Finding Solace in Television

By Sawyer Gouw Ranzetta on March 17, 2023

A Reluctant Defense of Euphoria

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After Yang

By Anna Maitland on March 13, 2023

Within these filmic depictions, East Asians remain eternal outsiders and representative of an automated world that threatens humanity, culminating in the expression of the Western fear of a technological future that looks Asian.

CriticismInterdisciplinary Seminar film orientalism representation technology

 

What Color Is the Elephant?

By Aiswarya Sudheer on March 10, 2023

The hook's blade caught the flames' reflection and turned bright orange. Then it was all red.

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Female Intimacy in Victorian Literature

By Michelle Capone on March 8, 2023

This female intimacy borne from conflict is truer to life than perfectly manufactured, hyperfictional Victorian romance, and as a result, compels attention despite its lack of focus.

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The Ungrievable Colonization of the Barbarians

By Zarah Short on March 6, 2023

If one places themselves in the shoes of the citizens of the Empire, what would one believe?

CriticismInterdisciplinary Seminar colonization human rights indigenous peoples

 

Queer Love

By Eva Bruckner, and Sarika Doppalapudi on March 3, 2023

Even outside of forms of more explicit resistance, our project hopes to examine what it means to embrace joy and love in the mundane, while existing in a marginalized body that is so often susceptible to violence.

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Washington Heights

By Leah Espinal on March 1, 2023

Don’t be fooled we will always take our pride and joy wherever we go / Because that will never be left behind, nuestra alegria / Sin importar lo bueno o lo malo, ay que disfrutar de la vida como sea

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“The Unknown Citizen” and Auden’s Political Beliefs

By Nara Aligulova on February 27, 2023

The surveillance employed by the State is intrusive and assertive; it holds power over the citizens, making the state authoritarian, which Auden would certainly be opposed to given that he was quite anti-Authority.

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A Woman in the Sun: Josephine Nivison Hopper

By Claire Lynge on February 24, 2023

Society did not declare Nivison as “brilliant” during her time. Should she subsequently receive recognition for her art, the work must stand on its own aesthetic merit.

CriticismFirst-Year Writing Seminar feminism painting representation

 

Year of the Tiger

By Kendal Wang on February 22, 2023

I shut my eyes, and imagine that the little bronze tiger is alive. His skin is oxidized, patches of green littering the weathered bronze.

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The “Cultural Family”

By Michaela Strauther on February 20, 2023

In the present world, a transracial adoptee’s experience is inevitably complex, as they break both the genetic continuity and the racial continuity in our definitions of family.

CriticismInterdisciplinary Seminar adoption ancestry family race

 

The Fallacy of the Bedtime Story

By Salma Chicas on February 17, 2023

As the sun slowly sinks beneath the horizon, the black sky becomes a canvas for the unique and lively stories of the evening’s countless authors.

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