Published annually, Alight features exemplary written work produced by students in the English Department at KPU.

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Volume 3 Forthcoming...

2026-02-06

Work on Volume 3 has begun, and Alight is not accepting submissions at the moment. Stay tuned for a Call For Papers in early 2027.

Current Issue

Vol. 2 (2025)

Cover Image, Volume 2. Portion of engraving, "Ornament with Owl Mocked by Day Birds," by Martin Schongauer. Released under Creative Commons Zero (CC0). Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington.

The second volume of the KPU English Department's journal featuring undergraduate essays.

Published: 2025-12-19

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Articles

Exclusion by Design

Tracing Rhetorical Continuity through American Exceptionalism and Orientalism

Anna Aalhus

1-14

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"I want what it hides"

The Role of Imperialist Imagination in Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

Shyrah Barnaby

15-23

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Ritual and Contemporaneity

Dismantling the Master’s House through Narrative Time Travel

Jonathan Bessette

24-33

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The Panopticon of Japanese Collectivism in The Screw People

Jackson Choi

34-47

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When the Wretched of the Earth Begin to Write

Decolonizing Literature in African Society through Fanon

Nikolina Djuric

48-54

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Reading and Watching Henry IV, Part One

Connection and Understanding

Lydia Doerschlag

55-62

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Chained by Class

The Dynamics of Power in Angélique

Montana Finn

63-69

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The Power of Language

Breaking Away from the Oppressive Dichotomy of “Othering” in the Classroom

Hailey Glennon

70-79

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The Horror of Disabilities

Rereading Disability Narratives to Infer Horror’s Progressive Functions

Usha Gunatilake

80-88

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Inkblots, Ire, and Institution

Psychogeography in the Art of Eddie Campbell and Alan Moore’s From Hell

Kiana Holland

89-97

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Navigating Identity through Acts of Disobedience

Julia Huang

98-102

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Language: The Exploited Weapon of Dracula

Anya Mitchell

103-111

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Indigenous Women and Girls are Overrepresented in Sex Trafficking and Canada Is at Fault

Wynni Nicholson

112-120

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The Power of Creativity: Systemic Harms and Indigenous Reclamation

Swann Tsai

121-134

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Space, Place, and Self

The (In)visible Archives of Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric

Jaydene Van Eaton

135-144

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