Honors Projects
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- Restriction End Date: 2025-06-01
Date: 2022-01-01
Creator: Grace Soeun Lee
Access: Access restricted to the Bowdoin Community

- Embargo End Date: 2027-05-19
Date: 2022-01-01
Creator: Maia B. Granoski
Access: Embargoed

- Restriction End Date: 2027-06-01
Date: 2022-01-01
Creator: Emily Yuan-ann Pan
Access: Access restricted to the Bowdoin Community

- Restriction End Date: 2025-06-01
Date: 2022-01-01
Creator: Isabella Angel
Access: Access restricted to the Bowdoin Community
Date: 2022-01-01
Creator: Joosep R. Vorno
Access: Open access
- In this project, I investigate Franz Kafka’s Die Verwandlung (1915) and Marlen Haushofer’s Die Wand (1963) through a magic realist interpretive strategy. I identify how, as a result of a mysterious opening premise, the two texts accomplish a human/animal transformation in the protagonists. While the transformations differ in several aspects, even at times being direct opposites, the way in which the characters navigate their new nonhuman selves poses many important questions about care and humaneness, the human condition, and social and familial structures. By drawing on discussions of magic realism – from its roots in Weimar German art criticism, its contemporary features in literature, and the inherently subversive nature of the narrative mode – I discuss how the lens of magic realism becomes a helpful tool in recognizing, exploring, and appreciating the human/animal transformations as a defamiliarization of the familiar.
Date: 2018-01-01
Creator: Lillian Eckstein
Access: Open access

Date: 2016-05-01
Creator: Jacob M MacDonald
Access: Access restricted to the Bowdoin Community

Date: 2017-05-01
Creator: Arman Ashrafi
Access: Access restricted to the Bowdoin Community

Date: 2024-01-01
Creator: Sophia Elisabeth Nigrovic
Access: Access restricted to the Bowdoin Community
Date: 2015-05-01
Creator: Courtney Michelle Payne
Access: Open access
- With warming global temperatures and changes to large-scale ocean circulation patterns, warm water intrusion into Arctic fjords is increasingly affecting fragile polar ecosystems. This study investigated how warm Atlantic water intrusion and the tidewater glacial melting it causes impacted water mass formation and primary productivity in Kongsfjorden, Svalbard. Data were collected over a 2-week period during the height of the melt season in August near the Kronebreen/Kongsvegen glacier complex, the most rapidly retreating glacier in Spitsbergen. Since 1998, intruding waters have warmed between 4 and 5.5˚C, which has prevented sea ice formation and changed the characteristics of fjord bottom waters. Increased glacial melting in the last decade has changed the characteristics of surface waters in the fjord. Modeled light fields suggest that suspended sediment in this glacial meltwater has reduced the euphotic zone close to the ice face, preventing high primary production in both the consistent and intermittent sediment-laden meltwater plumes. However, measurements collected close to terrestrially terminating glaciers indicate that extremely high primary production can occur in conditions of low turbidity. The results of this study support a three-part model of the effects of warm-water intrusion on water mass formation and primary production, where changes in sea ice coverage and tidewater glacial dynamics affect the optical light field. This model allows for spatial predictions for the most likely impacts of warm water intrusion on primary production in Spitsbergen, and could be extrapolated out to explore potential phytoplankton response in other regions susceptible to warm-water intrusion.