Academic Papers

Written for a seminar in Romanticism, this academic paper does a line-by-line analysis of Charlotte Smith's "The Sea View," operating under the thesis that militaristic advancements necessitate a separation from the good will of the divine.

This essay, written for a seminar about the literature of the American West, reveals how writers from all backgrounds and levels of connectivity to American history, specifically Wallace Stegner, Yone Noguchi, and M Scott Momaday, fit into the tapestry of Western canon.

This essay confronts the understanding that poet Stephen Crane is a philosophical Naturalist, accounting for various damaging life-events that may have shaped his views.

Tackling the depiction of evil/corruption in Edith Wharton's Custom of the Country, Flan O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds, and Flannery O'Connor's The Violent Bear it Away, this essay acknowledges the pervasive nature of corruption and how it is malleable, reshaping itself to its victims.

Written for a seminar about the Existential Tradition, this paper investigates the appearance of bowler hats in Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being and Beckett's Waiting for Godot, in connection to Sartre's assertion that "existence precedes essence."

Written in French, this essay investigates the primary thematic elements of Birago Diop's fiction, acknowledging the significance of greed in his work.