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My body is not something you can land on: Indigenous Feminisms in Erika T. Wurth's prose
(2019-12)
In their book Introduction to Feminist Thought and Action, Menoukha Robin Case and Allison V. Craig define Indigenous Feminism as centered around "cultural preservation and Indigenous sovereignty" (61). Specifically, Case ...
Redemption and revenge: The legacies of Mary Rowlandson and Hannah Duston
(2019-12)
Mary Rowlandson's The Sovereignty and Goodness of God and the various accounts written about Hannah Duston's captivity have become notable as a result of how these two women reacted while taken captive by Native peoples. ...
Short story
(1923)
Until Valhalla
(2022-12)
The manuscript is a collection of poems about war, PTSD, intergenerational trauma, the daily experience of grief, self-awareness, and hope, which are broken into three sections. The mood and tone of each section builds and ...
Coming apart and coming together: The effects of gender, intergenerational trauma, and identity on mental health in Erika L. Sánchez’s I am not your perfect Mexican daughter
(2022-05)
Overall, my portfolio focuses on how minorities are represented in literature and, in the case of one project, how minorities are represented in images. I primarily focus on racialized women and how their societies see ...
Standard of grief: Mourning in Victorian fiction and life-writing
(2022-05)
Throughout the nineteenth century, upper class Victorians established standards for certain styles of dress and mannerisms during mourning, which eventually applied moral value to the performance of funerary rituals through ...
Works in progress: Establishing best practices for graduate pedagogy
(2021-05)
Education for graduate laborers in the United State has been based on an outdated model of pedagogical inheritance which compounds the inequalities making academic labor difficult and precarious. Currently, members of the ...
Second-generation Persians' participation in the Oklahoma dialect
(2020-07)
This thesis examines language and dialect contact as it affects second-generation Persian-American speakers of English in Oklahoma. Unlike southern states such as Alabama and Mississippi (Labov, Ash, & Boberg 2006), Oklahoma ...
Seamus Heaney and the Irish elegy
(2023-05)
Seamus Heaney’s elegies have long been a point of contention. While Heaney’s elegies have been accused of belittling the Irish Troubles and misrepresenting violence, they have also been admired for their beauty. Due to the ...