Volume 44, 2026

Masthead

Editor-in-Chief
Karma Chamseddine

Editorial Team
Cora Chiep
William Magro
Pema Menice
Sadie Nanson
Daniel Ortiz
Callie Salazar

Advising professor
Kweku John

Design & Typesetting
ash good

 Contents

Editor’s Note
Karma Chamseddine

Words, Words, Words: Cultural Hybridity and the Resistance of Writing Back in Isabella Hammad’s “Gertrude”
Yasmine Nahdi 

Let’s Talk About Sex: “Obscenity” and “Pornography” in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Sadie Nanson

La Cristiada from Los Angeles: La Opinión’s Stance on the Cristero War
Fenner McCoy

The Consequences of Progress: An Advanced Introduction to Colm Tóibín’s “Sleep”
Maricia Marquez

Will the Real Lewis Medlock Please Stand Up? Performative Hegemonic Masculinity in Deliverance (1972)
Bradley Duggan

The Implications of Halls in Beowulf
Madison Erickson

Knowledge as Power in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure and The Merchant of Venice
Callie Salazar

Jane the “Mulatto”: Mixed-Race Hybridity and Bodily Distortion in Ruth Ozeki’s My Year of Meats
Yasmine Nahdi

Bodies in the Water, Time Out of Joint: Memory & Wet Spectrality in Rivers Solomon’s The Deep
Jason Montoya