Emma Shinker Writing Portfolio

Emma Shinker Writing Portfolio

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About me

Ohio Magazine

The Wooster Voice

Research

About Me

Let's stay in touch! ehshinker@gmail.com

Writing

Hello!

I am a writer based in Columbus, Ohio. With a B.A. in English and history from The College of Wooster, and a background in both newspaper and magazine journalism, I have experience adapting my work to a variety of styles and audiences. When I'm not working, I'm probably reading, crocheting or playing my violin. I look forward to working together!

Copy editing

Fact-checking/ research

Ohio Magazine

Contributing Writer Fact-checker

26 Ways to Explore Columbus This Spring and Summer

8 Free Things to Do in Columbus this Summer

June 2024

March/April 2025

22 Ways to Celebrate the Holiday Season in Columbus

4 Reasons to Explore Columbus This Season

March/April 2024

Nov./Dec. 2024

4 Reasons to Visit Grove City This Fall

Upcoming:

9 Ways to Enjoy Butler County This Spring, May 2025

Sept./Oct. 2024

The Wooster Voice

Features Editor Writer Chief Copy Editor

Partnership with OneEighty teaches boundary setting

New club fosters community for students with disabilities

April 11, 2022

Jan. 26, 2024

"M&M" project sweetens life on campus

The endurance of art: "Painting Biathlon"

March 4, 2022

Oct. 6, 2022

"Art Heals": Ebert Art Center's new exhibit

Hot takes: student opinions of the new Lowry Student Center

Feb. 11, 2022

Sept. 9, 2022

Research

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"Shades of Pemberley": Transformation through Adaptations of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

My interdisciplinary thesis explores the potential of four twenty-first century rewritings of Pride and Prejudice to engage with the history of the novel and make it more accessible to students, with a specific focus on social critique and marginalized characters. The three chapters discuss Austen and her beloved novel's relationship to adaptation, gender and class, and decolonial theory.

Fashioning Change: The Deradicalization of Women's Dress Reform Movements in the United States 1850-1900

This paper traces the nineteenth-century movement for women's clothing reform from its formation and subsequent abandonment by early feminists, to its time as a cornerstone of health-reform sects, to its eventual mainstream acceptance by those with motivations opposite the movement's first champions.

New Lakes and New Perspectives: Young Narrators and Climate Change in Sonya Larson's "At the Bottom of New Lake"

Through the lens of a dystopian short story, this paper demonstrates how the author uses a young adult narrator to question what defines a disaster, critique adult responses to climate change, and ultimately move beyond the limits of standard realist fiction in order to focus on the possibilities of the future.