The 2022 Graduate Symposium | Crystal Donkor
Symposium Essays
Black Spiritual, Classical Body: How Printing African American Folk Music Follows and Subverts White Paradigms | Bri Constagnozzi
Frances Harper in Print: Sexism and the Black Feminine Cultural Ideal | Elizabeth Hill-Caruso
Mary Ann Shadd Cary: Emigration and Black Nationalism | Adrianna Kandeel
Genre, Suspense, and Illustration: Gothic Femininity in Pauline Hopkins’s Hagar’s Daughter | Eugen Margariti
“Saw you the sad, imploring eye?”: Rhetorical Devices in Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects | Lizzy Sobiesk
The American Anti-Slavery Almanac: Rural 19th Century Liberation | Sasha Parrish
Response | Derrick R. Spires
Poetry
Valentine | David Dear
Learner’s Permit | Thomas Festa
The Iris | Abigail Gallagher
Transplant | Abigail Gallagher
The ice rains | Dylan Haughton
Novemberish | Mike Jurkovic
An Orchid, 1941 Georgia O’Keeffe | Raphael Kosek
White Rose with Larkspur No. 2, 1927 Georgia O’Keeffe | Raphael Kosek
teenagers | Steven Siegelski
Essays from the Graduate Program
Reintegrating the Abject in Beowulf: Grendel’s Project of Cultural Reflection | Katherine Boyle
Seeing and Consuming the Human-Animal Other in Jordan Peele’s Nope | Demetri Kissel
Between Absence and Presence: Power Through Silence and Language in Götz and Meyer | Skylar Couch-Tellefsen
The Strength of Independent Bookstores in a Digital Age | Brooke Lundgren
“Overwhelmed by the Horror of War Without its Glory”: The Destabilizing Power of the Damaged Body in Vera Brittain’s Testament of Youth | Dylan Perles
“Little Slaps at Credulity”: Henry James and the Art of Intrusion | Emily Vanston
2022 Graduate Theses
Creative Writing Thesis Showcase
Cantaloupe Kingdom | Peter Camilleri
Let These Birds Out | Katie Cavallucci
Jackson’s Journey | Michael Clark
Noshem Wearzen | Robyn Hager
Strongheart: Honor Among Thieves | Demetri Kissel
Memoir in Progress | Amber Merlini
Blood | Emma Philippas
Literature Thesis Abstracts
Discord in Thornfield Hall: Critical Postcolonial Intersectionality in Jane Eyre | Emma Ciervo
Tensions of the Body: Transgender Literature and the Body in Space and Time | Sophie Field
Modern Garbage : An Eco-critical Perspective on Trash, Art, Commodities, and Duchamp’s Readymades | Joe Gaudiana
Anti-Thesis: The New Rhetoric of Jim W. Corder | Kevin Thomas