Four papers by undergraduates in the College of Arts and Sciences will appear in an upcoming issue of the online journal “Metamorphosis.” The journal is a publication of COPLAC, the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges. 

The papers include “The Language of Rape: Margaret Mitchell’s Defense of Spousal Rape in Gone with the Wind” by Shirin Afsous (faculty advisor: Gary Richards), “Media Coverage of Iraq and Iran: Decoding the Warpath of a Democracy” by Ryan Hayes (faculty advisor: Stephen Farnsworth), “Sex, Luxury, and Power: The Stereotype and Perceptions of Ottoman Imperial Harems in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries” by Sara Krechel (faculty advisor: Nabil Al-Tikriti) and “Das nationalsozialistische Deutschland und das Abstammungsargument”[National-Socialist Germany and the ancestral argument] by Anne Zimmerman (faculty advisor: Marcel Rotter).