I’m Nikoli, a current graduate student in the Master of Arts in Writing program at Coastal Carolina University. You can find me on LinkedIn, and if you’d like see some of my writing, check out my works on this page or view my Resume. You may also contact me at nmdaignea@coastal.edu
In this paper, I showed how Yū Miri’s 2014 novel Tokyo Ueno Station emphasizes the inescapability of capitalism in modern Japan using the theories of Mark Fisher and Jacques Derrida.
Read OnlineArizona State University’s COVID-19 archive project, Journal of the Plague Year (JOTPY), invites public submissions documenting the pandemic to aid future historians. I analyzed diaries uploaded to JOTPY and propose that instructing public contributors to think about future historians produces more useful primary documents.
Read OnlineThis essay explores the politicization of language in response to Min-Zhan Lu’s essay “From Silence to Words,” in which Lu reflected on her English education in 1950s China.
Read OnlineIn a class-wide research project, speakers of African American English were surveyed to find the rates of progressive -s absence in their speech. The results were analyzed against demographic information about the speakers and past research.
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