OFFICIAL SITE OF AUTHOR MICHAEL RICKARD

Copyright (c) 2018 by Michael Rickard II Editor's Note:The U.S./Mexico border is a hot topic right now but there are many issues besides...

Copyright (c) 2018 by Michael Rickard II Editor's Note: Here's an essay I wrote on Women Hollering Creek and Other Stories for a class I...

Copyright (c) 2018 by Michael Rickard II Here's an essay I wrote on Bless Me, Ultima. Spoilers abound: Rudolfo Anaya employs magical...

I Copyright 2018 by Michael W. Rickard II Editor's Note: In 2017 I read Venus in Furs for a comparative literature course. Here's a short...

Copyright 2018 by Michael W. Rickard II Editor's Note: Last fall, I took a graduate-level class concerning James Joyce's Ulysses. Here is...

Booker T. Washington vs. W.E.B. Du Bois No, this isn't an "Epic Rap Battle," but a look at the conflicting theories of Booker T....

In honor of Valentine's Day, I thought I'd share an essay I wrote in 2017 on the French novel Les Liaisons dangereuses aka Dangerous...

It's been said war is hell, but hell can be found on the homefront as well as the battlefront overseas. Julie Otsuka's novel When the...

Here is part two of a paper I wrote last year on Samina Ali's novel Madras on Rainy Days. The park is a symbol of patriarchal society’s...

Here is a paper I wrote last year on Samina Ali's novel Madras on Rainy Days. Samina Ali explores the conflict between fantasy and...

My literary odyssey is about to begin as I read James Joyce’s Ulysses as part of my Masters’ program. The text is challenging, long, and...

Last spring I had the pleasure of taking a class called Ethnic American Minority Literature. The books were excellent and here is a...

Last spring I had the pleasure of taking a class called Ethnic American Minority Literature. The books were excellent and here is a...

Editor's Note: Here's an essay I wrote for a British Literature class. The essay is two years old so the MLA formatting is a different...

Editor's Note: Here's an essay I wrote for a British Literature class. The essay is two years old so the MLA formatting is a different...

Here's a blast from the past (2015), an essay I wrote on Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart." The narrator in “The Tell-Tale Heart” (hereafter...

Continuing our look at Puritan Mary Rowlandson’s captivity narrative, A True History of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary...

Puritan Mary Rowlandson’s captivity narrative, A True History of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (hereafter...

As America celebrates its independence, I thought I'd share an English project I wrote two years ago about one of America's earliest...

In The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne defies the Puritans’ draconian laws both by her passive resistance and by subconsciously channeling...