Calliope 2020

UNDERGRADUATE ESSAYS 

Milton’s Latent Queerness: A Theoretical Reading of the Paradise Cycle
  Elizabeth Lewis  
       
The Limits of Perspective: A Postcolonial and Feminist Approach to Hamlet 
  Michael Musick 
        
Hamlet, Postmodernism, and Archetype 
  Julia Ana Rinaldi 

Exploring Ovid: Translations and Textbooks 
  Bailey Russell and Sidney Russell 
        
Vampires: Their Role in Modern Day Culture 
  Destinee Sims
         
A Feminist Response to Archetypal Myth in Ani DiFranco “Adam and Eve” 
  Lyndsey Wheeler 
         
GRADUATE ESSAYS 

Edwidge Danticat’s Everything Inside. Observing the Haitian Diaspora 
  Kelly Aragon 

“Such Horrible Completeness”: Modernity and Liminality in The Secret Agent 
  Christopher Chrobak    
       
Gothic Literature Then and Now: A Literary Analysis of The Twilight Saga and Interview with the Vampire 
  Natalie Hernandez 
        
Jazz, Blues and Musical Rhythms in Between the Acts 
  Cheryl Porter

Living-Death and The Confined Spaces of George Lamming’s The Emigrants
  Caitlin Wolf 
         
REVIEWS 

Between, Through, and Across. The Voices of the Diaspora. A Review of Edwidge Danticat’s Everything Inside. Stories 
  Camille Bradshaw 
      
A Riveting and Wild Ride. A Review of Stafford Betty’s The War on Islam
  Clayton Dudley 
      
Alluring to Children and Adults Alike: A Review of Junot Díaz’s Islandborn/Lola 
  Jovana Espinoza  

Promises Unfulfilled: A Review of Louise Erdrich’s LaRose
  Ray Dean 

When Policies and Laws Aren’t Enough: A Review of J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy
  Kelsey McJannet 
 
A Lamentation of Black America: A Review of Jesmyn Ward's Sing, Unburied, Sing
  Jett Williams