CONCEPT is an interdisciplinary journal of graduate studies sponsored by the Graduate Division of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Villanova University. CONCEPT accepts submissions from Villanova graduate students in all fields of the arts and sciences. Submissions are reviewed by graduate student editors, faculty editors and peer reviewers, with final decisions made by the editors.
Vol 36 (2013)
Table of Contents
Graduate Research Prize Essays
| “A Stout Heart Crushes Ill-Luck?”: Materialism, British Masculinity, The Western Front, and the Changing Meaning of Luck in the Late-nineteenth and Early-twentieth Century | |
| William L. Gay |
| Diagnosis of Late-Life Depression: A Critical Review | |
| Shaina Garrison |
Biology
| The Impact Of Climate Change On The Mistiming Of Bird-Resource Phenologies | |
| Joseph Funk |
English
| Women in Caskets: Commodities in Shakespeare’s Pericles | |
| Rebecca Hepp |
History
| Examining the Mythic Past: 1950 Westerns and Interdisciplinary Interpretation* | |
| Tom Foley |
| False Patriots: American Mercenaries and the Fight for Independence* | |
| Matthew Landis |
Liberal Studies
| Warrior, Hero, Mentor: The Influence of Prince Peter Bagration on the Fictional Protagonists of War and Peace* | |
| Kenneth Mumma |
Philosophy
| A Good Beyond Sanity: Immanuel Kant and Ivan Karamazov on the Justifiability of Human Suffering | |
| Miranda Pilipchuk |
| Lipstick Signification and Written Flirtation: Gendering Metaphor in Locke’s “The Abuse of Words”* | |
| Summer Renault-Steele |
Psychology
| PTSD in Pre-School Children: A Review and Synthesis of Research on the Need for a Separate DSM Category* | |
| Tara Frem |
| The Legitimacy and Etiology of Dissociative Identity Disorder* | |
| Alexandra M. Henning |
Theatre
| “How Are Things in Glocca Morra?”: Vilifying Capitalism and Prejudice through a Socialist Utopia in Finian’s Rainbow* | |
| Rebekah Weagraff |
Theology
| “In His Light See Light”: The Influence of Augustine on Ratzinger’s Perspective on Creation* | |
| Suzanne Wentzel |
| * Exclusive on-line content | |