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"Saving brown women": cultural contests and narratives of identity
(1993)From the literature of empire through contemporary cultural production, "brown women" have been alternately fetishized, objectified, and absented within dominant discourse. In this dissertation, I examine western constructions ... -
School of Unlikeness: American Poetry and the Creative Writing Workshop
(2012-09-13)This dissertation is a study of the creative writing workshop as a shaping institution of American poetry in the twentieth century. It takes as its starting point the observation that in the postwar period the rise of ... -
Settler Colonial Infrastructure: Necropolitics and Ecology in the U.S. and Palestine
This dissertation explores the representation of infrastructure in a settler colonial context in U.S and Palestinian Literature. It is particularly interested in representations of what I term “settler colonial infrastructure” ... -
Shakespeare and the Colonial Encounter in India in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
This dissertation examines intersections between Shakespeare and the British Empire in India in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, using as case studies four interpretive situations: the transmission of Shakespeare ... -
Shakespeare's King Lear in relation to The true chronicle history of King Leir
(1955)The purpose of this study is to show the relationship between Shakespeare's King Lear and the True Chronicle Hlstory of King Leir, an old play which was published as The True Chronicle History of King Lelr and His Three ... -
The shaman in the disco and other dreams of masculinity: men, isolation and intimacy : a theory of male self-alienation
(2000)This non-traditional dissertation works toward the creation of a masculinist perspective, a corollary and corrective to feminism, that attempts to articulate and understand some of the most urgent issues concerning masculine ... -
"She Should Have Brought A Book To Read": Contemporary Approaches to Ekphrasis
What does ekphrasis look like in contemporary English-language poetry? Can poems that explicitly mention a work of art but do not employ detailed description as a means to achieve enargeia still be considered ekphrastic? ... -
The Shore: Stories
(2012-09-13)<bold>The Shore: Stories<bold> Story collection: novella and short stories about life in the contemporary American West. -
Silence, Oppression, and Continued Narrative as a Form of Collective Empowerment
The collective healing of a collective trauma that women of color are unfolding every second. What’s more infuriating than using the anger towards the patriarchal harm that has already been inflicted on femme bodies by men ... -
Simulating Nursing: Rhetoric, Materiality, and Disciplinary Learning
This dissertation explores live-action clinical nursing simulations as dynamic sites of discursive, embodied, and ethical rhetorical learning. Clinical simulations offer students hands-on practice with robotic patients in ... -
Sophistication and Speech in British Middlebrow Fiction, 1929-1952
Novel Aspirations: Sophistication and Speech in British Middlebrow Fiction, 1929-1952 uses cultural and literary sophistication to uncover the complexities of reading and writing the middlebrow in Britain after the Great ... -
Sordid Details (and tender echoes)
Creative thesis manuscript including two short stories, two essays and one feature length script. -
"Sorrow Brought Forth Joy": Feelings of Faith in American Literature
Feelings of Faith draws upon religious thought, specifically, Christian theological traditions, in a reconsideration of major debates in contemporary affect theory. The dissertation is a study of American literature across ... -
Speculating on the Terms of “Small, Foreign, and Female”: Reimagining the Temporality of Technology Through Asian American Cultural Production
My dissertation examines the ways in which technology is associated with progress, often understood in terms of a future with limitless opportunities for communication, commerce, and innovation. This version of progress ... -
Speculative Capital and Its Wastes: Race, Labor, and War in the Age of Financialization
This dissertation attends to overlapping, entangled histories of US militarism, speculation, and extraction in Asia and the Pacific to rethink the relationship between race, labor, and war in our current moment of predatory ... -
Speculative Fiction, Catastrophe, and the Devolutionary Imagination in Postwar Britain
The reemergence of catastrophe as a dominant theme and figure in British speculative fiction after the Second World War coincides with a devolutionary turn in British politics and culture. In a moment when the British ... -
Spelling violation: writing bodies from the margins
(2002)This project considers the marginal writer's relationship to linguistic violence---and through violence to survival and "a living." From Romantic era poetry to present day comics, I seek particular strategies of those who ... -
Spirals of Transformation: Turtle Island Indigenous Social Movements and Literatures
Spirals of Transformation analyzes the embodied knowledges visible in Indigenous social movements and literatures. It demonstrates how a heuristic of spiralic temporality helps us see relationships and purposes the settler ...