Volume XXXI, Issue 2 – Fall 2025
from the editor
Ghosts
AGLSP teaching Award – 2025
Fragments as Pedagogy: On Teaching in Graduate Liberal Studies
Elizabeth Baltes, Coastal Carolina University
EXCELLENCE IN INTERDISCIPLINARY WRITING AWARD
Witness, Survivor, Scholar: Memory, Narrative, and the Evolving History of the Tulsa Race Massacre
Courtney Hagans, Johns Hopkins University
FREDERICK LUIS ALDAMA EXCELLENCE IN CREATIVE WRITING AWARD
The Superpower of the Red Hood
Paulina Vieitez, Rice University
commentary
The Fox’s Dilemma: Berlin, Peacock, and the High Cost of Certainty
Anand Atre, Johns Hopkins University
essay
The Artist’s Novel: Defining the Künstlerroman
Brian Eckert, Johns Hopkins University
essay
Hearing With a Severed Ear: In Search of Le Petit Noir Musical Phrase in David Lynch’s Blue Velvet
Pam Fox Kuhlken, San Diego State University
poetry
Relics
Anand Atre, Johns Hopkins University
essay
Does Religious Heritage Impact the US Financial World?: The Battle to Conquer Big Money in Boston and Philadelphia
Thomas Finser, Johns Hopkins University