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EMMA TRUONG, ESP Teacher

College: Northwestern University

Major: English Lit/Gender Studies/Piano

Year of Graduation: 2025

Brief Biographical Sketch:

I am a third-year undergrad studying English Literature, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Piano Performance at Northwestern. I like to think, read, and write about queer literature, speculative fiction, beautiful words, and the messy, gory creatures that inhabit them.

Past Classes

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H615: Love and Loss: Disquieting Girlhood in Little Women in Splash Winter 2023 (Feb. 26, 2023)

Little Women is a timeless classic beloved by readers of all ages and time periods–what can you take away from it at this stage of your life and in our current socio-political climate? Drawing inspiration from feminist, gender and sexuality, and literary and film studies, we look forward to exploring themes of change and identity: if this is girlhood, does it ever end, and when does it end? Just like the blurry line between childhood and adulthood, feelings like belonging and loneliness, love and loss, sadness and joy are far from being opposites – they are messy, murky, and inseparable states of being. We will trace these feelings amidst the multitudes of love and loss in the lives of these little women in their navigation of kinship, romance, friendship, and ambition.