Honors Research

Below is a list of recent Honors Research projects completed by English majors. An Honors Research project requires in-depth research incorporated into a substantive academic or creative work, capped by an Oral Defense. Students who successfully complete such a project will graduate with Honors in English. (CW = Creative Writing project; CR NF = Creative Nonfiction project)

Spring 2012
Cameron B. Cook, “Roebuck” (CW / A two-semester project)
Faculty adviser: Mr. Robert E. Stutts

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Fall 2011
Mary Ellis Glymph, “England versus France: Unearthing Linguistic Identity through Early Modern Lexicography”
Faculty adviser: Dr. Justin Brent

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Spring 2011
Christine Mahoney, “The Ties that Bind: Race, Adolescence, and the Familial Guide in Twentieth-Century Passing Narratives”
Faculty adviser: Dr. Molly McGehee

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Fall 2010
Allen Butt, “Life at the Expense of Other Life: A Schopenhauerian Reading of Frank Bidart’s ‘The War of Vaslav Nijinsky’”
Faculty adviser: Dr. Terry Barr

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Fall 2009
Taylor Newton, “‘Is this real, Ben? Or some strange and twisted dream?’: The Uncanny in House of Leaves and Twin Peaks”
Faculty adviser: Dr. Terry Barr

Michelle Thilges, “In Defense of Domestic Tragedy: The Common Man in Modern and Contemporary American Drama”
Faculty adviser: Dr. Lynne Simpson

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Spring 2009
Lori Garvin, “The Last World of El Quijote” (CW)
Faculty adviser: Mr. Robert Stutts

Charlie Johnson, “Visions of the Frontera / Sueños de la Border” (CW)
Faculty adviser: Mr. Robert Stutts

Micah Mallory, “Pas de Quatre” (CW)
Faculty adviser: Mr. Robert Stutts

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Fall 2008
Sarah Maley, “The Idea of Power in the American South: Established in Tradition, Maintained Through Violence”
Faculty adviser: Dr. Terry Barr

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Spring 2008
Nichole Rowe, “Rescued from Lifeboats: Female Adolescent Depression in Fiction” (CW)
Faculty adviser: Mr. Robert Stutts

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Spring 2007
Emily Davenport, “My Life is Not a Soap Opera” (CW / A two-semester project)
Faculty adviser: Mr. Robert Stutts

Amanda Rossie, “Six Ways to Sunday” (CW / A two-semester project)
Faculty adviser: Mr. Robert Stutts

Richard Parmer, “‘The Pleasures of Opium’ and the ‘Pains of Sleep’: Detecting the Mysterious Effects of Opium on Romantic and Victorian English Literature”
Faculty adviser: Mr. Jerry Alexander

Polly Spangler, “The Scots-Irish of Appalachia: The Immigrant Experience and Its Linguistic Results”
Faculty advisers: Dr. Justin Brent and Dr. Anita Gustafson

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Fall 2006
Laura Cline, “Convenants, Colonels, and Crazies: Is This America?”
Faculty adviser: Dr. Terry Barr

Andy Mayo, “Match Point and the Modern Reinvention of Raskolnikov’s Will to Power”
Faculty adviser: Dr. Terry Barr

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Spring 2006
Brian Barnwell, “The Life and Works of Ben Jonson: Johnson to Jonson”
Faculty adviser: Dr. Lynne Simpson

Katy Falk, “Faith is the Journey” (CW)
Faculty adviser: Mr. Robert Stutts

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Fall 2005
Laura Knowles, “Picturing My Papai: A Granddaughter’s Snapshot View of Her Grandfather” (CR NF)
Faculty adviser: Dr. Terry Barr

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Spring 2004
Marion Jackson, “The Angel and the Fairy: Reconstructing Arthurian Women”
Faculty adviser: Dr. Justin Brent

Sarah Prince, “The Weight of Southern Womanhood in the Contemporary South: Middle-Aged Women Reflect on an Inheritance of Tradition and Guilt”
Faculty adviser: Dr. Lea Williams

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Spring 2003
Paige Ellisor, “Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse: The Isolation of Women—A Forced Status and a Necessary Choice”
Faculty adviser: Dr. Lynne Simpson

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Fall 2002
Jessica Ulstad, “A Proper Atonement: The ‘Eye’ of the Past in Contemporary British Fiction”
Faculty adviser: Dr. Terry Barr

Jill Walker, “Flying Lessons” (CR NF)
Faculty adviser: Dr. Terry Barr