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Imagination and Rebellion in YA Literature
Alazne Cameron: From Adolescent to Adult: Children Who Imagine, Adults Who Don't, And The Type of People Who Are Neither
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Hailey Dansby: A quest for selfhood in a world ravaged by climate chaos in Itaranta’s Memory of Water
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Delaney Sullivan: The Power of Education: Responses to Youth Violence in The Outsiders vs. All American Boys
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Victor Ellifritt: Cultural Resistance, Identity, & Selfhood in Frank Chin’s Donald Duk
The Bildungsroman in Music
Sebastian Mallory: Teenage Angst and Youthful Optimism: The Black Parade as Bildungsroman
Trent Wintermeier: Decoded: Exploring the Multimodal and Intercultural Identity
Feminine Identity in the Victorian Era
Hannah Calderazzo: Unfeminine Legacies from Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White to Victoria Cross’s Six Chapters of a Man’s Life
Hannah Lamberg: Identity Bites: Sexuality and Gender in Dracula
Morgan Spraker: The Silencing of Rachel Verinder: Societal Pressure and Female Hysteria in The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
Conceptions of Gender
Jo Finch: Their Father’s Shadow: Masculinity and Coming-of-Age in the Plays of Arthur Miller
John McHale: What Is a Woman in A Jury of Her Peers?
Michael Bewley: The Springtime of Youth: How Haruki Murakami’s Norweigian Wood Depicts Shifting Norms in Young Men and Women During 1960s Japan, and How These Changes Are Paralleled in American Society and Culture
Isolation, Identity, and Coming of Age in Genre Fiction
Katie Bonevento: Stages of Development and the Search for Identity in Shirley Jackson’s Hangsaman
Matthew Vecchione: The Boy Who Would Be the One and the Self Realization of Spiritual
Prophecy and Growth in Dune
Sofia Arriaga: Exploring Isolation through Absurdist Fiction