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English Senior Capstone

This collection features the Senior Papers of the English Program. Papers include literary criticism, fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.

Submissions from 2023 2023

Adverse Childhood Experiences and Identity Achievement in the Lives of Pip and Heathcliff, Brianna Leigh Blosenski

Chart Study, Abigail Franklin

Insomniac - A Collection of Poetry, Fiction, and Creative Non-Fiction, Jason Abishekaraj John

"Everyone Learns, Nobody Changes": Images and the Ideal in Anna Karenina and Closer, Leah Kiers

The Pieces That Make the Self: Finding Balance Between Social and Individual Identity in Frances Burney’s Evelina and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, Jenna King

The Stories Already Written: An Intertextual Analysis of The Book Thief and Belonging, Jenna Kortenhoeven

Drawing Empathy: The Benefits of Utilizing Graphic Memoirs in Secondary Classrooms, Hailey Simmons

A Choice to Make: The Portrayal of Female Characters’ Agency and Emotion in Madeline Miller’s Circe and Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown, Abby Swartzentruber

Submissions from 2022 2022

Sanctuary, Abigail G. Chandler

Stories That Bark for Themselves: The Fall of a Rooster and a Princess from Pride to Repentant Humility as Depicted in The Book of the Dun Cow and The Light Princess, Ella Harris

The Effects of Trauma on Identity Formation: Pursuing and Obtaining Individual Freedom in Emerson’s Nature and Creech’s Chasing Redbird, McKenzie Hershberger

Gothic Determinism: The Interplay of Atavism and Hope in "The Old Nurse's Story" and "The Fall of the House of Usher", Madison Howland

From Renaissance to Robert: the Machiavellian Cycle of Life, Death, and Rebirth, Noah Huseman

The Paradox of Loss, Abby Pugsley

As the Angles, Joell Paul Russell

Grace, Grace, By the Side of the Road, Hannah Tienvieri

Note to Self: Don't Forget to Title Your Project!, Abby Wilson

Submissions from 2021 2021

“Nothing Much Happens”: the Process of Constructing Coherent Selves in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Laytham

Submissions from 2020 2020

Purple Paint, Kelly Abraham

Authenticity in Glimpses: Framing Art and Identity in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse and Zadie Smith’s Swing Time, Taylor Budzikowski

Learning or Not Learning to Overcome Trauma: Jane Eyre and A Farewell to Arms, Jessica Cutter

The End of Art is Peace: Memory, Witness, and Restorative Imagination in Anna Burns’s Milkman and the Poetry of Seamus Heaney, Sarah Davis

Seeking the Tomato: Encounters with Beauty in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and Zadie Smith's On Beauty, Jessica Dundas

Broadening the Feminist Ideal: Female Expression in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening and Kathryn Stockett’s The Help, Hannah Funk

Searching for Understanding: How Hamlet and Frankenstein Inform Humanity’s Response to Trauma, Jonathan Knippenberg

Metaphors of Mental Illness: How Emily Dickinson and Vincent van Gogh Understood and Expressed Their Personal Battles with Depression, Samantha Moss

The Adventures of Mousy and Jasper, James Schantz

Submissions from 2018 2018

Hometrees and Roleplaying: How Instability Affects "The Catcher in the Rye's" Holden and "The Flick's" Avery in Their Pursuit of Belonging, Caleb Hoelscher

Stories to the Remote Reader: Shaping Cultural Narratives in "Do Not Say We Have Nothing" and "Their Eyes Were Watching God", Hannah Perry

Wilderness, Kendra Smalley