Reflection: On My Experiences as a Woman Reading John Milton
Throughout my five years of studying literature at the collegiate level, I struggled with what it means to critique a literary work and...
Reflection: Postmodern Theories Offer Christians New Avenues to Pursue Gender Justice
As Christians, we are called to “to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed” (Isaiah 1:17). By our own system of ethics, as...
Reflection: Kick-Ass Female Assassins, Metaphorical Penises, and Slaying the Patriarchy in Quentin T
Synopsis: In Quentin Tarantino’s film Kill Bill Volume I, Beatrix Kiddo, a former assassin, wakes up from a coma as she lays in...
Reflection: On Being a Woman in the Western Literary Tradition in Recognition of My White Privilege
As an English literature major in college, I spent nearly half a decade of my life studying literature of the English language written...
Sins and Ghosts: The Forbidden Strories of Maxine Hong Kingston's "No Name Woman" and
Both Maxine Hong Kingston’s “No Name Woman” and Toni Morrison’s Beloved use story to give a voice to the silenced and forgotten “needy...