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Seminar Paper Topics, 1989-2006
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Art
History
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Literature
American
Literature
- Allen, Amy.
Creating and Perceiving the Mythical Ideal of Woman in Nineteenth
Century Art and Literature: An Examination of Images in the Works
of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Emily Dickinson, and Popular Culture.
College of Wooster. 2002.
- Bearden,
Ellen. The American Dream Revisited: Willa Sibert Cather and Her
Response to Technological and Material Progress. Ohio Wesleyan
University. 1992.
- Beyer,
Miriam. The Garden as Mediator in Willa Cather's Fiction. Hope
College. 1996.
- Bingham,
Lisa. 'The Bonds of Savage Slavery:' The Nineteenth Century of
Discourse and the Evolution of the Captivity Narrative. Lawrence
University. 1995.
- Bossen,
Colin. Labor, Land, and Industry: Carl Sandburg as Radical Environmentalist
and Social Reformer, 1907-1922. Denison University. 1996.
- Bresnan,
Mark. Too Many Stories to Tell: Sherwood Anderson's Non-fiction,
1926-1941. St. Olaf College, 1999.
- Campbell,
Alexandra. From Rowlandson to Douglass: A Study of the Similar
Evolution of the Indian Captivity Narrative and the Slave Narrative
in American Literature. Denison University. 2005.
- Clark, Emily.
'It Shows How a Body Can See and Don't See at the Same Time:'
Mark Twain and 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'. Oberlin College.
1995.
- Collins,
Tom. Hamlin Garland and Floyd Dell in the Midwest: Divided Selves,
Divided Citizens. Beloit College. 1989.
- Cook, Melissa.
Adeline Atwater: Voice of a Survivor. Kalamazoo College. 1993.
- Doucette,
Courtney. Waking-Dreams of Social Change: Colonial Dreams of and
Ideal Nation in Utopian Thought. Lawrence University. 2002.
- Farfsing,
Rebecca. Women and Gothic Literature. Denison University. 2006.
- Hainze,
Emily. Millay and her Mother's Voice. Grinnell College. 2004.
- Hill, Jonathon.
A Comparison of the Lives and Literary Generations of Malcolm
Cowley and Jack Kerouac. Wabash College. 1992.
- Hoban, Meghan.
"Bowing Down at the Altar of Hymen": Nineteenth-Century American
Prescriptive Literature as Moral Textbooks. Beloit College, 2000.
- Honnette,
Alyssa. Solidarity through Discourse: Southern Nationalism in
a Confederate Literary Journal. Carleton College. 2003.
- Houge, Paul.
'Brains, Brilliancy, Bohemia': A Study in Bohemian Self-Concepts
During the Second Generation of the Chicago Renaissance. Beloit
College. 1989.
- Hysell,
Christine. Ethics and the Unknown God: A Study of John Steinbeck's
Ethical Self. Albion College. 1989.
- Kim, Lili
M. A Step Toward Women's Social Progress: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's
Feminism. Lawrence University. 1992.
- Litwin,
Sheila. 'I Have Quite Other Slaves to Free': The Conflict of Solitude
Versus Society in Ralph Waldo Emerson's Later Years. Knox College.
1989.
- Martin,
Eric. Southern Myth and 'Absolom, Absolom!': An Essay Examining
Faulkner's Demythologizing Process in 'Absolom, Absolom!' and
the Expanded Image of the South which Results from this Process.
College of Wooster. 1990.
- Meyer, Neil.
"Gross and Immoral Imagery Should Ever Be Avoided:" Early American
Gothic and Literary Moralism. Albion College. 2001.
- Meyer,
Rachel. Hearing Eunice Tietjens's 'Plaint of Complexity'. St.
Olaf College. 1998.
- Miller,
Matthew. Towards the Post-Academic Reception of Eugene O'Neill's
Play, 'The Iceman Cometh'. Lawrence University. 1992.
- Newstrom,
Scott. Loading His Canon: Canon-Formation and Self-Promotion in
the Works of American Literary Critic Malcolm Cowley. Grinnell
College. 1993.
- Nolan,
Sharyn. Pieces in the Collage of a Life: Exploring the Theme of
Time in the Works of Dorothy Dow. Knox College. 1994.
- Quinn,
Susan E. A Song of Herself: Dorothy Dow's 'Flowers of Time'. Albion
College 1993.
- Schultz,
Jennifer. Fiction in Nature's Metropolis: Chicago Business Novels,
1893-1914. Ripon College. 2004.
- Shapiro,
Emily. Postmodern Aesthetics in the Artist's Book: The Life and
Poems of Osceola Mays. Kenyon College. 1993.
- Sidor,
Steven. The Loneliest Trade: Malcolm Cowley and the Writing of
a Self. Grinnell College. 1989.
- Smothers,
Lilliane. Jack Conroy's Contributions to the Proletarian Movement:
Literary, Social and Academic. Earlham College. 2004.
- Taylor,
Kay Ann. Willa Cather: Prairie Pioneer, New York Artist. Ohio
Wesleyan University. 1989.
- West, Melanie.
Women and Work: Sherwood Anderson's Personal Search for a Conception
of Self. Lake Forest College. 1991.
- Whitsett,
Emily. Narrative Perspective: A Study of the Narrative and Cultural
Patterns of Sailor Ballads. College of Wooster. 2003.
- Williams,
Jane C. Kate Chopin's Use of Landscape Imagery: Local Color and
Sexual Metaphor. Albion College. 1996.
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British
Literature
- Arenson,
Amy. T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land: A Modern Vegetation Myth. Coe
College, 1999.
- Block, Kristen.
Women's Declarations of Faith: A Look at Seventeenth-Century British
Narratives of Spiritual Awakening. Beloit College. 1997.
- Bratton,
Theresa. Bawd, Cat, Courtesan, Punk, Scarlet Woman, Slut, Streetwalker,
Strumpet, Tart, Town Miss, Trollop, Whore: The Prostitute in Dramas
by Female Playwright in the Early Modern Period. Denison University.
2004.
- Casten,
Ben. 'Infinite Riches in a Small Room:' Christopher Marlowe and
the Conception of the Dramatic Landscape. Knox College. 1996.
- Clements,
Nina. "The Smoothly-Compacted Surface of Female Existence": The
Writing of Geraldine Jewsbury and The Woman Question. Denison
University, 2000.
- Cone-Miller,
Emily. Reconstructing the Past in Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier.
Hamline University, 1997.
- Driehaus,
Bob. For God and Country (Forget the Law): The Unconventional
Political Wisdom of Francis Hopkinson. Denison University. 1991.
- Ford, Seth
Michael. Travel Anxiety: The Impact of Commerce on English Cultural
Identity in Early Modern Travel Advice Literature. Grinnell College,
2000.
- Gallagher,
Erin. Wilde Women: Ladies of Some Importance. Coe College, 1999.
- Gromark,
Emily Jameson. The Creation of Self in William Wordsworth's Prelude.
Macalester College. 1997.
- Hansen,
Jacob. The Hero's Journey: Perceval's Pursuit of the Authentic
Life. Cornell College, 1999.
- Homrighaus,
Ruth. Powerful Fictions: The Self-Made Man, Political Economy,
and Condition of England Novels. Grinnell College. 1997.
- Jensen,
Marjorie. Elizabeth, Twelfth Night and The Maid's Tragedy:
Studies in Renaissance Gender Roles. Antioch College. 2006.
- Kaish, Laurel.
Congreve, Dryden, and Settle: The Conflict of Religion and Secularism
Produced by the Collier Controversy of 1698. Lake Forest College.
2001.
- Kieffer,
Laura. "Rational Creatures": Feminism in the Works of Jane Austen
and Mary Wollstonecraft. Kenyon College, 2000.
- Kocher,
Robyn. Wollstonecraft, Woolf and Weddings: Images of Confinement
and Escape in the Fiction of Mary Wollstonecraft and Virginia
Woolf. College of Wooster, 2000.
- Lehman,
Linda. The Adventures of the New Atalanta: Delanivier Manley's
Defense of Female Rights in Restoration Drama and Fiction. Denison
University. 1993.
- Michelson,
David. Religious and Secular Approaches to Ancient Greek Language
and Thought in Nineteenth-Century Victorian England and Fifteenth-Century
Renaissance Florence: The Hellenism of Marsilio Ficino, John Stuart
Mill, Matthew Arnold and Walter Pater. Knox College. 2001.
- Scholl,
Laura. Conflict Resolution in the Life and Writing of Katherine
Mansfield. Lawrence University. 1997.
- Schultz,
Margaret. Wedded Wills: Shakespeare's Criticism of Marriage in
Taming of the Shrew. Lawrence University. 2004.
- Sebacher,
Jason. Milton's "Lycidas". Albion College. 2006.
- Tillman,
Gina. 'Had I Plantation of this Isle': New Historicism and 'The
Tempest'. Monmouth College. 1995.
- Whelan,
Rebecca. Donne's Holy Sonnets, St. Augustine, and the Apocalypse:
Paradigm and Variation. Lawrence University. 1994.
- Wittman,
Cynthia. Countdown to Camelot: Issues of War and Peace in the
Post-World War Arthur. Kenyon College. 1992.
- Wood, Melanie.
The Landscape of Rome: Changes in the Concept of British Travel
Literature, 1790-1850. Antioch College. 1996.
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Comparative
Literature
- Barkley,
Leigh. Changes in the Portrayal of Landscape in Anglo-American
Poetry During the First World War. Kenyon College. 2006.
- Durst, Cynthia.
Dostoevsky and Slave Narratives: Waking Up to the Rest of the
Story. St. Olaf College. 1991.
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Medieval/Renaissance
European Literature
- Derby, Peter.
The Man between Man and Animal: Rereading the Wild Hairy Man in
Western Literature. Hope College. 2004.
- Gaffke,
Carol. The Lyrics of the Trobairitz: The Female Voice in the Provencal
Vernacular Love Lyrics of the 12th and 13th Centuries. Albion
College. 1993.
- Rupprecht,
Heidi. The Politics of Prophecy: Monmouth, Malory, and the Modern
Merlin of 'That Hideous Strength'. Lawrence University. 1997.
- Schrodt,
Ryan. Identifying the Unidentifiable: Social Construction in the
Wake of Turmoil in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. Monmouth
College. 2003.
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Modern European Literature
- Detterer,
Maria. The Evolution of the Gothic Heroine: (1764-1848). Lake
Forest College. 1993.
- Geier, Krista.
Rationalizing The Review: Tracing the Path of Wagnerism in France,
1860-1888, an Analysis of The Revue Wagnerienne. Coe College,
1999.
- Ryan, Carolyne.
"At Last, Patagonia!": Perception and Otherness in European Travel
Writings and the Emergence of Cultural Anthropology. Lawrence
University. 2002.
- Surfus,
Kendall. Rethinking Gender and Sexuality in "Rumpelstiltzchen":
The Collective Weight of Word and Image in Illustrated Tales of
the Brothers Grimm. Lawrence University. 2004.
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Music
- Miller,
William. Natural Normativity: The Social Function of Balladic
Nature Imagery. Kalamazoo College. 2004.
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Philosophy
- Altman,
Matthew C. The Material Self in a Natural Context: Epistemology
and Ethics Within Santayana's Realms of Being. Albion College.
1993.
- Gavach,
Stephanie. Shadows of Hegelians: The Golden Age Influence of the
St. Louis Philosophical Society. Knox College. 1995.
- Mataga,
Levi. Pragmatism in Progress. Monmouth College. 1992.
- Mayer, Erika.
Symbolization, Metaphor, and the Thought Process: The Common Ground
of Myth and Science. Lawrence University. 1994.
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Religion
- Adams, Amelia.
Persistent Paganism, Changed Catholicism: The Festival of Día
de los Muertos in Mexico. Lawrence University. 2002.
- Benti, Diann.
Robert G. Ingersoll: Apostle of Free Thought. Kenyon College.
2002.
- Burek, Mark.
How to Use Your Personal Problems to Your Advantage: The Deconstruction
[of] John Humphrey Noyes and the Oneida Community. Wabash College,
2001.
- Burns, Christopher.
Sean Thomas Merton: The Self in the Context of Contemplation and
Spirituality. Monmouth College. 1993.
- Fallt,
Sarah. The Landscape of American Hymnody, 1850-1875. Lawrence
University, 1996.
- Hartman,
Darren. Toward Liberalism: The Theology of Henry Ward Beecher.
Wabash College, 1992.
- Kaiser,
Rowan. Christian Missionary Tactics and the Chinese Rites and
Terms Controversy. Antioch College. 2004.
- Leopold,
Josh. Our Bodies, Our Cells: Richard Rolle's The Form of Living
and Female Anchorites. Grinnell College. 2001.
- Meyer,
Cassandra. The Social Gospel of Graham Taylor: Critic or Teacher
of Secularization? Lawrence University. 2001.
- Mladejovsky,
Michele. Mormonism and the Search for Community in Early Nineteenth
Century America. Lawrence University, 1991.
- Murphy,
Melissa. St. Teresa of Avila: Nun, Mystic and Reformer - A Study
of the Woman and Her Work. Monmouth College. 1993.
- Nelson,
James. The Den of Beelzebub: The Conflict Between the Modern and
Evangelical Scottish Presbyterians in the Eighteenth Century as
Expressed Through the Controversy Over John Home's Play Douglas.
Cornell College, 1999.
- Patti,
Michael. Psalmody and Social Change in Puritan New England. Knox
College, 1994.
- Schultz,
Sandra. C.S. Lewis and the Vestiges of Christ: A Study of the
Christian Self in the Modern War. Albion College, 1993.
- Shebeck,
Amy. Within the Shell: The Religious Rhetoric of the Industrial
Workers of the World, 1909-1913. Grinnell College. 2001.
- Starkey,
Lindsay. Individualism in Early Modern Europe: A Study of Protestant
and Jesuit Emblem Books from the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.
Denison University. 2004.
- Terndrup,
Helen. "The Morphine Spirit" and Mary Baker Eddy. Carleton College.
2004.
- Teslow,
Abbie. Creator of and Participant in the Oneida Community: John
Humphrey Noyes. St. Olaf College, 1998.
- Welch,
Elizabeth. The Symbolic Language of Gender Within Theological
Conceptions of the Body and Soul in the Twelfth and Thirteenth
Centuries: As Seen in the Works of Hildegard of Bingen, Bernard
of Clairvaux, Hugh of St. Victor, and Thomas Aquinas. St. Olaf
College, 1998.
- Zdral,
Alexia. Mother Goddess's Creation: A Theological Speculation Concerning
Mary. College of Wooster, 1998.
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