Congratulations to our 2020 English Honors Graduates
May 14, 2020
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The Department of English's Honors Program is pleased to recognize its 2020 Honors Graduates.
Natalie Elaine Alexander, “Placing Elle Woods and Vinny Gambini on Trial: How
Popular Culture Creates Expectations of Lawyers and the Law”
Advisor: Oliver Gaycken
Jasmine Nisha Baten, “Dear Bangladesh: Developing Interiority and Nationalism
through Epistolarity in Tahmima Anam’s A Golden Age and The Bones of
Grace”
Advisor: Sangeeta Ray
Soumini Chatterjee, “The Fabric of Fictional Arranged Marriages Interwoven With
a Touch of Reality”
Advisor: Sangeeta Ray
Cameryn Leigh Cole, “The Truth is Out There: The X-Files’ Embrace of the
Enlightenment Era”
Advisor: Andrew Ferguson
Sean Michael Corbitt, “Aspirations”
Advisor: Elizabeth Arnold
Maximillian John Hardman, “Suburban Western”
Advisor: Michael Olmert
Amelia Claire Huppert, “Encouragement of Reader Understanding and Economic
Literacy: An Analysis of Economic Journalism in The Wall Street Journal
Surrounding the Dot Com Boom”
Advisor: Sara Wilder
Joshua D. Ingram, “An Orator’s Game: The Rhetorical Praxis of Presidents”
Advisor: Vessela Valiavitcharska
Conor Andrew James, “Join Me in the Chorus: Unifying Contradictory National
Sentiments Through Music”
Advisor: Scott Trudell
Andrew Jason Katz, “Paul Krugman, the Financial Politician”
Advisor: Michael Israel
Lynn Michael Martin, “Why We are Silent: Anabaptist Poetry as an Exercise of
Gelassenheit”
Advisor: Thomas Moser
Julia Grace Novick, “The Role of Fantasy in Understanding Cultural Traumatic
Memory: Confronting the Past with Kindred and See Under: Love”
Advisor: Chad Infante
Amy Catherine O’Neill, “Certainly, This Must Make it a Garden”
Advisor: Emily Flamm
Nehali Patel, “How Do You Say Sari in English?: Identity Formation in Shailja
Patel’s Migritude”
Advisor: Merle Collins
Gustavo Andres Quintero, “Fantastic Environments as Socio-Political
‘Thought Experiments’ in Secondary World Fiction”
Advisor: Thomas Moser
Emily Nicole Ratliff, “The Ghosts of Narrative: On Conventions that Linger or
Fade”
Advisor: Brian Richardson
Hunter Michael Sparks, “He-Man to She-Ra: The Evolution of Gender
Representation in Children’s Cartoons”
Advisor: Melanie Kill
Kevin Richard Stoll, “Equal Rights for All? Race, Representation, and Justice in
the Works of Harper Lee”
Advisor: Edlie Wong
Ethan Charles Welsh, “The Legend of Charlie Prince—Part 1: Angelus”
Advisor: Lee Konstantinou
Ayanna Sierra Wright, “The Importance of Historical Context in Their Eyes
Were Watching God”
Advisor: Julius Fleming