Past Thesis Projects & Awards

"A New Black Atlantic: West African Diasporic Tellings in the Age of Postcolonial Nationalism" (Inioluwa Aloba  2026)

"The Power of Mere Presence: Surveillance and the Subversion in Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982" (Loren Chang 2026) 

"The Revolutionary Yu: Lu Xun’s Engagement with Tradition in “Taming the Flood”" (Lillian Fu 2026) 

"The Moving Process in and out of the Cardboard Room" (Billy Johnson 2026)

"What the Dam Cannot Hold: Narrative Hydraulics and the Poetics of Submersion in Hong Ying's Peacock Cries" (Yiyao Sun 2026) 

"Millennial Populism: Nayib Bukele’s Regime in El Salvador its Implications for U.S. Relations" (Virginia Vazquez-Azpiri 2026) 

"Affective Surplus: Translation and the Crisis Ordinary in Kateryna Kalytko's Open Fracture of Voice" (Yaroslav Vozlomytel 2026) 

"Debouring in the art and life writing of Niki de Saint Phalle" (Corinne de Syon 2026)

"Between Nuclear Time and Disability Time: Literary Imaginaries of the “Nuclear Eternal Child” at the Semipalatinsk Test Site" (Abigail Poag 2025) 

"Bodily Torture and Textual Dismemberment: Lingchi in Georges Bataille’s Le Bleu du ciel and Mo Yan’s The Sandalwood Death" (Ciel Chen 2025) 

"The Gods Do Not Lament: Cassandra and the Inaccessibility of Grief in Euripides’ Troades" (Elizabeth Harrison 2025) 

"Processing Power: Natural Language Processing and the Algorithmic Afterlife of Colonial Violence" (Erika Tan 2025) 

"Translation of: Yung Yung by Yin Lo 盧妤 (Lo Yu)" (Fion Tse 2024) 

"The Three Trees at Midzuho: Konstantin Gaponenko, Tolstoyan Humanism, and Russian-Japanese-Korean Triangulation in Tragedy at Midzuho Village" (Karina Ashley Holbrook 2023) 

"Mejor soñar que lo hacemos’: Queer Humility and Futurity in Loco afán and AIDS and Its Metaphors" (William Moran Trlak 2023) 

"Achilles and the Badman: Doomed Heroes in Toasting and Homeric Epic" (Don Harmon 2023) 

"Translating Women and Lust, Caution" (Cici Fan 2023) 

"Reading Le Neveu de Rameau as Philosophical Dialogue: Where Diderot and Hegel Meet" (Adrian Schwalbe 2023) 

"Towards an Expansive Queerness: Reading Normativity and Radicality through Motherhood in The Argonauts and Dictee" (Rachel Kyu Yeon Lee 2023) 

"The Music in Words in Music: ‘Reprendre à la poésie son bien’ (A Comparative Analysis of Debussy and Fauré’s Musical Settings of Verlaine)" (Julia Liu 2023) 

"Time-Matter: Materiality as Disalienation in Ferreira Gullar’s Poema sujo" (Marina Santos 2018) 

"Phatic Time in Tsvetaeva’s Poetry" (Maya Nguen 2018)

"Breathing Text: Poetry and Song in Reynaldo Hanh's Chansons grises" (Elizabeth Lewis 2015)

"From Self Formation to National Education: Friedrich Gundolf, Friedrich Wolters, and the Crisis of Historicism, 1908-1933" (Thomas R. Prendergast 2015) 

"The Verse in Conversion: Revising Viramamunivar" (Kristina Roghan 2015) 

"The Jester's Motley: Comic Motion in the Works of Nathanael West, S.J. Perelman and the Marx Brothers" (Alexander Sellers 2015) 

"Reading Verse 2.46 of the Bhagavad Gita" (Shiv Subramaniam 2015)

 

Awards: 

Inioluwa Aloba has been awarded the 2026 BA Thesis Award for Most Interdisciplinary Methodology. 

Lillian Fu has been awarded the 2026 BA Thesis Award for Most Innovative Research. 

Yaroslav Vozlomytel has been awarded the 2026 BA Thesis Award for Most Original Translations. 

Corinne de Syon has been awarded the 2026 BA Thesis Award for Most Creative Thesis.