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Submissions from 2022
A Country of Unsettled Opinion: An exploration of W.B. Yeats' Irish Identity, Jackson Curran
"Can Irish Literature Be Considered Post-Colonial?": A Study of William Butler Yeats and James Joyce, Quinlan Finnegan
Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen's Anticipation of Modern Critical Theory, Maddie Geary
Employing Character: Jane Austen and the Reading Woman, Alison Henderson
As She Fills Her Dreams: Ninetheenth Century Women Poets Reclaiming Agency with the Sonnet, Sydney Lauer
Michelle Cliff's Abeng: Culturally Responsive Teaching in Context, Nicholas Ouellette
The Relationship Between Art and The Artist: Culturally Responsive Teaching in Context, Jacob Rodrigues
“Some Other Where”: Amy Levy’s Poetics of a Radical Queer Identity, Parker L. Schwartz
Submissions from 2021
Zootopia: Utopic American Dream… or Racist Reality?, Salvamarie Alifonso
Bridgerton: A Second Story of a White Washed Era, Libby Bennett
Storytelling Through Taylor Swift’s Folklore, Olivia DellIsola
The Uncanniness of Get Out and Stepford Wives, Samantha R. Gosselin
The Gilmore Girls’ Blind Subscription to Classism, Alexandra Lombardo
Jujutsu Kaisen: Akutami’s Radical Evolution of Shōnen Anime Protagonists, Ari Massos
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Satirical Parallels of Social Problems, Liadan O’Neill
Fight Like A Girl: A Feminist Analysis of Game of Thrones, Hailey Reed
Breaking Bad: Breaking the Pattern of the “American Dream”, Alexander Sanchez
An Attack on Japanese History and Nordic Myths Through Hajime Isayama’sAttack on Titan, Kara Sylvia
“Don’t Hold it Against Us”:An Appearance and Reality Analysis of Five Nights at Freddy’s: Sister Location, Amanda C. Vesey
The Loman’s and The Younger ’s Search for the American Dream, Gabriella Villanova
Submissions from 2020
The Challenge of Conformity and Censorship of the 1950s Criticized in Fahrenheit 451, Courtney Caouette
Redefining the American Man: Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, Emily Chaves
James Baldwin and Allen Ginsberg's Fervor For Social Change: Blasphemous Allegories, Jillian Damiani
The Myth of the Happy, Homecoming Soldier: J.D. Salinger's Exposé on Post-War, Lexi Dubovic
Dean Moriarty, Sal Paradise, and the Mechanical Hound: Technology's Negative Impact on Society, Edward Jackson
Searching for the 'Ancient Heavenly Connection': 1950s Faith Movements and the 'Counter-Religion' of the Beats, Megan Peters
The Myth of the Happy Woman in the 1950s: Lorraine Hansberry and Adrienne Rich, Kailyn Preston
Fahrenheit 451 and A Raisin in the Sun: Nonconformity and Family and Gender Roles in the 1950s American Texts, Bridget Shea
Fahrenheit 451 and On the Road: The Critque of Family Values, Joshua Spicer
The Influence of the Court Case, Hansberry v. Lee, on the Play, A Raisin in the Sun, Caitlin Wright
Submissions from 2019
A Dirtbag’s American Dream: An Ideological Analysis of Rugged Individualism in Free Solo, Garrett Bolton
The Dark Knight of Morality v. The Clown Prince of Crime, Jennifer L. Bryan
“A Man’s (Wo)Man:”A Gender Role Critique on Seinfeld’s Elaine and Susan, Kayla Meagan Fuller
Flirting with Intolerance in Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, Rachel Marianna Gover
“I had no idea who I was dealing with:” Distinguishing Components of True Crime, Taylor Maria Hasseltine
“You’d Be the First Person in the History of the World”: Inescapable Ideology in The Master, Chloë Knopf
Is Austen’s Emma Clueless? -As If! -Intersectional Ideologies Inspire a NewClassic, Julia Marie Pina
“And the nicest part of all, Val, I [don’t] look just like you!:”:Unmasking the Differences Between Black Mirror and The Twilight Zone, Jeannie F. Reyes
Running down the American Dream: Born to Run as a Concept Album, Michael Anthony Sannicandro
“‘Every time a Targaryen is born, the Gods flip a Coin’:The Patriarchal Flip in Game of Thrones”, Riley Elizabeth Spillane
Submissions from 2018
Lead Us Not Into Temptation and Deliver Us From Patriarchy : Biblical Appropriations of the Female Voice, Gabrielle Barnes
Hermione, a Modern-day Athena: Friendships in Harry Potter and Homer’s Epics, Vanessa Dos Anjos
'There Could Be No Doubt of His Sex,’ Gender Fluidity in Virginia Woolf s Orlando and Other Works, Jenna Noell
“Power in a Woman’s Wit and Will“: Unmasking Feminism in Louisa May Alcott’s Behind a Mask, Samantha Painter
Sisterhood of the Traveling Fan: The Portrayal of Intimacy in Lisa See’s Snow Mower and the Secret Fan, Samantha Rocca
An Evolutionary Redefinition of the Education of Women: Jane Eyre and Hermione Granger and the Influence of the Female Voice, Emily Stoeppel
Submissions from 2011
The “Two-Headed Schizophrenic”: A Cultural Constraint Feminist Critique of Esther Greenwood and April Wheeler, Heather Berkley
Destructive Ideologies : Revolutionary Road and the Suburban Nightmare, Brian Chester
Out of the Kitchen and Into Actuality: Postmodern Literary Women as Free Agents, Nicole Foti
Nurse Ratched as the Anti-woman: Rebellion Against Patriarchy in Ken Kesey’s One F/ew Over the Cuckoo ’s Nest, Molly Gessford
A Paper Reality: Bureaucracy and Subjective Reality in Catch-22, Sean Gilpatrick
Deserting Pianosa: A Darwinian Reading of Joseph Heller’s Catch-22, Daniel Hoskins
Revolutionary Road: The Road to Revolutionizing the Female Role in Society, Anthony Lafata
Confucian Relationships in the Twentieth Century: Revolutionary Road and the Five Basic Human Relationships, Dominic Lombardi
Living in a Petrified Forest: Exploring the World of Wheelers through an Ecocritical-Thoreauvian Lens“, Marie Palma
Reinforcing Indoctrinability: The Rejection of the Fortuitous Feminist Mutation, Lisa Pellacchia
Nightmare in Suburbia: Frank Wheeler in Revolutionary Road, Omar Reyes
