December 2024

Madeline Dagnall, “A For Adultery, Ambiguity and Authority: Public Discipline in The Scarlet Letter,” 1st Place.

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Madeline Dagnall, “A For Adultery, Ambiguity, & Authority: Public Discipline in The Scarlet Letter,”  1st Place. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter offers an intimate glimpse at the personal and social implications of longstanding public punishment. Hester Prynne is indefinitely visibly marked as an adulteress through the scarlet letter A embroidered on her dress, but… Read more Madeline Dagnall, “A For Adultery, Ambiguity and Authority: Public Discipline in The Scarlet Letter,” 1st Place.

Kamryn Kobel, “’He Had Never Been Crazy’: Curing Through Cultural Orientation in Silko’s Ceremony,” 1st Place

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Kamryn Kobel, “’He Had Never Been Crazy’: Curing Through Cultural Orientation in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony ,” 1st Place Orientation depends on understanding your location and existence in relation to your surroundings. When you are severed and disconnected from your surroundings and cannot locate yourself among them, physically or mentally, you become disoriented. Leslie Marmon… Read more Kamryn Kobel, “’He Had Never Been Crazy’: Curing Through Cultural Orientation in Silko’s Ceremony,” 1st Place

Alex Correia, “Representations of Physical and Mental Illness in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway,” 2nd Place

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Alex Correia, “Representations of Physical and Mental Illness in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway,” 2nd Place Early in her essay, “On Being Ill,” Virginia Woolf considers the qualities a writer must possess to write fiction involving characters who are ill, stating, “To look these things squarely in the face would need the courage of a lion… Read more Alex Correia, “Representations of Physical and Mental Illness in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway,” 2nd Place

Jasmine Mattey, “The Burden of History and Narratives of Resilience: A Critical Analysis of Inheritance and Trauma in Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred,” 2nd Place

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Jasmine Mattey, “The Burden of History and Narratives of Resilience: A Critical Analysis of Inheritance and Trauma in Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred,” 2nd Place.  Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred is a literary crucible where the past and present converge to transport readers through time and space to reckon with the harrowing legacy of American slavery. The… Read more Jasmine Mattey, “The Burden of History and Narratives of Resilience: A Critical Analysis of Inheritance and Trauma in Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred,” 2nd Place

Liz Fletcher, “From Jimmy to Snowman: An Examination of Identity, Bioengineering, and the Ethical Violations in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake,” 3rd Place.

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Liz Fletcher, “From Jimmy to Snowman: An Examination of Identity, Bioengineering, and the Ethical Violations in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake,” 3rd Place.   Identity is made up of the interplay between memories, experiences, and the integration or submersion of traumatic memories. While these are distinctly different experiences, both trauma and memory contribute to the formation… Read more Liz Fletcher, “From Jimmy to Snowman: An Examination of Identity, Bioengineering, and the Ethical Violations in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake,” 3rd Place.

Amanda MacDonald, “’The Future was Sunset:’ Trauma, Intention, and Empathy in Toni Morrison’s Trilogy,” 3rd Place.

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Amanda MacDonald, “’The Future was Sunset:’ Trauma, Intention, and Empathy in Toni Morrison’s Trilogy,” 3rd Place. In Toni Morrison’s trilogy, she presents the community as both an influence and contribution to psychic healing and the recollection of the fractured self in the post-traumatic moment. The characters in each of the three novels: Beloved, Jazz, and… Read more Amanda MacDonald, “’The Future was Sunset:’ Trauma, Intention, and Empathy in Toni Morrison’s Trilogy,” 3rd Place.

Emily DeGarie, “Environmental Exploitation and the Subaltern in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things,” 2nd Place.

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Emily DeGarie, “Environmental Exploitation and the Subaltern in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things,” 2nd Place. The issue of environmental destruction is one that is not limited to postcolonial countries, yet it undoubtedly has a greater effect in countries that have experienced colonization than in the Western world because of the exploitation of resources… Read more Emily DeGarie, “Environmental Exploitation and the Subaltern in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things,” 2nd Place.

Kamryn Kobel, “’An Eternal Moment’ of Practice: Engaging in the Act of Oral Storytelling in N. Scott Momaday’s House Made of Dawn,” 2nd Place.

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Kamryn Kobel, “’An Eternal Moment’ of Practice: Engaging in the Act of Oral Storytelling in N. Scott Momaday’s House Made of Dawn,” 2nd Place. N. Scott Momaday’s novel House Made of Dawn follows the main character, Abel, as he engages in a series of returns home: from war, from prison, and from hospitalization. Throughout the… Read more Kamryn Kobel, “’An Eternal Moment’ of Practice: Engaging in the Act of Oral Storytelling in N. Scott Momaday’s House Made of Dawn,” 2nd Place.

Jasmine Mattey, “Negotiating Humanity: Race, Representation, and Privilege in James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man,” 3rd Place.

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Jasmine Mattey, “Negotiating Humanity: Race, Representation, and Privilege in James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man,” 3rd Place. There is no more powerful position than that of being “just” human. The claim to power is the claim to speak for the commonality of humanity. Raced people can’t do that—they can only speak for… Read more Jasmine Mattey, “Negotiating Humanity: Race, Representation, and Privilege in James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man,” 3rd Place.