English Department Current Student Spotlight

Laci Burton 

Major(s): English

Minor(s): Writing & Rhetoric and Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies

Expected Graduation Date:  May 2025

If Laci Burton knows how to do one thing, it’s staying busy. From off-campus jobs to on-campus leadership positions, Laci’s time at Stony Brook is nothing short of admirable. After being awarded a URECA grant to go to the Library of Congress, Laci was able to further her research for her Honor’s thesis and uncovered something exceptional. Laci argues that Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House uses Freudian ideology to subvert the goals of psychoanalysis and hegemonic enforcement of gender roles.