English Department Essay Competition
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This collection includes a selection of winning essays from the English Department Essay Competitions. The Competition is held annually in the spring and judged in categories corresponding to course levels. Winning essays are chosen by faculty on the English Department Awards Committee.
Recent Submissions
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Perpetuating bad girl stereotypes in “The Shape of a Girl,” Canadian media, and its effect on girl bullying discourses in schools
(Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University, 2022) -
Jamrach’s Menagerie: art at sea
(Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University, 2022) -
Holistic representation in Casey Plett’s “Hazel and Christopher”
(Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University, 2022) -
Medieval female mystics: superfoods, sickness, subversion and sainthood in Hildegard von Bingen and Christina the Astonishing
(Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University, 2022) -
Zero to hero: changing views of witches in literature and popular media
(Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University, 2021) -
Killing time: an analysis of the psychopath archetype in Doctor Who
(Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University, 2021) -
Re-writing silence: the visibility of the female experience in Mary Sidney’s Psalms
(Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University, 2021) -
“All in the head”: using storytelling to help patients who suffer from mental illness and break the stigma
(Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University, 2021) -
Aesthetic disqualification, narrative imagination, and gender bias in endometriosis experiences
(Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University, 2021) -
Invisible yet omnipresent: the future of disability as reflected in Black Mirror
(Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University, 2021) -
Seen and unseen in the Marshall Islands: representations of slow violence in the poetry of Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner
(Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University, 2021) -
Agrarian contrarian: the fate of native grasslands in an age of agricultural reckoning
(Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University, 2021) -
The Marrow Thieves, coming-to, and the ownership of queer narratives
(Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University, 2020-07-20) -
Defeating childhood anxieties through imagination in Neil Gaiman’s Coraline
(Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University, 2020-04-24) -
Rural homophobia or universality of love? Brokeback Mountain in literature and film
(Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University, 2020-04-14) -
The bloom of solarpunk: an exploration of progressive nostalgia within modern culture through the lens of classic children’s literature
(Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University, 2020-04-13) -
Feminism, tragedy, and felt: adapting Thomas Hardy’s Far From The Madding Crowd into a “cozy classic”
(Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University, 2020) -
Seeing myself out: dying by choice over affliction
(Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University, 2019-11-27) -
Creative intervention: mosaic myth
(Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University, 2019) -
For the greater good(?): state of wonder, heart of darkness, and the moral implications of utilitarian racism
(Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University, 2019)
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