English, Literature, and Modern Languages Student Presentations
Presentations from 2023
Everyman Costume Design, Rachel V. Knierim
Exploring Felix Stalten’s Bambi Narrative: Biblical Tenets and Lois Tyson in Dialogue, Haley C. Kollstedt, Meghan L. Wells, and Hannah D. Albright
Language as a Bridge to the Soul: The Role of the Multilingual Amazigh Woman and Tarifit Berber in Preserving Amazigh Ethnic Identity in the Rif, Madeline Spaulding
Presentations from 2020
Equivalence in Translation Across Genre Types, Jordan D. Beal
An Examination of Wladimir Kaminer’s Humor, Jordan D. Beal, Rachel Hershey, Ian A. MacPhail-Fausey, Teresa A. Welcome, and Annis Shaver
The Effects of ESL on Refugees' Perception and Use of Native Language, Macey Nicole Kakuk
Sociolinguistics and Insider/Outsider Status in Hawai'i, Elissa Uithol
Presentations from 2019
Putting it Graphically: Fidelity in Graphic Novel Adaptations of Classic German Literature, Melissa Gernert, Abigail Mouring, Andrew Mrozek, Aaron Weiss, and Annis Shaver Dr.
Presentations from 2018
A Comparative Analysis of Martin Luther's Works, Lauren E. Yost, Josh Graham, Peter Kennell, Daniel J. Stank, Joshua Kira, and Annis N. Shaver
Presentations from 2017
Identifying Elements of Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, Clara G. Hendrickson, Joshua D. Pearson, Brice J. Montgomery, Natalie M. Lien, Marcella B. Moorman, Anna T. Kaster, Elizabeth J. Carraher, and Annis N. Shaver
Presentations from 2016
Tom Bombadil and Goldberry: Romantic Theology as Revelation in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, Brandon Best
Should English Spelling be Reformed?: A History of English Spelling, Rachel M. Schloneger
Capstones from 2015
Dostoevsky's Polyphonic Apologetic: Dialogue and Defense of Christianity in The Brothers Karamazov, Tyler C. Detrick
Evangelicalism and Mental Slavery: A Miltonic Critique, Tyler C. Detrick
Discourses Surrounding Divided Germany, Timothy Gauthier, Shaune Young, and Zachary Weaver
Patriarchy and The Protestants: A New Historical and Feminist Reading of Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead, Jesse D. Lawhead
I Am With You: The Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Fans, and the Harmful Effects of Californication, Alexander MacPhail-Fausey
Of Education: Milton and the Common Core State Standards, Alexander D. MacPhail-Fausey
Completing the Construction: Art as Therapy in Ned Vizzini's It's Kind of A Funny Story, Catherine L. McClain
“Shining” with the Marginalized: Self-Reflection and Empathy in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, Bethany Miller
Captivity of the Mind: A Postcolonial Analysis of “The Man Who Liked Dickens”, Juliann R. Phillips
English in the Amazon: Unhomeliness in Evelyn Waugh’s “The Man Who Liked Dickens”, Hannah E. Rau
'We Need Some Light': Seeing Identities After Grief in Next to Normal, Kathy S. Roberts
“Do Not Ask Me to Remain the Same”: Charles Darwin in Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, Rachael D. Tague
The Double-Sided Message of The Lego Movie: The Effects of Popular Entertainment on Children in Consumer Culture, Jordan Treece
A Queer Poet in a Queer Time: John Milton and Homosexuality, Adam J. Wagner
A Daughter's Struggle to Individuate in "Einstein's Daughter", Matthew K. Werneburg
Capstones from 2014
“An Obscene Power”: Desire, Capitalism, and Identity in Geraldine Brooks’ March, Rachel Dark
Christian Themes in German Fairy Tales, Nikolaus Foulkrod, Grant Friedrich, Jen Johnson, and Nathaniel Burrell
We Are Infinite: Confronting High School Simulacra in Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Michayla N. Lehman
Motivations and Implications of Secondary Jobs Among University Faculty: A Qualitative Study, Ruth L. Markham, Alexandra Iriana, Jessica Dyson, and Jeremiah Bollman
Capitalistic Christians and Educated Elites: Fanonian Theory and Neo-Colonialism in Ngugi Wa Thiong’o’s A Grain of Wheat, Rebecca Miller
"A Generation That Didn't Agree": The Paramountcy of Multidimensional Moral Hierarchy in the System of a Down Discography, Jesse A. Silk
Capstones from 2013
The Heroic Fallacy: Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game and the Young Adult Reader, Shawn L. Buice
Orual's Quest for Identity: C.S. Lewis's Till We Have Faces in 1950s British Society, Cora Gray
A New Masculinity for a New Millennium: Gender and Technology in David Fincher’s The Social Network, Danielle McDonald
“Ravaged by Time”: The Effects of the Past and Future on the Present in The Glass Menagerie, Lauren R. Moore
Life of Pi: Perspectives on Truth, Sarah Morse
“I’m not lost anymore:” Hyperreal Self-Realization amidst Hostile Father-Son Relationships in Lunar Park, John Michael Mumme
The Effects of Young Caregiving in Debra Granik’s Winter’s Bone, Natalie V. Youngquist
Capstones from 2012
“First they built the roads”: The Automobile Agent in Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs, Kimberly Prijatel
Waste, Wasting, Wasted: Repercussions of Simulations on the American Family in Tracy Letts’s August: Osage County, Kate Soules
Capstones from 2011
The Fantasy of the Real: J.R.R. Tolkien, Modernism, and Postmodernism, Hannah Brady
“Look Back at Me”: North and South and the Two-faced Neo-Victorian Gaze, Julie Ellen Pickens
Capstones from 2010
The Grotesque Gospel of Buechner’s Godric, Emily Burris Geary
Capstones from 2005
Memories, Moments and Miracles as a Source of Hope in John Cheever's Falconer, Adam Drent
"On and On" until "All Out": Seeking Silence within the Postmodern Paradigm of Samuel Beckett, Rachel Ganong
Failing to Connect: Dialogue and Love in E.M. Forster's The Life to Come, Joshua Sanborn
Witches Among Us: Elizabeth George Speare's Social Commentary on McCarthyism in The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Libby Shortt
Social Construction in Les Miserables: A Look at Jean Valjean's Identity Formation in the Context of Symbolic Interactionism's Labeling Theory, Joy VanBuskirk
To Warm the Anawim: Radical Feminism, American Culture, Judeo-Christian Traditions, and Incest, Cynthia R. Wallace
Presentations from 2003
Directors and Tutors ‘Writing Back’: Implementing a Vision for a Campus-Friendly Writing Center, Julie L. Moore, Cindy Rich, and Nate Andrews
