Deerfield
Deerfield is the journal of the Boston University Writing Program. Each issue publishes a sampling of the best undergraduate work composed by students in our courses. Our name is inspired by Deerfield Street, adjacent to the Writing Program building.
Issue 4 (2026)
Table of Contents
WR 120
Keeping Knowledge or Face?: Activated Spectatorship, Site Specificity, and Performativity | Mason Dols (essay)
So American | Betelihiem Tecleab (memoir) | *Tony Wallace Award for Writing Excellence
Split in Two | Robert Rodriguez II (essay)
Carrying the Weight of Legacy: The Mental Health Toll on First-Gen Daughters | Darlene K. Adusei (op-ed)
GenAI: Author or Plagiarist? | Eddy Liulin (website)
WR 151
The Silent Teacher: The Unspoken Impact of Code-Switching on Second-Generation Latinos in the United States | Chloe Avilés (essay) | *Prize Project Award
Enhancing the Student Experience Through Teaching and Learning Internal Quality Assurance: Development and Pilot of the SIITE Method Faculty Survey at Boston University’s STEM Department | MaKenzie Elliott (essay)
You’re Born Naked, and the Rest is Capitalism: The RuPaul’s Drag Race Franchise’s Effect on the Politics of Drag Artistry through the Dissemination of Gay Assimilationism | Jacob Hise (essay)
Compulsory Heterosexuality and Gothic Lesbianism in “My Visitation” | Madeleine Lam (essay)
The Changing Path to Pop Stardom: Reconsidering The Role of Institutionally Controlled Success And The New Growing Independent Decentralized Pathway to Mainstream Success | Jose Ramirez (essay)
WR 152
The Cost of Looking: The Ethics of Photographing Familial Trauma in Margaret Bourke-White’s “The Great Migration” (1947) | Adi Jalan (essay)
The Wood Wide Webb | Mairead Peel (website) | *Prize Project Award
Trust in the Machine: Between the Lab Bench and the Algorithm | Brianna Perales (essay)
WR 153
Learning to Live | Lana Ghazale (essay) | *Prize Project Award
To my brother, To me, To the world | Alexandra Cross (poetry)
They Will Simply Continue to Sing | Emma Mullay (poetry)
WR 318
“Sorry For Your Loss…and Other Awkward Things We Say” | Aanya Chauhan (TED-style talk)
Cover Image
by Rania Shah