Grace Keeler

A literary analysis of Lucille Clifton's early poetry and its embodiment of the multiplicity of Black female identity and personhood.

An essay interrogating 21st-century audiences' insistence on modern relevance and relatability through the lens of William Shakespeare's final tragedy, Coriolanus. The essay also deconstructs the necessity for sympathy to be evoked in a tragedy.

A literary analysis of Layli Long-Soldier's poetry collection, Whereas. The essay focuses on the conventions of the apology genre and how, through poetry, Long-Soldier provides a roadmap for thoughtful and effective apologies from governments to indigenous populations.

This essay uses Louise Erdrich's reproductive dystopian novel, Future Home of the Living God, as a lens through which to explore the intersection between faith and bodily autonomy.