My ePortfolio
Check out my published academic and creative work. You can also find the pdf link to my conference presentations! There are lots more where these came from!
Published Work
Academic Writing
"Who Are You? The Universal 'You' and 'We' in African American Literature"
Published in Dalton State College's Exemplar Spring 2023
Awards Received Upon Publication: Best 3000-Level Paper
This essay explores the use and effect of the pronouns "you" and "we" in Claude McKay’s “If We Must Die,” Paul Lawrence Dunbar's "We Wear the Mask," James Baldwin’s “A Letter to My Nephew,” and Claudia Rankine's Citizen.
"Revealing the Realities of the Renaissance Lower-Class"
Published in Dalton State College's Exemplar Fall 2022
This essay looks at how John Skelton uses imagery and figurative language to reveal the realities of the Renaissance lower class in his poem "The Tunning of Elinour Rumming,”
"A 'Different' Reading of Phillis Wheatley's 'On Being Brought from Africa to America'"
Published in Dalton State College's Exemplar Fall 2022
This essay challenges the often anthologized interpretation of Phillis Wheatley's poem "On Being Brought from Africa to America," as noted by professor and scholar Mary Catherine Loving in her article “Uncovering Subversion in Phillis Wheatley’s Signature Poem: ‘On Being Brought from Africa to America.’”
"Encanto's Most Important Lesson: Your Superpower is Being You"
Published in Dalton State College's Exemplar Spring 2022
Awards Received Upon Publication: Best 4000-Level Paper
This essay, which was written for a Film as Literature course, looks at the 2021 animated film Encanto and its characters, all of which pretend to be something they are not, when in reality, who they are naturally is exactly who they are meant to be.
"Shakespeare's Ophelia as a Symbol of the Elizabethan Woman"
Published in Dalton State College's Exemplar Spring 2022
This essay explores how Shakespeare uses Hamlet's Ophelia to symbolize the treatment of women in the Elizabethan era. Shakespeare uses the way Ophelia is treated by the dominant male figures in her life, which ultimately leads to her madness and death so that he can parallel the realities of the patriarchal Elizabethan society.
"The Superficiality of Mankind in Tangled"
Published in Dalton State College's Exemplar Spring 2022
This essay looks at superficiality and its effect in Byron Howard and Nathan Greno’s 2010 animated film Tangled.
Published Work
Creative Writing
"The Uglier Sister"
Published in Wingless Dreamer Publisher's Dreamer’s Chronicle in August 2023.
Poem
This poem was inspired by my externally forced comparison to my 6' model-like older sister. "The Uglier Sister" takes the form of a villanelle and works to illustrate the comparative and competitive nature of sisterhood in adolescence.
"Freedom's Failed Fantasy"
Published in Dalton State College's Tributaries Fall 2022
Short Story
This short story details a woman's dream-like fantasy as she imagines escaping her abusive marriage.
"Grandmother's Home"
Published in Dalton State College's Tributaries Spring 2022
Poetry
This poem reimagines Price's paternal grandmother, who passed away in the spring of 2019, and the loving home she created for her grandchildren. While it was written with Price's grandmother in mind, anyone who enjoyed their childhood in their grandmother's home can relate to its heartfelt message.
"New Earth"
Published in Georgia Highland College's Old Red Kimono in 2020
Short Story
This dystopian short story was published when Price was just 17, and it can be found in print copy only. The story invents a future in which no one shows any emotion so that there is no longer competition for happiness or individuals suffering from depression---although the main character quickly becomes an exception to this rule as she finds herself feeling exactly what she is not supposed to.
"Eighty-Three"
Published in Georgia Highland College's Old Red Kimono in 2020
Poetry
This poem analyzes what it is like to be elderly and juxtaposes experience with innocence (William Blake, anyone?) in an everyday location, leaving its readers to consider why we treat the elderly the way that we do.