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This collection includes Senior Individualized Projects (SIP's) completed in the English Department. Abstracts are generally available to the public, but PDF files are available only to current Kalamazoo College students, faculty, and staff. If you are not a current K College student, faculty, or staff member, email us at dspace@kzoo.edu to request access to this material.
All materials in the Kalamazoo College Digital Archive are subject to Title 17 of the U.S. Code. All rights reserved. Unless otherwise stated, authors retain the copyright for all content posted to the Kalamazoo College Digital Archive.
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The Spire
(2021-06-01)The author introduces the development of his original work of fantasy in the tradition of J. R. R. Tolkien and George R. R. Martin. -
Harry Potter and the Recreation of Classist Educational Structures
(2021-06-01)Harry Potter has long been a worldwide phenomenon, a series that has lead children’s literature for decades and that has changed fandoms and pop culture as we once knew them for good. It has its reach in more parts of our ... -
Bloom : On Belief and Apple Trees
(2021-06-01)The author explains the evolution and context for her original creative essays. -
Reaching Beyond Resilience A Collection of Essays in Response to The Sober Enterprise
(2021-06-01)Though this is ultimately a creative writing project, I wanted my SIP to encompass all three of my areas of study here at K: English, Psychology, and Art. Through my time here, I’ve found that these disciplines are not ... -
Two Kings in Their Labyrinths : Mark Z. Danielewski, Jorge Luis Borges and the (In)Finitude of House of Leaves
(2021-06-01)A key question that lay at the core of my SIP research was “what/who is an author?” This is an idea that has been the subject of a great deal of critical analysis. Michel Foucault famously took on this question in a 1969 ... -
The Master’s Tools : The Utilization of Christianity to Present Radical Feminist Thought in Aemelia Lanyer’s Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum
(2021-06-01)Aemelia Lanyer Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum, is a poem about the Passion of Christ told through a distinctly feminist voice. As someone who was raised Catholic and no longer identifies as such, Salve piqued my interest because ... -
Entre Nos
(2021-06-01)The author describes the process of creating her original creative nonfiction narrative in the voice of her immigrant mother. -
“Shoot your Shot” : Analyzing Basketball Documentaries and Capturing the influence of Basketball Programs on Young Women
(2020-11-01)For this project I chose to use the films Hoop Dreams directed by Steve James and Heart of the Game directed by Ward Serrill, and I used Louise Spence’s work Crafting Truth, Documentary Form and Meaning to center my argument. ... -
Limited Asian Representation in Hollywood
(2021-04-01)In this paper, I focused on the three popular films that were included in #AsianAugust, Crazy Rich Asians, To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before, and Searching. I looked for popular films to analyze that had an impact on Asian ... -
Trauma, Healing, and Literature : an Examination of the Real-world Implications of Fctionalized Trauma Narratives
(2021-04-01)Trauma has become a common thread throughout literature because of its unavoidability in life. With this has come a body of theory aimed at discussing and analyzing this common theme, sometimes supporting trauma narratives ... -
My Family’s Migration Story in Poem : Expressing the Latinx immigration Experience through Poetry
(2020-11-01)I want to create a book of poems dedicated to my family which will allow me to interact with the immigrant experience in a personal and intellectual way. Over the years my family has shared some of their experience with ... -
Gracias A La Vida : Reflections of a Mexican-American Woman from Detroit
(2020-03-01)The stories I reminisce about in this SIP have significant meaning to me. They are brief but powerful. They are moments and times in my life that define me and allow my younger self to understand I was never alone in this ... -
Lobster Urine : a Collection of Poems and Drawings
(2021-01-01)The author prefaces her original collection of poems and drawings by saying “I want to give readers not-so-guilty pleasures. I want to find joy in what academia as a whole might consider ‘dumb’ and then, dismiss. This ... -
An Autobiography of Stress : a Poetry Collection
(2021-01-01)The author introduces her collection of original poems with a brief autobiographical essay. She writes “stress is something we encounter in life-- I think it's impossible to dodge. When I was younger, I let the slightest ... -
River Mourning
(2021-01-01)In his introduction describing the themes and inspiration for this collection of original poems, the author writes “I explored the futility of, as (Portuguese poet, Fernando) Pessoa says, “longing for impossible things.” ... -
“Strange Power of Speech”: A Metaliterary Analysis of “Kubla Khan” and “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
(2012)The author places Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s two poems in the context of her own experience of vision and storytelling. Coleridge’s narrators, she writes, “are unable to convey their experiences, I will argue, not because ... -
The Winter of Our Disability : Understanding Disability in Film through Richard III
(2020-04-01)This paper combines Shakespeare scholarship and film study. Given that Richard III still holds massive influence in our collective consciousness, we cannot simply ignore it, but also given our current relationship with ... -
The Martian Omnispace Revolution
(2020-04-01)In introducing his original novel, the author discusses the influences of horror authors Edgar Allen Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, and Stephen King, as well as other influences from movies and theater. He discusses the amount of ... -
“she answers, because going is where I was”
(2020-04-01)The author describes the process of creating an original poetry collection: “At the beginning, figuring out a structure for a 30-page long project was extremely difficult for me. I kept trying to start somewhere because I ... -
home / body : collected poems and essays
(2020-04-01)The author writes, “Initially, the goal of my SIP was to take the idea of brownness and dissect it. I wanted to write about what it meant and felt like to be brown from a small, conservative, and racially homogenous town; ...
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