This collection features the Senior Papers of the English Program. Papers include literary criticism, fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.
Submissions from 2025
Falling in Love, Falling Apart: The Intersection of Love and Tragedy in The Book Thief and Thirteen Reasons Why, Hannah Crowe
I AM: Power from Identity in “Revelation” and No Exit, Elisabeth Edwards
From Ruin to Reconstruction: Words Shaping Identity in Undertow and Uncultured, Hannah Harvey
DeForesting, Maren Olson
The Crisis of the Spotlight, Matthew Roach
Infestations Stored in a Jam Jar, Cara Young
Submissions from 2024
The Light and the Nothing: Escapism in Ready Player One and Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Katherine Bodkin
“Don’t Stop Believin’”: Dante’s and Christian’s Journey to Heaven, Austin Cochrane
To Do or Not to Do: Anne Elliot and Edith Hope’s Evolving Perceptions of Marriage in Persuasion and Hotel Du Lac, Jillian Cook
Reputation and Reality: Revelations of Monstrosity in Frankenstein and Six of Crows, Jordyn Fortuna
"Big Medicine, Strong Magic": Sacrament and Sacrilege in Till We Have Faces and The Wind in the Willows, Kayla Kovacs
The Holding On, Lydia Price
Evermore and Evermore: A Discussion of Spiritual Fulfillment as Found in Stoppard and Kerouac, Duncan Soughan
Submissions from 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 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
Sanctuary, Abigail G. Chandler
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
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
Submissions from 2020
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
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
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