Journal of Undergraduate Research

Kelcie Gubler and Dr. Steven Walker, English The Issue As Romania recovers from the problems created by Communist rule, their economy is in a major upswing having joined the European Union in January 2007, unemployment among the middle class at a low 6.1% with a GDP continuing to stay above 4%. Over 25% of the […]

Joseph Franklin and Dr. Patrick Madden, English Nothing was more important to me in creating this collection of essays than keeping a regular record of personal experience, reflection, and inquisition. From pre-writing, to drafting, to revising, my daily record has provided an indispensable source of material for this collection. Three of the essays, “The Proper […]

Katherine Fisher and Dr. David Hatch, English When I began this project, I planned to investigate the ways in which Irish students engaged with and wrote about certain philosophical and literary tenets of modernism. As I conducted background research on the social and political climate in Ireland during the 1920s, however, my focus shifted somewhat […]

Megan Roeling Coplen and Dr. Brandie Siegfried, English Traditionally, scholars have labeled the American Revolution as a “creation,” but this project seeks to examine it as an extension and eventual reinvention of an English national identity established a century before the war. My goal was to find what influence the writers of the English Civil […]

Shawn D. Rossiter and Dr. O. Glade Hunsaker, English My project came about as a result of a computer database of Yale’s edition of Milton’s Prose being constructed by the Brigham Young University English Department. The completion of the database has been delayed, however, and consequently I was compelled to shift the object and approach […]

Lana Robison and Dr. William A. Wilson, English The results of being awarded this grant are: a collection of 600 minutes of tape recording personal narratives of under privileged urban black South African women; 58 pages of transcribed, typed and edited text of interviews with one black South African woman; and an honor’s thesis discussing […]

Benjamin Bascom and Dr. Matthew Wickman, English Literary studies continually shape and reshape the study of historical time-periods. With a fascination on how aesthetic objects—specifically literature—becomes a vantage point through which to see a bygone age, I began my ORCA project with the hopes to better understand the relationship between eighteenth-century British poetry and the […]

Trent Tanner and Dr. Jill Rudy, English Department Trading relationships between the Navajo Indians and Anglo-American frontiersmen began in the late 1860s after the Navajo were released from their internment at Ft. Sumner by the US government. These intrepid men carried to the Navajo such goods as coffee, lard, and white flour as well as […]

Makayla Steiner and Dr. Phillip A. Snyder, English A brief note to begin with: this project is not quite complete, and is therefore on hold until Fall of 2011. I will be presenting the final paper in a session focused on McCarthy scholarship at either the American Literature Association’s annual conference, or at a conference […]