Writing the Journey
 

Critical Articles, Reviews, Book Contributions, and Presentations

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"Seven of Nine's Return in Picard: Reidentifying and Reclaiming Humanity Through Hybridity"

Space, the Feminist Frontier ed. Jennifer C. Garlen and Anissa M.

Graham, McFarland Publishing, 2024

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4 essay chapters:

"‘Gatsby believed in the green light’: Materialism and Treasures in The Great Gatsby”        
“Staying the Course: Endurance and Hope in The Lord of the Rings”
“The Power of Mercy in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings”
“Trials and Temptations: Freedom Through Conviction in Jane Eyre”
The Faithful Reader: Essays on Biblical Themes in Literature
         ed. Justin Lyons, Cedrus Press. 2022

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“Enterprise’s T’Pol: Identity as a Multi-Faceted Battle of Gender Expectations”

South Atlantic Review 86.1, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Spring 2021

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Contributor Spotlight: Bryana Fern
Sequestrum, 2019

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“Roverandom: Reinvestigating Tolkien”
ChLA International Committee, 2018

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“Peach: A Novel”
Washington Independent Review of Books, 2017

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“How Vulcan Culture and Surface Politics Make T’Pol’s ‘Other’ Identity”
Women at Warp, 2017

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“The Logical Loyalty of T’Pol
Women at Warp, 2017

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“The World of Tolkien, Returning”
Converge Magazine, 2017

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“The Orphan’s Tale: A Novel”
Washington Independent Review of Books, 2017

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“Cruel Beautiful World: A Novel”
Washington Independent Review of Books, 2016

 

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“Frankenstein’s Creature: An Analysis of Isolation, Sympathy, and the Approaches of Narrative Frame”

(Presented at the Bodies of Work Graduate Conference at the University of Southern Mississippi in Spring 2017)

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“An Ultra-Foreign Threat: Dracula as a Reflection of the Victorian Inadequacy”

(Presented at the Graduate Research Symposium at the University of Southern Mississippi in Spring 2016)

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“‘My best friend, Sherlock Holmes, is dead’: Watson’s Survivor’s Guilt Narration and PTSD”

(Presented at the Mississippi Philological Association Conference at Blue Mountain College in Spring 2020)

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“Metafiction and the Case for Closure: A Narrative Reading of J.R.R. Tolkien’s ‘The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen'”

(Presented at the Narrative Conference for the International Society for the Study of Narrative in Spring 2020)

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“Roverandom: Reinvestigating Tolkien through Child Readership and Narrative Voice”

(Conference panel creator and leader at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association 90 Conference in Fall 2018)

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"Setting as Character: Diving into Your Surroundings"

(Conference panel leader at the 2023 Winter Wheat: The Mid-American Review Festival of Writing)

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