2011–2012 Approved Master’s Theses
Cummings, Flavia (M.A. English)
Window Motif in Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary
Adviser: Janet Moser
Darcy, Erin (M.A. English)
"That Long White Road": New York Women, the Marriage Market, and the New Public Spaces in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth
Adviser: Martha Nadell
Franklin, Daniel (M.A. English)
Chaucer's "Parson’s Tale": Monastic Theology, "Meditacioun," and the Lectio Divina
Adviser: Martin Elsky
Gauvard, Dominique (M.A. English)
Race in Young Adult Literature
Adviser: Marie Rutkoski
Griffiths, Timothy (M.A. English)
Nobody's Protest Novel: James Baldwin, Gay Activism, and the Language of Queer Collectivity
Adviser: Geoffrey Minter
Ibrahim, Saad (M.A. English)
The Phenomenology of Space in Marvell's "Upon Appleton House": The Poetics of Renewal
Adviser: Nicola Masciandaro
Ionescu, Olivia (M.A. English)
Paterson: An American Epic of Ordinary Life
Adviser: Robert Viscusi
Irving, Christopher (M.A. English)
A Succession of Masks: Batman's Evolving Sexuality
Adviser: Geoffrey Minter
Jordan, Charles (M.A. English)
The Digital Writing Process: A Proposal for the Integration of Technology into the Freshman Composition Classroom
Adviser: Mark Patkowski
Lefkowitz, Richard (M.A. English)
Satanic Versions of History in Paradise Lost
Adviser: Kathleen Haley
Maultasch, Lara (M.A. English)
Genre-Building and Metafiction: Jonathan Lethem's Coming-of-Age Stories
Adviser: Martha Nadell
Miles, E. Adina (M.A. English)
The Pearl-Poet's Christian Passover in Cleanness
Adviser: Karl Steel
Mulcahey, Laura (M.A. English)
The Loss of Anonymity: Public Exposure from Tabloid Reporting to the Pages of Facebook
Adviser: Robert Viscusi
Neville, Summer (M.A. English)
Chandler and Chance
Adviser: Wendy Fairey
Nocera, Melissa (M.A. English)
Assigning Agency: Ecofeminist Principles and the Representation of the Nonhuman Animal in the Works of Emily Dickinson
Adviser: Geoffrey Minter
Ogunnika, Oluwatosin (M.A. English)
Writing in the Third Space: Postcolonial Identity in Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen and Edwidge Danticat's Breath, Eyes, Memory
Adviser: Renison Gonsalves
Owens, Sarah (M.A. English)
A Mythic Hybridity: Limitations of the Binary and the Subordination of Female Sexuality in Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex
Adviser: James Davis
Press, David (M.A. English)
All-Star Grant Morrison: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and Twenty-First Century Comic Books
Adviser: Robert Viscusi
Prudhomme, Anne Marie (M.A. English)
On the Road and Out of Peyton Place: The Franco-American Working-Class New England Voice of Jean-Louis Kerouac and Marie Grace de Repentigny Metalious
Adviser: Joseph Entin
Reich, Jamie (M.A. English)
"Sea-Room to Tell the Truth In": Counter-Narrative, Non-Traditional Text, and Oceanic Borderization in Melville's Moby Dick
Adviser: Renison Gonsalves
Risner, Tiffany (M.A. English)
Sovereignty and the Goodness of God: Puritans with Something to Prove
Adviser: Geoffrey Minter
Roe, Erica (M.A. English)
Traveling with Graham Greene: A Hermeneutical Journey of Doubt of the Author and His Character in The Power and the Glory
Adviser: Paul Moses
Saporov, Philip (M.A. English)
The Scarlet Flower: A Comparative Analysis of the Heroine's Journey in the "Beauty and the Beast" Story Type
Adviser: Aaron Streiter
Suarez, Angel (M.A. English)
Sex Lies: The Journey to Manhood through the Rejection of Homosexuality and the Subjugated Female in The Virgin Suicides
Adviser: Geoffrey Minter
Tajbhai, Amina (M.A. English)
"Evil, be Thou My Good": Satan's Influence on Fertility in Paradise Lost
Adviser: Kathleen Haley
Tsuei, Kam Hei (M.A. English)
The National Aesthetics of George Lamming
Adviser: Moustafa Bayoumi
Tumas, Robert (M.A. English)
More Than Just a Bicycle: A Post-Pedal Reading of Political Allegory in Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman
Adviser: Carey Harrison
Visco, Claudette (M.A. English)
Albee, Authenticity and the Influence of Catholicism: Confrontations with Modernity
Adviser: Tanya Pollard
