Jack Cosgrove, Gumbo (ENG 101, Franqui)
Mady Hubbard, Hunter's Farm Market (ENG 101, Everett)
Kourtney A. Zacharias, The Importance of Sleep for College Students (ENG 101, Buchanan)
Jessie Labo, Sounds of the Past (ENG 101, Lindner)
Oscar Nama, Dogfighting: A Creative Retelling of James Reeb's Last Moments (ENG 150, Green)
Renalda Pierre, Because I Knew Her (ENG 101, MacNamara)
Brennan Dillenbeck, The Struggle Between Perception and Reality in English Literature (ENG102, Powell)
Amanda McMillen, Good and Evil: Illuminating and Defining Each Other Through Contrast (ENG 102, Powell)
Abby McNeil, Authority and Female Behavior Throughout both Versions of The Playboy of the Western World (ENG 150, Powell)
Kirsten Resch, Neoliberalism and the Celtic Tiger (ENG 150, Powell)
Anjali Varughese, Cultural Misrepresentation in Entertainment (ENG 101, Robinson)
Mikala Harnish, “Vincent” (ENG 100, Cullen)
Rhonda Scheffey, The Clemson Ball Cap (ENG 100, Cullen)
Jessica Prekeris, Reflection 3: Informal Education Shapes Scout's Growth in To Kill a Mockingbird (ENG 102, Mezey)
Liv Bielawski, Commemorating History: Historical Accuracy in Modern Historical Commemorations (ENG 150, K. Powell)
Luke Sanelli, “The Importance of Gender-Neutral Bathrooms in Schools” (ENG 101, Furin)
Kim Pham, What to Do When School Dissections Conflict with Students’ Ethics (WR 102, Levin)
Vimal Bhavsar, “Expectations” (WR 101, Vargo)
Fiona Farrell, The Awakening: Critical or Complacent? (ENG 102, Haslam)
Luke Sanelli, "Redcrosse and Orgoglio’s Lustful Pride" (HON 150, Powell)
Ryan Garvey, "What Dark Truth is Hidden in Gulliver's Travels?: The Moral Dispute Between the Hard and Soft Schools" (ENG 102, Haslam)
Nick Athanasopoulos, "Atticus Finch: The Myth and the Character" (ENG 102, Mezey)
Grace Heller, Tales from a Getaway Day (ENG 102, Gilman)
Maura Kelly, “Home” (ENG 101, Mezey)
Sophia Petrini, “3048 Miles to Home” (ENG 101, Mezey)
Colin Biddle, “America’s Meager Heartland” (J. Powell 101)
Ella Bubeck, “Standards of Ballerinas” (Patterson 101)
Jenny Simrell, “The Impact of Eating Disorders” (J. Powell 101)
Peter Brandon, “The Suffering and Martyrdom of Irish Women…” (K. Powell 150)
Alec Mettin, “Influential Actors in Human Response to the Gaze” (Mezey 102)
Jared Glad, “The Cutthroat South” (Mezey 102)
Maya Santos, “Chopin’s portrayal of characters of color…” (Haslam 102)
Nick Athanasopolous, Untitled (Mezey 101)
Xinyi Wang, “Remembering Beiggie” (Pass 101)
Dhmyni Samuels, Untitled (Barwise 101)
Francis Floyd “Frank” Burch was born in Baltimore in 1932 and became a Jesuit novitiate after graduating from Loyola High School in Towson, Md., in 1950. He studied at Bellarmine College, at Loyola Seminary, and at Fordham University before teaching English, Latin and French at Gonzaga High School in Washington, D.C. from 1957 to 1960 and studying theology from 1960 to 1964 at Woodstock College in Maryland. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1963, and completed his Ph.D. in comparative literature at the Sorbonne in Paris, in 1967. Fr. Burch came to Saint Joseph’s in the same year, serving as assistant dean from 1972 to 1974 and teaching until his retirement in 2009, after more than forty years at Saint Joseph’s. He passed away suddenly in 2013.
Fr. Burch cared deeply about writing – about student writing in the first-year courses, in the many courses he taught in the night school, and in advanced undergraduate courses such as The Beat Rebellion and American Colonial and Federalist Literature. He was the author and translator of several books, and was a thoughtful and detailed editor of his colleagues’ writing, always generous with his time. I was fortunate to have been his colleague here for several years, and I think he would have been very pleased to read the incredible essays honored here, and to know that he could contribute in this way to the writing of these remarkable students.
- Jason Powell, DPhil