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English 413 Sample Projects

Patricia Ballantyne, "Justice Big-Time.: Linking Irish and African American Poetry Through Clifton and Heaney"

Emily Ballengee, "Roots, Rasta and Reggae: The Influence of Kamau Brathwaite and Bob Marley upon the Development of West Indian Society."

Christina Bortner, “Finding Literary Merit in Chick Lit”

Michael Fulks, “Myth-Making and Myth-Busting:  Two Fictional Treatments of the American Frontier”

Patrick Hastings, "ATLienation in Hip Hop Culture: An Investigation of Regional Distinctions in Rap"

Lily Haywood, “`In Her Own Hands’:  Lady Gregory’s Unique Partnership with W. B. Yeats”
 
William Holliday, “The Resurrection of Cuchulain from O’Grady to Easter 1916”

Alison Irvin, "A Voice With Public Resonance: The Poetry of Lorna Goodison"
 
Carly Levin,“`What shall I do with my doublet and hose?’: Gender Doubling and Proliferation of Romantic Possibility in Shakespeare’s As You Like It”

Amanda Lueders, "Not Quite Catholic: The Non-Universality of Spirituality in Literary Representations of Chicano Catholicism"

Kyle Meehan, "Poetic Healing"

Cameron Miller, “Fantasy Empathy, Altruistic Development and Heroes:  An Experiment with J.R.R. Tolkein’s The Children of Húrin and J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

George Singeltary, "Culture of Honor: A Study of Native American Aggression in James Welch"
 
Carrie Beth Swinford, “Unreconciled Strivings:  The Conflicting Identities of Race and Nation in James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man and Ralph Ellison’s Juneteenth”

Jim Tartaglia, “ ‘You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake’: Existentialist Philosophy and Fiction in Jean-Paul Sartre’s Nausea and Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club”
 
Brightman Thomas, “From the Fall to Redemption:  The Rhythmical Quest in Angle of Repose and A River Runs Through It”

Denisio Truitt, "From Monrovia to Adams Morgan," a poetry chapbook