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Recent research/seminar topics have included:
- a dual English/History seminar studying girlhood in Victorian children’s literature and the depiction of girlhood in the Narnia books by C.S. Lewis
- a project exploring the ethics of documentary poetic practice in C.D. Wright’s One Big Self and One With Others
- a linguistics study exploring how college students’ slang relates to sociability
- an analysis of the philosophical implications of gift-giving in the Young Adult Divergent Series novels by Veronica Roth
- a dual English/Communication Arts project examining the connections between systems of control present in the evangelical Christian fundamentalist ministry GirlDefined and the dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- a joint English/Creative Writing project that uses a Marxist lens to deconstruct the corporate and historical mythologies of basketball, and then offers a basketball-themed novel-in-verse
- a Christian, feminist reading of Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, whichargues that the novel’s heroine is both independent-minded and sincere in her faith
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