrative Silence in Bloomsbury's Anti-Imperial Dialogue"
Adviser: Wendy Fairey

Callahan, Clare  
"'After' Theory"
Adviser: Joseph Entin

Chin, Sarah   
"Mirrors and Memories: Dystopian Science Fiction and Empowerment in Young Adult Literature"
Adviser: James Davis

Dance Jr., Alphonso 
"Symbolism and Imagery of Denial and Acceptance in Richard Wright's Native Son: Bigger Thomas's Struggle to Express His Humanity"
Adviser: Marie Buncombe

Dougherty, Nivia   
"History and Memory in Toni Morrison's Beloved: The Conflict of Remembering and Forgetting the Past"
Adviser: Martha Nadell  

Durka, Agnieszka  
"The Art of Portraiture in Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady"
Adviser: Geoff Minter

Fairall, Holly   
"Gnomon's Land: The Colonial Voids of Dubliners' 'Childhood Trilogy'"
Adviser: Thomas Boyle

Fayerberg, Daniel  
"Surviving Austen: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Textual Survival of Jane Austen's Novels During the Twentieth Century"
Adviser: William Reeves

Flippin, Lakiska  
"The African American Feminine Gothic"
Adviser: Martha Nadell

Fuks, Yevgenya  
"Hyperreality Revealed: The Function and Significance of Hyperreality"
Adviser: Joseph Entin

Georgianna, Don  
"Truman Capote and the Nonfiction Novel"
Adviser: Carey Harrison

Gersch, Jason   
"Creating the Preface-Lens: Interpreting the Underlying Sociopolitical Dichotomies of Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time"
Adviser: Wendy Fairey

Gjoni, Iva   
"Time in Wonderland"
Adviser: Robert Viscusi

Gore, Catherine  
"Representing Animals: Animals in Human Consciousness in Romantic Poetry"
Adviser: Nicola Masciandaro

Heffner, Rachel  
"Divine Imagination: 'Words About God' in the Children's Fantasy Fiction of Madeline L'Engle"
Adviser: Geraldine DeLuca

Hogan, William  
"Funny Bones: Black Comedy and the Body in The Revenger's Tragedy"
Adviser: Ellen Belton

Infortunio Jr.,Thomas 
"The Re-Makynge of Gawain: Artifice, Nature and Redemption in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"
Adviser: Nicola Masciandaro

Lenahan, Holly  
"Anglo-Norman vs. Parisian Influence on Chancery English"
Adviser: John Roy

Leotaud, Crystal Joanne
"The People Could Fly: An Examination of the Negro Spirit"
Adviser: Mark Patkowski

Lewis, Shell 
"An Elevated State of Mind: Woolf's Androgyny and Anzaldua’s Mestiza Consciousness"
Adviser: Wendy Fairey

Mitchell, Kean    
"On the Use of Creole in Derek Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain"
Adviser: John Roy

Mondano, Nicole
"A Study of Transnational Women Writers, Their Female Protagonists, and the Criticism That Surrounds Their Work"
Adviser: Wendy Fairey

Nicholson, Charlene 
"Sexuality in The House of Mirth and The Awakening"
Adviser: James Davis

Rutman, Sharon  
"Twentieth Century Hell and the Possible Utopian Alternative Through the Novels of Upton Sinclair"
Adviser: Geoff Minter

Ryan, Sheila   
"Adolescent Girls and the Scarlet Letter"
Adviser: Prof. Viscusi

Sadykov, Leah
"Prisoners of Language: Revisiting the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis"
Adviser: Mark Patkowski

Scanson, Thomas  
"Marketing Manhood: Langston Hughes's Queer Passing on The Big Sea"
Adviser: Geoffrey Minter

Simmons, Paulanne  
"The Musical as Literature: Notes on the Creative Process"
Adviser: Cary Harrison

Stein, Roberta
"The Key Factors Influencing the Depictions of Male-Female Relationships in the Novels of E.M. Foster and Virginia Woolf"
Adviser: Wendy Fairey

Suszynski, Christina
"If I Am a Woman of My Word, What Words Do I Use?"
Adviser: Nicola Masciandaro

Tavares, Frank
"Complicity and Rebelliousness in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl"
Adviser: George Cunningham

Tepas, Simon   
"Hunter S. Thompson and the New Journalism: Fear and Loathing for the Daily News"
Adviser: Geoff Minter

Ucciardino, Jack
"Questions of Identity in Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep, Farewell, My Lovely, The Little Sister, The Long Goodbye, and Playback"
Adviser: Robert Viscusi        

Uzzilia, Suzanne
"The Language of Political Estrangement in Three West Indian Novels"
Adviser: Rennie Gonsalves

Wallach, Miriam
"Stand By Me: Defending Lois Lowry's The Giver Against Censorship"
Adviser: Nancy Vighetti

Wilson, Constance
"Gender and Education in the Works of Ama Ata Aidoo and Tsitsi Dangarembga"
Adviser: James Davis

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