2017
Creative
Cavender, John
19th Avenue
Faculty Advisor: Justin Torres
Green, Natalie
Lost Angeles
Faculty Advisor: Fred D’Aguiar
Vidal, Jessica
The Migratory Patterns of Marisol
Faculty Advisor: Mona Simpson
Williamson, Amanda
Canticles of Consent: Four Variations of Aarne-Thompson-Uther 425C
Faculty Advisor: Justin Torres
Wilson, Camille
The Team
Faculty Advisor: Justin Torres
Research
Amouzadeh, Nahal
Beyond Binaries: Exploring Diaspora and the Native Informant in Iranian-American Memoirs
Faculty Advisor: Ali Behdad
Juarez, Miriam
Affective Bodies: Remapping Language and the Chicana Subject in the Work of Myriam Gurba
Faculty Advisor: Marissa Lopez
Keen, Nina
Redressing God in the Poetry of Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath
Faculty Advisor: Christopher Mott
Lee, Rachael
Does Language Matter? The Ontological Turn in Contemporary American Fiction
Faculty Advisor: Mitchum Huehls
Lonsinger, Megan
Farm to Table to Confessional: Literary Gastronomy in Late Medieval England
Faculty Advisor: Matthew Fisher
Martinez, Jocelyn
Queer Resistance in Latin America: Deconstructing Postcolonial Social Norms through Queer Bodies and Erotic Desires in Alfonso Cuaron’s Y Tu Mama Tambien and Maurice Escheverria’s Labios
Faculty Advisor: Marissa Lopez
Murray, Emily
The Politicization of “Dead Silence”: Jane Austen and the Female Influence on Issues of Imperialism
Faculty Advisor: Sarah Kareem
Paek, Jasmine
Reimagining Immigrant Histories: Gender and Generational Conflicts in the Novels of Fae Myenne Ng and Maxine Hong Kingston
Faculty Advisor: Jinqu Ling
Panosian, Angelica
The Sounds of Violence in William Blake’s Literature
Faculty Advisor: Juan Sanchez
Pavell, Evan
The Ludonarrative: Defining the Structural Inseparability of Gameplay and Story in Video Games
Faculty Advisor: Brian Kim Stefans
Roche, Karina Anastasia
John Keats and the Poet as Spiritual Guide for the Modern Age
Faculty Advisor: Michael Cohen
Saedi, Navid
Optics in the Works of Joseph Conrad
Faculty Advisor: Jonathan Grossman
Samai, Jendi
“First-Gen” African: Examining Twenty First-Century Autobiographical Experiences of Sierra Leonean American Women in the United States
Faculty Advisor: Richard Yarborough
Seggman, Samuel
Setting the Land in Order: Descriptive and Prescriptive Allusions in The Waste Land
Faculty Advisor: Michael North
Sousa, Lauren
Joan Didion’s “The White Album” as a Search for a Truth
Faculty Advisor: Jeffrey Decker
Tamposi, William
Emersonianism Epitomized: Henry David Thoreau as the Quintessential “American Scholar”
Faculty Advisor: Christopher Looby
Tran, Ann
Seinfeld: A Show about Something
Faculty Advisor: Caroline Streeter
Wu, Elissa
Empowering Debasement: Freeing Agency from Neoliberal and Postfeminist Binds in 50 Shades of Grey
Faculty Advisor: Blake Allmendinger