Jessikah Diaz was born and raised in Santa Paula, California. She joins the 10th cohort as a 3rd-year transfer student and plans to pursue a PhD in English. Jessikah is an English major interested in studying 18th and 19th century British literature. More specifically, she is interested in the relationship between authorship identity and recurring gender representations, and is currently studying the relationship between British author William Blake and his representation of female sexuality. Going forward, she would like to study other authors, like Blake, who have used literature to politicize topics and resist convention. However, her work is not concerned with these authors because they were radicals, rather it uses historical and biographical criticism to view the identity behind the radical. Her results will consider how certain freedoms are represented, who represents them, and for what purpose.