Kathryn Zacharatos, BA

Throughout my time as an English Literature major at Duquesne, I wrote a number of critical papers focused on the analysis of classic and contemporary novels. The papers included below highlight my engagement with a range of such novels, as well as some of my own research focusing on diversity within the publishing industry.

In order to establish a literary canon that genuinely considers race and its impact on life, publishers, authors, and readers alike must bring, and keep, diversity and difference at the forefront of their minds.

While Jane Austen is famous for a multitude of reasons, perhaps most impactful is her engagement with the social regulations of her society. In Emma, she achieves a thorough deconstruction of the phrase “love is blind” and depicts a society that functions not in spite of love, but because of it.