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Submissions from 2026

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Complete Issue

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Letter from the Editors

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Table of Contents

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The Criterion Contributors

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Heroísma: Reimagining the Woman Leader and Heroine, Éowyn Bailey

The Genealogy of Personhood, Griffin Blood

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Guilty Until Proven Innocent: Stories of the Unfulfilled Promise of the American Criminal Justice System, Abigail Clark

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Strategic Silence: The Greek Left's Avoidance of the 1922 Asia Minor Catastrophe During the Refugee Crisis, 2015–2019, Harry Courts

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Flickers of Desire: Shared Consciousness and Queer Ethics in Mrs. Dalloway, Maeve Doherty

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Determinants of Revolutionary Violence: A Comparative Analysis of the Carnation Revolution and the Stono Rebellion, Eva Fava-Rodrigues

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The Scripted Body: A Historical Analysis of How Vituperative Narratives Shaped Disparities in Women’s Healthcare, Eva Fava-Rodrigues

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Educational Formation in a Fragmented Modern Age, Ana Lucía Fernández del Castillo

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Coleridge’s Living Power: “The Eolian Harp”, Thomas Formichelli

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Conscientiousness and Collegiate Athletes: An Item Response Theory Analysis, Tyler Hall

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History of Women at Holy Cross Art Piece, Lucia Hathaway

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Embodied Memory: Somatic Expressions of Trauma in The Gathering, Caroline Kramer

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The “Fallen Woman” Reconsidered: Inner and Outer Redemption in Victorian Literature, Caroline Kramer

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Finding “Humberland”: The French Language as a Privatized Signal in Lolita, Mae Legare

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"Free to Fall": Milton's Satan and the Trial of Discernment, Mae Legare

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Reimagining Incarceration: Scandinavian-Inspired Policy Innovation in Pennsylvania and California, Isabel M. Mallory

La Mob in Motion: An Ethnography of Leftist Organizing in Massachusetts and Strasbourg, Audrey E. McConnell

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On Returning to My Elementary School During the Apocalypse, Marie Christine Meisner

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Truth in Fragments: Narrative Multiplicity in Gloria Naylor’s Mama Day, Lilly Patton

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Looking towards the Past and Future with Waiata: Māori Historical Traditions in Ka eke ki Wairaka, Nuala Reynolds

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Dryden: Master of Rhetoric, Bradley Rose

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The Ruination of a Creator by His Own Hand: Doctor Faustus’ Self-Distance from Godliness and Unimaginative Sloth, Amanda Sopchockchai

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Landscapes of Home and Maps of the Heart: Using Art to Understand the Meaning of Home for First and Second Generation Immigrants in Worcester Massachusetts, Sophie Sundaram

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Women in Literature and Their Ephemeral Bodies, Madeline Zafon-Whalen

Papers from 2025

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The Riddle of Rescissions: Ascent and Decline Throughout the Last Half-Century, Blake Bacas

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Los gatos pompeyanos, Éowyn Bailey

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A Friend of Virtue: Cicero and Maimonides on Ideal Friendship, Lilly Baumfeld

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Bloodlines and Bloodied Lines: Agency and the Violation of Boundaries in Lucan’s Pharsalia, Lilly Baumfeld

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Pathos and Power: Gendered Rhetoric in Ciceronian Rome and the 21st-Century U.S., Alexandra Berardelli

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Letter from the Editors, Alexandra Berardelli and Matthew MacDonald

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Horace’s Romanitas, Griffin Blood

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Attraction, Aversion, and Aggression: Dynamics of Violence in Artistic Representations of Medusa, Caroline Boardman

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A Tale of Two Armies: Unity and Division in Julius Caesar’s Civil War, Tyler Brackett

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Where Angels Fear to Tread and Heart of Darkness: Imperialism’s Civil Dehumanization, Roan Brimacomb

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I Know A Place We Can Go: The Spatiality of Lesbian Subjectivity and the Revival of Lesbian Spaces, Bailey Burke

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The Argument For Lobbyists: How Lobbying Brings Policy Experts Back Into The System, Luke Cambra

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A Trek Into New Territories: Sound in Rachel Hadas’ “The Red Hat”, Emily Carbone

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Vacationing in the City: The Local Impacts of Contemporary Tourism in Three European Cities, Julia Clarke

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When Pygmalion Heavenward Cast His Sight, Parnassus Classical Journal

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The Oppression of Embrace, Gericho Louis Conge

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Parnassus: Classical Journal (Volume 12, 2025), Parnassus Contributors

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A Seaside Bowl: What the Tide Brought In, Emma Louise Crain

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Titian’s “Rape of Europa”, Emma Louise Crain

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Examining the Effects of Symbiotic State and Environmental Pollution on Wound Healing in Coral, Jonathan de Montagnac

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Inside the Mad Mind: Medical Ethics in 19th Century Fiction, Danielle Dentremont

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Shakespeare’s Murderous World: Not a Doomed Reality, Afton Fay

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Cultivating a New Agricultural Ethos: An Environmentalist Reading of John Steinbeck and Barbara Kingsolver, Will Fletcher

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Combating Corruption in Heavily Indebted African Nations: The Role of a Transparent Public Procurement System, Lauren G. Harkins

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Analysis of Winged Genie with Pail and Date-Palm Spathe, Caroline Heinze

Scarcity and Economic Decision Making, Jonathan Hofmann

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Dangerous Possession, Perilous Gaze, and Violent Control in "You Belong to Me," "My Last Duchess," and "Mont Blanc", Mackenzie Hughes

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From Object to Architect: How Molly Bloom Designs her Own Gaze in Joyce’s Ulysses, Mackenzie Hughes

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The Criterion (2025), Mackenzie Hughes, Emily Carbone, Marisa O'Malley, Gericho Louis Conge, Afton Fay, Fiona Smith, Gwyneth Morrissey, Niall McKenna, Roan Brimacomb, Sarah Park, and Madeline T. Zafon-Whalen

Vanguard for a New Age: Artivism Through Jazz, Rhiannon Hurst

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Euripides’ Bacchae, 1165-1180, Jango Janigian

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Helios' Wink, Jango Janigian

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Sol Peers Through the Oculus, Jango Janigian

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Strings of Fate: The Role of Prophecy, Prediction, and Suspense in the Iliad, Jango Janigian

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Systems of Survivance: Exploring Armenia's Ancient Past Through Dungeons & Dragons, Jango Janigian

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Sappho in Translation and Text, Ilia Kolesnikov

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The Boy on the Sixth Floor - A Memoir, Ben Lepper

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Friends and Foes: Multifaceted Native Representation in Honoratissimi Benefactores, Matthew MacDonald

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Joining the Symposium, Matthew MacDonald

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Между тенью и рассветом; Between Darkness and the Dawn: A Photographic Understanding of Memory and Society in Eastern Latvia and the Baltic States, Bryce Maloney and Sean Rego

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How the United States has Failed to Enact Competitive and Stable Energy Policy Through Federalism, Matthew James Marcaccio

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Hands in David Copperfield as a Marker of Character, Niall McKenna

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Balancing Acts: Exploring Need Conflict in College Students' Pursuit of Autonomy, Competence, and Relatedness, Kate Millard

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Stories of Chiaroscuro Control, Gwyneth Morrissey

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Recovering the Lost Art of Medicine: A Role for Ignatian Spirituality, Cecilia Motherway

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Using Motivation Science to Understand and Overcome Common Psychological Barriers to Non-Native Language Learning in Beginner and Intermediate College Courses, Ahana Nagarkatti

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Unmasking the Monkey Myth: The Coexistence of Sage and Trickster, Marisa O'Malley

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Home, Exile, and Displacement in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, Sarah Park

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Female Power in the Near East, Angela Pham

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Consumer Willingness to Pay For Allergy Safe Foods, Julia Posillico

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De Amicitia and Seneca’s Letter 6: Seeking Betterness, Rebekah Powers

Amplifications and Disruptions of the Impostor Phenomenon (IP) In High-Achieving Women, Anya Reichelsdorfer

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Achieving Fairness in Zoning Laws with Machine Learning, William Schimitsch

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Defining the Enemy Within: Examining the Case for a Federal Mechanism to Designate Domestic Terrorist Organizations in the United States, Evelyn Schneider

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The Lingering Effects of the Asian Longhorned Beetle: Impact on the Changing Composition of a New England Campus Arboretum, Elizabeth J. Silver, Russell M. Cleary, and Kelly Wolfe-Bellin

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What is Lyric Anyway?: Attempting to Define Lyric Using Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “Sonnet 6” and Fiona Apple’s “I Want You To Love Me”, Fiona Smith

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Where are the Women in Computer Science? A Comparative Analysis of Male and Female Representation in STEM Fields as a Means to Understand the Computing Gender Gap, Maura Switzer

Religion and The Social Status Of Women in Pompeii, Molly Caitlyn Tittemore

Women in Chinese Characters: A Philosophical Evaluation of How Chinese Language Affects Chinese Women and Feminism in China, Jiayi Wang

You Have the Right to Not Remain Silent: The Intersection Between Prisons, Civic Engagement, and Social Justice, Claire Wolf

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Exploring Babylon, Laura Yap

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Sketch of Venus de Milo, Laura Yap

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Frank O'Hara: The Figure that Remains, Madeline T. Zafon-Whalen