English Seminar Capstone Research Papers
The international studies major provides students with a political view of the international community. Utilizing courses in economics, geography, history, literature, and political science, this program prepares students for careers in areas such as diplomacy, intelligence, international media, humanitarian assistance, international relations, and missions.
Capstones from 2020
Tomboys Are Girls, Too!: A Study of Sibling Relationships in Caddie Woodlawn, Julia G. Kicinski
Capstones from 2015
Dostoevsky's Polyphonic Apologetic: Dialogue and Defense of Christianity in The Brothers Karamazov, Tyler C. Detrick
I Am With You: The Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Fans, and the Harmful Effects of Californication, Alexander 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
'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
Capstones from 2014
“An Obscene Power”: Desire, Capitalism, and Identity in Geraldine Brooks’ March, Rachel Dark
We Are Infinite: Confronting High School Simulacra in Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Michayla N. Lehman
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
