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Los Angeles Miscellany Volume 72, 2024, Loyola Marymount University English Department

LA Miscellany

Faculty Advisor: Sarah Maclay

Editor-in-Chief: Madeleine Misner

Criterion, Volume 42, 2024, Loyola Marymount University English Department

Criterion

Faculty Advisor: Sarah Maclay

Co-Editor-in-Chiefs: Izabel Mah y Busch & Chester Mlcek

Los Angeles Miscellany Volume 71, 2023, Loyola Marymount University English Department

LA Miscellany

Faculty Advisor: Sarah Maclay

Co-Editor-in-Chiefs: Trinity Catlin & Sam Yaziji

Criterion, Volume 41, 2023, Loyola Marymount University English Department

Criterion

Faculty Advisor: Sarah Maclay

Co-Editor-in-Chiefs: Taylor Dischinger, Kyra LaFitte, & Lois Peach

Criterion, Volume 40, 2022, Loyola Marymount University English Department

Criterion

Faculty Advisor: Sarah Maclay

Co-Editor-in-Chiefs: Alexandra Paradzick and Comer Wadzeck

Criterion, Volume 39, 2021, Loyola Marymount University English Department

Criterion

Faculty Advisor: Sarah Maclay

Co-Editor-in-Chiefs: Christina Martinez, Alexandra Paradzick, & Comer Wadzeck

Radical Education: An Introduction To Paulo Freire, Bryan Wisch

English Faculty Works

In winter 2011, the Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction, John Huppenthal, a former state senator, tried to ban a popular Mexican American Studies program that was being taught in the Tucson Unified School District. He claimed that the course was in violation of AZ House Bill 2281, which prohibits classes that: advocate ethnic solidarity, are designed for pupils of a particular ethnic group, promote resentment toward a race or class of people, or promote the overthrow of the United States government.

To support his claim, Huppenthal pointed to the materials that students were reading. He specifically cited a book called …

Criterion, Volume 38, 2020, Loyola Marymount University English Department

Criterion

Faculty Advisor: Aimee Ross-Kilroy

Editor-in-Chief: Éva Enriquez & Rena McInerney-Olk

Thinking With Christian Existentialism: Freedom In Burke’S Logology And Berdyaev’S Dostoevsky, Steven J. Mailloux

English Faculty Works

Kenneth Burke’s logology is a way of thinking about how to understand the use of language—what he calls “symbolic action”—and how to use language to make sense of various human practices, including interpretive acts. This is a dialectic in thought between rhetoric as language-use and interpretation as making-sense. In The Rhetoric of Religion Burke’s theotropic logology uses theology to interpret symbolic action and symbolic action to interpret theology. Burke extends to other interpretive projects this same rhetorical-hermeneutic strategy of analogically translating words from one domain into another, from one meaning into another. This strategy is one way Burke thinks with …

Criterion, Volume 37, 2019, Loyola Marymount University English Department

Criterion

Faculty Advisor: Aimee Ross-Kilroy

Editor-in-Chief: Eva Enriquez

Criterion, Volume 36, 2018, Loyola Marymount University English Department

Criterion

Faculty Advisor: Aimee Ross-Kilroy

Editor-in-Chief: Rachel Mullens

British Women Writers And The Reception Of Ancient Egypt, 1840-1910: Imperialist Representations Of Egyptian Women, Molly Youngkin

Faculty Pub Night

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Criterion, Volume 35, 2017, Loyola Marymount University English Department

Criterion

Faculty Advisor: Aimee Ross-Kilroy

Editor-in-Chief: Jo Ann Aquino

Roberto Esposito’S The Machine Of Political Theology And The Place Of Thought, Steven J. Mailloux

English Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Hereisthefamilymotherfatherdickandjane: An Analysis Of Parenting And The Dick And Jane Readers In Morrison’S The Bluest Eye, Rachel Roseman

First-Gen Voices: Creative and Critical Narratives on the First-Generation College Experience

First-generation college student Rachel Roseman has found the American educational and cultural systems to privilege the white, upper to middle classes. As Toni Morrison demonstrates in The Bluest Eye, those who do not fit this mold often lack educational support and have to learn how to navigate cultural systems on their own. Unlike the character of Pecola, who features in the following essay, Roseman had a strong community and family who supported her decision to attend college and, as a result, achieved success.

Hansel And Gretel: A Feature And Study On How Fairy Tales Have Changed, Nazeli Ekimyan

Honors Thesis

Once upon a time, the Little Mermaid watched her Prince marry another woman, the Sleeping Beauty was raped by a Prince and woke up from her deep slumber to find out she was the mother of twins, the Little Red Riding Hood never made it out alive, and Goldilocks broke her neck jumping out of a window. This project examines original fairy tales and how they have changed over the years through various adaptations in media and film. The purpose is to find an answer to the question of why these sugarcoated changes have been made over time. In order …

Criterion, Volume 34, 2016, Loyola Marymount University English Department

Criterion

Editor-in-Chief: Megan Brown

Review: William Fitzgerald’S Spiritual Modalities: Prayer As Rhetoric And Performance, Steven J. Mailloux

English Faculty Works

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T.S. Eliot: A Never-Ending Exploration, Kristina Krupilnitskaya

Honors Thesis

The following thesis explores the work of T.S. Eliot before and after his conversion to the Anglican Church. While the paper explores the stylistic qualities of Eliot's poetry, the main focus of the essay lies in bridging the pre and post conversion works together in order to show that both of the periods were significant in the poet's life. While many critics viewed Eliot's early poetry as a lot more exploratory and challenging, calling his later poetry banal and bland, my essay aims to show that even though the poetry had shifted in its content, its significance, complexity, and experimentality …

Characters Through Time, Alyssa Venezia

Honors Thesis

T. S. Eliot once wrote that we “often find that not only the best, but the most individual parts of [an author’s] work may be those in which the dead poets, his ancestors, assert their immortality most vigorously” (Eliot 37). By focusing on character adaptations, one comes to understand how authors of children’s books are able to adapt classic literature into age-appropriate texts that retain the merits of the original. Five sets of characters shall be analyzed to demonstrate the success of the adaptations presented in children’s literature. In the first, Sir Bedivere from Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur …

An Independent Will: The Rise Of Women’S Literacy Reception Digital Signage

Promotional Materials

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An Independent Will: The Rise Of Women’S Literacy Poster

Promotional Materials

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Applications For Dummies, Carla M. Sanchez

First-Gen Voices: Creative and Critical Narratives on the First-Generation College Experience

This poem discusses the overwhelming pressure that is put on students to justify their right to be admitted into universities or to receive scholarships based on their extracurricular activities. Many working-class, first-generation college students are unable to participate in organizations and programs that offer students a more well-rounded college experience. This can lead first-gen students, like the author, to feel isolated, inadequate, or illegitimate. "Applications for Dummies" expresses Sanchez's incessant fear that she will never be able to compete with other students who were given the opportunity to build more worldly resumes, despite her strong academic commitment and intellectual potential.

Revelation, Tanya Diaz

First-Gen Voices: Creative and Critical Narratives on the First-Generation College Experience

There can sometimes be a gap between first-gen students and parents who have not experienced the stress of higher education. Children may believe this stress to be a necessary sacrifice for their future wellness; however, they often cannot feel their parents' sacrifices, just as their parents cannot feel their child's mental strain. Diaz creates this poem in an effort to examine her relationship with her mother from an outsider's point of view, in the end realizing that although her parents cannot always understand her experiences, they care and will support her decisions.

Criterion, Volume 33, 2015, Loyola Marymount University English Department

Criterion

Faculty Advisor: Aimee Ross-Kilroy

Co-Editor-in-Chiefs: Jimmy Kehoe & Megan Brown

A Pedagogical Heartbeat: The Integration Of Critical And Contemplative Pedagogies For Transformative Education, Juan Mah Y Busch

English Faculty Works

With so many figurative references to the heart, the heart has become an overextended metaphor and threatens to become less meaningful. Widely circulated books on Critical Pedagogies and Contemplative Pedagogies refer to the heart. Though they may share a sense of learning as transformation, each has a very different method, which I identify as dialectical or dialogical.  And, each one defines its liberatory transformation in a very different way, one with “third space” and the other in relational and holistic space, which is considered transcendent. This essay describes two forms of heartfelt awareness, first-order heart-based knowledge and the heart’s second-order …

Rhetorical Pragmatism And Histories Of New Media: Rorty On Kierkegaard On The Internet, Steven J. Mailloux

English Faculty Works

This essay begins with Hubert Dreyfus's Kierkegaardian critique of the Internet and then turns to Richard Rorty's neo-pragmatist response, an unpublished text found in the Richard Rorty Papers. After considering these contrasting perspectives, the author proposes a third view, arguing that a rhetorical pragmatist should borrow from both Dreyfus's critique and Rorty's defense. The Internet does enable media users who are unthinkingly complacent in their passionate commitments as well as those who are complacently unthinking in their detached, everyday busyness. But the Internet also provides its own unique opportunities for thinking critically and for challenging complacency. After proposing this more …

Reviewed Work: Moving Bodies: Kenneth Burke At The Edges Of Language By Debra Hawhee, Steven J. Mailloux

English Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Euro-American Rhetorical Pragmatism: Democratic Deliberation, Humanist Controversies, And Purposeful Mediation, Steven J. Mailloux

English Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Reflections On Lincoln And English Studies, Steven J. Mailloux

English Faculty Works

No abstract provided.