Fall 2025 Capstones: Projects in Creative Writing and Literature from the Department’s Seniors
By Daniel Graham ’26 and Rabi Michael-Crushshon ’26
Another semester in the English & Creative Writing Department means another round of capstones showing off the wonderful work of our majors! This semester’s capstone class featured a creative writing section and a literature section presented on Tuesday, December 2 and Wednesday, December 3, with presenters from each class interspersed with one another. Projects ranged from novels to poetry collections to critical analyses. Read on to find out about what our spectacular scholars have been up to this semester.
Night 1:
Emma Nesmith, The Token, the Nag, and the Drudge: Conditions of Maternity in Jane Austen
Daniel Graham, Martin Tawney’s Guide to the Middle of Nowhere
Gavia Boyden, The Things on the Floor Are Nothing Like Love
Celia D’Agostino, I’ve Made a Huge Mistake: Disability Drag in Comedy Through the Ages
Cam Wright, When Dreamers Wake
Mischa Gillam, Blood! Vampires, Disease, Limit Experience
Dalia Al-Sagr, Flower Child
Night 2:
Natalie Mazey, The Miracle in Maybe: A Young Adult Novel
Molly Friedrichs, Life Under the Bell Jar: Reader Response Theory and Women’s Record-Keeping
Jizelle Villegas, Seething: A Short Story Collection
Fiona Candland, After the morning light is gone and dusk feels so far away
Emma Murray, Mouth, Sex, and Hungry Heart: Anatomy of the Feminist Fairy Tale Retelling
Andrew Dong, The Life and Times of Freddy Frog
Jamila Sigal Vásquez, Where Do We Go From Here?
Thank you to all of our wonderful seniors! We can’t wait to see what you do next!