Comps, honors papers, and prize-winning works of the English Department are featured here. All works have been self-submitted by the student authors. Descriptive information about each work is available to search or browse. Access to the full text of the works is limited to current Carleton affiliates with faculty permission. Learn more about how to submit your work and how to request access to the full text of works.
Submissions from 2011
Sally Joan Larkins, English (ENGL) 2011, Bogged Down: Intersections of Past and Present Violence in the Bog Poetry of Seamus Heaney
Lauren Joy Millikan, English (ENGL) 2011, Curiouser and Curiouser: The Internet as a Medium for Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Chapters 5, 6, and 7)
Lingerr Marie Senghor, English (ENGL) 2011, Trapped: Inequality and Imprisonment in the Bronte Canon
Gabriel Perri Silberblatt, English (ENGL) 2011, Revising, Re-visioning: Italo Calvino and the Politics of Play
Amy Gin Sun, English (ENGL) 2011, The Man Who Shot Down the Sun
Courtney Elizabeth Wipf, English (ENGL) 2011, Never Break the Chain
Submissions from 2010
Christopher Daniel Burke, English (ENGL) 2010, Shakespeare's Wise Fools
Elizabeth Anne Sheridan Camlin, English (ENGL) 2010, All the Single Ladies: Christina Rossetti's Radical Revisions of "Goblin Market"
Alexander Edward Gibson, English (ENGL) 2010, Owning Up to the Past: Identity and Ownership in Select Works of Toni Morrison and Gloria Naylor
Julia Elise Gold, English (ENGL) 2010, How Shall I Live?: Reading The Portrait of a Lady Through the Lens of Emerson's Self Reliance
Clare Kirkpatrick Jones, English (ENGL) 2010, This Precarious City: The Construction of a Colonial Urban Landscape in the Poetry of Joy Harjo
Heather Anne McPherson, English (ENGL) 2010, Making Terrors of Trifles: Violence in "The Rape of the Lock" and Othello
Heather Anne McPherson, English (ENGL) 2010, Women as Objects of Exchange in the "Man of Law's Tale" and Venus
Charlotte Grace Muzzi, English (ENGL) 2010, Poems from the North and West
Stephanie Lauren Strother, English (ENGL) 2010, The Colonization of Representation / The Violence of Self-Deception
Amanda Sue Zoch, English (ENGL) 2010, With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage: The comitragic nature of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Othello
Submissions from 2009
Laura Bramley, English (ENGL) 2009, Nonsensical stories : morality, imagination and empowerment in Victorian fairy tales
Rebecca Hahn, English (ENGL) 2009, Beastly desires, rational souls: women writers transforming femininity
