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Letting Go Of The Merry-Go-Round: The Subversion Of Recovery Narratives In Addition Films, Alex Motter

The Expositor: A Journal of Undergraduate Research in the Humanities

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Red-Lavender Colorblindness: Institutionalized Oppression And American Gay Life, Brooke Yung

The Expositor: A Journal of Undergraduate Research in the Humanities

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In The Shadows Of Memory: The Politics Of Holocaust Memorialization And The Rise Of Global Populism, Emily Josephine Bourgeois

The Expositor: A Journal of Undergraduate Research in the Humanities

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Images Of Jewishness In Italian Renaissance Art: Proximity, Agency, Caricature, Raquel Belden

The Expositor: A Journal of Undergraduate Research in the Humanities

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Selfish Plants And Multispecies Creativity: Alternative Narratives In Environmental Discourse, Abigail Davidovna Bowen

The Expositor: A Journal of Undergraduate Research in the Humanities

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Michelangelo And Tommaso Cavalieri: The Dual Nature Of Love And Desire, Isaak Loewen

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The Postcolonial Tempest, Kaylee Avila, Jessie De Arman, Stephanie Gredell

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"The Supremacy Of Human Rights Everywhere": The Struggle Against Jim Crow During World War Ii, Thomas Harvell-Degolier

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Slutty Embellishments: Elizabethan Fashion And Projections Of Decadence In Marlowe's Hero And Leander, Brian Holmes

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A Twelfth-Century Service For Enclosing An Anchorite Or Anchoress: Introduction, Latin Text, And Translation, Luke Ayers, Victoria Bahr

The Expositor: A Journal of Undergraduate Research in the Humanities

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The Farcical Suicide: Stoicism And The Satyricon, Carl Teegerstrom

The Expositor: A Journal of Undergraduate Research in the Humanities

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Jane Austen's Artful Buildings: Embodying The Bildungsroman, Natalie Carrier

The Expositor: A Journal of Undergraduate Research in the Humanities

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"What Shall We Call Thee Then?": Defining Femininity Outside The Male Heteronormative World In John Donne's "Sappho To Philaenis", Kristina Reinis

The Expositor: A Journal of Undergraduate Research in the Humanities

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Catalogue Entry: St. Catherine And St. Barbara, Mary Martha Meyer Hill

The Expositor: A Journal of Undergraduate Research in the Humanities

This paper was prepared for Art History 3440, Northern Renaissance Art of the Fifteenth Century. Each student in this class was assigned a work of art from the McNay Museum’s medieval and Renaissance collection, and we were given the task of compiling information about the work into a paper in the style of a catalogue raisonné, a comprehensive review of an artist’s career, divided into entries discussing a particular work. We had to compile a full history of the work, as well as its current condition, previous conservation efforts, and commentary about the work. The following, therefore, though not …

Classic Ragtime: An Overlooked American Art Form, Daniel Stephens

The Expositor: A Journal of Undergraduate Research in the Humanities

As Nancy Ping-Robbins observed, “Ragtime as a topic of real scholarly pursuit [was] mostly ignored until the 1980s,” and most sources published prior to that “were originally designed for a general audience.”¹ Since Ping-Robbins wrote almost two decades ago, scholarly interest in ragtime has lessened again. This decline is unfortunate, since classic ragtime contains a high degree of complexity, blending the traditions of African American folk songs with the practices of nineteenth-century European music—seen especially in pieces composed by Scott Joplin, inventor and master of the genre—making it a topic rich for critical commentary. However, the genre was poorly …

Barons And Yeomen, Venison And Vert: A Comparative Analysis Of Magna Carta And A Gest Of Robyn Hode In The Context Of Forest Law, Kathryn Funderburg

The Expositor: A Journal of Undergraduate Research in the Humanities

The extensive control of English forests by a king can be traced back to the Norman Conquest and William the Conqueror’s establishment of a royal monopoly over resource-rich lands, which he proclaimed forests and protected with harsh laws. Henry II’s Assize of the Forest, however, was the first legal document focused solely on regulating the forest. Legislated in 1184, the Assize of the Forest affirmed the king’s absolute power over the lands he claimed as his forests and the natural resources, such as timber and game, within them. The forests covered a significant portion of the kingdom and served …

Blurring The Lines: The Ambiguity Of Gender And Sexuality In Ulysses, Samantha Heffner

The Expositor: A Journal of Undergraduate Research in the Humanities

One of the most memorable episodes in James Joyce’s Ulysses occurs in the “Circe” chapter, when Leopold Bloom is transformed into a woman during his masochistic encounter with Bella Cohen, who herself transforms into a man. This gender swap is often cited as the culmination of Bloom’s feminine nature in the novel—not only is he the “new womanly man,” but he has also literally become a new woman (16.1798-1799). Such a confusion of gender has inspired a wide array of responses as critics attempt to wrestle with this rather confusing—if endearing—modern Ulysses. Bloom’s effeminate nature has also given rise to …

Visualizing The Unspeakable: Graphic Novels And The Holocaust, Madilyn Pflueger

The Expositor: A Journal of Undergraduate Research in the Humanities

Since the Holocaust (or Shoah), writers have struggled to accurately portray the trauma and enormity of the Nazi genocide through writing. The horrors experienced and witnessed, as well as the atrocities committed, are often felt to be indescribable to one who has not in some way been affected by them. In the words of the late Elie Wiesel:

Language had been corrupted to the point that it had to be invented anew and purified. ... [The artist] has to remember the past, knowing all the while that what he has to say will never be told. What he hopes …

The Limits Of Scribal Creativity: Rewriting The Cook’S Tale In Bodley 686, Franz Liebster

The Expositor: A Journal of Undergraduate Research in the Humanities

Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales exhibits elements of both completeness and incompleteness as a work of literature. Written in England starting c. 1387, the text presents a collection of tales told by characters of diverse backgrounds, combining poetry and prose to form a sequence of stories. With some exceptions, the tales themselves appear to be contained and complete, but the collection in its entirety “still bears signs of a work in progress.”¹ In the General Prologue, the host of the Tabard Inn proposes the structure for the tales told by the travelers on their pilgrimage from London to …

A LifeʼS Worth: Reexamining Wergild In The Anglo-Saxon Royal Law Codes (C. 600-1035), Braden Sides

The Expositor: A Journal of Undergraduate Research in the Humanities

In the wide and growing world of Anglo-Saxon scholarship, wergild has an at once ubiquitous and spectral presence.¹ While compensation, blood-money, and the place of the body in “barbarian” law more generally continue to be subjects of much scholarly interest, it is harder to find even a single piece of scholarship dedicated to the topic, let alone specifically as it appears in the Old English material.² What follows is meant to offer a survey of wergild as it appears in the surviving legislation of England’s Anglo-Saxon kings, as well as an attempt to deconstruct the logical underpinning of …

Hitler’S “Utopia”: An Analysis Of Gleichschaltung In The Third Reich, 1933-1939, Emma Lichtenberg

The Expositor: A Journal of Undergraduate Research in the Humanities

Since its establishment by Otto von Bismarck in 1871, Germany has been home to a number of fundamentally disparate governments. In just seventy-four years, the unified German kingdom was reduced to rubble after a series of political failures. While this nation’s history has many high points, the lower moments tend to define Germany throughout the modern era. Without an examination of these moments, however, we are doing a disservice to historical study and analysis, which is why this essay examines the seven-year period between 1933 and 1939. Viewing these formative years through a modern lens tints the period with a …

Abbot Suger’S St. Denis And The Cult Of Relics, Kathryn Funderburg

The Expositor: A Journal of Undergraduate Research in the Humanities

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Understanding The Problems And Importance Of The Turin-Milan Hours: A Study Of Art Historical Methods, Araceli Bremauntz

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The “Phantom Growth” Of Sol Nazerman: Suppression In The Pawnbroker, Abigail Baltuskonis

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Decayed Drama, Increased Inclusivity: Beckett’S Theater In The 1960s, Ryan Diller

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Freakish, Feathery, And Foreign: Language Of Otherness In The Squire’S Tale, Laurel Meister

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Finding Their Voice: Women Musicians Of Baroque Italy, Faith Poynor

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Nietzsche On Language And Our Pursuit Of Truth, Le Quyen Pham

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Social Madness In Beat Generation Writing, Megan Reynolds

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The Prevalence Of Sexual Assault On College Campuses, Brenna Hill

The Expositor: A Journal of Undergraduate Research in the Humanities

Sexual assault is a social problem that disproportionately affects college students. Sexual assault perpetrated by men against women is a common occurrence on college campuses. Although situations involving alcohol and drug use often play a role in sexual assault cases, the root cause of the problem is the general perception of violence against women that is perpetuated in society and is implicitly tolerated as an aspect of the status quo. The impact of sexual assault on the survivor is far-reaching. Not only does the survivor experience physical and mental suffering from the assault, the experience jeopardizes the survivor’s college education. …