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RECOGNIZING POSSIBILITY: REFLECTIONS ON THE MESSIANIC DIMENSIONS OF BEING, LANGUAGE, AND SPACE
(2023-08-10)This thesis seeks to reveal the messianic potentialities that inhere in the fundamental categories of experience. I analyze diverse sources in western intellectual history, from the classical period to our contemporary ... -
INVOKING LA LLORONA: ABJECTION AS A SITE OF POWER IN JOVITA GONZÁLEZ, CHERRIE MORAGA, AND JAYRO BUSTAMANTE
(2023-05-19)This thesis seeks to analyze how La Llorona’s abjection allows her and those who call on her to exist as specters, haunting the space of their personal, cultural, or historical trauma to make sense of their abuses and gain ... -
EXPLORING THE SCP WIKI: COMMUNITY, DIGITAL HORROR, AND APOCALYPTIC FICTION
(2022-12-16)The SCP is a body of user-submitted fiction broadly classified as horror and often compared to other user-submitted horror such as Creepypasta. While these comparisons have been made in research and among the SCP community, ... -
Identifying Loss, Animating Melancholy: Asian-American Narratives in Avatar: The Last Airbender, Spirited Away, and Bao
(2022-08-01)Animated film provides a complex illustration of the creativity behind constructing narratives. This thesis aims to explore the way that racial and cultural identity are displayed within animated film. The purpose of this ... -
Accurate or Aspirational? A Rhetorical Analysis of One University's Representation of Student Diversity
(2022-05-17)When approaching diversity within higher education, colleges and universities champion diversity initiatives as significant goals. Prospective students may choose colleges based on the aspirational role model, which inspires ... -
Pandemic Pedagogy: A Case Study of Commenting Practices in a Pandemic
(2022-05-16)This thesis reviews best practices for commenting on student submission and reports the findings of a case study from the 2020 spring semester. -
A Quantification of Magnitude in the Writing of James Baldwin: A Digital Recovery Work
(2022-01-03)This thesis seeks to utilize a distant reading of seventeen essays written by James Baldwin alongside sustained close readings of three topics within those essays in order to understand why Baldwin has maintained increased ... -
Ontological (Free) Agency: the Erasure, Commodification, and Autonomy of Black Athletes
(2021-09-03)The National Football League wields a powerful influence on American society and holds an authoritative sway over various sociopolitical discourses, each influencing the degrees of interaction between people of different ... -
JUSTICE FOR THE FALLEN WOMAN
(2021-04-27)By analyzing the experiences of four different incidents of shaming women—Dallas police officers photographing partially nude prostitutes during booking, Anita Hill, Monica Lewinksky, and Christine Blasey-Ford—in contemporary ... -
THE CASE OF NEMO NOBODY: A LACANIAN STUDY OF THE TRAUMATIC AND NEUROTIC RELATIONSHIPS OF THE MAN WHO DOESN'T EXIST
(2021-05-07)Jaco Van Dormael’s 2009 film Mr. Nobody introduces us to Nemo Nobody, “the man who doesn’t exist.” Nemo is born with the impossible gift of omniscience and exercises this ability to know several of his possible lives before ... -
REOPENING THE TEMPLE SCHOOL: REFORMING CONTEMPORARY EDUCATION WITH THE TRANSCENDENTALISTS
(2021-05-03)A conversation surrounding reform in American education has been in play for two centuries. In 1834, Bronson Alcott’s Temple School challenged traditional modes of education with his conversational approach in the classroom. ... -
RACE AND SOCIAL INJUSTICE: THE REPRESENTATIONS IN CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOKS, 2016-2020
(2021-05-18)This project is an examination of race and representations of social injustice in children’s picture books from 2016-2020 and is informed by black feminist theory and children’s literary criticism. The objective is to ... -
HAPPILY-EVER-AFTER: AN EXPLORATION OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY LAWS, MARRIAGE, AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN REPRESENTATION
(2020-08-18)This thesis moves beyond the moral messages of true womanhood found in eighteenth century British-American sentimental novels to examine the alternative lessons taught in nineteenth century African-American literature. In ... -
The Social Cut of Black and Yellow Female Hip Hop
(2020-05-14)Korean female hip hop artists are expanding the definition of femininity in South Korea through hip hop. In doing so, they are following a tradition first established by Black female musical performers in a new context. ... -
The Core Four: An Examination of Contemporary Black Women's Writing in "The Norton Anthology of African American Literature"
(2019-08-08)In recent years, only a select number of literary scholars have conducted studies on the contents of literary anthologies and the circulations of texts over various publications, especially African American collections. ... -
SONGS OF SALVATION: SHAKESPEARE’S DEFENSE OF PERFORMING ARTISTS THROUGH SECULAR BALLADS IN THREE PLAYS
(2018-07-24)In many of Shakespeare’s comedies and romances, the “broadside,” or street ballad is the prominent musical form that the characters reference. The broadside transcended class boundaries and, unlike traditional songs, usually ... -
A Staring Contest with the Self: Karl Ove Knausgaard, Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count, and Explanatory Style
(2018-12-06)Shame as an emotional response in the late 2010s has been discussed in both high and low sectors, from a high level of shame with social media use in high school classrooms, to the lack of shame by the president of the ... -
SOCIETY DOES NOT R-E-S-P-E-C-T BLACK MOTHERS: HISTORICALLY RACIALIZED REPRESENTATIONS AND BLACK WOMEN’S COMPROMISED OBSTETRICAL CARE
(2018-12-13)This thesis explores the correlation between racialized representations of Black women with the disparities in the level of healthcare they receive and the resulting outcomes. I argue racialized representations of Black ... -
Meming and Enthymeming: Persuasion in the Age of Social Media
(2018-12-06)While rhetoric as a field of study has existed for several millennia, social media can prove to be a difficult medium to analyze rhetorically. This thesis examines some traditional elements of rhetoric, including the ... -
Truth and Strength in Vulnerability: Using Topoanalysis to Reveal the Need for Expanding the Modernist Literary Canon
(2018-11-27)In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the public role of women shifted dramatically. Women asserted themselves in politics, education, and work in a way foreign to their Victorian predecessors. Although ...