Every Alleghenian completes a Senior Project—a significant piece of original research, designed by the student under the guidance of a faculty advisor, that demonstrates to employers and graduate schools the ability to complete a major assignment, to work independently, to analyze and synthesize information, and to write and to speak persuasively. The following are some recent examples.
- “The Enormous Silent Poem of Color and Light: Lafcadio Hearn and Paul Gauguin in the Tropics”
- “Speaking with the Dead: The New Historicism and Two Renaissance Plays”
- “Reconstructing the Southwest: The New Mexico Novels of Willa Cather and Mary Austin”
- “The Complications Regarding Free Will in John Milton’s Paradise Lost”
- “James Joyce’s Ulysses: Teaching the Reader How To Read”
- “The Romantic Tradition in Contemporary American Fiction: An Examination of Selected Novels by Anne Tyler”
- “Antigone: Performance, Persuasion, and Politics”
- “A Raid on the Inarticulate: The Linguistic Legacies of World War I and Vietnam”
- “A Legacy Wrought in Blood: Paule Marshall and Toni Morrison, Preservers of Black Culture”
- “Experimental Journalism, 1950–2000: From Tom Wolfe to Matt Drudge and Beyond”
- In the Presence of Non-Being, collection of poems and short stories
- “Theologizing Shakespeare: Late 19th- and 20th-Century Definitions of Bardolatry”