Weaving together archival documents and keen analysis, Sarah Mitrani’s investigation examines Smith students’ balance between traditional and modern femininity throughout World War 1. Mitrani inspects all facets of student life on campus, expertly detailing the changes Smithies faced from 1917-1919, from wardrobe to academic endeavors, religious life to community building. Beyond describing the Smith experience, […]
Through a cross-disciplinary analysis of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, Shivani Sawant investigates themes of domestic melancholia, patriarchal oppression, class structure, and intersectional identity. Engaging texts from queer feminist scholar Sara Ahmed and Freudian scholar David Eng with Woolf’s narrative, Sawant highlights main character Mrs. Dalloway’s privilege in her coinciding ignorance and romanticization of her unfulfilled […]
Drawing on her experiences of living in the South and the mysteries within her family’s history, Georgia Coats passionately investigates the origins of the collective white memories of the Civil War. By questioning the ways in which history is passed down and altered over time, she deftly assesses the reasons why certain histories are preserved, […]
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