English Senior Theses: Previous Topics

 A Woman’s Place: Contemporary American Women’s Memoir as Literature

John Steinbeck and his Fictional Female Characters

The Crete of Goddess Suppression

Structure of Narrative in Video Games

The Absurd World of Albert Camus

Willa Cather: Pioneering Writer

The Achetype “Big Mama”: From Mammy to Maya Angelou

Word for Word: Rap and Poetry

Hemingway and Women

The Sun, the Moon, Lots of Rain, and Of Course, Jane (Jane Eyre)

Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn: The Queen of Filipino American Literature

The God Factor in Kate Chopin’s Life and Works

Anais Nin: One Woman’s Voice

Anne Bradstreet’s Puritan Poetry

John Steinbeck: A Critical Analysis

Gothic Romancer Edgar Allen Poe

Isabel Allende, American Writer

Happily-ever-after: Disney’s Perception of Female Characters

Toni Morrison’s Relationship to Postmodernism

T. S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land”: Myth and Modernity

Anne Sexton: The Spirit of an American Poet

Maya Angelou: A Caged Bird Singing of Survival

The Curandera in Latin American Literature

The Effects of Slavery on African-American Family Life Examined through Toni Morrison’s Novels and the Accounts of Former  Slaves