STUDENT Research
Honors Program
The Honors program offers the qualified senior student the opportunity to work on a year-long independent, intensive research project on a specific topic of his or her choice. A senior admitted to the Honors program is expected to work on his or her project during the fall and spring terms under the guidance of a faculty member who serves as the Honors Project advisor, devoting no less time in each term than would be devoted to a course unit. For more information regarding the policies and procedures for the Honors Program, please visit the ƽ Honors Program website.
SOAR Program
The goal of the Student Opportunities for Academic Research (SOAR) program is to facilitate student research in collaboration with a faculty mentor. To this end, the program provides stipends, travel allowances, and research expenses to support students and their faculty mentors as they engage in scholarly or creative work. Since its inception in 1998, the SOAR program has supported projects with student and faculty participation across every academic discipline at the college. For more information regarding the policies and procedures for the SOAR program, please visit the ƽ SOAR Program website.
2018 English Honors and SOAR Projects
Jaime Ernst—Honors
"Supporting Adolescent Literacy Development through Collaborative Multimodal Writing"
Crystal Fodrey and Joe Shosh, advisorsAlicia Pisano—Honors
"Understanding and Writing in an Emerging Literary Genre: The Short Story Cycle"
Joyce Hinnefeld, advisorCorinne Philbin—SOAR
"Flavor of Bethlehem: A Celebration of People and Food"
Christopher Shorr, advisorGabrielle Stanley—SOAR
"Toward Curricular and Pedagogical Innovation of the Teaching of Writing in Local High Schools"
Crystal Fodrey, advisor
2017 English SOAR Project
Max Kraft
"Contextual Study, Translation, and Pedagogical Application of Selected Works by Aelfric of Eynsham (c. 1000 CE)"
John Black, advisor
2016 English SOAR Project
Chris Hassay
"Laying the Groundwork for a Writing-Enriched Curriculum at ƽ"
Crystal Fodrey, advisor
2015 English Honors and SOAR Projects
Kyle Apgar—Honors
"The Political Discourse of the Sonnet: Amorous Language in the Public Sphere"
Nicole Tabor, advisorSavannah Brown—SOAR
"Writing the Women of ƽ Past and Present"
Crystal Fodrey, advisorSam Weinberg—SOAR
"Exhibit A: Multiculturalism and Stereotype in the Twenty-first Century"
Christopher Shorr, advisor
2014 English Honors Project
Marissa Blose
"Revolutions in Twentieth-Century American Poetry"
Joyce Hinnefeld, advisor
2013 English Honors Projects
Jeremy Davidheiser
“Historicizing Middlemarch”
Martha Reid, advisorSteve Delturk
“Poisonous Paragraphs: The Artists, Audiences, and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop”
Theresa Dougal, advisorMeghan McLaughlin
“World War I English Poetry”
Joel Wingard, advisor
2012 English Honors Project
Dana Maroldi
“’The Necessity of Dying’: Violence and the Destruction of Self in Othello and Oroonoko”
Martha Reid, advisor
2011 English Honors Projects
Kate Brueningsen
“The Consciousness Aware of Itself: Gothic Doubling and the Dissolution of the Enlightenment Model of the Self”
George Diamond, advisorKelly L. Grab
“’A Different Kind of Same Thing’: The Continuity of Women's Issues in 20th Century American Drama as Analyzed in Trifles and Fefu and Her Friends”
Nicole Tabor, advisorSienna Mae Heath
“Speaking, Writing, and Typing: Human Voices of Communication”
John Black and William Falla, advisorsMichael Watson
“Where Is My Place? An Exploration of Home, Locale, and Niche in the World through Memoir, Lyric Essay, and Poetry”
Joyce Hinnefeld, advisor
2009 English Honors Projects
Victoria Bartkus
“Telling Tales: Narrative Innovation in Three Novels by Faulkner”
Martha Reid, advisorAngela Geosits
“Governance, Marriage, and Pastoral Care: Estates Satire in the Canterbury Tales, the Confessio Amantis, and Piers Plowman”
John R. Black, advisorCliff Jackson
“Newland Archer and His Failures in Old New York: An Examination of the Shortcomings of a Failed Man”
Annette Benert, advisorJessica Jonas
“(Re)Considering Bradbury: The Sociological Impact of an American Storyteller”
George S. Diamond and Joel Nathan Rosen, advisors
2008 English Honors Project
Abigail Perrin
“’The Swelling and Splendid Moment’: Intermediality in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves”
Martha Reid, advisor
2007 English Honors Projects
Christina LaVecchia
“England’s ‘Spirit of the Age’: Comparing the Works of Wordsworth and His Musical Contemporaries within a Nineteenth-Century Social Context”
Theresa A. Dougal and Hilde Binford, advisorsSamantha Madison
“The Dali Syndrome”
Naomi N. Gal and Joyce A. Hinnefeld, advisors
2006 English Honors Projects
Amanda S. Clossen
“What Caused the Great Vowel Shift? A Labovian Approach”
John R. Black, advisorVanessa A. Fisher
“Conflict between Two Worlds: When Jewish Religion and Secularism Collide in Four Novels by Chaim Potok”
George S. Diamond, advisorAlexis N. Vergalla
“A Field Guide of Marrow”
Naomi N. Gal and Joyce A. Hinnefeld, advisorsCourtney L. Werner
“America’s Neo-Gnostic Literature: What’s Really Going on in Philip K. Dick’s Valis Trilogy”
George S. Diamond and Steve R. Gordy, advisors
2005 English Honors Projects
Julie Elizabeth Anderson
"Constructing Sylvia Plath: A Study in Autobiographical Writings"
Theresa A. Dougal, advisorSara Suleman
"Black Tea and Other Stories: Exploring Different Forms of Narrative"
Joel Wingard, advisorSarah B. Wagenseller
"Behaving Decently in an Indecent Society: Kurt Vonnegut and the Meaning of Life"
George S. Diamond, advisorWilliam James Weber
"Field Notes"
Joyce A. Hinnefeld, advisor