Ryan Harrell | Essays on Film, Literature, and Culture

 I’ve always been fascinated by how stories survive. Whether on the stage, the page, or the screen, each form reshapes the other, carrying old ideas into new spaces. My writing looks for those points of connection — the moment when a familiar work takes on new meaning through performance, adaptation, or time itself. 

As both a student and a writer, I’ve learned that studying literature isn’t just about analysis; it’s about understanding how language holds power. Every essay is its own kind of experiment — a way to bridge the academic with the creative, to see how thought and art feed one another. The classroom has become both a workshop and a testing ground for ideas that reach beyond it.