SCHOLARLY WRITING

Still Searching for the "Good Man": Flannery O'Connor's Unique Influence on Fargo and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
A detailed examination and analysis of the particular influence of O’Connor’s oft-examined short work “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” on current filmmakers as we—as society, culture, humanity—continue our search for a “good man” in the increasingly chaotic world

"Because I wanted to": Ellen Thatcher and Daisy Buchanan Playing the Part of the Beautiful Little Fool
A close analysis of the primary female characters within F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and John Dos Passos' Manhattan Transfer and their chosen means of operating within their Modern worlds

A Middle English Search for Middle Ground: The Owl and the Nightingale's Criticism of Binary Thought
An argument that the Middle English text seeks to criticize rather than celebrate the particular style of argument the birds portray and an examination of the dangers of binary thinking as demonstrated by the poem