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The Many Masks of a Writer: A Dramaturgical Approach to Composition Pedagogy and Literature Analysis
(2017-12-04)
Audience theories discuss many aspects of the entity of audience, from specific, concrete individuals to general, abstract readers. Composition pedagogical approaches to audience, however, seem limited. Writers, at times, ...
Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Metacognitive Reflection: A Case Study of Faculty Teaching in Learning Communities
(2017-12-06)
This qualitative case study examines the nature of faculty collaboration within the context of academic learning communities using third generation activity theory as an organizing framework. First, this study investigates ...
"A Shot in the Dark": Post-9/11 One-Off Speculative Fiction
(2017-08-30)
The cultural, political, and historical impact of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, as an event, continues to be questioned. For this project, I will examine six “one-off” or “one-time” works of speculative ...
Colonial Shame and its Effect on Puerto Rican Culture
(2017-06-01)
I explore how American influence affects Puerto Rican culture through colonial shame. My dissertation is informed by the following questions: (1) In what ways does Puerto Rican culture attempt to move away from colonial ...
Disabling Sex Education: Science, Narrative, and the Female Body in Feminist Medical Fiction, 1874-1916
(2017-05-05)
This dissertation offers a feminist disability theory approach to women’s medical fiction during the Comstock Law Era. I argue that, in responding to Comstockian censorship, women authors of medical fiction resisted sexed ...