Understory 2018 Main Menu Masthead Creative Works: Creative Non-Fiction Where the East Wind and the Dust Blow Coyote's Cackle The Sneaky Beast Black Darkness Creative Works: Poetry Little One Wild Who Am I? Depression To Take the Stand Allusion 2/2: We That Are Alone The Punishment of Barabbas Appendages Summer Closing Colors A Harvester's Tale Honey The Tax Man Cometh Sadness Creative Works: Drama Diary A Mother's Fantasy Larry Mary: The Martyr of Canidar The Hardest Thing Creative Works: Fiction Hushabye Mountain Miasma Paper People Jack the Dog Illumination Ten Dollar Tip The Qualifications of a New Home Scholarship in English Studies: Literary Studies Beowulf: Interpreting Hubris in Heroics From Which the Monster Cannot Escape Partners of Greatness Everyday Use as Seen Through "Postmodern Blackness" The Dark Truth of the Forest: A Platonic Reading of Young Goodman Brown "The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale": A Story of Excess Scholarship in English Studies: Rhetoric & Linguistics Adapting Gender Pronouns: Speech Patterns Among University Members Birds n' Bogs On-Campus Events: Social & Academic Success Mapping the Way to Alaska Perspectives on Cross-Disciplinary Research and Research Writing in Computer Science & the Biological Sciences The Plight of the Colonists Responding to the Call: Pros, Cons, & Public Opinion Lion's Mane Jellyfish, Arctic Cod, and the Great White North The Gold Rush: A New Wave of Feminism in Alaska A Bumpy Road to Higher Education Special Outreach Project: Panel Discussion Are Students of Color and the LGBTQ+ Safe at UAA? Our Answers
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From the Student Editors & Faculty

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From the Student Project Interns & Editors

The mission of the Understory anthology is to showcase the talent, creativity, and scholarship of undergraduates in English Studies. Submission of creative work is open to all UAA students.
Like last year’s edition of Understory, the 2018 edition contains a strong representation of undergraduate research and scholarship across all the emphasis areas in English Studies. They were selected for inclusion by the English faculty.

In our role as the student editors, we selected the works of creative writing and the cover art. Our top goals were to increase the number of submissions and to also increase the quality of those submissions. We reached out across the campus and Understory 2018 showcases nearly twice as many authors. In addition to the stories and poems, Understory 2018 also includes the work of three playwrights and this year, for the first time, we are featuring works of creative nonfiction. Increasing the volume of work also meant increasing the diversity of authors too. We are proud to say that we are presenting twice as many authors of color in this edition than appeared in last year’s edition.

Finally, we are currently in a political climate in which members of the university community are increasingly aware of the value of diversity and we felt strongly that the question of student diversity at UAA should be addressed. To accomplish this, we organized and hosted a public panel discussion entitled "Are Students of Color and the LGBTQ+ Safe At UAA? Our Answers." You will find a transcript of that conversation included as part of this edition. Diversity is more than just a buzzword to us; it is an essential part of UAA’s campus and it is an essential part of our vision for Understory.

Alexandria Bako and Anthony Taylor

From the Faculty Advisors & Project Liaisons

As we review the finishing touches of this year’s edition of Understory: An Annual Anthology of Achievement, we wish to acknowledge and thank our English Department colleagues for their continuing support. Again this year, they have ensured that excellent undergraduate research and scholarship from all of the disciplinary focus areas in English Studies have been presented. Thanks also to the energetic work of our student project interns/editors, who have worked to significantly increase in overall student participation and diversity represented in this year’s edition. The sustainable model we developed last year continues to offer considerable future promise.
Professors David Bowie and Ronald Spatz

 

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