English Honors Theses
Submissions from 2024
The Millennial Novel: Examining a Generation Through Literature, Isabella Bokan
“Beating Back the Past”: The Psychological Justifications of Violence in Toni Morrison’s Fiction, Catherine Buhse
Dystopian Novels and The Greater Boston Area: A Reflection on Privilege, Leonersy J. Guerrero
She Has Green Eyes & Trauma: Problematic Depictions of Mental Illness in Young Adult Novels, Diane G. McDonough
ABCs: American Born Chinese Stories, Ethan Peng
Submissions from 2023
Narratives of Feminist Resistance: Women's Bodily Autonomy and the Dystopian Mode, Grace J. Bromage
Through Her Eyes: Learning and Teaching about Racism through "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "The Bluest Eye", Sloane Larsen
Submissions from 2022
Fantasized Masculinity Performed in American War Narratives, Shea O'Scannlain
Submissions from 2021
Othering: An Analysis of Expression in Hip-Hop and South Asian Literature Through Post-9/11 Discourse, Syed Tareq Alam
Transfer and Transitions: Exploring First Year Writing at Holy Cross, Elizabeth Casavant
High Tide: A Novella, Anna Davis
Wish in One Hand, Amber John
Voices of the Wandering, Grace Manning
Presidential Rhetoric and Media's Contribution to the Subjective Nature of Truth in American Democracy, Bianca Miccolis
The Car Ride Home, Jonathan Rivera
Submissions from 2020
Writing Revolution: Tracing the Origins of Liberty and Tyranny in English and American Literature, Seamus Brennan
User Experience as a Rhetorical Medium: User at the Intersection of Audience, Reader and Actor, Áine Doyle
The Poetry of History: Irish National Imagination Through Mythology and Materiality, Ryan Fay
“The Roommates”: Television Screenplay Writing in the Streaming Era, Maggie Flahetry
Audience and Narrative in Female-Authored Diaries of the Twentieth Century: Analyzing Diaries As Modernist Texts, Rose Grosskopf
Matrons, Mothers, and Monsters: The Heroine in Beowulf, Grendel, and The Mere Wife, Grace Lucier