Essays

You are Not Alone

The American literary response to shifting cultural values between the 1950s and 1980s.

Final Research Paper for a 20th Century American Literature course at Victoria University of Wellington; Awarded 3nd Place in the 2025 Joseph and June Riley Essay Competition

From Parchment to Pixels, and Richardson to Rowell

Comparing two strikingly similar Epistolary novels written nearly three hundred years apart.

Awarded 2nd Place in the 2024 Joseph and June Riley Essay Competition

It’s All Prewritten

Tom Stoppard’s use of Shakespeare’s Hamlet within his own play, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.