Piper Dutton

Piper Dutton graduated with a bachelors in English from Hamline University in St Paul, Minnesota. While there, she researched and wrote a thesis on the works of Jane Austen and George Eliot (available through the Hamline University library digital repository, at https://digitalcommons.hamline.edu/dhp/99/).
Taylor Swift: The Great American Poet?

Taylor Swift: The Great American Poet?

It’s not literary devices that make something poetry or the analysis we perform, but the emotion it elicits through them, which is why Taylor Swift is a poet.

Zionism, Belonging, and George Eliot’s ‘Daniel Deronda’

Zionism, Belonging, and George Eliot’s ‘Daniel Deronda’

George Eliot was not Jewish, but her 1876 novel Daniel Deronda took on the “Jewish question” and brought forth the concept of Zionism with knowledge and grace.