2022-2023 Honors Students

Garrett Aja

Literature/Writing major

Thesis Title: Descendants of the Beasts
Thesis Advisor: Géraldine Fiss

Frances Clara Barawid

Literature/Writing major

Thesis Title: Borderline
Thesis Advisor: Casandra Lopez

Abigail Chapuis

World Literature & Culture major

Thesis Title: "David Copperfield’s" Obsession with Repression: Compulsory Sexuality in Literary Scholarship
Thesis Advisor: Ameeth Vijay

Amy Cheng

Literature/Writing major

Thesis Title: 100% Sweetness, Where the Loquats Land, and Dew by the Side of the Road
Thesis Advisor: Erin Suzuki

Kassandra Contreras

Literature/Writing major

Thesis Title: Forest of Mirrors
Thesis Advisor: Jac Jemc

Rosabella Debty

Literature/Writing major

Thesis Title: Veritable Voices
Thesis Advisor: Jac Jemc

Maya Dilanian

Literatures in English major

Thesis Title: Armenian Women in Literature: Inheriting Generational Trauma and Coming to Terms with Identity Through Postmemory
Thesis Advisor: Erin Suzuki

Sophia Donner

Literature/Writing major

Thesis Title: The Tomb is Empty
Thesis Advisor: Marco Wilkinson

Kyoko Downey

Literature/Writing major

Thesis Title: banal na pagkababae: the divine feminine
Thesis Advisor: Camille Forbes

Francesca Fox

Literature/Writing major

Thesis Title: A Slice of Fear, a Bite of Pain
Thesis Advisor: Marco Wilkinson

Lilyan Garside

Literatures in English major

Thesis Title: The Woman Warrior: Reclaiming Sites of Violence in LeAnne Howe’s "Shell Shaker"
Thesis Advisor: Erin Suzuki

Camille Kittredge

Literature/Writing major

Thesis Title: Unready & Unformed
Thesis Advisor: Amy Sara Carroll

Betina Kordahy

Literatures in English major

Thesis Title: A Fractured Fandom Where Tolkien is the God-Author: A Review of the Theories of Authorship, Originality, and Adaptation
Thesis Advisor: Sal Nicolazzo

Olivia Koutsky

Literature/Writing major

Thesis Title: Crystal Cove
Thesis Advisor: Géraldine Fiss

Kayla Magnussen

Literature/Writing major

Thesis Title: The Sleepeasy Motel
Thesis Advisor: Géraldine Fiss

Alex Myers

Literature/Writing major

Thesis Title: Coughing Up Flames
Thesis Advisor: Amy Sara Carroll

Lisa Nguyen

World Literature & Culture major

Thesis Title: Grace Marks: How to Eat a Madwoman
Thesis Advisor: Erin Suzuki

Ambar Ornelas

Literatures in English major

Thesis Title: Intersections of Gender Relations, Fear, and Shame in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"
Thesis Advisor: Lisa Lampert-Weissig

Zerui Pan

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

World Literature & Culture major

Thesis Title: The Body and the Song: East Asian Women Writers Experimenting with a Feminine Mode of Science Fiction Writing
Thesis Advisor: Géraldine Fiss

Briana Parker

Literatures in English major

Thesis Title: Emerging from Quicksand: Literary Wandering, Space-Making, and Inter-Cultural African American Female Sexuality
Thesis Advisor: Meg Wesling

Zuleyka Reyes-Cerrillo

Literatures in English major

Thesis Title: Jane Austen’s Enlightened Heroines: Growing Up Differently in "Mansfield Park" & "Pride and Prejudice"
Thesis Advisor: Sal Nicolazzo

Yuliana Rocio

Literature/Writing major

Thesis Title: Consejos
Thesis Advisor: Brandon Som

Gabriel Rojas

Literature/Writing major

Thesis Title: Mending the Separate, Filling the Space
Thesis Advisor: Marco Wilkinson

Rhiannon Scray

Literature/Writing major

Thesis Title: Cracks Left Behind
Thesis Advisor: Amy Sara Carroll

Lindsay Shimono

Literature/Writing major

Thesis Title: To Be Her
Thesis Advisor: Andrea Mendoza

Sejal Spicely

Literature/Writing major

Thesis Title: The River Took Mother
Thesis Advisor: Meg Wesling

Michelle Staten

Literature/Writing major

Thesis Title: if I fell in your forest, would you hear me? a visual/poetic exploration of dementia & intergenerational trauma
Thesis Advisor: Jac Jemc

Aidan Tojino

Winner of the Sherley Williams Memorial Award in Literary Arts!

Literature/Writing major

Thesis Title: The Boxer Codex
Thesis Advisor: Jody Blanco

Riley Viola

Literature/Writing major

Thesis Title: The Valley
Thesis Advisor: Casandra Lopez

Cathy Wynn

Literature/Writing major

Thesis Title: Saudade
Thesis Advisor: Brandon Som

Jasmine Wynn

Literature/Writing major

Thesis Title: Fragile Body Pieces
Thesis Advisor: Amy Sara Carroll