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Feeling, Feeding, and Feigning Humors: Shakespeare, Jonson, and Early Modern Humoral Theory
(2022-05-13)
In this dissertation, I argue that the humors are a productive way to read early modern drama and that using them as a productive means of analysis allows for much richer cultural knowledge about medicine to come through ...
Feminist Food Rhetoric: Women's Rhetorical Strategies Across Instagram, Food Podcasts, and Community Cookbooks
(2022)
Demonstrating that food and cooking instructions are important everyday artifacts worthy of rhetorical criticism, Feminist Food Rhetoric advances rhetoric and writing studies scholarship on food by moving beyond the dominant ...
Subjects of Struggle: The Intensification of White Supremacy and the Fugitive Dimensions of Black Freedom in Antebellum America
(2021)
In antebellum America, free and enslaved blacks struggled for imagined forms of freedom at a time when white supremacy’s governing authority intensified dramatically; the nation’s culture of danger exposed black bodies, ...
Buddhist Poetics, Beat “Cosmo-Politics,” and the Maker Ethos: Asian Americanist Critiques of Whiteness in Midcentury American Beat Writing
(2022-05-13)
Buddhist Poetics, Beat “Cosmo-Politics,” and the Maker Ethos: Asian Americanist Critiques of Whiteness in Midcentury American Beat Writing employs Walter Benjamin’s notion of the “ruin”—which is not just a noun or notion, ...
Podcast Rhetorics: Insights into Podcasts as Public Persuasion
(2021-08)
Asserting that professional podcasts serve as an important platform for arguments regarding issues of public importance, Podcast Rhetorics advances rhetoric and writing studies scholarship by moving beyond the dominant ...
Virgulae and Distinctiones: A History of Western Notational Systems from Grammar Handbook to Liturgical Leaf
(2022-05-13)
I present the history of the virgule or slash (/) as a measure of how students read and interpreted texts first by methods taught in grammar handbooks but then according to scribal-driven innovations to the page. The mark ...
The Risks of Rhetoricity: Accounting for Intellectual Disability in the Rhetorical Tradition
(2023-08-04)
I am troubled by the notion that what specialists in my field call “rhetoricity”—the quality of being able to assess an audience and effectively influence their thinking—is what separates humans (“rhetors”) from non-humans. ...
MAPPING NATIVE MODERNS: EUROPE AND SPACE IN THE NATIVE AMERICAN NOVEL
(2021-05-14)
This dissertation, “Mapping Native Moderns,” analyzes Native American literature for its settings in England, France, and Italy. Examples include an unpublished manuscript written in the late 1920s by D’Arcy McNickle ...
Anzaldúan Theory: Frameworks of Self-Love, Healing, and Transformation
(2020-12-18)
Approaches to the critical theory advanced by Chicana scholar Gloria Anzaldúa tend to focus primarily on the concept of borderlands or other concepts—such as El Mundo Zurdo, the Coatlicue State, mestiza consciousness, ...
Hakaniyutu Unu Haniyu? Why Are You Making? Examining Comanche Women’s Texts Through Comanche Language and Cultural Philosophy
(2023-05-12)
One can examine Comanche women’s spoken stories in the Comanche language for
cultural and philosophical insight through the metaphor of oiling and braiding one’s hair because
oil (or yuhu, pronounced “you” in Comanche, ...