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By Meghan Farbridge Henry Tilney of Northanger Abbey derisively suggests that women’s writing “is faultless except [for] … a general deficiency of subject, a total…

By Damian Fitz The relationship between body and mind is an oft-debated philosophical topic, with the likes of Plato, Descartes, and Hume all weighing in.…

By Ronny Litvack-Katzman Some weeks into his imprisonment at Kamĩtĩ Maximum Security Prison on the outskirts of Nairobi, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o wrote that he would…

By Ronny Litvack-Katzman Time weighs heavily on the narrative in Radclyffe Hall’s “Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself,” (1926). The effect of time imposes on Miss Ogilvy…

By Meghan Farbridge “No matter how skillful the painter, his work was always in fee to an inescapable subjectivity. The fact that a human hand…

By Tessa Groszman In 1919, Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld founded the historic Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institute for Sexual Science) in Berlin, for the research of LGBTQ+…

By Tessa Groszman Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch is set during the Mexican Revolution on the Mexico-United States border, in the waning days of the…

By Sophia Huang In James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room (1956), David embarks on a search to “find [himself]” (21). He assumes that the emotional turmoil and…

By Michaela Keil To define a genre as old and enigmatic as the slave narrative is a near impossibility. In “A Semantic/Syntactic Approach to Film…