Graduate Students Place Essays in Journals

Articles by Rebecca Lush, and T.J. Moretti have been recently accepted for publication in academic journals.

Lush's essay, "'Lousianian Lady': Racial Ambiguity, Gender, and National Identity in Cooper's The Prairie," will appear in the Fall 2009 edition of Literature in the Early American Republic, an annual hardcover. In her essay, Lush considers how the Creole character Inez from The Prairie contributes to the work's defintion of American nationhood and identity. Lush argues that the ambiguous nature of Inez's racial identity enables her to be easily incorporated into the United States at a historical moment when the country is expanding it's geographic boundaries

T.J. Moretti's essay, "Misthinking the King: The Theatrics of Christian Rule in Henry VI, Part 3," appeared in the Summer 2008 Renascence: Essays on Value in Literature. Moretti considers Henry's piety, which bears witness to the irresolvability of Christian rule, as shown by the play's plot. Moretti examines how Henry struggles to adopt Christianity as a policy framework, to understand law based on the Gospels, and to include the art of lamentation to a royal repertoire. 

Moretti's essay is now available through Academic Search Premier.