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Set Wide The Window, Olivia Tristan Ramo

Senior Projects Fall 2023

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

Reading Sunstone, Wyatt Reu

Senior Projects Spring 2023

A reading of Octavio Paz's Sunstone.

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

Pendjur For Baba, Mina Emilia Dahl

Senior Projects Spring 2023

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

Wilde Bühne: An Exploration Into The Revolutionary Potential Of Art, Antonia Salathe

Senior Projects Spring 2023

You will often hear it said that art does not belong in the space of the political.

Politics is practical, and yet we cry over legislative losses and march in the streets when we are seared by flames of indignation. We paint murals over boarded-up windows, film history as it happens, and go to the club after a long day at work. We sketch lovingly the faces of those lost senselessly, we sing to the rooftops when all hope seems lost, and we speak poems like pounding hammers when no one is willing to listen. We scratch verses into foam …

Attempt At An Open Letter To The Bronx, Christopher Valdivia

Senior Projects Spring 2023

Open letter to and interrogation of the Bronx, in the form of autoethnographic writing.

¿Quién me encontrará a mí, en la noche, en el Bronx, a mis 22 años?

The Things We Tell Each Other, Aj Lapierre

Senior Projects Spring 2022

The Things We Tell Each Other is a memoir about a young woman trying to figure out what happened to her as a baby and the truth behind all the secrets. There are different perspectives from different family members explaining what happened to her, but every perspective is a different story and the doctors don't have the real answer. Will she be able to find the truth or will she find her own truth?

Radical Folk Heroes: Anansi & Br’Er Rabbit’S West African Origins & Their Forced Pilgrimages, Sage Adia Swaby

Senior Projects Spring 2022

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

Made Entirely Of Vapor: A Poetic Unwriting, Sophia Luna Fangman

Senior Projects Spring 2022

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

My Translation, Sandra Capellaro

Senior Projects Fall 2022

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

A collection of autobiographical stories which arc from growing up in Germany in the 1980s to immigrating to the U.S. as an adult. Some of the stories also delve into my mother's experiences and how the repercussions of World War II have shaped her life.

Hidden In A Snail Shell, Zara Ana Kornfeld

Senior Projects Spring 2021

Snails are an often overlooked member of the Hudson River ecosystem, though play a critical role in supporting it. This Senior Project delves into the evolutionary history of freshwater snails as well as the roles they fulfill within their ecosystems. This project also considers the codependent nature of snails and the Hudson River and how that relationship will be impacted by Climate Change.

Pomegranate Seeds, Grace Faye Kasemeier

Senior Projects Spring 2021

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

It Could Have Been Anyone, Mariel Ruth Cupp

Senior Projects Spring 2021

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

Through Tivoli Bays: My Time In The Woods, William J. Santora

Senior Projects Spring 2021

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Multidisciplinary Studies of Bard College

Lizard Brained, Miles Fowlkes Thomas

Senior Projects Spring 2021

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

A Troop, A Raft, A Bed, Hanna Jane Guendel

Senior Projects Spring 2020

A Troop, a Raft, a Bed tells the interwoven fictional stories of three major animals (the mountain gorilla, the Adélie penguin, and the American eel) and four transitional animals (the white stork, the humpback whale, the common octopus, and the great white shark). The stories are told from the animals' perspectives, and are written with language that considers each animal's unique intelligence, mind, and behavior. These stories seek to communicate how animals around the world may be experiencing the various effects of climate change and global warming.

Journal, Untitled, Angelo Chammah

Senior Projects Spring 2020

This journal has no owner.
It is simply out there.
It belongs to me, it belongs to you.
It is about personal moments but universal experiences.
What do you see when you drive with the window open?
What can you find in your own house?
What light is on at midnight?

Angelo Chammah

Victory Conditions, Alyssa May White

Senior Projects Spring 2020

Follow a not-scientist as she bluffs her way onto a research vessel in the Caribbean and into a world of data, research, and the unknown.

Softshell, Jamie Gray Chandler Gillette

Senior Projects Spring 2020

Softshell is a nonfiction project composed in hybrid forms. The narrative uses records produced by the body as well as those stored within the body — fossils, personal photographs, familiar sensations, instinctive gestures — to weave a story about a mother, as told by her daughter.

Cicadas & Other Hauntings, Miriam J. Anastasi

Senior Projects Spring 2020

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

American Looking: A Collection Of Personal Essays On The Middle East, Genevieve Dominique Chiola

Senior Projects Spring 2020

A collection of personal essays which are theoretically and thematically grounded in concepts of the Middle East as constructed, deconstructed, and rebuilt in the mind of an American

"Pcb Pandemic": How Polychlorinated Biphenyls Plagued The Hudson And Why Commercial Fishermen Were Left Behind, Morgan Averill Gray

Senior Projects Fall 2020

Senior Project Submitted to The Division of Multidisciplinary Studies of Bard College

The Invention Of Lying: Ways Of Looking At And Believing In Images, Violet Mary Saxon

Senior Projects Spring 2019

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

Salta, Socorro, Gabrielle Alexis Reyes

Senior Projects Spring 2019

This collection of stories, written in a mix of English, Spanish, and Italian, details the journey of a first generation college student. The first part of the collection deals with what it is like growing up with two immigrant parents in South Central Los Angeles. The second part focuses more on the conflict between the traditionally of immigrants and the role of women in society. The third part presents a personal break from this mentality with the expressed interest in the Italian language.

"The Raw Material Of Talk:" Svetlana Alexievich's Literary And Humanistic Response To Suffering, Mana Hao Taylor

Senior Projects Spring 2019

This paper examines Svetlana Alexievich’s genre of documenting voices of survivors of traumatic Soviet experiences through three of her books: The Unwomanly Face of War: And Oral History of Women in World War Two, Voices from Chernobyl: An Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster, and Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets. It engages in a literary analysis based on the study of the narrative structure and the unique authorial techniques used by the author as a witness of other's pain and a listener actively engaged in the storytelling process. Studying these narratives of suffering, deprivation, and identity crises reveals …

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.

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.

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 …

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.