Research Topics for students
BAT topics
Realist American fiction
Modernist American fiction
Multiculturalism in American literature
Popular American literature
Examples since 2004
Race talk: The construction of race in
Twain’s Huck Finn
Gender, Race, Culture: Hybridity in M. H. Kingston’s The Woman Warrior
African-American identity construction in Walker’s The Color Purple
American and French role
models for women in Wharton’s
The Age of Innocence
Discipline and Punish: The Concept of Madness
in Poe’s tales
Multiculturalism in contemporary American fiction
Recanonizations in American literature
Ethics and narratives
Theories of narrative
Intertextuality
Examples since 2004
Irony in Scorcese’s film adaptation of Wharton’s
The Age of Innocence
The concept of
a Southern past in Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury
Gender construction and Hemingway’s code-hero
The Scientific Hoaxes
of Edgar Allen Poe
The performance of
feminine identity in The World According to Garp
Social ascent and feminine
identity construction in Wharton’s The Custom of the Country
Horizons of expectation in Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49
Discourses of American
Realism (2008-12)
Discourses of the
American Novel (2008-12)
Examples since 2007
A Cognitive Approach to Postmodern fiction
Postpostmodern American Novel