Senior Theses

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