Student Bios

Isobel McCreavy graduated  maxima  cum laude  from La Salle University with degrees in English and Marketing in 2019. While studying at La Salle, she researched and wrote about how narrative roles in Young Adult literature affected the works’ use of tropes and their overall message to their impressionable audience. She did this by examining the existence of characters in a particular work and how they interact with their perception and the intentions of other characters or societal figu res throughout the work. Oftentimes, she found a disparity between a character’s agency in a work and the agency allotted them in the narrative by the choice of narrative style. Admittedly, it was an excuse to talk about such works as the  Harry Potter   series,  The Perks of Being a Wallflower ,  The Mortal Instruments  series and  Paper Towns  in an academic setting, but she maintains that YA Genre’s unique target audience makes its various messages and...

Christoforos Panagiotis Sassaris, from Athens, Greece, earned his B.A. in English Literature with a minor in Computer Science from West Chester University in spring 2020. Christoforos has worked at the Library Company of Philadelphia, West Chester University’s Special Collections Library, College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies, The Quad student newspaper, the West Chester Film Festival, and as a researcher at West Chester University’s Summer Undergraduate Research Institute. His research interests include the history of the book, reception of Hellenism in anglophone literature, early modern English literature, and more. Christoforos is currently working on a presentation for the East Central / American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, in which he examines the second edition of Yerasimos Vlachos’ 1659 dictionary, Thesauros Tetraglossos ( Θησαυρός Τετράγλωσσος ). In the past, he has presented at the English Association of Pennsylvania State Univer...

Christina Maria Kosch graduated cum laude from Washington and Jefferson College with a B.A. in English and Psychology and a minor in Religious Studies in 2019. While at W&J, she served as the Editor-in-Chief of the school’s literary journal, a Peer Assisted Learning tutor for Writing, and a liaison between the school and Washington County Community Development Corporation. For her English Capstone, she researched Holocaust literature and explored the ways which the Holocaust is taught around the world. She discussed the way the American Education System should change their approach to the subject which then led to her own book list for grades K-12. At Villanova, she would like to continue researching the approaches education systems use to tackle traumatic topics. Currently, she serves as the Publishing Coordinator for Maine Authors Publishing, an independent publishing company located in Thomaston, ME. And yes, she is a poet. And yes, she would love to swap work sometime.