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Portfolio of Alex Fosnaugh
Academic Papers
Queer Identities in the Classroom: The Relationship Between Heteronormativity and Queer Literature
This research paper was written for my advanced composition class in the fall of 2025. I spent about half of the semester drafting and revising it.
mafosn03
Dec 7, 202515 min read
Recommendations for Using Psychoanalysis When Analyzing Characters
This is a paper that was written for my Rhetoric and Persuasion class in the fall of 2025. It discusses the idea of using psychoanalysis to diagnose characters. I spent the entire semester drafting and revising this paper.
mafosn03
Dec 7, 202510 min read
“The Flea” and “Take me to Church” and the Elements That Make Them Metaphysical Works
Academic Paper- Fall 2024 John Donne is a poet that takes, “...hyperbolic tropes and figures seriously, probing and exploring their grammar, syntax, and metaphoric meaning as revelatory of truth…” (Lewalski, 1973, p. 159). His poetry blends themes of love, sexuality, and religion seamlessly to discuss philosophical ideas. A modern day song writer that employs similar themes in his work is Andrew Hozier-Byrne. Hozier (2013) has often discussed themes of love and sexuality in
mafosn03
Dec 7, 20257 min read
Power Dynamics, the “Other”, and Our Need for a Satisfying Ending in Detective Fiction
Academic Paper-Spring 2025 Detective literature is often considered “good, clean fun” (Dobrescu, 43). When you read it, the detective is the “good guy” and at the end you are going to get your satisfying ending where the bad guy is caught. It’s all wrapped up in a pretty bow, or least that is what it used to be. Modern detective fiction questions these ideas. The first instance of what we can call detective fiction is Edgar Allen Poe’s “Murders in the Rue Morgue”. This story
mafosn03
Dec 7, 20257 min read
How Narrators are Utilized by Detective Fiction Authors
This is an essay written for my Crime Literature class I took in the Spring of 2025.
mafosn03
Dec 7, 20257 min read
Exmoor Star
For this assignment my group was tasked with finding a piece of literature over 100 years old. Then we conducted extensive research over it.
mafosn03
Dec 10, 202448 min read
The Five Elements of Magical Realism and its Connection to Identity Exploration
Academic Paper- October-December 2023 Received 2nd Place in 2024 Hear My Voice competition hosted by Trine University Abstract This paper questioned if The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman and The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Amiee Bender fit into the genre of magical realism through their use of identity exploration. Qualitative research was conducted where the qualities of magical realism were studied. The research scholars had done about the history a
mafosn03
Dec 10, 202414 min read
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