Congratulations to the following students, who completed English Honors theses or projects in spring 2019!
Emily Cerri: "'This Is Hardly the Happy Ending I Was Expecting: NIER's Rejection of the Heteronormative in Fairy Tales"
Committee Chair: Caroline Yang
Second Member: TreaAndrea Russworm
Edward Clifford: "Midnight Brawl in Chittenango: Stories"
Committee Chair: John Hennessy
Jessica Dimmock: "Costume Designing the UMass Department of Theater’s Production of Sweat, by Lynn Nottage: A Study of Authenticity and Empathy"
Committee Chair: Yao Chen
Second Member: Kristin Jensen
Elias Dubus: "Blockbuster Cinema in the Age of Mass Media"
Committee Chair: Jarice Hanson
Timothy Eineberg: "'March of the Un-Humans'—A Graphic Novel"
Committee Chair: Daniel Sack
Second Member: Patricia Galvis-Assmus
Jasime Goodspeed: "1675: A Musical Concerning King Philip's War & the Tragedy of Deer Island"
Committee Chair: Priscilla Page
Second Member: Brenda Muzeta
Tess Halpern: "Using Genre Theory to Understand the Way Opinion Journalism is Changing in Today’s Digital World"
Committee Chair: Donna LeCourt
Second Member: Janine Solberg
Nicole Henderson: "Synesthesia"
Committee Chair: Connie Griffin
Kendall Higgins: "Imagination and Memories"
Committee Chair: John Hennessy
Amanda Keohane: "How Communication of Nature in Children’s Literature Plays a Role in Developing a Generation of Environmentalists"
Committee Chair: Donal Carbaugh
Second Member: Loree Griffin Burns
Chandley McKenzie: "Agent 355: Anna Smith Strong and the Culper Ring"
Committee Chair: Melba Jensen
Second Member: Jennifer Heuer
Mikayla Rooney: "Celebrity Influence via Social Media on Political Ideologies of Undergraduate Students"
Committee Chair: Jesse Rhodes
Kristy Sumner: "Net Neutrality: Should We Regulate?"
Committee Chair: Jarice Hanson
Samira Teixeira: "Taroc Pack: A Compendium of Poetry and Prose"
Committee Chair: John Hennessy
Emily Tiedtke: "Worlds Apart—An American Childhood in Nazi Germany"
Committee Chair: John Hennessy
Gabriella Vacarelo: "Alternative Therapeutic Treatments for Psychological Trauma"
Committee Chair: Bonnie Strickland
Thomas Wagner: "Inversion and Interpretation: The Interpretational Consequences of Reconfiguration for Unification Analyses"
Committee Chair: Madga Oiry
Second Member: Diane Flaherty
Kevin Xu: "Sugar Rusts the Hinges"
Committee Chair: John Hennessy