This collection features the Senior Papers of the English Department. Papers include literary criticism, fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.
Submissions from 2022
Sanctuary, Abigail G. Chandler
The Effects of Trauma on Identity Formation: Pursuing and Obtaining Individual Freedom in Emerson’s Nature and Creech’s Chasing Redbird, McKenzie Hershberger
Gothic Determinism: The Interplay of Atavism and Hope in "The Old Nurse's Story" and "The Fall of the House of Usher", Madison Howland
From Renaissance to Robert: the Machiavellian Cycle of Life, Death, and Rebirth, Noah Huseman
The Paradox of Loss, Abby Pugsley
As the Angles, Joell Paul Russell
Note to Self: Don't Forget to Title Your Project!, Abby Wilson
Submissions from 2021
Submissions from 2020
Purple Paint, Kelly Abraham
Authenticity in Glimpses: Framing Art and Identity in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse and Zadie Smith’s Swing Time, Taylor Budzikowski
Learning or Not Learning to Overcome Trauma: Jane Eyre and A Farewell to Arms, Jessica Cutter
Seeking the Tomato: Encounters with Beauty in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and Zadie Smith's On Beauty, Jessica Dundas
Broadening the Feminist Ideal: Female Expression in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening and Kathryn Stockett’s The Help, Hannah Funk
Searching for Understanding: How Hamlet and Frankenstein Inform Humanity’s Response to Trauma, Jonathan Knippenberg
Metaphors of Mental Illness: How Emily Dickinson and Vincent van Gogh Understood and Expressed Their Personal Battles with Depression, Samantha Moss
The Adventures of Mousy and Jasper, James Schantz
Submissions from 2018
Hometrees and Roleplaying: How Instability Affects "The Catcher in the Rye's" Holden and "The Flick's" Avery in Their Pursuit of Belonging, Caleb Hoelscher
Stories to the Remote Reader: Shaping Cultural Narratives in "Do Not Say We Have Nothing" and "Their Eyes Were Watching God", Hannah Perry
Wilderness, Kendra Smalley