{"id":5,"date":"2022-03-21T14:08:25","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T18:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/deerfield\/wr-journal-of-the-cas-writing-program\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T13:49:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T17:49:49","slug":"wr-journal-of-the-cas-writing-program","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/deerfield\/","title":{"rendered":"Deerfield"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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Issue 4 (2026)<\/h3>\n

Table of Contents<\/h3>\n

Editor’s Note<\/a><\/p>\n

Masthead<\/a><\/p>\n

WR 120<\/strong><\/p>\n

Keeping Knowledge or Face?: Activated Spectatorship, Site Specificity, and Performativity<\/a> | Mason Dols (essay)<\/span><\/p>\n

So American<\/a> | Betelihiem Tecleab (memoir) | *Tony Wallace Award for Writing Excellence<\/em><\/p>\n

Split in Two<\/a> | Robert Rodriguez II (essay)<\/span><\/p>\n

Carrying the Weight of Legacy: The Mental Health Toll on First-Gen Daughters<\/a> | Darlene K. Adusei (op-ed)<\/span><\/p>\n

GenAI: Author or Plagiarist?<\/a> | Eddy Liulin (website)<\/span><\/p>\n

WR 151<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Silent Teacher: The Unspoken Impact of Code-Switching on Second-Generation Latinos in the United States<\/a> | Chloe Avil\u00e9s (essay) | *Prize Project Award<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Enhancing the Student Experience Through Teaching and Learning Internal Quality Assurance: Development and Pilot of the SIITE Method Faculty Survey at Boston University\u2019s STEM Department<\/a> | MaKenzie Elliott (essay)<\/span><\/p>\n

You’re Born Naked, and the Rest is Capitalism: The RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race<\/em> Franchise\u2019s Effect on the Politics of Drag Artistry through the Dissemination of Gay Assimilationism<\/a> | Jacob Hise (essay)<\/span><\/p>\n

Compulsory Heterosexuality and Gothic Lesbianism in “My Visitation”<\/a> | Madeleine Lam (essay)<\/span><\/p>\n

The Changing Path to Pop Stardom: Reconsidering The Role of Institutionally Controlled Success And The New Growing Independent Decentralized Pathway to Mainstream Success<\/a> | Jose Ramirez (essay)<\/span><\/p>\n

WR 152<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Cost of Looking: The Ethics of Photographing Familial Trauma in Margaret Bourke-White\u2019s \u201cThe Great Migration\u201d (1947)<\/a> | Adi Jalan (essay)<\/span><\/p>\n

The Wood Wide Webb<\/a> | Mairead Peel (website) | *Prize Project Award<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Trust in the Machine: Between the Lab Bench and the Algorithm<\/a> | Brianna Perales (essay)<\/span><\/p>\n

WR 153<\/strong><\/p>\n

Learning to Live<\/a> | Lana Ghazale (essay) | *Prize Project Award<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

To my brother, To me, To the world<\/a> | Alexandra Cross (poetry)<\/span><\/p>\n

They Will Simply Continue to Sing<\/a> | Emma Mullay (poetry)<\/span><\/p>\n

WR 318<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Sorry For Your Loss…and Other Awkward Things We Say”<\/a> | Aanya Chauhan (TED-style talk)<\/span><\/p>\n

Cover Image<\/strong><\/p>\n

by Rania Shah<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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