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The Estate, Henry Hardcastle Smythe

Senior Projects Spring 2018

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

The Soft Animal Of Your Body: Seven Attempts To Explain Chronic Illness To Myself And To You, June Naureckas

Senior Projects Fall 2018

THE SOFT ANIMAL OF YOUR BODY – ARTIST’S STATEMENT

If I knew how to explain vision loss or chronic pain, I wouldn’t have started this senior project.

How do I communicate the knowledge that my body is slowly failing me, that even the best treatments aren’t guaranteed to work? With whom do I have to speak with to be heard and understood? I’ve previously attempted dictionary definitions, disability accommodation letters from the Bard Learning Commons, repeatedly cancelling plans with friends until they stop inviting me to things, and passive-aggressive conversations with my neurologist. None of these efforts have worked out …

Baby Adrian: Not An Autobiography, Adrian Catrin Retzl

Senior Projects Fall 2018

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

A Mere Heart Of Stone: The Anti-Biography Of Charles Darwin, Anna Rose Sones

Senior Projects Spring 2018

Senior Project submitted to The Written Arts Program

Plantain Stain, Loreli Mojica

Senior Projects Spring 2018

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

For The Intruder In My Home, Bennett Chinsena

Senior Projects Spring 2018

A collection of lyric, prose, and experimental poetry.

Inverted Pyramid This Earth, Maggie Louisa Zavgren

Senior Projects Spring 2018

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College

House God, Geneva Zane

Senior Projects Spring 2018

A study of faith and its many forms, ranging from the faith a child has in dreams to the God like status of a writer and Their creation.

The Golden Flake: An Historical Fable, Peregrine Sterling Chase

Senior Projects Spring 2018

A piece of fictions set in 1880's California, focusing on the practice of hydraulic gold mining and its environmental and human impacts.

The Second Language: An Argument For The Superlative Authenticity Of Poetry Through The Complex Personal Relationships It Develops With Its Audiences By Way Of Truth In Metaphor, C Mandler

Senior Projects Spring 2018

Abstract: In this paper, I will argue that poetry allows for a kind of expression that is not found within other uses of language. This is because the poetic form is able to better lend itself to larger notions of not only truth, but also authenticity, which it achieves through the building of complex emotional engagements between a work of poetry and its audience. When discussing the authenticity of poetry, one’s personal connection to the work by way of metaphor is more truthful than the so-called literal truth one comes to when one reads something exactly as it is written—meaning …

The View From The House By The Ocean, Chloe Maxine Scala

Senior Projects Spring 2018

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

Why The Sky Stays Up, Brigid G. Fister

Senior Projects Spring 2018

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College

Dinner In America: An Exploration Of Theater Culture And Representation, Triston J. Tolentino

Senior Projects Spring 2018

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

Este Es El Colmo, Reet Rannik

Senior Projects Spring 2018

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

Ban The Carriage Industry? Yea Or Neigh: An Examination Of The Arguments Around The Carriage Industry By A Certified Carriage Driver In-Training, Emma Greenberg Rehfeld

Senior Projects Spring 2018

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.

How To Dredge A Lake, Ana I. Bauer

Senior Projects Spring 2018

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

Contact! A Story About Running, Sara Bosworth

Senior Projects Spring 2018

A story about a fifty-mile race through the Copper Canyons of Mexico and its runners. Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

The Delicatessen Kids, Raina Nicole Dziuk

Senior Projects Spring 2018

The Delicatessen Kids is a collection of short stories that follows 4 Ukrainian-American siblings as they grow up in 1960s Brooklyn, New York.

On Frank Stanford's "Battlefield", Clara Brigid Allison

Senior Projects Spring 2018

Frank Stanford's little known poem titled "The Battlefield Where The Moon Says I Love You" was published just after his suicide in 1978 and extends for approximately 17,000 lines. As the poem follows eternally 12 year old Francis through his dreams and twisted realities living in the south, it thrusts each reader into the farthest depths of disorientation using indescribably beautiful language. With no punctuation, structure, narrative, timeline, or distinction between the real and unreal, this poem exists on the far end of the experimental spectrum. My project, in response to Stanford's form, uses an alternative form of analysis and …

Horizon's Door, Mackenzie Kristofco

Senior Projects Spring 2018

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

Konvolut: I Write The City, Yuma V. Carpenter-New

Senior Projects Spring 2018

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

Coney Island Caviar, Hannah Rose Lomele

Senior Projects Spring 2018

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

Parfois Le Hasard Fait Bien Les Choses: The Biography Of Justus Rosenberg, Vikramaditya H. Joshi

Senior Projects Spring 2018

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

As the authorized biographer of Professor Justus Rosenberg, who, as a young man, functioned as a courier in Varian Fry’s Emergency Rescue Committee, and thus facilitated the escape of émigrés from Vichy France, I experiment in this project with a form of storytelling that juxtaposes his classroom dialogues about twentieth century novels with my account of his experiences as a guerrilla fighter during the French Resistance.

By analyzing archival material, interviewing Professor Rosenberg and retracing his journey across Europe during World War Two, while simultaneously learning French …

Lost Girls, Sienna Ann Marie Thompson

Senior Projects Spring 2018

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

Our Family Trees, Juliet M. Hadid

Senior Projects Spring 2018

A nonfiction story about my grandmother's flight from Palestine during al Nakba, and my experience of her homeland.

Angel Down, Alexander Cenon Sorensen

Senior Projects Fall 2018

Angel Down is a graphic novel. Or, the rough exoskeleton of what will one day be a graphic novel. For now, there is a complete 262 page script and about 20 illustrated comic pages. During my senior year at Bard, I gave it my first shot at pursuing what I will hope to work on many times for the rest of my life: the written word in graphic novel form. Hopefully, this senior project version of Angel Down will be a preamble to a long future in comics and in the weird world of fantasy and speculative fiction.

Babylon Off Sunset, Ella G. Alexander Iv

Senior Projects Fall 2018

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

Thx: Excerpts From Losing To The Sandman, A Novel-In-Progress, Matteo Waldinger-White

Senior Projects Fall 2018

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College