Browsing by Department "English"
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Long Strange Trip: Mapping Popular Culture in Composition
(2006-05-15)
Popular culture has been a continuing research and teaching interest for compositionists since the 1950s, but the focus, tone, and quality of popular culture scholarship and pedagogy have been far from consistent. In the ...
The Materiality of Mastery: Eliza Lucas Pinckney and the Production of Plantation Culture in the Eighteenth-Century South
(2016-12-09)
My dissertation project, “The Materiality of Mastery: Eliza Lucas Pinckney and the Production of Plantation Culture in the Eighteenth-Century South”, examines objects, including texts, made by South Carolinian Eliza Lucas ...
Men Playing (at) Women: Categorical Consequences of Cross-Dressing on the Early Modern English Stage
(2012-12-05)
Early modern English stage customs normalized the practice of cross-dressing boy actors to play female characters; the boys who portrayed female characters demonstrated the performativity of gender as an act that can be ...
Misbehaving Mothers: Textuality, Motherhood, and Legitimacy in Early Puritan America
(2009-07-28)
Single mothers, widowed mothers, abandoned mothers, impoverished mothers, and criminal mothers are just some examples of women who lived outside the normative societal standards that prevailed in colonial New England. And ...
Monsters, Men and Machines: Gender in Literature and Film, 1942 - 1962
(2008-05-15)
In the construction of the ideologically abject we see the creation of its manifestation: monstrosity. Just as the Kristevian abject, which is neither subject nor object, is my starting point, the Deleuzian --Y´Desiring ...
Multigenre Rhetoric: Where Genre Theory and Feminist Composition Theory Meet
(2006-05-15)
My purpose is to argue that multigenre rhetoric could be used as a pedagogical supplement to expository writing, which is taught as the norm in freshman composition. The history and development of genre theory and feminist ...
Multiple Visions of the Research Paper: How Compositionists and Librarians Understand, Represent, and Teach the Research Process
(2010-04-05)
This thesis project examines how composition and library science scholars understand, represent, and teach the research process. Librarians and instructors have been similarly affected by technology, so they must discover ...
The Myth of Certainty and the Matrix of Uncertainty: Five Contemporary Australian Novels Confront History
(2021-07-20)
The intersection of postcolonialism and historiographic metafiction can be seen in novels written over the last several decades by British and Antipodean authors concerning the British colonial era in Australia and its ...
Neoliberal Rhetoric in Higher Education
(2016-11-09)
The volatile political and economic environment that surrounds US higher education at this time calls for a nuanced understanding of the greater issues impacting programs, missions, and governance in post-secondary ...
“Not a Prayer except Ourselves”: Christian Theological Feminism in the Poetry of Frances Harper, Emily Dickinson, Vassar Miller, and Sharon Olds
(2011-11-21)
Luce Irigaray proposes the possibility of an ethical society in which woman is no longer subjugated to man’s concept of her identity but has an identity of her own. As Irigaray and other theological feminists have pointed ...
'Not so much written as dreamed': Quaker Dream-work in Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly
(2006-05-15)
The religious element of Charles Brockden Brown’s Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-walker (1799), and, specifically, the novel’s relationship with Quakerism, is often misunderstood, understated, or simply ignored by ...
Now
(2006-05-15)
This thesis is a creative work comprised of two short stories preceded by a critical introduction. Both of the stories deal with difficult transitions in the lives of young women; details and images play an important role ...
'A Participant in the World': Identity, Change, and the Closet in Angels in America
(2008-05-15)
Tony Kushner’s Angels in America consists of two plays that examine the lives of a group of gay men living in New York City during the mid-1980s. Kushner revised Perestroika, the second play, in 1995, and made further ...
Pens, Paper and Football Plays: A Case Study of Student Athlete Literacy
(2009-04-20)
Football players, as their community of practice demands, perform a high level of complex literate practices. While the literate activity of football is closely parallel to that we require of students in first year ...
Performative Rhetoric and the Early American Female Criminal
(2015-07-28)
Female criminals, in a variety of ways, entered into public discourse and utilized forms of performance in order to leave their mark upon a culture that often severely limited the ways or extent to which women could engage ...
Phonological Awareness in Mandarin of Chinese and Americans
(2009-04-17)
Phonological awareness (PA) is the ability to analyze spoken language into its component sounds and to manipulate these smaller units. Literature review related to PA shows that a variety of factor groups play a role in ...
The Polyphonic “Voice of Society”: A Stylistic Analysis of Our Mutual Friend
(2007-08-15)
My study of Our Mutual Friend is restricted to seven chapters, each with the same short list of characters, which introduce or conclude the four books of the novel. Society is the label under which these chapters come, ...
Popular Music and the Myth of Englishness in British Poetry
(2011-04-21)
This dissertation deconstructs the myth of Englishness through a comparative analysis of intersections between popular music and the poetry of the British Isles. In particular, my project explores intersections where popular ...
"The Proof of the Pudding is in the Eating": Sweeney Todd and the Modern Revenge Tragedy
(2010-04-02)
Revenge tragedies create a world where corruption leads to retribution through personal rather than civil channels. Although many have connected Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd and the revenge tradition, few have explored ...
Re-Envisioning the Giants: A Longitudinal Case Study of One ESL Learner
(2009-04-16)
With the continued focus on building L2 writers’ abilities within the context of school, scholarship dealing with what kinds of abilities these writers bring to the classroom has been slower to emerge, leaving us with ...