Our submission window will last from November 1 to January 31. Every essay submission must meet the following requirements:

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• Polished academic essay

• 1-5k words 

• Humanities or general liberal arts focus

• Not previously published

• Include works cited or reference page, if necessary

• Written by a current NIU student

• Provide contact information

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Please submit to stonehousejournal@gmail.com.If you have any questions, please email the Editor-in-Chief, Brenna Bretzinger, at Z1863104@students.niu.edu.

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The first published writers for Stonehouse Academic Journal

 

"In his novel Don Quijote, Miguel de Cervantes consistently reimagines a theme common in chivalric tales: love. Although authors commonly portrayed love as a chaste yet romantic wooing of damsels, Cervantes exposes seventeenth-century Spain's conception of love less as a feeling and more like a business contract. Furthermore, Cervantes explores the effects that love has on characterization, revealing that - for female characters - anonymity often rests on their lack of relationship while men explode with physical aggression toward romantic rivals and verbal abuse toward the women that rejected them. Finally, Cervantes condemns the one-sided chivalric romance between Don Quijote and Dulcinea while applauding the marriage between Sancho and Teresa; though fraught with barbed insults and arguments, Sancho and Teresa consistently choose to love one another despite their hardships. Overall, Cervantes satirizes the romanticized version of love typical in chivalric romances in favor of realistic - yet less conventionally romantic - love stories." 

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-Excerpt from Brenna Bretzinger's Romantic Satire in Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quijote

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                         Lenora Murphy, founder of Stonehouse Academic Journal

 

"When thinking about the broad topic of artifact provenance in relation to looted or stolen object, most people familiar with the terminology are reminded of the curiosity cabinet. These cabinets, or collections, would contain artifacts of highly unethical acquisition with misconstrued histories, and were presented by "collectors," otherwise known as the first museum curator. To people familiar with only modern-day archaeology, that visualization of a stolen object with dubious provenance - the archeological term for an artifact's documentable line-of-ownership - being showcased by charlatans seems to be, and is, a false equivalence to modern archaeological practices. The idea that artifacts at famous museums might have been obtained illicitly seems like an issue that should have already been solved before now. Unfortunately, while great efforts have been made to rectify the illicit and unethical acquisition of artifacts and to provide methods of repatriation, the unethical attainment of artifacts continues to this day due to the history between colonial nations and colonized peoples."

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-Excerpt from Bridgette Fox's Artifact Provenance - Still a Contemporary Anthropological Issue

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Another rock in our stone house

 

"Feminists have long hailed Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre as a piece of literature with refreshing representation. The title character is a fiery, spirited girl who becomes more independent as she gets older. Readers watch the characterization of Jane progress from her life as a ten-year-old orphan to an eighteen-year-old governess and future wife of Edward Rochester. One cannot forget, though, that Rochester's first wife, Bertha Mason, plays a surprisingly integral part in Jane's life without ever uttering a word. While Charlotte Brontë's characterization of Jane Eyre continues to challenge societal views of women and marriage, the savage and animalistic degradation of Bertha Mason needs to give readers pause." 

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-Excerpt from Sophia Walsh's In Defense of Bertha Mason

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