Browsing PhD Dissertations - DO NOT EDIT by Title
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Native Spaces Of Continuation, Preservation, And Belonging: Louise Erdrich's Concepts Of Home
(English, 2008-08-08)In light of continual Native migration, relocation, and hybridization, it is my intention to examine the evolution and diversification of home in a spectrum of Louise Erdrich's writing. My examination of the texts focuses ... -
Negotiating The Sacred In Secular Writing Spaces: The Rhetoric Of Religion In American University Composition Textbooks
(English, 2014-07-14)This project demonstrates that religion comes into through the classroom door not only through the embodiment of students and instructors, but via the academy itself through the university composition textbook. Publishers ... -
No Longer Estranged: Women, Science, Science Fiction
(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 ... -
One High Heel On Each Side Of The Border: A Closer Look At Gender And Sexuality In Chicana And Anglo Young Adult Literature
(English, 2014-03-12)There is currently very little analysis of Chicana young adult literature available, and by extension there is almost nothing at hand that compares Anglo and Chicana young adult literature. These fields need to be examined ... -
The Performing Mother: Maternal Ethics Beyond Embodiment
The rich and diverse history of maternal thought is at once a response to the Western philosophical tradition's relegation of the maternal to the material abject, as well as a renegotiation of the maternal body as a site ... -
Playing In The Prose: Writing Instruction And Underprepared Student-athletes In Division I-a Universities
(English, 2009-09-16)"Playing in the Prose: Writing Instruction and Underprepared Student-Athletes in Division I-A Universities," is a study that contributes to the continuedinterest in the pedagogical tools educators can use with underprepared ... -
Positioning First-year Composition: Hybrid Learning For Student Engagement And Sustainability
(English, 2014-12)This study uses quantitative and qualitative methodology to describe, and analyze the use of social media to create a blended learning environment in the first-year composition classroom. Findings indicate hybrid courses ... -
The Possibilities Of Children's Literature: A Rhetoric-oriented Approach To Juvenile Texts
(English, 2014-03-12)This rhetoric-oriented dissertation examines the academic discussion of children's literature, especially the influence of Jacqueline Rose and her landmark book The Case of Peter Pan, or the Impossibility of Children's ... -
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 ... -
POSTHUMAN NURTURING IN AMERICAN LITERARY FUTURITIES
(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 ... -
Practical Magic: Magical Realism and the Possibilities of Representation in Twenty-First Century Fiction and Film
(2016-09-15)Reflecting the paradoxical nature of its title, magical realism is a complicated term to define and to apply to works of art. Some writers and critics argue that classifying texts as magical realism essentializes and ... -
Queering the Aftermath: Rethinking the Queer in Postcolonial and the (Post)colonial in Queer
(2016-05-13)“Queering the Aftermath: Rethinking the Queer in Postcolonial and the (Post)colonial in Queer,” argues the necessity for a sustained dialogue between the fields of postcolonial studies and queer studies. The paucity of ... -
(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 ... -
(Re)using Women: The Image Debate In Early Modern Allegory
(English, 2010-07-19)This project is concerned with how, during the reign of Elizabeth I, early modern writers use the representations of certain allegorical women characters to discuss the issues central to the image debate and the need for ... -
Recollecting Memory, Reviewing History: Trauma In Asian North American Literature
(English, 2008-08-08)My dissertation focuses on representations of traumas in select eight Asian North American novels. I attempt to draw attention to this underrepresented issue of the Asian minority's traumatic experiences. Trauma in my ... -
Reinventing The Self: Native American Women's Autobiographies
(English, 2008-04-22)Native American women's autobiographies are complex writings that stretch the very genre itself. As the genre of autobiography is reinvented by both early and contemporary texts, the nature of self expression through that ... -
Removing The Binaries Between Humanity And Nature: The Female Perception Through Science Fiction Utopias
This dissertation examines utopian science fictions by women from the early modern era and the latter half of the 20th century. While the utopian genre shifts in time, the project focuses on comparing two time periods in ... -
Rethinking Resistance: Race, Gender, and Place in the Fictive and Real Geographies of the American West
(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 ... -
Rhetoric, Composition And Preaching: What Homiletic Pedagogy Can Learn About Imitation From Composition Pedagogies
(English, 2012-07-25)Across the centuries there have been thousands of books and articles written about preaching and writing. Homiletics and Composition Studies have this in common. A great difference comes when one looks for information about ... -
Rogerian Democratic Pedagogy And Its Implications In Composition Studies For Students, Service Learning, And The Public Writing Movement
(English, 2010-07-19)In this project, I articulate a democratic pedagogical model, which is based onand modified from the pedagogical theories of the American psychologist, Carl Ransom Rogers (1902-1987). Rogerian Democratic Pedagogy (RDP) is ...