9th Annual Thesis & Field Exam Symposium

Thanks to everyone who attended our 9th Annual Thesis & Field Exam Symposium! It was great to hear from our soon-to-graduate classmates on their recent projects.

Alex Einspahr presents "A Prison of the Body"
Brian Borosky presents "Composing Home"

Here's who presented, along with their topics:
  • Angela Christaldi, “Sister of the ‘Weary Fraternity’: Louisa May Alcott’s Reconciliation to Transcendentalism via Her Writings about the American Civil War”
  • Joseph Alicea, “In-between and Overflowing: Meta-archipelagic Visions of Identity, Community, and Tradition in the Literary Production of Pedro Pietri”
  • Alexandria Einspahr, “A Prison of the Body: Illness, Incarceration, and the Embodiment of Form in Memoir”
  • Brian Borosky, “Composing Home: Things, World, and Futurity in the Poetry of George Oppen”
  • Christie Leonard, “Medicine, Disease, and Pathology in Nineteenth-Century British Gothic Fiction”
  • Nicholas Manai, “The Anglophone Novel of Living and Dying: Non-Self, Impersonal Energy and the Dissolution of Subjectivity in Contemporary Fiction”
  • Amelia Mrozinski, “Modernism and the Repurposing of Institutionally Built Space”
  • Ashley DiRenzo, “Does it Matter of Joyce (Alone) was a Feminist?: Using Contemporary Adaptations of Ulysses to Understand Molly Bloom”
Great work, everyone!


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