Asian Americanness is often described using language that marks this racial categorization’s hybridity and liminality -- the way that they are white, but not white enough and yet the way that they don’t cleanly fit into ...

This essay investigates the queer poetics of reticence and disidentification in the modernist poet H.D.’s personal archive and poem “Eurydice.” Using a letter found in the Bryn Mawr Special Collections that H.D. wrote to ...

This essay explores how loss is structured by the lyrical, linguistic patterns and citational cadence of Maggie Nelson’s Bluets. The text is constructed out of over two hundred fragments and loosely narrates the aftermath ...

In this thesis, I examine Kurt Vonnegut’s use of science fiction elements in Slaughterhouse-Five and uncover how these elements contribute to Vonnegut’s anti-war message. I argue that Vonnegut employs science fiction to ...

A collection of poetry that traces the effects of displacement following the 1998 war in Kosovo.

Each text has a unique depiction of time and space, a particular way it leads its readers through narrative reality. This sensation of movement through time and space — referred to as a text’s chronotope — is often a product ...

Drives, both literal and metaphorical, come together in The Haunting of Hill House. These drives occur in the car and in the home, two spaces that are symbolically important in terms of women’s independence and freedom, ...