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Submissions from 2014
“An Order of Christianity, Hold the Christ”: Thomas Hardy’s “Religious Menu” in Tess of the d’UrberviIIes, Erin R. Giroux
School’s Out For Women: Skills, Schooling, and Successin Daniel Defoe’s MoU Flanders, Alexandra Godino
“The StrumpetTriumphs: Evangelicalism, Mary Magdalene, & Daniel Defoe’s Moll“, Aimee Kaufman
Individualism vs. Communitarianismin Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones, Stephanie MacLaughlin
“Sancho Panza, Illiterate Voice of Reason: A Study of Irony in Miguel De Cervantes’ Don Quixote“, Matthew Manfredi
From Jail-Bird to Gangsterto Gentlewoman: The Rise of the Female Hero in Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders, Jesse Ramos
Yes, Women Are Human: Gender Confusion in Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders and Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D 'Urbervilles, Alexi Schwartzkopff
"Wonder-Bookof the MysteriousEast": Othering through Defamiliarization in English Translations of The Arabian Nights, Chelsea Silva
“The Grassisn’t Always Greener: Realism and the Transformative Motif of Country and City in Voltaire’s Candide", Gregory Wolf
Submissions from 2012
Dawson’s Creek'. Complexity vs. Didacticism in Youth Culture, Sprague Abigail
Justifying the Finale: Hierarchical Truths in The X-Files, Ashley Aliengena
"Because it’s Where My Family Goes": An Ideological Analysis of Racism and Anti-Racism in The Blind Side, Silva Amanda
Drive: Deconstructing the Hero, Alexandra Artiano
I Love The Hunger Games-. What Does That Mean?, Mallorey Blake
“I’m Finished!”: Yielding to Capitalist Ideology in There will Be Blood, Studley Caitlin
Once Upon a Time: Breaking the Binary between Fiction and Reality, Reagan Danielle
From the Shadows of Fangorn to the Fires of Mount Doom: Individuation in the Hobbits of The Lord of the Rings, Chapleau David
Incommensurate Values: An Ideological Analysis of Breaking Bad, Zucker Devin
“The Pirates Don’t Eat the Tourists”: Jurassic Park and The Dangers of Frankenstein’s Creation, Mullin Elizabeth
Imploding False Consciousness and Igniting Praxis: A Marxist Analysis of WALL-E, Perreca Elizabeth
Forrest Gump: Promoting “Conservative Acceptance”, Rann Emily
Childhood Lessons of Evil: An Examination of Disney Villains, Davis Hailey
Breaking the First Rule of Fight Club: An Analysis of Gendered Social Reformation, Wolf Jared
“How Do You Like Them Apples?”: Good Will Hunting’ s Alternative Path to Success, Wilson Kaleigh
Convincing Matthew Arnold to Read Jodi Picoult: The Plain Truth about Popular Culture, DeAngelis Kara
Facebook Phenomenon: Becoming the "Authors'’ of Our Own Selective Fiction, Marshall Katherine
From Apocalyptic Realism to Utopian Idealism: Illuminating Studio Ghibli’s Transnational Resonance, Torres Kathrine
The Princess Fantasy: Does Disney Poison Consumer Culture?, Sweeney Kayla
Dissolving Barriers: Across the Universe, Rae Kelly Anne
Invisible Hegemony: An Examination of Patriarchal Structures in Harry Potter, Tangled, and Shrek, Ragone Kristina
Redefining the American Family: A Feminist Analysis of Juno and Knocked Up, Dzialo Laura
Christopher McCandless: Into the Wild’s Marxist Martyr, St. Aubin Laura
Rubbernecking the Jersey Shore, Meinzer Marguerite
Star, Stripes, and Spandex: Captain AmerIca Retconning the America Heroic Ideal, Rafferty Mary
Lotso Love is Missing in the Toy Story Series, Lee Michelle
Mocking the American Dream?: An Ideological Analysis of The Offlce, Duncan Samantha
“Time is Money, and Money is Time:” A Marxist Analysis of in Time, Zatir Sara
Seeking Balance: A Sustainability Framework Analysis of Into The Wild, Jessica Sasso
A Transformation in Popular Culture Stereotypes: Changing Representations of the LGBTQQ Community, Tracy Smith
Rethinking the Hero: Marginalization in Shakespeare, Twain and Tolkien, Lyons Zachary
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