Paper Topic Ideas

Whitman’s “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” and Globalization

Whitman and mortality

Jane Jacobs and the New York City Housing Crisis

Jane Jacobs and the Homogenization of Urban Commerce

The Urban Walker: Forms of Ambulatory Literature

Michel de Certeau: Walking as Writing

In Search of Respect: Workplace Humiliation and Crack Dealing

Immigration and Culture Clash in Spanish Harlem

Created Worlds: Di Iorio and Bourgois on Escapism in El Barrio

Body Image in Outside the Bones

Witchcraft and Transcendence in Latino-American Culture

Creative Female Identities: Conjured Selves in Di Iorio, Anzaldua and Waldman

Poetry and Prayer in Anzaldua and Waldman

Shamanism and Poetry

Writing Against Ethnocentricism: Inspiration Beyond the West in American Poetry

Machine-Made Art: The Work of Andy Warhol and K. Silem Mohammed

The Failure of Expression in Warhol and Lin

Literature and Branding: The Pop Art of Warhol, Mohammed and Lin

Literature and Internet Culture