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Recent Submissions
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Tolle, Andrew Ryan; 0000-0003-0902-7384 (2021-08-16)
This dissertation applies posthuman theories to the concept of nurture in American literatures of 1880-1920 and 1980-2020 to explore how writers construct and imagine futurities that increasingly critique the liberal ...
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Woodson, Hubert; 0000-0001-8458-5824 (2022-08-17)
This dissertation gives an account of and expands upon Stacy Alaimo’s term, “trans-corporeality,” in order to reconsider the rhetorical situation, through conceptualizations of how rhetorical bodies become embodied and ...
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Monteleone, Amanda Brooke; 0000-0001-6006-4039 (2022-08-02)
The question of modernity has been widely debated in postcolonial studies, with scholars such as Enrique Dussel and Walter Mignolo arguing that the emergence of alternate modernities unsettles the West as a cultural ...
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Sperandio Phelps, Lauren Elizabeth (2022-05-18)
In this dissertation I examine early twentieth century women writers’ use of fashion as a mode of critiquing gender, race, and class oppression. Through close reading of the novels of Nella Larsen, Edith Wharton, Anzia ...
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Gendke, Lindsey Rose; 0000-0002-5511-1870 (2022-05-16)
This dissertation addresses the perennial question, for both new and more seasoned English professors, “What should we teach in English?” In composition, “What types of writing should we teach?” And in literature, “what ...
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Otto, Karen Stelter (2022-05-09)
High school English teachers are familiar with current masters in the field (Kittle, Burke, Gallagher), but are not familiar with the scholarly literature on the topics of composition. Although helpful, these professional ...
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Sumili, Mohammed Ali H; 0000-0002-4692-0908 (2021-08-30)
Most scholarship on the topic of disability and motherhood tends to be of an empirical nature common to social, education, and psychology studies (Landsman 2008; Wilson and Cellio 2011, Filax and Taylor 2014). Despite the ...
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McCarthy, Hope Petrash; 0000-0001-6528-660X (2019-05-02)
In this interdisciplinary dissertation, I problematize the issue of style at the sentence level from a variety of perspectives, past and present, literary and compositional. My two-fold driving question throughout is, Can ...
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Hogue, Jason Charles; 0000-0002-1563-2073 (2019-04-30)
Leaf, Bark, Thorn, Root traces the appearance of trees and their constituent parts in five Shakespearean plays: Macbeth, The Tempest, 3 Henry VI, Richard III, and As You Like It. The dissertation shows how these plays ...
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Jones, Katherine Lee (2020-09-29)
Conversion scenes and the theme of conversion are key in conduct fiction, a genre that developed from the medieval and early modern tradition of nonfiction conduct manuals. Conversion is a character’s entrance into the ...
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Buck, Kassandra Angela Ramirez (2021-05-06)
White space in the educational system is an attitude, environment, ideology dominated by the white dominant voice and creed. This white space intimidates and oppresses Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) students, ...
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Ford, Terrance Andrew; 0000-0001-6479-360X (2021-05-05)
This dissertation project introduces and evaluates the coined rhetorical/homiletical concept of the sermonic fugue. The term is an expanded adaptation of the musico-literary fugue principally in the context of thematic ...
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Riley, Shewanda LaRue; 0000-0003-3152-9807 (2020-12-08)
My primary goals with this dissertation are to take a close look at how contemporary African American Christian fiction performs important literary and cultural functions and explore how these works reinforce or subvert ...
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Mamola, Gabriel Francis (2020-07-31)
In this dissertation, I examine the major novels of science fiction writer Philip K. Dick in light of his non-fictional and speculatively mystical writings. After establishing an approach to science fiction in general and ...
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Leask, Antares Russell; 0000-0001-6448-3425 (2020-08-05)
Modern paranormal TV walks the fine line between infotainment and propaganda that older white men are rational while marginalized communities, such as youths, lower social classes, women, and minorities are hysterical and ...
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Shelton, Sarah Alice; 0000-0002-0750-8590 (2018-08-28)
Following the material and ontological turns and working within the recent conversation applying posthumanist theory to education and educational research, this dissertation argues that professors can materialize immediate, ...
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Latham, Andrew S.; 0000-0002-5335-3905 (2019-11-22)
My research examines two points crucial to the continuing discipline of video game rhetoric. First, it discusses the formation of toxic ludology and narratology in the gamer discourse community over the course of decades. ...
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Smith, Joul Layne; 0000-0003-4810-6042 (2019-09-06)
This translation study of William Tyndale’s revised New Testament of 1534 identifies the translator’s motivations and strategies then explores the effect of the translation on the King James Version of the Bible (KJV) and ...
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Rowntree, Miriam R.; 0000-0001-7109-740X (2019-08-07)
In this dissertation, I consider the rhetorical ecology of architectural ruins, specifically those of natural disaster, as actors in a system of human and nonhuman intra-action that has rhetorical potential for material ...
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Tavera, Stephanie P (2017-05-05)
This dissertation offers a feminist disability theory approach to women’s medical fiction during the Comstock Law Era. I argue that, in responding to Comstockian censorship, women authors of medical fiction resisted sexed ...
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