Professor Rebecca Davis

The phrase “Strong Black Woman” has become very harmful for Black women everywhere, causing us not to feel like we are allowed to ask for...

Whether ‘you’ need to save the princess or debate a choice between A or B, second-person perspective is a fundamentally persuasive style of storytelling that...

The story of La Llorona is a folktale that has existed at least since the fall of Tenochtitlan and the character has remained a persistent...

Godzilla, Sailor Moon, and Power Rangers are popular examples of the different types of children's media from Japan that have made their way into global...

This project examines the reconfiguration of myth, legend, and folklore to subvert cultural expectations of gendered performance in Carmen Maria Machado’s “The Husband Stitch.” Spivak’s...

This oral history project offers analysis into the work and embodiment of women in the southern Appalachian region. Using a regional-focus, the project centers on...

In professional writing, meaning is not something that can be made in isolation - it is inherited by the interpretive communities that engage with it...

The recent proliferation of AI-generated writing raises questions for many sectors of academia, especially writing centers and their student clientele. This presentation will explore the...

As a writer and a feminine-presenting person, I have always been drawn to horror fiction as a way to explore personal experiences and the cultural...

The United States has the highest suicide rate of any wealthy nation, exacerbated by a sixfold risk of suicide in the first week post-discharge from...

The South is unique, but more special is its stories. The project’s purpose is to explore how the unique Southern voice can inform and shape...

This paper is the culmination of a senior project for English and Writing Studies. Drawing on the researcher’s previous experience with trauma study, it explores...

Confessional poetry challenges traditional notions of self-expression by delving into personal and often taboo subjects that were not typically addressed in poetry before. It goes...

My research set out to dissect the question: How can monstrosity be reclaimed through transness? Understanding the concept of "monstering" as a verb, an action...

“How does the use of personal narrative in confessional poetry contribute to the understanding of the mind-body connection in health studies?” This question is important...

This independent study was a creative writing project that spanned two semesters (Fall 2022 - Spring 2023) about world building in different formats. During the...

When first working on world building for my original piece, I knew I wanted to write a story with original mythology. In order to do...

When writing original science-fiction and fantasy, one of the most difficult questions is that of world-building — how to create an original world, how distant...

This project is the culmination of two semesters of work regarding ethical depictions of trauma within prose writing. This research serves to answer the question...

This presentation is the culmination of my poetry work for my major in Creative Writing. This presentation includes five forms of poetry: a haiku, an...