Browsing MA Theses - DO NOT EDIT 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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...