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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.
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...