Congratulations to all the English MA students who completed their MA theses this term! This semester, eleven people defended their thesis essays: * Tamar Hoch (‘I am so ill I can hardly speak’: The Chronic Complaints of Jane Austen’s Disliked Women”) * Alexander Huynh (“Superman as a Paragon of Immigrant Resilience: A Critical Reading and Analysis of Gene Luen Yang’s Superman Smashes the Klan (2019)”) * Sadia Joya (“Esther Summerson as the Solace in the Dickensian World of Bleak House”) * Noshin Khan (“Rethinking the Madwoman: Racial Otherness and Intersectionality in Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar’s The Madwoman in the Attic”) * Monica Malone (“Claiming Space: Motherhood and Personal Autonomy in Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own and Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street”) * Marilyn Mejia Alvarenga (“‘Reading is so cool,’ Said No Student Ever: Young Adult (YA) Literature—A Catalyst for Empathy, Empowerment, and Engagement”) * Nathan Perez (“Parallels of the Western Canon: An Analysis of Melville’s Impact on the American Novel”) * Gabrielle Sarrubbo (“The Inexplicable Key to Tragedy: Queen Margaret, The Maiden, Mother, and Crone of Shakespeare”) * Danielle Schwetz (“Typing Strings Together: Strengthening Solidarity by Placing Lived Experiences in Dialogue”) * Thomas Shockley (“Sexuality, Repression, and Punishment in Beckett’s Waiting for Godot and Lynch’s Eraserhead”) * Eliana Spector (“Portraits of Antisemitism on Broadway: Fiddler on the Roof and Parade”) Congratulations to all! We hope to see many of you at the department graduation ceremony on May 29!