The culminating project for the literary studies majors in English can take many forms: interpretive essay, autobiographical criticism; biographical or cultural study; film and literature study; readers guide; new media; etc.
The project is generally 15-20 pages and is accompanied by a preface that orients readers to the larger aims and interests of the project, reflects on its genesis and evolution, and situates it within an autobiographical and disciplinary context. At the end of the academic year, students read excerpts from their projects for peers and professors at the annual Senior Readings celebration.Papers/Projects from 2024
Papers/Projects from 2023
Writing Against Progress: Frank Herbert's Anti-Utopia, Seth Stobart
Papers/Projects from 2022
Uniting England’s Two Nations: The Victorian Social Problem Novel as a Medium for Sociopolitical Change, Kat Gibson
Papers/Projects from 2021
The Mother Of All Mysteries: How Mothers Are Disavowed and Undermined in Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca (1940), Juli Lindenmayer
The Portrayal of Trial by Jury in American Entertainment, Kimberly Satterfield
Papers/Projects from 2018
"Alas for the Red Dragon:" Redefining Welsh Identity through Arthurian Legend, Claire Lober
Motherhood Makes a Matriarchy, Lily Mann
Papers/Projects from 2017
The Double Work of the Female Spectator, Emily Greitzer
Papers/Projects from 2015
“Jane Eyre: An Ancestor Heroine for Contemporary Young Adult Dystopian Literature”, Emmanuela Ann Bean
Young Adult Dystopian Literature as Social Change Evolution, Rachel L. Scherzer
Übermensch: A Feminist, Literary, & Artistic Rebuke to Modern Patriarchy in the Institution of Liberal Arts Education, Virginia Valenzuela
Shakespeare's Dictionary: One Playwright's Influence on the Modern English Lanugage, Jennifer Walton