Theses from 2022
Transforming Trees, Transcending Binaries: Gender in Augustan Poetry, Kendall Swanson
The Potential for Non-Addictive Analgesics to Address the Opioid Crisis, Emily Taylor
The United States Military’s Role in Maintaining National Security During the Height of the “War on Drugs”, Sara Terrien
Allumination: Inquiries into an Understanding of Power, Oppression, and Connection, Hannah Thompson
Cover Image: Leather Book Map, Paul Topazio
Finding Human Rights in Higher Education: A History of Federal Financial Aid and Discrimination in the United States, Andrew J. Toritto
Metamorphosing Metamorphosis in the Metamorphoses, Zachary Tympanick
Sappho 31 and Catullus 51, Zachary Tympanick
The Daily Life of Penelope, Zachary Tympanick
Interactive Effects of Food Availability and Salinity on Phenotypic Plasticity of Echinarachnius parma Larvae, Isabelle Q. Uong
Language and Cognition: A Comparison of Spatial and Mathematical Cognition in Visual and Auditory Languages, Lauren Vitelli
The Sunflower Movement of 2014: How Commitment to Democratization Drives Activism in Taiwan, Katherine Ann Wagner
Salty Enzymes: Protein Splicing Dependence on Salt Concentrations, Diana Wall
Ceres, Mary Whitney
Minerva, Mary Whitney
Introduction, Ryan Wynn and Holly Tente
Shakespeare’s Staging and the Self in the Sonnets, Xiani Zhu
The End of the 7: Chinese Catholic Immigrants in Flushing, Xiani Zhu
Submissions from 2021
Othering: An Analysis of Expression in Hip-Hop and South Asian Literature Through Post-9/11 Discourse, Syed Tareq Alam
Primaried from the Left: The Role of a Progressive Campaign Network in Congressional Primary Challenges, Grace C. Burke
Transfer and Transitions: Exploring First Year Writing at Holy Cross, Elizabeth Casavant
2021 Proceedings of the 26th Annual Summer Research Symposium, College of the Holy Cross
Doppelgängers and Doubles in Literature: A Comparison of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment and Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, Meghan E. Cooper
Anti-Anarchist Legislation and the Road to the 1919 Red Hysteria, Evan Crumb
High Tide: A Novella, Anna Davis
A Year in Syntropy: Exploring Syntropic Agriculture, Ajah Eills
Biomedical Ethics in the Medical School Curriculum: Lessons Learned from the Holocaust, Emma Flanagan
«Cuida tu alma y tu cuerpo por Dios y la Falange»: Women’s Education and la Sección Femenina in Franco’s Spain, Madeleine Fontenay
Inflammation, Diet, and Depression, Kareem F. Hamada
Wish in One Hand, Amber John
Voices of the Wandering, Grace Manning
Ecology and Vegetation in a Passively Managed Urban Park in Worcester, MA, Raphaella Mascia
Presidential Rhetoric and Media's Contribution to the Subjective Nature of Truth in American Democracy, Bianca Miccolis
The Car Ride Home, Jonathan Rivera
The United States and its Coercive Democratization Attempts in Japan and Iraq, Noah Shepardson
Submissions from 2020
Parnassus: Classical Journal (Volume 7, 2020)
The Green Poem: An Original Play in Two Acts, Emily Arancio
Writing Revolution: Tracing the Origins of Liberty and Tyranny in English and American Literature, Seamus Brennan
The Many Paths of Thoreau’s Writing: A Response to Buranelli’s Critique, Stephen Conde
Maternal Love Shown Through Punishment, Megan Donaty
User Experience as a Rhetorical Medium: User at the Intersection of Audience, Reader and Actor, Áine Doyle
The Poetry of History: Irish National Imagination Through Mythology and Materiality, Ryan Fay
Interiority and Narrative Temporality in Jane Austen’s Persuasion, Margaret Flahery
“The Roommates”: Television Screenplay Writing in the Streaming Era, Maggie Flahetry
Mount Vesuvius, Pompeii, Italy, Alexa Furnari
Narrator’s Attitudes Toward Slavery in Oroonoko and Robinson Crusoe, Meghan Gavis
Suicide According to Socrates and Camus, Meghan Gavis
The Responsiveness of Household’s Charitable Donations to Income Changes Across Religious Groups, Mitch Grenier
Audience and Narrative in Female-Authored Diaries of the Twentieth Century: Analyzing Diaries As Modernist Texts, Rose Grosskopf
Light and Darkness in the Epiphanies of Henry James’ Heroines, Rose Grosskopf
Analytic Exoplanet Transit Analysis, and Investigation into WASP, Kepler, and Qatar Systems, Colan Gulla
Targeted Terror: A Historiography of the Nazi Police State, Jordana Irzyk
The Qur’ānic Doctrine of the Divine Names and the Muslim Understanding of the Divine, Sibgha Javaid
Bust of Mythological Figure, Rebecca R. Kaczmarek
Ceres Holding Staff and Grain, Rebecca R. Kaczmarek
David by Michelangelo, Rebecca R. Kaczmarek
Laocoön and His Sons, Rebecca R. Kaczmarek
Perseus and Medusa, Rebecca R. Kaczmarek
The Pantheon, Rebecca R. Kaczmarek
The Achaean, Benjamin Kelly
A Qualitative Analysis Of Medical Uncertainty: Young People Immobilized By Pain, Sara Khan
Examining Fatherhood Through Historical Empathy in Tristram Shandy, MaryGrace King
Sex, Lies, and Murder: Feminized Detective Fiction and the English Estate Novel, Meaghan Lanctot
A Comparative Analysis of the Politics of Gun Control in the United States and Australia, Nicholas Leone
Forum of Pompeii, Hui Li
Theater of Taormina, Hui Li
Trajan and the Moon, Hui Li
Matrons, Mothers, and Monsters: The Heroine in Beowulf, Grendel, and The Mere Wife, Grace Lucier
Free Will and the Purpose of Man in Nature, Helena Lyons
The Battle for Love Under the Governance of Strict Social Codes, Nina Masin-Moyer
Connecting Ancient Philosophers’ Math Theory to Modern Fractal Mathematics, Colin McCormack
Song: The Emotional Storyteller in the Tales of Edgar Allan Poe, Sadie O'Conor
Editor's Note (Parnassus, vol.7), Liam O'Toole
Fortune Favors the Prepared? τύχη in The History of the Peloponnesian War, Liam O'Toole
The Acropolis through the Temple of Olympian Zeus, Liam O'Toole
Aggression and Violence Against Females: Analyzing the Similarities Between Myth and Film, Julia Papanastou
The Dietary Patterns of Fourth-Year Students at the College of the Holy Cross, Emily Rothmann
Lucretia and the Language of Purity, Anne-Catherine Schaaf
The Student's Quest, Anne-Catherine Schaaf
Why Does Love Always Feel Like a Battlefield in Actium? An Investigation of Battle Influences in Propertius, Kendall Swanson
Ancient Toledo, Holly Tente
Pornography and Poetry: The Humanity of the Performer, Zachary Tympanick
Bandera: (Re)Building Ukrainian National History, Aaron R. Wolf
Submissions from 2019
Of Life and History, Vol. 2 (May 2019)
From "Companionate Wife" to Feminist Pioneer: Amy Jacques Garvey's Feminist Prowess Liberates Women in Restructuring the UNIA, Kiana Cardenas
2019 Proceedings of the 26th Annual Summer Research Symposium, College of the Holy Cross
Chicken Paprika and Tug of War: the Romantic "Dream Song 4" by John Berryman, Patrick Connell
Cover Photo: 1907 - College of the Holy Cross Commencement Parade, Brett A. Cotter
The Human Element: An Interview with Professor Lorelle Semley, Brett A. Cotter and Joshua Whitcomb
Meet the New Villain, Same as the Old Villain: The New Cold War in American TV, Film, and Video Games, Declan Cronin
Eleven: The Bitchin' Subject of Desire in Stranger Things, Heather Domenicis
Tracing "Fake News:" The Printing Press, Social Media, and Politics, Aine Doyle
Drowning in Desire, Meghan Gavis
"You Knew Him Well": The Galsworthy Letters and Trauma in Heart of Darkness, Alexander T. Grey
Introduction: Understanding the Rhythm of History, Gabriella Grilla
Mysterious Moralism: Anthony Comstock’s Crusade Against Female Sexuality and Society’s Resistance Against Censorship and Enforced Christian Values, Gabriella Grilla
Father Figures in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall: Bronte's Perspective on Victorian Era Masculinity, Mary Grace King