Honors Directory
English Honors Recipients (by year):
2019
Sophia Clark, “The Politics of Publishing African Children's Literature”
Yehudith Dashevsky, “Translating Requiem”
Kristy Hsi, "Shifting Cultures and Identities in Asian-American Protagonists' Coming-of-Age Stories"
Lillianne Leight, “Interaction in Children’s Literature”
Trang Luu, “Locating the Ghosts of Queer Subalternity in Monique Truong’s The Book of Salt”
Eugenie Shin, “The Pictorial and The Ordinary in Virginia Woolf’s Jacob’s Room and To the Lighthouse”
Derek Willie, "'A Nature Like Some Mighty River’: Description and the Erotics of History in George Eliot's Mill on the Floss"
2009
Elizabeth Di Iulio, "'To be Loved and Chosen By a Good Man': Dispelling the Feminist Myth: Little Women as Sentimental-Religious Conduct Literature" Director: Deborah Burnham
Elaine Ely, "Refracting Race: Zoe Wicomb's Playing in the Light" Director: Rita Barnard
Andrew Hines, "The Agrarian Flood: Decoding the Absence of Race in I'll Take My Stand and the Attempts of Racial Reconciliation in Donald Davidson's Big Ballad Jamboree and Robert Penn Warren's Flood" Director: Herman Beavers
Jennifer Jackson, "Classical Myth and Gender Politics in J.M. Coetzee's Foe" Director: David Kazanjian
Aliza Machefsky, "'Not That Kind': Plants from the New World and the Transformation of European Botanical Knowledge" Director: Peter Stallybrass
Erica Machulak, "Experiments in Truth-Telling: Pamela's Shift in Narrative Habit" Director: Toni Bowers
Nicholas Mayer, "(De/Ef) Facing Shakespeare: Investigating Joyce's Dramatization of Masochistic Cuckoldry in Exiles and 'Circe'" Director: Jean-Michel Rabaté
Daniel McIntosh, "Beast with Two Backs: Shakespeare and Political Theatre in Apartheid South Africa" Director: Ania Loomba
Brooke Palmieri, "'What the Bees Have Taken Pains For": Francis Daniel Pastorius, The Beehive, and Commonplacing in Colonial Pennsylvania" Director: Peter Stallybrass
Alyssa Sclafani, "'Was Ever Audience in this Humour Won?': Theatricality and Villainy in Othello and Richard III" Director: Margreta de Grazia
Alexander Ullman, "James Joyce and Jazz Modernism" Director: James English
Benjamin Wiebracht, "Traces of the Marvelous in Conrad's Nostromo: British Neocolonialism and the Rise of Magical Realism" Director: Paul Saint-Amour
2008
Matthew Abess, "Treasury of Song for the Home Circle" Director: Kenneth Goldsmith
St. John Barned-Smith, "Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est; Cicero and Caesar on 55th Street" Director: Paul Hendrickson
Gabriel Crane, "The Mississippi Project" Director: Al Filreis
Meghan Daly, "O curse of marriage": Othello, Race, and the Breakdown of Companionate
Adam Fachler, "Hitboys" Director: Kathleen DeMarco Van Cleve
Livingston Ferguson, "Event Horizon" Director: Deborah Burnham
Sheira Feuerstein
Elise Gabriel
Daniel Goldstein, "Break" Director: Max Apple
Rebecca Kantor, "Enchantment" Director: Max Apple
Lily Katz
Laura Kerr
Jane Kim
Kevin Kimura
Richard Lee
Stephen McLaughlin
Matthew Mulholland, "What Did Bob Dylan Say?" Director: Charles Bernstein
Cynthia Padera, "The Spectator as Hero in the Theater of Tom Stoppard"
Jane Raisch
Charles Robinson
Pamela Rook, "Wall Dreams" Director: Kathleen DeMarco Van Cleve
Aaron Stein
Kristin Williams
2007
Pia Aliperti, "Un-Wintered"
Laura Brookover
Caitlin Charos
Maayan Dauber
Samuel Donsky, "Horoscopes for Horses"
Sara Gorman
Samantha Lazar
Anna Levett, "Chez Moi"
Kate Liberman
Greer Longer
Rayna Lopyan
Jessica Pfeffer
Lindsey Rosin, "Other People"
Hillary Smith
Claire Stapleton
Amro Suboh
Julia Tamulis
Elaine Wong, "Will Teddy Leave: Shoeshiners in the Reading Terminal Market"
2006
April Anderson, "Vampire of Her Time: Reconsidering the Role of Florence Dombey in Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son" Director: Nina Auerbach
Patrick Dillon, "Dimensions of Erewhon: The Modern Orpheus in Guy Davenport's 'The Dawn in Erewhon'." Director: Charles Bernstein
Kathryn Fleishman, "Tee-hee! Quod She, My Vulgar Darling: Detecting the Adolescent Female Voice in Nabokov's Lolita and Chaucer's Miller's Tale." Director: Rebecca Bushnell
Jessica Lahrman, "Metaphorical Illness in Hemingway's Works." Director: David Espey
Ruth McAdams, "Gallimaufray and hellebore: Edmund Spenser and Ben Jonson in dialogue with the past." Director: Sean Keilen
Moira Moody, "Significant Use: Examining the aesthetics of feeling in Robert Creeley's later poetry." Director: Josephine Park
Ekaterina Napalkova, "Martyrs, Mothers, Soldiers: Gender Performativity and Gendered Intent in Thackeray's Vanity Fair." Director: Jean-Michel Rabaté
Jonathan Passaro, "Reducing the Round Table: Visual and Textual Narrative Redaction in Medieval Arthurian Romance." Director: Emily Steiner
Renee Pristas, "The Colony of the Victorian Orphan: Imperial Buttress or Debilitating Other?" Director: Nancy Bentley
Neha Sharma, " 'Colonization in Reverse': Linguistic, Nationalist and Gender Discourse in Louis Bennett's Jamaica Labrish." Director: Stuart Curran
Joseph Titano, "'A Capital Fellow': Heathcliff and Emily Bronte's Social Criticism." Director: Sanjay Krishnan
Natalie Ward, "Iser's Aesthetic Response Theory Viewed in the Context of Collaborative Hyperfictions." Director: James English
2005
Andrew Amodeo, "Pagan Antiquity and Medieval Authorship"
Rachel Balik, "Sight for Sore Eyes: The Redemptive Powers of Genre as Art in The Winter's Tale"
Anne-Marie Bellshot, "Split Personality: Rebecca, Psycho, and Subverting the Feminine Gothic"
Ian Duncan, "Autobiography or Autrebiography: J. M. Coetzee's Memoirs"
Susanne Flood, "If I've Told You Once: Imitating Ovid in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis"
Sarah Herold, "Artistic Representations of Women in Middlemarch"
Aryn Klich, "Langland's Quest to Redefine Vernacular Authority in Piers Plowman"
Kent Lasnoski, "Measure for Measure: A Parable of Community"
Adam Levin, "An Exhibition of the Internal: The Effects of Perception on Consciousness in Henry James's The Ambassadors"
Rebecca Richman, "Critics and Fans: A Reception History of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings"
Willa Rohrer, "'Stinging Red, Smarting Pink': The Ethics of Representation in Nabokov's Lolita."
Danielle Savitsky, "'Terrible Beauty': Desire, Glamour, and the Aesthetics of Tuberculosis"
Amir Shachmurove, "The Great Truth of Old Ideas: The English Past in Pride and Prejudice, Sybil, and Daniel Deronda."
Tom Zylkin, "The 'Difficult' Text: The Sound and the Fury and the Failure of Language"
2004
Bindi Bhagat, "Marketing Fascism: Cultural Predispositions to Anti-Democratic Processes in 1930s America"
Robert Blum, "'Seeking Hopelessly to Fill the Void': Remedios Varo's Surrealism and Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49"
Johanna Busch, "Angel in the House, the Darwinian Female, and the New Woman: Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure, Models of Marriage, and the Irreconcilability of the Sexes"
Gregory Cooper, "Joyce and Picasso: Word, Image, and the Paradigm of Audience Perspective"
Ariel Djanikian, "Milan Kundera and the Epistemological Novel: An Essay on The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Immortality"
Katherine Fox, "The Laughing Antiquary: 'Tam O'Shanter' and Robert Burns's Antiquarian Trade"
Vivian Hsu, "Revolutionary Politics and Philosophical Skepticism in Shelley's Poetry and Prose"
Lynn Huang, "Between Manuscript and Print: George Gascoigne as the Professional Poet."
Christopher McCloskey, "Framing The Portrait of a Lady: Contexts of Revision"
Megan Scanlon, "Just Rewards for an Intimate Teacher: Explaining the Popularity and the Pedagogy of Erica Jong's Fear of Flying"
Megan Seah, "The Monk and the Burden of Virtue: Dissembling Vice"
Nancy Sun, "De Quincey Who 'Boasteth Himself to Be a Philosopher': Reinterpreting Coleridgean Ideals in the Confessions"
Eleanor Tai, "Twilight Sleep: Edith Wharton the Modernist"
Robert Tawse, "Milton Negotiates the Muse: Orpheus, the Hebrew Prophets, and the Miltonic Model"
Sara Zenreich, "'The language she told it in': Multivocality and Dialogization of Gender in Toni Morrison's Beloved"
2003
Matthew Blackstone, "Second-Hand Trauma: Why and How Non-Survivors Must Represent the Holocaust." Director: Herman Beavers
Julie Brown, "The Expressive Interior in Wallace Stevens's Poetry." Director: Susan Stewart
Nikki Cyter, "'The Hive Itself Does Speak': The Language of the Commonplace in Pastorius's Beehive Manuscript and Shakespeare'sHamlet." Director: Peter Stallybrass
Elizabeth Denburg, "Stowe's 'Anti-Patriarchal Operation': Negotiating Race and Gender in Uncle Tom's Cabin." Director: Eric Cheyfitz
Elizabeth Donaldson, "Janeites and Their Discontent." Director: John Richetti
Paul Flynn, "The Visual Novel: The Artistic Role of the Printed Text in Prose." Director: Erin O'Connor
Rachel Friedman, "Staging Silence: Re-Imagining the Women in Shakespeare's Othello." Director: Cary Mazer
Sharon Fulton, "Compilation as Containment." Director: David Wallace
Adam Gordon, "Reading in the Dark: Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym." Director: Joan Dayan
Caedmon Haas, "'What whiteness will you add to this whiteness / what candour?': Language and Paradise in the Pisan Cantos." Director: Susan Stewart
Blake Harrison, "Wandering in the Twilight of the Aura: Robert Walser and Walter Benjamin as Modernist Flaneurs." Director: Jean-Michel Rabaté
Leah Hooper, "'You're but a pun-y': Hegemony, Resistance, and Play in Joyce's Finnegans Wake." Director: Vicki Mahaffey
Melanie Kefalidis, "The Ideology of The Bell Jar: Mademoiselle, Mass Culture and Images of Women." Director: Rita Barnard
Marissa Miley, "Reconsidering Dickens and His Illustrious Affairs with Melodramatists and Realists." Director: Michael Gamer
Tristan Schweiger, "Samples of the Finest Orientalism: Byron the Anti-Imperialist." Director: Stuart Curran
2002
Suzy Berger, "Who is on the cover of this book?": Interpreting Othello in an Urban Classroom." Director: Jean Howard
Laura Sieh Chu, "An Infusion of Architecture: Renovating a Symbolic Reading of Chaucer's The Knight's Tale." Director: Emily Steiner
Akiva Fox, "'The Fruit of that Forbidden Tree': The Many Meanings of a Central Object of Paradise Lost." Director: Sean Keilen
Elizabeth Ketels, "Sanctifying American 'Individualism': Franklin's Autobiography in Emerson's 'Self-Reliance'." Director: Eric Cheyfitz
Sara Murphy, "A Poet's Progress: Bunyanesque Walking in Blake's Milton." Director: Daniel Traister
Yaran Noti, "Pieces of Poetry and Poetry in Pieces: A Print History of Spenser's Faerie Queene." Director: Peter Stallybrass
Afia Ofori-Mensa, "'A Way to Fly between Them': First-Generation American Literature and Identity. Director: Michael Awkward
Jonathan Petts, "Of Mentors and Malays: Thomas De Quincey and the Exorcism of Wordsworthian Aesthetics." Director: Susan Stewart
Rudy Ramirez, "Rock Stars! Celebrities! James Joyce!: Pop Novels and Ulysses." Director: Vicki Mahaffey
Brenner Thomas, "Arts and Letters: Epistolarity in Pamela." Director: Toni Bowers
Melissa Torres, "Communities without Boundaries: Redefining Language in Ulysses." Director: Vicki Mahaffey
Alex Wong, "Outside the Love Triangle: Empire, Aesthetics and Sexuality in the Novels of Willa Cather." Director: Max Cavitch
2001
Kate Alex, "The Conception of British Women's Literary Authority: Authorship, Motherhood, and the English Reformation." Director: Rita Copeland
Katherine Ambrogi, "Expressive Nations: Music in the National Tale." Director: Michael Gamer
Meghan Bilton, "DIDACTIC SENSATIONALISM: Evidence of Social Critique within Wilkie Collins' 1860s Fiction." Director: Erin O'Connor
Rachel Burton, "Unrealized Claims of a So-Called 'Revolutionary' Movement: An Examination of Robert Kendall's Hypertext Poetry." Director: Bob Perelman
Melissa Duclos, "The Black Mountain Poets: Individuals Forced into a School." Director: Al Filreis
Susanna Goldfinger, "Mining the Colonial Imagination: Desire and Possession in John Donne's Elegy 19." Director: Sean Keilen
Jack Guinn, "Visionary Perspectives from Errant Children." Director: Gregory Flaxman
Pamela Kuklinski, "Oppressed Race and Repressed Desires: The Homophobic Reception of James Baldwin." Director: Herman Beavers
Rumela Mitra, "Oscar Wilde: Life and Art as Intertwined Texts." Director: Erin O'Connor
Jasmine Park, "The Plastic Sublime: A Cultural History of the iMac." Director: Jean-Michel Rabaté
Elizabeth Radin, "To the Beat of a Different Drum: Reading the American Beat Generation through French Surrealism." Director: Bob Perelman
Robin Rolewicz, "Creating Identities: Criticism, Authorship, and the Nation in Novels." Director: Michael Gamer
Greg Steirer, "Cooper's __________: Narrating Absence in Safe." Director: Nancy Bentley
Elysa Voshell, "'Smile Please, Not Quite So Serious': Humor and Subversion in Jean Rhys's Good Morning, Midnight." Director: Max Cavitch
Kristen Webster, "'Dear Diary': The Defense and Affirmation of Identity in the Early Journals of Frances Burney and James Boswell." Director: John Richetti