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