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Writings
Thesis | Shelley, Blake, and Coleridge Walk into a Church: Alternative Visions of Divinity in the Romantic Sublime
My Honors thesis, analyzing how the theological, philosophical, and political differences of three Romantic writers led to differing conceptions and implications of the Romantic sublime. Excerpt only.
Essay | "The Hera Complex"
An essay I wrote for History of the U.S. Before 1865 analyzing gendered racial tensions between free White women and enslaved Black women in the Antebellum South according to 12 Years a Slave (2013) and Never Caught by Erica Dunbar.
Essay | "Life-in-Death and the Sublime"
An essay I wrote for my Epic Failures course (2018) about the color white and the role of animals as sublime forces in Moby-Dick and "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." Published in Thirty-Three 33 magazine, Spring 2019 issue.
Short Story | "How to Break Your Own Heart"
A short story I wrote in 2019. Shows two homeless LGBTQ+ teens in a park, as observed by a statue of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Magical realism. Excerpt only.
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