Amira Korkor
2007

Thesis Proposal
The main concepts that I focus on are gender (as defined by societal constructs), sex (being the biological counterpart to gender), sexuality and the expectations versus the norms of sexual behavior, and other common medieval imagery.  My research integrates original medical and religious texts, as well as the book of hours itself and contemporary research sources.

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Blair Rudert
2007

Thesis Proposal
The idea of woman during the Italian Renaissance is not one that is at first easily understood. Those living and interacting in Italian society during the mid 15th to 16th centuries would have indeed had clear and specific ideas of what epitomized a good woman and how a proper woman should act. That a woman was immediately and obviously good was not a given for Renaissance contemporaries. A woman had to prove herself in all her actions, both in public and in the private realm as well. There were many components to the idea of a good woman and it is only through deconstructing these that the Renaissance notion of woman can be truly understood.

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Jillian Werner
2007

Thesis Proposal
For my Senior thesis, I will engage extensively with the works of Pieter Brueghel the Elder, a much-studied yet still ambiguous Flemish artist of the 16th century. 

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Kelly Presutti
2007

Thesis Proposal
The starting point for my thesis is the surprising discovery of scatological references in the critique of early modern art. I will pursue this topic in light of the ongoing fractioning of the monolithic notion of Modernism.

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Toby Zur Loye
2007

Thesis Proposal
Ultimately, the Surrealist interpretation of flanerie is very similar to their approach to political revolution and the representation of the repressed desires of the unconscious.

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