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Breaking Away from Binaries: Teaching Writing with Critical Realist Sensibilities
This dissertation is an action research study carried out in two multilingual sections of a first-year composition course that were taught over the course of two academic quarters. The two sections represent two research ... -
Judgment, Trust, and Common Sense in American Literature
This dissertation examines a number of aspects of the relation between ideas of ‘common sense’ and social / political processes, with specific focus on American Literature. The introductory chapters (Prologue and Introduction) ... -
Literacy's Displacements: Toward Transnational Orientations to Writing and/as Translation
Scholars adopting transnational orientations to writing and literacies seek to understand the tensions of the global and the local in everyday meaning making activities. Recently, this scholarship has moved away from ... -
Decolonizing Collaboration in English Language Teaching: Teacher Identity and Tanzania
This dissertation explores the dynamics of international collaboration in English language teaching from a decolonizing perspective. It examines the collaborative relationship between myself, the author, and fellow teachers ... -
Yo Soy, I Am: Chicana Punk Pedagogy in a Composition Classroom
This dissertation presents a case study of a translingual punk pedagogy within an intermediate composition classroom. In it, I share the construction of a composition curriculum that focuses on Chicanx authors engaging in ... -
“I Do Not Intend to be the End Result of Anything”: Notes on a Critically Mindful Poetics
This essay explores the poetry of Lyn Hejinian and Bernadette Mayer through the framework of critical mindfulness. The essay develops this framework through a critique of dominant notions of mindfulness and mindful poetics ... -
Falling Short: On Alternative Fullness, Queerness, & Afterparties.
Asian Americans are both the forever foreigner and model minority. I am not Asian American, but a queer Asian settling in America. In both diaspora and queerness, one is confronted by the standards of dominant culture. The ... -
Enchanted Modernisms: Global Literary Afterlives of the Spirit, 1922–1949
This dissertation focuses on the persistence of spirituality as an active, constitutive force in the literary productions of modernism and modernity on a global scale. Its key objectives are twofold: first, to demonstrate ... -
The Scarlette Saga Volume I: The Education of Half-Orc Scarlette Urrug
The Education of Half-Orc Scarlette Urrug The Education of Half-Orc Scarlette Urrug: Volume I (EHSU) experiments with form and consists of three interwoven plotlines: social, familial, and educational. The idea to experiment ... -
(Re)Imagining the Nineteenth Century: Issues of Power and Process in Period Adaptation
“(Re)Imagining the Nineteenth Century: Issues of Power and Process in Period Adaptation” explores how the historical nineteenth century is reconstructed through the transhistorical process of adapting the period’s novels ... -
Negative Capability, and a Feminist Metaphysics of Place in Meena Alexander’s Birthplace with Buried Stones (2013) and Fault Lines (1993)
In Asian American poet Meena Alexander’s work, the costs and erasures of migrancy and dislocation–both temporal and geographic–emerge as negativity dense with insight, opacities immensely generative for the poetic work of ... -
“Let Them Read”— The Protestant Invitation for New Communities of Readers and Hearers to Engage with Hard Ancient Texts in the English Reformation/Renaissance Era
Recent scholarship has prompted us to again consider the Reformation’s impact on England’s literary culture in the sixteenth and early seventeenth century. This dissertation asks how the reformers’ values and commitments, ... -
Antiblackness and fundamental accumulation: an aesthetic ontology of prohibition and persistence through black arts
This dissertation elaborates an answer to the question, what is antiblackness? Countering understandings of antiblackness as a fundamentally psychic force, the dissertation develops the concept of fundamental accumulation ... -
American Han
This dissertation approaches arguments that appear in recent discourses on han. Han, an emotion commonly identified as a characteristic of a Korean national and personal ethos, is considered a passive form of Korean grief ... -
Embracing Indeterminacy: Intersections of the Asian American Avant-Garde, Ecopoetics, and the Descriptive-Meditative Structure in Contemporary Poetry
This thesis reads poems in Mia Ayumi Malhotra’s Isako Isako and Mei-mei Burssenbrugge’s Hello, the Roses to explore how contemporary modes of poetic documentation, description, and meditation can counteract erasure wrought ... -
The Aesthetics of Catastrophe Time: Constructing Transhistorical and Artistic Archives of Disaster in Haiti and the Gulf Coast
This dissertation explores the intertwined relationship between catastrophe storytelling and history-making, arguing for their inherent connection. Through an examination of the complex nature of catastrophes, this project ... -
Analog Fracture, Digital Illusion: Andrew Zawacki’s Videotape and the Poetics of the Human-Technology Relationship
Poetry thrives on wistfulness, absence, tragedy; it loves quirks, irreconcilable tensions, fatal flaws. We, as readers, might harbor tender feelings toward the analog line-glitches of VHS tape or the auditory snow from an ... -
Net-Bags and Looking Glasses: Writing in Sympoiesis
"NET-BAGS and LOOKING GLASSES: writing in sympoiesis" explores the concept of storytelling as a ritual practice and the idea of sympoiesis as a framework for understanding cultural production. The essay reflects on my ... -
A Comparative Exploration of the Depictions of Punjabi Women in Daniyal Mueenuddin’s In Other Rooms Other Wonders and Now We Are Monsters
By critically analyzing three short stories (Saleema, Provide Provide and In Other Rooms Other Wonders) from Daniyal Mueenuddin’s collection In Other Rooms Other Wonders this essay aims to explore the parallels and differences ... -
A Manual Study of Incoherence: Five Movements Toward Uncertainty
Displaced from a written text is the body of its creator, whether or not the text acknowledges this origin. Even when the body is the explicit subject of a text, language often fails the task of accurately conveying the ...