University of Chicago

Past MAPH Thesis Titles

Class of 2006 Thesis Titles

Adrienne Alton-Gust
Electronic Tango: De-construction/(R)e-construction of a Dance Music
Debbi Antebi
Sympathy for Isabel: Subjectivity and the Drama of Affect in
Diana Aramburu
El seductor versus el seducido: El desdoblamiento de Don Juan Tenorio en la obra de Zorrilla
Russell Backman
Not Just “The Old In and Out”: Reformulating Theories of Desire in
Abir Bashir Bazaz
Muslim Futures, Muslim Pasts in Mughal-e-Azam (1960)
Brian Becker
Folk-Modernism: Intersection and Overlap in Sherwood Anderson and Jean Toomer
Ira Bedzow
An Old Look at Identity in the Talmud
Amanda Bell
Losing One “Self” in Technology: Abjection in Lynn Hershman Leeson’s and Seduction of a Cyborg
Courtney Berne
CREATIVE THESIS: Choice: A Play
Rashida Black
American Anomalies: Race and Integration in 19th-Century Orchestras
Laura Browning
CREATIVE THESIS: Beholder and Beheld: Essays from the Space Between
Dustin Brown
The Displaced Parson: and the Impossibility of Male Homosocial Desire
Katherine Brumage
Society and Eugenic Superwoman: Rejuvenation Theory and Eugenics Discourse in Gertrude Atherton’s
Kelly Cardin
CREATIVE THESIS: Before or After the Zygote
Vanessa Chang
Records that Play: The Present Past in Sampling Practice Recipient of the Catherine Ham Memorial Award for Excellence
Sarah Coffey
CREATIVE THESIS: Scrap Book: Three Short Stories Recipient of the Catherine Ham Memorial Award for Excellence
Anne Condron
Stringing the Harp: Yeats, Cuchulain, and Irish Literary Identity
Monica Crews
Kings, Heroes and Lions: The Akkadian Heroic Past in the Old Babylonian Literary Tradition
Jessica Dickman
CREATIVE THESIS: Yellow Peg: A Collection of Travel Essays
Lindsay Dold
Affective Apotheosis and Rethinking Frank Capra
Jennifer Downer
The Location of Virtue: Sexuality as an Abstract Conceit in Milton’s Comus
Joseph Drogos
CREATIVE THESIS: Harum-Scarum in the City: A New Prose Poem for Chicago
Matthew Eatough
Ironic Landscapes: “Sustainable Development” and the Representation of Land in Nadine Gordimer’s Post-Apartheid Short Fiction
Erin Evans
The Knotted Vision of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Sarah Adair Frank
CREATIVE THESIS: Tarpaulin
Erin Fowler
László Moholy-Nagy: A Constructivist Approach to Design in Chicago
Bradley Gardner
An Image Unburdened by the Irreversibility of Time: The Temporality of Bazinian Realism
Genevieve Generaux
Margaret of Anjou and Malory’s Gwenyver: Late Fifteenth Century Queens, Their Bodies and Their Bodies’ Readers
Penny Geng
Liminality and Antitheatrical Polemics: Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night
Christopher David Gontar
Cognitive Shift and the Forms of the Humor Process
Hallie Gordon
CREATIVE THESIS: Dry Lightning
Annie Gotaas
“That Pebble’s Watery Echo”: Navigating Providence in Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!
Mario Grimm
Norms and Conventions in Speech Acts
John Hain
Can the Ability Hypothesis Be Refuted?
Adrian Hall
Versions of the Self: Lyric Subjectivity in the Poetic Vision of John N. Morris
Christopher Hemann
CREATIVE THESIS: Voices for Granite
Jodi Henderson
In the Shadow of the Eiffel Tower: at the Louvre
Kyle C. Henderson
Peter Mayle's A Year In Provence: Mediated Authenticity / Idealized Nostalgia
Jonathan Hertzberg
Taking the Mythical Western Frontier to the Streets: Disguised Westerns Par Excellence
Geoffrey Hilsabeck
CREATIVE THESIS: Bellwether: Poems, and Intimacy: A Manifesto
James Hodapp
Loosening the Manichean Binary: The Ambivalent Colonizer in Orwell’s
Daniel Holbrook
Theorizing the Diary Weblog
Amy Hondo
Too Many Hands: Getting a Grip on Collective Responsibility Recipient of the Catherine Ham Memorial Award for Excellence
Laura Kabel
“Neither Jam, Nor Jelly”: A Rethinking of Rahel and Estha’s Evasion of Classification in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things
Sarah Kaiser
Orlan: Satirical Mimicry
Sarah Kaliski-Roll
Sir Edmund Beckett’s “False Front”: Restoration and Memory at St. Albans Cathedral
Andrew Kazakes
What Is It Like to Be Another Person?
Katherine Kim
Burying the Future: Psychological Pressure, Societal Obligation, and the Folklore Tradition in Hawthorne’s “Roger Malvin’s Burial”
Laura Kolb
Prospero’s Collection: Compromised Wonder and the Theater of Conscience Recipient of the Catherine Ham Memorial Award for Excellence
Rebecca Kosick
Interpreting Vallejo: Three English Translations of Cesar Vallejo’s Poem XLV
Mary Krones
Artificial Nature: Female Fashion and the Victorian Family in Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White
Melissa Leighty
“Unveiled, Barefaced”: Revealing Post-Colonial Female Identity in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight's Children
Yaara Leve
CREATIVE THESIS: Breaking Light: A Collection of Poems
Jemma Alik Levy
"Let Proof Speak" Evidence and Truth in Sakespeare's Cymbeline
Natalie Lubke
Beauty Pageants in Puerto Rico
Kathleen Luttschyn
A Noun Alone, A Verb Uttered: The Phenomenology of Dialogue in Paul Bowles’s
Laura May
The Importance of Witch in Defining Gender Roles in The Chronicles of Narnia
Thomas McGraw
Abstracting the Imagination of Robert Frost: Poetry and Pragmatism in Mountain Interval
Kristi McGuire
“Saying over” “& over” “Invent the world”: The Parallax Position of a Stripper’s Finger, or The Descent of Allette: Beside a Queer Poetics
Renee Melton
The Aesthetics of Microscopic Vision: The Use of Science in the Works of Salvador Dali, 1927-1930
Eric Neagu
An Unlikely Alliance: Interpreting the Evangelical Christian Support for Kathryn Owens “Between Two Worlds”: From Georgian to Modernist Context in the Poetry and Writings of Edmund Blunden
Abraham Orden
A New Medium and its History
Gregory Ott
CREATIVE THESIS: Fit Recipient of the Catherine Ham Memorial Award for Excellence
Seth Perlow
The Other Harmonium: Toward a Minor Stevens
Alix Purcell
The War of Words in the War of the Roses: The Struggle over Language in Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of King Richard III
Kari Quammen
“The Time Already Cursed”: Intersections of Temporality, History, and Miscegenation in William Faulkner’s
Kathryn Rahn
From Mass Criticism to Critical Acclaim: Robert Rauschenberg and the Museum of Modern Art
Jeffrey Redfern
Patrick O’Brian and Jane Austen’s Imperial Ghosts
Ezekiel Reich
Are Reasons in the Head? Modifying Jonathan Dancy's Argument Against Psychologism
Eric Reitz
Two Problems in Neo-Aristotelian Ethical Naturalism
Meghan Rosing
“A place of which I never took the measure”: and the Structure of Home
Kristina M. Rosser
The Philosophy of Rhetoric Understood as a Genuine Platonic Techne in Plato's Gorgias and Phaedrus
Paul Samuelson
All We Are is Less Than Zero: Schizoanalysis vs. Psychoanalysis in the Work of Bret Easton Ellis
Jessica Sandy
Music and Religious Politics in the Court of Queen Elizabeth
Martin Schwartz
A Translation of Rene Pollesch’s (2000), with a Critical Introduction
Lindsey Scott
“The baseless fabric of this vision”: Dispelling Renaissance Utopian Fantasies in Shakespeare’s
Joel Seeger
Wanting Dead or Alive: Romero’s Zombies as Symptom
Casandra Silva Sibilin
Rousseau’s New Conception of Freedom: From Natural Constraints in the State of Nature to the Dichotomy of Political Freedom in Society
Jill Sklansky
Installing Identity: Art and Consumerism in Ikea Display
Corey Sparks
The Uncomfortable Example: Confrontation, Confession, and Mutual Obligation in
David Sundby
The Role of Imagination in Moral Deliberation
Rebecca Sundin
Cleaning House: Moral and Physical Patterns of Organization in
Bernard Swanson
Stones Fired From Slings Do Not Have Freedom: Using the Concept of Adequate Knowledge to Demarcate the Boundary Between Internal and External Causes in Spinoza’s Ethics
Lisa Swarbrick
Getting the Message Across: A Look at the Potential of the Still Image as a Medium in Conveying Anthropological Knowledge
Timothy Thomas
Both Servant and Sahib: Identity in Rudyard Kipling’s Kim
Jonathan Thompson
It’s like nothing where you live. And like nothing what you imagine: Constructing Simulated Environments on Television
Isadora Wagner
CREATIVE THESIS: Between Lands
Kristen Wahl
Being Elitist and Egalitarian: Managing Inconsistent Identities in Chicago Art Museums
Julie Anna Welcher
Breaking Boundaries with Glass: Art vs. Craft, Glass as a Sculptural Medium, and Dale Chihuly
Eugenia Williamson
The Corrections and the Space of Serious Fiction
Todd Witcher
The Liminal Airport
Junko Yamazaki
Modernism Interwoven: Self-Reflexive Play in Dragnet Girl Japanese Girls at the Harbor
Kelly Yang
Violent Resolutions: Reconciling Multiple Subject Domains in Maxine Hong Kingston’s
Monica Zabrouski
Rediscovered Ireland: Excavating the Irish Home in the Plays of Brian Friel
Alexandra Zirkle
Providence and Particularlity: Mendelssohn’s Writings on History and Modern Jewish Historiography

Class of 2005 Thesis Titles

Shifra Adler
Eros and Impasse in Plato’s Symposium
Elizabeth Andrews
Performance, Desire, and Self-Consciousness in the Dream Ballets of Vincente Minnelli
Stephen Ankenbauer
Charles Bukowski: Slouching Toward a New Poetics of the Ordinary
Gianna Barbera
Repudiating Commodified Feminine Bodies in Jessica Hagedorn’s Dogeaters: Working toward Political Agency
Cory Becker
Points of Suspension: Identity and Alterity in George Perec’s W or the Memory of Childhood
James Brasuell
The Development of Non-Partisan Political Poetry: The Correspondence of Ed Dorn and LeRoi Jones and The Letters of Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov
Benjamin Brewer
Vortex Paris: Spaces of Circulation in Lewis’s Tarr
Katherine Brideau
Victimhood, Space, and the Power of Posters in Northern Ireland
Dustin Brown
The Displaced Parson: Joseph Andrews and the Impossibility of Male Homosocial Desire Recipient of the Catherine Ham Memorial Award for Excellence
William Brown
“Man’s Search for Identity”? Busby Berkeley’s Ambivalent Mass Ornaments
Joel Calahan
“Hands, heart, not value made us”: The Translation of Labor and the Labor of Translation in Zukofsky’s “A”-9
Janina (Nina) Cartier
Super Soul Sista: A Critical Exploration of Blaxploitation Heroines
Tim Cassedy
Squeeze, Cassock, Try-Works: Synthesizing Melville’s Triptych
Aisha Chaudhri
Boundaries of Subaltern Womanhood: Heroine or Victim
Gabriel Check
The New Mission of Special Operation Forces in Post-9/11 America
Mehnaz Choudhury
“ Have You a Man’s Heart Within Your Bosom?” Sentimental Gothic and Masculine Feeling in The Quaker City Or, the Monks of Monk Hall
Colleen Coyne
CREATIVE THESIS: Early Exits: A Creative and Critical Approach to Loss, Landscape, and Language
Shaun Cullen
Plots Against America: The Conspiracy of Fahrenheit 9/11 and The Manchurian Candidate
Andrew Dicus
“A Speaking Sight”: The Subject and A Journal of the Plague Year
Terrence Doherty
Outside Truth and Life: Intrahistoria in Unamuno’s San Manuel Bueno, mártir
Timothy Donahue
“The boy came back”: Cosmopolitanism and Social Criticism in Langston Hughes’s “Home”
Malcah Effron
Detecting Individual Responsibility after World War I: Reading the Wimsey Series and the Tietjens Tetralogy as Progressive Texts
Rachel Frank
The Kingdom of This World: The Political Currency of lo Real Maravilloso
Michael Frechette
Negotiating Selfhood in John Updike’s Rabbit, Run
Jonathan Friedlander
CREATIVE THESIS: Paintings for the Office and the Home, 2004-2005
Erika Fritz
Nihilism or Belief: Ambiguity in Don DeLillo’s White Noise
Tiffany Funk
“The Narrative Lurking in the Shadows”: The Phantasmagoric Meta-timeline of Tony Oursler’s The Influence Machine
Caleb Furnas
Learning from Lyrical Ballads: Making a Habit of “Simon Lee”
Jenny Gavacs
CREATIVE THESIS: Automaton
Amy Gentry
Affect and Affectation: Toward an Ethics of Representation in Late James Recipient of the Catherine Ham Memorial Award for Excellence
Hallie Gordon
CREATIVE THESIS: Dry Lightning: A Play in Three Acts
Philip Graham
All the King’s Women: Nefertiti, Meritaten, and Kiya at the End of the Armana Period
Braden Grams
Charlotte Dacre’s Zofloya and the Defining of Feminine Subjectivity: Social Critique and Forbidden Pleasure
Stephen Grillos
Questions of Orthodoxy: The Transi Tomb of Bishop Richard Fleming
Katherine Haenschen
Delayed Gratification: Revealing the Structure of Desire Production in Hollywood Cinema
Erin Hamilton
Creating Fictions: Surviving the Language of War in Elizabeth Bowen’s The Heat of the Day
Michael Harding
“He Was a Commonwealth”: Quentin Compson and the Decline of Communal Storytelling in William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!
Melissa (Missy) Harrel
Gender, Narrative Voice, and Unreconcilable Space in Chaim Potok’s Davita’s Harp
Theodore Harwood
Jacques Tati’s Play with Cinema, the Filmgoer, and the Modern Urban Space
Kathryn Heidemann
Björk and Cunningham’s “All is full of love”: Expanding Music Video Analysis, from Music Analysis to Posthuman Queries
Katarzyna Januszkiewicz
Children of Ixion: Understanding Representations of Centaurs in 5th Century B.C. Greek Architectural Sculpture
Kirstin Jensen
Religious Poets and the Confidence of Vocation
Paul Klumpe
Hume on the Intentionality of the Passions
Morgan Kroll
Private Thoughts Made Public: Diaries, the Internet, and the Writing of Sexuality
Sara Leonard
“He’s My Country”: Queer Historiography, Nationalism, and Sacrifice in Jamie O’Neill’s At Swim, Two Boys
Colin Leslie
The Political Ramifications of Pathos in Aristotle’s Rhetoric
Vicky Yi-Chun Lin
A Women’s Renaissance: Elizabeth Cary’s Alternative Form of Femininity in The Tragedy of Mariam
Christopher Lind
The Scythe’s Swath: Marvell’s Mowers and the Creation of Poetic Identity
Sarah Lindemann
Hume on the Pleasures of Tragedy
Damian Long
“What the Eye Arranges”: Kinetic Art in Sunday in the Park with George
Margaret Love
Words Speaking Themselves: Aligning Glissant’s Theory of Metissage to Creole and Language in Alejo Carpentier’s El reino de este mundo
Adam Lubin
A Critical Examination of Pogge’s International Account of Human Rights
Alison Macdonald
CREATIVE THESIS: A Safe Place
Caitlin Martin
Lost in Place: The Affects of Space and Rupture on Identity-Formation in Edward P. Jones’ “Lost in the City”
Suzanne Martindale
The Decline of Nomos in the Presence of Camp Space: On Schmitt’s Concrete Spatial Order and International Law
Eric Martinez
The Poem of Poems: Thinking Through a Representation of the Origin of Lyric Subjectivity
Richard Matthes
“My girl’s an Indian”: Citizenship and Cultural Identity in Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine
Kellie McCoy
The Voice of Sympathy in George Eliot’s Middlemarch
Adam McGrath
The Self as Constructed by Memory in Vladimir Nabokov’s Speak, Memory
Julie Miesionczek
CREATIVE THESIS: Looking Good Alone: A Work of Creative Self-Awareness
Lindsay Mitchell
CREATIVE THESIS: What Isn’t Here: Short Stories
Matthew Nesvet
Rogues, Fools, and Fanatics: Rousseau, Enlightenment Politics, and the Aesthetic Republic
Ellen Nickell
Measuring Silences in Sara Suleri’s Meatless Days
Carol Park
The (Dis)Comforting Subject: Identity and Essentialization in Nora Okja Keller’s Comfort Woman
Katherine Parrick
Would Sabina Have Shat in Her Bowler Hat? Questioning the Self in Postmodernity
Lynda Paul
Music as Transformative Force: Spectacle as Absorption in Cirque du Soleil Recipient of the Catherine Ham Memorial Award for Excellence
Laura Powell
Power to the Patriarchy?: The Narrator’s Mired Mirror and the Socially Subversive Imagination in Adam Bede
Charles (Chuck) Robinson
“Those old times and those dead and vanished men”: Isaac McCaslin, (his) History, and (his) Parents in Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses
Brook Rosini
Reflexive Skepticism: The History and Structure of Black Humor
Katie Scott
Overcoming Otherness: Susan Howe and the Work of Memorial Ekphrasis
Amy Shapiro
“A Reality That Was Worse Than My Darkest Dreams”: The Transmission of Memory in Spiegelman, Chabon, and Sebald
Jennifer Shook
CREATIVE THESIS: Silva: A Performance Collage
Li Noi Melissa Sim
Macbeth, Throne of Blood and Triangular Composition
Joseph Slowik
The Negative Duties of “Positive” Rights: Securing Economic Rights against Theoretical Critique
Michael Slowik
Love, Community and the Outside World: The Visualization of Utopian Space in the Films of Frank Borzage
Benjamin Smith
Decentralization and Reconquest: The Spatial Dimension of Rimbaud’s Commune Poetry
Meredith Smith
“America’s Finest News Source” and “The Most Trusted Name in Fake News”: Responsible Citizenship and Political Pedagogy in Mock-Journalism
Jeremy Sosenko
CREATIVE THESIS: Elizabeth
McKenzie Sweeney
Plying the Keys: Art and Violence in Robert Pinsky’s “Keyboard”
Margeaux Temeltas
Becoming Unlatched: Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red and the Poetics of Illegibility
Dawn Terry
The Radical Implications of Discursive Control in Pettit’s Theory of Freedom
Heather Thompson
Victoria Ocampo and Gabriela Mistral in Their Letters: The Paradox of Travel in Imagining América
Allison Thresher
Between the Ideal and the Unruly: Playboy, Ideology and Irishness
Rafael Torch
CREATIVE THESIS: The Garcia BoyRecipient of the Catherine Ham Memorial Award for Excellence
Emina Tuzlak
Reading for Life: Dialogism and Ethics in Flannery O’Connor’s “The Displaced Person”
Bridget Vincent
Modelling Social Change in W. B. Yeats
Wayne Wagner
Translating Yi’s Nationalist Poem: An Analysis of Translation’s Benefits, Shortcomings, and Its Relationship to Translation Criticism
Melissa (Brooke) Waller
Love Makes You Do the Wacky: On Buffy the Vampire Slayer Fan Culture, and a Defense of Buffy Scholarship
Amy Walsh
Style, Subject, Age, and Forgery in Van Meergeren’s Vermeers and the Getty Kouros
Liwei (Lee) Wang
Serial Thriller: The Reception of Seriality, Repetition, and Temporality in Alias
Sarah Wasserman
“Open and Wounded”: The Poetics and Politics of Wounding in Gayl Jones’s Corregidora and Toni Morrison’s Beloved
Ryan Watson
Reconstucting American Masculinity: Vietnam Soldiers and National Inspiration
Marc Whitman
“When we’re finished with it, let them have it”: Jamband Tape-Trading Culture
Jennifer Woods
Where History Meets Heritage: Conceptions of the Nation in the Daughters of the American Revolution and the United Daughters of the Confederacy

Class of 2004 Thesis Titles

Peter Adams
Ghetto Dreams: Representing Space, Race and Mobility in the Postwar Urban North
Anne Anderson (Leone)
Queen: A Modern Fairy Tale (Creative Thesis)
Laura Andersen
Propriety and Sympathy: Terms of Ironic Narration in Sense and Sensibility and Adam Bede
Renate Anderson
Invisible Made Visible: Perspective & Iconography in Albrecht Dürer’s St. Jerome in His Study, 1514
Kevin Anzzolin
Espectros en el Ensanche: urbanismo y utopía en Nada de Carmen Laforet
Sara Appino
The (Mis)interpreting Self and the Horizon of Authenticity in Tolstoy’s War and Peace
Thomas “Tom” Bailey
namesake: a documentary (Creative Thesis) Recipient of the Catherine Ham Memorial Award for Excellence
Sarah Bellamy
Sexy Beasts: Race, Sex, and Violence in the Eighteenth Century French Empire
Charles (Rich) Booher
Blackburn's Criticisms of McDowell's Account of the Reality of Value
Andrea Bozeman
Crusoe's Anticipated Encounter: Language and Cannibalism in Defoe's Robinson Crusoe
Denise Bracken
Two Shades of Blue in Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Blue: Semiotic and Beyond
Joshua Brody
Stardust Memories: Nostalgia and the Everyday in Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love
Aaron Brown
Umberto’s Echo: Foucault’s Pendulum as Metafictional Critique of Paranoid Interpretation
Christina Catanzarite
“ A Monstrous Reality”: Henry James’s Critique of Popular Fiction in The Other House
Katie Chow
The Bondage of the Stereotype: Creating Our Own Slavery Through Visions of Selfhood
Anna Clark
Perceiving the Past, Enriching the Present: Adam Bede and the Literary Construction of Early-to-Mid-Nineteenth-Century Memory
Aaron Danielson
On Pragmatic Interpretations of Moral Truth: The Case of Human Rights
Beth Duffy
Dysfunctional Meters, Functional Public Art: Philip von Zweck’s The Gift of Free Parking as Tacti
Dana Dunham
Living to Tell the Tale: The Survival of Narratology in the Age of Poststructuralism
Faith “Caroline” Eaton
" Jackie": The Tabloid Years, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and the Movie Magazines (Creative Thesis)
Lara Ehrlich
Rose, Oh Reiner Widerspruch [Rose, Oh Pure Contradiction] (Creative Thesis)
David Finkelstein
Detecting the Ghost in Gade’s Hamlet (1920)
Amanda Fleming
(Re)constructing the Story: Tricky Narratives and Subjective Realities in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema
Nicole Flynn
Crash, Solve, Unite: Assembling an Aesthetic Community in Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts
Austin Gilkeson
War in the Margins: The Space of Art, Objects, and Counter-Narrative in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse
Tara Gladden
“ Children know something they can’t tell; they like Red Riding Hood and the wolf in bed”: Telling (Fairy) Tales about Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood Recipient of the Catherine Ham Memorial Award for Excellence
Sophie Hackett
Beaumont Newhall’s Photography 1839-1937: An Exhibition, the History of Photography and the Machine Aesthetic
Mary Hall
"The Quaker Spell" in Modernism: Themes of Faith in Roger Fry's Art Theory
Andrew Han
Happy Together (Creative Thesis)
Laurel Hanson
The Black Terrific: Poems by Laurel Hanson Alls Well that Ends Well: A Poetic Platform (Creative Thesis)
Joseph (Joe) Hicks
Adrift in an Empirical Universe: H. G. Wells’ The Time Machine and Eugenics in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Xinyi Hong
To Laugh: Engendering Cultural Identity in the Swordsman trilogy
Allison Hutton
“ My problem is my own transformation”: MS 116 and Spiritual Exercises
Ngan-Giang “Miki” Huynh
Co-Motion & It-Girl Squared Away: Constructing Identity Through Paneled Storytelling (Creative Thesis)
Uchenna Itam
Uneven Evaluation: Graffiti, Chicago, and the Public Art Review
Christopher Koch
Nobody’s Perfect: Modesty and Virtue
Jesse Kohn
Broken Thistle: Documenting the El Mozote Massacre
Benjamin Kraft
Beyond the Cubicle, Before the Computer: Remembering the Body in Postmodern Film and Postindustrial Workplaces
Brendan Kredell
Seeing the City: Chicago in the Cinema 1968-1976
Gregory Lawless
The Etcetera Flowers (Creative Thesis)
Nicole Liambeis
Mapping Butterfly: Searching for Gender and Exposing Stereotypes in Giacomo Puccini’s Madame Butterfly and David Henry Hwang’s M. Butterfly
Katherine (Katie) Malmquist
From Dromena to Drama: The Impact of Jane Ellen Harrison’s Ancient Art and Ritual on To the Lighthouse
Tala Manassah
Religion, Education and the Public Sphere: Cosmopolitan Schooling and Young Citizens
Harinder “Bobby” Mann
Alphabet City: a screenplay (Creative Thesis)
Starr Marcello
Performance, Stardom, and Subjectivity: Evaluating an Ambiguous Bogart in Nicholas Ray’s In a Lonely Place
David McIntire
Smoke and Mirrors: Deception and Power in Kautilya’s Arthasastra
Katherine (Katie) McLoone
A Liminal Place: The Emerging Self in La Araucana and the Epic Tradition
Janak Melvani
Stylization, Skaz and Parody: Methods of Defamiliarization in Nabokov’s Lolita and Amis’s Success
Jennifer Meresman
The Denial of the Ideal Self in the Films of Spike Lee
Katherine Milco
COMPLETE MAPH CLASSICS OPTION (under the supervision of the Department of Classical Languages and Literatures)
Justine Nagan
Supernatural Scandinavian Silents: Experimentation Over Convention The Relationship Between Cinematic Content and Longevity in Häxan and Korkarlen
Joshua Neves
At the Crossroads: Two-Lane Blacktop, Film Sound and Spectatorship Recipient of the Catherine Ham Memorial Award for Excellence
Kristina Ogilvie
Wir Waren Das Volk: East German Identity in Goodbye, Lenin!
Stacy Oliver
Cracking the Subjective Self: Nation-Formation, Intersubjectivity and Rape in Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India
Jennifer Park
The Exotic Caucasian: “Dreaming of a White, Blonde Girl.” The Asian-American Man’s Desire for a White Woman
Scott Peters
Degrees of Rationality: An Analysis of Incontinence as Irrational Action
Courteney (Kiki) Petrosino
Star Silo: Poems (Creative Thesis) Recipient of the Catherine Ham Memorial Award for Excellence
Anne Marie (Annie) Purkey
Walking in Commune: Politics, Procession and Public Space in Siena under the Rule of the Nine, 1287-1355
Barbara (Babs) Regan
The Ovidian “Map of Woe”: Rethinking Gender, Agency and Revenge in Titus Andronicus
Douglas Riggs
The Topoanalysis of Self in a Postmodern Volume: A(d)Rift within the Passages of Danielewski’s House of Leaves
Andrew Rippeon
Reading Robert Creeley’s Pieces: Poetic Self-Authorization and the Dissemination of Agency
Michael Robbins
“ The Just Real”: Lyric Subjectivity after Language Poetry
Amanda Robillard
Beyond Desire: A Formal Analysis of Germaine Dulac’s La Souriante Mme. Beudet
Noel Rozny
Hollywood: Or, the Portrait of the Artist as a Commodity
George Sabo
Translation and Its Discontents: Akira Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood
Shareena Samson
Cosmic Duality and Monotheism: The Problem of Satan in Christianity
Charles “Phil” Sandifer
Legolas’s Vulva (Language/Culture, M/M, M/F)
Jenifer Schadlick
Conscientious Objections: Virginia Woolf and Simone Weil Respond to Notions of Power
Dena Scher
Jacob’s Ladder: A Play in Two Acts (Creative Thesis)
Kristen Schmidt
The Burden of Proof in Julius Caesar: A Wound in Portia’s Thigh
Jeffrey Schreiber
The Stranger in Both Places: Subjective and Objective Discourse in Contemporary American Travel Writing
Hillary Schroeder
Martha, Martha, Martha: Martha Stewart, Domesticity and the Branded Celebrity
Jennifer Simpson
There’s No Union Label on the Pyramids: Corvée and Conscripted Labor in Ancient Egypt
Elisabeth
Smith Echoes of the Gothic: Virginia Woolf’s Rumination on Permanence in “A Haunted House” and To the Lighthouse
Kenneth Stewart
Wister Hollow: Experience in Form and The Virginian
Jason Stohler
New Fulfillment for the New Woman: Miss Sophie’s Search for Fulfillment in an Emerging Generation
Benjamin Thomassen
Human Community and Natural Sentiment: A Humean Response to Callicott’s On the Intrinsic Value of Nonhuman Species
Ann Tommaney
My Dark Life with Bright Stars (Creative Thesis)
Jonathan (“Oz”) Trammell
“ We’re All Mad Here”: Lewis Carroll’s Suppressed Critique of Victorian Child Culture
Joshua Troncoso
Secrets, Subjects, and Secretions: Trinh Minh-ha's Cinema of Negation
Anna ‘Whitney” Tullos
Before the “Threshhold of Revelation”: A Vision of Progress in Tony Kushner’s Angels in America
Sarah Turner
Grumpy Old Sailors: The Persistence of the Persecutory Mother in “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
Lindsay Van Loon
On the Sea: Navigating Identity in Achy Obejas’s Days of Awe
William (Will) Veeder
Progenitors of Radical Space: The Influence of Vatican II and Medellín on the Nicaraguan Revolution
Alison Wiley
The Ordinal of Alchemy: A Spiritual Path to God
James “Jay” Windsor
Ornamentalism: Looking Beneath the Surface of the Ottoman Empire’s Reforms

Class of 2003 Thesis Titles

David Alm
Documenting Despair in Contemporary Cinema
Elizabeth Anderson
Philosophic Resonance: A NonHobbesian Interpretation of Thucydides' View of Human Nature
John Nathaniel Arata
"For Some Insulted Good Cause To Defend": Herman Melville and the Fading American Rural Ideal
Elizabeth Armbuster
Creative Thesis: Good Company
Ari Barnett
An Analysis of Laura Nyro's "Luckie" in the Context of the American Tin Pan Alley Musical Tradition
Joshua Beaty
Back to the Future, Parts I, II and III: The Past and Present of the Sequel
Trisha Beck
Anguish and Possibility: The Existential Situation of Character in Ulysses
Olivia Belostock
Contemplation of Suicide as a Gateway to Dante's Afterworld in the Divine Comedy
Margaret Berndt
"Endeavour to Be Rational": Lockean and Humean Subjectivity in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park
Jeffrey Boehm
The Functional Role of Modern Technology in Michael Almereyda's Hamlet
Meghan Brown
Global Sketches from Home: Reflections on Chicago in an Urban Sociological Context
Elizabeth Bruner
The Royal Line and the Poetic Line: The King's Repetition and the Politics of Style in Richard II
Caryn Capotosto
DISRUPTING THE CANON: Rupture and Reconfiguration in Contemporary Curatorial Practice
Anna Cheadle
Not's Knots: Lacanian Topology and the Structure of the Unconscious
Allison Chenoweth
From Trinidad to Chicago: The Steel Pan Phenomenon
Angela Choi
Creative Thesis: Filial Daughters
Kathleen Cunningham
Billy Collins: Poet in Purgatory
Jared De Jong
Reassessing Critical Reflection in Max Horkheimer's "Traditional and Critical Theory": Postmodern Knowledge as Traditional Theory
Gabriel Delahaye
Detroit and The Kid: a novel Recipient of the Catherine Ham Memorial Award for Excellence
Ashley Dixon
The Presence of Painted Rape in the Florentine Renaissance Master Bedroom
Edward-Isaac Dovere
Poor Henry's Almanac: The Deeper Links Between Franklin's Autobiography and Walden
Megan Dueker
The Afflicted Confession: Sexual Desire and Consuming Illness in Jane Eyre and Shirley
Sarah Duston
Subtle Streams: The Fluidity of Gender in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Maria Eidietis
Beyond Words and Deeds: A Reconciliation of Hannah Arendt's Narrative Theories and Eichmann in Jerusalem
Carlos Fernandez
Repercusiones del texto: la interrelación entre la literatura y la política en los textos martianos
Elizabeth Ferrari
"Devo partire:" Class and Gender in Pier Paolo Pasolini's Teorema
Joanne George
Understanding a process of exhibit design at the Center for the Presentation of Science
Michael Gibson
COMPLETED MAPH CLASSICS OPTION (under the supervision of the Department of Classical Languages and Literatures)
Laurel Gitlen
The Jewel Box in the Desert: A Beau Monde in the Ruins
Alan Griffin
Could Fodor's Causal Theory of Content Really Refute Brentano's Thesis?
Alexandra Grippando
Ningxia Kangxi-Style Pile Weavings: Re-Evaluating the Pile Weaving Tradition in Late Imperial China
Jill Hannon
Prosecuting Terror: Evaluating the Potential Use of Military Tribunals in the Current U.S. War on Terror
Laurel Harris
Ruptured Space and Temporal Escape: Tsai Ming-liang's Millennial Film Musical The Hole Recipient of the Catherine Ham Memorial Award for Excellence
Christopher Hastings
The Future is Then: The Myth of Retro-Utopia in the Work of Bruno Schulz
Tricia Hendricks
Sutured Spectacle: The Contemporary Film Musical and Blockbuster Aesthetics
John Higgins
"Defying Augury": Hamlet and the Politics of Providence
Chad Hines
Harlequin Theory: Autonomy and Reference in Vladimir Nabakov's Look at the Harlequins!
Christopher Hinton
American Publicity in the Middle East: Ideological Conflicts Inherent in Opposing Public Spheres
Brandon Hopkins
The Priest of Eternal Imagination: Joyce, Dedalus, and Epiphany
Jennifer Hruby
Is There Marketing in This Text? Construction of Reader Expectation in Reader-Response Theory
Alexandra Huff
From Ecclesiastes to Hebron: Understanding Communal Identity, Self-Sacrifice, and Hatred for the Other
Jody Hume
Foucauldian Power Relations and the State
Haller Jackson
Some Notes on the Psychoanalytic Treatment of a 37yo White Male
Amanda Keeler
The "Little Shopgirls" Cash In: Upward Mobility through Romantic Love in Max Ophuls's Liebelei and Caught
Huda Krad
Responsibility and Sexual Violence: The (In)sane Victim/Victimizer(s) in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye
Samantha Kuhn
Ritual and the Word: Martin Luther's interpretation of ritual in The Large Catechism
Katrinka Lally
The Educated Glance and the Censoring Gaze: The Role of Men in the Creation of the Life of Elizabeth of Spalbeck
Emma Lam
Loyalist, Poet, Courtesan, Woman: The Modern Reception and Representation of Liu Rushi (1618-1664)
Yun-Jong Lee
Ozu's Mysophobic Style: the Pursuit of "Synthetic Purity" in his Post-War films
Kathlynn Lorenz
The Tile Club: A Nineteenth-Century Artists' Organization
Zoë Luhtala
The Sadistic Impulse to Create Meaning in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridan
Melanie Mace
The Effects of an English-only Education Law on a Public Elementary School in Arizona
Kevin Morrison
George Eliot and the Making of a National Interiority
Sam Nekrosius
Bridging the Virtual Gap: The Role of the Courier in Recent Science Fiction
Lirim Neziroski
'Thoughts of a Different Kind': The Doge's Failure in Byron's Marino Faliero
Annette Nowak
Pecola's Blues: Gender, Race, and the Politics of Looking in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye
Whitney Nowak
Translating Stus and Pavlychko: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry into the Poet/Prophet Myth and Two Modern Ukrainian Poets
Kimberly O'Connor
The reflective space in The Waste Land: from requiem to rebirth
Tahneer Oksman
Behind the Veil: The Poetics of Depression
Gina Onesto
Creative Thesis: (1) Eater's Manifesto: 10 Reasons Why You Should Care About Where Your Food Comes From, (2) Homegrown: Consuming New Mexican Culture, (3) Grocery Dilemma
Stephen Park
Staging the Artistic Self: Frank O'Hara, Larry Rivers, and 'the drama of our lack'Recipient of the Catherine Ham Memorial Award for Excellence
Jamie Parlor
"Absence as an Aspect of Writing": Zoë Wicomb's David's Story and the Post-apartheid Text
Kathleen Pickett
Broken Homes: "Framing" Historical Ownership in Palestine
Sarah Pike
Stoic Tragedy: A Contradiction in Terms? An Examination of Three Readings of Senecan Drama
Shayna Plaut
Nation, Ethnic Minority, Other: Shifting Self Representation in Romani Media
Eric Raetz
Alberti's Militarizing of the Civil Architect
Shruti Raju
The Challenge of Closure: Redefining Justice in King Lear
Maren Robinson
Anonymous, A Play and The Empty Space and A Room of One's Own: On Women, Theater and the Resuscitation of Fragmentary History Recipient of the Catherine Ham Memorial Award for Excellence
Christopher Rogala
Revisiting Bhubaneswar: Reading Oriya Nationalist Ideals in The Capital of Orissa Recipient of the Catherine Ham Memorial Award for Excellence
Sonja Rusnak
In Search of Cultural Relevance: The Function of "Yesterday's Main Street" at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry
Michelle Ruvolo
From the Situational to the Infinite: The Use of Lévinas's Other in Academic Discourse on Social Suffering
Namrata Samtani
L'IMMIGRATION MAGHRÉBINE EN FRANCE
Jessica Santone
Reiteration and Excess in the Digital Performances of Björk and Mariko Mori
Allison Scherer
Beyond the Mediated Object: Trauma, Memory and the Constitution of the Subject through Daniel Libeskind's "Memory Foundations" Project
Chad Scherer
Searching for an Analytically True Moral Principle: A Critique of Alan Gewirth's Reason and Morality
Rasmi Simhan
"An Elevating Recreation": How Highbrow Ideals Informed the Founding of the Chicago Orchestra
Kimberly Singer
Creativity Within and Beyond Michael Cunningham's The Hours
Kelly Speaker
Misconstrued and Misunderstood: A Reexamination of Winslow Homer's The Lifeline
Richard Spencer
Regression to Love: The Place of Redemption in Goetterdaemmerung and Adorno's Search for Wagner.
Emily Stanback
Of Johnny's Wit and Johnny's Glory: Idiocy, Sympathy, and the Wordsworthian Poet
Katharine Storlie
The Great Landtaking: Renewed Exile in O.E. Rölvaag's Giants in the Earth
Audrey Swanstrom
Scholarship and New Considerations: A Case Study of the Jaucourt Reliquary
Tania Tam
South African Hybridity: A Case Study in Performance Politics and Identity Construction
Pierre-Valery Tchetgen
Creative Thesis: dirges of becoming
Kyle Valenta
The Critical Silence: Real Art, Shock Value, and the Aesthetic Experience
Alberto Varon
"When I could see you in all your facets... I could love you, and, finally, learn to love me": Mestizaje Identity in Sandra Cisneros's Woman Hollering Creek
Michael Vilensky
Tristam Shandy's Game of Perpetual Motion: Incompleteness as Sterne's Narrative and Curative Goal
Sarah Walter
Tuer pour restituer? Une étude de la peine de mort à travers Les Misérables
Kris Weberg
Changing the Subject: Reading Ulysses in the Age of Empire Recipient of the Catherine Ham Memorial Award for Excellence
Cherry Williams
Consuming Images in the Book of Hours of Catherine of Cleves
Leila Wilson
The Site of Struggle: The Post-Language Lyric Subject in the Prose Poems of Eleni Sikelianos, Christine Hume, and Karen Volkman
Lishan Yang
Portrait of a "Lady": The Performance of Gender in Wu Zao's Qiao ying
Maryam Zomorodian
The Emergence of the Human Body in the War Poetry of Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg, and Wilfred Owen

Class of 2002 Thesis Titles

Susan Banta
Angels, Gods, and Empresses: The Thrice Noble Princess, The Duchess of Newcastle, and Her Illustrious Heroines in The Contract, Assaulted and Pursued Chastity, and The Description of a New World Called the Blazing World
Corey Beder
Fassbinder's Why Does Herr R Run Amok? as madness in everyday life.
Kimberly Biedermann
Teaching Poetry Through Popular Music: Scaffolding in the High School English Classroom
Matthew Bissell
A Crow in the Graveyard: Reflections on Kafka, Kierkegaard, and the Will to Write
Robin Blaney
A Study of Dragons in the Northern Tradition
Laura Bolding
Non-Specific, Non-Sex, Non-Sense: The Imagery of Indefinable Categories in Hannah Hoch’s Schnitt mit dem Kuchenmesser Dada durch die letzte weimarer Bierbauchkulturepoche Deutschlands
Eric Bond
Charlie ex Machina: Chaplin, Mechanization, and the Boundaries of Animation
Craig Carey
The Symbolic Economy of Henry Miller: The Circulation of Exchange and Money in Tropic of Cancer
Mary Beth Carosello
Mediated Memory: An Exploration of a Contemporary Exhibition Space
Sophia Carroll
Creative Thesis: Till Recipient of the Catherine Ham Memorial Award for Outstanding Creative Thesis
Jamie Carroll
The New Doors of Perception: The William Blake Archive in Theory and in Practice
Pai-szu Chan
Scope Ambiguity in English and Chinese
Samarth Chandra
Religion in Mind: An Evolutionary Approach to the Function of Religious Systems
Themis Chryssostomides
Light as the Essence of Counter-Reformation Images: The Transmission of Style from Italy to the Netherlands
Halley Cohen
Awww Baby, I Love Your Hand: The Use of Community Creation at Vulva Riot
Sarah Cree
Raphael’s La Fornarina: A Pictorial Ellicitation of Erotic Desire
Leigha Dillman
Where Words Prevail Not: Sexuality, Rhetoric, and Sites of Production in The Spanish Tragedy and Titus Andronicus
Samuel Duncan
Freedom Without Speculative Metaphysics: McDowell on Spontaneity and Second Nature
Bryan Dunston
Big Pimpin’: Male Fantasy, Spectatorial Identification & Pleasure in Allen & Albert Hughes’ American Pimp & Bret Owen’s Pimps Up, Hos Down
Christine Durocher
A Modern Exploration of Classical Exhibition: The Thematic versus the Chronological in the 1811 Catalog of Le Musée Francais
Jason Evans
Hoping, Doubting Faith: The Ethics of Form and Content in E.L. Doctorow’s City of God
Priscilla Feke
Death and the Maiden: A Response to Truth, Justice and Reconciliation in Chile Kamilah Foreman If Seeing Is Believing: Conjuring Race within The Matrix
Ted Frisbie
The Struggling Prophet: Rushdie and Kazantzakis’ Modern "Humanizing" of Mohammed and Christ
Lea Frost
Ben Jonson’s Balancing Act: Volpone and the Antitheatricalists
Beth Gallagher
Son of a Preacher Man: The Presence of the Pulpit in James Baldwin's Prose
Suzanne Gallo
The Frozen Feminine: Gender-Bending in Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire
Katie Graf
Terrorism and Michael Walzer’s Argument for Supreme Emergency
Jennifer B. Harris
Beyond the Theoretical: Friedrich Schiller’s Kantian Based Philosophy
Jennifer E. Harris,
Fragmented Feminists: The Myth and the Mirrors An Analysis of Ambivalence in American Beauty Culture
Suzanne Harvey
Nagel and Walzer - Determining a Just Egalitarianism
David Hoekenga
Loops and Loopholes: Alisdair MacIntyre, Ideology, and Tradition
Carolyn Hutchinson
A Question of Necessity and Feminine Sacrifice: The Individual and the Collective in Let Me Speak! Testimony of Domitila, a Woman of the Bolivian Mines
Justine Hyland
Imaginative Transformation: Associative Thought in Wordsworth’s Two-Part Prelude of 1799
Christopher Ingraham
Threads Cable Strong The Anxieties of Writing American Fiction
Michelle Johnson
Interrupted Conversations: Drama of Absurdity in Love’s Labour’s Lost
Theodore Johnston
Václav Havel and the Politics of Morality
Raissa José
Living Up To His Blue China: Oscar Wilde’s Failed Ideal in The Picture of Dorian Gray
Lara Kelland
Democratic Representation as a Goal for Public Historians: Theory, Practice, and Possibility
Erin Komray
Paul Gauguin The Desire, The Distortion
Anurag Koshal
Power, Ideology, Paleonymy: The Politics of Theory in Foucault and Althusser
Peter Lehman
The Final Rooms and The Frontiers of The Present: Spatial and Temporal Dimensions from Beckett to the "Gentrification Genre" of the Lower East Side Recipient of the Catherine Ham Memorial Award for Outstanding Critical Thesis
Andrew Lewis
"The First Minute of a New Day:" Black Nationalism, Free Jazz, and the Black Arts Movement’s Search for the Black Aesthetic
Jennifer Liebman
Is Philosophical Skepticism Significant? Debates about Skepticism and its Effect on Knowledge and its Requirements.
Emily Liu
"The Decent Drapery of Life": Custom, Costume, and Femininity in Maria Edgeworth's Belinda
Amanda Loos
Unheimlicher Cinema: A Theory of Apocalyptic Spectatorship and the Narcotic Poetics of the End
Alexander MacDonald
Rebuilding Japanese America and the Problem of Internalized Exclusion: An Alternate Reading of John Okada’s No-No Boy
Karin Marcello
Creative Thesis: Chasing the Dawn(Original flute composition) Recipient of the Catherine Ham Memorial Award for Outstanding Creative Thesis
David Marks
Nature’s Paradoxes: Nabokov’s Pnin
Natalie Maus
Locating Sentimentality Within Oprah’s Book Club: Uncovering the Limitations of Identification
Charmaine McCoy-Maganito
"Sometimes the answers come out of the telling": Blues in Gayl Jones’ Corregidora
Jeffrey McMahon
The Secret Faces of Inscrutable Poets in Nelson Algren’s Chicago: City on the Make Recipient of the Catherine Ham Memorial Award for Outstanding Critical Thesis
Daniel Messina
Window Theory: a separation of working and long-term memory and the effects of realization and expectation within musical hierarchies
Makiyah Moody
Between Massacre and Memory: The Formation of National Identity in the Dominican Republic
Bradley Moore
So Much Depends on the Weather: Rationalized Stances and Reconciliation within a Nihilistic Actuality in John Barth’s The Floating Opera and The End of the Road
Steven Moore
Thirty-Year-Old Boys: Absent Fathers and the (Im)Possibility of New Masculinities in Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club
Kevin Murphy
The Melancholy of Anatomy: Dissecting Chaucer's Pardoner
Lauren Myers
Erasing Invisibility: Camera Movement in Hitchcock and the Rise of the Menacing Narrator Recipient of the Catherine Ham Memorial Award for Outstanding Critical Thesis
Monika Nagy
From Dapper Dan to Family Man: The Shifting Ideals of Community and Narrative in O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Emily Neal
The Doubting of Wise Men: Paternal (F)ailing in Dracula
Erin Neubert
The Body and the Eucharist: Saint Lawrence of El Escorial and a Sixteenth-century Spanish King
Joelle Newnam
Domestic Violence and the Violent Domestic: Screen Women in Love and On the Run
Lori Pacovsky
From the Café to the College Cafeteria: Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone?
Jeffrey Pettineo
Rudolfo Anaya’s Tortuga: Connections Somatic, Verbal, and Communal
Andrew Poe
Sexuality and the Psychology of Athenian Citizenship: On the role of Eros in Constructing Civic Identity Jennifer Price Female Sexuality and the Real: Lacan vs. Irigaray on the Psychoanalytic Approach to Female Subjectivity and Sexuality
Jyotsna Rao
Spectatorship Psyche: Deviations from and Conformations to Patriarchy in Bandit Queen
Patrick Reichard
Creative Thesis: The Gospel According to Me
Robert Rich
God’s Plenty and Pagan Gods: The Representation of Heteroglossia in The Knight’s Tale
Amanda Ruch
The Project of Self-Portraiture: Albrecht Dürer and Käthe Kollwitz Recipient of the Catherine Ham Memorial Award for Outstanding Critical Thesis
Shilpa Sagar
The Role of the Meenakshi Temple as an Ideological State Apparatus Under the Nayakas Keven Schnadig Freud's Theory of Language Acquisition
Tracy Steinhandler
Abolishing Shame and Acknowledging Self: Metamorphic Moments in Isak Dinesen’s "Monkey"
Christina Stratinsky
Spy Like Us: Alias and the Secret Identity of the New Television Superheroine
Stephen Tapert
Silent Screams: Questioning the Suitability of Contemporary Scores for Silent Films
Susan Thompson
Job's Suffering: A Radical Change in God and Man
Melissa Tombro
Salinger: An Introduction
Joanna Topor
Couples Aren’t Enough: Contemporary Romantic Comedies and Fate
Edward Vazquez
Robert Rauschenberg’s Factum I & Factum II
Mai Vukcevich
Hutchins and Foucault
Michael Washburn
Acts of War, Images of Redemption: Narrative and Fetishism in the post-September 11 American Political Imaginary
Heather White
Los prólogos como instrumentos problematizadores y la identidad construida de Garcilasco de la Vega, el Inca
Katie Zambreno
TELL ME IF IT HURTS: Ethics and Aesthetics of Talk Show Schadenfreude

Class of 2001 Thesis Titles

Tobey Adler
A Woman of Valor
Erik Aker
Creative Thesis (Poems and Commentary) Letters to Patrice: Historical Agency and the Efficacy of Remembering
Freddy Arevalo
The Fatal Destiny of Macondo: The Denunciation and Pessimism of European Thought in Post-Colonial Latin American Nations
Christina Aron-Sycz
Hogarth Polemicized: Rake’s Progress in the Hands of Stravinsky, Auden and Kallman
Shannon Avina
Nick Bantock’s Griffin and Sabine Triology: The Altered Book Form in "An Extraordinary Correspondence
Megan Benner
Books That Dance: The Rich Ambiguity of Art in Nietzsche and Melville
Erica Bleeg
‘If you can’t be free, be a mystery’: Rita Dove’s Poetic Politics in Thomas and Beulah
Amy Brandolino
Reflective Iconographies: Florine Stettheimer’s Cathedrals Series as Public Testimonial and Private Revelation
Alyssa Brody
You don’t win friends with salad: Lessons in Life from Lisa Simpson
Christina Brungardt
The Art of Rebellion: Eastern European Subcultures in the Public Space and their Avant-Garde Graffitist Expressions
Andrew Burkett
Progress from Demise: Tracing the Influence of a Paradox from William Wordsworth’s The Excursion to Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species
Anne Marie Calareso
Laughing at the Holocaust: Audience Involvement in Robert Benigni’s La Vita e Bella
Shawn Casey
The Cultural Creatives: Liberalism and Collective Identity in a Special Case
Sangeetha Chandra-Shekeran
The ‘Calico Controversy’ of the 1690s: Consensus, Conflict and Competing Visions of the Wealth of the English Nation
Kathryn Chevraux
War Fiction and Social Tensions: Political Reinterpretations of Catch-22 and All Quiet on the Western Front
J. David Cowan
Psychoanalysis and the Mind-Body Problem
Matt Cowherd
The Transcendence of the Condition in Bohumil Hrabal and Jorge Luis Borges
Kate Dawson
A Marriage of Opposites: Confronting Postwar Anxiety in J.D. Salinger’s A Perfect Day for Bananafish
Melissa Dean
Co-opted Writing Pedagogies: A Study of Cultural Diversity and Teaching Practices at an Anonymous University
Christina Deligianni
Ibsen’s The Wild Duck: Vision Blinded, Reality Retouched
Brian Deyo
The Unconscious Holds Sway: The Production of Rational Subjectivity in Virginia Woolf's "Between the Acts"
Gina DiPonioCreative
Writings: Realizations and Stories
Blythe E. Dorn
Failures of Consolation n Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale and Clerk’s Tale
Isa Dorros
The Contemporary Modern Art Gallery: Negotiating its Place in the Art Market
Tim Galow
Creative Thesis: A Really Good Title
Lisa Gay
Between Blood Feud and War: Treasure at the Boundaries of Justice in Beowulf
Monika Gehlawat
Frank O’Hara: The Postmodern Flaneur of New York City
Maja Haium
The Coquette: Constructing the Female Subject One Fiction at a Time
Nefrette Halim
Creative Thesis: Chapters from a novel in progress
Mark Hancock
Postmodern Aesthetics and Marxist Politics: A Study of The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Samantha Hanford
On Not Owning the Past: Post-Vietnam America and Tim O’Brien’s In the Lake of the Woods
Stirling Headridge
Naturalizing History: Liberal Culturalism and Historical Injustice
Mary Heathcott
Collapsed Elemental Perspective: Redefining the Stereoscopic Image
Jeehee Hong
Path to the Other World: Funerary Narrative Rendered in Tokhungri Tomb Murals
Rebecca Jacobs
Listening for Lines Off-Stage: The Determination of Agency in the Victorian Actress
Julie Kang
Displacement and Hybridity: The Hapa Figure in the Short Stories of Sui Sin Far
Manya Klempner
The Pulitzer Prize: The Paradox of Cultural Authority
Emily Kline
Changing Faces: The Reshaping of the Novelistic Character Through the Hollywood Star in Henry James’s Washington Square and William Wyler’s The Heiress
Ali Lemer
Acts of Terrific Optimism: Sexual Spaces in John Irving's The World According to Garp
Alison Lewis
Hands on Your Desks! – The Policing of Masturbation in Early Twentieth Century America
Walker Lewis
The Limits of Reason and Role of Religion in Socratic Philosophy
Torey Liepa
The Fifth Side of Cinema: The Function of the Written Word in The Last Laugh, Faust and Sunrise
Kara Madison
Jadidism and Soviet Language Policy
Mary Mancuso
A Reexamination of the Later Work of Camille Claudel: Its Formal Characteristics, Relationship to Symbolism and Social Content
Kate Mather
Creative Thesis: The Long Vacation: Story and Critique
Shawn McKown
‘Oxford in the Golden Age’: An Examination of Cultural Memory and False Nostalgia in Tom Stoppard’s The Invention of Love
John Melson
Imagining the Public Body: Self-Examination and Identity in the Tuesday Club of Annapolis, 1745-1756
Elizabeth Motts
The Life and Writing of Emily Kimbrough in the World of Consumer Culture, Advertisement and the Woman’s Magazine of the 1930’s
Kimberly Northrip
Sexual Politics: Contemporary Female Identity, Sexuality and Representation
Makoto Ogura
‘You looks like a Real Good Time:’ The Construction of the Image of the Blues Woman and its Evocation in Black Feminist Writing
Zachary Pierson
‘You got find a way to listen:’ Understanding James Baldwin’s Use of Music in Sonny’s Blues
Ryan Poll
The Hidden Shame: W. H. Auden in 1939
Deepa Punjabi
Woman as Nation in Independent India: Art, Distortions, and Idealizations in Anita Desai’s Clear Light of Day
Gary Vaughn Rasberry
Conrad’s Allegory of Race in The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’
Abby Reed
Gendering the History of Early Sound Film: The Flaneuse and the Representation of Urban Space in King Vidor’s Street Scene (1931)
Mack Reed
No Less Courage: Ambiguity, Intersubjectivity, and the Forgetting of Being in Milan Kundera’s Theory of the Novel
Nathan Reich
Freedom and the Limits of Mechanistic Accounts of Nature and Human Agency: A Study of Kant's Critique of Judgement
Brian L. Richards
The Alienated Spectator of Wes Craven’s Films
Lisa Richler
The Third Man (1949) as Dystopian Melodrama
Francesca Rodriguez
Andrea Gursky: Consumer Culture and the Postmodern Subject
Elizabeth Rothstein
Creation Myths: The Novel According to M.M. Bakhtin and Henry James
Lore Silberman
Romeo and Juliet on Film: Three Interpretations
Kristy Simpson
Digital Technology and the Pedagogy of Art History
Eric Song
Paradise Lost and the Sterility of Milton’s Sexualized Poesis
Jonathan Squires
Kant’s Third Antinomy: The Keystone of His System
Sarah Stauffer
"Who knows but that…I speak for you": "Protest," Individualism, and the Creative Politics of Ralph Ellison
Miranda Swanson
"…dance, dance Like a dancing bear": An Analysis of Male Subject Construction in the Early Poetry of T. S. Eliot
Phil Tiemeyer
American Wet Dream: Sex and Politics in the Ad Campaign of Abercrombie & Fitch
Christopher Tradowsky
The Excessive Self: Jean Genet’s Un Chant d’amour and the Theater of Queer Identity
Bibi Tucker
Critical Analysis of Video Ethnography "Eurythmy: A Movement Art Developed by Rudolf Steiner and Its Practice in the Waldorf Schools"
Jill Uncyk
Memory and Kindness: A Psychoanalytic Approach to the Criticism of The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire
Peter Uribe
Creative Thesis: Thank God for the NRF and Other Stories
David Wake
Digital Democracies: A Theoretical Look at The Great Equalizer
Alex Wedemeyer
Arsenals and Instruments: Action Stories vs. Allegories of Control in Medieval Welsh Literature and ‘90s Hollywood Films
Aaron Weinberger
Becoming Caligari: The Germanization of American Film

Class of 2000 Thesis Titles

Lucas Anderson
El Camaleon Y El Conformismo: Y La Fe En Las Novelas Ceferino De Eduardo Mendoza
Liz Arney
Exploring an Unbound Identity: Mapping Dubravka Ugresic's Literary Homeland
Jennifer Backman
Visual Language: Ekphrasis and the 'Life of Images' in Bessie Head's "Maru"
Shaindel Beers-Finley
Invoking Evil: Supernatural and Rational Evil in "The Snake's Pass" and "Dracula"
Alexandra Bodner
The Shape of Things to Come: Gender in Wartime Propaganda and Normal Rockwell's Four Freedoms
Tiana Brown
Just Cause They Little:The Politics of Childhood Experience in Toni Cade Bambara's "Gorilla, My Love"
Elizabeth Bullock
(Re)producing Repetition: Kathy Acker, Feminism, and the Avant-Garde
Nadege Clitandre
Reframing Haitian Literature Trans-nationally: Identifying New and Revised Tropes of Haitian Identity in Edwidge Danticat's "Breath, Eyes, Memory"
Anne Colwell
Curious Lives for a 'Lady': Gender Issues and Subjectivity in Representations of Isabella Bird
Megan Feeney
The Prettiest Little Rebel in Cuba: The Story of Evangelina Cisneros Told by Nineteenth Century U.S. Imperialists
Sarah Fitchett
The Ghost in the Machine: Technology and Memorialization
Michael Flanagan
A Call to Question and the Hardcore Response: Living Outside the Music Industry and Why That's Important
Lilian Friedberg
Mule Minus Forty Million Acres: Topographies of Geographic Distribution and Redface Ministry in George Tabori's Weisman und Rotgesicht
Reena Gambhir
Rings of Fire: Trapped in the Experience of Subaltern Representations
Michael Genovese
Mythifying Mussolini: The Unification of Fascism and the American Revolution in Ezra Pound's "Cantos"
Lauren Goldman
Violence and Visual Culture: Reconsidering Saintly Tortures in Fifteenth-Century Art
Erin Griffiths
Edmund Curll, Jonathan Swift, and the Regulatory Language of Obscenity in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Leah Handelsman
Latin Pop Music and Crossover: The Contradictions of Cultural Identity
Andrew Harmon
Billy Budd, the Pearl of Great Price: Hidden Sentiment, Denied Grief, and Modernity in Melville and Britten's Texts
Matthew Henderson
A Poetics of Moral Enactment: The Holocaust Verse of Geoffrey Hill
Christopher Hilton
Narrative Temporality and Martin Amis's "Time's Arrow"
James Houlahan
Meaning the Self: Nietzsche, Freud, and the Limits of Psychological Interpretation
Julie Janus
The Resistant Cipher: The Correspondence of Syed Ross Masood to E.M. Forster
Jerel Johnson
Necessary Force: Freud's "Pressure Technique" and the Early Analytic Encounter
Alissa Lea Jones
'He had allowed himself to be led astray by a metaphor': Freud's Misreading of the Rat Man
Sarah Keroff
A Seductive Saint?: Sexuality and the Winchester Judith
Aruna Khilanani
Living in a Material World: Hormone Replacement Therapy and Female Subjectivity: Agency, Politics, and Embodiment
Elizabeth Kim
The Insurgent Discourse of the Performing Subject: A Reading of Elaine Brown's "A Taste of Power"
Adam Krantz
Violence and "The Comedy of Errors"
Shannon Leibowitz
'Of Deities and Mortals': Mythic Romance Narratives of the Second World War
Anthony Lichi
Socratic Roguery in A Confederacy of Dunces
Nicole Lyles
Redefining Mid-Victorian Masculinity and Femininity: Progressive Gender Roles as Found in Alcott's Little Women
Nadia Madjid
Going Beyond in Search of Identity: A Look into the Case of the U.S. Supreme Court Frieze
Alexandra Mattraw
Within a Doorway: Reading the Contraries in Samuel Beckett's Novels
Zach McCall
Figuring Motion: Franz Kafka and the Fact, 1908-1912
Catherine McCorkle
When Good Milk Goes Bad: The Rancid Suppression of History in Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
M. Stephanie Murray
Laudable Plausbility: Assaults on Dramatic and Bodily Boundaries in Elizabethan Revenge Tragedy
Anne Marie Nicpon
Saving Grace: The Sanctity of Spiritual Marriage in the Late Middle Ages
Stephen Ong
Women in Singapore: Reading Voices and Choices
Jonathan Owens
Toward an Athenian Myth of Pandora
Kristen Page
The '90s Teen Flick: Reconsidering the Form and Function of Genre
Steven Pate
Invisible Intelligibility: Point-of-View and Avant-Garde Spectacle in Samuel Beckett's Film
Shirley Pauker
"The Metamorphosis" and the Holocaust - A Comparative Study of Extreme Social Death
Tina Poppy
Invoking Existential Horror: Heidegger and Orwell's 1984
Stephanie Reed
Shaping the Ideology of Kingship: Images from Sumer and Akkade
Julie Rosenberg
Indianness, Art and Imperial Identity: The British Empire Exhibition, Wembley, 1924-1925 Amy Rust The Shock of Spectacular Violence: Bloody Excess and Masculine Identity in Late Twentieth Century Hollywood Film
Rebekah Schnidt
The Promise of Hypertext: Is Freedom Available on the Net?
Li Shir
Sheep to the Slaughter: Inversions of the Pastoral in Claude Lanzmann's "Shoah"
Angie Smith
Masculine Imaginings of the Feminine Ideal: Shifting Identites of Soviet/Post-Soviet Central Asian Women as Rendered Through Visual Texts
Morag Stewart
Perfect Pieces: the end of the eighteenth-century taste for classical sculpture and restoration
Rebecca Sundin
Cleaning House: Moral and Physical Patterns of Organization in Great Expectations
Allison Taub
Forged Identities: The Binjamin Wilkomirski 'Scandal,' Vicarious Traumatization, and the Holocaust Reader
Elizabeth King Tyler
A Vortex of Criticism: Negotiating Feminisms in "Ally McBeal"
Stuart Vanorny
The Hollywood Film Trailer: The Influence of "Coming Attractions" on the Cinematic Experience
Nikolai Vargas
MAPH Creative Thesis: Guardian of Innocence, a novel in progress
Magdalene Vasquez
Hungering for Hybridity: Food and Spirituality in Kingston's Woman Warrior and Castillo's So Far From God
Karen Webb
Christian Mystery: Esotericism and Hermeneutical Completion in the Old and New Testaments
Jim Wickes
The Silence of the Battle of Bosworth in William Shakespeare's Richard III
Karin Wimbley
The Mobility of Representation in Adrienne Kenedy's "The Owl Answers"
Joseph Yang
Dear Faithful Reader: Faith, Post-modernity, and The Crying of Lot 49
Arika Yoshino
Assessing the Pro-Isreal Lobby's Influence on the U.S. Middle East Policy
Jewel Younge
MAPH Creative Thesis: "Because Keith Murray Won't Be My Man…"
Tania Zubkus
Maintaining Myths: Inexhaustible Re-visions of the 1950s Suburb and its Rebels