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English Major's Honors Theses titles and defense information.

Spring 2008

  • Elizabeth Moore "'Ever she dyd grete goodneys': Gender Implications of Celtic Inheritance and Chivalric Enterprise for Malory's Fay Women" 
    • Friday, April 18, 2008,  --2:00 p.m., Brother's College, room 102
  • Maria Eliades “Cut adrift from the external tea-table”: Virginia Wolf’s Reformation of the British Novel for the Female Voice
    • Wednesday, April 23, 2008, 3:45 p.m., Mead Hall, room 110

·         Marguerite White – After Tea and Cakes and Ices

    • Thursday, April 24, 2008, 4:30 p.m., Seminary Hall, room 109  

·         Katy Fitzpatrick – Trailer Trash with Cash: Constructing Rural America from an RV Park Controversy

    • Friday, April 25, 2008, 12:00 p.m., Seminary Hall, room 101

·         Meredith Beck – Ludmila Ulitskaya’s “They Lived for So Long”: An Annotated Translation and Commentary

    • Friday, April 25, 2008, 2:45 p.m., Mead Hall, room 110

·         Christine Grasso "with each it is different and the same": Duality, Multiplicity, and Ambivalence as the Shaping Fabrics of Beckett's Work

    • Monday, April 28, 2008, 4:00, Seminary Hall, room 215

·         Nora K. Widmer - Eating Their Words: To The Lighthouse, Ulysses and the Anorexic Aesthetic

    • Monday, May 5, 2:45 p.m., Brothers College , room 203

 

 

 

Spring 2007

        • Jenny Aragona "Conspiratorial Whispers: The Fairy Tale as a 'Weapon of the Weaponless.' Hidden Feminine Voices and Journeys Toward Identity in the Classic Tales of the Brothers Grimm" 
          • Director: Nicky Ollman
            • Tuesday, April 24 2007,  --9:00 a.m., Brother's College, room 120
              • admission is free, everyone welcome
        • Mary Billingsley "Lavender Ladies: A Study of Selected Women in the Works of Willa Cather" 
          • Director: Merrill Skaggs
            • Monday, April 23 2007,  --4:00 p.m., Brother's College, room 103
              • admission is free, everyone welcome
                 
        • Andrea Hughes "Traching the Female Narrative Voice Through Dickens, Bronte and Dickinson"
          • Director: 
            • Monday, April 30 2007, 9:30 a.m., Hall of Sciences, Room 180
              • admission is free, everyone welcome

 


Spring 2006

        • Peter Nagy  "Walt Whitman's Perception of Women: Condemnatory Critics and the Implications of "Song of Myself"
          • Director: Geraldine Smith-Wright
            • Thursday, April 13 2006,  --2:00 p.m., Brother's College, room 20
              • admission is free, everyone welcome
        • Pam Longo  "The Court and the Marketplace: The Economic Frameworks of Individuals and Language in Chaucer's "Knight's Tale" and "Wife of Bath's Prologue" and "Tale"
          • Director: Jim Hala
            • Monday, April 17 2006,  --1:45 p.m., Seminary Hall, room 213
              • admission is free, everyone welcome
        • Abbe Lee  "Shakespeare as Structuralist: The Conflict between Linguistic Power and Linguistic Meaningless"
          • Director: Jim Hala
            • Tuesday, April 18 2006,  --10:00 a.m.
              • admission is free, everyone welcome
        • Crystal Kowalesky  "We Know Not What We May Be:" Hamlet's Transformation."
          • Director: Frank Occhiogrosso
            • Monday, April 24 2006,  --2:00 p.m., Mead Hall, Rm. 104, 
              • admission is free, everyone welcome
        • Ewa Nowak  "Beating of the Drums: Time and Memory in Willa Cather's Work"
          • Director: Merrill Skaggs
            • Thursday, April 27, 2006.  --2:00 p.m., Brothers College Gallery
              • admission is free, everyone welcome
        • TaraLynn Romognoli  "Creating a Hero for His Time: The Cultural Context of C.S. Forester’s Hornblower Saga"
          • Director: Sandra Jamieson
            • Friday, April 28 2006,  --2:30 p.m., S.W.Bowne, Thompson Commons
              • admission is free, everyone welcome
        • Sarah Bonifacio  "The Mirror Laid Crossed: A Reading of James Joyce's "Penelope" and Ulysses"
          • Director: Neil Levi
            • Friday, May 5 2006,  -- 2:00 p.m., Seminary Hall 214
              • admission is free, everyone welcome

 

Spring 2005

        • Nicole Picard  "Happily Ever After: Represenations of Marriage in Works of Jane Austen and Edith Wharton"
          • Director: Nicky Ollman
            • Friday, April 15 2005,  --1:15 p.m., BC 108
              • admission is free, everyone welcome
        • Simone Gaspari  "The Humanistic Ideal in Medicine Exemplified Through Literature and Film"
          • Director: Geraldine Smith-Wright
            • Friday, April 22, 2005,   --1:15 p.m., Mead Hall/Wendell Room
              • admission is free, everyone welcome
        • Rob Wakeman  "The Wretched of Middle-Earth"
          • Director:  Jim Hala
            • Wednesday, April 27, 2005,   --11:00 a.m., Mead Hall/Wendell Room
              • admission is free, everyone welcome
        • Brittany Gambino  "Circular Line: A Novel"
          • Director:
            • Wednesday, April 27, 2005,   --4:00 p.m., UC 104
              • admission is free, everyone welcome
        • Erin Ferris  "Story-telling and Justice: A Literary Approach to Social Change"
          • Director:
            • Friday, April 29, 2005,   --3:00 p.m., Mead Hall/Founder's Room
              • admission is free, everyone welcome
        • Anna Muldoon  "The Self Destruction of a Dystopian Science Fiction Novel: Conflicting Political Ideologies in Twentieth Century Science Fiction"
          • Director: Jim Hala
            • Friday, April 29, 2005,   -- 3:00 p.m., Mead Hall 110
              • admission is free, everyone welcome

 

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