About the Course
The English 502: Research Methods course includes research and work created by graduate-level students in the Department of English. These materials include both full-length and conference-length research projects that the students wrote about self-chosen texts."
Submissions from 2014
Biological Vestiges in American Psycho, Russell K. Allen
The Price of Growing Beyond Innocence: Examining the Literary Lineage of Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, James A. Clark
Was Jonathan Harker Wearing a Red Hood?, A. Nicole Ferrell
Running Away to Neverland: The Fear of Adulthood in John Green’s Paper Towns and J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan, Teri Klauser
The Submissive, the Angel, and the Mad Woman in District 12: Feminine Identity in Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games, Kirstie E. Linstrom
The Supernatural’s Role in the Juxtaposition of the Ideas of Modernity, Traditionalism and Identity in Zakes Mda’s The Heart of Redness, Thabo Lucky Mzileni
Marcus Clarke: Confronting Spectacle with Spectacle in For the Term of His Natural Life, Mary E. Perkins
Glass Slippers, Fairy Dust, and Feminist Ethics: Perrault and Barrie’s Influence on J.K. Rowling’s Independent Heroine, Gennesis Roman