2021-2022 Honors Students

Kelly Bibiano

Literatures in Spanish major

Thesis Title: La loca-madre-sidaria: cuerpo materno en "Loco Afán: crónicas de sidario" (1997) de Pedro Lemebel
Thesis Advisor: Carol Arcos Herrera

Carolina Calderon

Literatures in English major

Thesis Title: Bursting Out of Me: The Exploration of Charles Bukowski’s Outsiderdom, Mythicization, and Identification
Thesis Advisor: Seth Lerer

Erin Chun

Literature/Writing major

Thesis Title: Billy
Thesis Advisor: Lily Hoàng

Kaitlin Clemmer

Literature/Writing major

Thesis Title: The Boys’ Violence Against Us Was Allowed: On Dis/Appearance
Thesis Advisor: Andrea Mendoza

Haley Del Pozo

Literatures in English major

Thesis Title: How Ghosts and the Supernatural Are Used in Chicanx Gothic Literature as an Embodiment of Generational Trauma
Thesis Advisor: Ariana Ruíz

Emily Downey

Literature/Writing major

Thesis Title: The Holy Spring
Thesis Advisor: Anna Joy Springer

Elena Escalante

Literature/Writing major

Thesis Title: Ticking, Stop!, Clock & I survived You
Thesis Advisor: Anna Joy Springer

Jennifer Fagan

World Literature & Culture major

Thesis Title: Man, Immortal, and Myth: An Analysis of the Children’s Literature Series "Percy Jackson and the Olympians" and its Relationship to Generation Z
Thesis Advisor: Seth Lerer

Amaya Guzman

Winner of the Sherley Williams Memorial Award in Literary Arts!

Literature/Writing major

Thesis Title: A Statement on Motherhood
Thesis Advisor: Camille Forbes

Montanna Harling

Literature/Writing major

Thesis Title: Divisions
Thesis Advisor: Jac Jemc

Joyous Herron

Literature/Writing major

Thesis Title: Untitled
Thesis Advisor: Camille Forbes

Ashley Hirao

Literature/Writing major

Thesis Title: I Find My Screams: A Life (and Death) in Five Acts
Thesis Advisor: Erin Suzuki

Hannah Johnson

Literatures in English major

Thesis Title: BookTok and the Formation of a New Literary Canon: Queer Theory Vs. Cruel Optimism
Thesis Advisor: Kathryn Walkiewicz

Isaac Kopstein

Literature/Writing major

Thesis Title: The Twelve Tribes: A Remixing and Retelling of "The Book of Exodus"
Thesis Advisor: Seth Lerer

Penni LeMasters

Literatures in English major

Thesis Title: Introversion in Literature: Understanding How Introversion is Often Misunderstood and Misrepresented in Literature
Thesis Advisor: Kathryn Walkiewicz

Anna Lim

Winner of the Burckhardt Honors Award in Literary/Cultural Criticism!

Literatures in English major

Thesis Title: Prismatic Visualities: Refraction of the Asiatic Identity in Animation
Thesis Advisor: Daisuke Miyao

Walter Marino

Literature/Writing major

Thesis Title: Up, Up, Into the Mountain And Something In the Way?
Thesis Advisor: Jac Jemc

Kali Mitchell-Silbaugh

Literature/Writing major

Thesis Title: Memories on Trial
Thesis Advisor: Lily Hoàng

Minnie Nelson

Literature/Writing major

Thesis Title: Beginning to Burn
Thesis Advisor: Jac Jemc

Ishika Rathi

Literature/Writing major

Thesis Title: Mauth: Where I left my Guru
Thesis Advisor: Andrea Mendoza

Todd Tolson

Literatures in English major

Thesis Title: Pound and Cavalcanti
Thesis Advisor: Seth Lerer

Sammy Truong

Literatures in English major

Thesis Title: Reigniting the Phoenix: Centering Chinese Feminine Rage in the Pursuit of Racial Justice
Thesis Advisor: Kathryn Walkiewicz

Katelyn Wang

Literature/Writing major

Thesis Title: Treasures are Saved: Movements of Paper and People
Thesis Advisor: Camille Forbes

Emma Wellmeyer

Literature/Writing major

Thesis Title: your footsteps left a pattern like a ghost’s on Saturn
Thesis Advisor: Lily Hoàng

Alina Woods

Literature/Writing major

Thesis Title: Mekhi
Thesis Advisor: Jac Jemc