2021
A Poet, A Teacher: Standing Still with Mary Oliver, Melissa Therese Benedek
Poetic Piety: John Winthrop, Anne Bradstreet, and the Puritan writer’s internal errand, Amelia Kathleen David
Two Novels & Two Character Studies: Cassandra by Christa Wolf and Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson, Emma K. Johnston
Bildung as Cult: Education through Secret Societies in German Literature, Henry Charles Smith Levin
Black Boys, Native Sons, Rufus Scotts, and Sulas: An Exploration of Literary Dissent, Shirley Merino
Videncia y evidencia en la literatura española contemporánea. El pensamiento de la fotografía según Isabel Cadenas Cañón y Miguel Ángel Hernández., Johan V. Orellana
Beyond Empathy: Examining the Emerging Field of Literature and Human Rights, Cassidy Jane Polga
The Auteur as Adapter: From Literature to Film in Rossellini, Godard, and Pasolini, Sundar s. Pratt
Moral Systems in Nabokov's Fiction: Commentaries on Two Short Stories, Benjamin Yung Nathaniel Shaw
Alphabetic Poetics: Between Joyce and Nabokov, Jacob Béla Szepessy
In Search of Time Regained: Temporality in Goncharov’s Oblomov, Walker James White
Writing: Proust, Nabokov, Xindi Zhang
2020
Untouchable Fullness: Male Friendship in the novels of Willa Cather and D.H. Lawrence, Caleb D. Ackley
The Gospel According to Andrei: Biblical Narrative in the Films of Andrei Tarkovsky, Aurora J. Amidon
A Pinch More Diversity: Langston Hughes and The Literary Canon, Olivia Hart Berlin
Discourses of Italianita in Italian-American Literature, Gabriel F. Braunstein
Penman Contra Patriarch: Reimagining the Central Conflict of Joyce's Finnegans Wake, Gabriel Beauregard Egset
“How difficult not to go making ‘reality’ this and that”: Virginia Woolf’s Record of Representation, Julia E. Eifert
Floral Personification in James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Noah Z. Gichan
Chaucer's Critique of Romance: Anelida and Arcite, Troilus and Criseyde, and The "Knight's Tale", Vivian (Yuwei) Han
Diversifying Children’s Literature by the Retelling of Folk Tradition and Orality in Afro-Caribbean Stories, Anthony Henry
Waves Upon the Sea: Accident and In Search of Lost Time, Ethan Hosta
How to Be an Artist: An Investigation in Dialogue with Rainer Maria Rilke and Virginia Woolf, Amber Nicole Junker
A Lust for Land: An Exploration of Environmental Creation, Destruction, and Institutional Power in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Miranda Kerrigan
Scattered Forms: Affect and Critical Writing, Sam Kiley
Chrysalis, Gillian Pae Lazarus
The Game at the Green Chapel: A Game-Oriented Perspective on Chivalry in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Joshua David Maldonado
Narrative Control in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, Liam Ainslie Mayo
"Yells of Life in Constant Change": The Sonorous Criticism of Amiri Baraka, Jack Luis McKeon
Der Ort des Gedichts / Eine Reise in die »Winterantwort«: Eine Lektüre der Poetik Ilse Aichingers, April Fionn Perin Wogenburg
Despite the Blues: Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison’s Blues Based Works, Miranda Virginia Reale
"She believes she is herself, which isn't complete madness:" Becoming the Female Subject through Womanhood as Relation, Isabel Rudner
“A Palace on a Mountaintop”: Building Isaac Bashevis Singer’s House of Justice, Mia Rachel Schiffer
At the Border: Examining Identity in Peter Schneider’s The Wall Jumper and Eva Hoffman’s Lost in Translation, Alexandra Lilliana Willcox
Eternity in Art: The Embodiment and Transcendence of Time in Proust and Messiaen, Yichun Wu
2019
Inside the Fault Lines of the Heart: The Poetics of Exile in the works of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, and Etel Adnan., Shahong Jeanou Billault-lee
Edo in the Manga World: Appare Jipangu! and Early Modern Japanese Literature, Parker Christian Cassidy
Becoming Ourselves: Black Women’s Autobiographical Interrogation of Tropes of Identity, Christina L. Duncan
"Does Victory in This Clash Mean So Much to You?" : Translating Power in Three Plays of Aeschylus, Stephen Patrick Dwyer
Tourette's Syndrome: A Study in Psychopoetics, Abe Etkin
Crickets Chirping Hallelujah: Mystery and Everyday Life in the Short Stories of Chekhov and O'Connor, Preston Donald Fulks
Textuality and Historical Crisis in John Edgar Wideman's Philadelphia Fire, Zelda Mazor-Freedman
Speak: An Examination of Literacy in The Digital Age, Michael A. Monaghan
The Dimensions of Miracle: An Ethics of Mediation in Simone Weil, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Virginia Woolf, Collin (Lin) Michael Pritchard
A Return to the Region: Reconstructing the Past in Jewett, Cather, and Hurston (1896-1935), Anna L. Russian
For Those Things Housed in Memory: Temporality, Preservation, and the Relationship Between Object and Memory In Mariiynne Robinson's Housekeeping and Gilead, Adriana Tampasis
Camera Obscura: Exposing, Framing, and Staging the Implicit Politics of Christopher Isherwood and the Various Adaptations of his Work, Melina Drake Young
Chutes and Ladders: John Ashbery's Poetics as Experience, Alexander Ibo Zondervan
2018
On Frank Stanford's "Battlefield", Clara Brigid Allison
Rebuilding Stories: The Lost Metropolis of Zora Neale Hurston, a Literary Architect, Madisen Faye Anderson
Word as Bond: Rhetoric and Performativity in Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, Stephen Appel
Love, Kissed into Verse: Swinburne, Tennyson, and the Failure of Love in Consummation Versus the Triumph of Love Through Time in Poetry, Julia E. Berry
To Play a Game, Jackson A. Blau
Delineate the Spiritual: An Examination of Metaphysics in the Works of Donne, Herbert, and Milton, Zhuobin Chen
Questions for Alejandra Pizarnik, Jessica Dagg
After the Age of Innocence: Reclaiming Edith Wharton's Satirist Status, Jeffrey Smith Daugherty
Seeing Double: A Hermeneutics of the Window and the Written Oeuvre in Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, Julian Dime
Captive/Obsessive: Invention and Desire in "Crazy For Vincent", Walker Patrick Douglass
The More Loving One: W.H. Auden on Love, Matthew Tyler Fallon
The Architecture of Confinement: An Exploration of Spatial Boundaries in Wright, Poe, and Foucault, Samantha Feig
"Mirrors Can Only Lie:" The Search for Masked Self-Knowledge in the Work of James Baldwin, Chloe Zeff Fields
W.G. Sebald: On a Cliff's Edge, Joseph W. Finnie
Securing Nature's Blessing: God's Eternal Role in American Constitutional Law, Austin Gent
"Time is Surely Passing" Progress and Decline Toward An Inevitable End in Murakami Haruki's Trilogy of the Rat, Madison C. Grubb
A Great Negative Work of Destruction: 20th Century Avant Garde and the Reimagination of Novelty, Alexander V. Hall
South Side, World Wide: The Fusion of History and Literature in Richard Wright and James T. Farrell's Chicago, Malachi Zachary Hayes
William Wells Brown; or the Spook Who Sat by the Cabin Door From Black Ex-slave Narratives to White Abolitionist Fiction: Understanding the First African American Novel and Its Origins, Elijah Coleman Jackson
Latticework: Forms of Relation in Critical Materialist Theory, Natalie Kay Janes
Parfois Le Hasard Fait Bien Les Choses: The Biography of Justus Rosenberg, Vikramaditya H. Joshi
Guillotine Rubies and Weighted Tortoise Shells: An Exploration of Uncanny and Grotesque Aesthetics, Anne Sasha Lutwak-Schneider
Crossing the Border into Poetry: Documenting the Undocumented and the Trauma of Migration in Javier Zamora’s "Unaccompanied", Chloe Ruth Reimann
Floral Images and Emotions in Classical, Medieval, Western and Eastern Texts, Karin Hanna Roslund
The Conspiracy of Silence: Power and Betrayal in Pinter, Chekhov, and Shakespeare, Natalya Sands
Jack Kerouac and the Ecstasy of Longing: The Journey of the Embodied Word, Esme Savage
Limited Absolutes: A Study of "War and Peace" and the Pluralizing Experience, Sophia Melora Scanlon
I'd Rather See You Dead at My Feet: Familial Failure in "The Well of Loneliness" and "The Paying Guests", Zoe Trudel Terhune
Agony and Ajax: Investigations into Divinity in Antiquity, Jane E. Vick
Hansel and Gretel on the Page and Stage: Literary and Operatic Adaptations of Grimm’s Fairy-Tale, Meilin Wei
Nation, Self, and Foreign Space: Exploring the Expatriation of James Baldwin, Henry James, and Edith Wharton, Emily Monroe Weisman
"Becoming" David Foster Wallace: Media, Metafiction, and Miscommunication, Gordon Hugh Willis IV
The Perfect Illusion: Complicated Beauty and the Challenge of Interpreting Nabokov's "Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle", Hugh Zimmerbaum
2017
“Shutting Her Up:” An Exploration of the Madwoman and the Madhouse in Victorian Literature, Savannah Jane Bachman
Transformations & Light Bloom, Natasha Killaura Boyd
Little Creatures: Samuel Beckett and the Language of The Unnamable, Adam Daniel Brown
Echoes of the Written Word: On the Difficulties of Memory and Belonging in W.G. Sebald's "Die Ringe des Saturn", Kaitlynn Theresa Buchbaum
"It's [Not] Only Lines On Paper, Folks!": The Curious Literary Identity of the Graphic Novel, Oona Blood Cullen
Together We’ll Make Magic: Exploring the Relationship Between Empathy and Literature Using Ruth Ozeki’s “A Tale for the Time Being”, Janet Lindsay DiNozzi-Houser
Stopped Before Beauty: Meditations on the Closed Door, Hannah Celia Harwell Fassett
“Led by the nose”: An Examination of Mythic, Political, and Personal Transformations in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats, Sophie Cornelia Gallant Green
Genevieve’s Light, Albertine’s Shadows; Apparitions in Marcel Proust’s 'In Search of Lost Time', Augusta Beatrice Hood
The Folks on the Hill, Cecilia Emily Kaplan
All the World's Ashamed, Peter David Lane
"Light Silence Dark Speech": Samuel Beckett, Jasper Johns, and the Image-Text Distinction, Isabella Rose Leung
The Library in Literature, Hannah Madelene Richter Livant
The Endless Tragedy: Euripides and Camus, Robert Ian McMahon
"A Child in Whom Death Dances Exultantly:" Scenes of Melancholia in Elias Khoury's Gate of the Sun, Alana May Pagano
The Language of Dystopia, Sidney Woodson Peery
Sister, Mother, Daughter, Friend: An analysis of Solidarity and Womanhood in Tracy Brown's "White Lines", Latika Juanita Price
Ideological Infection in Dostoevsky's "Demons", Sam Joshua Reed