Messing Up the Drawing Room: Wharton, Olsen, and the Quest for Validation

by Jessica Levine

In retrospect, I see the nine years I spent working on my Ph.D. as a similar kind of detour, a quest for a lineage that might give me a right to speak. Continue reading →

Exile and Perseverance

by Elizabeth Huergo

Despite his pacifist temperament and lack of military training, on May 19th, 1895, Martí led the charge at the Battle of Dos Rios, because (and today this sounds quaint, quixotic) it was the honorable thing to do. Continue reading →