Shafer, Leah Judith

Downey, Rebecca Ann

Cutler, Eliza

Robinette, Anna Dempsey

Although scholars have identified and celebrated the multicultural nature of Edwidge Danticat’s fiction, little scholarship exists that examines the complexity and significance of her multilingual craft. In response, this paper...

Bird, Gracyn Danielle

This thesis is a feminist reading of Boundless, a graphic novel of short stories by Jillian Tamaki published in 2017. I focus on two of the nine short stories in Boundless, “Darla!” and “The ClairFree System.” Both of these...

Liberty, Megan N.

Campbell, Elizabeth Evelyn

In this paper, I will draw conclusions about Austen's politics concerning female power and agency in marriage through an analysis of the three main marriages in Emma. These marriages-between Emma and Mr. Knightley, Harriet...

Moyer, Samantha Rae

This paper examines William Shakespeare's Richard III, Richard II, and Macbeth, focusing particularly on the patterns of usurpation, regicide, and tyrannicide that exist within them. Each case study attempts to situate the play...

Feerrar, Julia Grace

Critical reception of modernist writer, Hilda Doolittle (H.D.), has included a series of gaps—negative spaces that miss an interaction or dialogue between H.D.’s life and art, her poetry and her cultural moment, and her writing...

Schlimm, Audrey Devon

Katherine Mansfield’s short stories, which primarily focus on the lived experiences of women, are by turns humorous and dark, satirical and honest, banal and brutal. Her female characters both perform and defy female-gendered...