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Dracula and the Cost of the "Cure"
Sara Brune Edith Beale was the perfect Victorian woman. She encompassed all the traits associated with being an “Angel-in-the-House”; she...
Writing for Creatives
Carmen Kennedy The entrance point to writing is for some of us not academic, but expressive, and the door to greater perspective and...
The New Woman and Her Appetites in Stoker’s 'Dracula'
Lizette Arellano I. Dracula’s New Women When writing on the changing image of women, an anonymous writer from the 1894 East & South Devon...
Perversion of Motherhood in 'Dracula': The Secret Narrative of Punishing the New Woman
Kate Cadwell The New Woman came into popularity in the late 19th century and had many effects on literature and media as well as cultural...
Law vs. Disorder: Visualizing Revenge in 'The Revenger’s Tragedy'
Malia Ruehl “Theatre has to be assessed as theatre, not as textual criticism or commentary.” -Andrew James Hartley In this quote from his...
Listening with the Eyes
Full Title: Listening with the Eyes: Interpretation of Reading and d/Deaf Communication in Charles Dickens’s Doctor Marigold Janelle...
Uncanny Union: Evoking the Uncanny in 'Dracula'
Kaylea van Vliet "This was all so strange and uncanny that a dreadful fear came upon me" - Bram Stoker, Dracula In my analysis of Bram...
To Read or Reject?: Determining the Academic Presence of Work Contributed by Shameful Scholars
Olivia Wertz Deciding who deserves a seat at the academic table can no longer be based solely on an impressive curriculum vitae. No, the...
Seeing Addiction: Ethnography and the Visibility of the Addict
Nick Catt In 1937, the first sympathetic account of addiction in America was published. Ironically it was published in Shanghai. Chinese...
Bite Me Baby One More Time: Sexual Consciousness and Erotic Desire in Bram Stoker’s 'Dracula'
Christina Kolias An Introduction to Sexual Consciousness and Desire: Bram Stoker’s Dracula presents this thematic notion of sexual...
Immigrant Voices: A Shifting Consciousness in Stoker’s 'Dracula'
Rochel Bergman Prior to writing Dracula, Bram Stoker wrote The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland in an attempt to develop “a...
Psychula: Unveiling the Unsung Hero of 'Dracula'
Ziggy Ghassemi During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, the British Empire expanded nearly across the entire globe. It was not for...
Race and Sexuality in 'The Goat or, Who is Sylvia?'
Noah East, Eric Schwan, Misha Canoy, Megan O’Reilly, and Cindy Gonzalez In the Tony and Pulitzer Award winning play, The Goat, or Who is...
Consuming History and Media in 'Libra': Writing the Life of Lee Harvey Oswald
Jessica Shaw “A conspiracy is everything that ordinary life is not” (DeLillo 440); this is what Lee Harvey Oswald, the JFK assassin,...
Dying Naturally, Unnaturally, or Not at All: The Multitude of Death
Kalei Lehua Bobbermin Death disrupts and consumes the lives of the people of Macondo. Garcia Marquez, perhaps one of the most popular...
Fembots Have Feelings, Too: Grotowski in the Cyborg Age
Sophia Metcalf As a theatre practitioner, I’m interested in legibility of the body. When one performs, how does one make one’s body — its...
“All Men are Mad in Some Way”: The Psychiatry Behind Renfield in Bram Stoker’s 'Dracula'
Yadira Aguillon When it comes to Bram Stoker’s Dracula, most of us can readily agree with the idea that the novel has found its way into...
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