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Narrow Field
(2013-07-25)Narrow Field is a lyric examination of historical accounts of feral children and contemporary child abduction stories, as well as a personal account of an unsupervised childhood and how that wildness informs an adult life. -
Navigating and Responding to Raciolinguistic Ideologies: Refugee and Immigrant Students' Literacy Practices Across Contexts
Drawing on critical race theory scholarship and literacy studies with a focus on translingual and transnational, this dissertation argues that the dominant ideology of literacy needs to be understood at the intersections ... -
Navigating through Challenges: Multilingual Preservice Language Teachers’ Identity (Re)construction
This dissertation explores the ways in which four multilingual preservice language teachers in a MATESOL program in the U.S. (re)constructed and (re)negotiated their professional identities as they proceeded through the ... -
Navigation and Negotiation: Examining the Ecology of Service-Learning Composition Courses
When integrated together, service-learning and composition provide an opportunity for college students to develop as writers and rhetoricians while simultaneously engaging their local community. However, for writing ... -
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 ... -
Negative Masculinity: Theories of Freedom in American Literature after 1950
This dissertation offers the term “negative masculinity” as an analytic for a variety of ways of thinking about freedom in postwar American literature. This term is built in part by theories of freedom in American political ... -
Negotiating the masculine: configurations of race and gender in American culture
(1988)James Baldwin once described the intertwining lives of Anglo and African in American culture as "a wedding," a metaphor that is at once illuminating and hauntingly inappropriate as a characterization of the long and bloody ... -
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 ... -
Network Rhetoric: A Network Ethnography of the Knowledge Work of System Builders in Child Care and Early Learning
(2011-06)An interdisciplinary project situated at the intersection of workplace writing, network theory, rhetorical theory and the study of public discourses, this dissertation argues for how these areas of inquiry intersect ... -
Networked Identifications: Constructing Identities and Ideologies in the 2009 Iranian Election Protests
(2013-07-25)This dissertation explores the strategic formation of counter-hegemonic discourses during social movements and their rescaling through mobile social media across networked, translocal public spheres. Through an interdisciplinary ... -
Novel Epistemologies: Rereading Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Reading Cultures
This dissertation examines how eighteenth- and nineteenth-century reading cultures are reflected in contemporary academic and popular trends and ways of reading. I argue that we re conceive how literary value is arbitrarily ... -
A Novel in Progress
(University of Washington Graduate School, 2012)This manuscript is an incomplete draft of a novel based on the Olympic Peninsula. It is about longing. -
Number Opera
This book-length collection of poetry examines notions of performance and radical forms of representation through opera and theater. -
"Objects on the Margins": How Things Make Persons and Worlds in Nineteenth-Century United States Writing
“Objects on the Margins”: How Things Make Persons and Worlds in Nineteenth-Century United States Writing examines how nonhuman things make and unmake persons and worlds in mid-nineteenth-century United States writing. I ... -
The official English debate in the United States Congress: a critical analysis
(1999)In this dissertation I critically examine the movement in the United States Congress to make English the official language of the United States. The analysis is performed using group pluralist and elite competition models ... -
On Longing: A Meditation in Two Parts
(2012-09-13)On Longing: A Meditation in Two Parts Piper Daniels A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Fine Arts University of Washington 2012 Committee: David Shields Shawn Wong ... -
On the Responsible Representation of Heroes
This paper offers a contemporary understanding of the term "hero," and examines methods poets use to responsibly engage in the act of heroification, beginning with Homer before moving to work by contemporary poets Terrance ... -
Orientations in Time: Music and the Construction of Historical Narrative in 20th and 21st Century African-American Literature
This dissertation argues that the intersections between African-American literature and music have been influential in both the development of hip-hop aesthetics and, specifically, their communication of historical narrative. ... -
Original Intentions
Brief Synopsis: Original Intentions is about slavery and freedom and the friendship of George Washington and his neighbor, George Mason. Both men owned slaves, both fought for freedom from Great Britain, one signed the ...