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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 ... -
Mark Twain's pessimism
(1929)The shift of interest from what a man is, to an interest in what made him that way, is a significant indication of the present generation's mechanistic turn of mind. Though mildly interested in the appearances of things, ... -
Material Malory : the Caxton and Winchester documents and a parallel-text edition
(2002)The Roman War accounts found in the Winchester manuscript (BL Add 59678) and in Caxton's edition of Le Morte Darthur offer a tale of campaign, strategy, and conquest. Malory's postponement of the traditional disaster it ... -
Measuring a Bird: The Dictionary and the Mode of Defining
In this essay, I describe some of the basic tools that non-dictionary genres use to define objects and words. To show how description of the natural world relates to definition-making, I closely examine passages from the ... -
Medical Women and the Periodical Press: Sophia Jex-Blake, the Scotsman, and the Politics of Anonymity
This dissertation focuses upon the role of the periodical press on the medical women’s campaign of the 1870s and uses the published and unpublished letters of Dr. Sophia Jex-Blake as its exemplar and its organizing principle. ... -
MEDUSA FIGURES AND SACRIFICES IN THE POETRY OF BOGAN, PLATH, REKDAL, SCHIFF, AND SHAUGHNESSEY
This essay considers the use in contemporary poetry of the mythological figure of Medusa and the mythological practice of sacrifice. In Part One, “Medusa Figures in the Poetry of Louise Bogan and Sylvia Plath,” I provide ... -
MFA Creative Thesis
This creative thesis project includes three main sections, "Curious Incidents in Underwater Research," What to Expect When You're Not Expecting, and Modern Yarns. The first is a mystery story, the second a series of stories ... -
Militant Bodies: Policing Race, Religion, and Violence in the U.S. Sikh Diaspora
"Militant Bodies" explores the long history of the Sikh as a racialized and religionized figure that violently troubled imperial, postcolonial, and national fantasies of security. From the British colonial period, to the ... -
Misreading and the parameters of exemplarity in early modern England
(2002)This study explores how acts of misreading in the early modern period shape subjectivities. I argue that key socio-cultural developments including the Protestant Reformation, the rise of print, and the expansion of literacy ... -
The Modern Animal
The Modern Animal explores transformations in human-animal relationships in the trans-Atlantic world from the early nineteenth century through the middle of the twentieth century. In tracking four major emergences - the ... -
Modernism's History of the Earth
(2012-09-13)This dissertation explores how a handful of modernist poets and novelists responded creatively to developments in geology, evolutionary biology, and astronomy between the 1920s and the 1960s. Critical accounts of modernism ... -
Modifying the Mask: the Transformation of the Dramatic Monologue Across the Works of Robert Browning, Norman Dubie, and Frank Bidart
A look at how the dramatic monologue as a poetic form has transformed since the 19th century by examining representative works from poets Robert Browning, Norman Dubie, and Frank Bidart.