Elyza Bruce
Thesis title: “Ecotourism in the Scottish Highlands and the Legacy of British Romanticism”
The Emilia Ferrara Thesis Award recognizes the two students whose theses the English Honors Committee deems most outstanding. Honorees receive their medals and a check at the Department of English Commencement Reception in the spring, and a notation for each recipient appears in the College’s Tropaia Program.
2025 Award Winners
Evelyn Blanchette
Thesis title: “Some Likeness”
2024 Award Winners
David Edwards
Thesis title: “All Plots Tend to Move Deathward”: The Death Drive in the Photography and Television of White Noise”
Josephine Wu
Thesis title: 7 Ways to Kill Your Mother
2023 Award Winners
Caitlin Baskin
Thesis title: Realism, Formalism, and the Drug Film: Representations of Addiction in Twenty-First-Century Film and Television
Audrey Hall
Thesis title: Spun
2022 Award Winners
Jon Pejo
Thesis title: Colonial Son: True Stories of a Filipino Immigrant
Maddie Kearney
Thesis title: If You Are Still Alive, Raise Your Hand: A Trans/Crip Archive of Life in the Poetics of Death
2021 Award Winners
Charlie Goetzman
Thesis title: ‘Chaos Bewitched’: New Materialism, Old Materialism, and Melvillean Assemblage in Moby-Dick
Glen Waters
Thesis title: “To Grow a Peach Tree”
2020 Award Winners
Narisa Buranasiri
Thesis title: Monsoon with Paper Boats
Rachel Biggio
Thesis Title: [sick]: Women’s Embodiment in Mansfield Park and Jane Eyre
2019 Award Winners
Clare Foley
Thesis Title: To Tweet or Not to Tweet
Anne Marie Hawley
Thesis Title: Angels in Retrospect: Reassessing Representation in Tony Kushner’s Epic
2018 Award Winners
Lauren Rubino
Thesis Title: Hyssop of Life, or take my word for it
Susannah Price
Thesis Title: Beyond the Bell-Shaped Curve: Non-Normativity in Poor Miss Finch
2017 Award Winners
Erika Bullock
Thesis Title: Gaming Genre: Towards a Systems-View of Genre in the Modern Video Game
Jinwoo Chong
Thesis Title: void nation
2016 English Honors Thesis Award Winners
Jane McDonough
Thesis Title: Enter Religion, Stage Left: The Female Character’s Onstage Development in Early Modern England and Spain
Bassam Sidiki
Thesis Title: The Secret Gardens of the Self: The Treatment of Bodies in William Carlos Williams and Poetic Responses
Honorable Mention
Natasha Khan
Thesis Title: The Seas In Between