CRITERION: A Literary Journal is published annually by the Department of English at Loyola Marymount University.

Volume 42, 2024

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Co-Editors-in-Chief
Izabel Mah y Busch
Chester Mlcek 

Editorial Team
Taylor Crowell
Madeleine Malcolm
Shaunael Milton
Eriana Muñoz
Hannah Nagle
Antonio Radic
Molly Talbot

Advising professor
Sarah Maclay

Design & Typesetting
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 Contents

Editors’ Note
Izabel Mah y Busch & Chet Mlcek

Lessons on Justice Between the Lines of “Coffee”
Izabel Mah y Busch

Chosen Ones, Outcasts, Basilisks, and Masquerades: Why Nnedi Okorafor’s Akata Witch Is So Much More Than “The Nigerian Harry Potter”
Bennett Meyer

The Photographic Femininity in André Breton’s Nadja
Antonio Radic

Questions of the Spiritual and Secular in Hadewijch and Newsom
Conner Wilson

Reflections on “Death Fugue” Between Celan and Kiefer
Chet Mlcek

The Way We Diagnose and Address Learning Disabilities in our School Systems is Equivalent to a Dumpster Fire. Let’s Unpack it.
Lacey Argus

The Portrayal of Disability: Comparing Richard III to the Present
Lyza Weisman

Gambling Chip, Inanimate Spectacle, Legal Tender: The People and Punishments that Dehumanize Women in Angela Carter’s “The Tiger’s Bride”
Callie Salazar

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Mia Carli

The Spirit Papers: Empathy, Elegy, & “the Buzz of Language”
Rya Partible

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