Thesis colloquium 2009
Wednesday May 6, 2009, 4:30pm, Simpkins 341 (University Writing Center)
The Graduate Program in English celebrated the work of our graduating students who are writing theses in Spring or Summer 2009. Students and their thesis directors described their projects.
Congratulations to all of our graduates and their faculty directors and readers.
Emily Brackman
“Food in the American Experience: A Rhetorical Analysis of Attempts to Change How We Grow
and Consume”
Dr. Amy Patrick, Director
Annie Schnarr
“Terror and Television in Don DeLillo’s Mao II”
Dr. David Banash, Director
Bill Iavarone
“A Conversational Trope Unravelled: Samuel Taylor Coleridge in Habermas’ Public Sphere”
Dr. Mark Mossman, Director
Erin Waters
“Looking for the Motherlode in Alternative Culture: Musings on the Alternative Explosion of the Late Eighties and Early Nineties”
Dr. David Banash, Director
Craig Finlay
“Branding Byron: Audience, Celebrity, and the Self-Closeted Writer”
Dr. Merrill Cole, Director
Holly Luetkenhaus
“The Creep Factor: The Blurring of Familial and Romantic Love in Emma and Clueless”
Dr. Mark Mossman, Director
