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Submissions from 2024 2024

Law and Literature in Pennsylvania: A Changing Landscape, Juliette Gaggini

Politicizing the Past: The Exploration of Revolutionary Collectivity within Neoliberalism in Dionne Brand’s In Another Place, Not Here and Rita Indiana’s Tentacle, Siobhan Nerz

Submissions from 2023 2023

In the End, Sabrina A. Barner

Swimming Lessons: Exploring and Embracing the Graphic Memoir, Sophia Donati

Visualizing The Permanent Lie: An Examination of Dystopian Literature Using Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Model, Anthony Mitchell

Is Children's Literature Really Meant for Children? Global Political Commentary in Children's Literature, Jenny Scott

Submissions from 2021 2021

Existential Reactions to Modernity: An Analysis of Lovecraft's Nihilistic Cosmicism & Dostoevsky's Christian Existentialism, Olivia Maikisch

Enter Invisible: Atavistic Dualism in Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton, Andrew Scott

Writing the Womb, Writing the Wound: The Function of Vulnerability in Autotheory, Madison Weaver

Submissions from 2020 2020

Landscape, Gender, and the Politics of Belonging in Thomas Hardy’s The Woodlanders and Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Sarah Dickerson

Disrupting An(Other): Sexuality as Political Resistance, Emma C. Downey

Perspectives on Lynching in William Faulkner's Fiction and Nonfiction, Tabitha Fisher

Shape, Space and Typeface: Mapping Black Subjectivity through Caribbean Aesthetics, Samantha Stephens

Submissions from 2019 2019

Mobilizing Genre, Revising Politics: The Intersection of Audience, Author, and Allusion in Contemporary Latinx Fiction, Jason Klus

Submissions from 2018 2018

Empire of the Imagination: Imperialism and the Child Reader of Victorian and Neo-Victorian Children's Literature, Megan Hicks

Ideology in Literature and Literature as Ideology: Totalitarian and Reactionary Appropriation of Resistant Texts, Huntley Hughes

Representing Wilderness in the Shaping of America's National Parks: Aesthetics, Boundaries, and Cultures in the Works of James Fenimore Cooper, John Muir, and their Artistic Contemporaries, Alana Jajko

Disarming “Nature” as a Weapon: A Queer Ecosemiotic Reimagining of Futurity and Environmental Ethics Through Memoir, Sam Lauer

Nature as Theophany: Exploring Coleridge's Scientific and Theological Inquiries into the Imagination, Adam Walker

Submissions from 2017 2017

"External Ghost / Than Its interior Confronting": Gardens, Ghosts, and Fractals in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Cole Swensen, Margaret Rose Brown

The Will to Remember: Manifestations of Holocaust "Fatigue" and "Exhaustion" in Representations of the Holocaust, Bethany Sarah Grandy

Submissions from 2016 2016

Arranger of Prayers and Other Essays, Dana Marie Ray

Fugitive Routes: Transregionalism, Race, and the Romance of Reunification in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Stephanie Renee Scherer

Submissions from 2015 2015

"An Everywhere of Silver": Synaesthesia, Polymodality, and the Musical Poetics of Emily Dickinson, Molly Brown

Treading Lightly, Molly Brown