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Identity and home in three Caribbean authors
(2020-07)
The search for identity is a major theme in modern literature. It is particularly prevalent in societies that have historically been colonized where the colonizer has sabotaged the values of the colonized that are at the ...
Environmental discourse in Oklahoma: Examining rhetorical strategies in three case studies
(2021-05)
Despite the acceleration of climate change, figuring out ways to productively talk about it remains difficult in some places. So where do we begin? As rhetoricians, we believe that studying discourse provides insight. ...
"Rattle their doorknob and they collapse": Propaganda strategies of the Church of Scientology
(2021-05)
This project investigates two of the most prominent propaganda "arms" of the Church of Scientology (COS): Freedom Magazine and Scientologists Taking Action Against Discrimination (STAND). Both of these COS-run organizations ...
"Great art of telling the truth": Tragic evasion in American fiction, 1798-1952
(2022-12)
My dissertation examines signal works of American tragic fiction—novels, novellas, and short stories—from Charles Brockden Brown to Ralph Ellison. With the exception of scholar-critics like Rita Felski and Terry Eagleton, ...
Space, representation, and realism in contemporary European art cinema
(2021-05)
This dissertation analyzes a select group of contemporary films that can generally be categorized as European art cinema by focusing on how space, representation, and realism operate within them. The study concentrates on ...
"Many and strange experiences of shadow and sunshine": Ideological violence, subjectivity, and the impossibility of redemption in Frederick Douglass' lifelong resistance to white supremacy, an American paradox rewritten by himself
(2021-12)
This dissertation sets out to recover Frederick Douglass as a militant by radically redefining the terms of his militancy. Beginning with the recognition that Douglass' militancy emerges from his violent experiences with ...
Embodied monsters: From fear to domestication in gothic monster literature
(2020-12)
This dissertation argues that over the course of the long nineteenth century, Gothic antagonists moved from supernatural but disembodied beings into more physically monstrous entities. The shift to monster follows traceable ...
Ethnolexicography of the skateboarding subculture
(2020-07)
This study takes an ethnolexicographic approach (Silverstein, 2006) to present a glossary of the skateboarding subculture derived from sociolinguistic interviews conducted with 11 skaters. This study also uses this ...
(Re)imagining cartographic techniques in writing pedagogy
(2021-07)
As we know and understand, reading and writing can be digital or material, and these literacy practices occur in complex layers of information intake and production. Much of writing scholarship explores and argues for an ...
Compliment responses in Vietnamese: The influence of genre and context on gender and region
(2022-07)
The aim of the present study is to investigate how genre and context impact region and gender in Vietnamese compliment responses (CRs) using two different sets of data. The sociolinguistic interview data were gathered ...