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Convergences 5.1
5.1 • 2025
Homesick: Explorations of Health Issues and Trauma in the Postwar Relationship with the Patria in Castellanos Moya’s El sueño del retorno and Arias’s Arias de Don Giovani
Adrienne Erazo
Appalachian State University
“Writing is for you, you are for you”: Breaking Away from Phallogocentrism in Campbell’s Monomyth
Emma Hamilton
Western Carolina University
Chaucer’s Pardoner: A Marvel of Narcissistic Portraiture
Harish Chander
Shaw University (ret)
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Convergences 4.1
4.1 • 2024
Contemporary Native Nations Poetry: Systems of Oppression and Depictions of Addiction
Anna Gretz
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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
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Lauren Perrone
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Convergences 3.1
3.1 • 2023
A MYSTERY MEMOIR: UNCOVERING THE SECRETS OF SCHATTEN, A POST-WII CAMP HODOLEIN MEMOIR
ANA-ISABEL ALIAGA-BUCHENAU
UNC CHARLOTTE
JULES GEANEY-MOORE
UNC CHARLOTTE
JOHN SULLIVAN
INDEPENDENT SCHOLAR
Convergences 2.1
2.1 • 2022 • Download all
TOWARD A FEMINIST LATINA MODE OF LITERARY ANALYSIS ON JULIA ALVAREZ’S HOW THE GARCIA GIRLS LOST THEIR ACCENTS
MELISSA D. BIRKHOFER
APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY
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
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
SEEING THE CHIASM: PLACE THEORY AND ECOPHENOMENOLOGY
Grant McMillan
University of North Dakota
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
Zak Sheppard
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
“WE, TOO”: THE IDENTITY FORMATION OF CARIBBEAN WOMEN
Tanya Jo Woodward
Gardner Webb University
Convergences 1.1
1.1 • 2021 • Download all
“STILL HIDDEN”: ACKNOWLEDGING THE INFLUENCES OF THE JUSTES’ HISTORIC HETEROTOPIA
Emma Rose Cowen
University of North Carolina Wilmington
“THE SCENE MOSCO”: CREATING EASTERN EUROPE FOR EARLY MODERN ENGLISH AUDIENCES IN JOHN FLETCHER’S THE LOYAL SUBJECT (1618)
Katja Pilhuj
The Citadel
“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