• Does Language Shape Us or Do We Shape Language?: A Literature Review 

  Strickland, Emily (2022-10)

• Changing With the World 

  Krist, Autumn (2023-02-24)

  While growth and change aren't the same thing, they are oftentimes hand in hand. For me and this collection, growth and change go hand in hand. This book collection started in about 2021 when I took a medical leave of ...

• The Secrets to My Nancy Drew Collection 

  Firestein, Joan (2023-02-24)

  I love Nancy Drew. Ever since I was in third grade and read The Mystery at Lilac Inn and The Hidden Staircase I have been hooked. Besides reading at least one book from almost every Nancy Drew series, I have seen every ...

• My Father's House 

  Finnigan, Reese (2023-02)

  The house I was raised in guided my interests. It’s thanks to my parents that I have a collection of books on rock and roll.

• Examining the Use of the G-slur, “Roma” and “Romani” in Comic Books and Fan Fiction Works 

  Solomon, A'Yanna (2021-03)

  WandaVision was my introduction to Wanda’s depiction in the MCU, however, it was through fan fiction that I learned of her Jewish/Roma comic book origins. After exploring the portrayals of Wanda’s character by fan fiction ...

• The True Crime of True Crime: The Damaging Tendencies Behind the Popular Genre 

  O'Brien, Karen (2021-11)

  In addition to studying the definition of true crime as a media genre, journalists have been studying the purpose of it.

• Blurring the Lines Between Captive and Master in Emma’s Mrs. Elton 

  Fischbach, Grace (2021)

  Jane Austen’s novel Mansfield Park sparked discussion about slavery and what Austen’s views were on the institution. Her subsequent novel, Emma, also delved into the realm of slavery. According to Paul Pickrel, the two ...

• Reese's Rock and Roll 

  Finnigan, Reese

  I think a lot of people assume that the years that make you into who you are happen when you’re a teenager. And, I mean, certainly, the teenage years are really formative; I think a lot of who I am was shaped by ...

• The Creative Lives of Bad Feminists 

  Jackson, Morgan (2022-03)

  Books within this collection speak to the authors' experiences in various genres and modalities. I have organized the presentation of this collection into the following sections. (1) The Theory lays the foreground of ...

• Losing, Finding, and Returning Home: Sense of Belonging 

  Nguyen, Uyen (2022-03)

  This collection was ironically built without the intention that it would become a collection. Similar to many other projects I have done, it always begins with a curiosity. The puzzles slowly move into places that allow ...

• Dreamers in Harlem: Works Related to Harlem Renaissance Figures 

  Howard, Sandra N. (2022-03)

  My interest in the Harlem Renaissance stems from my heritage as a granddaughter and daughter of the Great Migration, my study of anthropology as an undergraduate, and my lifelong love of African American literature and ...

• My Mother's Books: An Exploration of Heritage through Reading 

  Strickland, Emily (2022-03)

  Sometimes it is difficult to love my mother. But I can pick up a book, crack open its stiff spine, smell the pulp in its pages, and loving my mother becomes seamless. My mother grew up in Singapore eating chicken rice after ...

• Mental Health Theming in BoJack Horseman 

  Barranco, Peyton (2020)

  The animated world of BoJack Horseman is a bright, colorful image of Hollywood which is populated by an array of both anthropomorphic animals and humans. Despite the series’ vivid art style and its quick-witted humor, ...

• Social Psychological Violence through the Control of Musical Freedom 

  Elbers, Greta (2020)

  In his examination of the systems of abuse that threaten the lives and well being of African Americans, theorist David G. Gil designates six categories of human needs. Among these needs, the social psychological include, ...

• THE PUBLIC PARK AS LIMINAL SPACE: A STUDY OF SPONTANEOUS AND INTENTIONAL BEHAVIOR AND THE IMPACT ON COMMUNITY 

  Millin, Amy S. (2020)

  Public spaces, such as parks, provide a space and time that exists outside of the familiar. They are set apart from the everyday, thus providing opportunity for engagement in activities, exploration of behaviors, and ...

• In Statu Naturae: A Case Study of Civil Unrest in Seattle 

  Greifinger, Dylan (2020)

  This paper analyzes civil unrest in Seattle during the summer of 2020 under a Hobbesian framework. Specifically, it seeks to assess whether protestors in the Capitol Hill Organized Protest were living under the state of ...

• RELATIONSHIP-BUILDING AS A MEANS TO NAVIGATING GENRE IN THE WRITING CENTER 

  Schwartz, Anya (2019)

  The current literature on genre and best practices for writing center tutoring is mixed: some studies support a genre specialist model while others support a generalist model. However, these studies have not explicitly ...

• Saba Mahmood’s Transnational Feminist Framing of The Women’s Mosque Movement 

  Loftis, Emma (2019)

  The notion of a “global sisterhood” of women has been in prominence since the 1960s, largely circulated in “global” and “international” feminisms and framed in “comparative approaches to women’s issues in the Global South” ...

• The Price of Power:African American Literary Tradition in the Post-Renaissance Era 

  Miller, Joshua (2019)

  When it came to leaving an unforgiving imprint upon the American psyche regarding the conditions of African Americans, no literary works were quite as impactful as Richard Wright’s 1940 novel Native Son. As Arnold Rampersad ...

• Cultural Tourism, Academic Painting and the Formulation of Breton Identity in late 19th Century Brittany 

  Robertson, Olivia (2019)

  Due to a combination of a strong Celtic cultural influence and a centuries-long lack of interregional infrastructure connecting Brittany to the rest of France, Brittany, “administratively neglected and socially isolated,” ...

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