The American Studies Department is pleased to congratulate Savannah Harper, whose essay “Greenery as a Symbol of Immigrant Hardship and Vulnerability in Gish Jen’s Typical American” appears in the latest issue of The Explicator, a scholarly journal focused on text-based criticism. Savannah, who earned her AMS degree from UA in 2016, wrote the paper for Dr. Hubbs’s Fictions of American Identity course in fall 2015.
You can read Savannah’s essay here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00144940.2018.1430675