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Learning the Languages of Nostalgia in Modern and Contemporary Literature
(2013-04-17)This dissertation builds upon recent discourses on nostalgia that focus on the generative potential of a sustained melancholic stance and position the past as resource for the future. My particular interest is in the ... -
Legible Grief: Discursive Liminality in Twentieth Century Literatures of Trauma
Currently, scholars in the fields of trauma and affect studies are sharply divided on whether “direct” or extra-discursive experience is possible, and moreover about how such a space might function within the fraught ... -
“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, ... -
Let there be life: notes toward a philosophy of art in the work of D.H. Lawrence and Wallace Stevens
(1999)This dissertation is a study of D. H. Lawrence and Wallace Stevens. It examines the philosophical attitudes with which Lawrence and Stevens viewed their own creative powers. How Lawrence and Stevens developed aesthetic ... -
Letters to the Supreme Leader and Other Stories
An excerpt from an ongoing novel, Letters to the Supreme Leader, along with four short stories. Using motifs of race, food, corporate life, wealth, and place, the collection focuses on ideas of identity and belonging. -
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 ... -
Looking Forward to the Past: Black Women and Sexual Agency in`Neo'Cultural Productions
(2012-09-13)This dissertation combines critical black feminisms, cultural studies, performance studies, and queer theory with readings of African-American cultural productions in order to consider how black women can and have reconfigured ... -
Lost in Uptake Translation: Examining Genre Negotiations in Students’ Writing Performances
In this dissertation, I build on scholarship in Rhetorical Genre Theory (especially the concept of “genre uptake” as developed in speech act theory and expanded by rhetorical genre scholars to account for the interplays ... -
Maafa
The text that follows is a creative writing manuscript to complete a degree requirement for the University of Washington’s program. It is written by a male descendant of African slaves between the years 2018-2020 AD. The ... -
Making Change, Changing Spaces: An Antiracist Writing Ecology for First-Generation College Students
In this dissertation, I build on scholarship on antiracist, culturally sustaining, translingual and ecological theories in composition studies to argue that equitable, accessible pedagogies affirm students’ role as co-creators ... -
Making Sense: Race and Modern Vision
“Making Sense: Race and Modern Vision” explores how race as we know it becomes visually recognizable. It does so by historicizing the perceptual knowledge produced by race and vision and by demonstrating how the relationship ... -
Making, Marking, Mattering: What We Can Learn about Writing, Rhetoric, and Technology from a Makerspace
This dissertation draws on data from a year-long ethnographic case study of a makerspace in Seattle to argue for and model a theoretical and methodological apparatus for studying making as mattering, and I offer accounts ... -
Male masochistic fantasy in Carlyle, Tennyson, Dickens, and Swinburne
(2001)Texts by Carlyle, Tennyson, Dickens, and Swinburne produce fantasies of male masochism that offer to resolve diverse historical problems plaguing Victorian manhood. These texts discipline their transgressive masochistic ... -
Man Running; A Novel In Progress.
(1960-11-29)Monday Evening His name was Stephen Cain and he had come fifteen miles down the river since that morning. He was tall and slender and wore a dark cloth jacket, he was running when he came out of the tangled willows onto ... -
“Managing Diversity” in U.S. Popular Culture, Politics, and Education in the 1990s
This dissertation examines how multinational corporations influenced U.S. popular culture, politics, and education in the 1990s. In contrast to the Reagan years--in which white women and people of color were frequently ... -
Mapping the Vagina: Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Scientific Specularity
This dissertation tracks the close and variegated imbrications of nineteenth-century science, literature, and cartography. It argues for the co-existence and co-dependency of nineteenth-century gynecology and literature ... -
Maritime Sensibility: Sentimentalism, Racial Capitalism, and a Critique of the American Maritime Genre
This dissertation looks to the early American literary marketplace and argues that the American maritime genre, assumed to have begun with James Fenimore Cooper’s novel "The Pilot" in 1824, was not an uncontested genre ...