English senior theses presentations this weekend

By: Elizabeth Bartek
Posted In: News

As the weekend approaches, seniors in the English department may feel both terrified and relieved at the same time. It is time for the annual senior thesis presentations, where 30 English majors, 13 literature and 17 communication, will present their final work on various topics.

Dr. John Salesses, department chair of the English department, is looking forward to the presentations this weekend. Dr. Salesses has worked closely the entire academic year with the literature majors, while Dr. Harrington-Lueker has worked closely with those students concentrating in communications.

“I’ve seen some of these works and they are very well done,” said Dr. Salesses. “There is a wide range of topics and the students have done a nice job.”

Dr. Salesses said he expects college administrators, parents, friends and junior majors in the English department to attend the presentations.

“This is the highlight of the academic year for the English department,” said Dr. Salesses. “I think it’s something the seniors will always remember.”

The Salve Regina University English department announces the following senior thesis presentations:
Friday, April 23
4 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Kate Howard
Without God: The Commandments According to Krzysztof Kieslowski
Erica Barney
The Poignant Imagery and Symbolism of D.H. Lawrence’s The Fox: A Reflection of the Times
Melanie Sapienza
Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre: The Trials and Tribulations of a 19th Century Woman
Katie Ambrose
Victims and Vamps: Women’s Roles in the Biblical Epics of the ’50s
Elizabeth Connolly
“There Will Always Be an England”: Entertainment and Propaganda in the British Film Industry of the 1940s
Courtney Mahoney
Powerful Women: The Roles of Barbara Stanwyck
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Dan Kennedy
Philosophy, Beauty, and Craft: Synergistic Harmony in Poe’s “Annabel Lee” and “The Raven”
Susan Surette
Did Edith Wharton’s Lily Blossom from the Seed of Henry James’s Daisy?
Melissa Vichroski
Mules and Men: Zora Neale Hurston’s Contribution to African-American Culture
Kristen Mahoney
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire: Patriarchy in the Hollywood Musical
Rachel Gill
Media Coverage of the Iraq War: An Examination of the Pentagon’s Embedded Program
Kevin Webber
The Marginalization of Black History and August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Saturday, April 24
9 a.m. – Noon
David Ellis
“Beards, Bayonets, and Bonfires”: The New York Times’s Portrayal of the Anti-War Movement of the 1960’s
Tyrone Gordon
Maxwell Perkins: On the Shoulder of a Wolfe
Erica Johnson
Creating Her Own World: Diana Vreeland’s Vogue and the Women of the ’60s
Amity Mack
Japan’s Literary Phoenix: The Transformation of Identity in Atomic Bomb Literature
Kim Petrarca
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Never-Ending Struggle for Equality in “The Yellow Wallpaper” and Herland
David Mason
Two Unique Heroes: Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
Claire Lyddan
Prime-Time Terror: How TV News Magazines Exploit the Rhetoric of Fear
Nicole Brown
Setting an Agenda for AIDS: News Media Coverage of World AIDS Day, 1988 to the Present
BarbiJo DiMaria
No Hablamos Espanol: A Case Study of the TV News Market in Southeastern New England
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Kimberly Mallozzi
“Is Supper Ready, Woman?” Silence and Patriarchy in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock
Christyn Branch
The Literary American Dream: Going, Going, Gone
Craig Murray
Constructing Masculinity: Fathers and Sons on the Silver Screen
David Jordan
Boxing Movies: The Price of the American Dream
Kathryn Sanavage
The World According to Garp
Amanda D’Amato
John Donne’s Elegies
Bridget Conlon
“Trapped”: Portrait of a Repressed Woman in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”
Cheryl Cranick
My Eyes Are Up Here: David O. Selznick’s Strong Women
Jackie Boyle

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