Calliope 2026

PART ONE: BODY, GENDER, AND GENRE

Body, Gender, and Genre
 Darci Ross-Smith

"Girls, Lights Out!" Why Women Gathering Disrupts the Patriarchy
 Yelitza Amador Orozco

Casting off the Mask: A Critique of Performative Feminism and Female Identity in Angela Carter's "The Bloody Chamber"
 Michelle Whitaker

Discovery and Recovery of the Self in Let Us Descend
 Auna Hernandez

Princesses, Sex Objects, and Saviors: The Recontextualization of "Rice from Ashes" and Fairy Tales in Selva Almada's Not a River
 Devyn Hollis

PART TWO: LANGUAGE, LEGACY, AND LOSS

Language, Legacy, and Loss

A Voyage Into Post-Colonial Spectrality
 Michael Ibarra

Maud's Journey for Love: A Postcolonial & Socio-Psychological Reading of Maud Martha
 Julian Caro

The Silence of Postcolonial Identity in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee
 Logan Scott

Beyond Realism: Rewriting the Refugee Narrative in Exit West
 Jocelyn Martinez

PART THREE: PEOPLE, WORLDS, AND WORDS

People, Worlds, and Words
 Darci Ross-Smith

Visibility and the Erasure of Chicano Art in Boyle Heights
 Fermin Ortiz

The River Has Eyes: Elemental Sentience, The Sublime, and Archetypalism Through an EcoGothic Gaze
 Taylor Redstone

The Titan Protocol: Social Media, Neo-Mechanization, and Orbital Territory Governance
 Rudy Mosqueda

PART FOUR: KNOWLEDGE, REALITY, AND RAM

Knowledge, Reality, and RAM
 Darci Ross-Smith

The Uncanny House Has Fallen
 Dallas Hensley

Neighboring Dimensions: The Uses of Substances in Poe and Hawthorne to Achieve Quasi-Emersonian Apothesis
 Darci Ross-Smith

"That Hard Law of LIfe:" Gnostic Conflict in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
 Jolie Medeiros

Mediascape in Transcending Reality and Creating a "Zero Perspective" Community in White Noise by Don DeLillo
 Afia Mursheeda

ADDITIONAL COMMENTARIES

Note from the Archive
 Donato Cruz

Note from the Department Chair
 Dr. Emerson Case

Note from the Department Administrative Support Coordinator
 Rebecca St. Croix Martinez

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