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2021 - 2022 | |||
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Name | Year | Title | Document |
Egan, Regina | 2022 | The Body Remembers: The Embodiment of Citizenship in the Visual-Textual Poetics of | |
Kobeissi, Yousef | 2022 | "Dominion Undeserved": the Development of John Milton's Anti-Monarchism | |
Kulie, Kathryn | 2022 | Reader, I Narrate: Self-Expression and Reader Address in and | |
Moore, Nicholas | 2022 | The Prose of Life: Narrative, Knowledge, and the Everyday in the Works of Virginia Woolf | |
Mulder, Katelynn | 2022 | The Monstrous and the Beautiful: Medieval Misogyny in | |
Popp, Sidney | 2022 | "The Tyranny of Custom": Charlotte Lennox's Critiques of Eighteenth-Century English Gender Customs in Her Novels, (1758) and (1762) | |
Sorter, Stephanie | 2022 | Truth! Freedom! Justice! And A Joke! : Finding the Political in Pratchett | |
Danilewitz, Joel | 2021 | Un-Doing time: How Artists Subvert Carceral Space-Time Logics through Multimedia and Writing | |
Fisher, Benjamin | 2021 | The Semiotic Sidequest: A Taxonomy of Poetics in Interactive Digital Narrative | |
Hematti, Neeloufar | 2021 | Decentering the 1979 Iranian Revolution: Trauma Theory as a Guide to Literature on Twentieth Century Iran | |
Martinez-Chavez, Angela Rubi | 2021 | El Movimiento de la Mujer Chicana: The Fight Against Sexism, Racism, and Oppression from Advocacy | |
Pollens-Dempsey, Micah | 2021 | Unbelievable Realism: The Impossible Narrators of Geroge Eliot | |
Taylor, Isabel | 2021 | Trouble in the Garden: Free Will and the Problem of Evil in | |
Watkins, Michael | 2021 | Marx, Marcuse, Moten: Sensuous Materialism, Invisible Utopia, and Black Performance | |
Zrikem, Soraya | 2021 | Learning in the Shadow of 9/11: The Creation of a 'Better-Formed Story' in the Classroom |
2016 - 2020 | |||
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Name | Year | Title | Document |
Arone, Rachel | 2020 | Love's Imagined Communities: Women's Interiority, Intimacy, and Agency in the Poetry of Katherine Philips and Aemilia Lanyer | |
Baker, Adela | 2020 | "Anne Saved My Life": Conceptualizing Reading Characters as People Using | |
Baker, Jordyn | 2020 | "So, I Kept Reading": Re-Examining the Relationship Between Reading and Empathy with Stories from Death Row | |
Francisco, Miriam | 2020 | The Implicated City: Architecture and Race in Jeffrey Eugenides's and | |
Greydanus, Emma | 2020 | A Return to Hospitality: The Role of the Hostess in Sarah Orne Jewett and Willa Cather's Literary Imaginations | |
Hare, Dayton | 2020 | Samuel Beckett and the Politics of the Body: Voice, Violence, and the Algerian War in | |
Kim, Monica | 2020 | No Human Is Illegal: Humanizing Immigrants Affected by Deportation and Detention in Three Young Adult Immigrant Novels | |
McKnight, Kellyn | 2020 | ||
Nisenson, Sarah | 2020 | Can We Ever See Their Faces? An Exploration of Hurricane Katrina Memorializations | |
Riesterer, Joseph | 2020 | Merging Modaliaties: Sonic Intertext and Diaspora Spacetime on Earl Swatshirt's | |
Salman, Sarah | 2020 | The Popularity of the "Feminine Monster": The Malleability of the Female Gothic in Daphne Du Maurier's , "The Birds" and "Don't Look Now" | |
Saraf, Krishna | 2020 | Exceptions Don't Make the Rules: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Language Behind Vaccine Hesistancy | |
Schwarz, Maxwell | 2020 | It is Grandeur and Warmth: Steinbeck, the American | |
Todd, Kaitlyn | 2020 | Actors in the AIDS Crisis: A Network Analysis of Mainstream News Articles and Congressional Record Documents From the Early Years of the Epidemic (1981-1987) | |
Yodhes, Matthew | 2020 | Persecutory Chaucer, Revelatory Chaucer: Mimetic Theory and the Double-Voiced Satire of "The Prioress's Tale" | |
Anderson, Matthew | 2019 | "Am I a father? If I were?": Stephen Dedalus' Mixed Efforts to Redefine Fatherhood in “Scylla and Charybdis” | |
Issa, Ayah | 2019 | Gertrude Stein & Islamic Calligraphy: The Traditional Roots of Experimental Modernism | |
Johnson, Lars | 2019 | A Dance with Deviants: The Sexual as Fantastic in | |
Lefond, Julia | 2019 | “Words for Music Perhaps,” or Perhaps Not: Yeats’ Music in Shelley’s | |
Richter, Emma | 2019 | Literary Celebrity as Feminist Figure: Assessments of Twenty-First Century Feminism Through the Role of the Author | |
Schaffer, Ellie | 2019 | Protecting the Bookshelf: Reading at the Intersection of Art and Morality | |
Schubert, Kathryn | 2019 | “Time runs on, and I with it”: Age, Gender, and the Production of Elizabethan Monarchical Power | |
Stoneback, Stephanie | 2019 | “Women Usually Want to Please”: A Linguistic Analysis of Femininity and Power in | |
Theut, Kaela | 2019 | “ ”: illuminating Virginia Woolf’s authorial agency using modern trauma studies | |
Aaron, Lucy | 2018 | Dear Executive Recruiter A Generic Exploration of Professional Email Anxiety | |
Augustine, Ivyanne | 2018 | “We are among the ruins”: Regeneration and Social Spaces in | |
Caramagno, Natalie | 2018 | The Power of the Clock: Time in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s and Virginia Woolf’s | |
El-amir, Zain | 2018 | From Chosen People to Irredeemable | |
Ellis, Hannah | 2018 | “Blow the Homeland Dream to Smithereens”: The Cooperation of Postmodernism and Modernism in | |
Fall, Sofia | 2018 | Becoming a Wilderness: Pre-National Placemaking and Narrative Confusion in Toni Morrison’s | |
Heinz, Kate | 2018 | The Space for Will: Suicide and the Reformation in Shakespeare’s | |
Holbert, C.C. | 2018 | Narrativizing the History of South Texas: Representations of Resistance and Racial Identity in and | |
Kaler, Michael | 2018 | “Something Very Modern”: Order and Mess in the Later Work of Anne Sexton | |
Kamath, Sareena | 2018 | “A Sad and Terrible Thing” Diasporic Melancholia in Jhumpa Lahiri's Short Fiction: Selected Readings | |
Kaufman, Sophia | 2018 | “To Part the Veil”: Accessing Interiority in Toni Morrison’s | |
Krajewski, Ethan | 2018 | Neg(oti)ating Fusion: Steely Dan’s Generic Irony | |
McMillin, Maggie | 2018 | Locating : Toward an Intertextual Reading of Richard Wright’s Haiku Poetry | |
Promo, Erinn | 2018 | From the Stages to the Stasis of Grief: An Examination of the Didactic Mission of Elegy | |
Ryan, G | 2018 | Is Everyone Now? A Linguistic Investigation into the Reclamation of the Word | |
Squatriti, Sofia | 2018 | Shocks of Recognition: Encounters with the Individual and the Crowd in Wordsworth’s Poetry | |
Tase, Nikhil | 2018 | The Textual Laboratories of Marianne Moore | |
Versalle, Mandy | 2018 | Reimagining Carson McCullers: A Queer Crip Analysis of the Literary Grotesque in | |
Caywood, Hannah | 2017 | “Nelly, I am Heathcliff!”: The Intersection of Class, Race, and Narration in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights | |
Engler, Hannah | 2017 | Poptimist Feminism: Contemporary Women Reading Bridget Jones’ Diary | |
Hoban, Michelle | 2017 | “Molecules all change”: Memory, Mutability, and Ulysses as Body-Mind in “Scylla and Charybdis” | |
Li, Eileen | 2017 | NARRATING “OTHERNESS”: (National) Abjection as Literary and American Subjective Crises in Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior | |
Quorpencetta, Miclan | 2017 | A Life That A Breath Might Shatter: The Politics of Poetry in Jean Genet’s Our Lady of the Flowers | |
Raeder, Samantha | 2017 | Thoreau’s Biophilia: The Influence of Hindu Scriptures on Walden’s Portrayal of Nature and the Divine | |
Smith, Rebecca | 2017 | Fashioning Figures: The Construction of the “Self” in Astrophil and Stella | |
Soheil, Keemia | 2017 | Táhirih, a Symbol of Progress: Reading a nineteenth-century Iranian poet in the United States and England | |
Wildenradt, Annika | 2017 | “A natural perspective, that is and that is not!” Complicating Logics of Gender in Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Twelfth Night | |
Winnega, Brie | 2017 | Nurses of the Vietnam War Marginalized Protagonists and Narrative Authority | |
Batchelor, Kimberly | 2016 | Free Will and the Diminishing Importance of God's Will: A Study of Paradise Lost and Supernatural | |
Biggs, C.J. | 2016 | Environmental Relationships and Our Changing Nature: A Study of Hemingway's and Harrison's Northern Michigan Writings | |
Burlage, Brian | 2016 | Walt Whitman: Death, the Afterlife, and His Poetry of Contact | |
Coble, Audrey | 2016 | Complex Density: A Quantum Regionalist Reading of Midwestern Literature and Pop-Punk | |
Horn, Rachel Marie | 2016 | "Personism" and Consumerism: Reading in O'Hara's Love and Lunch Poems | |
Hua, Karen | 2016 | Beyond the Single Story: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
Lentz, Samantha Marie | 2016 | The Narrative of the American Dream: Evaluating the Impact of Horation Alger Jr. on America's Definition of Success | |
Rombes, Madeline | 2016 | PLAYING WITH POWER: Subjectivity and Subversion in the Poems of Emily Dickinson | |
Smith, Kayla C. | 2016 | The Diary as a Verbal and Visual Tool: Retelling Traumatic Experiences in Allison Bechdel's Fun Home and Phoebe Gloeckner's The Diary of a Teenage Girl | |
Sulpizio, Catherine | 2016 | Repeating Yourself: Printing, (re)Production, and Poiesis in Blake's The Book of Urizen | |
Wharton, William | 2016 | Condemned: Reading the Footnotes in House of Leaves |
2011 - 2015 | |||
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Name | Year | Title | Document |
Carpenter, Mikala | 2015 | Breaking In: Female Intelligence and Agency in British Children's Fantasy Literature | |
Duan, Carlina | 2015 | The Space Between: An Analysis of Code-Switching within Asian American Poetry as Strategic Poetic Device | |
Heeren, Maggie | 2015 | Career Anxiety's Involvement in Identity Formation: Analysis of Contemporary American Adolescent Literature | |
Paull, Emily | 2015 | Ann Batten Cristall and the Lyrical Sketch: The Influence of Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics on Lyric Performativity | |
Peters, Andrew | 2015 | Beyond Good and Bad: The Linguistic Construction of Walter White's Masculinity in Breaking Bad | |
Radwin, Maxwell | 2015 | Minimalism and the Aesthetic of Shame | |
Rohan, Sarah | 2015 | From Witness to Storyteller: Mapping the Transformations of Oral Holocaust Testimony Through Time | |
Spencer, Kathryn | 2015 | Gendering the Poetic Nation: Gabriela Mistral and Pablo Neruda as Chilean Icons | |
Venchuk, Alicia Marie | 2015 | Mitigating the Marginalization of Women Blues Guitarists: An Analysis of Memphis Minnie's Proto-Feminism | |
Adams, Josephine | 2014 | "It Takes Two People to Make You": Understanding Sibling Relationships through the Intersection of Loss and Language in William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying | |
Axelrad, Jacob | 2014 | From Prose to Pictures The Evolution of James Agee and Let Us Now Praise Famous Men | |
Darga, Jon Michael | 2014 | Tolkien's Women: The Medieval Modern in The Lord of the Rings | |
Davis, Eleanor | 2014 | The Pleasure of the Reader: Debating Art, Entertainment, and the Millenium Triology | |
Eckert, Claire | 2014 | Refashioning the Epic: An Analysis of Spenser's Breaks within The Faerie Queene | |
Fenyes, Eliana | 2014 | "For the Benefit of All" A study of the Innerpeffray Library and its place in the history of the Scottish Enlightenment | |
Gantman, Julia | 2014 | The Post Office, the Public Lecture and "Dejection: An Ode": Public Influences on Coleridge's Poetic Intimacy | |
Gerondeau, Pierre | 2014 | More Than a Place: Regionalism and Setting in the Short Stories of Andre Dubus II | |
Jarik, Jacqueline | 2014 | Voices of Identity and Diagnosis An Analysis of Vocal Construction in Susanna Kaysen's Memoirs | |
Kruse, Emma | 2014 | How We Must See: Into the Abstract Imaginings of Thomas Hardy's Wessex Poems and Other Verses | |
McWilliams, Robert | 2014 | Mapping the Web of Language in David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas | |
Paul, Trisha | 2014 | Untold Stories, Unheard Lives: A Study of How Adolescents with Cancer Create Selfhood through Narrative | |
Raphael, Alyson | 2014 | Defining a Nation of Readers: Late Nineteenth Century Reading Guides As Agents of Literary Nationalism in America | |
Tuck, Andrew | 2014 | Why Did American Psychiatry Abandon Psychoanalysis? Authority and the Production of Knowledge in Twentieth Century Science | |
Walker, Samuel | 2014 | Made/Unmade: Pound, Benjamin, and Rubble | |
Weiner, Hannah | 2014 | The Authenticity of a Rapper: The Lyrical Divide Between Personas and Persons | |
Zaluzec, Ryan | 2014 | The Nascent Specter: Vision, Corporeality, Reproduction, and Modernity in Henry James and Photographic Theory | |
Zilli, Anthony | 2014 | Vladimir Nabokov and the Reader's Game | |
Acho, Kristyn | 2013 | Unveiling the Middle Eastern Memoir: Reconfiguring Images of Iranian Women Through Post-9/11 Memoirs | |
Allen, Carmen | 2013 | Bonds that Unite are Bonds that Tie: Complications of Altruism and Imprisonment in Little Dorrit, Great Expectations, and A Tale of Two Cities | |
Alsaden, Sarah | 2013 | Poetry as Reistance and Recovery: An Examination of Violence, Trauma, and Exile in the Poetry of Iraqis and American Veterans of the Iraq War | |
Brehob, Emily | 2013 | Online Academics: The Wiki TV Tropes as a Community of Pseudo-Academic Producers | |
Caserta, Lauren | 2013 | Evolution of an Outbreak: Charting the Mainstream Print Media's Formation of Epidemiological, Social, and Political AIDS Discourse in the Absence and Reassertion of State Biopower | |
Cassidy, Benjamin | 2013 | Resurrecting Emerson: An Investigation of Self-Reliance's Presence in Society and Solitude | |
Cinti, Dylan | 2013 | Edgar Huntly is lost in the dark: Charles Brockden Brown and the ambivalent American Gothic | |
DelBene, Kaitlyn | 2013 | The Contemplatif Life: Social and Political Sovereignty and Chaucer's Oxford Clerk | |
Hansen, Trent | 2013 | Writing the Unreal: Authorship and Identity in Henry Darger's In the Realms of the Unreal | |
Hummer, Katelyn | 2013 | The Green in White Noise: Consumption, Technology, and the Environment | |
Kim, Joshua | 2013 | Pleasures of Horror: the Myth of the Modern and the Late Medieval Self | |
Lalley, Elizabeth | 2013 | "Thus, as I believe": Darwin's Presence as Proof in The Origin of Species | |
Partamian, Laura | 2013 | Becoming a Virgin: The Rhetorical Development of Queen Elizabeth I | |
Torp, Laura | 2013 | "So Strange Things So Probably Told": Epistemic Consequences of Scientific Discourse in Lunar Travel Narratives | |
Waraniak, Jeffrey | 2013 | I Retreat Outside Myself: Introspection, Extrospection, and the Present Moment in American Nature Writing | |
Xu, Jennifer | 2013 | Hollowed Out: The Traumatized Flesh of W.G. Sebald's Prose Style | |
Cassidy, Ann | 2012 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the Sublime Porte | |
Oreh, Alison | 2012 | Marriage, the Letter and the Novel: Letter Writing as an Analogy for the Portrayal of Marriage in Emma and Sense and Sensibility | |
Shrodes, Addie | 2012 | The 'Race Riot' Within and Without 'The Grrrl One': Ethnoracial Grrrl Zines' Tactical Construction of Space | |
Zinkel, Anna | 2012 | Jonathan Franzen and the Future of the Novel: Embracing Change to Hold Onto Tradition | |
Dye, Chris | 2012 | Observations on an Economic Mind: What Crusoe Can Reveal About Models of Consciousness | |
Hall, Claire | 2012 | Tradition Transformed: The Pastoral in Marvell's Mower Poems | |
Boudreau, Emily | 2012 | Empty Images and Holy Relics Photographic Complications in As I Lay Dying and Let Us Now Praise Famous Men | |
Ventola, Emily | 2012 | "What is your pretense in this house, to keep me a prisoner here?": The Role of Captor in 18th Century British Captivity Novels | |
Shapiro, Felix | 2012 | Race, Gender and the French Caribbean Allegory: Aime Cesaire's A Tempest and Maryse Conde's I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem | |
Poole, Heather | 2012 | Social Isolation and Communal Paranoia in Surveillance Narrative Films Surveillance as an operative network in Hitchcock's Rear Window, Coppola's The Conversation, and Haneke's Cache | |
Keenan, Josephine | 2012 | Connecting with </Text> How the Electronic Platform Shifts the Interactions of Authors, Readers, and Texts | |
Pressley, Jessi | 2012 | Fears of Our Fathers: Ideology in America's Founding Period | |
Schroeder, Jordan | 2012 | Looking for that Feeling: Narrative Omissions in Jesus' Son | |
Asma, Kerith | 2012 | Why Literature is Useless: A Defense of Literature's Value | |
Kosinski, Katherine | 2012 | Small Presses in the 21st Century Exploring Independent Publishing Houses and the Communities They Build | |
Demery, Mary | 2012 | The Language of Illness: Vision, Perception, and Isolation in Virginia Woolf's Ill Characters | |
Fried, Melanie | 2012 | The Paradox of the Short-Story Composite: An Exploration of Reading Temporality in Olive Kitteridge and A Visit From the Goon Squad | |
Gansler, Melissa | 2012 | Believing the Unbelievable: Supernatural Elements in Historical Fiction | |
Perry, Meredith | 2012 | Exposure to Light: Virginia Woolf's Work in Illuminating Women's Complex Interiority as Conforming to and Deviating from Notions of Traditional Femininity | |
Sajewski, Megan | 2012 | The Hidden Lives of Furniture: Rethinking the Subject/Object Dichotomy in Eighteenth-Century Novels | |
Marcoux, Natalie | 2012 | Nadine Gordimer and the Politics of Literature in the Twentieth-Century Redefining the Responsibilities of Political Literature | |
Seiferth, Shannon | 2012 | More Premium than Life: Expressing the Inexpressible in Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything is Illuminated | |
Diaz, Katrina Anne | 2011 | The Reinvention of God: Stories of an Exiled People | |
Fiscus, Jaclyn | 2011 | The L Words: Lesbians and Language Investigating Linguistic Performance of Sexuality on The L Word | |
Kauza, Jacqueline | 2011 | Defining the Divine: An Exploration of the Relationships Between Gods and Mortals in Fantasy Literature | |
Krieg, Katelin | 2011 | The Work of Beauty: Aesthetic Discourse in the Victorian Novel | |
Kruse, Alexandra | 2011 | Women in Motion: Following the Flâneuse through Mrs. Dalloway and Voyage in the Dark | |
Manis, Rebecka | 2011 | Evolution: Fact or Fiction? Character Discourse in A Fool's Errand, by Albion W. Tourgee | |
Sanborn, Alexandria | 2011 | Representation, Re-presentation, and Repetition of the Past in Gertrude Stein’s The Making of Americans | |
Toh, Bao En | 2011 | Reclaiming Agency: The Construction of Singaporean National Identity in the Rhetoric of Lee Kuan Yew from 1965-1970 | |
White, Patricia Brooke | 2011 | Our Soldiers, Our War: The Public Imagination of Soldiers | |
Freedenberg, Ross Evan | 2011 | Anticipating Anxiety: Jean Baudrillard’s Non-Event and Radical Event in Donald Barthelme’s Short Fiction | |
Kinzer, David | 2011 | The Nazi Comparison in American Literature | |
Restivo, Julianna M. | 2011 | "The Most Tragic Condition": Joe Christmas and the Community in William Faulkner's Light in August | |
Winnick, Laura | 2011 | The Tools of Femininity: Pens, Needles, and Women’s Autobiography in the Long Eighteenth Century | |
Zager, Christina R. | 2011 | The Paradox of Art without Artifice: A New Look at the Realism of William Dean Howells |
2006-2010 | |||
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Name | Year | Title | Document |
Bagdol, Alese | 2010 | Why He's Like a Painter: An Exploration of Frank O'Hara's Search for Alternatives to the Neo-Symbolist Mode of Poetry | |
Blood, Maria | 2010 | Subversion of the Courtship Narrative: Henry James's Portrait of a Lady's Suitors | |
Bommarito, Sarah | 2010 | Marriage, Motherhood, and Reception in the Fiction of Chopin and Wharton | |
Buijk, Cherri | 2010 | Slumdog Millionaire: Politics of Representation and Global Culture | |
Doyle, Trista | 2010 | "That Thereby Beauty's Rose Might Never Die:" Preservation and Mortality in Shakespeare's Sonnets | |
Estes, Ryan | 2010 | "War is god" versus "You Ain't Nothin": Deified Violence and Responses to It in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, No Country for Old Men, and The Road | |
Greenberg, Jared | 2010 | The Spectacle of Failure: Interrogating the Satiric Conception of Reality in the Late Works of Gustave Flaubert | |
Messerschmidt, Matthew | 2010 | The Productive Conflict of Art and Philosophy in the Thus Spoke Zarathustra and The Prelude | |
Paauwe, Anna | 2010 | Unto Others: An Exploration of Christianity as an Accomplice and Adversary to the aims of Empire in Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible | |
Popa, Cristina | 2010 | Like all Emigrants caught between Here and There': Multivoiced Narrative and Reinvention of Memory in Carmelo and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao | |
Ross, Robert | 2010 | Melville's Cetological Theodicy: Justifying the Ways of Whale to Man | |
Royall-Kahin, Angeline | 2010 | "Reading for the 'Real' Africa": African Literature, American Readers, Oprah, and Exotification | |
Song, Cathy | 2010 | "I have not but I am and as I am, I am" Home and Homelessnes in the poems of Wallace Stevens | |
Thorsby, Richard | 2010 | Idealized Masculilnity: Father-Son Relationships, Male Initiation, and Solitude in Hemingway's Short Fiction | |
Zhou, Shiwei | 2010 | Mr. Bankes's Telephone & Lily Briscoe's X-ray Vision: Technological Devices as Literary Devices in Virgina Woolf | |
Huang, Jennifer | 2010 | In Dialogue with the Infinite: A Defense of Samuel Beckett's Dysfunctional Philosophy of Mathematics | |
Campbell, Laura | 2009 | Feminist Fairy Tale Retellings: A Genre of Subversion | |
Aja, Jessica | 2009 | The Good of the Beautiful | |
Braun, Daniel | 2009 | Talking Coleridge: Three Conversation Poems | |
Cappo, Emily | 2009 | Repression and Displacement in Kazuo Ishiguro's When We Were Orphans and Never Let Me Go | |
Chou, Kimberly | 2009 | "This place being South Africa": Reading race, sex, and power in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace | Chou Kimberly “This place being South Africa†.pdf |
Ensor, Hannah | 2009 | Recklessly Intimate andVery Far Away: Daguerrean method in The House of the Seven Gables | |
Friedman, Starr | 2009 | Language as a Familiar Alien in Science Fiction or, as Riddley Walker Would Ask, Wie Wood Eye Both Err Two Reed This? | |
Katz, Dara | 2009 | J.D. Salinger's Glass Stories: The Genius and 1950's America | |
Klein, Joseph | 2009 | Keat's Urn and the Arrested Image in Faulkner | |
Knapp, Emily | 2009 | Metafiction in Northanger Abbey: How Austen Legitimizes the Novel | |
Krantz, Landon | 2009 | The Story of Illness: A study of the narrative writing of the ill | |
May, Lynne | 2009 | A Study of the Relationship between the Text and Its Reader: The Imitation of Christ in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Europe | |
Munro, Joshua | 2009 | Reconfiguring Wuornos: An analysis of the public and literary representation of Aileen Wuornos | |
Shubert, Catherine | 2009 | Modern Metamorphoses: Issues of (Im)personality and Tradition in the Poetry of Pound, Eliot, and H.D. | |
Smith, Sarah | 2009 | The Complex Web of Gender, Genre, and Agency in George Eliot's Middlemarch | |
Swain, Amanda | 2009 | Regarding Representations and Responsibility: A Study of Torture's Situation and Reception in post-9/11 U.S. Culture | |
Van Wagoner, Benjamin | 2009 | Rebel: Confronting Order and Chaos in 2 Henry VI | |
Wilson, Emily | 2009 | The Story of Joseph and Potiphar's Wife: Thomas Mann's Joseph and His Brothers and his Early Jewish and Christian Sources | |
Rose, Kira | 2009 | A.S. Byatt's POSSESSION: A ROMANCE: Gendered Genres, Normative Femininity and the Romance of History | |
Acho, Megan | 2009 | "Nobody comes out with perfectly clean hands": An Analysis of the Synecdochic Implications of hands as a Recurring Motif in the Literature of Edith Wharton | |
Beamer, Christine | 2008 | Listening to Music: Nineteenth Century Intersections between Music, Class, and Genre | |
Byrd, Christopher | 2008 | Voicing the Void: Subject & Subjectivity in Samuel Beckett’s Fizzles | |
Chakravarthy, Manisha | 2008 | Reading Indian-American Women: Writers, Protagonists, and Critics | |
Eidem, Laura | 2008 | True Storytelling: Fiction and Nonfiction in In Cold Blood and The Executioner’s Song | |
Funt, Alex | 2008 | My Own Private Henriad: Looking Back to Now Through Shakespeare’s Second Tetralogy | |
Gadaleto, Michael | 2008 | “Their Solitary Way†: Marital Reconciliation in the Conversion Scene of Paradise Lost | |
Griffith, Sarah | 2008 | The Moral Egotist: Evolution of Style in Kurt Vonnegut’s Satire | |
Hahn, Katelyn | 2008 | “Art Works for All Whom it Touches†: Interpreting the use of High Renaissance Art and Dutch Realism in Middlemarch | |
Harris, Brooke | 2008 | “You Know You’re Cold Chillin’ When You’re in Blackface†: Questions of Black Authenticity in the Spike Lee Joint Bamboozled | Harris Brooke-You Know You're Cold Chillin When Youre in Blackface Questions of Black Authenticity in the Spike Lee Joint Bamboozled.pdf |
Hendricks, Andrew | 2008 | White Nightgowns and Beaded Ceintures: Extravagance, Austerity, and the commonplace in Wallace Stevens’ Harmonium | Hendricks Andrew-White Nightgowns and Beaded Ceintures Extravagance, austerity, and the commonplace in Wallace Stevens' Harmonium.pdf |
Kaloustian, Carly | 2008 | “The World and All That is in It?†: The Rhetoric and Representation of the U.S. Neocolonial Project in National Geographic, 1898-1920 | |
Kang, Michael | 2008 | Balancing the Image: Collective Experience and Alienation in Don DeLillo’s Mao II, Libra, and Underworld | Kang Michael-Balancing the Image Collective Experience and Alientation in Don Delillo's Mao II Libra and Underworld.pdf |
Krasner, Adam | 2008 | The Fallacy of Jewish Self-Hatred in Post-World War II Jewish-American Literature | |
Kuljurgis, Julie | 2008 | Fashioning Identity: Helen Eustis' Construction and Presentation of the Female Self in Harper's Bazaar, 1947-52 | |
Mittelman, Amy | 2008 | “A World Hollowed Out†An Exploration of the Spatial Imaginings in the Novels of Virginia Woolf and E.M. Foster | |
Nosan, Blair | 2008 | The Trouble with Paradise: Exploring Communities of Difference in Three American Novels | |
Ravenscroft, Michael | 2008 | A Body and a Soul Entire An inquiry into the condition of the individual in World War I poetry | |
Stern, Rachel | 2008 | To Write a Wrong: The Unreliable Writer and The Trial of Narrative Form in The Good Soldier, The Blind Assassin, and Atonement | |
Swanson, Laura Lavey | 2008 | Sympathy and Historical Distance: George Eliot’s Middlemarch and A.S. Byatt’s Possession | |
Xi, Mimi | 2008 | The Innocent and Implicated: Chastity and Promiscuity in the Epidemic: Gender Portrayals in AIDS Literature | |
Diamond, Michael | 2008 | Dismantling and Discovery: Narratives of Trauma and the Cubist Idiom in Hemingway’s Works from the 1920s | |
Milewski, Lauren | 2008 | Subversive Connections between Marginalized Others and the Search for a Heterogeneous Identity: A Revision and Expansion of Post-Colonial Critiques of Charlotte and Emily Bronte | |
Muzzio, Franco | 2008 | Dialogues with the Past: Post-Truth Commission Literature in Argentina and South Africa | |
Beight, Jennifer L. | 2007 | Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu: The ubuntu philosophy in the anti-apartheid rhetoric of Desmond Tutu | |
Boutin, Dana | 2007 | Moment and Momentum: The Poetry of Frank O’Hara across Collaborative Contexts | |
Corrigan, Virginia | 2007 | The Republic of Heaven Authority in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials | Corrigan Virginia-The Republic of Heaven Authority in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials.pdf |
Dupes, Nathan | 2007 | Imagining Warfare | |
Gannes, Dorothy | 2007 | Gossip and Aggression: Adolescent Boys and Girls and their Respective Language Patterns | |
Green, Katherine | 2007 | The Grotesque and Elusive Individuality: Disability in Winesburg, Ohio and Motherless Brooklyn | |
Groves, Susanna | 2007 | Cuban-American Literature of Exile: Embracing Liminality in Achy Obejas' Days of Awe | Groves Susanna-Cuban-American Literature of Exile Embracing Liminality in Achy Obejas' Days of Awe.pdf |
Hare, Breeanna | 2007 | Keep it Real: Hip-Hop Fiction and the African-American Literary Tradition | |
Heming, Julia Fyrwald | 2007 | The Stage and The Slammer An examination of Shakespeare in prison rehabilitation programs | |
Josephson, Jamie | 2007 | The ‘Oy’ of Loyalty: The Writer and the Community in Philip Roth’s Later Fiction | |
Kristin MacDonald | 2007 | Soldiering On: Intimacy, Endurance and the Post-WWI Period in The Sun Also Rises | |
Kristin A. Mason | 2007 | Modern Wasteland: Defining Escape for the X Generation | |
Mohanty, Sanjay | 2007 | Diagnosing the Physician-Writer: Clarity, the Bodily Space, and the Problem of the Hyphen | |
Rao, Neil | 2007 | SARS: How the News Media Cause and Cure an Epidemic of Fear | |
Rhoades, John | 2007 | The Limitations of Representation in September 11th Narratives | |
Keshet Shenkar | 2007 | Daughters of Zion: Jewish Women in Victorian Literature | |
Soares, Rebecca D. | 2007 | Consistent Inconsistencies: Virginia Woolf on Jane Austen | |
Stanutz, Katherine | 2007 | The Unity and Disunity of Poetics in Piers Plowman | |
Alongi, Mary | 2007 | Growing Up and Down: The Fluidity of Maturation in Peter Pan and the Alice stories | |
Lubin, Bradley | 2007 | The Revolutionary’s Dilemma: Ulysses and Angels in America as Anti-Epic | |
Arents, Emily | 2006 | I Remember Me: Memory and the Construction of Identity in the Fiction of Margaret Atwood | |
Atias, Daphna | 2006 | Visiting Absence | |
Bajorek, Emily | 2006 | The Confrontation and Reconciliation of Eros and Caritas in the Poetry of John Donne: A Life and Works Study | |
Bender, Elizabeth | 2006 | Hablad por mis palabras, Speak through my words: Pablo Neruda’s Las Alturas de Macchu Picchu in six English Translations | |
Birkhill, Benjamin | 2006 | Don DeLillo’s Underworld: Instant Consumption and Autonomous Space | Birkhill Benjamin-Don DeLillo's Underworld Instant Consumption and Autonomous Space.pdf |
Bude, Tekla | 2006 | The King's Rib: A Progression of the Female Literary Voice | Bude Tekla-The King's Rib A Progression of the Female Literary Voice.pdf |
Febo, Vanessa | 2006 | As Natural as Breathing: Edith Wharton and the Born Reader | |
Ferrentino, Joseph | 2006 | Gimme Gimme Gunshots | |
Fudge, Keith | 2006 | Steinbeck, Audience, and | |
Ganz, Megan | 2006 | The Last Laugh: Humor and Death in Essays of David Sedaris | |
Harlan, Kendal | 2006 | Remembering and Transcending the | Harlan Kendal-Remembering and Transcending the Imagined Past of Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain.pdf |
Hogan, Adam | 2006 | Adorno's Dialectic of Romanticism | Hogan Adam-Adorno's Dialectic of Romanticism.pdf |
Joseph, Christopher | 2006 | Morbidly Eloquent: The Disease Lyric and the Elucidation of the Ill Experience | |
Kaplan, Andrew | 2006 | Virginia Woolf's Vision of Art, Being, and Her Environment | Kaplan Andrew-Waters of Her Life Virginia Woolf's Vision of Art, Being, and Her Environment.pdf |
Maki, Benjamin | 2006 | From Life to Art: R.W. Emerson and Friedrich Nietzsche's Influence on Henry Miller's Aesthetic | Maki Benamin-From Life to Art R.W. Emerson and Friedrich Netzsche's Influencce on Henry Miller's Aesthetic.pdf |
Ravindran, Rohini | 2006 | In Search of Tragedy: Maturation of the Melodrama in Eugene O'Neill's Family Plays | Ravindran Rohini-In Search of Tragedy Maturation of Melodrama in Eugene O'Neill's Family Plays.pdf |
Slevin, Niamh | 2006 | Redefining the I-dentity: The Role of the Individual and the Community in the Works of Joseph Heller | |
Wadehra, Sunali | 2006 | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Arranged Marriage: A Negotiation of Identity Among Conflicting Cultural Visions | Wadehra Sunali-Chita Banerjee Divakaruni's Arranged Marriage A Negotiation of Identity Among Conflicting Cultural Visions.pdf |
2000 - 2005 | |||
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Name | Year | Title | Document |
Carbine, Melanie | 2005 | BORDER BRUJO & THE MULTiCuLT URAL ¡Entrepernemos! Crossing the Body and the Border: Guillermo Gómez-Peña and the Performance of Border Identity in Border Brujo | |
Chandler, Stephanie | 2005 | Through Propriety: An Examination of the Social Conventions Dictating Expression in Selected Works and Letters of Jane Austen | |
Davis, Laura | 2005 | An Ambitiously Perfect Essay, or A Perfectly Ambitious Essay | |
Franzino, Jean | 2005 | Identity Crisis: Self-fashioning in Sylvia Plath's Letters Home and The Bell Jar | Franzino Jean-Identity Crisis Self-fashioning in Sylvia Plath's Letters Home and The Bell Jar.pdf |
Gillett, Elizabeth | 2005 | The Bard and the Queen: Popular Response to the Religious Reformation During Elizabeth's Reign | Gillett Elizabeth-Popular Response to Religious Reformation during Elizabeth's Reign.pdf |
Haas, Emma | 2005 | Escaping and Embracing Change: Edith Wharton's Fictional Family Experiences | Haas Emma-Escaping and Embracing Change Edith Wharton's Fictional Family Experiences.pdf |
Lindner, Beile | 2005 | Negotiating Boundaries: Confinement, Community and Collecting Memory in Hisaye Yamamoto's Writing | |
Peterson, Kraig | 2005 | Milton's Frankenstein No More | Peterson Kraig-Milton's Frankenstein No More.pdf |
Michael Richman | 2005 | Will the Real Kilgore Trout Please Stand Up? The Chameleon Elements of Kurt Vonnegut | |
Schmerberg, Luke | 2005 | "Who do you think I am?" The Opportunities of Self-Representation in the Work of Three American Journalists | |
Gorman, Austin | 2005 | Ken Kesey and Michael Foucault: Two Representations of Madness in the Modern Asylum | |
McBryde, Brynne | 2005 | Resisting Narrative: Social Illegibility and Gendered Interaction in Nineteenth-Century Paris and London | |
Nyeholt, Hayley | 2005 | The Human in Nature: Negotiating the Human Relationship with the Natural World in the Poetry of Galway Kinnell | |
Smith, Lauren | 2005 | Exploring Time's Collapse in a Nabokovian Hall of Mirrors | |
Smith, Linda | 2005 | Identifying the Obsession that Identifies | |
Melissa Solarz | 2005 | Exploring the Gender Continuum: Representations of the Feminine in Virginia Woolf's Fiction | |
Winter, Margaret | 2005 | Henry James's : "Community of Vision": Aesthetics, Impression, Imagination, and Audience in The Wings of the Dove | |
Shieh, Eric | 2004 | Writing (Jazz) Out of Bounds | |
Bailey, Justin | 2004 | Intrusion, Fusion, and Illusion: Vladimir Nabokov and the Artistic Rearrangement of Reality | |
Carney, Benjamin | 2004 | "Ac Hernkenth, Lordings That Beth Trewe": The Paradox of Sir Orfeo's Chivalry | Carney Benjamin-Ac Herkneth Lordinges That Beth Trewe The Paradox of Sir Orfeo's Chilvalry.pdf |
Christman, Corinna | 2004 | The Illuminating Title in O"Connor's Relationships | Christman Corinna-The Illuminating Title in O'Connor's Relationships.pdf |
Feddes, Jane | 2004 | "Come Read Me My Riddle": The Child Reader's Interpretive Authority in Charles Kinsley's The Water Babies | Feddes Jane-Come Read Me My Riddle The Child Reader's Interpretive Authority in Charles Kingsley's The Water Babies.pdf |
Grieser, Jessica | 2004 | "Blind and Deaf People Know You're Gay": Performing Gender and Sexuality on Will & Grace | Grieser Jessica-Blind and Deaf People Know You're Gay Performing Gender and Sexuality on Will and Grace.pdf |
Hartig, Elizabeth | 2004 | "The Women of Your Generation": Exploring the Changes of Literature and Society in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway | |
Lewis, Rachel | 2004 | "A Striving Good Enough to be Called a Failure"--George Elliot's Struggle for Sympathy in Middlemarch | Lewis Rachel-A Striving Good Enough to be called a Failure George Eliot's Struggle for Sympathy in Middlemarch.pdf |
Theodore MeDermott | 2004 | The Dramatic irony of Change: Flann O'Brien's The Third Policement and Denial of Progress through Narrative | McDermott Ted-The Dramatic Irony of Change Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman and the Denial of Progress Through Narrative.pdf |
Payne, Philip | 2004 | "Our Perpetual Illusion": Virginia Woolf's Interrogation into the Notion of Singular Identity | Payne Philip-Our Perpetual Illusion Virginia Woolf's Interrogation into the Notion of Singular Identity.pdf |
Roth, Noah | 2004 | Milton's Left and Right Hands: Politics and Paradise Lost | Roth Frankiln-Milton's Left and Right Hands Politics and Paradise Lost.pdf |
Young, Courtney | 2004 | Getting the Hell Out: Redefining the Satanic in the Satanic Verses | |
Young, Theresa | 2004 | Nosce te Ipsum: Identity in Invisible Man and White Teeth | |
Hanson, Kristin | 2004 | "Strange Sad Happy Songs": Music, Form and Emotion in the Works of James Joyce | |
Landau, Jeffrey | 2004 | WH Auden and the Libretto's Progress | |
Sanders, Melanie | 2004 | Into the Woods: A Study of Alternative Worlds and Authority in Fantastic Children's Literature | |
Ryan Vu | 2004 | Everything is Real, Nothing is Permitted: An Intercourse with Grant Morrison's The Invisibles | |
Wu, Joyce | 2004 | Blond Ambition: The Complexities of WASP Envy in Philip Roth's Novels | |
Albee, Matthew | 2003 | The Pleasure of Derrida's Poetry | |
Cook, Megan | 2003 | "Art Thu a Mayden?": Magery Kempe as Martyr and Virgin | |
DeAngelis, Kelly | 2003 | Voices in the Debris: Children's Use of Poetry in Response to the Social Crisis of September 11, 2001 | |
Deneau, Laura | 2003 | From the Dented Earth to Eternity: Time in Moby-Dick | |
East, Andrea | 2003 | Deciphering Clinton: An Analysis of Bill Clinton's State of the Union Messages, 1994-2000 | |
Sarah Ensor | 2003 | Forms of Sapphic Silence | |
Gowell, Jamie | 2003 | The Fourth Dimension: Margaret Atwood's Fantastic Reality | Gowell Jamie-The Fourth Dimension Margaret Atwood's Fantastic Reality.pdf |
Heller, Gretchen M. | 2003 | Reconciling the Self-Divided: Unmasking Behavioral Inconsistencies in Victorian English Culture through the writing of Charlotte Bronte | |
Johnson, Christopher | 2003 | The Ineffectual Antagonism of Wit: A Study of Hamlet, The Lion in Winter, and Catch-22 | |
Kim, Julie | 2003 | C.S.Lewis: Christian Scholar, Heretical Don | |
Lee, Jee Won | 2003 | Anxiety and Anticipation: Multiplicity and the Unknown in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson | |
Sara A. Murphy | 2003 | I Speak For You: Issues of Identification and Persuasion in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man | |
Neuman, Adi J. | 2003 | Philip Roth and the Jewish Establishment | |
Palmer, Marcie | 2003 | The Hierarchy of Love: Order Through Chastity in the Faerie Queene | |
Schietinger, John | 2003 | Anamorphic Plays: The Complex Place of Women in the patriarchal Structures of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and As You Like It | Schietinger John-Anamophic Plays The Complex Place of Women in the Patriarchal Structures od Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and As You Like It.pdf |
Shumejda, Lauren | 2003 | Resistant Dictation: A Reader's Performance of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's DICTEE | Shumejda Lauren-Resistant Dictation A Reader's Performance of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's DICTEE.pdf |
Smith, Margaret K. | 2003 | "Love of Counrty is of No Sex" Gender and the Imagined Nation in Sydney Owenson's The Wild Irish Girl and The O'Briens and the Flahertys | Smith Margaret-Love of Country is of No Sex Gender and the Imagined Nation in Sydney Owensons The Wild Irish Girl and The O'Briens and the OFlahertys.pdf |
Toporek, Scott D. | 2003 | "What passions call you these?": The Language of Same-Sex Desire and Homosexual Subjectivity in Marlowe's Edward II | Toporek Scott-What passions call you these The Language of Same-Sex Desire and Homosexual Subjectivity in Marlowe's Edward II.pdf |
Vermaaten, Sally | 2003 | Virtu on the Stage: Tracing the Presence and Representation of Machiavelli In Early Modern Comedy | |
Sarah Weiger | 2003 | Guilt and the Sublime in Wordsworth's Spots of Time | |
Sarah Worden | 2003 | Conversation Sex and Desire in Jane Austen's World | Worden Sarah-Conversation Sex and Desire in Jane Austen's World.pdf |
Zigas, Caleb | 2003 | A Prescription For Travel | |
McTaggert, Ursula | 2002 | Reading and Writing Isabel Archer: The Rhetoric of Purity in Henry James The Portrait of a Lady | 2McTaggart Ursula-Reading and Writing Isabel Archer The Rhetoric of Purity in henry James's The Portrait of a Lady.pdf |
Borushko, Matthew | 2002 | Zuckerman's Complaint: Philip Roth's Use of the Narrator in American Pastoral, I Married a Communist, andThe Human Stain | Borushko Matthew-Zuckerman's Complaint Philip Roth's Use of the Narrator in American Pastoral, I Married a Communist, and The Human Stain.pdf |
Coen, Jessica | 2002 | The Mother, the Daughter, and the Unholy Ghost: The Construction of Voice and Reality in the Prose of Sylvia Plath | |
Cooper, Edith | 2002 | Of Gods and Ghosts: Continuity and Community in Toni Morrison's Fiction | Cooper Edie-Of Gods and Ghosts Continuity and Community in Toni Morrison's Fiction.pdf |
Stephen Dekovich | 2002 | The Form Meaning Integration and Evolution in Robert Hayden's | Dekovich Stephen-To Form Meaning Integration and Evolution in Robert Hayden's Middle Passage.pdf |
Dusenberry, Keith | 2002 | Bandini Lives! Obsession and Delusion in Fante's Saga, Critical or Otherwise | Dusenberry Keith-Bandini Lives Obsession and Delusion in Fante's Saga, Critical or Otherwise.pdf |
Eder, Andrew | 2002 | The Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost: Seamus Heaney and Northern Irish Politics | |
Forster, Nathan | 2002 | Changing Forms of Event and Meaning: The Intelligibility of Events Within the Worlds of Ovid's Metamorphoses and Kafka's The Metamorphosis | Forster Nathan-Changing Forms of Event Meaning The Intelligibility of Events Within the Worlds of Ovid's Metamorphoses and Kafka's The Metamorphosis.pdf |
Gould, Jens | 2002 | Precarious Escape: The Psychology of the Soldier in Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms and TIm O'Brien's The Things They Carried | Gould Jens-Precarious Escape The Psychology of the Soldier in Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms and Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried.pdf |
Haas, Kelcie | 2002 | Anne Carson and the Erotics of Translation | |
Jacobs, Carolyn | 2002 | Secret Selves: The Narration of Childhood Fear in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Charles Dickens Great Expectations | |
Karp, Rebecca | 2002 | The Big Bad Wolf | |
Kennedy, Molly | 2002 | The Author's Authority: The Problems of Writing for Others in J.M. Coetzee's Foe | Kennedy Molly-The Authors AuthorityThe Problems of Writing for Others in J.M. Coetzee's Foe.pdf |
Lang, Elon | 2002 | Languages as an Apparatus for Influencing Social Consciuosness in Dystopian FIction | |
Nichols, Susannah Nichols | 2002 | Seizing Language to Build Community : Empowering Adolescents Through Performance Poetry | |
Rozny, Noel | 2002 | Hunter Thompson is Decadent and Depraved: Metonymic Self-Performance in Hell's Angels and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | Rozny Noel-Hunter Thompson is decadent and Depraved Metonymic Self-Performance in Hell's Angels andFear and Loathing in Las Vegas.pdf |
Sarah L. Townsend | 2002 | Walking the "Thorny Way": Pressures and Predicaments of Womanhood in Sean O'Casey's Three Dublin Plays | |
Vincent, Margaret | 2002 | The World Only Spins Forward: Understanding the Foreign Experience of AIDS in Paula Vogel's The Baltimore Waltz and Tony Kushner's Angels in America | Vincent Margaret-The Wolrd Only Spins Forward Understadning the Foreign Experience of AIDS in Paula Vogel's The Baltimore Waltz and Tony Kushner's Angels in America.pdf |
Wright, Rebecca S. | 2002 | Creating Space, Creating Meaning: An Exploration of the Use of Quotation in Eugene O'Neill's | |
Carmody, Todd | 2001 | Mauberley as Memorial: Ezra Pound and the Aftermath of the First World War | |
Carson, Sarah M. | 2001 | Of Fairy Tales, Fistfights, and Female Identity: The Fiction of Carson McCullers and Isak Dinesen | |
Chambers, Alexander | 2001 | The Crowd and the Individual: David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest and Don DeLillo's Mao II on the Place of the Novel in the Age of Television | Chambers Alexander-The Crowd adn the Individual David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest and Don DeLillo's Mao II on the Place of the Novel in the Age of Television.pdf |
Davidson, Michael | 2001 | Discourse and Punish: An Analysis of the Ideological Power of the Catholic Church in The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | |
Dodge, Bryn K. | 2001 | Choose Your Own Adventure?: Readers and Their Role(s) in Epistolary Fiction | |
Foran, Patrick | 2001 | And in the Following Darkness...: The New Physics and a Reconstructed Synthesis of Time and Space in James Joyce's Ulysses | Foran Patrick-And in teh Following Darkness the New Physics and the enunciation of spacetime in James Joyce's Ulysses.pdf |
Freeman, Erica R. | 2001 | A Divided Vision: Defining the Values of e.e. cummings | |
Frost, Lea Luecking | 2001 | Sad Stories of the Death of Kings: Language, Identity, and Self-Dramatization in Richard II | |
Gillespie, Carolyn L. | 2001 | Stories to Grow Up On: Communication and Culture in Kingston and Tan | |
Hurrle, Jennifer | 2001 | He Can Tell War Stories: Tim O'Brien and the Grunt's Conquest of Time | Hurrle Jennifer-He Can Tell War Stories Tim O'Brien and the Grunt's Conquest of Time.pdf |
Hyland, Justine E. | 2001 | The Capture of the Muse in the Moxon Tennyson | Hyland Justine-The Capture of the Muse in the Moxon Tennyson.pdf |
Jablonski, Elizabeth | 2001 | For Whom the Battle Was Fought: An Exploration of Ernest Hemingway's Involvement in the Spanish Civil War and the Novel that Emerged | Jablonski Elizabeth-For Whom the Battle was Fought An Exploration of Ernest Hemingway's Involvement in Spanish Civil War and the Novel that Emerged.pdf |
Jacques, Danielle M. | 2001 | The Cycle of Oppression: Racism and Gender Hierarchies Jonah's Gourd Vine and Simple Speaks His Mind | Jacques Danielle-The Cycle of Oppression Racism and Gender Hierarchies Jonah's Gourd Vine and Simple Speaks His Mind.pdf |
Knecht, Kristen | 2001 | Marginalization and Misogyny: French Feminist Re-vision of Chaucer's Wife of Bath | Knecht Kristen-Marginalization and Misogyny French Feminist Re-vision of Chaucer's Wife of Bath.pdf |
Knoll, Gillian | 2001 | Fleshing Out the Stage: Gender and Performativity in Angela Carter's Fiction | Kroll Gillian-Fleshing Out the Stage Gender and Performativity in Angela Carter's Fiction.pdf |
Murphy, Casey M. | 2001 | I wooed thee with my sword: Balancing the Beauty and Cruelty of A Midsummer Night's Dream | Murphy Casey-I wooed thee with my sword Balancing the Beauty and Cruelty of A Midsummer Night's Dream.pdf |
Nadler, Therese | 2001 | Jack and Sal: Voyagers of the Between | |
Naimou, Angela M. | 2001 | Siren Notes: Towards Redefining the Power, Freedom, and Reading of Hypertext | |
Primeau, Sarah | 2001 | Writing the "Pure Truth": Virginia Woolf's Use of Fact and Fiction | Primeau sarah-Writing the Pure Truth Virginia Woolf's Use of Fact and Fiction.pdf |
Schankler, Isaac | 2001 | From Guns to Games: Tracing the Political Trajectory in the Works of Italo Calvino | |
Horky, Philip Sidney | 2000 | Miltoni Inven.: The 1688 Paradise Lost and Miltonic Aesthetic Philosophies | |
Boog, Jason | 2000 | Reflections in a Private "I": Diagnosing Hardboiled Narrators Through Psychoanalytic Theory | |
Boulange, Denise | 2000 | Noble Games and Lethal Contracts: Redefining Chivalric Honor in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | |
Burtt, Caryn | 2000 | Appropriating Silence: The Creation of Language in Shame and Midnight's Children | Burtt Caryn-Appropriating Silence The Creation of Language in Salman Rushdie's Shame and Midnight children.pdf |
Cornell, Marcella Rae | 2000 | Under the Glitter of Their Opportunities: The American Dream in The House of Mirth | |
Cox, John Kevin | 2000 | Gent(i)le Reader: Audience Negotiation and Self-Presentation in Fanny Stenhouse's Tell It All: The Story of a Life's Experience in Mormonism | |
Devendorf, Katherine Joy | 2000 | Women and Wills: The Heroines of George Eliot's Middlemarch | |
Dodd, Leah | 2000 | The Unlikely Narrator: Voice and Feminism in the Fiction of Rebecca West | |
Dunker, Steffany | 2000 | The Poverty of Blackness on One Side and the Weight of Womanhood on the Other: Identity, Gender, and Imperialism in Three Novels by Conrad, Achebe, and Dangaremba | |
Friedman, Ellen J. | 2000 | Construction of Identity in Terms of Place, Home, and Body in the Works of Toni Morrison | |
Gimenez, Sophia Elena | 2000 | Changing Conceptions of Community in the Modern Latino Novel | |
Gotham, Katherine | 2000 | Accepting Rejection: The Literary Aneconomy of Joyce's Ulysses | Gotham Katherine-Accepting Rejection The Literary Aneconomy of Joyce's Ulysses.pdf |
Hardison, Ayesha Ki'shani | 2000 | Beyond Boundaries: Female Friendship in Passing and Sula | |
Hoard, Christian | 2000 | Anti-Foundationalism and Postmodernist Fiction: Fowles, Barnes, Carter | |
Kilian, Eva | 2000 | Into the Space of Borderless Possibility: Eva Hoffman and the Effect of Immigration from Poland to North America on Identity | |
Lee, Najean | 2000 | In/Significance: The Participation of Fathers in Jane Austen's Novels | |
Leleiko, Rebecca | 2000 | The Frustration of Desire: Dissatisfaction in William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury | |
Mortensen, Andrew | 2000 | Bloom Ate Liv as Said Before Character, Recurrence, and Structure in Joyce's Ulysses | |
Pederson, Joshua Thomas | 2000 | Faulty Foundations: The Flawed Romantic Relationships of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Protagonists | Pederson Joshua-Faulty Foundations The Flawed Romantic Relationships of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Male Protagonists.pdf |
Pence, Adam Gregory | 2000 | David Copperfield's Agnes: Negotiating an Ideal | |
Perumalswami, Chithra Radha | 2000 | Writing from "Waist High": Nancy Mair's Autobiographical Essays and the Subject of Disability | |
Phillips, Astrid | 2000 | The Incomparable Max: A Study of Sir Max Beerbohm's Concept of Identity and of His Relationship with Britian's Fin-de-Siecle Culture | |
Pupedis, Andrew C. | 2000 | Laughing in the Watery World: The Telling of the Joke in Moby Dick | |
Reed, Jennifer Annette | 2000 | The Face of Alisoun: A Wife's Canterbury Tale of Textual Reflection | Reed Jennifer-The Face of Alisoun A Wife's Canterbury Tale of Textual Reflection.pdf |
Robinson, Brenda Joyce | 2000 | How We Remember: The Literature of Richard Wright and Elie Wiesel as Historical Records | |
Swap, Alison | 2000 | The Powers That Be (Or Not Be): The Question of Memory in Gender-Inflected Shakespearean Society | |
Toub, Sherri L. | 2000 | Through the Eyes of the Child: Huck and Scout as Visionaries | |
Kivisaari, David Simon | 2000 | On the Road in Late Civilization The Road Trip Ritual |
1995 - 1999 | ||
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Name | Year | Title |
Arnold, Stacy | 1999 | Creating Context: Mediums of Self-Representation in Ethnic Autobiography |
Bonfiglio, Rick | 1999 | The Contours of Victorian Sensibility: George Eliot's Moral Aesthetic in Middlemarch |
Clarke, Christopher | 1999 | Thief of Reality: Identity Revolution in William S. Burrough's Early Novels |
Coats, Jason | 1999 | Troubling the Endless Reverie: Teleology and Temporality in Yeat's Romantic Theory |
Cooney, Kevin | 1999 | Whitman's Radical Poetry: Survival as Form in Leaves of Grass |
Costello, Emily | 1999 | Recourse To My Kind Pen A Reception Study of Aphra Behn |
Cox, Jeff | 1999 | Technology and the Human Subject: The Virtual Environments of Neuromancer and He, She, and It |
Fletcher, Joe | 1999 | Reading Nabakov |
Galloway, Michael | 1999 | Cuckoldry and Miscegenation: "Race" in Hamlet and Othello |
Hecker, Cara | 1999 | Sadness Disappeared Under Rage: Melvin Jules Bukiet's After, a Second-Generation Response to the Holocaust |
Herman, Josh | 1999 | The Demon at the Gates of Paradise: How to Read Ezra Pound and a Reading of Ezra Pound |
Kenny, Melanie | 1999 | In Time I'll Forget This Empty Brimming: Contemporary Women Poets Re-Value Female Grief Through the Myths of Niobe & Demeter |
Leary, Sara | 1999 | A Mutual Sympathy: Metaphor in AIDS Literature |
Love, Stephanie | 1999 | Virginia Woolf and the Musical: Redefinitions of Plot, Character and Music in The Waves and Between the Acts |
Lucas, Elizabeth | 1999 | A New Map of the World: Technology in Libra and The Crying of Lot 49 |
Mai, Evelyn | 1999 | The Shape of Fear: Conceptualizing Disease and Morality in the Works of Katherine Anne Porter |
Malewitz, Ray | 1999 | The Cuckold and Male Modernist Identity |
Miles, Dedra | 1999 | Why Are You Digging Up These Dead Bones: The Liberation of an Author and His Character in Jesse Hill Ford's Mountains of Gilead and The Liberation of Lord Byron Jones |
Nesbitt, Megan | 1999 | A "Benevolent Anti-Semitism": Shifting Perception of the Jew in Victorian Literature |
Powers, Karen | 1999 | Eloquence Over Experiment: The Presentation of Authority Within Popular Scientific Texts |
Spiess, Sarah | 1999 | Resistance From Within: The Chicano Literary Tradition and the Revision of Imposed Identities |
Walker, Caroline | 1999 | The Language of Looking: Visual Constructions of Female Identity in the Poetry of Lisel Mueller and Louise Gluck |
Wise, Julie | 1999 | Something Indefinable: Reading Character in George Eliot's Middlemarch |
Buckley, Jennifer A. | 1999 | Re-Inventing Mother Ireland: Eavan Boland and Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill imagine the postnationalist Motherland |
Ammori, Marvin | 1998 | Death and Travel Narrative: A Study of Bruce Chatwin |
Brin, Lawrence | 1998 | A Perpetual Babel: Language and Science in the Works of Primo Levi |
Carlson, Laura | 1998 | In Light of the Father: Beyond Heroism to Humility in Paradise Regained |
Duffy, Coreen | 1998 | Dreams and Dichotomies: The continuity of discord in Arthur O'Shaughnessy's Ode and Edward Elgar's The Music Makers |
Fletcher, Angus | 1998 | Incomplete Perfection: The Plight of Creation in Paradise Lost |
Frances, Erin | 1998 | A Reader's Quest into the Unspeakable: The Obstacles of Reading Holocaust Survivor Literature |
Gerstein, Ephraim | 1998 | A Home in the Wandering: The Imagining of American Jewish Culture by Contemporary American Jewish Literature |
Herman, Jessica M. | 1998 | Cleopatra's "Infinite Variety": The Fluidity of Sexual & Gender Identity in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra |
Mancina, Leah V. | 1998 | Reclaiming the Lost World in Mark Doty's Atlantis and Heaven's Coast: The Language of Gay Desire and Death |
Marsano, Meghan | 1998 | Metafiction, Responsibility, and Feminist Readings of John Fowles: The Sexuality and Creativity of Women in The French Lieutenant's Woman and The Magus |
Mazur, Agnes | 1998 | Under Cover: Gender and the Sensation Novel |
Richmond, Mary | 1998 | Decolonization as Modern Shadow Play: The Construction of Historical Identity in Postcolonial Indonesia in P.A. Toer's Buru Quartet |
Rivas, Jessica | 1998 | A Solitutde Soul Misplaced: Women, Community, & Identity in The Awakening |
Schultz, Nathan | 1998 | The Individual Artist in The Fountainhead and Martin Eden: How to Tell an "I" from an "I" |
Smucker, Sarah L. | 1998 | The Interpretive Power of Solitude: The Relationship Between the Self and Landscape in the Work of William Wordsworth, Rainer Maria-Rilke, and T.S. Eliot |
Treuhaft, Dana M. | 1998 | Doorways and the Peculiar: Carson McCuller's Women |
Wagg, Mary Jane | 1998 | Toward a New Science: Yeats's Vision |
Wang, Ellen Cei-Der | 1998 | Assessing India's Golden Jubilee: Reading Post-colonial India |
Webster, Lori | 1998 | Subject to Experiment: Tracing the Figure of the Monster in Geek Love and Frankenstein |
Wexler, Leslie | 1998 | Vengeance, Mercy and Conversion: An Analysis of "The Prioress's Tale", The Jew of Malta, and The Merchant of Venice |
Woodfin, Stephanie | 1998 | Silent Revenger: Locating and Redefining Lavinia's Role in Titus Andronicus |
Kwon, Deborah H. | 1998 | Quest for Fire: Reading Mother-Daughter Narratives in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior, Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts |
Angel, Robert | 1997 | From Sex to Sexuality: The Development of Gay Identity in Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City |
Armstrong, Matthew P. | 1997 | The Elusive Balance and the "Tricks" of the Trade: Hemingway's Myth |
Bernstein, Adam | 1997 | How to Behave When Sitting at a Bar: Etiquette as Ritual in The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms |
Burden, Susan Katharine | 1997 | The Bard and the Biographer: Narration and the Subversion of Gender Roles in Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando and Virginia Woolf's Orlando |
Cahn, Wendy | 1997 | An American Picaresque: An Exploration of the Use of the Picaresque in Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn and Jack Kerouac's On the Road |
Dickerman, Mindy | 1997 | Beloved: The Mediation Between the "Actual" and the Possible; Singing a Song When Slavery Denied a Voice |
Fox, Shelly Noelle | 1997 | "Consistency is a Pompous and Wearisome Burden...": Ambivalence in Kate Chopin's The Awakening |
Kidd, Jonathan | 1997 | One Color, Myriad Voices: The Politics of Race, Gender, and Sexuality Within the Black Arts Movement |
O'Connell, Chris | 1997 | When the Thunder Kills a Devil: Technology and Nature in Nelson Algren?s Never Come Morning and Man With the Golden Arm |
Marsh, Tilney Lindrean Elizabeth | 1997 | The Evolution of a Kinder, Gentler Frankenstein: Editorial Changes 1818-1831 and The Reader's Response |
Pellett, Rebecca | 1997 | Jane Austen and the Royal Navy: Democracy and the Individual in Persuasion |
Rabkin, Rachel | 1997 | "Divided Duty": Daughters into Wives in Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Othello, The Tragedy of King Lear, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and The Merchant of Venice |
Saha, Paula | 1997 | Naming Oneself: Orientalism, Patriarchy and a South Asian Tradition |
Schnurstein, Erik James | 1997 | Hawthorne's American History: A Case of Mistaken Identity |
Snyder, Noah | 1997 | Imaginative Reflections: Listing in Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried |
Stein, Alisa Naomi | 1997 | Bringing Down the Angel: Zora Neale Hurston?s Interrogation of "Blackness" and "Whiteness" in Seraph On The Suwanee |
Tolk, Stephanie | 1997 | "Behind this veil of gentleness and peace, night is charging and will burst upon us": An Experience of a Spectator of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot |
Vagnetti, Michael | 1997 | Personalities of Paper: (Re)Visions of a Male Character in Six Novels by Ford Madox Ford, 1910-1928 |
Yamato, D. Andrew | 1997 | Aestheticism Reconsidered: Social Commitment in the Lectures of Oscar Wilde and William Morris |
Yang, Tsung-Tao | 1997 | Alisoun of Bath: The Realism of Her Voice, The Reality of Her Voice |
Glickman, Stephanie | 1997 | Combining Media: W.B. Yeats's Dramatic Collaborations with Dancers |
Hinga, Karoline Jennifer | 1997 | Homosocial Woman-Identification in Kate Chopin's "The Awakening" |
Anton, Matt | 1996 | Life on the Pages of a Story: Virginia Woolf's Theory and Practice of Biography |
Argyres, N.G. | 1996 | Creating Meaning: Discovering a Universal Through Reading |
Crowley, Erin F. | 1996 | Telling Her Own Story: A Feminist Reading of Harold Pinter's The Homecoming and Maria Irene Fornes's Fefu and Her Friends |
Drummond, Robert | 1996 | Writing for a Separate Peace: Anti-Traditions in American War Fiction |
Endoy, Barbara | 1996 | A Tug of War for Narrative Control: Tensions Between Stephen and the Narrator in Joyce's Portrait |
Epstein, Kathryn Elizabeth | 1996 | Visiting With Emily Dickinson |
Gaines, Kimberly Susan | 1996 | Individual Interpretation and Authorial Intent: A Study of the Interactino Between C.S. Lewis's Definitions and Examples of Allegory and Myth |
Grossman, Frederick D. | 1996 | Language as Foundation: Language, Death, and Meaning in White Noise |
Henderson, Mark | 1996 | Detecting Language and Chance in Paul Auster's City of Glass |
Kaza, Madhu | 1996 | Housing the Past: Writing History and Home in Meatless Days |
Kumar, Lisa | 1996 | Touches from the Other Side: The Presence and Function of Magic Realism in Texts by Toni Morrison and Louise Erdrich |
Kusnir, Jennifer M. | 1996 | Fragments of Silence: Investigating Usage of BEV in the Communities of Faulkner's The Sound and the Fur y and Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God |
Lora, Joseph B. | 1996 | Rethinking the Death of God - Self-Referential Postmodern Epistemology: A Critical Analysis of Libra and White Noise |
Goodrich, Anna Moss | 1996 | Franny's Collapse: Beyond the Breakdown |
Nguyen, Bich Minh | 1996 | What Is Bred in the Bone Will Come Out in the Flesh: The Dual Daughter and Emotive Landscapes in the Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder |
Pranikoff, Kara | 1996 | Oral Obligations: Listening to Poets Speak |
Reinglass, Tamara | 1996 | The Burdens of Birth and Tradition: The Influence of Feminism and Judaism on the Literature of Anne Roiphe, Rosellen Brown, and Lynne Sharon Schwartz |
Schwartz, Michael J. | 1996 | Sitting on the Hyphen: Delmore Schwartz's Search for an American-Jewish Voice |
Stevens, Allison K. | 1996 | Don't Tell: Reciting, Singing and Dreaming Stories about Incest |
Thorburn, Matthew | 1996 | Writing in Pleasure: Metafiction and Literary Games in the Fictional Author Novels of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. |
Williamsn, Melina | 1996 | Visiting Madness: Poets on Pound at St. Elisabeth's |
Yoder, Keri | 1996 | Opening Divine Doors: Hildegard's Spiritual Feminine Theology |
Bruner, Christopher M. | 1995 | The Social Limits of Artistic Expression in Mrs. Dalloway and To The Lighthouse |
Czarnecki, Jaroslaw | 1995 | Disinterested Passion: Essays around Shakespeare |
Das, Sunit | 1995 | Nationalism and Self-Realization: The Individual in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children |
Drake, Benjamin | 1995 | Gender Identity in the Wife of Bath |
Gubar, Marah | 1995 | Gender and Generation: A Critical Introduction to the Work of Mrs. Frances Boothby |
Horstein, Scott | 1995 | Rude Awakenings: Representations of Los Angeles on the American Stage |
Manian, Maya | 1995 | Bharati Mukherjee's Fluid Identities: Transformation and Assimilation in Mukherjee's Works |
Sonnenschein, Eric | 1995 | Coming Out, Camping Out: The Politics of Writing Strategy in Contemporary Gay Men's Fiction |
Shamraj, Ina | 1995 | Learning to Read the City: Urban Poetics in Book VII of Wordsworth's The Prelude |
Yezbick, Daniel | 1995 | Dark Music: The History of Aesthetics of Orson Welles' Chimes at Midnight |
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Interior Chinatown: Chinatown as a Performative Space , Audrey Fong
"Old Cod": The Power of Storytelling in Conor McPherson's The Weir , Sarah Johnson
The Beginning of the End: The Cultivation of Transchronological Perceptuality in Arcadia and “Story of Your Life” , Sawyer Kelly
“No One to Show Us the Way:” Assessing the Contemporary Relevance of the Gay Male Bildungsroman , Matthew Lemas
Posthumanism in Literature: Redefining Selfhood, Temporality, and Reality/ies through Fiction , Eileen Kelley Pierce
Catastrophic Progress: A Queer Materialist Analysis of the 2023 Trans/Bud Light Controversy , Brianna Radke
Banned Books and Educational Censorship: The Necessity of Keeping Queer Books in Schools , Rebecca Rhodes
The New Westward Expansion: Settler Colonialism and Gentrification in Paula Fox’s Desperate Characters and Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s Sabrina and Corina , Miranda Roberts
Navigating Identity Through Education in Literature and in the Classroom , Sofia Sakzlyan
Nobody Inside: Toni Morrison's "Recitatif": An Analysis on Whole/Incomplete Bodies, "The Maggie Thing"and Sick and Dancing Mothers , Emily Velasquez
“Everything and Nothing”: Exhibiting Irishness at the Chicago World Fair of 1893 , Jessica Bocinski
Beyond Allegory: Postcolonial Debates in Science Fiction , Su Chen
Lovecraftian Queerness: Weird and Queer Temporalities in Lovecraft Country and Detransition, Baby , Eurydice Dye
The Dictator Novel in YA Latinx Fantasy , Catherine Gallegos
Humanization of the Refugee as the Modern Subject in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West , Ani Gazazyan
“Henrietta and Harriet:” Considering the Marginalized Best Friend in Burney’s Cecilia and Austen’s Emma , Elena Goodenberger
Rising Costs of Universities and the Impact on Teaching Effectiveness and Student Outcomes , Patrick Hanna
Failure Facing Pedagogy in First-Year Rhetoric and Composition Classrooms , Karuna Minh Hin
Steps Toward Healing from the Possessive Other: The Vital Role of Fantastical Literature in Trauma Theory , Rebekah Izard
Mirroring Financial Speculation and Late Capitalism Through Speculative Fiction: Worker Gullibility and Guilt as Re-imagination of Human Value , Ian Koh
Oceans of Literature - The Little Mermaid , Makena Metz
What Makes a Woman "Pious and Good": The Function of Several Grimm Brothers' Cautionary Fairy Tales , Hannah Montante
From the Master’s Maternity to Redemptive Nurturing: Liberating Motherhood in Toni Morrison’s Beloved and N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth Trilogy , Isabelle Stillman
“Beauty and the Beast” and the Representation of the Female: How Fairy Tales Reinforce and Influence Our Current Understanding of Gender Roles , Elizabeth N. Tran
The Significance of Maintaining Character Integrity in Literary Retellings , Sara Turner
Mrs. Dalloway as a Window for Understanding Life , Kristen Venegas
The Domestic Worker in Latinx Fiction: The Discursive Formation of Latinidad , Constance von Igel de Mello
Dorian Gray: The Myth , Peggy Sue Wood
Potential For a Pedagogical Level-Up: Teaching First-Year Composition Through Rhetoric of Gaming , Cayman Beeman
Personhood and Objecthood: Examining the Speaker’s Interiority and Double Consciousness in Citizen: An American Lyric , Winnie Chak
Innately American, Black America’s Inheritance: A Rhetorical Analysis of Black Death & Identity , Montéz Jennings
Examining Wonder Woman through a Feminist Voice: How Patty Jenkins’ 2017 Adaptation Upheaved her Creation, Representation, and 80 Year Legacy , Tatiana Madrid
“Strumpet,” “Huswife,” “Whore”: Centering Othello ’s Bianca , Phoebe Merten
Lack of Affirmative Consent: Trauma in Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Interpreter of Maladies” , Ansalee Morrison
Traumas and Recovery in Takaya Natsuki's Fruits Basket , Vesper North
Poverty, Social Isolation, Uselessness, and Loneliness: The Fears and Anxieties of 19th-Century British Governesses , Lydia Pejovic
Speaking Up For Generic Asians in Charles Yu’s Interior Chinatown , Orel Shilon
The Brain Scan as Ideograph , Paige Welsh
Changing the Definition of the Orient Through Hollywood , Amanda Yaghmai
The Dystopian Impulse and Media Consumption: Redefining Utopia Via the Narrative Economics of the New Media Age , Turki Alghamdi
Collaborative Storytelling: Composition Pedagogy and Communal Benefits of Narrative Innovation , Aysel Atamdede
Feminist Rhetorics: Theory and Practice of Strategic Silence , Paolena Comouche
Surveillance: The Digital Dark Side , Brittyn Davis
Fanfiction As: Searching for Significance in the Academic Realm , Megan Friess
Realism & Language: How Luis Alberto Urrea Uses Bilingualism to Elevate His Works of Realism , Ashley Gomez
"A Mind of Metal and Wheels": Agrarian Ruralism in Joss Whedon's Firefly and J.R.R Tolkien's The Lord of The Rings , Christopher Hines
“Why Are We Still Reading About Rosa Parks?”: Essential Questions for Continuation Schools , Samantha Mbodwam
Decolonizing the Body , Daniel Miess
Black Panther Shatters Social Binaries to Explore Postcolonial Themes: How Ancestry, Identity, Revenge, and the Third Space Impact the Ability to Navigate Change and Create New Forms of Cultural Hybridity , Deborah Paquin
Anti-Racist Pedagogy: A Practical Means of Building Bonds Between Marginalized Students and Instructors in the Composition Classroom , Santa-Victoria Pérez
Fear Then and Now: The Vampire as a Reflection of Society , Mackenzie Phelps
Monstrous and Beautiful: Jungian Archetypes in Wilde’s Salomé , Nayana Rajnish
Journeying to a Third Space of Sovereignty: Explorations of Land, Cultural Hybridity, and Sovereignty in Ceremony and There There , Jillian Eve Sanchez
Through the Female Perspective: An Analysis of Male Characters in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey , Natalia Sanchez
The Tiered Workshop: The Effects of Using a Paced Workshop in a Composition Classroom , Madison Shockley
Aztlán Potentialities: Queer Male Chicanx Affect and Temporalities , Ethan Trejo
Partying Like It's 1925: A Comparison and Contrast of Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Azuela's The Underdogs , Sarah N. Valadez
Stephen Dedalus and the Mind as Hypertext in Ulysses , Ariel Banayan
Lessons from Hybridity: A Look into the Coupling of Image and Text in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Letters to Memory , Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric , and Ilya Kaminsky’s Deaf Republic , Elizabeth Chen
Dawn of the Undead Classroom: Pop-Culture in the First-Year Composition Classroom , Sierra A. Ellison
Moving Beyond Grades: A Shift in Assessing First-Year Composition , Matthew Goldman
Murmurs of Revolution: Mythical Subversion in Dostoevsky , Connor Guetersloh
The Fallen Woman: An Exploration of the Voiceless Women in Victorian England through Three Plays of Oscar Wilde , Marco Randazzo
The Ubume Challenge: A Digital Environmental Humanities Project , Sam Risak
Student Disposition Towards Discussing Race in the Classroom , Natalie Salagean
Trauma Begetting Trauma: Fukú, Masks, and Implicit Forgiveness in the Works of Junot Díaz , Jacob VanWormer
‘Amore Captus:’ Turning Bedtricks in the Arthurian Canon , Candice Yacono
The Contradictory Faces of “Sisterhood”: A Case-Study on Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Its Theatrical Adaptation by James Willing and Leonard Rae, Gloria Naylor’s The Women of Brewster Place, and Liane Moriarty’s Big Little Lies and Its Miniseries Adaptation on HBO , Lama Alsulaiman
Terrence McNally’s Universalizing Model: The Role of Disability in Andre’s Mother; Lips Together, Teeth Apart ; and Love! Valour! Compassion! , Alexa Burnstine
A Way to Persist: Storytelling and Its Effect on Trauma in Gábor Schein’s The Book of Mordechai and Lazarus , Duncan Capriotti
Language: A Bridge or Barrier to Social Groups , Adina Corke
Haole Like Me: Identity Construction and Politics in Hawaii , Savanah Janssen
Black Women’s Bodies as the Site of Malignity: Interrogating (Mis)representations of Black Women in 16th and 17th Century British Literature , Tonika Reed
The Efficacy of Varying Small Group Workshops in the Composition Classroom , Daniel Strasberger
Does Money Indeed Buy Happiness? “The Forms of Capital” in Fitzgerald’s Gatsby and Watts’ No One is Coming to Save Us , Allie Harrison Vernon
Player-Response: On the Nature of Interactive Narratives as Literature , Lee Feldman
The Rhetoric of Disability: an Analysis of the Language of University Disability Service Centers , Katie Ratermann
The Ritualization of Violence in The Magic Toyshop , Victor Chalfant
Concrete Reality: The Posthuman Landscapes of J.G. Ballard , Mark Hausmann
Readers in Pursuit of Popular Justice: Unraveling Conflicting Frameworks in Lolita , Innesa Ranchpar
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Listening to "Silence": Alternative Modes of Communication in Korean and Korean American Women's Literature , Judy Joo-Ae Bae
The Ecology of American Noir , Katrina Younes
Poetics in Transit: Indigenous, Diasporic, and Settler Women’s Contemporary Writing in Canada , Christine Campana
Bodies of Silence and Space: Victimhood, Complicity, and Resistance in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale , Sana H. Mufti
Capacious Feminism: Intimacy and Otherness in Mina Loy's Poetry , Elise Ottavino
Romantic Citation and the Receding Future , Andrew Sargent
Love-Worlds: Performance of Love as Decolonial Worldmaking in India and in Indigenous Theatre on Northern Turtle Island , Sheetala Bhat
Diaspora and Abjection of a Nowhere in Particular: Theorizing the Hyphen in Iranian-Canadian Narratives , Mahdiyeh Ezzatikarami
Nostalgic Metafiction: The Adventure Fiction of Stevenson, Kipling, and Conrad , Hanji Lee
Men under Microscopes: “Medical Gaze” and Homeostasis in Victorian Realist Literature , Nida Rashid
The Time Helix: Nonlinear Narrative Structures and the Paradox of Delayed Simultaneity , Jaclyn A. Reed
Representing Women and the 1947 Partition in Hindi Cinema and Television (1948-Present) , Nidhi Shrivastava
Buried Feelings, Standing Stones: Secularity, Animism, and Late-Victorian Pagan Revivalism , Jeff Swim
Speaking Chastity: Female Speech, Silence, and the Strategic Performance of Chaste Identity in Early Modern Drama and Women's Writing , Lisa Templin
Unsettling Sympathy: Indigenous and Settler Conversations from the Great Lakes Region, 1820-1860 , Erin Akerman
Unmade and Unmanned Men: Reading Traumatized Masculinity in Late Nineteenth-Century British Adventure Fiction through the Lens of the Indian “Mutiny” of 1857 , Madison A. Bettle
Artificial Frontiers, Simulated Indigeneity: Western Big-Budget Open World Games and the Settler Colonial Imaginary , Adam Bowes
Bible Translations And Literary Responses: Re-reading Missionary Interventions In Africa Through Local Perspectives , Chinelo Ezenwa
Capital Distress: Productive Citizenship and Mental Health in Adolescent Literature , Jeremy TL Johnston
Refusing Interpretation: Waste Ecologies in Victorian Fiction and Prose , Nahmi Lee
Resonances: An Examination of Republication Through Four Case Studies , F S. Nakhaie
“The seal set on our nationhood”: Canadian Literary Responses to the South African War (1899-1902) , Alicia C. Robinet
Exquisite Corpses: Markedness, Gender, and Death in Video Games , Meghan Blythe Adams
Critiquing Psychiatry, Narrating Trauma: Madness in Twentieth-Century North American Literature and Film , Sarah Blanchette
Duration and Depravity: Religious and Secular Temporality in Puritanism and the American Gothic , Taylor Kraayenbrink
Sacred Mnemonics in Late Medieval England: ars memoria in the Hagiography of Osbern Bokenham , Erica C. Leighton
Malory, Chivalric Medievalism, and New Imperialist Masculinity , Andrew LiVecchi
Land, Water, and Stars: Relationality in Anishinaabe and Diasporic Literature , Maral Moradipour
Atmosphere and Religious Experience in American Transcendentalism , Thomas Sorensen
Material Witness: Occult Affects in the Mystery Fiction of the Fin de Siècle , Thomas Matthew Stuart
Semantic Shift in Old English and Old Saxon Identity Terms , David A. Carlton
Financial Frictions: Money and Materiality in American Literary Naturalism, 1890-1925 , Patricia Luedecke
Criminal Masculinities and the Newgate Novel , Taylor R. Richardson
Everywhere, Animals Appear: Species, Race, and the State in Literature from the Raj to Global India , Jason Sandhar
Antichrist in the Shadows: Biblical Allusion in Richard III and Macbeth , Curtis J. Simpson
Georgic Political Economy: Emergent Forms of Order and Liberal Statecraft in Eighteenth-Century British Poetry , Jonathan Stillman
Agnotologies of Modernism: Knowing the Unknown in Lewis, Woolf, Pound, and Joyce , Jeremy Colangelo
Species Panic: Interspecies Erotics in Post-1900 American Literature , David Huebert
Unread: The (Un)published Texts of Romanticism , Marc D. Mazur
Narrative Immunities: The Logic of Infection and Defense in American Speculative Fiction , Riley R. McDonald
Buddhism in Progress: Ecstasy, Eternity, and Zen Sickness in the English Romantics , Logan M. Rohde
Romantic Metasubjectivity: Rethinking the Romantic Subject Through Schelling and Jung , Gord Barentsen
The Hermetic Enigma of a Protean Poet: Gnosis and the Puritanical Error in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis , Luke Jennings
Literary Language Revitalization: nêhiyawêwin, Indigenous Poetics, and Indigenous Languages in Canada , Emily L. Kring
The Unknown Soldier in the 21st Century: War Commemoration in Contemporary Canadian Cultural Production , Andrew Edward Lubowitz
Islam's Low Mutterings at High Tide: Enslaved African Muslims in American Literature , Zeinab McHeimech
Appearing Live: Spectatorship, Affect, and Liveness in Contemporary British Performance , Meghan O'Hara
Spaces of Collapse: Psychological Deterioration, Subjectivity, and Spatiality in American Narratives , Andrew Papaspyrou
No Delicate Flower: Victorian Floral Symbolism’s Mediation of Social Issues in Selected Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Alfred Tennyson, John Ruskin, and Isabella Bird Bishop , Christine Penhale
Waiting for God: John Milton’s Millenarianism Reconsidered , Rainerio George Ramos
Terrorism, Islamization, and Human Rights: How Post 9/11 Pakistani English Literature Speaks to the World , Shazia Sadaf
Crossing the Line: Censorship, Borders, and the Queer Poetics of Disclosure in English-Canadian Writing, 1967-2000 , Kevin T. Shaw
Imagining the Unimagined Metropolis: Privilege, Liminality, and Peripheral Communities in the Contemporary Urban Situation , Colton R. Sherman
Rhetorical Ductus in Chaucerian Ekphrasis , Emily Laura Pez
"The Sense of An Ending": The Destabilizing Effect of Performance Closure in Shakespeare's Plays , Megan Lynn Selinger
Of the Last Verses in the Book: Old Age, Caregiving, and Early Modern Literature , Emily M. Sugerman
Reading the Canadian Battlefield at Quebec, Queenston, Batoche, and Vimy , Rebecca Campbell
Turning to Food: Religious Contact and Conversion in Early Modern Drama , Fatima F. Ebrahim
Reading Boredom in Tennyson, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris, and Christina Rossetti , Rebekah Ann Lamb
Creating Difference: The Legal Production of Race in American Slavery , Shaun N. Ramdin
About Telling: Ghosts and Hauntings in Contemporary Drama and Poetry , Leif Erik Schenstead-Harris
The Aesthetics of Romantic Hellenism , Derek Shank
The Luminous Detail: The Evolution of Ezra Pound's Linguistic and Aesthetic Theories from 1910-1915 , John J. Allaster
"Rank Corpuscles": Soil and Identity in Eighteenth-Century Representations , Nina Patricia Budabin McQuown
The Romantic Posthuman and Posthumanities , Elizabeth Effinger
Transnational Conversations: The New Yorker and Canadian Short Story Writers , Nadine Fladd
The Book Beautiful: Aestheticism, Materiality, and Queer Books , Frederick D. King
Graphic Drama: Reading Shakespeare in the Comics Medium , Russell H. McConnell
Diffuse Connections: Making Sense of Smell in Canadian Diasporic Women's Writing , Stephanie Oliver
“Companions of the Flame”: Concealment and Revelation in H.D.’s Trilogy , Cam Riddell
Dirty Modernism: Ecological Objects in American Poetry , Michael D. Sloane
EECOLOGY: (pata)physical taoism in e. e. cummings’s poetry , Nathan B. TeBokkel
Fatal Attraction: The Fetishized Image of the Fatal Woman as Gothic Double , Margaret Anne Young
Storied Truths: Contemporary Canadian and Indigenous Childhood Trauma Narratives , Michelle Coupal
Feeling With Imagination: Sympathy and Postwar American Poetry , Timothy A. DeJong
After Dark: Reading Canadian Literature in a Light-Polluted Age , David S. Hickey
Dark Sympathy: Desiring the Other in Godwin, Coleridge, and Shelley , Jeffrey T. King
Strata, Soma, Psyche: Narrative and the Imagination in the Nineteenth-Century Science of Lyell, Darwin, and Freud , Pascale M. Manning
Uncommon Ecology: Reading the Romantic Oikos , Shalon Noble
"Radiant Imperfection": The Interconnected Writing Lives of Robert Bringhurst, Dennis Lee, Tim Lilburn, Don McKay, and Jan Zwicky , Kostantina Northrup
Preposterous America: The Language of Inversion in Thoreau, Melville, and Hawthorne , Rasmus R. Simonsen
Metaphor and Metanoia: Linguistic Transfer and Cognitive Transformation in British and Irish Modernism , Andrew C. Wenaus
Hazardous Experiments: The Elusive Prefaces of William Godwin, Mary Hays, William Wordsworth and Percy Bysshe Shelley , Jeffrey W. Miles
Architectures of the Veil: The Representation of the Veil and Zenanas in Pakistani Feminists' Texts , Amber Fatima Riaz
Miscegenation in the Marvelous: Race and Hybridity in the Fantasy Novels of Neil Gaiman and China Miéville , Nikolai Rodrigues
Broken Passages and Broken Promises: Reconstructing the Komagata Maru and Air India Cases , Alia Rehana Somani
Residues of the Cold War: Emergent Waste Consciousness in Postwar American Culture and Fiction , Thomas J. Barnes
Biological Inheritance and the Social Order in Late-Victorian Fiction and Science , Sherrin Berezowsky
Life Among the Machines: James Joyce's Ulysses and Early Twentieth-Century Technology , Patrick Casey
Social Money: Literary Engagements with Economics in Early Modern English Drama , Myungjin Choi
States of Insurgency: Dismemberment and Citizenship in the American 1848 , David J. Drysdale
Re-forging the smith: an interdisciplinary study of smithing motifs in Völuspá and Völundarkviða , Leif Einarson
Touching Bodies/Bodies Touching: The Ethics of Touch in Victorian Literature (1860-1900) , Ann M.C. Gagne
Feeling Better: The Therapeutic Drug in Modernism , Philip Glennie
Corporeal Returns: Theatrical Embodiment and Spectator Response in Early Modern Drama , Caroline R. Lamb
Seeking the Self in Pigment and Pixels: Postmodernism, Art, and the Subject , Selma Purac
Total Men!: Literature, Nationalism, and Mascuilinity in Early Canada , Aaron J. Schneider
Alternative Be/longing: Modernity and Material Culture in Bengali Cinema, 1947-1975 , Suvadip Sinha
Graphomania: Composing Subjects in Late-Victorian Gothic Fiction and Technology , Gregory D. Brophy
The Burdens of Body's Beauty: Pre-Raphaelite Representations of the Body in William Morris's the Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems (1858) and Algernon Swinburne's Poems , Thomas A. Steffler
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Recent submissions, queer ecofeminism: from binary feminist environmental endeavours to postgender pursuits , ‘trying to draw a map of a child’s mind’: a study of the influence of childhood experience on the literary works of j. m. barrie through a freudian lens , a literary and cultural analysis of the mistreatment of women portrayed in the works of female irish writers and critical social events in ireland 1984-2022 , constitutionally codified, the myth of the maternal in the national imaginary , revolution, rebellion and vampires: colonial hybridity in irish gothic literature and historical documents , good grief: changing attitudes to childhood grief in children's literature , sarah atkinson (1823-1893) in the irish quarterly review, duffy’s hibernian magazine, duffy’s hibernian sixpenny magazine, the month and the irish monthly: a study of nineteenth-century irish women writers and their literary and publishing networks (1857-1893) , the irish question: an investigation into irish language self-efficacy beliefs in adults , ‘jaysus, keep talking like that and you’ll fit right in’- an investigation of oral irish english in contemporary irish fiction , a journey through learner language: tracking development using pos tag sequences in large-scale learner data , a corpus-based comparative pragmatic analysis of irish english and canadian english , céad mίle fáilte: a corpus-based study of the development of a community of practice within the irish hotel management training sector , a literary theoretical exploration of silenced african women from psychoanalytic and feminist perspectives , teacher talk at three stages of english language teacher career development: a corpus-aided study , breaking through the looking-glass: (re)imagining alice through visual representation , ‘with great power comes great responsibility’: the impact of the parent-child relationship on the development of the heroic identity within comic book and graphic novel culture , 'take him to the cleaners and make him do your homework': a corpus-based analysis of lexical structure used by english language learners , a postcolonial and disability studies analysis of a selection of popular contemporary novels about disability , the untold story of the monster: a psychoanalytic analysis of the monster through the anamorphic lens , the genesis of the hunter figure: a study of the dialectic between the biographical and the aesthetic in the early writings of hunter s. thompson .
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Ty cronkhite, american literary studies, scarlett higgins, chair, from peer review to peer review conference: increasing collaboration in asynchronous and synchronous computer-mediated modes in a technical and professional communication class, sofia tarabrina, rhetoric and writing, cristyn elder, chair, museum of clean: a memoir, cyrus stuvland, creative writing, greg martin, chair, meadowlark: poems, tyler hayes-mortensen, creative writing, stephen benz and diane thiel, chairs, maneuvering mestizaje in shakespeare's tragiccomedies, andrea borunda, british and irish literary studies, marissa greenberg, chair, jennifer tubbs , creative writing, andrew bourelle , chair.
The lines between fact and fiction, real and surreal blur in this collection of magical realist tales. A young woman, coerced into hunting mysterious creatures in the forest, discovers that her worldview is marred by prejudice in “The Woods,” only to lose the family and support network on which she has relied for her entire life. The nature of storytelling itself is examined in “Violet,” in which a pregnant teenager has to make difficult decisions for her baby, informed by the complex and restrictive geopolitical systems in which we live. Meanwhile, the teen protagonist in “Redbud” struggles against the tyranny of the beauty industry in her small-town dystopia. “ Starseed ” examines the impact of Otherizing, while “The Soap Factory” takes on issues of consent and gendered violence. “The Garden” and “The Hive” follow this through line into an increasingly alienating and isolating postindustrial world. Each of these stories asks readers, What does it mean to be an outsider? Fortunately, it turns out you can see a lot from the outside looking in .
Lisa chavez , chair.
Even if something’s observable, does that mean we can trust it? In Spectator, a collection of poems in three parts, a speaker asks this question repeatedly. As a child of immigrants, her identity feels constantly in flux and, often, threatened. What does it mean that her identity doesn’t take the form her parents ascribe to her? She finds that her present often feels like a betrayal of the past, especially as she begins to fall in love—which is, in itself, a kind of illusion. An illusion, though, is still instructive—perhaps more so than something we believe, unshakably to be true.
Spectator is a dance between the present and the past. The speaker collects and arranges her memories to try to make sense of her present and, indeed, she finds bright moments of clarity. Ultimately, though, she finds herself manipulating the images of the people she loves to more closely mirror herself—and her self will not stay still.
Vicki vanbrocklin , american literary studies, jesse aleman , chair.
Too many scholars still rely on adjectives such as deviant, unruly, dangerous, and wild to describe women who interrogate rigid forms of womanhood, especially women of color. My project intervenes in nineteenth-century womanhood discussions, which have traditionally solidified three main categories: Republican, True, and New Womanhood. Between True Womanhood in the mid-nineteenth century and the late nineteenth-century concept of New Womanhood lies an overlooked category aptly understood as Lost Womanhood. I focus on newspaper archives, archival research, and imaginative literature to find “lost” women who critiqued a patriarchal system that thrives on women living in a status akin to being socially dead. Recovering marginalized women writers and reexamining how women openly questioned the gender roles prescribed to them proves that an alternate model of womanhood always existed. Lost Women can recognize the instabilities in their lives and work to change them through negotiation or resistance. They deeply understand their second-class status and rebel against it with successful strategies of writing located in their literary texts and the historical archive. Lost Womanhood creates a critical approach to embracing more nineteenth-century women’s material conditions and lived realities. As a more normative form of womanhood, Lost Womanhood directly critiques a patriarchal system that thrives on women as second-class citizens with a lack of rights. This new category of womanhood will remedy True and New Womanhood’s problematic nature as forms of unsustainable womanhood and decenter middle-class whiteness as the principal determiner of womanhood with an interracial approach. Women who would not or could not embody True Womanhood provide a more expansive way of understanding nineteenth-century womanhood in the United States.
Melisa n. garcia , rhetoric and writing, bethany davila , chair.
This autoethnography argues that alternative discourses are necessary to give voice to non-dominant narratives and to engage with underrepresented identities and experiences. I use the frameworks of constellating identities and decolonial imaginaries to explore the narratives of my Central American immigrant parents and my own first generation Central American-American experiences. Specifically, I examine a graphic narrative and multimodal installation that I created in order to discover enacted constellating identities that are not fixed but disbursed and change over time. I also describe the decolonial imaginaries, the “third spaces” that are created from the lived experiences of underrepresented individuals, made visible in these narratives. Understanding and accessing constellating identities and decolonial imaginaries is vital to countering the shame, secrecy and silence that is common among the Central American diaspora .
Misty thomas , rhetoric and writing , beth davila, chair.
This dissertation uses FCDA to investigate the construction and control of the boundaries of normativity as they relate to the body. Data in the form of comments was collected from three different Instagram accounts run by individuals with non-normative bodies. From the data, I argue that not only are non-normative bodies controlled through the coded language of health, but through racialized dehumanization. Even alleged demonstrations of support are problematized through what is being supported. The Instagram comments left on the accounts of non-normative bodies demonstrates that these bodies are suppressed as a way to maintain normative ideologies.
Amanda kooser, creative writing, daniel mueller, chair.
The past is never gone in The Buried Train, a collection of three stories that engages with memory, memoir and postmodernism. “A Patchwork Person” melds fiction and nonfiction across a novella-length metaphysical detective story as an alter ego of the writer goes on a cross-country search for her missing, Pynchon-obsessed stepfather. “The Nature of Love is Lingering” uses the personal essay as an exploration of the writer’s alcoholic father and his legacy in her life. “The Buried Train,” a short fiction story, investigates childhood trauma reemerging in the relationship between the writer and her brother as they seek out a flood-ravaged New Mexico ghost town. Themes of family, the search for the self and (of course) trains unite this trio of tales.
Laurie lowrance, american literary studies, jesse aleman, chair.
This dissertation examines how Native American and Mexican American women in the greater Southwest negotiated domestic expectations within their own cultures while navigating the demands of encroaching Anglo culture to produce something new: hybrid domesticities rooted in the region, which I call regional domesticities. Chapter 1 focuses on María Amparo Ruiz de Burton and connects her novels Who Would Have Thought It? and The Squatter and the Don to the rhetoric of the Overland Monthly. Chapter 2 explores bicultural collaborations between Native American and Anglo women and focuses on Sarah Winnemucca’s Life Among the Piutes and Helen Sekaqueptewa’s Me and Mine. Chapter 3 examines public preservation through Adina De Zavala’s History and Legends of the Alamo and Jovita González’s Dew on the Thorn and Caballero. Chapter 4 pairs the Sherman Institute with Leslie Marmon Silko’s Gardens in the Dunes to demonstrate how gardens produce hybrid domestic spaces .
Lisa chavez, chair.
Poetry has long been a method for story-telling. I have implemented prose and poetry to give voice to memoir. Personal photographs and illustrations I created are used in counterpoint to the poems, to exemplify the silences experienced by children who were raised in trauma and how one can move beyond the trauma experience, yet still keeps aspects of that trauma with them in a way that impacts all future interactions of their life.
Darren donate, creative writing.
The following dissertation is made up of a collection of poems concerning Mexican-American labor, socioeconomic distress and transnationality. While the work in this dissertation attempts to understand "brownness" through the lens of migration and marginalization, it aims to present the contemporary realities of Mexican-American peoples. Through a combination of "traditional poetics" (what the author dubs as left-hand margin poems) and "VisPo," the collection attempts to understand the complexity of intergenerational and multicultural relationships in Hispanic communities. The collected poetry is intended to be hyper-regional, concerned with violence that occurs in urban Los Angeles—violence that is sexual, corporeal, and emotional in nature. The author is concerned with how race and culture is constructed (and reacted towards) through poetry. This work includes photographs from the author’s family members in hopes to better understand the obstacles of immigrant experience.
Amarlie foster, creative writing.
This creative dissertation is a suite of short fiction and essays. This project is an exploration of love and romance, with a pointed interest in how wider cultural narratives about "romance" impact both the author and her characters in their experiences of love and romance. The collection examines what happens when “the Real” brushes up against simulation models, and ultimately asks the question: what is authentic and true, and does the Real exist?
Seth garcia, creative writing, thank you, john, michelle gurule, creative writing.
THANK YOU, JOHN is a comedy-tragedy memoir, following 24-year-old, Michelle Gurule, a queer, wanna-be writer, exasperated by poverty, bad teeth, and the poor choices of her family. With a Chicano father convinced aliens will eventually rule the world, and a White mother who’d maxed out her credit cards to feed her McDonald’s addiction, Michelle turns to Oprah Winfrey’s SuperSoul Sunday episodes for insight, which leads her to believe a sugar daddy arrangement is her density. As John becomes aware of the severity of Michelle’s family’s poverty, he leverages it against her, offering financial security for the lot of them in exchange for marriage and Michelle must decide between lifelong financial security for her and her family or the uncertain path of an artist.
Julie shigekuni, chair.
MOTHERING is a story cycle that focuses on Igbo women dealing with the complexities of patriarchy in their marriages, parental relationships, friendships, sibling relationships, and their environments. It’s a book about longing, about promises made to address this longing, and about the consequences of decisions made based on those promises. The women in MOTHERING live in either Albuquerque or Enugu, one arriving to meet a long-time lover who finally has his papers and can have her join him, another moving to America to find her long-lost brother who disappeared in the 80s. These women are strong-willed and make their own decisions, or at least think they do.
Heather johnson lapahie, creative writing, sharon warner and daniel mueller, chairs.
In this novella, Charlotte Smith, the main character, a gay Dine fifteen-year-old girl, is propelled into prostitution with an abusive older man. In the beginning, Charlotte is kicked out of her mother's home for having a homosexual relationship with another girl, Ava. The two girls try to make it on the street, homeless, together, but fail. Circumstances force Charlotte to resort to prostitution to support them both.
Lauren perry, american literary studies, jesse alemán, chair.
This dissertation examines how key environmental texts from the late nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries portray animals and the changing conception of animal lives. Beginning with short stories by Sarah Orne Jewett and Jack London, the first chapter examines how early environmentally-minded writers developed animals' independent subjectivity. The second chapter analyzes how Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac (1949) and Sarah Carson’s Silent Spring (1962) promote ecological awareness by paying attention to animal time. Chapter three argues that Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire (1968) develops a layered understanding of animal consciousness. Chapter four contends that Terry Tempest Williams’ Refuge (1991) merges the genre of memoir with scientific writing to chronicle animal memories. Chapter five analyzes Dan Flores’ Coyote America (2016) and Nate Blakeslee’s American Wolf (2017) as examples of animal texts that utilize history, mythology, science, and decades of wildlife watching to create a new kind of literary animal presence that accurately conveys what animals have experienced and continue to experience alongside humans.
Leandra binder, british & irish literary studies, gail houston, chair.
This dissertation examines the symbol of an art object which represents a corpse or dead person’s identity, what I call the abject d’art , as it appears in fin de siècle supernatural fiction by Vernon Lee (Violet Paget) to identify late Victorian notions of Kristevan abjection, avant la lettre . Lee’s aesthetic philosophy informs her use of the abject d’art , especially her examination of the empathetic process as part of aesthetics to explain how individuals represent and respond to objects mentally and emotionally. Through her analysis of empathy, Lee identifies the ego as a fallible moderator of an individual’s responses and judgments towards the external world. Lee’s fiction uses the abject d’art to expose how ego-driven perception results in abusive representations of women and the laboring classes. This project identifies expressions of the abject d’art in Lee’s fiction, tracing her critique of determinism, religion, marriage, and social injustice as sources of abjection.
Loyola bird, rhetoric & writing, the ridgeway ghost, mitch marty, creative writing, gregory martin, chair.
The Ridgeway Ghost is a memoir in essays about alcohol and alcoholism, about the way my father’s alcoholism has affected my life, about the way that generational alcoholism in my father’s family has affected my life, my relationships, and the way I think about myself. It’s about how place and culture can create the ideal circumstances for addiction to take root in a family and never let go. The story told through The Ridgeway Ghost isn’t unique – it’s abundantly common – but through this selection of essays I analyze the culturally embedded mentality of drinking as a staple of life in Wisconsin and the way functional alcoholism can crater a person or a family.
Ariel mcguirk , creative writing.
This creative dissertation is a first-person dramatic memoir. This project is an exploration of grief and longing to connect to a mother who died before the narrator could form memory. It examines grief, family, escape, and home, through an Aristotelian ‘hero’s journey’ story structure that connects with several social issues prevalent in US discourse for the past two decades—including the opioid epidemic, migration between Mexico and the US, post 9/11 conflicts in the Middle East, and economic bereavement. Influences for this project include Tobias Wolff, Alison Bechdel, Mary Karr, Leslie Jamison, and James Baldwin.
Emily murphy, creative writing.
This collection of poetry explores themes of time, memory, and identity through a lens crafted after a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Novel. Drawing on the author’s personal experiences and history, this collection confronts the reader with the historical implications of their own choices through a structure that compels multiple readings, leading to new discoveries of the interior experience of choice. A pair of choices located at the end of each poem confront the reader with an opportunity to complete the poem as best suits them. Each successive re-reading will result in new iterations of the book’s structure, though the odds of any two readings being identical are vanishingly small. By successively re-reading and re-engaging with the contents of this book, the reader is given the opportunity to re-create a history and by so doing, re-create their own.
Dalicia raymond, medieval studies, anita obermeier, chair.
This project examines authorial representations of the morality of three functions of love magic: to induce, to disrupt, and to facilitate love in twelfth- through fifteenth-century Middle High German, Old French, and Middle English romances. Using a cultural studies approach with close textual analysis and informed by gender studies, it investigates medieval romance authors’ discomfort with love inducing magic and asserts that this discomfort is a response to the magic’s violation of free will, a central tenet of medieval theology. I find that authors condemn love inducing magic but mark specific instances acceptable through explicit clarification of divine approval. Love disrupting and facilitating magic do not inherently violate free will, and so the morality of the magical practitioner’s motivations is extended onto the love magic. This project provides an understanding of how medieval authors grappled with the morality attached to love magic and how they communicated this morality to audiences.
Rubin rodriguez, creative writing, stephen benz, chair.
Mass and Shadow is a book of prose poems centered around the death of a mother and the maturation of a her son. It investigates what it means to be Chicano in suburban California, as well as the toll disease has on family. In the preface, the author presents his poetic aesthetic as well as the themes of the book: family dynamics, disease, religion, and class dynamics.
Soha turfler, rhetoric & writing.
This dissertation presents a framework for writing instructor participation in the design of writing program assessment technologies. I base this framework on a case study into the participation of 16 non-tenure track (NTT) and graduate teaching assistant (GTA) writing instructors in the design of a final portfolio assignment prompt for the first-year composition (FYC) program at the University of New Mexico (UNM). I specifically question how Writing Program Administrators (WPAs) and assessment designers can address the needs, interests, and values of writing instructors in the design of writing program assessment technologies, including the important need for agency and professional autonomy. Relying on Broad's Dynamic Criteria Mapping and Wenger's social theories of community and participation, I present and analyze a methodology for shaping instructor participation in the design process. Finally, I present findings relating instructors' participation to the concept of writing assessment validity.
W. oliver baker, american literary studies (mellon fellowship).
This project studies how ethnic American literature of the long nineteenth century represents the relationship between the dispossession of lands and lives—the histories of settler colonialism and slavery—and the making of democracy and capitalism in the United States. We often think of this relationship in terms of temporally distinct stages in which the formal equality of democracy and the marketplace overcome and thus leave behind the direct domination of colonization and enslavement. However, I focus on how the early novels of Indigenous, African, and Mexican American writers from the period of manifest destiny to the New Deal era represent the ways colonial and racial dispossession are not overcome by but in fact underpin and cohere liberal democracy and its market economy. I argue that the formal dissonance of these early novels—the way the narrative and aesthetic structures of these works contain irresolvable tensions and oppositions that foreclose harmony or unity in their formal visions or experiences—embodies how the social cohesion, cooperation, and consent required for liberal democracy and the wage labor relation are produced through and continue to depend on Native dispossession and anti-Black subjection. In doing so, they serve as a key literary history or archive of narrative forms mapping a formative period in the history of racial capitalism. These early novels reveal how whiteness and settler sovereignty serve as the linchpins of capitalism. That is, they demonstrate how the violence of anti-Indianness and anti-Blackness generates the forms of unity among settlers that help overcome the contradictions of US capitalism in ways that enable its meteoric expansion in the long nineteenth century when the United States transforms from a settler colony into a settler empire at the center of the world system in the twentieth century. In this way, my project contributes to how we understand race and capitalism. It shows not only how capitalism depends on producing racial, colonial, gender, and sexual difference, but also how the ability for capitalism to expand in the face of its internal conflict between labor and capital is made possible through this unity among settlers generated by colonization and enslavement.
Vincent basso, american literary studies (bilinski fellowship).
This study demonstrates how American literary naturalism, roughly between 1870-1910, and U.S. print culture more generally, projected an aesthetics of (dis)integration. The term (dis)integration is particularly useful in thinking through the ways traumatic and disintegrative episodes coordinate and integrate U.S. publics. I periodize this work in the turn-of-the-century because it was then that realist literature coincides with the expansion of the national press and new media technologies like photography and film, all of which facilitated the widespread dissemination of crisis narratives, marking the period as the advent of what is popularly referred to as disaster culture in the United States. Through these technologies, I further argue that social and environmental crises underwent a widespread cultural sublimation into entertainment commodities and thereby normalized statist socioeconomic control. I apply the logic of social ecology to critique how U.S. literary naturalism and print culture responded to the naturalization and spectacle of poverty, addiction, racial violence, and natural disasters. My analysis also demonstrates how realist authors represent what I term negative ecologies, diegetic worlds characterized by replicative systems of social and environmental violence. I contend that literatures oriented to social activism only persevere beyond their own ideological constraints when they resist utopian visions and instead effectuate traumatic ambiguities that allow for the creative re-imagining of social futures.
Tatiana duvanova, creative writing.
The following manuscript contains a novella and a short story collection, accompanied by a critical preface. The novella focuses on three young women who go to China to be foreign language teachers at a Chinese University and, due to a mix up, end up living in the same apartment over the course of one semester. The three heroines come from troubled background and engage in various self-distracting behaviors until they begin to heal and forge their own path in life.
The short stories in the collection deal with various subjects and themes, such as consumerism, environmental destruction, and commodification of women and nature.
Amy gore, american literary studies.
Material Matters: Paratextual Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Indigenous Book History , focuses on Indigenous authors during the long nineteenth century, from 1772 to 1936, to examine the known “firsts” of Indigenous literature. Starting with the first book published by a Native author and moving to other first entries into Indigenous literary production, I argue that the reprints, editions, and paratextual elements of Indigenous books embody a frontline of colonization as Indigenous authors battle the public perception of Indigenous books and negotiate the representations of Indigenous bodies.
Kelly j. hunnings, british & irisish literary studies.
My dissertation traces a term I call the “chaotic domestic” in the writing of a collection of eighteenth-century women laboring-class writers: Mary Barber, Mary Collier, Mary Leapor, Ann Yearsley, and Janet Little. The chaotic domestic in the hands of these writers is multi-layered and affect-driven, focusing as they do on issues regarding nation, class, and gender. As both a poetic trope and the seeming natural and dynamic state of the domestic sphere, the image of the domestic that this set of writers represents and defines is turbulent, unruly, and one that deals with the tangled web of local and global, public and private, gendered and classist identity politics. Most importantly, I seek to demonstrate how the chaotic domestic serves as something these writers do to subvert class and gender systems that affect their public and private lives.
Jana koehler, american literary studies (hector torres fellow), melina vizcaíno-alemán , chair.
My dissertation examines the genre of weird fiction, specifically texts that engage the concept of the Weird West. While authors such as Robert E. Howard and H.P. Lovecraft are often seen as the founders of this genre, I argue that ethnic and women writers, such as Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Ishmael Reed, Leslie Marmon Silko, Lucha Corpi, and others, explore the hidden histories of the West and Southwest in ways that incite a rethinking of the weird. Most importantly, I seek to demonstrate how the weird is not only a literary genre but a literary aesthetic and methodology that women and ethnic writers deploy against violent patriarchy and white supremacy in addition to misleading and dangerous fantasies of the Old West.
Doaa omran, medieval literature.
Despite the claim that structuralism has sung its swan song, my research offers new insights in the field of structuralism through archetypal criticism by exploring four female hero mega-archetypes as narrative structures inspired by the Qur’an and the Bible. These scriptural narratives offer tenets, based on narratives and motifs, that, as structural units, create and identify mega-archetypes. This study posits how, rather than being extensions of existing structuralist taxonomies on the male hero monomyth, the female mega-archetypes enrich that monomythical narrative. This work details the structure of the mega-archetypes Zulaikhah (Potiphar’s wife), Sarah and Hagar, the Virgin Mary, and Queen of Sheba,. A number of medieval European romances, specifically Arthurian, aptly illustrate each of these mega-archetypes and confirm how each crosses culture, time, and race.
Hayley peterson, creative writing.
This is a full-length memoir and cultural commentary that explores sex and gender, sexuality and queerness, and sexual assault and harassment. Specifically, it focuses on how my upbringing in a conservative suburb of Portland, Oregon, with politically conservative, but sexually liberal parents, and the rhetoric of third-wave feminism, forced me to question what it truly means to be a “strong, independent woman.”
The book follows my coming of age as a queer woman. I explore topics such as: porn, BDSM and kink, faking orgasms, consent and coercion, and how faux-empowerment has led to low self-worth for girls in my generation. I also explore the ways in which third-wave feminism has contributed to performative female sexuality and self-objectification, and the ways in which queerness and kink can provide a better framework for sex.
Jennifer morgan sims, rhetoric & writing.
This study explores how first-year students in a multimodal composition class use digital technology outside of class to complete their projects. The tendency in Composition studies to characterize students as “self-teaching” users of technology may obscure complex out-of-class experiences, so this study analyzes data from project reflections of 19 first-year students completing digital multimodal compositions to gain insight into their practices. Qualitative analysis reveals that the technical problems students encountered tended to be frequent and repetitive, and some problems were exacerbated by conflicts between the assignment requirements and the capacity of the technology required. Students tended to use trial-and-error methods in response to problems, and they frequently switched to another program rather than solve the problem at hand. Going forward, instructors should dialogue with students about the advantages and drawbacks of technology, encourage a variety of technology and composition types, and assess projects using technology criteria and with the help of technology-focused student reflections.
Jessica troy, medieval studies, jonathan davis-secord, chair.
The care and disposal of the dead bodies, an unavoidable reminder of one’s mortality, rarely receives in-depth literary attention. In early medieval England, the Anglo-Saxons dealt with corpses but seldom discussed the undertaking in written documents. Instead they focused on the grandiose deeds of heroes like Beowulf and the holy lives of revered saints.
This dissertation examines various genres of Old English literature to identify times when authors discuss corpses and to what end these discussions led. Hagiographers, for example, describe the corpses of certain saints such as Æthelthryth and Edmund at length while the bodies of other saints are virtually ignored post-mortem. Their burials, such as that of Cecilia, may be only one half-line in length while the description of Æthelthryth’s corpse includes burial, exhumation, discovery of incorruption, and reburial. Her dead body receives almost as much attention as does her living body. Both women uphold their chastity and virginity throughout their lives, but it is only Æthelthryth’s corpse which receives attention. Edmund’s dead body is also given great attention, but his purity is not of primary concern. In my dissertation, I examine the discussion of corpses by various authors within hagiography as well as non-hagiographical texts, identify discrepancies in gender and social standing which may contribute to the length of the authors’ discussion, and use the Anglo-Saxon culture as a basis to explain why corpses such as those of Beowulf, Grendel, Æthelthryth, and Edmund take center stage but a battlefield full of fallen soldiers, Grendel’s mother, and Cecilia receive less than two lines of text.
Mariya v. tseptsura, rhetoric & writing, todd ruecker, chair.
This dissertation is based on a year-long mixed-methods study of linguistically diverse students in one online composition program. It focuses on the experiences of students and instructors from 27 online sections of first and second-year college writing courses. Using student and instructor surveys and interviews, it analyzes how second language writers’ success was affected by the online environment, especially by the issues of technology and digital divide, students’ online identity construction, and the lack of authentic online classroom learning communities. The manuscript provides a broader overlook of students’ experiences across linguistic backgrounds and uses four case studies to offer a detailed, in-depth account of four multilingual students’ paths through their online writing courses. This dissertation provides writing instructors and administrators with recommendations to re-envision online writing courses, mobilizing the affordances of online venues to promote the success of students from all language backgrounds.
Lydia wassan, creative writing.
An investigation of the story of Wassan Singh, a spiritualist in the 1920s.
Katherine alexander, british & irish literary studies.
The year 1847 marked the appearance of Wuthering Heights on the literary scene. Writing under the pseudonym of Ellis Bell, Emily Brontë soon became known as the “Sphynx (sic) of Literature” following the publication of the culminating masterpiece of her literary career. Although she was not a trained philosopher, her drawings, poems, letters, devoirs, and only novel offer an organic approach to philosophical matters, particularly in her engagements with the meanings of time and space and her interrogations of death.
Surrounded by the pervasive presence of death from her earliest years and beyond, Brontë moved to rigorous interrogations of the afterlife in her writing beginning with explorations of the Bible and organized religion. Not finding answers there, she turned to Nature and the tenets of Stoicism that self-sufficiency, delayed fulfillment, and an afterlife in which the spirit is not restricted to an unfathomable heaven. Ultimately, she envisioned a world where any gap between the spatio-temporal and spiritual could be traversed thus eliminating the barriers between the two realms. The cosmos that Brontë constructs is an immanent space where any divine presence is manifested in the random workings of Nature. The wild moors behind the Haworth Parsonage represented this space, both literally and metaphorically. She often features windows to mark permeable barriers between two spaces and powerful storms to move her characters through time and space. Thus, a powerful storm on the moors transports Catherine Earnshaw, Brontë’s conflicted heroine of Wuthering Heights, from the afterlife back to her childhood home where she discovers a male visitor in her ontological space. When he shatters the window glass, she grasps the opportunity to intervene in her own story. This is the extraordinary event that sets the tone for the discussion that features major developments in Brontë’s intellectual and artistic journey as well as her protofeminist and protomodern contributions to literature.
No scholar to date has examined the life and oeuvre of Emily Brontë in this manner. This study offers an enriching exploration of the powerful framework that she constructs in her philosophical interrogations of death.
Colby gates, creative writing.
This poetry collection deals with the intersections of sexuality, spirituality, and the physical body. The work is centered in the examination of relationships that range from the personal, intimate, familial, and religious. The poems are often, though not always, confessional in nature. I am interested in exploring tensions between content, form, and style to create meaning. The work in the manuscript balances itself between realms of magic, dream, and physical and psychological reality. My intention with this collection is to evoke a space for psychic reckoning and a sense of human understanding. My hope is that the work resists isolation or separation— and instead provides opportunities for closeness, recognition, and intimate dialectic between the reader and the work.
Steven d. howe, creative writing.
The goal of this manuscript is to construct an essay collection representing the various essay styles I enjoy. The essays track the narrator from childhood to adulthood through various situations, while coalescing around the theme of how memory and experience of youth impact decisions and actions later in life. I show how memory is translated into action, how we choose to ignore/fight some memory and experience, but embrace others when it comes to important moments in our lives, such as confronting social issues, addressing insecurities as a parent, dealing with grief and loss, etc.
Several essays are connected by the thread of growing up in poverty with an estranged, alcoholic father, and how these memories influenced my approach to fatherhood. My father was mostly absent growing up, but the moments we were together were often defined by emotional abuse toward my mother, my siblings, and me. In addition to family issues, I delve into social justice themes, such as poverty, racism, and LGBTQ acceptance. Regardless of the subject, all essays dip back and forth between childhood and adulthood and contain memories and/or experiences reflected upon by the adult narrator. Even in the more research-based work, this reflection is present. In keeping with the thematic preoccupation of memory, I experiment with multiple forms of the essay; traditional, segmented, research-based, etc.
Justin larsen, medieval studies (bilinski fellowship).
The term “material culture” represents many different approaches and schools of thought across multiple academic disciplines, but its place in the study of medieval literature is particularly difficult to ascertain. The long tradition of simply using the archaeological record to “fill in” gaps left in the textual historical record does little to expand our understanding of the place that these objects actually occupied in the users’ daily lives, nor does it allow us to make greater connections between the texts, their audiences, and their broader environment. Likewise, the role of the text and its reception has a great deal to do with the physical attributes of the object in which that text is recorded. An examination of this intersection of text and object can thus provide us with a clearer picture of daily life and thought in pre-Conquest England
This dissertation examines the ways in which references to objects of material culture are used in the context of the first five poems of the Old English Exeter Book , as well as the impact of the Book as a physical thing upon the poetry. After establishing a list of twenty categories of material culture derived from the text of the Exeter Book itself and assigning each reference to material culture to one or more of these categories, the larger patterns of usage become visible, making apparent the thematic and structural functions of such references. Likewise, by examining the physical nature of the Exeter Book and the roles it has played throughout its millennium of history, we gain insight into the ways in which the Book was valued and used. Taken together, twenty-first-century readers can use this analysis to gain a greater understanding of the importance of things in the context of pre-Conquest England, perhaps even including the purpose for which the Exeter Book was assembled.
David o'connor, creative writing.
Sunshine ’89 is a coming-of-age-novel, set in Canada in 1989, this creative work explores the travel of a young adoptee from a remote outpost to the bourgeois center of the country in order to pursue a life in the theatre. What ensues is a mentor-apprentice story exploring art, race, sexuality, performance, aging, dementia, alcoholism, politics, Canada, and other theme. Above all, a page- turner and picaresque romp meant to entertain and challenge.
Abigail robertson, medieval studies (bilinski fellowship).
By considering the way that medieval people would have responded to the hagiography, relics, and shrine of St. Swithun based on their experience as readers and pilgrims, this project will survey the rationale behind the veneration of a saint whose life was largely unknown yet who was ardently beloved and honored in death. That there is not any book-length scholarship dedicated to St. Swithun or his cult aside from Lapidge’s edition, The Cult of St. Swithun , further demonstrates the way that this project will fill a gap in scholarship about the history and sociocultural relevance of this still-famous saint. My dissertation paints a picture of how St. Swithun’s afterlife affected the ecclesiastical communities at Winchester and how the cult of the saint developed and changed in Winchester and beyond through the end of the medieval period. By considering this, I argue that the architectural features of the original Saxon cathedral, the Old Minster (particularly after the cathedral was rebuilt in the late-eleventh century), and eventually the Norman Winchester Cathedral compelled visitors to the saint’s shrine to reenact Swithun’s translatio and thus fundamentally connected Winchester as a locus to Swithun’s virtus in an experiential way; as a result, pilgrimage to Winchester was a necessary component for any medieval person who aspired to venerate Swithun.
Faerl torres, creative writing.
This novella and short story collection is a work of fiction, which addresses themes of love, loss, loyalty, friendship, fidelity, and self-discovery. The main novella, Triangle is a coming of age story that follows Francis, the protagonist, as he struggles to break from his childhood relationships and the role he's occupied and to decide who he wants to be on his own. "Peeling Doves" is a story about lost innocence as two young sisters face off with malice for the first time. "Strawberry Harvest" is a story about Ava, a woman who is counting on her transition into motherhood to escape from the purposeless life she detests. When she begins to miscarry her baby she must find hope within herself. "Batman" is a story about Bruce, a young man choosing to reveal the truth of his abusive childhood and shed light on the past he's tried to keep shadowed.
Crystal zanders, creative writing.
Raised by the River is a collection of poems exploring the themes of historical trauma, family dynamics, racial tensions, child abuse, and education. Several poems explore the culture and history of the Deep South with an emphasis on Mississippi. Slavery is also a recurring theme as well as the vestiges of it that continue to plague the South in the form of racism and poverty. Parents and grandparents play a large role as well. The collection ends by exploring complicated grief and the maturation that occurs after loss.
Ann l. d'orazio, british & irish literary studies (bilinski fellowship).
Visual narratives are contested territory. They require tools from a variety of academic disciplines, and they defy the usual sets of interpretive strategies and systems of nomenclature in traditional humanities disciplines. This dissertation fills in one of the missing approaches to visual narratives; that is the long historical, interconnected view that renders visible significant connections among graphic narratives from the medieval manuscript to the contemporary comic book and graphic novel. The project articulates a theory of the long material and cultural life of visual narratives in a variety of media forms, including the manuscript, the early printed book, the lithograph series, and the comic book. The project records and embraces the preponderance of narrative images in a variety of media forms, and in doing so, argues that visual narratives are both typical methods of storytelling, and that their ubiquity has been used to create and disseminate narratives to larger groups of the public rather than small coterie groups. The typically popular and topical, and sometimes didactic nature of visual narratives makes them especially suited to a sort of populist politics even before the introduction of print and the advent of postindustrial mass culture. This project advances an understanding of all producers of visual narratives as laborers in a persistent mechanism of collective production, which remains present throughout all of the media examined in the dissertation.
The dissertation covers a temporally wide range of materials not only to prove the pervasiveness and intelligibility of narrative images across a variety of eras and media forms, but also to demonstrate repeated, often recursive, patterns of making and dissemination common to these different periods and forms. The geographic and cultural range is not as wide, owing much more to the time and space limitations of the dissertation rather than anything else. The project examines commonalities not to make a flattening gesture, but to reverse the institutional tendency of literary studies to undervalue or ignore typical, common works.
Brian hendrickson, rhetoric & writing, charles paine, chair.
This dissertation draws from a three-year study of writing and rhetorical engagement in an engineering student organization at a university in the southwestern United States. I describe how students in the organization use writing to undertake a water quality program in an indigenous territory in Bolivia. I describe the student organization as a boundary-zone activity between its parent organization, the college of engineering, and its community and non-governmental organization partners. I provide a narrative of the organization as a site of rhetorical engagement, from the beginnings of the water quality program in 2007, through a 2014 partnership with a capstone design course in civil engineering, to a 2015 assessment trip to Bolivia. Employing expansive developmental research, an interventionist methodology derived from cultural-historical activity theory, I analyze observation notes, interview transcripts, and textual artifacts. The textual artifacts include the student organization’s correspondence, reports, field books, journals, promotional materials, websites, and informational architecture. I also analyze curriculum maps, the capstone course’s syllabus and assignment guidelines, and all of the correspondence and assignment drafts produced by the capstone team. I describe the manner in which writing both requires and facilitates the internalization of social motive, or a conceptualization of the contradictions within an activity system and between it and its neighbor activities. This conceptualization functions in effect as a recognition of rhetorical exigence. I further describe how students, faculty, and professional engineers must internalize the need to vertically and horizontally integrate the boundary-zone activity of the student chapter through explicitly intentional dialogic writing activity. Through my research, I work with the students to reinterpret obstacles as opportunities for building partnerships across and beyond the curriculum toward a more holistic approach to rhetorically engaged learning aligned with the aims of a twenty-first century liberal education. Based on my findings, I recommend that even within a curricular environment not immediately amenable to vertical and horizontal integration, the associated contradictions can be treated as exigences for writing-intensive, rhetorically engaged learning.
Catherine hubka, creative writing.
This work of creative non-fiction is a memoir of the writer’s experiences as a recovering alcoholic who, early in recovery, became involved with a married man in Alcoholics Anonymous while she herself was married, sparking a marital, mid-life, and identity crisis. The protagonist proceeds to break numerous taboos, both within the program of Alcoholics Anonymous and within society, leading to unhealthy enmeshment with the married man and further disillusionment with herself. Two years into her recovery, one of her children dies tragically. Her grief over the loss of her son further alienates her from both family and herself until finally, she finds herself broke, isolated and homeless. Her next move is transgressive, but paradoxically liberates her from the unhealthy entanglement with the married man and becomes a vehicle not only back to her family, but also to herself.
Paula hughson, creative writing.
The author introduces her poems and illustrates her development as a poet, somewhat later in life, drawing from her early experiences in the Caribbean. A central thesis is the author’s conviction, based on experience, that it is possible to arrive at beauty and clarity of thought, even when departing from a painful place of perceived imperfection. Emphasis is placed on the translations such as between chaos and order and between the author’s Spanish culture an Spanish language and her English medium of communication. The author illustrates aspects of theme, form, language and sound, how poems think, in her poems, contrasting also with the works of other poets who have been major influences, particularly William Carlos Williams and Kay Ryan.
Ana june, creative writing.
In May 2002, during an argument with my fiancé, Chris, about a small amount of money, I punched a wall and broke my hand. In that one moment of overwhelm I was angry, but even more than that I felt somehow disconnected from myself. I felt, paradoxically, as though I was not actually the one driving my fist into the wall. I’d never been good at handling conflict; nearly every time I became embroiled in an argument I had a sensation that the floor was opening up beneath me and that I was floating away. But when I punched the wall I also felt something I couldn’t wrap my head around until much later: I felt entirely “storyless.” At the time I understood this feeling primarily by what had happened thirteen months earlier, when my husband Malcolm went home with another woman after work. But when I started following the threads backwards, I found so much more. In this work, I excavate the effects of my parents' divorce, a variety of abusive high school relationships, rape, and abortion. I explore what it means to become a mother in the aftermath of trauma, and then survive the end of my first marriage that fell to pieces under the very same roof where my parents’ marriage ended.
In the end, I learn that I was never storyless at all, but that I had to find my own voice so I could stop lifting away from myself, seal up the earth beneath my feet, and tell my story on my terms.
Celia laskey, creative writing.
Big Burr, Kansas, is the most homophobic town in the USA. As Under the Rainbow opens, a task force arrives to try to change that. A clash of cultures follows, forcing the characters to see themselves and their world in new ways.
Each chapter is written from a different character’s point of view—some from the town, some from the task force. As the book progresses, characters reappear and intersect in ways that illuminate more about them. For example, one story is about a task force member whose cat is kidnapped by their neighbor. A later story explores a deep friendship between the aforementioned task force member and an elderly Big Burr woman living in a nursing home. Under the Rainbow runs the gamut from gravity to levity, from desperation to hope, showing the universality of each person’s experience.
Lawrence reeder, creative writing.
From the Kingdom of the Lost is a collection of poems where the speaker examines his memories associated with his father’s stage four cancer diagnosis that leads to his eventual death.
Throughout the book, a boy character appears and serves as a stand-in for where memory and emotion have been distorted by the trauma of the father’s decline. The interaction between the boy character poems and the dying father poems drives the narrative forward. Additionally, there are contemplative poems that serve to assess the personal beliefs and identity of the speaker. By the end, the speaker has assessed how the grieving process is affected by trauma, religious devotion, and social disparities.
n between the boy character poems and the dying father poems drives the narrative forward. Additionally, there are contemplative poems that serve to assess the personal beliefs and identify of the speaker. By the end, the speaker has assessed how the grieving process is affected by trauma, religious devotion, and social disparities.
Lucas shepherd, creative writing.
His family died in a car accident, but the vehicular mayhem of demolition derby still attracts former aircraft mechanic Sid Rivers. Rules of the road change on the track: you must crash. In between county fair derbies, Sid hunts for the hit-and-run driver who killed his family, but everything changes the night he gives a ride to the wrong hitchhiker: Eden, a recovering meth addict on the run. With her in tow, Sid must dodge a crucible of crooked cops, ex-football stars, and a taxidermist who doesn’t limit his work to the animal kingdom. Just before Sid ditches his troublesome new passenger, he learns she may hold the key to his past. But with everyone gunning for them, will he survive long enough to learn who killed his family? And will the answer help mend his life or cause a deeper spiral? After all, crashing cars is easier than putting them back together... West by Midwest, a neo-Western crime thriller, explores regret, guilt, and second chances in a land where war comes second nature and peace must be wrestled to the ground.
Karra shimabukuro, british & irish literary studies.
Throughout its history, England and its writers have created its national identity out of thin air. Some writers such as William of Malmesbury and John Milton have consciously constructed their imagined Englands, while other authors during the medieval and early modern periods are subtler, but whose works reflect the historical and cultural moment, the fears, desires, and anxieties about kingship, tyranny, heirs, and stability, that existed during that time. Little scholarship has focused on the devil’s role in these constructions, his political nature, and how this nature is used in constructing nationalistic arguments. This devil can lead kings, nobles, and clergymen astray, resulting in devilish leadership, as seen in Malmesbury’s Gesta regum Anglorum but devils can be humans who act as devilish leaders, as seen William Shakespeare’s 1 Henry IV and Macbeth. Part of the danger of human devils is that they reflect fears that the threat, the devil, could be anyone. Þe Deulis Parlement and Paradise Lost both feature actual devils, who counter the authority of God and his structures, tempt others with their demonic speech, attempt to create their own demonic structures, and incite rebellion. It is worth noting that while Chapter One focuses on threats to the nation, as does Chapter Four, Chapters Two and Three construct the demonic as the people and structures who counter the power structure and authority of the monarchy, not the collective of the people.
Jason thayer, creative writing.
This memoir investigates themes of loss and adjustment, the ways in which we recalibrate in the wake of grief. After losing his father at seven years old, and then two of his best friends in car wrecks later in life, our narrator searches for closure, for ceremony that might make sense out of every last bad time.
Julie williams, american literary studies (bilinski fellowship).
My dissertation challenges the dominant narrative identity about Western embodiment and opens the field of Western literary studies as it explores what the West looks like to women writers for whom it is not a space of regeneration through violence. I argue that women’s writing reconceptualizes Western literature, creating a counter-narrative about American identity by shaping a space for and a discourse about the embodied experiences that have been marginalized, silenced, and ignored. Through examining discourses of health and embodiment in women’s writing about the American West from the 1880s to the present day, my study brings together a diverse archive of narratives about bodies that have been excluded from cultural conceptions of the West: women with non-normative gender and sexual identities, American Indian women writers, atomic protestors and atomic beauty queens, and people with disabilities. My project drafts a new paradigm as it thinks of embodiment in the West, one that recognizes the body as both a physical object and a political one, and argues that the physical body holds meaning for the republic and its values. I focus on the tactics of storytelling and community building to disrupt dominant narratives that limit perceptions and representations of Western embodiment and what meanings that holds in our culture. The chapters are organized around themes that drive different manifestations of embodiment: alternative models of gender and sexual expression in chapter one, how the negotiation of language creates new modes of belonging in the stories of American Indian women’s embodied experiences in chapter two, the move from the West as a space of nuclear pageantry to one of protest in chapter three, and expressions of disability that push back against an ablest view of the West in chapter four. Chapters are not ordered chronologically; rather, they present different topics of embodiment and follow these threads through time to tease out the changing cultural landscape of Western embodiment. “Embodying the West” addresses a blind spot in Western literary and cultural history as it constructs an alternate genealogy of writers to make legible non-normative conceptions about the West and the bodies that inhabit it.
The following book of poems is broken into four sections themed on air travel to reflect the manuscript’s title and primary preoccupation: leaving, for better or worse, and the ensuing journeys. The sections are “Departure,” “Baggage,” “Layover,” and “Arrival.” Inherent in this structure is also something of a narrative arc—a classical story structure that suggests continuity (of plot or character) and change. It is a book of lyric poems, however, and so it resists conforming entirely to the narrative mode, even as it embodies the questions at the heart of its structure: what causes one to leave a person or place, when is it time to, and who or what is left behind? What changes in the process of leaving? Where does one end up, and can one return home?
Daoine bachran, american literary studies (mellon fellowship).
My project assesses how science fiction by writers of color challenges the scientific racism embedded in genetics, nuclear development, digital technology, and molecular biology, demonstrating how these fields are deployed disproportionately against people of color. By contextualizing current scientific development with its often overlooked history and exposing the full life cycle of scientific practices and technological changes, ethnic science fiction authors challenge science’s purported objectivity and make room for alternative scientific methods steeped in Indigenous epistemologies. The first chapter argues that genetics is deployed disproportionally against black Americans, from the pseudo-scientific racial classifications of the nineteenth century and earlier through the current obsession with racially tailored medicine and the human genome. I argue that the fiction of Octavia Butler, Tananarive Due, and Andrea Hairston reveals the continuing scientific racialization of black Americans and complicates questions of humanity that still rise from genetic typing and medical testing. Chapter 2 interrogates the nuclear cycle, revealing what has been erased—the mining of uranium on the Navajo Nation, nuclear testing on Paiute and Shoshone land in the United States, similar tests on Indigenous soil in Kazakhstan, and nuclear waste buried in the New Mexico and Texas deserts. I contend Leslie Marmon Silko, William Saunders, and Stephen Graham Jones reveal the destructive influence of the buried nuclear cycle on Indigenous people globally, as they posit an Indigenous scientific method with which to fight through their novels. The third chapter exposes how the Latina/o digital divide in the United States elides a more disturbing multinational divide between those who mine for, assemble, and recycle the products that create the digital era and those with access to those products. From mining for rare earth elements in the Congo to assembling electronics in Mexico’s maquiladoras and “recycling” used electronics across the developing world, the novels of Alejandro Morales, Rosaura Sánchez and Beatrice Pita, and Ernest Hogan reveal the hidden price of the digital world and demand representation—digital, scientific, and historical. Chapter 4 builds on current discussions of Alex Rivera’s film Sleep Dealer to argue that Chicana/o and Indigenous authored science fiction films reveal how the global harvesting of natural resources has expanded to include life itself and organisms’ interiors. Films and other visual productions by Robert Rodriguez, Reagan Gomez, Federico Heller, Jose Nestor Marquez, Rodrigo Hernández Cruz, and Nanobah Becker predict biocolonialism’s expansion as they create worlds reflecting current practices where life forms become no more than patented, mechanized resources for neocolonial capitalist production and consumption.
Daniel berger, creative writing.
This memoir explores the various ways the author has attempted to cope with his father's suicide and his mother's autoimmune diseases, which finally claimed her life after a 14-year fight.
Melisa garcia, creative writing, steve benz, chair.
A Guayaba's Heart is a poetry collection that is utilizes memory as a binding for the themes of language, family, and Central American landscapes, The poetry collection takes a close look at these themes through a generational lens and gives space to the unveiling of family secrets, the imaginary homeland, and interweaving binaries of language.
Whistle is a blurred boundary collection of short stories and essays based on my experiences growing up in Walsenburg, Colorado. The eight distinct pieces feature similar characters and overlap thematically across both genres.
Natalie kubasek, american literary studies (mellon fellowship).
Chicana Feminist Acts intervenes in the patriarchal forces that negate the historical presence and social agency of Chicanas on the stage of U.S. literature by recovering the transformative power of Chicana drama to enact feminist change. I position early playwrights Josephina Niggli, Estela Portillo Trambley and Teatro Chicana, alongside contemporary feminist playwright Cherríe Moraga, as part of the rich and varied history of feminist cultural production in the U.S. that challenges the systematic sexist oppression of Chicanas. My thesis is that Chicana theater stages a series of feminist “acts” that continuously re-stage Chicana subjectivity to resist fixed patriarchal and nationalist paradigms of gender and sexuality. Moreover, I maintain that, since the 1930s, Chicanas have staged feminist acts in theater that challenge dominant and Chicano gender/sex norms by imagining and performing different Chicana identities. The humanistic social scientific approach I take to this project allows the subjects of Chicana feminist theater to create its living history. Chicana theater comes alive through interviews with Chicana playwrights alongside archival investigations of photographic stills, playbills, and theater reviews. As a result, the trajectory of Chicana theater that I trace proves Mexican and Mexican American women have challenged dominant paradigms of gender and sexuality long before the 1970s’ so-called first wave of Chicana feminism. My research shows that theater has always played a transformative role in advancing the social position of Chicanas to enact social change.
Kathryne lim, creative writing.
Thieves' Nest is a poetry collection bound by themes of separation, detachment, landscape, and displacement. The collection is divided into three sections that mark different phases of the speaker's life, as experienced primarily through the speaker's relationship to place.
Janelle lynn ortega, american literary studies.
Through the lens of structural intertextuality, this dissertation reveals the significance of literary allusion in some of Evelyn Waugh’s works. It investigates intertextual significance and intent that has, heretofore, been largely bypassed. This study tracks Waugh’s intertextual instances from his earliest novels through his short stories to one of his final works. Waugh’s intertextuality unearths a hope for not only literary culture but also the world at large.
A study of Waugh’s intertextuality uncovers an overarching theme of hope rooted in literary culture. This dissertation begins with an explanation of intertextual theory and the words and phrases pivotal to a cohesive understanding of these findings. It then proceeds through the works chronologically. Chapter One explores the use of Dante and Carroll in the novel Vile Bodies by explaining a deterioration of both culture and humanity while providing a remedy that is literature. Then Chapter Two’s discussion of Malory’s text within Handful of Dust rejects the initial critical reaction of associating pessimism and fatalism with the text. Chapter Three’s analysis of “Out of Depth” and Love Among the Ruins uncovers an intertextual analysis concerning Huxley, Shakespeare and earlier works of Waugh himself that purports the importance of reviving literary culture and reclaiming freewill. Chapter Four recognizes that Waugh’s use of T.S. Eliot in Brideshead Revisited begins to confirm the essentiality of literature for the well-being or the individual as well as the world. The dissertation culminates in Chapter Five with The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold and its emphasis on the personal application of intertext.
Ultimately this dissertation reveals that by way of intertext Evelyn Waugh subtly challenges his readers to improve themselves by looking beyond their own experiences. The deeper he explores the art of intertext the more his texts reveal the troubles of the current age. At the same time, however, as this dissertation demonstrates, his use of intertext not only diagnoses the tribulations facing the modern world but also provides a cure in the form of a reviving literary culture.
Matthew maruyama, creative writing.
This manuscript is an experimental and otherwise lyrical autobiography that explores the nature of childhood.
Ann olson, creative writing.
A New and Different Sun is a non-fiction essay collection. Essay themes concern the landscape, ideals, and politics of the American West.
Calinda shely, british and irish literary studies, gail houston and carolyn woodward, chairs.
In this dissertation I explore the way in which visual and literary representations of gout in British literature and popular culture during the period 1744-1826 evince anxieties regarding over-consumption, particularly in relation to imperial expansion. I argue that the prevalence of gout in graphic satire indicates a common cultural understanding and perception of upper-class over-consumption of food, alcohol, material goods, and sex that threatens the health of the entire British body politic. These depictions provide a way through which the interests of those outside of the ruling classes can begin to develop a sense of community and subtly articulate a voice calling for an alteration or revision of the unwritten constitution of the nation. In chapters one through three I demonstrate the ways in which examples of gout in graphic satire evidence widespread dissatisfaction with upper-class over-consumption as it affects the nation’s political, economic, and social systems. In chapter four I examine representations of gouty men of the aristocracy and upper gentry in Sarah Fielding’s The Countess of Dellwyn and Tobias Smollett’s The Adventures of Roderick Random; I contend that Fielding and Smollett offer rather more radical and nuanced depictions of this stock figure than those common within the graphic satire of the era. These authors’ representations thus offer greater possibilities for revision of the unwritten constitution structuring the nation and its institutions. In chapter five I argue that Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa depicts Mr. Harlowe as a nouveau riche character representative of the changing physiognomy of the upper classes; his over-consumption demonstrates the contagious nature of immoderation and the tragic effects that it has upon women, who are treated as commodities used to enable further aggregation and aggrandizement.
Stephanie spong, american literary studies, british and irish literary studies, matthew hofer, chair.
The vein of experimental love poetry examined in this project takes advantage of the friction generated by charging both form and content with innovation. The troubled relationship between sex and power is knit directly into the long and dynamic history of love poetry, but there has yet to be a published monograph on the modernist love poem and its implications for literary history. This dissertation fills a major gap in scholarship and speaks to the broader social concerns addressed by public discourse on sex, sexuality, and eros. The body of modernist love poetry includes allusions to traditional love poetry—a tradition in lyric extending from the earliest written poems and culminating in nineteenth-century sentimentality—as well as explicit erotic content, satire, polemic, violence, and anxiety. It is not neatly bounded by nation, gender, race, or aesthetic approach, but nonetheless, this project examines the consistent presence and achievement of experimental Anglophone poets working with the genre. My dissertation begins with a series of case studies examining the work of Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, Mina Loy, the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, and Langston Hughes to elucidate love poetry in its modernist form. The project establishes the place innovative modernist love poetry holds in literary history, and casts forward with two chapters, one on Anne Sexton and Robert Creeley, and another on Harryette Mullen and Bruce Andrews, to illustrate how mid-century and contemporary poets have continued to find new ways of re-imagining the genre.
Lynn wohlwend, creative writing.
Black Stone on a White Wind is a memoir dealing with the aftermath of my fathers suicide and my search to understand who my father was after his death.
Christine beagle, rhetoric and writing, michelle kells, chair.
This dissertation is first an historical trajectory of Chicana Rhetoric in the American polis and then a perspectival analysis of three key texts from Chicana labor right’s activist and vice president of the United Farm Workers Union Dolores Huerta. The trajectory establishes an efficacious legacy of Chicana Rhetoric and the analyses of Huerta’s rhetoric explore what Chicana Rhetoric is and is not through the lens of media, scholarly, and personal rendition. I argue throughout that Chicana Rhetoric is representative of current intersections in social, political, racial, and gender rhetorics and Dolores Huerta is the embodiment of these intersections. The implications of this speak to the immediate need for Rhetoric and Composition to honor Chicana rhetors and scholars in our canonical fields of study.
Lucy burns, creative writing.
This collection of poetry narrates the experience of woman who has arrived in a desert city without memory of her arrival or her past. The poems explore presence through absence, loss, longing, fragmentation, and the construction of identity.
Carrie classon, creative writing.
What Happens Next is a memoir set in Nigeria, Tanzania, and the coast of Kenya. The story chronicles the author's loss of marriage, job, and home, and the journey to rediscovery of self.
Jill dehnert, creative writing, sharon oard warner, chair.
Why are we, as a species, drawn to literature, particularly fiction? And also, why are writers drawn to tell stories? In this paper, I seek to find an answer to those questions because I think more than anything, to be able to understand your own art you must first be able to understand your desire to create art in the first place.
Colleen dunn, medieval studies, jonathan davis-secord and helen damico, chairs.
At the center of Anglo-Saxon life was a thriving religious culture, which—in one of its most vibrant forms—was expressed in the cult of saints. The virgin martyr became one of the most popular forms of sanctity, yet with hundreds of possible martyrs who could have been venerated, the question becomes which ones ultimately thrived in Anglo-Saxon England and why? Moreover, the very need for these two questions reveals a troubling fact: when writing about female virgin martyrs, the hagiographers never chose a native Anglo-Saxon woman as the focus of their passiones. In exploring both the reasons for and the implications of the choice made by these hagiographers to forgo local female virgin martyrs in favor of foreign models, I particularly investigate the appeal of Saint Juliana of Nicomedia and St. Margaret of Antioch, as they represent not only two of the earliest models of the virgin martyr brought to England, but also two of the models that would survive to the end of the Anglo-Saxon era and continue on into the Anglo-Norman one. The purpose of this dissertation is thus two-fold: firstly, to demonstrate that viable options existed for Anglo-Saxon female martyrs and were intentionally ignored by those who had the authority to promote their cults; and, secondly, to explore the specific appeal the Mediterranean female martyrs held for Anglo-Saxons.
Annarose fitzgerald, british and irish literary studies.
My dissertation analyzes the relationship between the concept of metaphysical belief and the poetic innovations enlisted to articulate this belief in the works of British modernist poets W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, Mina Loy, T.S. Eliot, Basil Bunting, Philip Larkin, and Thom Gunn. Moving from Celtic mythos to Buddhist philosophy, Anglo-Catholic prayer to ancient Greek burial rites, I argue that spirituality and poetic experimentation were reciprocal influences: modernist experimentations in poetic form had a direct impact on how poets represented and articulated metaphysical beliefs and practices, and these metaphysical concepts themselves significantly affected these poets’ development of their craft, prompting consideration of what makes poetry itself believable for modern readers.
While several studies analyze the religious and spiritual interests of modernist writers, demonstrating that secularization does not accurately categorize English literature of the early twentieth century, my project moves beyond proving that modernists were believers and instead employs belief as an active critical term for literary analysis. Each chapter examines how a particular British modernist poet employs belief as a condition that allows poetic form and metaphysical concepts to intersect in productive ways. Rather than merely dismissing or advocating for belief in certain metaphysical concepts, these poets scrutinize, re-conceptualize, and re-imagine poetic forms, spiritual ideologies, and religious structures so as to render belief in the metaphysical, and in poetry as a conduit for the metaphysical, to become relevant and necessary possibilities in the twentieth century.
Genevieve garcia de mueller, rhetoric and writing.
This dissertation examines the intersections between the rhetoric of the DREAM Act and the discourse of the migrant activists, specifically DREAMers, affected by the Act’s language. Through a hermeneutic approach combining a rhetorical, genre, and critical discourse analysis, I examine how the DREAMers respond to marginalizing textual features of the Act. DREAMers appropriate genres and rhetorical moves of the dominant discourse to combat four problem features of the DREAM Act, namely the criminalizing nature, the erasure of the affected subjects (migrants), the taking away of agency from the affected subjects (migrants), and the propagation of xenophobic racism.
Often fraught with limiting language, the DREAM Act is at once the most comprehensive progressive immigration legislation and a heavily weighted document that further marginalizes migrants through those four problem areas. I employ various frameworks to examine the intersections between the discriminatory rhetoric of the DREAM Act and the discourse of DREAMers affected by the Act’s language. Through a polyvocalic approach combining a rhetorical, genre, and critical discourse analysis, I examine how DREAMers respond to marginalizing textual features of the proposed act, the counter genres DREAMers produce, and the metadiscourse surrounding those genres.
I locate the migrant activist as the foremost expert on immigration policy and as the agent of discursive change. Because the genre-specific voice and style of legislative texts, such as the DREAM Act, construct racial and ethnic identities and reify problematic ideologies, a deep reading of the language used in federal policies can elucidate the manner in which DREAMers respond to how undocumented persons are positioned as potential citizens and students, or how policy shapes activism and in turn how activism shapes policy.
This dissertation informs the way compositionists teach writing to undocumented, multilingual writers, particularly Latina/o student populations whose issues are most reflected in the activism of the DREAMers. I argue for a critical pedagogy based on migrant activist genres and in the Writing Across Communities (WAC2) model that provides ways for undocumented students to advocate for themselves in writing at their institutions and in their communities. Finally, I call for a shift in Writing Program Administration (WPA) with a focus on issues of race and ethnicity in WPA work. While avoiding the assimilationist tendencies of this appropriation, by using these genres and rhetorical moves as the basis for programmatic shifts, pedagogy, and WAC2 initiatives, the migrant activist WPA may create changes in composition programs to best serve migrant undocumented students and to focus the composition classroom centered on the ideals of translingual, transculturalism, and transnational citizenship.
Mellissa huffman, rhetoric and writing.
This dissertation reconceptualizes print-based and virtual peer feedback (peer review, peer editing, and peer response) within composition classrooms as hermeneutic or interpretive acts. Grounding peer feedback within philosophical hermeneutics explains why empirical research and anecdotal evidence illustrate contradictions regarding peer feedback’s benefits to students. Students’ interpretations of what is happening/supposed to happen within peer feedback contexts impacts their performances in these contexts, and these interpretations occur through complex interplays of rhetorical, cultural, linguistic, and contextual interpretive fields. Enacting a hermeneutic pedagogy, which consists of engaging students in a series of scaffolded preparatory and reflective activities, collaborating with students in determining and adapting peer feedback protocol, and tailoring peer feedback protocol and mode to the classroom context, better accounts for the complex frames of reference students use to interpret and participate in peer feedback and allows students greater agency in enacting it. The dissertation culminates with practical guides for adopting and adapting a hermeneutic peer feedback pedagogy in both mainstream and second-language writing courses conducted in face-to-face and virtual classroom settings.
Valerie kinsey, rhetoric and writing, susan romano and chuck paine, chairs.
This dissertation leverages archival theory, public memory theory, feminist historiography, and rhetorical theory to argue that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints reinterpreted the Mormon past to engender identification and foster political action during the Equal Rights Amendment ratification period (1976-1981). Chapter One provides readers with an orientation to the Sandra Allen Collection of Papers on Mormonism and argues that its creator, Sandra Allen, marshaled her understanding of archiving, history writing, and institutional archives to make her history public. Chapter Two: On Memory uses theories of public memory to explain why the Mormon Church built the Nauvoo Monument to Women (MTW). The chapter posits that public monuments are pedagogical: They argue in the epideictic register for what should be by praising a past. By providing an explanation of the historical context in which the MTW was erected, the chapter demonstrates that the Mormon Church sought to assuage feelings of resentment among women. Its statues, physical location, and dedication suggest the MTW is less a representation honoring the past than a means of representing women’s ideally embodied roles. Chapter Three: On History argues that Mormons draw from and build upon their history as means of self-identification. Church leaders foster this identification by calling upon members to contribute to history by producing personal journals, books of remembrance, and genealogies. The process of creating home archives engenders an ongoing practice of self-discipline, wherein members perform Mormon ethe. Chapter Four: On Forgetting examines the discourses that brought about and ultimately suppressed a “Golden Age” of Mormon history. By offering a history of Mormon historiography, the chapter argues that the Church silenced professional historians. At the same time, the family history methodology the Church forwarded conceals structural inequality. The chapter asserts that the Mormon Church silenced counter-memories to prevent them from gaining purchase among stakeholders. After summarizing the major arguments presented, the dissertation’s conclusion offers heuristic derived from the Roman god, Janus, as a tool for imaginative speculation on theorizing resistance to institutional rhetorics.
Lisa myers, medieval studies.
This dissertation focuses on the disjunction between the actual environmental conditions of medieval England and the depiction of the wilderness in the literature of the time period from the Anglo-Saxon conversion to the close of the Middle Ages. Using environmental history to identify the moments of slippage between fact and fiction, this project examines the ideology behind the representations of the wilderness in literature and the relationship of these representations to social practices and cultural norms as well as genre and targeted audience. The first chapter argues that the depiction of early Anglo-Saxon saints and their relationships to the wilderness of England helped to construct a Christian countryside for the newly converted Anglo-Saxons. The next chapter asserts that the epic Beowulf employs wilderness settings in order to address Anglo-Saxon anxiety regarding the pagan past of their ancestors on the Continent. The third chapter examines an eclectic group of English histories written after the Norman Invasion, showing that their use of the landscape of England subverts the Norman master-narrative of political and social superiority. The final chapter of this study examines the earliest Middle English Robin Hood poems, arguing that they represent the voice of the English peasant and manifest a desire to regain control of the natural places of England that had been appropriated by the upper classes of the feudal structure. Overall, this project asserts that the literary images of the natural world in the medieval literature of England are a complicated synthesis of real environmental conditions and the ideology espoused by each particular genre and are, therefore, intimately tied to time and place.
A collection of fictional short stories and screenwriting, dealing with characters who, besieged by sickness, denial, and uncertainty, try desperately to keep their heads above water. These are stories marked by sadness and loss and great hardship, both internally and externally, but more than anything they are stories of hope.
Michael noltemeyer, creative writing.
My novel, Fishers of Men , is a historical fiction account in which 23-year-old Henry Fisher, a present-day medical student, explores the urban legends surrounding the abandoned Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville, Kentucky, which handled one of the largest tuberculosis outbreaks in world history in the 1920s and 30s and is now allegedly among the most haunted places in the world.
Nicholas schwartz, medieval studies.
Until now, Wulfstan, Archbishop of York’s relationship to and view of Anglo-Saxon kingship has never been comprehensively examined. The lack of attention this topic has received is a glaring omission in Wulfstan scholarship. Wulfstan worked under two kings, Æthelred and Cnut, and he had an interest in Edgar that has long been recognized. In response to Wulfstan’s career under these kings and his interest in Edgar, scholars have been far too ready to assume that the archbishop’s view of kingship was straightforward. It has too long been taken for granted that Wulfstan operated under Cnut in the same manner as his did under Æthelred, as if his political viewpoint never changed, for example. Moreover, Alfred and Edgar—both of whom had been vetted by history—left a considerable number of texts which Wulfstan mined extensively for material applicable to the kingdom’s situation when he was active. His interaction with these earlier kings reveals that early in Wulfstan’s career the archbishop found the position of king to be of the utmost importance to the governance and stability of the kingdom. The reigns of Æthelred and Cnut witnessed Wulfstan’s application of his views on kingship and what the kingdom needed generally in order to improve, both of which changed over the course of his career. Under Æthelred, Wulfstan focused on admonishing and instructing the Anglo-Saxon laity, but after he drafted V Æthelred, Wulfstan’s texts were aimed at the king, himself, and his witan. They stressed both the essentiality of law and order and the importance of the king to society as a whole. His texts from Cnut’s reign, however, reveal that it is not primarily the king that interested Wulfstan during these years, but, rather, the administration of the kingdom in general. In them, the position of king was actually deemphasized.
Sarah sheesley, creative writing.
This collection of creative nonfiction includes reflective personal essays in three parts. The first part deals loosely with my efforts to assert, define, and interrogate my sense of identity dealing primarily with childhood/adolescent experiences and reflections on my parents. The second part is dedicated to impressions from various international travel experiences, a fixation on my need for these to have some kind of meaning, my desire to understand why I travel, and my general dissatisfaction with that approach. The third part is more of an examination of where those other two parts leave me—given these contradictions, imperfections, and ongoing questioning, how to do operate at home (Albuquerque)? How do I come to terms with myself and function as a creative person? How do I balance a desire to both engage and retreat from the world? The collection investigates lyric and associative meaning through reflection and self examination.
Jill noel walker gonzalez, american literary studies.
The references to Poland in United States print culture indicate that Poland is a significant presence in the nineteenth-century literary imagination. Though often idealized, Poland emerges as a gothic presence registering anxieties about culture, imperialism, slavery, the Other, economic ruin, and identity. Using Roland Barthes’ theory of cultural code, this dissertation looks to nineteenth-century United States newspapers to consider American readers’ cultural knowledge about Poland. The coded history of revolution beneath each reference to Poland indicates that Polish revolution is the mechanism that reveals American anxieties about instability, imperialism, class inequalities, and violence—all of which put pressure on America’s mythic history of revolution, freedom, and equality as they’re expressed in literature. In Charles Brockden Brown’s “Somnambulism: A Fragment” (1805), the reference to Silesia and allusion to Poland is code for Poland’s 1794 revolution against partitioning powers Austria, Prussia, and Russia. The allusion registers fears of outside threats to the sovereignty of the young, vulnerable United States. As code for the major 1830-31 revolution against partitioning powers, the Polish character in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar” (1845) indicates American anxieties about the nation turning into an imperialistic aggressor similar to the nations that partitioned Poland because of its aggressive actions toward Mexico. For a nation struggling with its own imperialistic tendencies and increasingly quarreling over slavery, references to Poland in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick—code for the 1846 Polish revolution—reveal further anxieties about imperialism and human servitude. In the mid-nineteenth century, when the U.S. struggled with nativist attitudes toward Catholics and immigrants, Polish characters in E. D. E. N. Southworth’s The Missing Bride (1855) and Louisa May Alcott’s “The Baron’s Gloves” (1868) point to Poland’s final nineteenth-century rebellions and betray anxieties about the threat and/or taint of the Polish Catholic immigrant Other. Finally, in Anthony Walton White Evans’s 1883 biography, Memoir of Thaddeus Kosciuszko, the financially broke and physically broken Thaddeus Kosciuszko, revolutionary hero of both Poland and America, registers concerns about economic ruin and psychological fragmentation that following crashes like that of the Panic of 1873.
Ty bannerman, creative writing.
This dissertation explores nuclear history in New Mexico in the context of how it affected the lives of those who were ancillary to the bomb itself and its repercussions. I use my own family as a lens to explore the issues surrounding this universally important and ongoing historical event.
Bruce carroll, british and irish literary studies, lorenzo garcia, jr., chair.
The Early-Modernization of the Classical Muse juxtaposes ancient and Renaissance uses of the Muse to retrieve her from the status of mere literary convention. I draw on Hans Blumenberg's ‘reoccupation' (Umbesetzung) thesis, which locates in philosophy concerns originally raised in myth, to argue that the poet's relationship with his Muse, as the perceived source of his art form, was always somehow ontological (ontology: the theory of human being). In the pre-literate, pre-philosophical invocations of archaic figures like Homer and Hesiod, I locate the ‘ontological stirrings' in which the poet identifies his self through his at times troublesome and combative dependence on the Muse. By early modernity, a philosophical era, the classical Muse's appearances figure radical and imminently modern shifts in a still-persistent essentialist ontology. Here poets assert a re-orientation to the human person, a new ontology centered not on humanity's quondam dependence on nature, the deified genetrix overseeing all sublunary production (including poetry), but on an independent human production, so that techne, or art, becomes not only the prime factor in the recognition of human being but also the vehicle for its re-orientation. A chief contribution of this dissertation is its identification of an ontological poetics. Impossible outside of poetic language, this poetics employs inversions of conceit and discontinuous rhetorical structures to raze the vertical scales that placed causes (like nature or the Muse) over their effects (the poet and poetry). Ontological poetics forwards instead a horizontal ontology based on lateral connections among the poet-speaker, his beloved poetic subject, and the poem itself. A critical novelty of this project is that unlike in any of Blumenberg's examples of reoccupation, these analyses must consider the return of a myth within the era of philosophy. Because the appearances of the Muse in early modern poetry embody the basic ontological issues that the era of philosophy originally inherited from her, her early modern situation acts as an acid test for Blumenberg's thesis.
Dan cryer, rhetoric and writing, michelle hall kells, chair.
This dissertation explores the changing, multifaceted ethos of Aldo Leopold (1887-1948), one of the twentieth century’s most versatile environmental communicators. Drawing on scholarship in environmental rhetoric, rhetorical genre theory, citizenship theory and ecofeminism, I argue that throughout his career Leopold offered evolving rhetorical versions of himself as ideals of ecological behavior to be emulated by his readers. The chapters analyze Leopold’s ethos as it was constructed in his early-career writings in the New Mexico Game Protective Association Pine Cone, a wildlife protection broadsheet; in the Report on a Game Survey of the North Central States, his first book; in reports and articles he wrote during the Wisconsin deer irruption debates of the early 1940s; in the essays of A Sand County Almanac, his best known work; and in its current manifestation on the property of the Aldo Leopold Foundation in central Wisconsin. By focusing on these key rhetorical moments in Leopold’s ethos formation, this study reveals the sources from which his ethos arose, including nineteenth and early-twentieth century conservation movements and scientific literature, and the specific environmental crises to which he responded. In revealing, on one hand, the rhetorical strategies that excluded or alienated key stakeholders in the issues on which he wrote, and, on the other, his remarkable ability to connect with a range of audiences in a variety of genres, this study shows that Leopold can serve as both a model and cautionary tale for environmental communication in our own time.
Kathryn denton, rhetoric and writing, chuck paine, chair.
Asynchronous online tutoring is a highly contested form of writing tutoring. Critics of asynchronous online tutoring argue that it is ineffective, running contrary to traditional notions of what writing tutoring should look like and how it should be practiced. Supporters of asynchronous online tutoring advocate for its inclusion in the tutoring canon, suggesting that it should be one of many formats available to students. Noticeably absent from this ongoing debate is a grounding in research, as there are few current contributions to this field of research, with the exception of works, most notably, Beth Hewett’s The Online Writing Conference. This project responds to the current climate surrounding asynchronous online tutoring interactions, offering a research-based exploration of asynchronous online writing tutoring. This work represents a move away from the question “Is asynchronous online tutoring effective?” and towards “What are some of the ways tutors and students are engaging in effective asynchronous tutoring interactions?” “What support can we provide to promote effective asynchronous tutoring interactions?” and “How can we present asynchronous online tutoring to students in such a way that they can decide whether it works for them?” Chapter one offers the historical context of the debate on asynchronous online tutoring and offers an overview of the works that have been published to date. Chapter two lays out the qualitative research design created to explore the phenomenon of asynchronous online writing tutoring. Chapter three explores the research findings, arguing that the findings counter critiques of asynchronous online tutoring as ineffective and disengaging on the part of tutor and student alike. Chapter four concludes by looking to future possibilities for how we can further enhance our understanding of asynchronous online writing tutoring through research, how we can begin to understand best practices for asynchronous online tutors, and how we can support tutor development through training. Finally, drawing on the concept of directed self-placement, I advocate for a model of self-evaluation that empowers students to choose the tutoring format that works best for that individual student, given that student’s needs.
Benjamin dolan, creative writing.
In this memoir, I attempted to understand and rectify my own religious upbringing, my teenage addiction to pornography, and the love of literature I discovered in college with my conversion to Orthodox Christianity in my early twenties.
Sabrina golmassian, creative writing, david dunaway, chair.
Billions of animals are killed every year based on this ethical premise: Animals are lower than humans on some abstract moral scale, and they can therefore be considered property. However, a growing percentage of compassionate and educated animal lovers and advocates reject that premise. Its now possible to live comfortably and happily without subjecting animals to fear, pain, and stress for non-essential products. Whether it be food, clothing, scientific experiment, or entertainment, alternatives now exist to take their place. A broad range of investigative journalism and scholarship have exposed the detrimental effects of the use of animals for industry. An increasingly large number of compassionate, attentive people are beginning to understand that animals, too, deserve to their life as they choose, and many of us are determined to spread the word. Animal People tells the stories of individuals who are engaging in advocacy in new ways and building a better future for animals and humans alike. Though their fields of interest and expertise may be very different — they have backgrounds in science, social media, animal husbandry, and philosophy— their stories illuminate the progress we're making in thinking about animals and interacting with them in a more positive, less-exploitative manner.'
Donna gutierrez, creative writing.
Back 2 Life is a collection of novellas featuring a woman named Vennie Rodriguez and her two adult daughters, Socs and Sara. The woman owns a struggling beauty shop in Albuquerque's South Valley, and one day, she uncovers the body of a toddler buried in the playground across the street from her business. This event ripples through each woman leaving each to reconcile old goals and hopes for smaller, quieter existences.
Lindsey ives, rhetoric and writing.
This dissertation examines the role of whiteness and its relationship to identification in rhetorical representations of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project. Texts examined at length include recruitment materials, media coverage, pamphlets, and letters produced during the project, as well as retrospective representations of Freedom Summer in popular films and literature. Drawing upon Walter Beale’s pragmatic theory of rhetoric and Krista Ratcliffe’s concept of rhetorical listening, it analyzes five perspectives on the hundreds of volunteers, most of whom were white college students, who traveled to black communities across Mississippi that summer in order to register voters, teach in Freedom Schools, work in community centers, and engage in other special projects. Analyzing the perspectives of white volunteers, black activists, white southerners, national media, and history, this dissertation reveals that the volunteers are variously constructed as admiring outsiders, neo-abolitionists, pseudo-scientists, community members, critical pedagogues, cherished children of the privileged classes, communist invaders, soldiers, missionaries, inconsequential extras, and catalysts for critical reflection. It concludes by suggesting ways in which contemporary teachers of rhetoric and composition might use selected Freedom Summer texts in the classroom in order to generate conversations about topics such as community engagement, interracial advocacy, and college students’ writerly agency.
Vondell jones, creative writing.
Jiggs and Other Stories represent a diverse sampling of my work as a UNM graduate student and a writer of fiction. The works presented here are a pastiche of genres that include magical realism, tragedy, absurdist fiction, and fantasy and adventure. Beyond those significant categories, however, these stories are the product of my imagination. The power of fiction itself—Id like to believe—depends upon the capacities of the mind. When knowledge, experience, restless imagination and bold creativity are combined—good fiction supersedes the boundaries of literary categorization. My intention, in part, is to have these stories serve as an homage to many of my preferred authors such as Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Cormac McCarthy, Carson McCullers, John O'Hara and other American writers as well as a panoply of African, British, Irish, French, German and Russian novelists, short story writers and playwrights. The collection is prefaced by an introduction intended to give a full sense of what kind of enrichment these stories hope to achieve. Each story is summarized and examined to present an overview of the theory and the craft that defines it.
The Hat is a story about a young woman, Allison, an art teacher in Albuquerque, who goes to Chicago around the winter holidays for the funeral of her stepfather Vince, who has died suddenly of a stroke. Adding to the tension is the approach of Christmas, supposedly a happy time, and the vivid memories of a stalker boyfriend who disappeared about a year ago. Allison's past includes troubled family relationships, an ex-husband, and earlier affairs of an often destructive nature. She struggles with memories of her troubled relationship with her stepfather Vince, as well as dealing with her family's denial about it, along with a current, unknown stalker, and a new, promising relationship.
Erin murrah-mandril, american literary studies.
This dissertation studies the ways that Mexican Americans experienced time as a colonizing force in the US Southwest between 1848 and 1940. I argue that Mexican American writing of this period exposes oppressive iterations of time within US modernity and often points toward possibilities of decolonizing time. The project focuses on political and economic constructions of US progress, which denied Mexican Americans presence within US temporal imaginings. My analysis moves from material to ideological temporal constructions as I analyze forms of time concerning wage labor, railroad operations, investment capitalism, judicial processes, congressional proceedings, Manifest Destiny, commodity fetishism, intellectual production, historical narrative, and sociological discourse. I historically situate Mexican American experiences of US time through María Amparo Ruiz de Burton’s depiction of capitalist forms of time in The Squatter and the Don and Miguel Antonio Otero’s dependence on the rhetoric of progress in his three-volume autobiography. They expose the way US forms of time like Manifest Destiny, free market capitalism and judicial proceedings depend upon the production of underdevelopment and inequity while championing the virtues of progress and development. The first two chapters also position the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo as a source of colonized time because it initiated a system of retroactive law and placed former Mexican citizens in a liminal “mean time” of delayed political enfranchisement in order to dispossess Mexican Americans of their land and social standing. I go on to argue that Mexican American literature moves differentially across multiple forms of time to critique temporal domination by drawing on the scholarship of Chela Sandoval and Mikhail Bakhtin in my analysis of Jovita González and Margaret Eimer’s Caballero. Throughout the dissertation, I explore the ways that literary recovery of Mexican American texts both participates in and rejects dominant forms of linear progressive time. The final chapter engages this issue through a close analysis of Adina De Zavala’s History and Legends of the Alamo as a model for decolonizing time through practices of recovery and archivization that engage Derridian specters through intertextual dialogue with the past.
Diana noreen rivera, american literary studies.
This dissertation brings to light a legacy of Mexican American spatial resilience that troubles Anglo-centric constructions of the Southwest, its history, and cultural formation as a byproduct of westward expansionism. This project argues that early Mexican American writers offer an alternative paradigm of transnationalism for understanding the literature, culture, and geography of the U.S. Southwest as it has been imagined in Anglo American cultural production about the region. For early Mexican American writers, the Southwest was not a quaint literary region but a space of historic transnational zones of contact, commerce, and cultural geography where they maintained degrees of agency. I examine the writings of María Amparo Ruiz de Burton, Fray Angélico Chávez, Federico Ronstadt, and Américo Paredes for their "transnational counterspaces." I use this term, which draws from spatial theories by Henri Lefebvre and Edward Soja, to describe their vocalizations of the Southwest produced in the face of their respective Anglo counterparts such as Willa Cather and other members of the Santa Fe and Taos writers colonies, Walter Noble Burns, J. Frank Dobie, and Walter Prescott Webb. I take an interdisciplinary approach dialoging with Chicano/a, borderlands, and American literary studies within a historical framework to chart how early Mexican American writings reclaim the region by mapping transnational heritages belonging to Mexican American and Chicano/a communities.
Catherine pelletier, creative writing.
The Great Green Wall is a novel that explores story-telling, memory, identity, and family connections. The novel centers around a young woman named Greta and her relationship with her younger, troubled brother. Gretas younger brother, Evan, has (perhaps) murdered a local homeless man and Greta has covered it up. The siblings are locked in deceit because of this event in their early childhood. Years later, Greta is involved with a married man and Evan once again intrudes, his mental health deteriorating. Although this intrusion threatens the life that Greta is building, it offers Greta a chance to take another look at her past, to discover what really happened, and to change the course of her future.
Michael smith, creative writing.
The following essays are all chapters from a larger work, Shadows of Clouds on the Mountains , a sort of life-spanning nonfiction Ulysses , a literary mixtape in which every chapter takes a different form, and every chapter's form is dictated by its content. These essays, or chapters, will appear, basically as is, in my book, Shadows of Clouds on the Mountains . These are stories of family, memory, suicide, mental illness, the sibling bond, marriage, children, divorce, and adulthood. These are stories of a life devoted to art and exploration.
Nicole vigil, creative writing.
An ambivalent mother takes a retrospective look at the costs and consequences of choosing to be a mother.
Bonnie arning, creative writing.
A creative exploration into relationships: relationships with the self, with others, and with the world.
Heather campbell, creative writing.
This dissertation consists of a novel entitled Skinning the Deer: A Love Story . Alternating between the landscapes of New Mexico and rural Maine, the novel examines the life of tortured lesbian Hannah Huff and the brutal excision of her glorious wings—those magical appendages she grew in secret—the two downy white miracles she believed would be her ticket out of Monkstown, Maine, a desperate landscape of backwoods trailers, dogs, and family members, where her only interactions are either detached or violent. While the novel alternates between Hannah as an adult and Hannah as a child, it is first and foremost a coming-of-age story and a journey into the past to reclaim lost innocence. Inspired by the works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Dorothy Allison, and Salman Rushdie, Skinning the Deer weaves together magical realism, trauma narrative, and myth; it is a novel about sexuality, betrayal, and what we sacrifice for redemption.
Genesea carter, british and irish literary studies, rhetoric and writing.
The Literacies of Literary Texts: Rhetorical Bridges Between English Studies Disciplines and First-Year Writers seeks to blend rhetoric, composition, and literary discourses to illustrate how the subfields may engage in interdisciplinary collaboration and conversation. These conversations are important. For English studies to remain relevant in an increasingly business-minded model of higher education, departments must reassess their approaches and methods. As one way to reimagine English studies, I advocate for English studies’ return to rhetoric. In an increasingly complex world, Departments of English can become indispensible by using rhetoric to prepare their students for to rhetorically adapt to diverse discourse communities. Rhetoric and composition faculty can use literary characters as examples of rhetorical awareness and discourse community membership; such literary examples may prove useful if rhetoric and composition faculty hope to create buy in among their literature and creative writing colleagues. In order to show how literary characters can be presented as examples, I read Bleak House, Dracula, and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There as illustrative texts demonstrating how community membership depends on the rhetorical knowledge of literacy practices. Moving beyond the analytical, I apply my readings of Bleak House, Dracula, and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There to the first-year composition classroom. The characters of Jo, Dracula, and Alice illustrate the struggle between privileged and subordinate literacies, insider and outsider practices, and this praxis serves two purposes: (1) To help rhetoric and composition faculty see how the literacies of literary texts can be used to communicate rhetorical awareness, and (2) how literary texts can help first-year students understand the relationship between discourse community membership and rhetorical knowledge. This project’s two pronged purpose aims to foster interdisciplinarity between rhetoric and composition, literature, and creative writing faculty as well as envision new ways to best prepare students for the literacies they will encounter as professionals, academics, and citizens.
The Cull concerns newlyweds who move to rural Tennessee, where the husband has accepted a position as the resident physician for a small town called Sawyer. The long-time physician for the town has retired under duress and mysterious circumstances. The novel is preceded by a critical preface.
Nicolas depascal, creative writing.
Before You Become Improbable is a poetry collection that tackles issues as various as marriage, parenting, death, art, illness, and the workplace, using a mixture of formal and experimental poetry. The collection eschews sections, instead letting the poems coalesce naturally around seasonal themes. Through attention to sound, image, and tone, the collection attempts to view the everyday and mundane through a more magical and surreal lens.
Gregory haley, rhetoric and writing.
This dissertation is primarily concerned with describing a hermeneutic theory of composition pedagogy for the purpose of developing socially engaged, self-reflective, and critically conscious citizens of a democracy. This work examines the intersection of higher education and civic responsibility that has been the foundational motive of academics since the first schools were opened by Isocrates and Plato. The question now, as it has been since the days of Plato, is how to educate new citizens to become informed, engaged critics of their environments for the purpose of maintaining a healthy self governance and preserving the democratic ideals of equality, justice, and freedom. The foundational theorists for this work are John Dewey, Hannah Arendt, and Paul Ricoeur. Their hermeneutic understanding of human learning development and motivation towards action are crucial for understanding how to help students become self-reflective, socially engaged members of a free society. While each of these theorists and their views on educational pedagogies have been studied in depth, there has not been a study that examines the common heuristic of these three philosophers and the implications of a combined theory of hermeneutics for composition pedagogy.
Nora hickey, creative writing.
A collection of poetry exploring identity and emotion in imagined and real settings.
Christine kozikowski, medieval studies.
As a result of the growth of cities and the rise of a merchant class in later medieval England, the desire for privacy began to emerge alongside an increase in personal consciousness. In my dissertation, I examine the place of privacy in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England by juxtaposing elements of the private such as access, intimacy, and withdrawal in historical documents such as court records and marriage customs against canonical literature including, but not only, Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde , Sir Gawain and the Green Knight , and Malory’s Le Morte Darthur . My study explains the dynamics between privacy and place in urban property, romance beds, marriage, and widowhood by utilizing a theoretical framework developed by modern geographers; expanding on their ideas, I consider how the locative, the material, and the social influenced people’s notions of privacy, and how the literature reflects those ideals. In these narratives, the way that people react to expectations of place, both geographical and social, simultaneously suggests a self-conscious political positioning and a rejection of the dominant ideology that determined proper behavior. In my research, I put court records, romances, and letters in conversation with one another to analyze an unexplored discourse on medieval privacy. My dissertation reshapes our understanding of medieval place, space, and identity and redefines the historical narrative by identifying privacy and individuality as cultural elements of the late Middle Ages.
Jennifer nader, american literary studies, gary scharnhorst, chair.
In Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation, Mary Louise Pratt coined the term "contact zones," which she defined as "social spaces where disparate cultures meet, clash, and grapple with each other, often in highly asymmetrical relations of domination and subordination-like colonialism, slavery, or their aftermaths as they are lived out across the globe today" (4). The United States of America has a dismal history of racially violent encounters between Anglos and indigenous populations, with other settlers, and those who immigrated there. Many of America’s practices, policies, and historical events provide evidence of acts spurred by racism against non-Anglo groups, but evidence of this also exists throughout US media sources. Specifically, from the middle of the nineteenth century to its close, the majority of mass print media written by and controlled by the Anglo American population reveals an excess of discussion and debate regarding non-Anglo races, their places in Anglo society, and how to answer the race “question” of each non-Anglo group. Yet, while violent rhetoric encouraging racially charged mass murder from newspapers and novels dominated the Anglo publishing industry, several non-Anglo American authors used the Anglo publishing industry during the latter half of the nineteenth century to resist the dominant narratives of the time. In effect, these authors challenge what Gerald Vizenor refers to in Manifest Manners: Postindian Warriors of Survivance as the “literature of dominance” (3). This dissertation considers minority author use of the Anglo publishing industry to respond to the lies and misrepresentations of minorities, racially charged events, and violent encounters printed regularly in newspapers, novels, and other forms of US print media, locally and nationally, with the aim of exposing and excoriating racially charged mass murders of minority groups. These authors achieved this goal both through newspaper articles and through the inclusion of newspaper articles in their literary texts in order to debunk the falsehoods perpetuated by the numerous Anglo publishers at the time, but also through the re-telling of events as minority groups saw and experienced them. In turn, I argue each text works to challenge Anglo readers’ apathy and willing acceptance of such misinformation by enacting various forms of survivance in order to repudiate the victimry that popular Anglo novels of the time depicted in order to perpetuate societal norms and expectations. This includes works by Charles Chesnutt, S. Alice Callahan, and John Rollin Ridge. Finally, I look at Chinese American responses to calls for their extermination and forced deportation/exclusion throughout the latter half of the nineteenth century. Chinese Americans went directly to Anglo-dominant yet friendly newspapers to refute the numerous fabrications many American newspapers printed. These include responses from Norman Asing (Sang Yuen), and Hab Wa and Tong A-chick, as they set the precedent for Chinese American response, as well as Kwang Chang Ling, Yan Phou Lee, and Lee Chew, several of whom wrote in response to Dennis Kearney’s extreme anti-Chinese movement in California.
Adam nunez, creative writing.
This Side Up, Upside Down is a collection of one short novella and six short stories dealing with themes of guilt, disconnection, mis-creation, aging, death, grief, and time. The stories mostly follow the life of Theo Cobarde, a Mexican-American man living in the small town of Eagle, Idaho. He is concerned with the experiences of his older family members, who were all migrant farm workers in California in the mid-twentieth century. Having grown up in Idaho, Theo feels disconnected from his family, and most of all, from his father. The guilt of how he treated his aging father eats away at Theo Cobarde, causing strange occurrences in his life.
Tommy pierce, rhetoric and writing.
Standardization and the treatment of error is a central concern in the increasingly diverse college composition classroom. Writing teachers who wish to prepare students for success in the disciplines, but do not wish to be gatekeepers or guardians of a privileged variety of English, face a dilemma. This dissertation points toward an approach to error and standardization that avoids the prescriptive vs. descriptive dichotomy of whether to treat or not to treat error through. I also advocate bringing a perspective informed by sociolinguistics, second language writing, and discourse studies to the forefront of the WAC conversation on diverse student writers and error. In Chapter One, “Beyond the Tipping Point,” I illustrate the ever-increasing diversity of pre-college and college writing classes, and consider the key characterizations of developmental and second language writers. In Chapter Two, “Theories and Approaches to Diversity and Standardization,” I discuss the current college writing context as part of the historical trend toward the democratization of higher education. This consideration of previous influxes of diverse groups into higher education lays the groundwork for considering current notions about diversity and standardization. Chapter Three, “The Contested Terms of College Writing,” outlines my research methods. I use qualitative research methods within a hermeneutic approach in order to describe attitudes toward diverse student writers and standardization prominent among writing across the curriculum scholars. Chapter Four, “What We Talk about When We Talk About Diverse Student Writers,” provides a description of my analyses. A prominent tendency in the field of Writing Across the Curriculum is to construct diversity through the lens of error. The WAC Journal, as the premiere journal in the field, is indexical of this representation, and so was the logical choice for sampling the conversation. In Chapter Five, “A Reasonable Approach to Error,” I present the range of responses most prominent in the group of texts that were analyzed for this project, and outline my key findings, which suggest that many researchers interested in WAC support an approach to error that balances the need for correctness with the need for innovation. Finally, Chapter Six summarizes my key findings, and points to Sophistic tendencies in the WAC conversation on diverse student writers and error.
Natalie scenters-zapico, creative writing.
The Verging Cities is a collection of poems about the sister cities of El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua México. It is divided into four sections. The first takes place mostly in a domestic sphere exploring the relationship between the speaker and Angel. The second explores the violence of the cities from femicide to drug cartels and the effects this has on the speaker. The third is an extended poem that lyrically examines marriages and immigration through traditional epithalamia. The fourth becomes explicitly about the two cities and explores themes built around the word verge.
Roy turner, american literary studies, kathleen washburn, chair.
In Rudolfo Anaya’s Zia Summer , Rio Grande Fall , Shaman Winter , and Jemez Spring , the protagonist—Sonny Baca—undertakes a murder investigation that ultimately leads him to confront Raven, a mysterious figure whose acts of violence threaten the social fabric of Albuquerque, the American Southwest, and the entire world. In battling Raven, Sonny comes to realize that both he and his foe have the ability to access a spiritual power that takes root in the myths and belief systems of various cultures, including Sonny’s Chicano community, Native American peoples of the region, and ancient civilizations throughout the world, from which Sonny draws power as he becomes a shaman and healer. This dissertation explores how Anaya presents Sonny’s transformation as a model for self-empowerment in the face of colonial and neo-colonial violence. Tracing postcolonial theory, border studies, and contemporary discussions of trickster figures in Native cultures, this study argues that Anaya confronts both the genre expectations of the detective novel and the implicit racism and discrimination that continue to pervade cross-cultural interactions in the Southwest.
Anastasia andersen, creative writing.
The Domain of the Marvelous is a three-part collection of poetry. The first part, 'The Encounter of the Umbrella,' contains poems told as if dream stories, happening outside the realm of an identifiable speaker. Strangeness or absurdity with emotional regulation. These poems are rely heavily on imagery and often reflect a surreal playfulness as if resulting from surrealist word games such as Exquisite Corpse. The second section, 'Poetry is a Pipe, the innocent eye,' a more speaker begins to make various appearances. Many experiments with form including abecedarian, flush right margin, pseudo-sonnet, experiments with margins and image including found equation. 'The Game of Truth,' consists of poems that begin to explore larger themes including relationships, and the human experience such as fear, love, death, madness, and sexuality. Truth is questioned, the truth of perception, what is the truth of reality, what is the truth of this emotional experience. The three sections serve as three legs of a somewhat surreal journey. Distance, experiment, examination of truth. The preface explores influences on my writing, including Bugs Bunny cartoons and old Abbott and Costello routines. There is a close examination of four contemporary poets who I consider most influential in my work: by D.A. Powell, Dean Young, Matthea Harvey, Atsuro Riley. The preface finishes with a discussion of my own work as culmination of influences previously mentioned.
Paul formisano, american literary studies, rhetoric and writing, gary harrison, chair.
This dissertation argues that the Colorado River and its watershed face a crisis of representation as privileged nineteenth-century myths portraying the American West as a frontier, garden, and wilderness have limited an understanding of what and whom the river is for. It examines the contribution of “tributary voices” or the lesser known perspectives from the region to reveal new lines of thinking about this river and its surroundings as they engage the traditional views of the river shaped by these myths. The voices examined at length in this study include contemporary nature writer Craig Childs, recent female boating narratives by Patricia McCairen, Laurie Buyer, and Louise Teal, and AEURHYC, a Mexican water-users association from the Colorado Delta region. Through an interdisciplinary “watershed” approach that draws on ecocritical, bioregional, and rhetorical frameworks, this project considers how these tributary voices appropriate, complicate, and often reject the discourses and genres that have traditionally represented the river and watershed. Negotiating these conventional viewpoints, the tributary voices offer new lines of thinking that reveal the river's importance to a broader range of stakeholders. As impending water shortages threaten the region, this dissertation initiates a much needed conversation about the role literary and rhetorical production has in shaping attitudes and behaviors toward the Colorado and its finite resources.
Stacey l. kikendall, british and irish literary studies.
This dissertation examines key moments in fictional and autobiographical texts when gender construction and colonization intersect and create the possibility for reciprocal visual exchange between disparate people. In a visual exchange, the participants actively and meaningfully look at one another, at the same time acknowledging the other’s subjectivity. I argue that these moments hint at the subliminal utopian desire by the author, and perhaps the reader, for a more equal, even democratic, community. I study a range of texts written during the long nineteenth century by male and female authors, including Sydney Owenson’s The Wild Irish Girl (1806), The History of Mary Prince (1831), Charles Dickens’s Martin Chuzzlewit (1844), and Olive Schreiner’s The Story of an African Farm (1883). Despite the rich scholarship in recent years on race and imperialism, gender, and the gaze as they are conceived in the nineteenth century, it is rare to find scholarship that examines the intersections of all three, and none of the texts I study have been the subject of this kind of intersectional analysis.
Casandra lopez, creative writing.
When We Were Hunted is a cycle of short stories centered on the members of a California Indian/Mexican family grieving the loss of Michael, the complicated man they knew as a father and husband. The book spans four years and begins a few weeks after the death of Michael, who had been imprisoned for drug trafficking. The chapters alternates among the perspectives of Michael's daughter, Alma; his son, Eric; and wife, Lisa. While each story is self contained, the individual stories also work to contribute to the overall coherence of the collection. The collection seeks to explore issues of diaspora, migration, place, violence and grief from an Indigenous perspective.
Richard raab-faber, creative writing.
In the days following the attacks of September 11th, 2001, writers of fiction and non-fiction, poets, and screenwriters struggled with how and when to put to use their craft as a way to, not only express their feelings about the event, but to do their part' to help assuage the grief felt by the nation and the world. The resultant works seemed to point toward a new literary mini-genre—Post-9/11 literature. The critical preface both coins an acronym for this literature—PoNE (for Post-Nine Eleven) and establishes a working definition of the mini-genre as 'a realist-based literature that is primarily marked by a strong use of a 'pre-packaged' central image; that deals with the emotional and psychological toll on the survivors of 9/11—both those who escaped, and the families/loved ones of the same; and finally, that is marked by an inherent tension resulting from waiting for the other shoe to drop.' The preface examines early instances of PoNE literature, including the hastily-created hand-written 'Have You Seen Me?' posters, early short published responses by established writers, journalists and poets, novels, films, and even the government-funded 9/11 Commission Report. From this analysis, a definition of Post-9/11 literature is developed. In the second part of the dissertation, an original novel, titled A Falling Sky , is presented. The novel, an example of Post-9/11 literature uses many of the hallmarks of the mini-genre including that of prepackaged images from the days surrounding the September 11th, 2001 attacks.
Suzanne richardson, creative writing.
A collection of short stories and nonfiction essays.
David rubalcava, creative writing.
The Plight of Rudy 'Gordo' Sanchez and Other Short Stories' is a collection of one novella and nine short stories dealing with a broad range of themes like borders, immigration, race, sex, sexuality, violence, religion, spirituality, food, obsession, fetishes, and death. The stories range from sad and serious to sarcastic and darkly humorous to happy and joy-filled to really quite disturbing. They are meant to be raw, sexual, grotesque, violent, beautiful, sweet, delicious, and painful. The characters are gay men in love, a reality television show judge, a bench, feminine little boys, a sadistic group therapy leader, a man dying of AIDS, Frida Kahlo, a piñata maker, a female prostitute with supernatural powers, and an overweight taco truck chef with a special soul. The Stories are set in diverse places like Ciudad Juárez, El Paso (TX), Gun Hole (a fictional city in the Texas Bible Belt), Denver (CO), St. Louis Park (MN), Minneapolis (MN), San Francisco (CA), Barcelona, Albuquerque (NM), and Trinidad (CO). The stories all speak to the human condition as well as what it is to be human physically, biologically, and genetically. Love is at the core of most of these stories, not just romantic love but familial and also the love of self. Craft wise, the stories use the idea of central image, some play with form and structure, some use magical realism, the point of view varies from story to story, and the novella plays with time, setting, plot, and footnotes. Several pieces are still works in progress, but the idea behind this collection is my sincere attempt to affect my reader, to make my reader feel some specific emotion from the characters and language of each story.
Marisa sikes, medieval studies.
Conduct and courtesy literature have a long history, its vernacular tradition extending back to the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. We are familiar with modern versions of this literature: Ann Landers’ advice column, women’s magazines, and even modern books that tell us about etiquette. My dissertation examines English and French conduct literature of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries addressed to women. These texts build rhetorical authority in various ways. At one end of the spectrum of rhetorical authority there are texts that build credibility through charismatic and familial authority; on the other end there are those that build it through abstract means such as the use of allegory and visionary inspiration. I locate these different approaches in relationship to other medieval literary traditions such as the recording of visions, the generation of mental images as a means of mnemonic practice and meditation, the debate on women, and the use of exempla, a prominent rhetorical feature of pastoral medieval sermons. My initial chapters explain my theoretical approach and examine conduct literature written by women for women. Christine de Pizan’s Book of the Three Virtues reveals that medieval pedagogies directed at women are not always concrete and experiential for her text engages in visionary practice, employs allegory, and self-reflective debate. Anne of France’s Lessons for Her Daughter relies on more familiar constructions of authority but is also part of a family tradition of royal instruction directed at children. In my fourth chapter I analyze the English translations of The Book of the Knight of La Tour Landry which were produced between 1422 and 1471 and in 1484. This male-authored text adopts a familiar, familial language of concern, but The Book also reflects the rhetoric of pastoral sermons as well as violent misogyny. My fifth chapter considers the anonymous, short Middle English poems narrated by a “Good Wife” along with a Middle Scots and an Anglo-Norman poem. These texts reveal the strictures on middle class female behavior and rely on concrete, specific details of physical objects and exempla; the Good Wife narrator presents herself as the mother of her audience, engaging the familial and charismatic aspects of rhetorical authority. The Anglo-Norman poem provides evidence that authority does not always reside within the mother figure in didactic literature, however, as the daughter in this poem speaks back to her mother. My final chapter considers how, despite the violence present in the Knight’s work, it and the works of Christine and Anne promote gynosocial relationships as a means of survival in medieval courtly society for women. My study questions modern assumptions about medieval understandings of gender and sexuality concerning medieval pedagogies. My work also historicizes the neuroscience debate over differences between the sexes in which Cordelia Fine’s Delusions of Gender participates by examining the pedagogical approaches directed at medieval women.
Jennifer simpson, creative writing.
Set against the backdrop of turning 40, watching her sister battle cancer, and losing her father, Reconstructing My Mother is a memoir chronicling Jennifer's journey to get to know her mother who died from cancer when Jennifer was 13, and her journey to get to know herself.
Elizabeth tannen, creative writing.
This manuscript braids together two narratives. One is about my immediate family: my father had three boys—my older brothers—with his first wife, who died, after two years of illness, when my brothers were young. I am his only child with my mother, who was twenty-six when she married my dad and took on the role of parenting the boys. The second narrative traces my fixation, as a young, single woman, on romantic love: I write a blog about relationships, and have long been consumed by a search for connection shaped by the isolation I've felt within my family. The arc of the second narrative ties into the first as the narrator, after years of feeling afraid to write about the family and focusing on relationships instead, finally begins to tell the family's story—to her surprise, engaging them in that process.
Tanaya winder, creative writing, diane thiel, chair.
Winter Bird is a collection of fifty-one poems that delve into themes of loss, longing, and trauma present in Native American communities. Issues including suicide, alcoholism, and rape cover the historical landscape of these poems which use imagery of birds and motifs of winter, cold, and music to render the topics. Contemporary issues are also brought under the lens of these poems which add personal implications by using love poems written in first-person. Winter Bird follows a three-section format using three poems 'The Surrender to Memory,' 'What John Wayne Couldn't Have Known,' and 'The Significance of a Hanging' as titles for each section. Writing reflects reality, where through the careful choice, picking, and precision of words, we mimic control over form, trying to re-create experience, and, as with any form, something is inherently sacrificed in v that re-creation. As these poems deal with death and impermanence by incorporating art, music, and motifs of birds amongst other techniques, Winter Bird and this three-section format allows the reader to interrogate whom death/loss/trauma targets, question who is tempted by it, and hopefully by the end of it, come out with an understanding of flight\'s urgency. The first section 'The Surrender to Memory' takes the reader on a journey to the past to question what childhood experiences shape the life of an adult; the second section 'What John Wayne Couldn't Have Known' delves into historical trauma to get at Herman's claim, 'understanding of psychological trauma begins with rediscovering history" (1); the third section 'The Significance of a Hanging' culminates with the trauma and reckoning of loss. Each section uses music and art as tropes along with birds and winter as motifs to provide different vantage points into the traumas such that the reader can get closer to the re-creation of experience. Through the combination of image and text, the poems push the emotional tenor of the poems into dramatic space.
Ying xu, british and irish literary studies, gail hurley, chair.
This dissertation analyzes the works of three early Chinese immigrant writers (Yung Wing, Yan Phou Lee, and Wong Chin Foo) and two mixed race writers (Edith Eaton and Winnifred Eaton) in late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century North America in order to critique the formation of early Chinese American literature. Borrowing W. E. B. Du Bois’s construct of double consciousness and Amy Ling’s theory of between worlds, I argue that the complicated double consciousness exhibited in the works of these early immigrant writers demonstrates their across lands strategies of negotiating identities prior to and during the Exclusion Era (1882-1943). My formulation of what I call “across lands theory” focuses on the self-representations of Chinese and mixed race immigrants in their struggle to acquire a place in the United States as well as other countries while simultaneously coping with anti-Chinese regulatory laws. While they negotiate their identities across geographical terrains (China and the U.S.), they also construct their self-image across other terrains such as psychological, legal, discursive, and aesthetic ones with a range of responses that cannot be limited to just resistance and assimilation. Double consciousness is the dilemma immigrant writers face, and across lands strategies demonstrate their self-fashioning and negotiation of identity during the Exclusion Era. The first chapter of this dissertation analyzes the ways in which double consciousness is utilized by Yung Wing to construct his memoir as the text of a self-made man. I argue that Yung’s memoir revises the nineteenth-century cult of the self-made man to provide a prototypical model of autobiographical writing for the othered, racialized immigrant subject. The second chapter focuses on Yan Phou Lee’s autobiography and periodical writing and investigates Lee’s construction of difference in revising the stereotypical image of the Chinese in the late nineteenth century. I point out that the double consciousness shown in Lee’s works proves that he is, like Yung Wing, another across lands figure who negotiates “between worlds” in often sophisticated, complex, and nuanced ways. The third chapter focuses on complicated across lands strategies in Wong Chin Foo’s construction of Chinese American identity in relation to “the intelligent class of China” vis-à-vis “heathenism.” In this chapter, I argue that Wong’s periodical writing, translation, and political activities contribute to the project of constructing the new identity—Chinese American. My last chapter examines Edith and Winnifred Eaton’s writings in terms of acts of passing against a paradigm of resistance and acculturation. By studying Mrs. Spring Fragrance and a Japanese Nightingale in the Eatons’ works, I argue that their across lands strategy of utilizing and subversively undermining racial constructions of white American culture helps revise the abject Asian female body, including their own mixed race authorial bodies.
Ashley lynn carlson, british and irish literary studies.
This dissertation discusses the works of Sarah Stickney Ellis in the context of Victorian culture and argues that Ellis’s ideas about women, which have frequently been described as “anti-feminist” by twentieth and twenty-first century scholars, were often progressive and even proto-feminist. The first chapter discusses Ellis’s writings on education, where she argues that girls require moral, physical, and intellectual training. This chapter demonstrates that Ellis, though not necessarily radical, is more liberal than she has been given credit for in terms of her educational scheme for women. The second chapter focuses on Ellis’s views on courtships and engagements. Rather than persuading women to become meek and subservient wives, her recommendations for women before marriage clearly demonstrate that women should avoid matches where their own needs will not be met. She warns women away from self-sacrifice and instead emphasizes the importance of finding a man who will be able to fulfill his duties as a husband. Ultimately, she argues that women are better off remaining single than risking an unfortunate marriage. The third chapter focuses on Ellis’s efforts to enlarge a woman’s sphere of influence. Specifically, this chapter investigates the complex layers of rhetoric that Ellis uses to maintain an overtly submissive stance while subversively promoting female empowerment. This strategy, which frames Ellis’s most famous work, The Women of England, imitates the tactics Ellis suggests her readers might use with their husbands and other men. While consistently deprecating both herself and the role of women in general, she paradoxically argues that women are of utmost importance in Victorian society, and even assigns them more power than men. The final chapter examines Ellis’s temperance fiction. This chapter focuses on Family Secrets, a collection of temperance tales Ellis published in 1842. In these stories, Ellis disrupts the ideology of separate spheres by suggesting that this philosophy is a cause of alcoholism. Through stories about drunken men and women, Ellis shows that society’s arbitrary divide between public and private is dangerous. Thus, like her other writings, Ellis’s temperance fiction expands a woman’s sphere into the public arena. Simultaneously, she argues that men must participate in the domestic sphere.
Carrie cutler, creative writing.
The stories of students and children who are the victims of child abuse rarely intersect in published works for a variety of reasons, including a lasting social stigma which constitutes the child and adult as suspect, because of what they survived. Children who have abuse in their backgrounds are frequently thought to be unable to transition to the professional world, through the long years necessary to finish college, and are often thought to be incapable of the feats of self-control and adaptation which are a part of academic success. They are treated and spoken of as permanently ruined adults, condemned to a life which is profoundly impaired. This is a collection of stories of children who died as a result, and the few who've made it into academia and the professional world— what it costs the adult and child to be here. In this collection, my own story and the stories of others are presented not as a cautionary tale, or even a tale of the exceptional person, but as the attempt to demonstrate the unique problems academia and the professional world offers people like me. This is the attempt to offer the victims of child abuse a narrative which demonstrates the challenges and the horrors of these experiences, and offers a pattern which victims can use to get out of the places where they are trapped. This collection is for the lost, with love, from someone who has been there.
Lucy dupertuis, creative writing.
This creative non-fiction dissertation consists of a travel memoir written while I was enrolled in the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. It incorporates many letters I wrote in 1969. This manuscript consists of the first two parts of what I envision as a three-part memoir. The memoir braids present-tense (2009) and past-tense (1969) travel stories. The narrator, a sixty-three year old woman who has taken extended leave from her job in response to her lifelong urge to get 'out of the box,' takes long camping trips in the American Southwest in her pickup truck. While traveling, she reads letters she wrote about her hippie travels through North Africa forty years ago. The letters bring to mind past stories, which she interweaves with her current adventures. She reflects on the similarities and differences between her current and her former traveling self. In Part I, the narrator travels from California to New Mexico while remembering her trip from Rome to Casablanca. In Part II, on another California-New Mexico trip, she recalls traveling through southern Morocco with her young Berber lover and reflects on cultural differences and conflicts. At the end of Part II she injures her ankle and must head home. In the projected Part III, the narrator mulls over her breakup with the Berber lover and subsequent aimless existence with other hippies in Morocco; she is also dealing with her ankle injury, which has stopped her from traveling. She must come to terms with who she was 1969 and with the fact that because of her injury she can no longer use traveling to stay 'out of the box.'
Randall lee gann, american literary studies, hector torres, chair.
This dissertation examines the historical origins of the ideology of Manifest Destiny and the effects of its transmission into American literature and film. I argue that though eruptions of Manifest Destiny repeat the idea of American exceptionalism, the semi-autonomous nature of the work of art works against the grain of these eruptions to show they are also symptomatic of the inability of the American State to reconcile the desire to be both a virtuous republic and a global empire. I begin with an analysis of the embedded notion of exceptionalism in John Winthrop’s A Model of Christian Charity and follow the trace of that same notion in Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence in order to establish an historical lineage of America’s exceptionalist narrative. I then argue that the ideas of exceptionalism and the divine mission of the American State become compressed into the concept of Manifest Destiny and, through the discursive acts of John Louis O’Sullivan and the United States Magazine and Democratic Review, American cultural production repeats the discourse of Manifest Destiny. A list of the authors that appeared in the Democratic Review virtually defines American Romanticism and under O’Sullivan’s editorial control the Democratic Review directly allied those authors with his politico-literary vision, which was informed by his belief that America was exceptional. I demonstrate how a novel like Herman Melville’s Moby Dick is a nodal point where an American exceptionalist discourse is transmitted into film vis-à-vis John Huston’s 1956 release of the filmic version of Moby Dick. Through a consideration of Rio Bravo (1959), and Lone Star (1998), my final chapter tracks eruptions of Manifest Destiny in the American Western film in order to show how changing formulations of American Exceptionalism gain traction in their time periods precisely because of the malleability of the exceptionalist narrative.
Leigh johnson, american literary studies.
This dissertation posits that writers can symbolically represent domestic violence to critique unjust gender relations as well as iniquitous US policy toward Mexican Americans. I use the term domestic violence because it most closely describes the double voiced discourse women engage to critique communities that condone violence against women as well as a country that perpetrates violence against Mexican Americans within its borders. Put broadly, domestic violence refers to threats of sexual, emotional, or psychological abuse within the home. Furthermore, patriarchal control over women’s agency, sexuality, and mobility in turn-of-the-century texts also indicates domestic violence through social and historical conditions. Violence is especially evident throughout this project as women’s rights challenge patriarchal structures and civil rights challenge racist policies. Revealing the perilous gains of women and Mexican Americans, social backlash encourages explosions of domestic violence. For this reason, each chapter explores the historical and social contexts surrounding scenes of domestic violence. Mexican American women remain tenuously between the spaces of home and nation as they experience domestic violence from state and familial institutions. Because these women are not safe within their homes, they have to participate in a broader societal push to define, describe, and defend themselves against domestic violence. Their resistance comes with a price—women, especially women of color, who resist patriarchal violence may be seen as cultural traitors, exposing their men to criticism from dominant society. The first chapter shows how women’s speech both uncovers and masks narratives of domestic violence through allegory using the testimonios taken for the Bancroft project on California history. The second chapter examines how the historical romance genre incorporates scenes of domestic violence against women’s protected space in the home and nation. The third chapter reveals how representations of domestic violence within Mexico reflect colonial anxieties about conquest and domestic policy. American travel writers’ encounters with domestic violence in Mexico reflect the anxieties surrounding American entitlement to Mexico and the bodies of the people living there. The fourth chapter observes limitations on women’s ability to leave violent situations within the home or the nation. This chapter utilizes scenes by Mexican American men, as they write about (and blame women for) domestic violence. The fifth chapter celebrates women writers’ activism through literary motherwork. Though these texts, with the exception of the last chapter, precede the Chicano Movement, they are politically engaged in a struggle to define and defend la raza through their intellectual agendas.
Nari kirk, creative writing.
This dissertation is a collection of essays that examines the authors coming-of-age in terms of religion, race, gender, and family. Using a combination of personal experience, reflection on this experience, and outside research, these essays employ creative nonfiction strategies to find meaning and sense in the complex terrain of human existence. The recurring themes all focus on change—the author's growth from a conservative, sheltered girlhood to womanhood, when she begins cultivating her new beliefs. The questions persist of how much the past will influence the present and how much the past can, and should, be let go.
Jennifer krohn-bourgeois, creative writing.
In the Clothes of Others is a collection of poems that begins with a nontraditional evocation of the muses and is followed by three different sections of poems. The thirteen poems in first section deal with how we use narratives to understand our daily lives and how those narratives often fail. The nine poems in the second section explore unstated implications of fairy tales often from the point of view of characters within the story. The nine poems in the third section focus on myths from the Judeo-Christian, Greek and Norse traditions. These poems explore how the myths affect our view of the world and like the second section focus on the unstated implication of these stories often from the character's point of view.
Carolyn kuchera, american literary studies.
Beginning in the late nineteenth century, literary depictions of farmers borrow from the established trope of the “Vanishing American” Indian to portray farmers as disappearing before the forces of modern civilization. I argue that writing about farmers from this era ought to be approached as a type of extinction discourse: the rhetoric surrounding the decline of a race or culture. Extinction discourse, whether applied to the American Indian or to farmers, fuses mourning over a passing way of life with celebration of civilization’s progress. Farmers are portrayed as primitive figures, as fundamentally incompatible with modern civilization, in all of the fiction included in this study: Joseph Kirkland’s Zury (1887), Hamlin Garland’s “Up the Coolly” (1891) and “The Silent Eaters” (1923), John T. Frederick’s Druida (1923) and John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath (1939). While the works vary in their valuations of primitivism, alternately favoring the nostalgic or the progressive impulse, the farmer vanishes nonetheless. For the purposes of this study,“vanishing” signifies not so much a sociological fact as a representational act performed in response to a perceived loss.Literary constructions of the vanishing farmer are performative: they help produce the condition (disappearance) that they subsequently describe. The rhetorical origins of industrial agriculture are rooted in this disappearance. The developing reactions to the farmer’s “disappearance” and the varying rhetorical forms of those reactions are the focus of this study, which is contextualized through historical and sociological information. The divergent ideologies of nostalgia displayed in the fiction illustrate particular modern anxieties, while shadows or traces of Indian presence within these texts reveal a buried legacy of removal within Western expansion. This analysis also shows how portrayals of vanishing farmers often preserve the racialist logic of extinction discourse, wherein race contributes to extinction. The conclusion suggests a future direction for the literary analysis of farmers, arguing that they can be most productively approached as ghosts through Jacques Derrida’s theory of the “trace” and Toni Morrison’s notion of the shadow. With its focus on the decline, and sometimes disparagement, of agrarian America, this dissertation counters the dominant critical narrative that associates American virtue and civilization with rural values.
Linda rickert, creative writing.
The essays held in this collection when viewed as a whole illustrate the destructive repetitive acts of four generations of addiction and how these acts influenced each coming generation. They also demonstrate the inability to see events clearly when in the middle of turmoil. Through the use of reflection and recollection each piece links to the others to form a progressive pattern from which family members seem unable to escape. Whether it is the power of genetics or the sway of nurture or the lack of it, the pattern suggests an inability to break the negative cycle even when the desire to do so reaches its strongest point. There is the suggestion of growth, however, threaded throughout the body of the work. This puts forward that change can be achieved and puts forward the proposal that change must be deliberate as well as earned. A sense of place vibrates throughout this collection. The coal mining area of central Pennsylvania breeds a populace of hardened citizens, people used to harsh conditions, poverty, and rage. These people continue to survive because they know nothing about giving up. Characterization may be one of this works strongest points. In addition, moments of learning, maturity, and difficult decisions reach out to touch others universally. Moments such as a father accepting his daughter's single motherhood in the sixties, of a daughter losing her animosity toward her mother when she realizes that we do what we must to survive, and the decision to stop life-saving treatment for a profoundly mentally challenged son touches lives every day. Methods of coping give the reader support and the courage to cope.
Samantha tentangco, creative writing.
Set against the backdrop of both San Francisco and Los Angeles, The View From Here is a community-based novel that alternates point of view between four characters: Jackie Saunders, an overnight desk clerk searching for a purpose in life; Kayden Liu, Jackies childhood best friend, who must face a violent secret of her past before she can fully build her future; Michelle Johnson, a married businesswoman, who must allow herself to see beyond the life she's created in order to understand the life she wants; and Shannon Eiverson, a photographer with an upcoming show, who wants to 'make it' as an artist. While the novel focuses much of its attention on cheating (both the reasons we cheat ourselves and the reasons we cheat on others), at its heart, The View from Here is a novel about friendship, created homes, and the way the lives we've led keep us from living the lives we desire.
Melanie unruh, creative writing.
This novel follows the lives of two protagonists, Daphne and Emily Ellis. Though their narratives are separated by 30 years, both young women must face difficult decisions as pregnant teenagers. As Daphne struggles to understand her own situation, she uncovers her deceased Aunt Emilys journals, and embarks on a journey that will unravel dark family secrets that are decades old.
Cassandra amundson, british and irish literary studies, barry gaines, chair.
My dissertation examines Renaissance authors’ investment in the Hermetic tradition. This tradition is based on the Hellenistic Egyptian philosophical-theological writings ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus, which emerged in parallel with early Christianity, Neoplatonism, and Gnosticism. The Hermetic tradition gained importance in the Renaissance with Marsilio Ficino’s translations and soon became an alternative avenue for the exploration in the spiritual conception of the “self” as divine, a conception previously closed off by medieval orthodox religious and secular traditions. I argue that principal figures in the Renaissance and Restoration—Shakespeare, Bacon, and Milton—were engaged in constructing this Hermetic mode of thinking to illustrate individuals’ ability and responsibility for “saving” themselves through the gnosis of self-discovery, the gnosis that emphasized living with and in the presence of God. The Hermetic discourse is well documented in the history discipline by such scholars as Lynn Thorndike, Frances Yates, and D. P. Walker. Yet, in the literary discipline, there have not been sufficient discussions for locating the influence of the Hermetism on Renaissance and Restoration literary authors. In this way, I fill the gap in Renaissance scholarship and classroom teaching by showing that these authors used rhetorical maneuvers and symbols to illustrate the Hermetic mode of thinking as a major defining feature in their arguments for a new epistemology.
Molly beer, creative writing.
On Unstable Ground is the story of the two years I spent trying to understand and navigate El Salvador—both as a place and a history. This is not, however, a memoir, per se. Rather, it is a history told through personal narrative. Each essay-chapter revolves around a particular experience that I had living in that country—a point of contact or clash—that magnified an important aspect of El Salvadors character. Cumulatively, the essays piece together the story of a geographic journey as well as an exploration of history, a second journey that garners an evolving understanding of the events and circumstances that have shaped the nature of that place.
Chris boat, creative writing.
This dissertation consists of a novella entitled The Paper-Haired God . It is the story of a man named Jason who one day (after dropping his wife Akiko off at the airport to visit friends) decides to crawl into the cabinet underneath his sink. He doesnt quite understand why he crawls under the sink, just that it is something that he needs to do. Before he realizes it, he is starving and too weak to get back out. When he feels as though he is about to disappear forever, he finds himself in a large cavern. After exploring the cavern he relives a memory from his childhood where he almost drowned in the Uji River. Then he is pulled out from under the sink by his wife. After his recovery he begins to realize that the world he left when he went under the bathroom sink and the world he came back to are not the same.
Daniel darling, creative writing.
A novel of fiction. John Stick, along with his two best friends, Spartacus Rex and Leon Flowers, rob a blood bank with the intent to sell the blood in Mexico. On the way, the ice cream truck that they have converted to transport the blood breaks down, and they become stranded in the desert. Stick notices that one of the bags of blood belongs to his ex-girlfriend, Cryopathria Rex, with whom he is still in love. Stick tries to take the blood back to Albuquerque out of guilt. Rex and Flowers stop him. The three men have en escalating feud, which leads to Flowers and Rex tying Stick to a tree and soaking him with several bags of blood and leaving him to die. Flowers and Rex ride south on a team of ostriches that Flowers has stolen from Crazy Patti LeBeau. Stick is rescued by a woman from Mexico named Alma. Together they pursue Flowers and Rex. On the way they encounter an alpaca farm, an Apache policeman named Chuck, the chupacabras, a vengeful Patti LeBeau, before they finally confront Rex in the Rio Grande gorge on the border of Texas and Mexico. The novel explores themes of masculinity, trauma, betrayal, friendship, and the American-Mexican border. It is constructed with particular attention to character construction and imagery. It fits into the broad category of Post-Western literature.
Lisa gill, creative writing.
This dissertation is comprised of two parts. The first is called Dollo & Me (Aftermath with Permutations) and is an unconventional and nonlinear memoir addressing the aftermath of violence and the changes that are required for survival. It specifically looks at my twenties and thirties and tackles the various manifestations of trauma in my life. Two essays frame the manuscript: one as Chapter Zero and one as Chapter Oh. The body of the manuscript is contained in seventeen numerical chapters. The second part of this dissertation manuscript is comprised of a new 'poetic' play titled 'The Relenting.' The play addresses my encounter with a rattlesnake in my living room and enacts a literary and archetypal journey that could not have been undertaken without first doing the work of 'Dollo & Me.'
Shannon mccabe, medieval studies, timothy c. graham, chair.
In 1705, the last fascicle of the Linguarum Veterum Septentrionalium Thesaurus Grammatico-Criticus et Archaeologicus of George Hickes was published in Oxford. This monumental volume represented a major step forward in Anglo-Saxon studies. This study translates the most monumental chapter of the Thesaurus, Chapter 23. Although this chapter ―On the Poetic Art of the Anglo-Saxons,‖ represents the first sustained attempt to apply a critical and theoretical apparatus to Anglo-Saxon poetry, it is also concerned with attempts to sort out a ―purer‖ language from the various dialects represented in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts. Hickes directly addresses two major Anglo-Saxon forms in Chapter 23, ―pure Saxon,‖ and ―Dano-Saxonic,‖ the lesser of the two languages, because of its ―foreignness,‖ a key term for Hickes, who sought to separate out what he believed to be the true Anglo-Saxon from dialectal languages which he believed to have introduced ―abhorrent‖ elements into Anglo-Saxon poetry. Ultimately, this desire of Hickes to divine the ―purer‖ language with respect to the Anglo-Saxon reflects a more general eighteenth century anxiety about the nationalistic uses of language and the attempt to control and modify the language, beginning with Sir William Temple‘s essay On Ancient and Modern Learning, as well as the response to it by William Wotton in his Reflections Upon Ancient and Modern Learning, culminating in Jonathan Swift‘s ―A Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue,‖ and Elizabeth Elstob‘s An Apology for the Study of Northern Antiquities. Especially important was the linking of language to national identity and issues of nation building, as with the establishment of the Académie Française in 1635. This anxiety manifests itself in Swift as an attempt to purge the English language of ―barbaric‖ elements, namely Germanic words and grammatical forms, placing him and his supporters in direct opposition to the antiquarian movement headed by George Hickes and the Oxford Saxonists.
Motherland is a three-part collection of poetry. The first part, Foreign,' contains poems about Portugal and Brazil. The poems reflect historic events and personal observations. In the context of the collection, they serve as historical and emotional background to my Luso-American identity, working with places and events that came before me and experiences that I explore through the medium of poetry. The second section, 'Familiar,' covers the ground of childhood memory, specifically through place and people, and my adult experiences with motherhood and it surrounding events—pre-pregnancy, pregnancy, birth, and parenting a small child. 'Unexpected,' consists of poems that are more playful in nature or that originated in a more imagined realm—poems about literary characters, found punctuation, and dreams, for instance. The three sections coalesce into a collection, progressing from a quest for understanding within a larger context in 'Foreign,' to a search for defining moments or experiences in 'Familiar,' to a sublimation of understanding or definition in 'Unexpected,' where meaning arrives rather than is sought. The preface discusses the process of writing, influences on my writing, and a close examination of poems by Sylvia Plath, Galway Kinnell, and Robert Hass.
This dissertation consists of a poetry manuscript that primarily explores themes of class, sexuality, gender, race and ethnicity. The collection is divided into three sections. The first addresses the coming of age of the speaker in Chicago. The second primarily takes place abroad and explores romantic relationships. The third begins to delve into themes of systematic exploitation.
Leah sneider, american literary studies.
An Indigenous feminist approach to Native literature reveals the ways in which Native authors attempt to build balanced relationships and conversations across cultures, nations, and histories. I explore ways that Native authors depict gender violence and male characters who, like Native women, negotiate colonization and assert sovereignty. Doing so offers a new way of reading Native literature that seeks to also decolonize our analytical approaches for similar use across academic disciplines and for practical applications within and outside of academia. I define Indigenous Feminism as the responsibility for the nurturance and growth of Native communities through storytelling as a communal process and action reflecting personal sovereign power. I focus on how these authors adapt traditional knowledge of social balance through ideological subversion. I read literary conventions as creating complementary and reciprocal relationships in order to develop critical awareness thus enacting an Indigenous feminist ideology. An author’s rhetorical and literary use of these principles attempts to create a balanced relationship between reader and author that simultaneously decolonizes readers’ minds. Reading constructions of masculinities in connection with complementarity and reciprocity discloses and helps to understand colonial gender violence thus asserting an Indigenous feminist decolonizing process that seeks to remove colonial ideological shackles. Thus, I read Native texts for a balanced distribution of power across relationships, specifically gender-based relationships and systems of power. This exploration of complementary and reciprocal relationships enables us to read literature as critical responses to gender violence and its effects on both Native men and women. These texts and their authors offer a way of seeing gender identity on a continuum based on both individual and communal needs. Furthermore, such an analysis allows for balanced dialogue needed to uncover a new understanding of shared experiences to effect social change. Therefore, a more inclusive Indigenous feminist perspective presents a new way of recognizing literature and storytelling as social activism, or attempting to affect social justice within the imaginations and ideologies of its readers.
Richard vargas, creative writing.
My dissertation consists of poetry and two non-fiction essays written during my enrollment in the Creative Writing Master of Fine Arts program at the University of New Mexico. The manuscript begins with an essay detailing the moment in my life when I started to write again, after a writer's block that lasted fifteen years, from 1980-1995. The following sections of poetry deal with issues that I consider to be main themes throughout my entire body of work: race and class. I specifically explore what it is like to be Latino and working-class at a time when the depressed economy has led to a loss of jobs not seen since the Great Depression of the 1930s. I give the reader my thoughts and feelings during these times of fear and racial divide, with the hope of shedding light on the common stake we all share as human beings. I close with an essay about the childhood memories I have growing up with a parent who was an addict, and how I came to realize my bitter feelings of abandonment were not the total summation of the relationship I had with my father.
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Hap: Uncertainty and the English Novel . Williams, Daniel Benjamin (2015-05-16) This dissertation explores how nineteenth-century novelists envisioned thinking, judging, and acting in conditions of imperfect knowledge. I place novels against historical developments in mathematics, philosophy, psychology, ...
Decolonizing Collaboration in English Language Teaching: Teacher Identity and Tanzania. 2023. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Graduate, Dissertations: Decolonial, Education, Global English, Pedagogy, TESOL/Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages: Postal, Caitlin. Stitching Time: Transtemporal Labor and Middle English ...
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Theses/Dissertations from 2019. PDF. Semantic Shift in Old English and Old Saxon Identity Terms, David A. Carlton. PDF. Financial Frictions: Money and Materiality in American Literary Naturalism, 1890-1925, Patricia Luedecke. PDF. Criminal Masculinities and the Newgate Novel, Taylor R. Richardson. PDF.
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A literary and cultural analysis of the mistreatment of women portrayed in the works of female Irish writers and critical social events in Ireland 1984-2022 . This thesis examines the treatment of women in Irish society through a cultural and literary approach. The analysis includes a variety of literature dating from 1936 to 2015.
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Blankinship, Brittany (The University of Edinburgh, 2023-03-21) The overarching aim of this thesis is to explore the question of what role the knowledge and use of multiple languages plays in ageing. To answer this question two approaches were taken: first a natural history perspective ...
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A study of English language teachers' awareness, practice and challenges pertaining to the use of vocabulary teaching strategies: secondary school English teachers in jimma town in focus Thesis. Mustafa Yusuf; Tekle Ferede Metaferia; Bikila Ashenafi (2022-10) The main purpose of this study was to investigate English teachers' awareness ...
Thesis Advisor, Department of English/Tikrit University/ Iraq This thesis is accepted by the examining committee with a unanimous vote in the Department of English Language and Literature as a master's thesis. 04.10.2022 Examining Committee Members (Institutions) Signature