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While She Was Somewhere Being Free

by Ariana Abadian-HeifetzPosted on April 15, 2021April 15, 2021Creative NonfictionMA Program

I find myself walking a paved road in the middle of a baraat, a groom’s wedding procession. It resembles a parade that will eventually pour through a small Indian village leading to a clearing where the bride and her family wait.

Billy Corgan Shiny Pants

by Jim FalconePosted on April 14, 2021April 21, 2021Advanced Writing CourseFiction

Sera wasn’t what you would call a “party person.” Yet here he was, walking in his tight shiny pants, to a party full of obnoxious theater kids.

Visual Memoirs

by Taylor BurkheadPosted on April 13, 2021April 9, 2021Interdisciplinary SeminarPortfolio

What constitutes autobiographical art or self-portraiture?

The Dangers of Masculinity in Macbeth

by Chris DelaneyPosted on April 12, 2021April 9, 2021CriticismInterdisciplinary Seminar

The rigors of masculinity have tainted men’s understanding of themselves, their relationships with others, and the societies in which they live. In "Macbeth," the main characters implicitly express their beliefs on what a man should be.

“You and I”: Grammar and Narrative in Kinship

by Chandani Attiyya NashPosted on April 9, 2021April 9, 2021CriticismInterdisciplinary Seminar

“Look, Doni!” the girl called to me, “I’m like a bird!” She discovering “the other,” organizing the world around her into the grammar of you/I, bird/not-bird, like/not-like.

Squirrel and Tanabe

by Hanako OhashiPosted on April 7, 2021April 1, 2021Advanced Writing CourseFiction

Just as Tanabe turned a sharp curve, a squirrel ran out of the shrubbery, froze in the middle of the road, and stared straight at him.

Influencer Culture

by Shuhan XiePosted on April 6, 2021April 1, 2021CriticismInterdisciplinary Seminar

A Case of The Aestheticized Life as a Commodity

Mutualism and Parasitism

by Cecilia LimPosted on April 5, 2021April 1, 2021CriticismInterdisciplinary Seminar

What form of symbiosis do the Terrans and Tlics of Octavia Butler's dystopian “Bloodchild" exhibit?

A Letter to My Younger Self

by Ally SwansonPosted on April 1, 2021March 26, 2021Advanced Writing CourseCreative Nonfiction

The first lesson I want to teach you is that it’s okay to be sensitive. I know mom says that it’s your worst trait, but I think it makes you strong.

Home

by Shawlin TuckerPosted on March 31, 2021March 26, 2021Creative NonfictionFirst-Year Writing Seminar

Six months later, with a lump in her belly, she was on her way to California. When they arrived, they were met with the sea breeze and high tax rates. While she was out working, he was inside drinking, an unorthodox contortion of the American dream.

Happily Ever After, The End, Fin and Other Clichés

by Allison Argueta ClarosPosted on March 30, 2021March 31, 2021Creative NonfictionIndependent Project

Depictions of Family, Love, and Writing in Jane the Virgin

The Dropout Trilogy

by Meagen TajallePosted on March 30, 2021March 26, 2021Advanced Writing CourseCriticism

Why "Bad Blood" should reunite Aaron Sorkin and David Fincher

Bibliophiles: Alone, Together

by Annie BurkyPosted on March 29, 2021March 26, 2021Creative NonfictionMA Program

I came to the city to write. I hoped to find a bustling literary community to feed my spirit and offer me some kind of identity in a dizzying mass of humanity.

B. Horseman

by Aliya JonesPosted on March 26, 2021March 23, 2021Advanced Writing CourseCriticism

It’s the quality of so much sorrow held at the brink that attracted me to "BoJack Horseman." It’s brilliant, at once both witty and belly-laugh silly, and often capable of being shockingly real.