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What keeps me up at night: An autoethnography of new motherhood
(2016-07)
New motherhood is messy and wild and unstructured. Its shape, if motherhood has a shape, is amorphous and pliable like melted glass. This evocative autoethnography, a collection of experimental flash essays and reflective ...
Changes in the use of the passive voice over time: A historical look at the American Journal of Botany and the changes in the use of the passive voice from 1914-2008
(2010-07)
Scope and Method of Study: This study looks at 15 articles from the American Journal of Botany - 5 articles from 1914-1918, 5 articles from 1962-1966, and 5 articles from 2004-2008 - to determine if and how the use of the ...
Roots to Routes: Contemporary indigenous fiction by women writers in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand
(2009-12)
Scope and Method of Study: This study analyzes the role of place and its cultural significance in the fiction of eight contemporary Indigenous women writers from the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, four ...
Cognitive concept of game in American English and Hungarian
(2008-05)
Scope and Method of Study: This study explores the meaning of the concept of game for speakers of American English and Hungarian by investigating the exemplars of the category, their attributes, and their links to the ...
Public punishment versus private judgment: Anti-gallows sentiment and criminal reform in antebellum literature 1772-1855
(2012-05)
Scope and Method of Study: Drawing upon historical, sociological, and cultural studies, this dissertation addresses how the literary work of antebellum American writers contributed to anti-capital punishment sentiment and ...
Shakespeare's sea creatures
(2017-05)
This dissertation analyzes Shakespeare's oceanic characters in The Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, Pericles, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest. Using three distinct categories of aquatic creatures, I investigate Shakespeare's ...
Composing place
(2015-12)
In James Berlin's, Rhetoric, Poetics, and Cultures, he outlines how Social-Epistemic Rhetoric (SER) can inform composition theory and pedagogy. Much of Berlin's aim is to show how theories of SER can be used as a tool to ...