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Swipe right : college, dating, and the digital world
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2018)
. It needs to be written because it represents the experience of thousands of college kids around the country who are trying to figure out how to navigate this strange new environment. I hope it serves as a warning to younger, high-school-aged kids so...
Depressed and disconnected : the symptoms of a digital age in America
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2019)
"I saw the symptoms first. It was the way music had become about hopelessness, drugs, sex, and disturbing emptiness. It was how platonic in-person conversation felt. It was in every addicted person around me. It was in the juul, and in Adderall...
Sexless faces, abnormal bodies, and white trash girls: grotesque women in southern Gothic literature
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2013)
By exploring and breaking down traditional gender roles through Miss Amelia's androgyny in The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, McCullers shows the ironclad nature of gender binaries and the inconsistency of gender perception in ...
"Goodbye Christ" : Langston Hughes, black art and literary censorship
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2016)
Concluding paragraph: "Langston Hughes as a literary figure today is beloved by many and it is through analyzing his life that I have become aware of his radical nature at the beginning of his career. His life, the mistakes ...
Dreaming of love's elysium : the prodigal beauty of John Keats's Endymion
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2018)
"Immortal Harps": Milton and musical morality in Handel's Samson
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2016)
Concluding paragraphs: "If Handel's contemporary James Harris is correct in observing that music and poetry "can never be so powerful singly, as when they are properly united," (152) and that Handel's "Genius ... being ...