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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, ...
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.
Post-Factum Studies in Trans-corporeal Rhetoric: Triangularities of Genre, Ethics, and Aesthetics in Kenneth Burke and Michel Foucault
(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 ...
Asian Modernities: The Historical Unconscious in Asian and Asian American Literatures
(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 ...
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 ...
(RE)FASHIONING GENDER: DRESS AS EMBODIED FEMINIST CRITIQUE IN MODERNIST WOMEN’S WRITING
(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 ...
A TEACHER GOES TO SCHOOL: A RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS OF PEDAGOGICAL INSIGHTS ON SECONDARY WRITING INSTRUCTION
(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 ...
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 ...
Making Selves as We Make Scholars: The Many Uses of Life Writing in College English
(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 ...
SERMONIC FUGUES EVALUATED IN A THEMATIC COLLECTION OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HOMILETICAL RESPONSES TO THE 9/11 TRAGEDY USING DISTANT READING ANALYTICS
(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 ...