Senior Projects

All projects from summer of 2000 to spring of 2004 are for English or English education students. In Fall 2004, foreign languages majors also began to present senior projects.

Summer 2000

• Jennifer Barbaree --Interdisciplinary Teaching of English and Art
• Allison Young – The Study of Literary Theories Applied to Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown”

Fall 2000

• Russell Williams – Teaching Le Morte D’Arthur

Spring 2001

• Kimberly Guinn -- A Critical Analysis of “The Lady of Shalott”
• Ashley Bethany – Translating Los Pollitos Dicen Pío, Pío, Pío

Summer 2001

• Russell Brasel—Deconstructing T.S. Eliot’s “Little Gidding”

Fall 2001

• Josh Wilson—The Professional Portfolio of Joshua C. Wilson
• Jodi Harris—Mystery of the Vision of What-Is: The Effect of Grace Through Existentialism in Flannery O’Connor’s ‘A Good Man is Hard to Find’”

Spring 2002

• Lynn Hough—Imagination, Composition, and Molding of the Will: Anne Bradstreet’s Meditations Divine and Moral
• Stacy Kendrick—The Marriage Relationship in Edith Wharton’s House of Mirth and Selected Short Stories
• Kaine Ezell—Popular Culture and the Teaching of Shakespeare
• Jamie Coker—The Literary Significance of Anne Hutchinson for Hester Prynne in Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter.

Spring 2003

• Beth Augenstein—Enjoying Literature: Naïve Expectations or Warranted Optimism (Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby)
• Kelley Spradlin—The Modern Fairy Tale Maiden (Hawthorne’s “Rappaccini’s Daughter”)

Summer 2003

• Keri Hamilton—Lights, Books, Action: Using Film to Teach Literature (Alex Haley’s Roots and Frederick Douglass’s Narrative)
• Shay Wise—The Role of Ethnicity in the Characterization of Janie Crawford in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God

Fall 2003

• Dana Cooper—Debating the Role of African-American Literature
• Stephen Hrncir—Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado”: A Bibliographical Essay
• Brittany Wright—The Influential Friendship Between Margaret Fuller and Ralph Waldo Emerson

Spring 2004

• Jennifer Jameson--A New Species of Justice: Reuben and Their Eyes Were Watching God
• Anwar Fairley—Baldwin’s Go Tell It on the Mountain and the African Church
• Emily M. Boykin—Jane Austen Versus Emma Thompson: An Analysis of Sense and Sensibility
• Sammy Larkin—Beowulf: A Feminist Glance
• Tanisha Green—Tracing Janie’s Path to Agency in Their Eyes Were Watching God
• Misty McLaury—The Scarlet Letter: A Modernization

Fall 2004

• Elanor Barnes—Studying Musical Contexts of William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience
• Courtney Parker—Tennyson’s Lady Godiva: Breaking Gender Stereotypes
• Amber Fincher—The Philosophy of Voltaire

Spring 2005

• Donika Ross—Collection of Poems
• Jennifer Matthews—Creative Writing--Drama
• Shondranika Ford—African-American English: The Motivating Force to Standard English

Summer 2005

• Robert Hendrick—La Satisfaction des Besoins dans Le Petit Prince d’Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• Ron Mooney—Using Isabel Allende’s Novel, City of the Beasts, as a Tool to Teach Cultural Diversity in the High School Classroom

Fall 2005

• Brandi Lynn Hilton—La identidad de la mujer latin en los Estados Unidos en Casi una mujer y en How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents
• Jennifer Chandler Odom—Miguel de Unamuno o la Simpatía por la fe ciega

Spring 2006

• Elena Yakunina—The World Seen by the Sane and the Insane: Rewriting Manic Depression in Mrs. Dalloway
• Lindsay Welsh—Teaching The Awakening by Kate Chopin and “Sweat” by Zora Neale Hurston
• Aicha Lompo—Images of African Women in Sembene Ousman’s God’s Bits of Wood

Fall 2006

• Janeth Derrickson—Nostalgia por el campo: en los poemas de Tao Ch’ien, Fray Luis de León y William Wordsworth
• Gabriela Mendoza—La pérdida y recuperación de las raíces culturalas
• David Rice—Análisis contrastive: indicative y subjuntivo
• Morgan McEachern—Semenjanzas y diferencias entre el Popol Vuh y la Santa Biblia
• Tara Arnold—Las práctices discriminatorias en los anuncios clasificados de empleo
• Anna Petersen—Cómo enseñar la poesía de Rosalía de Castro y Emily Dickinson en una clase de español
• Allison Boettger—Trabajo social con los hispanos
• Rachel Garrett—Los conflictos lingüisticos, culturales y tradicionales entre dos generaciones de inmigrantes

Spring 2007

• Anna Petersen—Rosalía de Casto and Emily Dickinson: Leading Students to a Kaleidoscope of Possibilities
• Sara Bland—Magic, Monsters, and Mudbloods: Finding Academic Value in Harry Potter
• Alicia Burdue—Teaching and Selecting Multicultural Literature
• Cristie Mays—Bilingualism and Bilingual Education: A Time for Change
• LaQueisha Messer—Women’s Roles Viewed in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll House and Other Works of Literature
• Eli Elias—La construcción de la identidad en la música Tejano
• Regina Clark—El bilingüismo en el campo de los negocios en los Estados Unidos