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Eastern Religion and the Dilemmas of the Modern
(University of Washington, 2010)This dissertation presents a genealogy of modernism that explores the impact of Eastern religion and philosophy on nineteenth and twentieth century Anglo-American literature. This project significantly reframes our current ... -
The Ecology of Peer Response Interactions: Mapping the Relationship Between Context and Experience in Multilingual College Composition Environments
Peer response is a well-established facet of composition pedagogy, and has often been shown to be beneficial for students in linguistically diverse learning environments. However, levels of investment and engagement vary ... -
Ekphrasis, Conceptual Reality, and the “Cubification” of Poetics
When one thinks of cubism, there are many associations that come to mind. There is, on some accounts, an “elevation of style above substance,” which creates a new mode of perceiving the physical world. There is a fundamental ... -
Embodying Agency: The Liberal Will, the Psychophysiological Individual, and Intersubjective Connections in the Victorian Novel
(2013-04-17)My dissertation examines the emergence of a new language for agency in nineteenth-century literature and science, which articulated a form of intersubjectivity that departed from a central element of Victorian liberal ... -
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 ... -
Emergence: A Commonplace Look at the Lyric Novel
An exploration of the lyric novel and poetic prose. -
Emerson and Spinoza: a comparative study of their metaphysics and ethics and Emerson's position as a monistic thinker
(1939)This study of Emerson's philosophy is divided into two parts, each of which can stand independently of the other. In Part I a comparison is made between the metaphysics and ethics of Emerson and Spinoza. I have not concerned ... -
Emerson, Greenough, and the transcendental esthetic
(1952)The New England transcendentalists have not generally been considered first and foremost as the founders and champions of an esthetic philosophy in America. They were ministers, most of them, ostensibly concerned more with ... -
Emotional labor, women's work, and sentimental capital in nineteenth-century American fiction
(2005)In this dissertation, I examine texts by mid-nineteenth-century American women writers that undertake the difficult task of portraying women's labor within the confines of Sentimentalism. Despite Sentimental injunctions ... -
Empathy Passage: Toward a Presentational Genealogy of the Rhetorics of Antisemitism and Israel/Palestine
This dissertation asserts that only through a slow and benevolent examination of the rhetorical energy of Antisemitism (including the immense period prior to its linguistic dissemination, which he has entitled the “Prenatal ... -
Empire’s Imagination: Race, Settler Colonialism, and Indigeneity in ‘Local’ Hawaiʻi Narratives
My dissertation, “Empire’s Imagination: Race, Settler Colonialism, and Indigeneity in ʻLocal’ Hawaiʻi Narratives,” addresses the history of U.S. empire in Hawaiʻi, arguing that empire persists into the present through 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 ... -
Encounters With the Modernist Food-Object
This interdisciplinary dissertation seeks to remedy scholarly neglect of the topic of food within literature and art of the early twentieth century, particularly within transatlantic forms of modernism. I argue that the ... -
The End of Innocence: Women of Color Literature, Utopia, and the Cultural Politics of U.S. Cold War Racial Liberalism
(2013-07-25)This project studies the centrality of the utopian and dystopian narrative form in U.S. political culture after the protracted racial crisis of the 1960s. This dissertation explores two main lines of inquiry. The first ... -
English Language Teachers' Pre-Service Identity Constructions: A Narrative-Focused Critical Ethnography
Over the last few decades, there has been an enormous increase in scholarship attending to the ways social concerns shape ontologies of language and subsequently our understandings of language acquisition. Given the ... -
Exploring Academic Socialization and Identity of Chinese Undergraduate Students in the U.S.
Under the worldwide trend of internationalization of higher education, the number of Chinese students studying in the U.S. has increased dramatically in the past ten years. In some American universities, such as a large ... -
F. Scott Fitzgerald's T̲e̲n̲d̲e̲r̲ i̲s̲ t̲h̲e̲ N̲i̲g̲h̲t̲: the idea as morality
(1955)Professor R. P. Blackraur has said that "Fitzgerald made of his morality a screen for his self-love." This may well be true. But I do not think that such a habit was distinct only to Fitzgerald. Indeed, to some degree, I ... -
Failed Unions and Successful Estrangements: Finding My Queer Pandemic Desire in Gerard Manley Hopkins’ Epithalamion
Weaving between personal experience and close reading, this paper explores the sonic devices utilized by the voyeuristic speaker in Gerard Manley Hopkins’ “Epithalamion” poem. The paper, both creative and critical in genre, ... -
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 ...