PROJECTS, SPRING 2010 (Walter Hesford)

Hillary Elmore, Authors and Editors: The Unpublished Carver-Lish Relationship

Cambria Houtte,  Key West as Writers’ Paradise

Holly Stepon, The Role of Women in John Steinbeck’s Fiction

Ali Storey, Tim O’Brien: Memory, Imagination, and What We Wish We Could Forget

Linda Wells, Cultural Hybridity in J.D. Salinger’s Glass Family Fiction

Emma Edwards, Women and the Graphic Novel

Nicholas Klassen, Native American Literature in the Reservation Classroom

Emily Kuhl, Appalachian English Dialect: Historical Direction, Community Retention and Adaptation, and its Place in Today’s World

Dominic Morton, Harnessing Teenage Rebellion

Jaime Whitney, The Grimm Brothers and Textual Criticism

Josette Cleveland, The Importance of Literature within the Dystopian Genre

Josh Cooper, Discovering an American Voice in Poetry: the Influence of Whitman and Dickinson

Jon Dedych, An Uncertain Man: Henry James’ Use of Unreliable Narratives in The Turn of the Screw and The Aspen Papers

Jacob Dyer, Laughing in the Darkness: Comedy in Edgar Allan Poe’s Gothic Tales

Sophie Flynn, The Transubstantiation of Rossetti’s “Goblin Market”

Stephanie Johnson, Caribbean Pirates in Literature and Reality            

Jason Hess, Nonfiction of the American West

Jonathan Karg, Negotiating Narratives: Progress and the Ex-Gay Narrative

Michal Sandford, Cultivating Creativity: The Dynamic Work of Interactive Nonfiction

Tyler Staples, Infinite Jest, Depression, and Media Saturation: David Foster Wallace and the Sources of Modern Anxiety

Lindsay Wilson, Exploring Forms of Memoir