Volume 43, 2025

Masthead

Co-Editors-in-Chief
Taylor Crowell
Eriana Muñoz

Editorial Team
Karma Chamseddine
Lleyden Collins 
Sadie Nanson 
Callie Salazar
Molly Talbot 
Christianne Tubola

Advising professor
Michelle Bitting

Design & Typesetting
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 Contents

Editors’ Note
Taylor Crowell & Eriana Muñoz

Too Cold for Warmth: The Self-Destructive Harm of Capitalist Ideologies in “To Build a Fire” 
Molly Talbot

Jewish Masculinity in Singer’s Gimpel the Fool
Sabatino Stacchi

Beware the Predator: Storytelling as a Mechanism for Reinforcing Cultural Fears and Reimagining Female Possibility
Sadie Nanson

The Othello Figure: Racial Otherness and Postcolonial Relations in Shakespeare’s Othello and Claudia Rankine’s Citizen 
Yasmine V. Nahdi 

Meditation, Darwinism, and the Self in Melville’s Moby Dick and Chopin’s The Awakening
Karma Chamseddine

Unlocking Hidden Being Through Aristotle’s Metaphor 
Louis Yanucci

A Princely Beast and a Beastly Prince: Contrasting Shrek and Lord Farquaad in Shrek Through the Lens of the “Beauty and the Beast” Tale Type 
Callie Salazar 

Mother of Rhetoric: Walker, Kogawa, and Yamanaka’s Maternal Body Imagery as Reclamation 
Ashelyn Wagner

Afro-Diasporic Mutiny in Charles Johnson’s The Middle Passage and in Modern America 
Jadan Vines