Honors Program

The Honors program offers the qualified senior student the opportunity to work on a year-long independent, intensive research project on a specific topic of his or her choice. A senior admitted to the Honors program is expected to work on his or her project during the fall and spring terms under the guidance of a faculty member who serves as the Honors Project advisor, devoting no less time in each term than would be devoted to a course unit. For more information regarding the policies and procedures for the Honors Program, please visit the Moravian College Honors Project website.

2009 English Honors Projects

Victoria Bartkus
“Telling Tales: Narrative Innovation in Three Novels by Faulkner”
Martha Reid, advisor

Angela Geosits
“Governance, Marriage, and Pastoral Care: Estates Satire in the Canterbury Tales, the Confessio Amantis, and Piers Plowman”
John R. Black, advisor

Cliff Jackson
“Newland Archer and His Failures in Old New York: An Examination of the Shortcomings of a Failed Man”
Annette Benert, advisor

Jessica Jonas
“(Re)Considering Bradbury: The Sociological Impact of an American Storyteller”
George S. Diamond and Joel Nathan Rosen, advisors

2008 English Honors Project

Abigail Perrin
“’The Swelling and Splendid Moment’: Intermediality in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves”
Martha Reid, advisor

2007 English Honors Projects

Christina LaVecchia
“England’s ‘Spirit of the Age’: Comparing the Works of Wordsworth and His Musical Contemporaries within a Nineteenth-Century Social Context”
Theresa A. Dougal and Hilde Binford, advisors

Samantha Madison
“The Dali Syndrome”
Naomi N. Gal and Joyce A. Hinnefeld, advisors

2006 English Honors Projects

Amanda S. Clossen
“What Caused the Great Vowel Shift? A Labovian Approach”
John R. Black, advisor

Vanessa A. Fisher
“Conflict between Two Worlds: When Jewish Religion and Secularism Collide in Four Novels by Chaim Potok”
George S. Diamond, advisor

Alexis N. Vergalla
“A Field Guide of Marrow”
Naomi N. Gal and Joyce A. Hinnefeld, advisors

Courtney L. Werner
“America’s Neo-Gnostic Literature: What’s Really Going on in Philip K. Dick’s Valis Trilogy”
George S. Diamond and Steve R. Gordy, advisors

2005 English Honors Projects

Julie Elizabeth Anderson
"Constructing Sylvia Plath: A Study in Autobiographical Writings"
Theresa A. Dougal, advisor

Sara Suleman
"Black Tea and Other Stories: Exploring Different Forms of Narrative"
Joel Wingard, advisor

Sarah B. Wagenseller
"Behaving Decently in an Indecent Society: Kurt Vonnegut and the
Meaning of Life"
George S. Diamond, advisor

William James Weber
"Field Notes"
Joyce A. Hinnefeld, advisor