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Submissions from 2022

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A Country of Unsettled Opinion: An exploration of W.B. Yeats' Irish Identity, Jackson Curran

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"Can Irish Literature Be Considered Post-Colonial?": A Study of William Butler Yeats and James Joyce, Quinlan Finnegan

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Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen's Anticipation of Modern Critical Theory, Maddie Geary

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Employing Character: Jane Austen and the Reading Woman, Alison Henderson

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As She Fills Her Dreams: Ninetheenth Century Women Poets Reclaiming Agency with the Sonnet, Sydney Lauer

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Michelle Cliff's Abeng: Culturally Responsive Teaching in Context, Nicholas Ouellette

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The Relationship Between Art and The Artist: Culturally Responsive Teaching in Context, Jacob Rodrigues

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“Some Other Where”: Amy Levy’s Poetics of a Radical Queer Identity, Parker L. Schwartz

Submissions from 2021

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Zootopia: Utopic American Dream… or Racist Reality?, Salvamarie Alifonso

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Bridgerton: A Second Story of a White Washed Era, Libby Bennett

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Storytelling Through Taylor Swift’s Folklore, Olivia DellIsola

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The Uncanniness of Get Out and Stepford Wives, Samantha R. Gosselin

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The Gilmore Girls’ Blind Subscription to Classism, Alexandra Lombardo

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“I Was Afraid You’d Lost Your Way… But You’ve Found It Again:” Redemption Arcs Versus Corruption Arcs of “Flawed” Characters in Avatar: The Last Airbender, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, and Infinity Train, Amy Martin

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Jujutsu Kaisen: Akutami’s Radical Evolution of Shōnen Anime Protagonists, Ari Massos

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It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Satirical Parallels of Social Problems, Liadan O’Neill

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Fight Like A Girl: A Feminist Analysis of Game of Thrones, Hailey Reed

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Breaking Bad: Breaking the Pattern of the “American Dream”, Alexander Sanchez

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An Attack on Japanese History and Nordic Myths Through Hajime Isayama’sAttack on Titan, Kara Sylvia

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“Don’t Hold it Against Us”:An Appearance and Reality Analysis of Five Nights at Freddy’s: Sister Location, Amanda C. Vesey

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The Loman’s and The Younger ’s Search for the American Dream, Gabriella Villanova

Submissions from 2020

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The Challenge of Conformity and Censorship of the 1950s Criticized in Fahrenheit 451, Courtney Caouette

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Redefining the American Man: Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, Emily Chaves

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James Baldwin and Allen Ginsberg's Fervor For Social Change: Blasphemous Allegories, Jillian Damiani

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The Myth of the Happy, Homecoming Soldier: J.D. Salinger's Exposé on Post-War, Lexi Dubovic

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Dean Moriarty, Sal Paradise, and the Mechanical Hound: Technology's Negative Impact on Society, Edward Jackson

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Searching for the 'Ancient Heavenly Connection': 1950s Faith Movements and the 'Counter-Religion' of the Beats, Megan Peters

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The Myth of the Happy Woman in the 1950s: Lorraine Hansberry and Adrienne Rich, Kailyn Preston

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Fahrenheit 451 and A Raisin in the Sun: Nonconformity and Family and Gender Roles in the 1950s American Texts, Bridget Shea

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Fahrenheit 451 and On the Road: The Critque of Family Values, Joshua Spicer

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The Influence of the Court Case, Hansberry v. Lee, on the Play, A Raisin in the Sun, Caitlin Wright

Submissions from 2019

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A Dirtbag’s American Dream: An Ideological Analysis of Rugged Individualism in Free Solo, Garrett Bolton

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The Dark Knight of Morality v. The Clown Prince of Crime, Jennifer L. Bryan

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“A Man’s (Wo)Man:”A Gender Role Critique on Seinfeld’s Elaine and Susan, Kayla Meagan Fuller

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Flirting with Intolerance in Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, Rachel Marianna Gover

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“I had no idea who I was dealing with:” Distinguishing Components of True Crime, Taylor Maria Hasseltine

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“You’d Be the First Person in the History of the World”: Inescapable Ideology in The Master, Chloë Knopf

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Is Austen’s Emma Clueless? -As If! -Intersectional Ideologies Inspire a NewClassic, Julia Marie Pina

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“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

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Running down the American Dream: Born to Run as a Concept Album, Michael Anthony Sannicandro

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“‘Every time a Targaryen is born, the Gods flip a Coin’:The Patriarchal Flip in Game of Thrones”, Riley Elizabeth Spillane

Submissions from 2018

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Lead Us Not Into Temptation and Deliver Us From Patriarchy : Biblical Appropriations of the Female Voice, Gabrielle Barnes

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Hermione, a Modern-day Athena: Friendships in Harry Potter and Homer’s Epics, Vanessa Dos Anjos

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'There Could Be No Doubt of His Sex,’ Gender Fluidity in Virginia Woolf s Orlando and Other Works, Jenna Noell

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“Power in a Woman’s Wit and Will“: Unmasking Feminism in Louisa May Alcott’s Behind a Mask, Samantha Painter

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Sisterhood of the Traveling Fan: The Portrayal of Intimacy in Lisa See’s Snow Mower and the Secret Fan, Samantha Rocca

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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

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“I am too pure for you, or anyone”: A New Approach to Sylvia Plath, Esther Greenwood, and the Second-Self, Cory Alix

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The “Two-Headed Schizophrenic”: A Cultural Constraint Feminist Critique of Esther Greenwood and April Wheeler, Heather Berkley

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Destructive Ideologies : Revolutionary Road and the Suburban Nightmare, Brian Chester

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Out of the Kitchen and Into Actuality: Postmodern Literary Women as Free Agents, Nicole Foti

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Nurse Ratched as the Anti-woman: Rebellion Against Patriarchy in Ken Kesey’s One F/ew Over the Cuckoo ’s Nest, Molly Gessford

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A Paper Reality: Bureaucracy and Subjective Reality in Catch-22, Sean Gilpatrick

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Deserting Pianosa: A Darwinian Reading of Joseph Heller’s Catch-22, Daniel Hoskins

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Revolutionary Road: The Road to Revolutionizing the Female Role in Society, Anthony Lafata

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The Homecoming of Vietnam Veterans in Sticks and Bones by David Rabe: The Effects of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder on Family Life, Alexa Lemire

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Confucian Relationships in the Twentieth Century: Revolutionary Road and the Five Basic Human Relationships, Dominic Lombardi

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Living in a Petrified Forest: Exploring the World of Wheelers through an Ecocritical-Thoreauvian Lens“, Marie Palma

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Reinforcing Indoctrinability: The Rejection of the Fortuitous Feminist Mutation, Lisa Pellacchia

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Just a Girl, Tying to Find Her Place in a Patriarchal World: Esther Greenwood’s Journey Through a Male Dominated 1950’s Gender Landscape, Mary Randazzo

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Nightmare in Suburbia: Frank Wheeler in Revolutionary Road, Omar Reyes