2021-2022
- Mahima Akula, Justice for Bleeding Women: Resisting the "Doctor-God" in Deluge
- Alexandra Bartholomew, Making Medea Monstrous: Moral Liminality in the Heroides and the Legend of Good Women
- Chloe Bartholomew, Foreign Women: Operation of a Gendered and Racialized Guest-Host Framework in Medea and How Much of These Hills Is Gold
- Matheu Boucher, Disobeying the Narrator: How the Stanley Parable Informs Our Conception of Narration in Videogames
- Hannah Burnstein, The Case for Comparative Discourse in Adaptation Studies
- Kathryn Davis, Unburying the Hidden Narrative of Spofford’s ‘Desert Sands’: Gendered Landscapes, Realms of Repression, and Cosmic Symbolism
- Madelieine Domecq, “Let’s Not Talk About What You Don’t Want Out”: Self-Building and Celebrity Informing Narrative in Real Housewives
- Sylvia Ebenbach, Knowledge and Truth in The Things They Carried
- Andrew Farry, The paradox of a transcendent connection to nature: Robinson Jeffers’ Inhumanist as Kierkegaard’s Knight of Faith
- Caroline Galt, “Trusty Pages” and “Kinde Lovers”: Wives, Pages, Students, and John Lyly’s Gallathea
- Rosa Glen-Rayner, Toni Morrison's Sula: Temporal Alternatives and Reimagined History-Telling
- Won Young Jang, Indispensable Countersigns: The Deconstruction of Gendered Literary Tradition in James Joyce’s Ulysses
- Peyton Jefferson, Grief, Trauma, and their Racialized Representations: Black Beings, Gender, and Class in Shakespeare’s Literary Canon
- Airi Kogishi, Paintings and Photographs: How Virginia Woolf Might be Read as Combatting Authoritative Writing Through the Visual
- Derek Kost, The Rhetorical Power of Figurative Language in Literature and Political Speech: Mobilizing Metaphor in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Beyond
- Philip Kuhn, Edenic Temptations: More Plentiful than an Apple — Passion and Desire as Evoked by the Garden in Milton’s Paradise Lost
- Vivian Lei, Writing Affect In/Through Body Parts: The Aggressive Affectivity of Melancholia in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictée
- Kitty Luo, The Still Carnival
- Mallory Moore, Queering Autobiography in the American West: Accessing Desire through Transubstantiation in I Await the Devil’s Comingby Mary MacLane
- Jennifer Morse, Truth is a Matter of the Imagination:” Feminist Utopias, Reproduction, and Redefining the Natural
- Sophia Salvato, Being and Desire in Audre Lorde’s Zami
- Caleigh Stephens, Binding the Body with Language: The Poetics of Hijikata’s Dance-Writing
- Madison Thân, The decapitated forms.’: Dictee’s Rhizome
- Aviva Waldman, Israel in America: Reading History, Utopia, and Nation in Isra Isle
- Devon Wenzel, Conversations with Myself: An Investigation into the Authorial Eponym of Rooney-ness
- Evan Williams, Nothing Happens Next and It Looks Like Us; The Devastation of Hope in Zachary Schomburg’s Fjords vol. 1
- Elizabeth Winkler, Paradise Queered: Speaking Eve's Body Language in Paradise Lost
2020-2021
- Maetal Gerson, The Babbling of a Wandering Child: The Child’s Perceptions and Adult Misperceptions in Call it Sleep by Henry Roth
- Imaan Yousuf, Domesticity and Debauchery: Genre Multiplication, Archival Silence, and the Exertion of Queer Solidarity in In the Dream House
- Olivia Yardley, Anywhere is One Step from Here: Magic, Realism, and the Refugee Experience in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West
- Mingxin Xu, The Scentscape in Lolita
- Renee Wehrle, “Experience is Revelation”: An Anti-Capitalist Model of Porous Experience in Mei-mei Berssenbrugge’s Hello, the roses
- Connor Tree, Novelizing British Socialism: Stories of Scarcity and Healthcare in the 20th Century United Kingdom
- Brinda Rao-Pothuraju, Democratizing the Dead: The Iliad’s Poetic Conventions for Memorialization in Modern Applications
- Alexa Perlmutter, Telling the Truth: Trauma Healing in Autobiographical Narratives by Jeanette Winterson and Alexander Chee
- Nicholas Peno, Gameplay as Queer Experience: Twine’s Affordances to Queer Storytelling and Archival Presentation
- Orliana Morag, “It Would Be Better for Her to Die at Once”: How Elizabeth Gaskell Subverts the Trope of the Fallen Woman and Forges Her a New Path in Ruth
- Natalia McCormick, Life off the Beaten Path: Mapping Irish Women’s Agency in Migration Narratives During the Medieval and Immediate Post-World War Two Eras
- Alice May, “To one, who yearns for sunset land”: Angelina Weld Grimké and the Poetics of Abolition
- Serin Lee, “My Life” as Everybody’s Autobiography: Memory, The Present Moment, and Identity in Lyn Hejinian
- Caroline Kubzansky, “This is What I Have of You”: Ethical Knowledge of Others in Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse and Iris Murdoch’s The Black Prince
- Caitlyn Klum, “A Whistle, a High Murmur, and, at Last, a Song”: Brigit Pegeen Kelly’s Poetics of Listening
- Rita Khouri, The Emergence of Self-Consciousness: A Dialectic between Natural and Biblical Revelation Bridged by the Poetic Imagination in The Prelude
- Brian Johnson, A Little Too Much: The Aesthetic Troubles of Neoliberalism and “Trauma Porn” in A Little Life (2015)
- Zeinab Hussen, From Human Being to Zombie: Racialization, Recognition, and the Right to Opacity
- Myles Hudson, “Your Country’s Secrets”: Cultural Capital and the Literary Construction of White America
- Samual Hebert, “Good night sweet Prince,” the Rood whispered in its Dream: Christ and the Rood’s suffering without terror, riddle-objects’ dual natures in the Exeter Book, and the case against ananthropocentric reading of Old English Treatments of the Anthropomorphic and Natural domains
- Yassmin Elbanna, Submission and Solitude: Deciphering Clarissa Harlowe’s Voice through the Significance of Letter Writing
- Selin Deldag, Multiple Pillars of Maria Edgeworth’s Complex Social, Political and Economic Vision for Ireland
- Hannah Chen, “Beloved, Household Spirit”: Coming of Age with Ghosts in Beloved and Little Women
- Andrew Chang, The Death of the Designer: A Case for The Decentralized Narrative Model of Contemporary Fashion Shows
- Trent Anderson, Detectives Have Hitherto Only Interpreted the World in Various Ways; the Point Is to Change It: How Truth and Justice Converge in Knight’s Gambit
2019-2020
- Nicho Alvarado, Narratology and the Apocalypse in Dark Souls
- Max Alvarez, Joyce’s “Poetical Evacuations”: Bathos and the Depersonalization of Comedy in Ulysses
- Marjorie Antohi, The Materiality of the Fall in Paradise Lost
- Elizabeth Crowdus, The Anti-Mechanical Justice League: Nationalism, Race, and Opaque Technology in Wonder Woman
- Paola Del Toro, “The President Told Us All to Go Shopping:” Late Capitalist Rupture and Immigrant Recovery in Ling Ma’s Severance
- Belen Edwards, Biotransformations and Community Building in Octavia Butler’s Patternist Series
- Lily Anna Grossbard, “Not That There’s Anything Wrong With That!”:Queer Utopic Moments in Seinfeld
- Hope Campbell Gundlah, “This is my letter to the World”: Emily Dickinson in Dramatic Performance
- Tess Gundlah, The Demon Who Saved The World: Adaptation, Identity, and Free Will in Good Omens
- Claire Holland, Looking Back: World, Woman, and Writing in Elizabeth Bowen’s “Look at All Those Roses”
- John Ingold, Crossing the Threshold: Supernatural Representations of Trauma in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
- Carissa Knickerbocker, A Wolf in Knight’s Clothing: Crafting Magic in Marie de France’s “Bisclavret”
- Alex Kong, Aspiring to Nature: The Politics of Acknowledgement in Michael Fried’s Modernism
- Felix Lecocq: Men on Fire: Reading Trauma and Immortality through Time in Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
- Emily Lynch, One-Woman Shows in an Era of“Stale” Feminism
- Brooke Nagler, Iconicity, Photographic Aesthetics, and Implicit Partnership:Stein and Toklas, Sontag and Leibovitz
- G. Cyrus Pacht, Alienating the Teutonosphere, or Avoiding History: Subversive Approaches to Postwar Progress in How German Is It and Heldenplatz
- Ramona Pfaender, Magic and Mayhem: Gender and the Spatialization of Power in George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire
- Bryant Raisch, Odysseus as Ethnographer: Ulysses and the Odyssey
- Nicole Romeu, Where’s Wald(a)? Locating the Origins of Feminine Subjectivity via the Deconstruction of the American Nuclear Family in Sula
- Claire Schultz, “You are altogether a human being, Jane? You are certain of that?”: Jane Eyre and the Fairy Tale
- Jake Scott, Mobility in the Age of Political Economy: Beachy Head’s Prospect of Community
- Emily Stevens, How To Do Kings With Words: Paradigms of Performance in Shakespeare’s Richard II
- Sarah Tinaphong, Creating from the Space Between: On the Use of Poetics to Convey the Asian-American Experience
- Christina Tuccillo, Call Me by Y/N:Celebrity and the Status of the Reader in Reader-Insert Fanfiction
- Calvin Wang, Watch What You See, Watch What You Think, and Watch Out for the Flies: Video, Relationality, and Ecology in Pierre Huyghe’s UUmwelt
- Melanie Wang, Gone Girl: An Analysis of the Trickle-Down Effect of Neoliberalism on Ordinary Behavior
2018-2019
- Moyo Abiona, Revisiting the Frankenstein Myth After Shelley and Whale: Víctor Erice’s El espíritu de la colmena
- Kaitlyn Akin, Sex, Drugs, Fantasy, Death: Dennis Cooper’s Contribution to AIDS Discourse
- Rachel Bailey, “Under the Red, White and Blue”: American Inferiority and Exceptionalism in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
- Afriti Bankwalla, Staging Subversion: Stage Building as a Subversive Tactic in Gender Performance
- Anastasia Bernat, Body Politics: Dead Bodies and The Barbarian Girl in J.M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians
- Alexander Daibes, Love in the Time of AIDS: The AIDS Novel, John Berger’s To the Wedding, and Art as an Offering
- Talia Friedland, Oops!...The Titanic’s Back Again: Analysis of Cultural Returns to the Ill-Fated Ship, and Why We Can “Never Let Go” of the R.M.S. Titanic
- Elizabeth Furlong, Play it by Ear: Activating the Reader through the Sonic Dimensions of Laurence Sterne’s The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
- Margaret Glazier, Something Within: Magnetism and the Female Subject in Ben Jonson’s The Magnetic Lady
- Christopher Good, “That sense which would make the world real”: Disability and perception in Miss Macintosh, My Darling
- Drew Holt, The Little Lower Layer: Intention and Interpretation in Moby-Dick
- Sophie Hoyt, Surviving in the Multiracial Body: Octavia Butler and Multiracial Science Fiction
- May Huang, Hong Kong and Chicago: Voicing the City Through Verse
- Katie Kahal, Reduce, Reuse, Rewrite: The Republication of Lessons for Children from England to America
- Ava Kaplan, The Promiscuous Supplement: Gender and History in Samuel Pepys's Ballad Collection
- Patrick Lou, Neo-Americans and Immigrant Acts: American Citizenship as Exclusionary Nationalism in Native Speaker
- Emily Lovett, Austen On Stage: Externalizing Interiority in Modern Jane Austen Dramatizations
- Julia Martinez, The Spiritual Consequence of Grendel’s Onslaught in Beowulf
- Clara Mora, The Age of Magical Thinking and Reading: Magical Realism and the Effects of Genre in Neil Gaiman’s American Gods
- Ellie Newman, Humor and Humorlessness in A Gate at the Stairs
- Kyle Oleksiuk, A Problem? Perhaps Not.": Melville’s Use of Inconsistency in Moby-Dick
- Matt Oye, The Folded Temporality of Crane and McCullers: Formalizing Queer Temporality through Heidegger and Benjamin
- Everett Pelzman, Rhythmic Walls: The Transatlantic Architectonics of Racialized Space in Pinckney’s Black Deutschland
- Abbie Reeves, Haunting History: Virginia Woolf, Vivian Maier, and the Twentieth-Century Flâneuse
- Bethany Sanchez, Frankenstein: or, The Modern Pygmalion: Why the Structural Importance of Pygmalion Outweighs the Promethean Figurehead of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
- Angad Singh, “Pedophile” Ghosts and “Returned” Children: Transgression, Queerness, and the Remaking of Kinship in Arundhati Roy’s Fiction
- Hannah Skaran, Language Speaks Us: Idiolect and Ideology in Nabokov’s Lolita
- Ella Sperling, Play’s the Thing: Objects and Empire in E. Nesbit’s Edwardian Fantasy
- Mia Spezia, The Men that Were: Traumatic Injury in British World War I Media
- Simone Stover, Code-Switching as a Tool of Social Negotiation in So Far from God
- Ash Wiseth, Mortal Being: Death as Selfhood in William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying
- Maria Zurita, “Wording the World Together”: Linguistic Performativity in Jhumpa Lahiri’s In Other Words and Maggie Nelson’s Jane
2017-2018
- Julia Aizuss, "Rewrite someone else's writing. Maybe someone formidable": Making and Remaking Catullus in and around the New York School
- Jeffrey Chin, "Nothing Good Gets Away: Stories"
- Grace Ellis, Soaring: A Generation Accustomed to Mass Shootings
- Emma Gardner, Secret Agents and Agency: How Domestic Terrorists’ Living Spaces Promote Ideological Extremism and Radicalization
- Kushal Haran, Embodied Psychoanalysis through Nightwood
- Caitlin Hubbard, From Fear-Inspiring Goddess to Drunken Hog: The Devaluing of Hecate by the Seventeeth Century English Stage
- Fitzwilliam Keenan-Koch, Red and Stranger Colors
- Athena Kern, The Bloody Kotex and the Stenching Rag: Menstruation in Performance Art and Literature
- Hanna Kime, Dealing with Stuff
- Ashford Lanquist, As the Serpent is Reborn: Snakes, Societal Change, and Optimism in the Aeneid and Paradise Lost
- Rebekah Lippens, A womman trauelynge: Gender, Authority, and Tradition in the Life of Christina mirabilis
- Charlie Lovejoy, Ineluctable Modality of the Legible: Literary Style and the Gendering of Fictional Characters
- Sara Maillacheruvu, Home
- Emma Maltby, Thresholds of Revelation: Harper Pitt and the Ambivalence of Progress at the End of the Cold War
- Cortney McInerney, Mechanisms of Size-Change in Gulliver’s Travels and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: The Body in Space and Society
- Yuri Motoyama, Beckett's Decompositions: How It Is and the Material History of Tenderness
- Rebecca Naimon, Brain Waves for My Brother
- Annie Nazzaro, Keepers: A Novel in Progress
- Isaiah Newman, Scraphaven
- Puck Orabel, Blessed Faggotry
- Daniel Ortiz, Anti-Liberal Autobiography: Rhetorical Ventriloquism as a Mode of Reserve in John Henry Newman's Apologia pro Vita Sua
- Mateo Pomi, Sleep
- Meghana Rao, The Utility of Cancer Metaphors: A Modern-Day Examination of Illness as Metaphor
- Morgan Robinson, A Conspicuous Cultivation of the American Dream: The Failure of Production and Reproduction in the Black Community as explored in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye
- Eli Rudavsky, Stranger Visions
- Rachel Scharff, Dumb Blankness, Full of Meaning: Voicing Trauma in Moby-Dick
- Kelsey Schmitt, Dolly
- Kathryn Seidewitz, Imperial Infection: Othello's colonial and postcolonial afterlives
- Tahira Sherwani, Plz Fix
- Caroline Sudduth, White Whale, Chapter One
- Kathleen Surhigh, “Perhaps No One Will Notice Them”: Defamiliarizing Feminine Social Roles and Enabling Female Subjectivity in Helen Adam’s Ballads
- Samantha Zoeller, Waiting for Trains
2016-2017
- Archit Batlaw, In-Between: Tender Buttons, Cosmos and the Materiality of Signs
- Sonya Bennett-Brandt, Time to Kill
- Muriel Bernardi, Surplus Subjectivity: The Mechanization of Value and the Obsolescence of Human Feeling in Kurt Vonnegut’s Player Piano
- Nicolle Bertozzi, Hot Water for Tea
- Sarah Claypoole, “Violations of My Myriad Non-Disclosure Agreements, and Other Stories That Make You Want to Sue”
- Kathleen Cole, Childish Things
- Domitille Colin, Until Death Do Us Part: Werewolves, Wives, and Punishment in Arthur and Gorlagon
- Charles Daston, “By Blacks, about Blacks, to Blacks:” Continuity in the Career of Gwendolyn Brooks
- Sophie Downes, “Sweetness and Peace:” Silence, Control, and Gendered Expression in Dorothy Parker’s Short Fiction
- Christian Fincher, Primeval Eden: Identity, Society, and Ecology in Toru Dutt’s “Baugmaree”
- Margo Fitzpatrick, A Theory of Control in Naked Lunch
- Jamie Keener, Gower, Chaucer, and the Constance of Race
- Mark Hassenfratz, Watterson’s Rebellion
- Patrick McCarthy, An Okonkwo in America: Issues at the Intersection of African Literary Identity and the Global Novel in Americanah
- Tess McClain, Country Pears, Smoke-Filled Air, and the Project of Industrial Resolution
- Igolo Obi, “Blaxploitation” in Cinema Redefined: A Three-Part Analysis
- Jiye Park, A Journey Toward Resurrection in John Donne’s “Hymn to God, My God, in My Sickness”
- Danielle Plung, Bear-ing our Dæmons: Difference, Development, and the Non-Human Animal in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials
- Natalie Richardson, Again, the blade
- Justin Riggs, Trustfall
- Nathaniel Schmidt, One Way and Another: Modes of Truth in Coetzee’s Autobiographies
- Leo Schraudenbach, Stéphane Mallarmé and Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Reading of ‘Le Pitre Châtié’ and ‘Spelt From Sibyl’s Leaves’
- Savannah Smith, From Aeneas to Aslan: Eschatology and Teleology in Aeneid VI and The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe
- Andrew Song, Great Expectations: Finding a Satisfying Ending
- Skylar Spear, The Villanuevas: A New Village
- Cassandra Verhaegen, Negatives
- Charlotte Von de Bur, The Means of (Re)production: Gendered Subjectivity, Biopower, and The Body in 1970s Feminist Science Fiction
- Ellen Wiese, Snow Stops Falling
- Sophie Zhuang, Spenser’s Nightmare of History: Vergilian and Ovidian Techne in Book III of The Faerie Queene
- Sarah Zimmerman, Sex Talk: The Language of Desire in Fifty Shades of Grey
- Kristin Zodrow, Avant-Garde Detritus, or Everyday Objects: The Black Mountain Poems of M.C. Richards
2015-2016
- Max Asaf, Seen
- Kevin Barnum, Completely Subjective: Thoreau's Survey of Walden and his Understanding of Subjectivity
- Laurie Beckoff, All the Difference in the World: Action, Circumstance, and Genre in Harry Potter and Le Morte D'Arthur
- Maxine Berman, "Magneto and His Israels:" Marvel Comics' Zionist Half-Allegory
- Charles Bullock, Guardianship: A Novel
- Jennifer Chukwu, The Blacker the Berry, the "Madder the Juice:" An Examination of Mental Isolation and Black Consciousness
- Jessica Covil, "Outdoors is Here to Stay:" The Bluest Eye and the Black Feminist Movement
- Tayryn Edwards, Writing from Exile: Gestures of Dislocation in Diasporic Texts
- Elizabeth Ellingboe, Killing the Joke: The Alienation and Reconstruction of the Self Through Images and the Endurance of the Unintelligibility of Women's Trauma in Comics
- Julia Friedland, Sleep in The Tempest
- Clair Fuller, Surviving to Speak New Language: Formal & affective rewards of lesbian feminism in Adrienne Rich's Transcendental Etude
- Erin Fuller, Perceiver of World's Sounds
- Ellen Goff, Kings of Egypt
- Joshua Harris, A Pound of Flesh: Directorial Cutting Practices in Performance Texts of Macbeth
- Erin Hart, Getting Out
- Joyce Huang, The Greatest Heist - A Choose Your Own Adventure
- Louise Judge, Make 'Em Laugh: The Failure of Comedy within Friendship in Shakespeare's King Henry IV Part I
- Erin Kim, "The Fisherman's Wife": The Therapeutic Value of the Fairytale in To the Lighthouse
- Madison Lands, On Beauty: Dykes and Afros
- Wesley Mills, A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Adaptation as Translation
- Brian Ng, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
- Jonathan Otcasek, The Modern Hero: On Carl Jung, Franco Moretti, Georg Lukács and Ulysses
- Eden Racket, Ivar the Boneless: Employing Retrospective Diagnosis as a Literary Tool
- Matthew Schaffer, The Church's Foes to Crush: Anti-Catholic Thought in Colonial New England, 1620-1660
- Hannah Shea, Keyways
- Zoë Smith, Black and White Spectacle: Adapting Rape-Revenge and Black Female Suffering in The Walking Dead
- Robert Sorrell, After Afterwardness: Children, Future, and Hope in James Baldwin's Non-fiction and Richard Avedon's Photographs
- Sarah Tarabey, "To What Ends?": Representations of Control and Subversion in Chaucer's The Knight's Tale
- Jasmine Throckmorton, Adrift
- George Townsend, Loose Change
- Matthew Veldman, "That's the new Messiah for Ireland!": Leopold Bloom as Joyce's Inauthentic Modern Irishman
- Kayleigh Voss, Epistolary Consciousness: Unrecognized Complexities in The History of Sir Charles Grandison
- Jeff Wang, Kanye West and the Intersection of American Identity, Black Art and Hip-Hop
- Sarah Watanaskul, Unveiling Monstrosity: Frankenstein and Lolita
- Natalie Wright, "an arch of silence, an interrelation permitting motion in stillness": the architecture of A.R. Ammons' poetics
- Willa Zhang, Internal Geograph
2014-2015
- Joseph Archer, On Person and Profession
- Isabelle Barany, Cosmic
- Ajay Kumar Batra, Marx, Melville, and the Secret of Social Products: Symbolization, History, and Critical Method
- Alexandra Belzley, Dramatizing Early Modern Anxiety: The Tragedy of Julius Caesar and Gender in Elizabethan England
- Andréanne Breton, Franglais
- Luke Bretscher, The Lord’s thegns: lordly and heroic ideals in the Old English Beowulf and Andreas
- Ella Brown, “Ordinary Acts of Bravery”: Self-Esteem and Self-Identification in Veronica Roth’s Divergent Series
- Nicola Brown, Lost Hymns
- Sonia Chakrabarty, “An Immense Leap of An Attempt”: Words, Narrative, and Equilibrium in Zusak’s The Book Thief
- Dan Cronin, On Drag
- Lilian Dube, Body the Baroque
- Jenzo DuQue, Wherever and Whatever These Clouds Were Before
- Alex Filipowicz, Bedtime Stories for Insomniacs
- Eleanor Gamble, Love as Madness in Brontë’s Wuthering Heights
- Josh Greenberg, Heroes’ Journey
- Jack Hamm, Investigating the Soul: Genre and Religion in the Detective Fiction of G.K. Chesteron
- Amy Harlowe, A City and a Hazard: Media and the Impact of Chicago’s Meatpacking Industry on the Back of the Yards Community
- Naomi Harris, The Freedom of Taste: Cultural Literacy in Jean Rhys’ Voyage in the Dark
- JanaShaan Heng-Devan, Surrogates in Scene: Our Modern Mythology
- Christine Huang, Cocooned in Paradise
- Minna Jaffery, How American Trauma Theory Fails Middle Eastern Fiction, and Why the Heroines of Arab Novels Suffer
- Ashlyn Kershner, Nelly Dean the Servant Narrator: Emily Brontë and the Connection between Narrative and Authority inWuthering Heights
- Tyler Kolle, A Summer Love Story
- Justin Krivda, L'Art pour L'Arthur: Brief Thoughts on Japanese Aesthetics and the Arthurian Legend
- Liam Matsumoto Lee, Plan and Elevation
- Andrew Mitchell, Finis Origine Pendet
- Madeline Newquist,The Wrath of the Janeites: The Intimate Experience of Reading Austen and How to Share it in the Modern Age
- Hannah O’Grady, A Crippling Hunger: Food, Gender, and White Southern Community in Good Country People and The Ballad of the Sad Café
- Maayan Olshan, Blue
- Margeaux Perkins, Are You My Mother? A Fairytale Life in Search of Friendship
- Angela Qian, The “I” In Nation: Building Individual Narrators in Times of Political Transition & Little Bones
- Margaret Schurr, Death as Metaphor
- Max Snyder, Listening to Alterity in the Prose of Paul Bowles
- Rebecca Stoner, Safe Neighborhoods
- Carol Ann Tan, Apartment Complex
- Brianna Tong, The Civil Rights Movement in Chicago and Black Women’s Poetry, 1940-1970
- Ashley Tran, Dictating the Self: The Postmonolingual Subject in Multilingual Asian American Poetry & Yellow
- Derek Tsang, Family and the Kierkegaardian dialectic in Rabbit, Run
- Elise Wander, Spaces of Selfhood: Lesbian Illegibility and Graphic Narrative
2013-2014
- Megan Anderluh: "Baffled, Bang'd, Bruis'd" : Otherness, Anthropocentrism, and Water in Walt Whitman
- Taylor Brogan: Gannon
- Maia Brown-Jackson: The Fragmentation of Identity in Modern Japan: Reinvention of the Oedipal Myth
- Michael Coffer: Thrilling to Nothing: Abjection in Getrude Stein's Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights
- Ben Constantino: Writing the American I: An Investigation into the American Short Story
- Cindy Dapogny: Distance: Three Stories
- Grace Fauquet: Making Queer History: Shame, Reading the Past, and Notions of Futurity in Audre Lorde's Zami and Alison Bechdel's Fun Home
- Gabe Friedman: A Challenge to Trauma Theory: Reading and Writing War Trauma in Post-World War II Literature
- Hannah Fullmer: Children Under 14 Free: Gift Exchange in Vladimir Nabokov'a Lolita
- Karen Gu: Angora
- Anna Gustafson: Catching Meaning in Their Nets: Two New American Translations of the Dao De Jing
- Amelia Hawkins: Polly
- Anna Hill: Towards a Heterocosmic Literary Landscape: Reimagining the "World" in World Literature
- Anna Hill: Tickseeds on the Tile
- Brian Hoey: From Swerve of Shore
- Alison Hung: My Place in History: Japanese Fascism, Nostalgia Reconstruction, and the Reader's Responsibility in Zazuo Ishiguro's The Artist of the Floating World
- Eve Hupert: Rewriting "Happily Ever After" : The Influence of Community on the Harlequin Romance Novel Formula
- Lauren Kelly-Jones: Lost Boys and Magpies: Performance Narratives
- Ellen Kladky: I'm Trying to Reach You: Inconvience and Distance in Digitally Mediated Intimacy
- Da Hei Ku: How Do We Read: J.M.W. Turner's The Slave Ship
- Chris Kubik: The New Curators - Chapter Seven: Going Yard
- Michelle Lee: Free Monsters: Examining the Failure of National Identification in the Postcolonial Gothic
- Elysia Liang: A Ticket to the Smart Set: John Cheever, The New Yorker, and Communities of Sophisticated Travel
- Haley Markbreiter: Happiness
- Miranda Means: Through the Space-Man's Helmet: Reading Nabokov's Pnin
- Alida Miranda-Wolff: Trauma: Essays
- Gwen Muren: Glitch
- Kathleen O'Shea: Out of the Realm of Possibility: The Politics of Genre and Classification in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
- Rebecca Pierce: Lost in the Holy Land: Melville and Twain's Search for Interiority
- Michael Reinhard: Unities of Pleasure and Pain: Clueless, Barbie, and Camp Strategies
- Chelsey Rice-Davis: On the Surface: The Aesthetics of Same-Sex Desire in The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Theo Rossi: Space and Subjectivity in Out of Place and A Border Passage
- Kate Rouhandeh: "I'd be more open that a book" : Experiments of Confession in Maidenhead, I Love Dick, and Coeur de Lion
- Harrison Smith: Averted Vision: Two Personal Essays
- Rebecca Stromberg: Harnessing the Generative Powers of Exile and Discontinuity: Case Studies in Aharon Appelfeld's Tzili and Philip Roth's Operation Shylock
- Emily Wang: From Kino-eye to Pen-eye: The Connective Poetics of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha and Susan How
- Claire Wilson: Across Worlds
- Sara Wolovick: "A pacient creature": The Location of Gender in Chaucer's Clerk's Tale