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Political Theology and Social Hope
(2017-05-12)
This dissertation intervenes in political theology to offer a constructive and wide-ranging theological proposal for Christian cultural engagement and peacemaking in the context of the globalization, perpetual violence, ...
COMPOSING AGENCY: USING INQUIRY TO PROMOTE SOCIAL ACTION
(2017-08-01)
In Rhetoric/Composition studies, agency has been a highly contested concept, straightaway invoking the tension between two dominant perspectives. Agency is viewed as either an internal quality possessed by an individual ...
Imagining Choctaw: Self-Imagination and Settler Colonialism
(2017-08-01)
As Native American tribes work towards self-determination, they must first fully imagine who they are and who they want to become. Self-imagination, the act of conceptualizing ourselves, is requisite for self-determination. ...
Pivotal Moment: Personal Histories of First-Year Composition
(2017-05-12)
This project links historical close readings of pivotal figures in the creation of first-year composition (FYC) labor practices to contemporary debates about how to best advocate for and reform contemporary labor conditions, ...
Leisure and Conversation in the Fin de Siècle Novel
(2017-12)
This project examines images of leisure in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Golden Bowl, and Howards End. These novels, all of which are set in Britain, depict the rapidly changing ...
The Denial of Neoliberalism: Genre in Contemporary American and World Anglophone Novels
(2017-05-12)
In this dissertation, “The Denial of Neoliberalism: Genre in Contemporary American and World Anglophone Novels,” I examine narratives, which demonstrate conflicts within the laissez-faire ideology. Neoliberalism presents ...