Submissions from 2020
A Content Analysis of Rachel Held Evans’ Impact through Her Virtual Community of Faith, Maddie Christy
This research discusses the impact of Rachel Held Evans’ life, work, and death on her virtual community of faith. Evans’ work as a writer and theologian in the progressive evangelical Christian world was analyzed in this study through the T...
Submissions from 2013
The Case of Brown, Sara Ellingsworth
The world is understood through the formation of categories, of defining what something is and what something is not, totalizing an experience, person, or word in order to come to an understanding of its essential meaning. Associations colo...
What to Sight and Smell Was Sweet: Flowers and Gardening in Paradise Lost, Linnea White
Flowers and gardening have been part of human life since God placed Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. In Milton’s epic Paradise Lost, flowers and the act of gardening enhance the meaning of the poem and give insight into life before and a...
Submissions from 2011
The Un-Human Femme Bisclavret: Monstrous Misuses of the Disunion between Secular and Religious Culture in Marie de France’s 'Bisclavret', Santidad Bennett
While much of the recent scholarship on Bisclavret has focused on its unusual treatment of the werewolf motif, the more telling character of the story is actually the wife whose abuse of language subverts the major cultural constructs of wh...
La Concencia Mestiza Materialized: A Study of Judith Ortiz Cofer’s Silent Dancing, Megan Frutiger
In her creative nonfiction memoir Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood, Judith Ortiz Cofer demonstrates one way of dealing with questions of bicultural identity. This creative work, Ortiz Cofer says, arose out o...