To Free, or not to Free? That is the Question: An Examination of Huck’s Dilemma in Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Describing Fiction: An Analysis of Ernest Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast

It Does Not Satisfy the Appetite: An Approach to Mis-fitting in Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find”

“Here is one room; there another”: An Inquiry into the Love of Life in Mrs. Dalloway

Greatness as a Signpost on the Road to Immortality: A Study of Plutarch’s Life of Julius Caesar

“All the world’s a stage…” Acting Well as Living Well in Shakespeare’s Hamlet

Eros and its Hopes: On Socrates’ Speech in Plato’s Symposium

On the Aesthetic Experience in Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace

The Construction of Race and the Dignity of White Trash in Flannery O’Connor’s “The Artifice of the Nigger”

Evidence and Respect: Shakespeare’s Terms of a Merry War

Twin Genealogies: Pindar’s “Nemean 6”

On The Generous Spirituality of Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”

Teiresias’ Perplexing Prophecy: An Exploration of the Planting of the Oar in Homer’s Odyssey

Brotherhood in Nikolai Gogol’s The Overcoat

But the Past was not Dead; a Search for Moral Blossoms in the Literature and Legacy of Nathaniel Hawthorne

Finding a “never-failing principle of joy” in Wordsworth’s “Two-Part Prelude of 1799”

Alienation, Society, and The Self in The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin

Achieving the Unattainable: Elizabeth’s Journey to Happiness and Love through Humility and Respect in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

Written in the Hearts of Men: On Fundamental Law and Rights in Joseph de Maistre’s “Essay on the Generative Principle of Political Constitutions”

On the Origin of American Government: Why did the Founding Fathers Decide on a Republican Government?

The Bible’s Solution to the Human Problem: An Examination of Paul’s Letter to the Romans Regarding How the Biblical Teachings of Law, Faith, and the Person of Jesus Address the Problems of Sin and Death

A Word, A Cape, A Promise: The Metaphysics of Socrates’ Death

Shaky Ground: on Richard II and Identity

What We Owe One Another: an Exploration of Money and Society in Crime and Punishment

Eased with Being Nothing: An Inquiry into the Decentralization of Unity within William Shakespeare’s King Richard the Second, and Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations

Prince Andre and Pierre: An Examination of Idealism and the Life Force in War and Peace

The Price of Freedom in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Misunderstood Women of Winesburg: An Examination of Thoughtful Books and Lives in Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio

Virtue and Prudence in Machiavelli’s The Prince: A Portrait of the Successful Man

If Not a Womb Than What Are We? An Analysis of the Rehabilitation of the Sin of Eve, Seen Through the Development of Women in Genesis

As You Like It: What Is Love and Marriage?

The Individual’s Invasion of Reality: The Externalization of Self and Modification of the World in “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius” By Jorge Luis Borges

Imitation of the Sun: Legitimacy in Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1

The Timeline and Significance of Wordsworth’s Development as a Poet in the First-Part of the “Two-Part Prelude of 1799”.

Freedom in Friendship, and Friendship in Freedom: A Comparison of Theory to Theater in Plato’s Lysis

Above the Stoia: A Discussion about the Religiosity of Stoicism in the Discourses of Epictetus

A Prince’s Most Vital Resource: the Significance of Self-Knowledge in Machiavelli’s The Prince

Space And Time in Minkowski’s Mathematics: “The Far-Reaching Consequences of The Metamorphoses of Our Concept of Nature.”

Erosophy: The Doctrines of Love and Wisdom in Dante’s Commedia

Emotional Tears in the Fabric of Rationality: On the Interconnectedness of Thumos and Logos in Aristotle’s Art of Rhetoric

King Love

Most Human and Most Our Own: The Embodiment of Language in Montaigne’s “Of Experience”

Proof that it’s Impossible to Live: The Unstable Soul in Franz Kafka’s “Description of a Struggle”

Grammar and The New Philosopher in Beyond Good and Evil

The Inward Turn: Why Subjectivity is the Foundation of the Objective Sciences

The Opening to the Absolute: an Analysis of the Introduction of Hegel’s The Phenomenology of Spirit

Ontology is Not a Thing: On Schopenhauer’s The World as Will and Representation

Reading the Book of Nature with Goethe: Or How to Fall in Love With a Plant

A Mortally Intolerable Truth: Living with the Infinite in Melville’s Moby Dick

Real Funny: Jane Austen’s Philosophy of Irony in Pride & Prejudice

A Language of Nature: The Relationship between Nature and Mathematics in Newton’s Principia

“The Gift of Ilúvatar”: A Study of Freedom and Bondage in Tolkien’s The Silmarillion

Transcendent Narratives: An Odyssey of Brothers and Betrayal

Self-discovery in Adolescence, Themes of Identity in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Radiant Strangers: Grace and Necessity in The Iliad

On the Inequality of Language*

*upon satisfactory completion of degree requirements

Who Speaks in this Passion’s Praises? Aesthetic Inquiry in Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling

The Sanctity and Power of Words in Euripides’ Medea

The Nature of Knowledge: An Exploration into Enlightenment and Isolation in Frankenstein

The Meaning of Knowing a Person in Melville’s Bartleby, The Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street

Life and Death: Di Lampedusa’s Ode to Lost Sicily in The Leopard

Group Waves: Understanding the Indeterminacy of Identity in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves

The Paragon of Animals: Wordcraft and Apprehension in Shakespeare’s Hamlet

Madness of Greatness in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet

Share this Space with Me: Virginia Woolf’s Vision of Relational and Environmental Belonging

The Narration of a Life: Identity and Time in Oedipus Tyrannus

On Articulation and Affection in Shakespeare’s As You Like It

From Fossils to Finches: An Exploration of Darwin’s Education in The Voyage of the Beagle

μῆνιν: The Wrath and the Glory of Achilles in Homer’s Iliad

Receiving Poetry Back from Exile: Poetry as a Friend to Philosophy in Book X of Plato’s Republic

Faust, A Tragedy: What Kind of Life is Faust’s?

Showing vs. Telling: Plato’s Double Framing of the Theatetus

If We Must Live Together, Then How? An Examination on the Power of Philosophy in Jean Jacques Rousseau’s Origin of Inequality

Reason’s Self-knowledge: What Kind of Knowledge is Transcendental Philosophy in Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason?

Dicing With Dharma:  Yudhisthira as Gambler in The Mahabharata

The Sickness unto Life: Learning the Convalescent’s Life-Affirmation in Nietzsche’s The Gay Science