Amanda Piazza

Amanda graduated from La Salle University with a BA in English and a minor in Communication. During her junior year, she decided to study the writings of esteemed literary minds and apply their theories on gender, time, morality, and nature to the graphic novel medium. The result was “‘Where is the Essence that was so Divine?’: The Nostalgia of Moore’s Minutemen,” a twenty-four-page piece using the ideas of John Stuart Mill, Judith Butler, Friedrich Schiller, and more to theorize the role of nostalgia within Alan Moore’s Watchmen.

After completing her undergraduate program, she accepted a position as a Grants and Fellowships Consultant at Villanova’s Center for Research and Fellowships. When she isn’t assisting her peers with outlines and project proposals, she works as a Certified Barista Trainer at Starbucks, which fuels her coffee addiction.

At Villanova, she hopes to expand her knowledge on Literary Theory as well as Comic Studies, specifically in terms of how the political and social ideas behind each text refers to an explicit theoretical idea and cultural occurrence.

In her spare time, she enjoys writing poetry and short stories as well as reading anything from contemporary fiction to philosophical dialogues. She can usually be found watching low-budget horror movies, browsing the latest arrivals at her local comic book shop, or reading a Stephen King novel.