Oakland Journal Number 21: Fall 2011

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The American Family Saga in Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex and Jonathan’s Franzen’s Freedom
(Oakland University, 2011-10-01) Van Vliet, Jennifer; Cole, Natalie B.
This essay focuses on two American family sagas from the early twenty-first century, Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides and Freedom by Jonathan Franzen, both chosen for the diversity of gender constructions and sexual identities of their characters as well as for the “traditional” nature of their focal families.
The Culture of Correspondence in Nineteenth-Century America
(Oakland University, 2011-10-01) Insko, Jeffrey; Cole, Natalie B.
Letterwriting, in other words, binds disparate individuals and groups together into a union; the mail is what puts the United in the States of America.
Notes from the Dismal Science: When America’s Colleges Don’t Teach and Students Don’t Learn: Two Recent Books Reviewed
(Oakland University, 2011-10-01) Folland, Sherman T.; Cole, Natalie B.
Since the 1983 publication of A Nation at Risk, America has been said to be in a “crisis of education”; however, during the subsequent years grades K through 12 education and higher education have faced very little scrutiny. The grace period is apparently over.