Journal of Undergraduate Research

Elizabeth L. Long, Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature Thesis Martial features women as his subjects in roughly twenty-five percent of his epigrams .I Just as his other epigrams explore a wide range of subjects and themes, these poems differ in the ways that they use women. Some are merely crude jests2; others explore mythological or […]

James Peter Rasmussen and Dr. Steven P. Sondrup, Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature The poetry of Fernando Pessoa contributes in a highly original way to a significant twentieth-century aesthetic development: the attempt to overthrow Romantic conceptions of authorship. Through the creation of his “heteronyms”—invented poets with a large degree of independence in style, form, imagery, […]

Joseph B. Hill and Dr. Michael D. Phillips, Humanities, Classics and Comparative Literature In much of West Africa, the griot is the central figure in the performing arts. Traditionally, only those born into the griot caste perform publicly in any capacity, be it in music, dance, historical recitation, public speaking, or jesting. Although other castes […]

Peter Rich and Dr. Devon Asay, Humanities, Classics and Comparative Literature As technology improves and its popularity increase, more and more people are turning to electronic methods of education. CALL, computer assisted language learning, is one particular field that has tried to jump on the bandwagon. However, recreating real environments and random interaction poses a […]

Rex P Nielson and Dr. George Handley, Humanities, Classics and Comparative Literature In an essay entitled “Quantity and Quality” written in 1990, Nobel Laureate Octavio Paz bespeaks the importance of poetry in our contemporary society. He contends that during classical times poetry provided an ethical code that significantly influenced the organization of society and government. […]

Rebecca Allen and Dr. Roger Macfarlane, Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature The period of the late Roman Republic (ca. 80 B. C. to 44 B. C.) is the best documented of all the historical periods of Roman history. The age is characterized by intense struggles for political dominance among the leading politicians and generals of […]

Iantha M Haight and Dr. Norbert H O Duckwitz, Humanities, Classics and Comparative Literature Euripides’ plays continue to be very popular today because of their powerfully human themes. Because of their strong, emotional impact, however, many critics disagree on how to interpret Euripides’ views on women. Since so much knowledge about Greek society in general […]

Todd Condie and Dr. John Bennion, Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature Eight years ago I moved to west Texas. In fact, I moved about as far west in the state of Texas as one can get. The housing plots adjacent to my own are bisected by the interstate border with New Mexico. Not forty yards […]

Desmond A. Eppel and Larry H. Peer, Humanities, Classics and Comparative Literature As an native English-speaking South African married to a native Afrikaans-speaking wife, this research project held special personal importance for me. My wife and I intend to raise our children in a bilingual environment, and have been concerned about the future of Afrikaans […]

Joel W. Darrington and Dr. Joseph Parry, Humanities, Classics and Comparative Literature Mikhail Mikhailovich (M. M.) Bakhtin is increasingly becoming one of the important literary theorists of our century. Writing in Stalinist Russia in the first half of this century, Bakhtin has come out of obscurity in the last twenty or so years to a […]