2024
Magical Realism in Post-Colonial Narratives: Novel of the Nation, Isabella C. Amendola
Revolt Against Reality: The Lineage of Chivalric Romance, Chris M. Benincase
The Architect: Worldbuilding in the Works of Cormac McCarthy and China Miéville, Jack Ian DeAngelis
Hagiography (Theorem) of a Postmodern Saint: Reading Blessed Carlo Acutis Through St. Francis of Assisi, Martial C. Junceau
Makin' Whoopee: Creating Eddie Cantor on Screen, Zoe Grant Kaperonis
Crisis and Catharsis: Altered States of Consciousness in Andrei Bely's Novels, Sydney Elise LePlae
Blood Blossom: A Subversion of The Traditional Structure of Martial Arts Novels, Adrian Liu
How to Leave the World: A Translation of Comment sortir du monde by Maroune Bakhti, Georgia Nichoson
Cartas Revolucionarias, Maria Puente Flores
"The Fire and the Rose Are One": Pattern, Interpretation, and Self in T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets, Stella R. Scanlon
An Annotated Telling of the Misadventures of Shylock Jones, Negro Super Sleuth, Compiled, Redacted, and Edited by Kev Street, Kevon Cassis Street
Dionysus in Salem: Crisis and Vitality in Contemporary Theatrical Performance, Benjamin Stroman
The Saga of Aslaug Sigurdsdottir or The Saga of the Volsungs Retold, Benicio E.M. Taggart
2023
The End of Everything: The Physical and Figurative Impacts of Landscape on American Ideology, Wyatt Alger
The Modern Golem: The Jewish Imaginary, Emma Galley
Poetics of Finitude: Time and Death in the Poetry of R.M. Rilke and T.S. Eliot, Isabel James Greene
"Dream Police": Political Imagination in William Burroughs' Naked Lunch, Ethan JG Haapala
The Blank Badge and the Batsymbol: Modes of Reading in the Comics of Grant Morrison, Jacob Owa Hughes
“Cendre toujours inachevée”: An Investigation of René Char’s Poetics during The French Resistance, Heyao Liu
From Orwell to Lowry: Why YA Was the Best Thing to Happen to Dystopia, Payton Joy Miller
Death by Delusion: Representations of Mental Illness in Gogol, Dostoevsky, and Nabokov, Bryan Reed
Renaissance Self-Destruction: The Virtue and Danger of Chess in European Literature, Kaleth Marcus Torrens-Martin
Some Like it Dark: Haunting Visions of Modernity in Contemporary American Fiction, Amelie Torres
2022
Time, History and the Folk: Miguel de Cervantes, Virginia Woolf and Aimé Césaire, Layl Nezar Andary
Disrupted Description in Mary Barton: Subverting Social Conscience, Jasmine Sarabeth Sultan Baker
Theophila, Theophila Mathilda Barickman
The Representations of Parental Relationships in Zoraida Córdova's Novel: The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina, Leslie Aurora Calle
Land, Language, and Liberation: The Politics of Ainu Self-Representations, Kevin James Cohen
Zola's Vampires, Elizabeth Anastacia DeGeorge
American Bucolic: The American Farmer in Three Works, Celeste J. Flahaven
About-fiction, Beyond-fiction, and After-fiction, Nicholas Miaoulis
After the Curtain Call: Reading Theatricality in Contemporary Fiction, Laila Rose Perlman
Delany's Heterotopia, Alexandra Piirimae
A Wee Bit Further over There: An Exploration into Offensive Comedy, John J. Reisert
The Innocence of the Collector: Orhan Pamuk and the Theory of Archival Memory, Eddie Rosato-Johnson
Between Space and Time: Conceptualizing Memory in the Archival Novel, Samantha Nicole Schwartz
Where Are You Mama?: The Role of Motherhood in the Victorian Novel, Sophia Mary Tighe
The Other Side of Silence: The Productive Limits of Human Awareness and the Novel, Aven Elaina Williams
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