Hixon Writing Center
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2025
- Avanesov, Katherine "Katia" — An Exploration of the Tangible and Intangible in Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher (Other)
- Cap, Chi — Excerpts From the Collection “Mother and Father” (Other)
- Kottom, Luke — Beyond the Battleground: T.H. Huxley’s Complex Vision of Science and Religion in Victorian Britain (Other)
- Ratala, Sreeyutha — A Forgotten Flame (Other)
- Speer, Edward — The Good Life+: Well-Being in Virtual Worlds (Other)
- Taveira, Mariana Vale — Dot, Letter, Legend: Johann Bayer's Graphic Code (Other)
- Taveira, Mariana Vale — From Carbon to Silicon: A Philosophical Case for Surviving Through Mind Uploading (Other)
- Won, Elizabeth — Reliable Unreliability – Narrative Bias in Autofiction (Other)
2024
- Davis, Grace — Mountains of Self: Dream Revelations Transcending Frame Narratives (Other)
- Kim, Joseph Hakkyu — Dear Goose (Other)
- Kim, Joseph Hakkyu — Limning Asian American Literature with Social Generationality: Violence and Subversion (Senior thesis (Major))
- Kulkarni, Shrishti Pankaj — Beowulf and the Moral Dilemma Between Kingship and Heroism (Other)
- Liaw, Sarah Yuan Ni — The Paradox of Authentic Happiness and Existential Suffering (Other)
- Nkurumeh, Emeka — Qital and Jihad: The Faces of Holy War in Islam (Other)
- Redmond, Heidi — The Woman Who Waits No More (Other)
- Sharkey, Domani — The Angel (Other)
2023
- Abellard, Darleine — Michéline (Other)
- Kunnam, Shwetha S. — The Influence of Négritude and Black Postcolonial Thought on Derek Walcott’s The Odyssey: A Play (Other)
- Liu, Grace — The Reproduction of Homosocial Domesticity Aboard the Pequod in Melville’s Moby Dick (Other)
- Mendoza, Aramis Josephine — Dismantling The Help: The Hollywoodization of The Civil Rights Movement in 1963 (Other)
- Mendoza, Lark — Good Expectations: The Paradox of Expecting Great Things (Other)
- Sui, Margaret Yanzhu — Dance Before the Music Stops (Other)
- Tibrewal, Vansh — The Chinese Room Argument (Other)
2022
- DeBell, Lily — Titanium Is My Favorite Metal Because It Is the Hardest Metal (Other)
- Gorokhovsky, Elia Peter — The Development of the Research Journal and the Prehistory of Peer Review in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (Other)
- Lee, Margaret Rachel — Controlling the Female Body: Obsession and Loss of Autonomy in Lolita and "Berenice" (Other)
- Palumbo, Elsa K. — Happiness is Hedonic: In Defense of a Subjective Account of Well-Being (Other)
- Sui, Margaret Yanzhu — The Claytons (Other)
- Sundaresan, Avirath — Towards “Race-Conscious” Medical AI (Other)
- Sundaresan, Avirath — WALL-E Wisdom: Lessons for Public Policy in the Age of AI (Other)
2021
- Basava, Hrishika — Unravel at the Seams (Other)
- Chan, Andrew M. — Messy Definitions and Blurred Lines: Marriage, Autonomy, and Reconciliation in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure (Other)
- Chan, Andrew M. — What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Love? True Love, Passionate Love, and Pining in the Short Fiction of Raymond Carver and Tobias Wolff (Other)
- Chun, Bradley (Kaulana) — The Relevance of Jazz in Modern Historiography (Other)
- Hwang, Saehui — History of Hearing Aids (Other)
- Liu, Victoria — Ahab’s Solipsism and the Illusion of Self-Reliance: The Career of Herman Melville (Other)
- Mudide, Shiva — Poetry Pieces (Other)
- White, Ryan P. — Fairness, Morality, and Pursuing an Ideal System of Distributive Justice (Other)
2020
- de Mello, Lucca Sukman — What Criteria Should be Used to Determine Whether an Automated Decision Procedure is Fair? (Other)
- Kanrar, Nivedita — Archetypes of Femininity in Shakespeare's Tragedies (Other)
- Liu, Victoria — "On Lily Bart's Specializations and Survival in the Upper Class": What Women Want: Desire and the Modern American Novel (Other)
- Nuzen, Melba — Exogenesis (Other)
- Palumbo, Elsa K. — Utilitarian Calculations and the Moral Status of Strong AI (Other)
- Pham, Karen V. — "Otherness": Examining the Relationship Between Human and Non-Human (Other)
- Pham, Karen V. — maybe i thought growing up would be more glamourous (Other)
2019
- Chatterjee, Mohar — Prodigal (Other)
- Daghlian, George Heros — A History of Budgetary Politics in the United States (Other)
- De Angelis, Maria — When I Learned to be Meek (Other)
- Hollaway, Brendan J. — Impassioned Love and Marriage in Shakespeare’s Comedies (Other)
- Liang, Crystal — Recollected Sanity (Other)
- Maskara, Nishad — Electromagnetism is Time Reversible and the Magnetic Field is a Dynamical Condition (Other)
- Olaya Medina, Diego Francisco — The Spectre of Race (Other)
2018
- Chan, Jonathan Kai Shun — Moral Distinctions between Passive and Active Euthanasia (Other)
- Gulati, Reeti Kiran — The Role of Human Emotion and Character in Shakespeare's Othello vs. God and Heaven in Cinthio's "A Moorish Captain" (Other)
- Hu, Laura D. — Finding Clementia - Excerpt (Other)
- Hu, Laura D. — Image of a Dragonfly (Other)
- Liang, Crystal — Why Was The Feminine Mystique Such a Phenomenon?: A Clarification (Other)
- Liu, Timothy Samuel — iLost: A Tale for our Time (Other)
- Nair, Maitreyi A. — An Exploration of Letter-Writing in Jane Austen's Work (Other)
- Shankar, Tara Anjali — Why Cervantes' History is His Story (Other)
- von Ruden, Galilea Bascara — Why the Turing Test Revised is Still the Turing Test (Other)
2017
- Grover, Kshitij — Living with Sisyphus (Other)
- Kaczmarek, Zofii A. — Gaudy Night Essay (Other)
- Lin, Christina Y. — The Rhetoric of Change (Other)
- McAndrew, Daniel E. — Insect Sisyphus (Other)
- Nety, Suchita Patil — Objects of Interpretation in Othello (Other)
- Pham, Karen V. — on loving a fallen star (Other)
- Shastri, Gauri Ganesh — The Women of Othello: Shakespeare's Reinterpretation of "A Moorish Captain" (Other)
2016
- Balestri, Leonardo — Fifty Years of Dividing Lines: From Selma and Montgomery, 1965 to Ferguson, 2015 (Other)
- Han, Sirus Kujung — Silent Goodbyes (Other)
- Hoza, William Michael — A Can of Worms (Other)
- Leeper, Gideon Jack — Empiricism and Mathematical Knowledge (Other)
- Lim, Matthew J. — Encounter (Other)
- Nety, Suchita Patil — Feminine Intellectual Fertility in the Writing of Christine de Pizan (Other)
2015
- Chen, Anthony Fu — That Friday (Other)
- Malladi, Chaitanya Lakshmidhar — Shakespeare’s Crafting of the Ideal King in Henry V (Other)
2014
- Geller, Jaden Matthew — An Examination of a Laboratory Variant of the BIV Scenario (Other)
- Liu, Anna — Virtuosity (Other)
- Moore, Marlyn Joanna — Huckleberry (Other)
- Nety, Suchita Patil — Time and Fate in Shakespeare's Othello and Cinthio's "The Moor of Venice" (Other)