Academic Writing Samples

On this page, I have included a few academic papers to showcase my work as a writer, researcher, and literary critic. Additional essay samples can be provided upon request.

"Positionality, Progress, and Forgiveness: Navigating Pip’s Motivations in Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations"

Research project containing a general literary analysis of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.

"Exploring Narrations of Empire from an Unnamed Character in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea"

Literary analysis essay examining the role of Bertha Mason in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre and Antoinette Mason in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea.

"A Story of Resistance: Doris Pilkington’s Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence Unearths Forced Child Removal and Colonization of Aboriginal Australia"

Literary analysis essay of the nonfiction novel Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington.

"Warfare, Ecoliteracy, and the Role of a Journalist: Helon Habila’s Oil on Water on the Neocolonial Oil Extraction of Nigeria"

Literary analysis essay on Helon Habila's characters in Oil on Water and neocolonialism in Nigeria.