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Convergences 4.1
4.1 • 2024
Contemporary Native Nations Poetry: Systems of Oppression and Depictions of Addiction
Anna Gretz
Appalachian State University
The Ethos of Motherhood: Nominating Amy Coney Barrett and Kamala Harris
Aaron Toscano
UNC Charlotte
Practical Transcendentalism for the Cult of True Womanhood
Janet Tuthill-Beam
Gardner-Webb University
Archive, Atlas, Histoire: Reading Godard, Warburg, and Langlois through Archival Theory
Alison Walsh
University of Florida
To Live Forever: Abject Horror in Donna Tartt’s The Secret History
Miranda Miller
Western Carolina University
Rudolph Fisher’s The Walls of Jericho as a Novel of Education, Beyond the Genre
Harish Chander
Independent Scholar
Ways of Belonging: Varying Indigenous Experiences with the Concepts of Home and Homeland
Ella Mayfield
Appalachian State University
Fact Meets Fiction: The Representation of Mental Health in the Contemporary Television Series “13 Reasons Why” and “You”
Zoë Takvorian
Independent Scholar
Mental Colonization: Fighting an Extension of Colonialism in the Americas through
Contemporary Chicanx and Indigenous Works
Lauren Perrone
Appalachian State University
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Convergences 3.1
3.1 • 2023
A MYSTERY MEMOIR: UNCOVERING THE SECRETS OF SCHATTEN, A POST-WII CAMP HODOLEIN MEMOIR
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JULES GEANEY-MOORE
UNC CHARLOTTE
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TOWARD A FEMINIST LATINA MODE OF LITERARY ANALYSIS ON JULIA ALVAREZ’S HOW THE GARCIA GIRLS LOST THEIR ACCENTS
MELISSA D. BIRKHOFER
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C&C AND FANDOM SQUEE: CONSIDERING FANFICTION READER REVIEWS ON THE DATABASE ARCHIVE OF OUR OWN AS A MODEL FOR TEACHING POSITIVE CLASSROOM WRITING FEEDBACK
Jordan Frederick
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SEEING THE CHIASM: PLACE THEORY AND ECOPHENOMENOLOGY
Grant McMillan
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FRANZ BOAS’S AND JOHN ALDEN MASON’S ORAL FOLKLORE PROJECT IN PUERTO RICO (1914-1915): JIBARO FOLK TALES AND LESSONS
Rafael Ocasio
Agnes Scott College
“PORTALS TO OTHER WORLDS”: NONLINEAR TIME AND GENERATIONAL IDENTITY IN LEANNE HOWE’S MIKO KINGS
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“WE, TOO”: THE IDENTITY FORMATION OF CARIBBEAN WOMEN
Tanya Jo Woodward
Gardner Webb University
Convergences 1.1
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“STILL HIDDEN”: ACKNOWLEDGING THE INFLUENCES OF THE JUSTES’ HISTORIC HETEROTOPIA
Emma Rose Cowen
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“THE SCENE MOSCO”: CREATING EASTERN EUROPE FOR EARLY MODERN ENGLISH AUDIENCES IN JOHN FLETCHER’S THE LOYAL SUBJECT (1618)
Katja Pilhuj
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“LIFE, UH, FINDS A WAY”: THE ARTIST’S VOICE IN THE OVERSTORY AS HUMANITY’S KEY TO SURVIVAL IN A WORLD THAT BELONGS TO THE TREES AND NATURE’S PRESENCE IN APOCALYPTIC HORROR
Diana New
Western Carolina University