Journal of Undergraduate Research

Andrew Wiggins and Dr. Brandie Siegfried, Department of English In preparation for my ORCA grant, I wrote a critical analysis comparing and contrasting questions of morality in two of Shakespeare’s famous works, The Merchant of Venice and The Tempest, for a literature class covering the works of William Shakespeare. That initial introduction to the moral […]

Jacob Sherman and Dr. Nancy Christiansen, Department of English Introduction The United States court system faces an ever-growing caseload problem. The issue gets aggravated at the appeals court, where fewer judges face a disproportionate volume of cases. Two approaches have historically been taken to address this burden: selecting more judges and streamlining trial procedures. Critics […]

Danielle Leavitt and Dr. Patrick Madden, Department of English Because anti-Soviet sentiments dominated the western stage for roughly the past century, very little literature exists in regards to post-Soviet daily life in former Soviet countries and cities. Specifically interesting are the socio-economic differences that emerged in former Soviet communities following the fall of the Soviet Union. Our project […]

Nick Jones and Dr. Lance Larsen, Department of English My project involved researching and observing Romania’s Székely population and their efforts to maintain cultural autonomy despite their minority status in Romania. The Székely people are a Hungarian-speaking group of disputed origin that has lived in Transylvania for at least 1,000 years, and currently they comprise […]

Jonathan Garcia and Dr. Susan Howe, Department of English When we studied modern American poets in Dr. Howe’s Poetry 319 class, I wondered if there were also Salvadoran-American poets out there, as both my parents immigrated to the U.S. from El Salvador in the 1980s, fleeing a bloody civil war. At the same time I […]

Jacob Cutler and Dr. Patrick Madden, Department of English Teaming up with Inscape (BYU’s journal of literature and art) has proven to be fundamental for my ORCA project. In addition to publishing two of my video essays, Inscape has published my short essay explaining and introducing the concept of the video essay. I have included that essay below […]