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Mid-Atlantic Humanities Review, Volume 3 (2025)

Published by the Humanities Research Center at Lycoming College

Editor

Andrew B. Leiter

Managing Editor

Emma Mitcheltree

Spanish Language Editor

Rubén Varona

Associate Editors

Charlie Bach

Matthew Frantz

Stephanie Sánchez

Chloe Shendge

Evelyn Stong


Table of Contents

“Whatever Is Silenced Will Clamor to be Heard”: Nurturing Resistance in The Handmaid’s Tale
-Abigail Miller, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

Evidence for Maya Commoner Ceramic Production at Altar de Sacrificios
-Amelia Thompson, Lycoming College

Artistic Expression and Popular Music Criticism: The Elvis Craze, The Los Angeles Uprising, and Black Lives Matter
-Dylan Sykes, Franklin & Marshall College

Imperial Roman Art and Ideologies in Pre-Fascist Colonial Italy: (D)evolution of the Treatment of Afro-Italian Women
-Ella Grenci, Bucknell University

“Poor Scotland—The Outcast of All the Nations of the World”: The Reactionary Rhetoric of Suffering in Covenanter Sermons, 1638-1645
-William Bedingfield, Grove City College

To The Boy Who Sought Freedom: The Philosophy of Freedom and Social Contract Theory in Attack on Titan
-Serena Martin, University of Scranton

The Business of Art Museums: Jeff Koons and the Guggenheim Bilbao
-Katryn Yocum, Lycoming College

Panopticizing Stalinism: Foucault and Photographic Manipulation in the Soviet Union
-Reese Finnigan, Goucher College

El amor y el arte: vínculos creativos y obstáculos en las obras de Skármeta y Poniatowska
-Lee Roby, Juniata College

Reaction and Response to the Colonial Canon: The Failure of the Physical Utopian in Patience Agbabi’s “Makar”
-Jordan Ho, Lehigh University

Curiosities of the Raj: Fanny Parkes’ Collection of Indian Treasures
-Nidhi Sobrun, Lycoming College

Recognizing the Autonomy of Future Generations: The Genetic Enhancement Debate
-Cassandra Zellner, DeSales University

American Patriots and the Role of Catholicism
-Anthony Batista, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

Glorification and Ableism: Ellen Forney’s Marbles and the Dangers of “Positive” Stereotypes Toward Disability
-Sidney Berger, Montclair State University

A Moral Household: The Morality of Plymouth Colony as Seen through Spousal Abuse Cases
-Evelyn Stong, Lycoming College