About These Projects
The links on this page are student projects created as capstones to courses taught by Tori Swanson in the Department of English.
Digital Humanities Capstone Projects
Jamie Lea: Aristophanes
Jamie Lea: Aristophanes
Gabriell Santa
August Wilson
Gabrielle Knapp
Samuel Beckett
Allie Saunders
Trifles
ENG 252 Introduction to Drama
Sophie Treadwell:
Shifting Gears: To Business (Performance Based on Sophie Treadwell's Machinal)
Machinal: Contexts and Analysis
Susan Glaspell:
Trifles: The Story in Depth: What would you do?
William Shakespeare:
William Shakespeare: A Deeper Look at Shakespeare's "haha" Moments
August Wilson:
August Wilson: Historical Context of His Works and Inspirations
Guan Hanqing:
Snow in Midsummer: An Analysis (Complete with Conspiracy Theory)
Snow in Midsummer: Injustice to Dou E
Sophocles:
Daniel David Moses:
Daniel David Moses: Almighty Voice and His Wife
Langston Hughes:
Samuel Beckett:
Waiting for Godot: Analysis and Parody
Samuel Beckett: A Closer Look Inside
ENG 332/WOST 332 Women in American Literature
Compilation projects and original films:
Drunk Literary Analysis: A performance analysis of The Yellow Wallpaper
A Writer's Task: Original Poetry and Film inspired by Dorothy Allison's A Bastard Out of Carolina
Women in Captivity: Told through the characters created by women authors
Charlotte Perkins Gilman:
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Yellow Wallpaper
Tawnysha Greene:
Tawnysha Greene's A House Made of Stars
Dorothy Allison:
Bastard Out of Carolina: Gospel Music and Tent Revivals
Dorothy Allison: Stereotypes of the "White Trash" South
Bastard Out of Carolina and more Stories by Dorothy Allison
Dorothy Allison: Her early years and inspirations
Poverty & Bastard Out of Carolina
Bastard Out of Carolina, Feminism and Sadomasochism: An Analysis
Allison Bechdel:
Fun Home: What would happen if?
Toni Morrison:
The Ugly Lolita: Blue Eyes Make All the Difference
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison: Character Analysis
Edith Wharton:
Edith Wharton's Boudoir: Complete with Original Silent Movie (under RHORT menu item)
Twilight Sleep by Edith Wharton: An Analysis
Shirley Jackson:
The Legacy of Hill House: Influences & Inspiration from the Borley Rectory
The Haunting of Hill House: In Depth Analysis and Interpretation
The Black Cats: American Gothic of Shirley Jackson
Hill House Presents: The Horror Within
The Haunting of Hill House: A look at one of America's most famous fictional haunted houses
The Haunting of Hill House: The Virtual Tour
The Haunting of Hill House: An Adaptation Study
Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House: A look into its creation
Shirley Jackson: Within the Mundane Lives Terror
Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House
Susan Glaspell:
Susan Glaspell's Trifles: He died of a rope around his neckTrifles and Susan Glaspell
Sophie Treadwell:
Machinal: History, Analysis, Live Performances
Zora Neale Hurston:
Zora Neale Hurston: There Are Years That Ask Questions and Years That Answer
Zora Neale Hurston: Biography and Analysis
Zora Neale Hurston: Life and Writing
Zora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God and Domestic Abuse