Gould Library Digitally Archived Student Comps Papers

Carleton has instituted a college-wide policy to create an electronic archive of all comps. Access to the full text of works is limited to the original author of the work, current faculty, and faculty-approved Carleton students and staff. Learn more about how to submit work and request access.

2023

  • Abby Banks – Juicy Girls and Crocodile Tears: The Emergence of Anti-Trafficking Rhetoric in South Korea and its Impact on the Domestic Sex Industry from 2002 to 2018
  • Tess Barton – The Effects of Reproductive Governance and Anti-Genderist Discourses on Women on Web (WoW) in Germany, Indonesia, Japan, and Sri Lanka
  • Lillian Berets – Sharing Our Roots: A Radical Economy of Community Carework
  • Anna Halladay – Negotiation of Sexist Norms in the Music of the Lunachicks: A Musicological Approach
  • Hannah Klein – Uncensored Trans Desire: Overt Sexuality and Trans Identities in Contemporary Pop Music
  • Eko Manson – Collaging Queerness: Approaches to Visualizing and Verbalizing Gender
  • Binny Onabolu – From the Margins to the Center: How Black Feminist Thought Corrects Critical White Pedagogy
  • Mikhalina Solakhava – Wives and Witches of the Thrice-Tenth Kingdom: Translation Politics and Gender Discourses in Belarusian Fairytales
  • Dhamar Magdaleno Urquieta – (In)Visible Lovers: A look into Lesbian Representation in Horror Films

2022

  • Ale Cota – The Ghosts of M/Otherhood: How the Monster Figure Imagines Queer Futures Against the Wreckage of War in On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
  • Ashley Mei – Encrypted: A Study on Code-Switching in the Face of Anti-Asian Sentiment

2021

  • No comps projects due to COVID-19.

2020

  • Emma Gautier – Nowness: A Space for the Unfolding of Queer Politics

2019

  • Evie Thompson Odden – Politicizing Pedagogy: Student Anti-Rape Activism at Carleton College, 1986-1992

2018

  • Taylor Gaines – Black Boys in Moonlight: Questions of Representation and the Invisibility of the Black Queer Subject in Contemporary Media
  • Chue Lor – From the Sky, Orphans Will Come: Writing on Hmong Subjectivity
  • Naomi Price-Lazarus – Resisting Precarity: How “At-Risk” Youth Embody, Perform, and Contest their Ascribed Identities
  • Jake Woodward – When Impossibility is the Only Possibility: Art and an Embrace of Invisibility

2017

  • Emily Perlman – “I Am the Flag of Islam”: Identity Negotiation Among Somali Muslim Women in Minnesota
  • Claire Rostov – Sacred Love, Dangerous Desire and the Child: Reinforcing and Subverting Gender Norms in Contemporary Children’s Bibles
  • Alice Welna – Gender Expression and Transphobia: Cisgender Reactions to Gender Nonconformity Among Transgender Women and Men
  • Danmei (Melanie) Xu – Of Exigencies and Erasure: Becoming Lala in Queer Urban China