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Honeysuckles & Irises: Effigies Of The Land, Ami` L. Hanna-Huff 2023 Belmont University

Honeysuckles & Irises: Effigies Of The Land, Ami` L. Hanna-Huff

English Creative Writing Theses

Here is a memoir of my paternal line through the lens of my Great-Grandmother and myself. A reclamation of the land I hail from and a connection to a history previously felt distant, this examination of race and gender explicitly focused on the African American Southern female experience; I try to make sense of the juxtaposing positions in our lives. The culture built from its creation through Tennessee personified. Here, I integrate history and theory with lyrics and prose to experience the eighty-one years of progress brought between our births and the lingering anxiety of slavery. My great-grandmother, Hazel Irene …


"Waiting By The Shores", Emily Suh 2023 University of Mississippi

"Waiting By The Shores", Emily Suh

Landshark Literary Review

No abstract provided.


Amelie, August, Elisabeth A. Bailey 2023 University of Mississippi

Amelie, August, Elisabeth A. Bailey

Landshark Literary Review

No abstract provided.


Defining Gastrocriticism As A Critical Paradigm On The Example Of Irish Literature And Food Writing: A Vade Mecum, Anke Klitzing 2023 Technological University Dublin

Defining Gastrocriticism As A Critical Paradigm On The Example Of Irish Literature And Food Writing: A Vade Mecum, Anke Klitzing

Doctoral

The aim of this study is to map out the gastrocritical approach, using Irish literature and writing to test its premises, and to provide a vade mecum for its practical application, particularly for interdisciplinary scholars. The gastrocritical approach furnishes a “culinary lens” for reading food and foodways in imaginative texts, informed by work in the field of food studies and gastronomy. The approach was broadly characterised by Tobin in 2002, but only sparsely used since. The past fifteen years have seen an increasing self-awareness and reflexivity in the field of literary food studies. As the field matures, there have been …


Old Rooms And Older Memories, Samuel Erickson 2023 DePauw University

Old Rooms And Older Memories, Samuel Erickson

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

Samuel Erickson is a junior at DePauw University. They have a passion for writing poetry and creative fiction, and had a poem, “The Park Bench,” published in A Midwestern Review in the fall of 2022. Erickson is a non-binary author and often incorporates their life experience as a queer person into their works.


Keep It (Them) Down, Jenna Reynolds 2023 DePauw University

Keep It (Them) Down, Jenna Reynolds

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

Jenna Reynolds is a junior English writing major. Fiction is her preferred genre. She’s an actress, so stage/screen plays are some of her favorites to write, but others find her real life to be far too interesting for her to not also write nonfiction, so she gave it her best shot.


Commonthought (2023), Commonthought Staff 2023 Lesley University

Commonthought (2023), Commonthought Staff

Commonthought

This issue features works created by Lesley University students and covers a broad range of topics. The work itself crosses many disciplines from creative writing to visual arts.


A Mind Divided, Molly Venus 2023 DePauw University

A Mind Divided, Molly Venus

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

Molly Venus is a junior English writing major. Her first publication was in the Fall 2022 issue of A Midwestern Review. She is currently serving as Vice President of Academic Affairs for DePauw Student Government and enjoys cooking delicious food with her friends in her free time!


650 Words, Anne Gregg 2023 DePauw University

650 Words, Anne Gregg

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

Anne Gregg is a writer and poet from Northwest Indiana. She is also the Editor-In-Chief of a Midwestern Review. Anne Gregg is an English writing major and has been published numerous times across the centuries, but most of her work has been lost to time.


The Rock Pile, Jenna Reynolds 2023 DePauw University

The Rock Pile, Jenna Reynolds

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

Jenna Reynolds is a junior English writing major. Fiction is her preferred genre. She’s an actress, so stage/screen plays are some of her favorites to write, but others find her real life to be far too interesting for her to not also write nonfiction, so she gave it her best shot.


Requiem In Dee Miner, Evan Youngs 2023 SUNY Oswego

Requiem In Dee Miner, Evan Youngs

Gandy Dancer Archives

No abstract provided.


Can't Sleep, Heather O'Leary 2023 SUNY Fredonia

Can't Sleep, Heather O'Leary

Gandy Dancer Archives

No abstract provided.


Serenading Flesh, Zoe Lavallee 2023 SUNY Geneseo

Serenading Flesh, Zoe Lavallee

Gandy Dancer Archives

No abstract provided.


What The Unburied Said, Katharine Rees 2023 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

What The Unburied Said, Katharine Rees

English Undergraduate Honors Theses

"What the Unburied Said" is a short collection of documentary poetry written during the waning years of the COVID-19 pandemic. In conversation with T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, it seeks to exalt the beauty of humans who help each other live within an often-tragic, always-fascinating world.


F Is For Frida: An Illustrated Guide Of Women Artists From A To Z, Emily Kohls 2023 Fort Hays State University

F Is For Frida: An Illustrated Guide Of Women Artists From A To Z, Emily Kohls

Master of Liberal Studies Projects

F is for Frida: An Illustrated Guide of Women Artists from A to Z is an illustrated children’s book that aims to teach young readers the alphabet and about art history by presenting to them a diverse range of women artists from the Baroque period to the modern day.

Each letter of the alphabet is accompanied by a portrait and brief biographical description of a woman artist whose name corresponds to that letter. The visuals of the book were designed to make the reader feel like they are viewing artwork in a gallery. For example, each portrait has been made …


Arts & Literature: The Haunts Of Biafra Photography, Chigbo Arthur Anyaduba 2023 The University of Winnipeg

Arts & Literature: The Haunts Of Biafra Photography, Chigbo Arthur Anyaduba

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal

No abstract provided.


In Yellow: A Solo Poem-Play, Emily Kitchens 2023 Kennesaw State University

In Yellow: A Solo Poem-Play, Emily Kitchens

Faculty Articles

“In Yellow” was developed in the INKubator residency at Art House Productions (Jersey City, NJ) in 2019 with the following blurb:

In Yellow is a solo poem-play about a relationship between a young woman and a ceramic doll her grandmother made that she has just accidentally broken. It is about grief. It is about breaking out of generationally instilled feminine values. It is about the color yellow. It’s all true.

“In Yellow” is an experiment of a poem and play for one voice. I was in New York City for about 10 years, before that The Bay Area, but am …


Baby Steps, Amy Neufeld 2023 Wilfrid Laurier University

Baby Steps, Amy Neufeld

The Goose

A creative non-fiction piece about childbirth and walking, situating the self and the new child, and climate anxiety and fear for the future.


Reflections From A Maternity Leave: The Complex History Of Beaver Dam Flats And Refinery Park, Emily Ursuliak 2023 N/A

Reflections From A Maternity Leave: The Complex History Of Beaver Dam Flats And Refinery Park, Emily Ursuliak

The Goose

A personal essay reflecting on my relationship with Refinery Park and Beaver Dam Flats in light of its complex history.


Because The Muddiness Of Mud Must Be Uttered: A Personal Essay, Dorothy Ellen Palmer 2023 n/a

Because The Muddiness Of Mud Must Be Uttered: A Personal Essay, Dorothy Ellen Palmer

The Goose

"Because the Muddiness of Mud Must Be Uttered," by disabled senior writer Dorothy Ellen Palmer, is a personal, braided, nonfiction essay tracing how her access to and understanding of moving on land has been shaped by ableism, ageism, and the pandemic.


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