Shannon Johnson and Dr. Jesse Crisler, English Until a few years ago, scholars had done little research on legal themes in fiction, especially adolescent fiction. Lately, however, interest in the relationship between law and literature has increased. Law professors are starting to use works of literature in their teaching. English professors are sponsoring courses on […]
Greeks, Mormons, and Marginalization: A Case Study
Annie Peterson Green and Dr. Phillip Snyder, English In the early twentieth century, throngs of male Greek immigrants came to Utah. They left their homeland seeking to save their families from impending poverty and to escape draft by the Greek and Turkish armies.1 The jobs they took in Utah mines, smelters, and rail yards were […]
A Journey Home: Transnational Dominican American Identity in Julia Alvarez’s How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
Bethany A. Dolman and Dr. Trenton L. Hickman, English Transnationalism is sociology’s relatively new model of national identity that explains and validates a phenomenon that most immigrants from the Dominican Republic to the United States experience: a simultaneous sense of connection to multiple countries, cultures and national identities. I examined Dominican American transnationalism from an […]
ARE GUATEMALAN K’EKCHI MORMONS REALLY PROTESTANTS? A COMPARATIVE LOOK AT K’EKCHI STORIES
Robert E.M. Spencer and Dr. John Hawkins, English With blackness surrounding us both, Oscar stumbled over the words. Here I was living in the highlands of northern Guatemala, in a dirt floor shack, sitting on my wooden board bed, listening to the struggles of a Mayan man trying to read by candlelight. He was the […]
The Ring and Feminism at the National PC/ACA Conference
Landon E. Cowan and Dr. Dennis Cutchins, English Department My initial intent in researching horror films find out why horror films exist in American society, why they are enjoying a resurgence of popularity among contemporary audiences, and show possible detrimental affect on viewers, specifically children. For the purposes of my paper, I focused on the […]
THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF LITERARY STUDY TO THE CLINICAL PRACTICE OF MEDICINE
Tory Rob Peterson and Dr. Brandie Siegfried, English In response to growing criticism that young doctors were insensitive to patient needs, many medical schools have now turned to literary studies to expose medical students to the thought processes necessary for evaluating and appreciating what it means to be a patient. For my research project I […]
Distortions of Perspective: The Literary Influence of Edgar Allan Poe on Oscar Wilde
Brian Wall and Dr. Brandie Siegfried, English Department Transatlanticism, or the study of the relationship of England and the United States through shared textual themes, is a developing literary movement on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Most researchers emphasize the influence of British authors on the development of the American literary canon. With this […]
“The Impulse Tragic” An Honors Capstone Creative Project
Stillman Wagstaff and Dr. Kimberly Johnson, English My ORCA grant was given to fund a creative project of original poetry that would simultaneously fulfill the honors requirement. Since my funding, I have written nearly 40 new poems and been able to devote over 100 hours to the project with the financial independence the funding has […]
The Diet Coke of the Masses: A Thought Experiment in Addiction and Faith
A. Arwen Taylor and Dr. Bruce Jorgensen, English Suppose a sociologist wants to conduct an inquiry into the relationship between addiction and religion. She has two options. She might collect information from addicted people of faith and faithful addicts, observe them and interview them, or she might – although no ethics board would approve this […]
Discovering Eve Through the Eyes of Jonathan Edwards
Zachary M. Hutchins and Dr. Steven C. Walker, English Eve’s name jumped out at me as I squinted on the fifth floor of the library. Hmm…I wonder what an Orthodox Calvinist preacher from New England has to say about Eve. I did not know at the time how remarkable my discovery was, that I had […]
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