Writing Samples

Below are essay writing samples. Most can be understood under the umbrella of literary criticism.

• “‘Vivid in rich, varied colors’: Meta-black Poetics in Home to Harlem by Claude McKay”

• At the Intersection of Linguistics and Literary Criticism: Objectivist Methodology in the Creation of Metalanguage(s) in Alain Robbe-Grillet’s La Jalousie

• Distance in Hassan Blasim’s “The Killers and the Compass”

• Sacrifice and Liberation in Les Bonnes by Jean Genet

• Explaining “Blackness and Nothingness (Mysticism in the Flesh)” by Fred Moten

• Explaining A Paradise Built in Hell by Rebecca Solnit

• “‘The woman as she was made’: Narrative Representation of Black Females in Zora Neale Hurston’s Fiction