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Nervous London: Urban Sensibility in the Romantic Period
(2015-08-14)
Nervous London: Urban Sensibility in the Romantic Period traces a continued cultural and scientific interest in sensibility and how it shifted and developed in the Romantic period. This project explores representations of ...
Post-Industrial Gatekeeping: A Rhetorical History of Disciplinary Composition
(2015-05)
This dissertation argues that composition’s ascendance to academic legitimacy in the mid-to-late twentieth century did not emerge as a challenge to FYC’s traditional gatekeeping function but rather represents the replacement ...
The Pursuit of Privacy in Medieval Landscapes
(2015-05-08)
The Pursuit of Privacy in Medieval Landscapes identifies the ways in which individual pursuits of privacy in the medieval world are shaped by the landscapes in which those pursuits occur. There is a correlation between the ...
FIRST BEINGS: RELATIONSHIPS WITH NONHUMAN ANIMALS IN NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURES
(2015-04)
My dissertation formulates a theory of first beings, or a way to more aptly understand human relationships with animals in Native American Literatures. It starts with a brief, selected history of the scholarship on animal ...
Materialist Circuitry: Digital Writing Technology, Planned Obsolescence, and Ecological Impact
(2015)
This dissertation claims that planned obsolescence of digital writing equipment is a problem for composition—one that we should take up and challenge. Obsolescence causes practical difficulties for digital writing teachers ...