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Hidden In A Snail Shell, Zara Ana Kornfeld Jan 2021

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.


It Could Have Been Anyone, Mariel Ruth Cupp Jan 2021

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.


A Troop, A Raft, A Bed, Hanna Jane Guendel Jan 2020

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.


Softshell, Jamie Gray Chandler Gillette Jan 2020

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.


Stopped Before Beauty: Meditations On The Closed Door, Hannah Celia Harwell Fassett Jan 2017

Stopped Before Beauty: Meditations On The Closed Door, Hannah Celia Harwell Fassett

Senior Projects Spring 2017

This project is an integration of nonfiction vignettes within a critical study of personal writer’s entryways into the beauty and meaning of the world. Using the religious metaphysics and aesthetic theory of Simone Weil, I will trace the intersections between beauty and shame in the genre of personal essay, diary-keeping, and memoir across various cultural moments. It will travel between Westerbork Transit Camp through Etty Hillesum’s diary, the outskirts of Bard College in Mary Gaitskill’s Lost Cat, and Virginia Woolf’s summer dwelling, St. Ives, through A Sketch of the Past. Finally, in echoing that process of writing-through, I will step …


Sins, Omissions, And Alibis, Johanna Marie Costigan Jan 2017

Sins, Omissions, And Alibis, Johanna Marie Costigan

Senior Projects Spring 2017

Short stories, creative nonficiton, prose poems.