Written for Dramatic Literature I in 2015, this essay focuses on the misogyny in John Ford’s play ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore and how that affects Annabella’s agency. This piece won the Ithaca College’s 2016 Michael Clark award. The Michael Clark award is awarded to the author of an outstanding undergraduate essay in Renaissance literature.

‘Tis Pity About the Misogyny Ford’s ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore

“The Flickering Feminine Flame: The Power of Masculine Anxiety Against Feminine Power Within Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea and Coetzee’s Foe” was written in 2017 for a senior seminar on Global Modernism. It focuses on two novels which retell classic works of literature. The focus is that on the female main characters and their agency in these retellings. By using a modernist lens, the focus is that of the fold and how it changes the former stories in the canon.

The Flickering Feminine Flame: The Power of Masculine Anxiety Against Feminine Power Within Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea and Coetzee’s Foe