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 2024
Ella Cunningham, English (ENGL) 2024, Myth, Movement, and Reimagining the Anthropocenic Future
Soren Eversoll, English (ENGL) 2024, Minotaur
Bella Frost, English (ENGL) 2024, A Parable of Reproductive Rights: (Re)reading Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in Light of Louisa Hall’s Reproduction
Han Han, English (ENGL) 2024, A poetics of stillness: Reading displacement and disorientation in Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha and Empathy by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
Isabel Hoyt-Niemiec, English (ENGL) 2024, "Slashing Women into the Texts": Women's Resistance through Language in The Handmaid's Tale and Matrix
Douglas Meeker, English (ENGL) 2024, Orienting, Disorienting, Reorienting: Revisiting Queerness in Sheridan Le Fanu’s “Carmilla” and Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Douglas Meeker, English (ENGL) 2024, Reorienting the Gay Canon: Spaces and Sexualities in Maurice and Giovanni’s Room
Julia Nicholson, English (ENGL) 2024, Dog Park
Collin Preves, English (ENGL) 2024, The Hot Dog Play
Christian Schultz, English (ENGL) 2024, "This Time is Different" & "The Apocalypse Game"
Submissions from 2023
Indigo Bistrup-Peterson, English (ENGL) 2023, Between Meals
Sophia Heidebrecht, English (ENGL) 2023, “Teeming with blasphemy”: Robin Hood, Joseph Ritson, & the Radical History of the Ballad
Anna Hepler, English (ENGL) 2023, "We'll Hear That Song Again": (Re)interpreting Shakespeare's Music for the Contemporary Stage
Diana Kachman, English (ENGL) 2023, "Your Loud Self, Your Loud Eyes, and Your Loud Guilt: Race and Representation in Fairview" and "Environmental Justice and Nature’s Healing in Through the Arc of the Rainforest and “The Lament of Swordy Well”"
Julia Luljak, English (ENGL) 2023, Allied with the Land: Recreating the Midwestern Woman in My Ántonia and A Thousand Acres
Riley Madsen, English (ENGL) 2023, “From the Point of View of Future History, This Kind, We’ll Be Invisible”: Approaches to History in Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition and Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale
Douglas Meeker, English (ENGL) 2024, AIDS, Affect, and Alternative Realities: Paranoid and Reparative Readings of Thom Gunn’s The Man With Night Sweats”
Sophie Perfetto, English (ENGL) 2023, Anthropocene
Eleanor Reinhold, English (ENGL) 2023, "Equal As We Are": Female Self Worth in Pamela and Jane Eyre
Hannah Sheridan, English (ENGL) 2023, Rewriting the City: The Transgressive Flâneuse in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and Caitriona Lally’s Eggshells
Andriana Taratsas, English (ENGL) 2023, The Cross-Dresser's Dilemma: The Reader as the Answer to Literature's (Im)mobility Problem
Andriana Taratsas, English (ENGL) 2023, The Miscarriage
Submissions from 2022
Cassidy Bins, English (ENGL) 2022, Rewriting Womanhood: Duplicity in Pamela and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Soren Eversoll, English (ENGL) 2024, Jean-Pierre Melville is Dead
Marianne Gunnarsson, English (ENGL) 2022, It's Raining Suitors
Julia Johnston, English (ENGL) 2022, Silhouette in the Doorway
Saraswati Vadnais, English (ENGL) 2022, Will I Make a Man Out of You? Coming-of-Age and Subversions of Masculinity in America Is in the Heart and Stone Butch Blues
Sam Wingfield, English (ENGL) 2022, "Before I am, I was": Narrating Time in Angle of Repose
Submissions from 2021
Cara Meyer, English (ENGL) 2021, “The terrors of direct experience”: Resolving Trauma in “The Machine Stops” and My Year of Rest and Relaxation; The Role of the Community in Enduring Racial Oppression in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and The Island
Elwood Olson, English (ENGL) 2021, Constructions of Closeted Authorship in Dorian Gray and Dracula
Octavia Washington, English (ENGL) 2022, For My Dad
Octavia Washington, English (ENGL) 2022, Maggot
Submissions from 2020
Evan Allgood, English (ENGL) 2020, This Body, Unbound
Alleana Austin, English (ENGL) 2020, Freedom, Sexuality, and Rebellion in the Coquette and “We Came All the Way from Cuba So You Could Dress Like This?” And Pretended Purity and Mixed Heritage in A Man of the People and “The True Born Englishman”
Madeline Birnbaum, English (ENGL) 2020, “The Most Unexpected of Interpretations”: Expanding Narrative Possibilities of the Northern Irish Troubles in Anna Burns’ Milkman
Kathleen Danielson, English (ENGL) 2020, At This Time a Queen Shall Be Burned
Erica Helgerud, English (ENGL) 2020, Creating Community: Synthesizing the Black Experience of America Through Literature AND Pieces of Skin or Palm Tree Heartbeats: Immigrants and Sex in The Lonely Londoners and “We Came All the Way from Cuba So You Could Dress Like This?”
Lucy Horrell, English (ENGL) 2020, Lilith
Jacob Isaacs, English (ENGL) 2020, The Kings of Nowhere: Challenging Place and Identity Boundaries in NW and There There
Cece Lasley, English (ENGL) 2020, “Double, Double, toil and trouble?” The Multiplicitous Nature of the Weird Sisters and its Effects on Culpability in Shakespeare’s Macbeth
Luke Webb, English (ENGL) 2020, Chinua Achebe’s A Man of the People and William Shakespeare’s Henry V as Political Critiques of Unrestrained Self Interest
Luke Webb, English (ENGL) 2020, Transversalism in Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi and The Lonely Londoners by Samuel Selvon: Writing to Right Misconceptions
Submissions from 2019
Brynne Diggins, English (ENGL) 2019, Imagining Indian Womanhood: Identity and Independence in the Novels of Krupabai Satthianadhan
Anne S. Hackman, English (ENGL) 2019, Searching for a Japanese American Language in Nisei Daughter and No-No Boy
Dylan Harsch, English (ENGL) 2019, Countercurse: Poems
Julian Hast, English (ENGL) 2019, Dada and Modernism: How the Great War Changed Fiction
Julian Hast, English (ENGL) 2019, Dionysian Woolf: Nietzschean Subversion of Truth And the Redemptive Power of Art in Woolf’s Novels
Will Loner, English (ENGL) 2019, Simple Thoughts on How Best to Lose the World
Kerrin Mulkern, English (ENGL) 2019, This Temporary Eclipse: Enjambment in H.D.'s Trilogy
Octavia Washington, English (ENGL) 2022, On Love
Submissions from 2018
Joe Brommel, English (ENGL) 2018, On Reading Pale Fire
Madison Anne Chambers and Christina Marie Sieben, English (ENGL) 2018, Fisher
Annmarie Delfino, English (ENGL) 2018, Silver Witness
Bonnie Mae Lindgren, English (ENGL) 2018, Uncertain Creatures
Mary Ann Savoye, English (ENGL) 2018, Islands and Memories, Place and Grief
Submissions from 2017
Annemarie Ruth Eayrs, English (ENGL) 2017, The Dying Room
Jennifer Kwon, English (ENGL) 2017, Exploration and Trial of Translation Theory in Korean Literature
Benjamin Azaria Matson, English (ENGL) 2017, Finding a Sense of Place in a Postmodern World: The Postpostmodernity of Cloud Atlas
Olivia Ruth Williams, English (ENGL) 2017, The Art of Imitation: Multivalent Narratives and the Question of Culpability in William Blake's Paradise Lost Illustrations
Submissions from 2016
Noah Barak Bunnell, English (ENGL) 2016, Presidential Sonnets
Noah Barak Bunnell, English (ENGL) 2016, The Re-Birth of the Critic: Deconstructing Metacriticism in House of Leaves
Claire Edgley, English (ENGL) 2016, The Power of Social Policing: Internalized Discipline in Victorian Heroines
Grace Liang Johnson, English (ENGL) 2018, River Representations: Viewing Nature in a Human Context
Madeline Butler King, English (ENGL) 2016, Disclosure
Sarah Miriam Meister, English (ENGL) 2016, How May I Compare this Prison ... unto the World? The Interpretive Value of Prison Shakespeare
Sarah Miriam Meister, English (ENGL) 2016, “Surprised” in William Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus
Samantha Rose Saltzman, English (ENGL) 2016, Do, Boatman, Do: Christina Rossetti's Case for Granting Power and Autonomy to Girls
Emma Rose Sunog, English (ENGL) 2016, Secrets
Submissions from 2015
Samantha Chao, Ellen Currier, Grace Fremont, Sarah Meister, and Sarah Olson, English (ENGL) 2016, Carleton College English Theatre & Literature in London: A Commonplace Book
Claire Marie Ferguson, English (ENGL) 2015, Crossing Meridians: Conceptualizing Foreignness in Omeros, Invierno, and M. Butterfly and "Dismantling the Angel of the House: Writing Back to Conventional Notions of Victorian Womanhood" (2 papers)
Grace Fremont, English (ENGL) 2015, Of Here and Everywhere: The Poetic Geography of Shakespeare's Travelers
Sarah Drage Olson, English (ENGL) 2015, Woeful Woman's Tragedy: Sibling Incest, the Family, and Female Agency in Jacobean Drama
Submissions from 2014
Emily A. Boghossian, English (ENGL) 2014, Slouching Towards Zeitoun: Narrative Nonfiction From Joan Didion and the New Journalists to Dave Eggers and the Millennials
Elizabeth Leona Callen, English (ENGL) 2014, (Re)imagining History: Memory as a Challenge to Hegemonic Histories in Sandra Cisneros Caramelo and Junot DiÌaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Molly Ann Hemes, English (ENGL) 2014, Children of the Troubles: The Portrayal of Fragmented Identity and Experience in Contemporary Northern Irish Fiction
Ariane Rebecca Mass, English (ENGL) 2014, Ventriloquated
Madeline Leigh Reynolds, English (ENGL) 2014, And so my words were seeds of misery: The Efficacy of Political Poetry in Percy Bysshe Shelley's The Triumph of Life
Kailey Gene Schumacher, English (ENGL) 2014, Strength to speak and act the truth: Social Justice through Christian Community in Elizabeth Gaskell's Ruth, Mary Barton, and North and South
Joe Forrest Steigmeyer, English (ENGL) 2014, Finding Coherence in a Disjointed Reality: The First-Person Portrayal of Dementia in Contemporary Fiction
Kayla Yuen Yee Tam, English (ENGL) 2014, Women as Satellites: Androcentrism and Misogyny in Huxley and Orwell's Dystopias
Sarah Ann Walz, English (ENGL) 2014, Pauses
Submissions from 2013
Pedro J. Fernandez, English (ENGL) 2013, Melville's 'livid hieroglyph': the exhaustions of "Pierre"
Monica Lee Fleisher, English (ENGL) 2013, It's Perfectly Normal: Surveillance, Authority, and Virginity Loss Narratives in Young Adult Fiction
Joshua Nathan Kirschenbaum, English (ENGL) 2013, Freak Show Stories
Ellen Claire Levine, English (ENGL) 2013, What's the Point? The Purpose of Storytelling in Plato, Milton, Douglass, and Rushdie and Madness! Physical and Emotional Readings in The Blindfold and The Master and Margarita
Katie Stevenson Neher, English (ENGL) 2013, Incorporate in Rome: Political Embodiment and Weaponized Femininity in Shakespeare
Sarah Drage Olson, English (ENGL) 2013, Truth in Lies
Sarah Frances Price, English (ENGL) 2013, The Lord of the Sagas: Tolkien's Tom Bombadil and his relation to the Icelandic Sagas
Jacob Jordan Styburski, English (ENGL) 2013, Lacking the Will to Repent: Bedeviled Freedom in the Satanic Soliloquy
Submissions from 2012
Taylor JoAnn Even Ffitch, English (ENGL) 2012, This country will rot a man like a corpse: Local place in Ken Kesey's Sometimes a Great Notion
Emily Steen Foster, English (ENGL) 2012, From the Inside Out: A Tavelogue in Poems
Emily Jo Hartley, English (ENGL) 2012, I Saw and Do Not Believe: Perspective and the Changing Role of Objectivity in John Steinbeck's Nonfiction
Camille Monika Hommeyer, English (ENGL) 2012, Language and Representation in Patricia Grace's Novels
Jonathan Sol Isaac, English (ENGL) 2012, Not only what is, but what is possible: Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun as a Site of Debate
Katarina Diehl Lazo, English (ENGL) 2012, Adaptation/Interpretation: Lois Lowry's The Giver on Stage
Casey Tova Markenson, English (ENGL) 2012, Fall, Falling, Fallen: Suspending 9/11 Through Literature
Anne Edith Metcalf, English (ENGL) 2012, “Threat’ning the World:” The Achievement of Subversion through Speech and Structure in Three Plays by Christopher Marlowe
Melissa M. Terrien, English (ENGL) 2012, Blinded by Prejudice and Unpardonable Arrogance: The Culpable Readers of Pride and Prejudice and Emma
Submissions from 2011
Todd S. Anderson, English (ENGL) 2011, Just Because There's Pieces Doesn't Mean It's a Puzzle
James Michael Dreese, English (ENGL) 2011, The Incandescent Nooks and Crannies of the Bound or Completely Infinite Universe
