This year’s anthology includes work our students have embarked on in the Fall 2024 and Spring 2025 semesters. For this edition, we received submissions from across our program’s 100 and 300-level courses as well as courses from HFA’s Cornerstone Initiative. Each student whose work is featured in the anthology was nominated by their instructor for the creativity and quality of their writing. These selected essays were written by students not only majoring in Comparative Literature but from across the university, including students majoring in Accounting, Applied Mathematics, Biochemistry, Biology, English, and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Through their essays, these students showcase an incredible breadth of analysis in Comparative Literature. Their analyses span genres, including “B”-tier and “Z”-tier horror films, ancient Greek comedies, classic works of science fiction, contemporary novels, Sufi poetry, and graphic novels. Their writing asks us to examine unnatural environments created by authoritarian regimes; gender-based power dynamics; forced feminization; de-familiarization as a technique to invert societal structures; racism and self-acceptance; the possibilities of multiple universes; divine love, fear, and annihilation; and the interplay of freewill and morality.