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 is a comparative analysis of two life narratives written by opium addicts in the nineteenth century: one from England and one from China. The goal of this thesis is to assess to what extent can writing capture ...

This thesis investigates how teachers in American schools are informed by their own education and experience when teaching students with linguistic varieties different from their own. In order to investigate this, I observed ...

China’s long and vibrant history allows for the longitudinal study of events in order to contextualize and understand certain occurrences. More specifically, it grants a greater understanding of China’s relationship with ...

In her 1978 neo-slave narrative Kindred, Octavia Butler utilizes the science-fiction trope of time travel to allow Dana, a Black woman from the 20th century, to travel to the antebellum South where she both witnesses and ...

In my thesis, I read Philip Roth’s American Pastoral as a metafiction text about its narrator: Nathan Zuckerman. Zuckerman is beset by conflict between him and his parents that took place in previous novels and inhabits ...

This thesis examines the critical tradition surrounding William Wordsworth's The Prelude, and seeks to argue the continued importance of Nature in the development of his poetic or Imaginative capabilities. Specifically, ...

My thesis examines the social formation of identity in Mrs. Dalloway through the work of Julia Kristeva.

In my essay I examined the fundamental structures of humor as presented in the Jeeves canon of P. G. Wodehouse and the potential they have for a global and computerized trans-national world.

The Best We Could Do (2017), a graphic novel serving as memoir by Thi Bui, employs formal elements of absence presenting in turn a recording of a narrative of absence salient in the memories of a family of refugees from ...