Stacy Coyne

Interpretations of the revelation scene of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale

Brick Lane by Monica Ali and Scheherazade Goes West by Fatema Mernissi both address the issues of gender roles in Islam, as well as the differences between genders and generations for both Eastern and...

The character of Mimi from Puccini's opera La Boheme is traced through several stories by Henri Murger.

Traces the uses of the word "eyes" throughout Twelfth Night, focusing on instances of homoeroticism.

Discusses references to Sacher-Masoch's Venus in Furs in Kafka's The Metamorphosis.

Georges Bizet's opera Carmen, based on the novel of the same title by Prosper Merimee, was a unique divergence from the traditionally romantic and sentimental opera being produced in Paris in the late...

An analysis of news coverage in Time and Newsweek magazine during January and February 1991.

Advertising's role in shaping media content in the early twentieth century.

A critical look at corporate influence on politics and copyright.

Traces links between the development of human sexuality and the evolution of modern capitalist and democratic society. Applies Giddens' text to a number of nineteenth and twentieth century American n...

Review of two texts focusing on the impact of a market-controlled media system. Highlights the problems of a profit-driven system and its effects on media content and democracy.

Analyzes case studies of different forms of parent and community involvement in elementary schools. Reviews outcomes in terms of student, parent, and administrator empowerment.

The motif of invisibility as a method of subject and identity formation is traced through Ralph Ellison's influential novel Invisible Man.

Interprets the mousetrap scene of Hamlet through various Elizabethan definitions of the word "play" found in the Oxford English Dictionary.

Analysis of the sexual and racial implications of Shakespeare's use of the word "black" in Othello, The Moor of Venice.

Analyzes contemporary media outlet reporting on Dick Cheney through the lenses of media scholars Neil Postman, Robert McChesney, and Michael Schudson.

Examines the appeal of violence and justice to Elizabethan audiences through Shakespeare's tragedy Titus Andronicus.

Discusses visual perception of the body in both sexual and artistic terms in the texts Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille and Venus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch