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Confluence is a national, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal published by the Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs (AGLSP), reflecting the best scholarly and creative work, including fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and visual art, produced within and beyond AGLSP member institutions. Confluence stands as a demonstration of and an inspiration to the kind of interdisciplinary engagement that is constitutive of a liberal education, while emphasizing the fundamental relations that transcend the boundaries of discipline and form and invite engagement and exploration.
Confluence, in conjunction with the AGLSP,
is pleased to announce the winners of the 2023 Writing Awards!
EXCELLENCE IN INTERDISCIPLINARY WRITING award
Colonial Astronomers and the Transit of Venus: An Exemplar of American Enlightened Thinking
Kelly Harrison, Stanford University
Frederick Luis Aldama EXCELLENCE IN creative WRITING award
The Fifth Incident
Hana Elysia, San Diego State University
Newly Published
HUMAN VALUES—INSIGHTS, IMPLICATIONS, APPLICATIONS
“Being” Transphobic in the American Age of Innocence
Anand Atre, Johns Hopkins University
HUMAN VALUES—INSIGHTS, IMPLICATIONS, APPLICATIONS
The Limitations of Stature: Exposing the Ignorance, Stigmatization, Objectification, and Limitations Impacting People with Dwarfism
Margaret Dedman, Wesleyan University
essay
Wondering and Wandering Through Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies: Co-Creating Ourselves in a Literary Niche
Susie Callahan, Reed College
essay
Restoring the Proper Family: A Boy’s Triumph Over “The Anti-Mother” in Horace’s Epode 5
Carol Wu, University of Pennsylvania
poetry
Lizards and Livestock
Brian Eckert, Johns Hopkins University
creative nonfiction
Watching
Donna Grimley, Rice University
reader’s corner
Claiming Our Portion of the Sun and Wind: A Reflection on Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran
Amy Aliz Simpson, Texas Christian University
commentary
Hell Is Other People: An Ethical Dilemma
Katy O’Grady, Johns Hopkins University
commentary
Responsibility and Control: An Ethical Inquiry
Claire Foster, Johns Hopkins University
