Volume 5 (2021)

Adventures in the Drawing Room: The Ambiguity, Exoticism, and Artifice of the Bourgeois Parisienne in Alfred Stevens’ The Visit

Piper Prolago

University of Tulsa

“In Between the Virgin and the Whore”: Decentering the Cultural Paradigms of the Virgin of Guadalupe and La Malinche in Four Writers

Miren Neyra Alcántara

Holyoke Community College

Controlling Wickedness: The Journey to Penal Reform and the First Prison Systems in New York and Pennsylvania from 1820-1840

Joseph Antonio Flores

Rice University

Double Helix: Choreography as Research

Katie Patrick

Kennesaw State University

Healing Historical Trauma in “The Marrow Thieves”

Zachariah Cross

The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Indigenous Language Reclamation in Schools: A Holistic Understanding of Transmission

Joel Christian Broberg

University of Northwestern – St. Paul

Molecular Genetic Modifications in the Human Genome: Racial Discrimination as a Biological Stressor

Nicolette Dobson

Judson University

My Mother’s Golem

Amanda VanNierop

Saint Louis University

Queer Refugee Experience: An Inquiry into the Studies of Transnationalism and its Relationship to the Livelihood of Syrian Refugees who Identify as LGBTQ+ and have Migrated to Turkey

Anne Frances Bennett

Emerson College

Race on Broadway: Views from Onstage and Behind the Curtain

Heather Friedman

Howard Community College

Racial Consciousness, Uplift, and Justice in Harlem Renaissance Poetry

Alexandria E. Schultz

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

The Effect of News Format and Personal Relevance on Affect

Sophia R. McMorrow, Hannah M. Hood-Johnson, Brianna L. Scandell, Matthew P. Newman, and Grace E. Fink

Saint Louis University

The Maiden of the Lost

Jeneva Grace Midgett

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

The White Space of the American Outdoors: Race, Representation, and Public Lands

Marlie E. Heiser

University of North Dakota

Them Ribbons Were Gold

Lucas Thompson

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Two Poems—”Fried Egg” and “Two (2) Slices of Baloney”

Mercury-Marvin Sunderland

The Evergreen State College

Uproot

Jake Gentry

Tennessee Technological University

What Isn’t There

Petra Ellerby

Western Washington University