Philosophers like Montesquieu, Voltaire and Beccaria made criminal law reform central to their agenda in the second half of the eighteenth century. By consequence, the carceral subject emerged in their denunciation of the ...

This report describes the results of a study we conducted to determine how literature and Romance languages faculty at Haverford College perform research and the challenges they face. Our work was coordinated by Ithaka ...

Current research fails to determine the underlying neurological explanations of peripartum mood disorder (PMD) and its many behavioral components. In particular, peripartum anxiety behavior has been found to have increased ...

I base my work on an idea of organized chaos. I make collages that are not meant to be a portrait of each city (as that would imply my power to give cities totalizing definitions), but rather, of my experience of examining ...

L’histoire violente de l’Algérie a toujours été une source de traumatisme chez les générations qui ont vu le jour après l’indépendance du pays en 1962. On peut en trouver l'évidence dans les textes publiés après cette date ...

Homero Aridjis, a Mexican author and environmental activist, explores themes of nature and its destruction in his poems and prose. I focused on a pair of his novels, "La leyenda de los soles" (1993) and "¿En quién piensas ...

Scholars have come to recognize over the last few decades that Apuleius’ novel, the Metamorphoses, must be allowed to enjoy multiple, coexisting interpretations. To that end, I demonstrate how a certain class of allusions, ...

This close reading of the Io episode in Ovid’s Metamorphoses encourages an interdisciplinary dialogue between classical studies and psychology by examining indicators of trauma in the character Io. Unlike previous studies ...

My thesis aims to tie together two short stories, Hassan Blasim’s “The Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes” and Jorge Luis Borges’s “El Zahir,” by means of examining their shared themed of the idée fixe. The “persistent idea” ...