Browsing Department of English by Author "Alaimo, Stacy"
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Art At The End Of The World: Bioart And Posthuman Ethics In The Anthropocene
Farrell, Sean (English, 2014-12)Bioart is a vital contemporary aesthetic movement that involves the use of animate matter (such as animal bodies or DNA) and is generative of productive encounters between theoretical methodologies of posthumanism, new ... -
"The Best And The Brightest:" The Overachievement Rhetoric During America's Polio Epidemics
Putman, Samantha Taryn (English, 2013-03-20)In 1985, Dr. Richard Bruno, a post polio syndrome specialist, conducted a study on the personality traits of polio survivors, ultimately concluding that polio survivors have a significantly higher incidence of reporting ... -
Confronting The Spectacle Of The Other (than Human): Posthumanism And The Convergence Of Art, Aesthetics, And Ethics
Lerberg, MatthewThis project argues that humans should recognize the intersection of aesthetics and ethics in literature, film, and art that use or represent nonhuman animals. Too often, the right of artists to express their "message" ... -
Continuing Narratives Of The Pharmakos: Trans-ethical Perspectives Through The Liminal Performativity Of Material Agencies In Drug Genre Film
Haferkamp, Audrey (English, 2014-12)In American film and television, the drug user or producer is often associated with narratives of the pharmakos, or "scapegoat," seemingly serving to expel the contamination of American identity and ethics. By analyzing ... -
The Drag Paradox
Lipscomb, Robert Doane (English, 2009-09-16)Why are so many of us intent on defining ourselves in terms of those anatomically well-protected, discrete, and proportionally insignificant parts of our bodies we choose to keep covered up in the first place? Drag, the ... -
Embodied Climate Change: Materiality, Language, Mediation, And The Legitimation Of The Unintelligible
Lerberg, Justin“Embodied Climate Change: Materiality, Language, Mediation and the Legitimation of the Unintelligible” examines the intersections of language, technology, and the human and nonhuman worlds through the example of climate ... -
Finding Deaf Gain: Changing Languages, Changing Lenses, Changing Society
Bart, Edward Henry (2015-12-09)Most literature is analyzed through various lenses, or more accurately, schools of thought informed by life experience and cultural knowledge. Literature created in American Sign is no different than any other literature ... -
Ladies And Loners: A Comparative Gender Study Of The Romance And Popular Western
Henderson, Courtney Rena (English, 2007-08-23)Despite the efforts of readers, writers and cultural critics, the fact remains that romance and the Western genres are considered low art. The real impetus behind this paper is not whether or not or even why they are ... -
Mapping Men: Toward A Theory Of Material Masculinity
Wallace, David R (English, 2013-07-22)This project interrogates the possibilities of material gender theory as an interdisciplinary bridge between critical theory—like gender studies and eco–criticism—and soft–scientific men's studies. The primary theoretical ... -
Misreading Justice: The Rhetoric Of Revenge In Feminist Texts About Domestic Violence
Bowers, Kimberly Paige (English, 2008-08-08)Feminist legal theories of battering homicides pose a challenge to feminist critics of American literature. Legal theorists argue that many women who are tried for killing their abusive partners should be acquitted on the ... -
No Longer Estranged: Women, Science, Science Fiction
Tidwell, Christy (English, 2014-03-10)Feminist science fiction (SF) and feminist science studies share common concerns--the gendered perception of science and women's place in the sciences among them--but the two fields are rarely considered together. This ... -
Realizing The Virtual: Constructing And Embodying Cyberspace In Gibson's Sprawl
Underwood, MattWhile the term “cyberspace” first appears in William Gibson’s 1980’s Sprawl series, it arises from a culmination of information and communication technology and cybernetic theory development spanning the majority of the ... -
Resisting Commodification (with Friends!): Facebook And Consumer Culture
Wright, Wilton S. (English, 2011-10-11)Is participating in the Facebook phenomenon (or can it become) politically resistant - even revolutionary? Or are social networking websites merely another form of commodified capitalist consumerism? In this thesis, I ... -
Rethinking Resistance: Race, Gender, and Place in the Fictive and Real Geographies of the American West
Daniels Lerberg, Tracey; 0000-0001-8193-8452 (2016-05-10)This project traces the history of the American West and its inhabitants through its literary, cinematic and cultural landscape, exploring the importance of public and private narratives of resistance, in their many ... -
Strange and Unstable Bodies: Shifting Materialities in Early American Natural History Correspondence Networks
McCown, Julie Marie; 0000-0001-5367-367X (2016-04-20)This dissertation fills a gap in the study of early American natural history literature by investigating the representation of animal bodies within early American natural history writing and attending to the role animal ...