Concentrators in English Literature and Creative Writing who have an average of 88 or better in the concentration at the end of the fall of their senior year may elect to write an honors thesis in the spring. The Department will recommend honors for concentrators who earn a cumulative average of 88 or better in the courses they take for the concentration and who earn a grade of 88 or better on the honors thesis. Honors candidates are expected to complete coursework in each of the three genres: prose fiction, poetry, and drama.

Titles of recent honors theses in English Literature include the following:

• The Acting of the Shrew
• The Plight of the Heroine: Four Instructional Novels in the Late Eighteenth Century
• Game as Metaphor in Cold War Discourse and Absurdist Drama
• The Tree, the Mantis, and the Snakeskin: Annie Dillard's Spiritual and Scientific Journal of Tinker Creek
• The Transcendant Nature of Allegory in The Story of an African Farm

Titles of recent honors portfolios in Creative Writing include the following:

• Full Circle: a Novel
• Between Destinations: Exhuming Two Southern Women's Secrets, a novel

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