Clara Berger, MA Literature

• Portfolio: “The Weight of Desire: Shame and Sexuality in Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Rooney’s Conversations with Friends” and “Embodied Anticipation: Queer Futurity in Saving Face” 
• Major Professor: Emily Jones

Maria Loaiza Bonilla, MFA Creative Writing

• Thesis: “Real Men” 
• Major Professor: Natalie Scenters-Zapico

Gentry Burkes, MFA Creative Writing

• Thesis: “Legacy” 
• Major Professor: Heather Sellers

Ann-Elizabeth Caputo, MFA Creative Writing

• Thesis: “Such Beautiful Girls” 
• Major Professor: Jake Wolff

Tiffany Chenneville, MFA Creative Writing

• Thesis: “My Love Affair with James Henry”
• Major Professor: Julia Koets

Victoria Cuomo, MA Literature

• Portfolio: “Author of Her World: Katherine Philips, Self Fashioning and Friendship” and “Octavia Butler's Kindred and the Black Feminist Space” 
• Major Professor: Emily Jones

Shadine Fyne, MFA Creative Writing

• Thesis: "Three Mothers"
• Major Professor: Heather Sellers

Jessica Gallerie, MFA Creative Writing

• Thesis: "Preparations" 
• Major Professor: John Fleming 

Emily Jiannetto, MA Literature

• Portfolio: "Ghosts of Grief in Wuthering Heights” and “The Power of Naming in Empire’s Mistress” 
• Major Professor: Timothy Turner

Jeevitha Kannan, MFA Creative Writing

• Thesis: “Saamanthi”
• Major Professor: Heather Sellers

Anna Khoury, MA Rhetoric & Composition

• Portfolio: "A Case for the M.A. Portfolio: Adapting to Change and Defining the Field of PTC" 
• Major Professor: Meredith Johnson

Olajide Omojarabi, MFA Creative Writing

• Thesis: "Seven Days’ Remembrance" 
• Major Professor: Jake Wolff

Alyssa Prentice, MFA Creative Writing

• Thesis: “Ever & Etc.: A Novel” 
• Major Professor: Brenda Peynado

Isabella Rabadi, MA Literature

• Portfolio: "Motherhood in The Castle of Otranto" and “Model Minority Masochism Theory in Justin Lin’s Better Luck Tomorrow” 
• Major Professor: Quynh Nhu Le

Richard Reisinger, PhD Literature

• Dissertation: “Nobodies From Nowhere: Performances of Identity in Modernist Literature” 
• Major Professor: Phillip Sipiora

Jay Rughoonundan, MFA Creative Writing

• Thesis: “Sex Education"
• Major Professor: Jarod Roselló

Alyssa Sotelo, MFA Creative Writing

• Thesis: “Me and All My Sisters are Gay: Essay Collection”
• Major Professor: Julia Koets

Bob Varghese, MFA Creative Writing

• Thesis: "Pay out of Pocket"
• Major Professor: John Fleming

Johanna Burton, PhD Literature

• Dissertation: "The Monsters in Twentieth & Twenty-First Century Illustrated Adaptations of Beowulf for Children & Young Adults”
• Major Professor: Nicole Discenza

Spencer Daniels, PhD Literature

• Dissertation: “The Drama of Last Things: Reckoning in Late Medieval and Early Modern English Drama”
• Major Professor: Nicole Discenza

Hal Dietrich, MFA Creative Writing

• Thesis: “Aficionado”
• Major Professor: John Fleming

Mark-Elliot Finley, MA Literature

• Portfolio: "'He's a Buffoon': Satan, the Medieval Comic Devil, and False Heroism in Paradise Lost" & "'Happy Birthday, John-I Want a Divorce!': Margaret Atwater Masons' The Binding of the Strong and American Divorce Discourse on John Milton's Tercentenary Celebration"
• Major Professor: Emily Jones

Hannah Galloway, MA Literature

• Portfolio: "Infinite Jest: Hamlet as the Fool of Reason" and "Yesterday, Yesterday, Yesterday: The Concept of Time and Early Modernity in the Sound and the Fury"
• Major Professor: Emily Jones

Nicholas Guilfoile, MA Literature

• Portfolio: "Mark Twain's Hawaii and Damning the Yankee" & "'File and Forget' The Unhomely in Invisible Man"
• Major Professor: Cynthia Patterson

Briget Harley, PhD Literature

• Dissertation: “African Spirituality in Literature Written by Women of African Descent”
• Major Professor: Gary Lemons

Destiny Howell, MFA Creative Writing

• Thesis: “A Tale of Two Sisters”
• Major Professor: Jarod Roselló

Jade Jemison, MFA Creative Writing

• Thesis: “The Pregnancy Years”
• Major Professor: Julia Koets

Haley Jones, PhD Rhetoric & Composition

• Dissertation: "Reimagining Web Design: Empowering Agency of Specialized Audiences through User-Centered Heuristics"
• Major Professor: Lisa Melonçon

Joryn Jones, MA Literature

• Portfolio: "Beowulf" & "Small Island"
• Major Professor: Nicole Discenza

Rachel Knox, MFA Creative Writing

• Thesis: “Land of Flowers”
• Major Professor: Julia Koets

Lynette Kuliyeva, PhD Literature

• Dissertation: “Hidden Monstrosities: The Transformation of Medieval Characters and Conventions in Shakespeare's Romances”
• Major Professor: Emily Jones 

Kyra Lance, MA Literature

• Portfolio: "Publishing a New Black Womanhood in A Hairdresser's Experience in High Life" & "'A Puritan Fear of the Flesh': Modesty and Control in The Handmaid's Tale"
• Major Professor: John Lennon 

Danielle Mercier, PhD Literature

• Dissertation: “Lawful Injustice: Novel Readings of Racialized Temporality and Legal Injustices”
• Major Professor: Quynh Nhu Le 

Erin Olds, MFA Creative Writing

• Thesis: “An Arcade in the Forest”
• Major Professor: Julia Koets 

Thomas Page, MFA Creative Writing

• Thesis: “The Decimated: A Hybrid Thesis”
• Major Professor: Jarod Roselló

Elizabeth Parker, MFA Creative Writing

• Thesis: “Rabbits in the Zone of Peace”
• Major Professor: Jake Wolff 

Andrea Rinard, MFA Creative Writing

• Thesis: “The Key”
• Major Professor: John Fleming 

Rachel Tanski, PhD Literature

• Dissertation: “’Manne, for thy loue wolde I not lette’: Eucharistic Portrayals of Caritas in Medieval and Early Modern Literature and Drama 1350-1650”
• Major Professor: Nicole Discenza 

Urshela Wiggins McKinney, PhD Literature

• Dissertation: “Making the Invisible Visible: (Re)envisioning the Black Body in Contemporary Adaptations of Nineteenth-Century Fiction”
• Major Professor: Marty Gould