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    • LEAF, BARK, THORN, ROOT: ARBOREAL ECOCRITICISM AND SHAKESPEAREAN DRAMA 

      Hogue, Jason Charles; 0000-0002-1563-2073 (2019-04-30)
      Leaf, Bark, Thorn, Root traces the appearance of trees and their constituent parts in five Shakespearean plays: Macbeth, The Tempest, 3 Henry VI, Richard III, and As You Like It. The dissertation shows how these plays ...
    • POSTHUMAN NURTURING IN AMERICAN LITERARY FUTURITIES 

      Tolle, Andrew Ryan; 0000-0003-0902-7384 (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 ...
    • Space Opera: The Aesthetics of Personhood in the Works and Worlds of Philip K. Dick 

      Mamola, Gabriel Francis (2020-07-31)
      In this dissertation, I examine the major novels of science fiction writer Philip K. Dick in light of his non-fictional and speculatively mystical writings. After establishing an approach to science fiction in general and ...
    • Teaching Elsewhere: Curating↔Calibrating Posthumanist Possibilities 

      Shelton, Sarah Alice; 0000-0002-0750-8590 (2018-08-28)
      Following the material and ontological turns and working within the recent conversation applying posthumanist theory to education and educational research, this dissertation argues that professors can materialize immediate, ...