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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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
(Un)decidable Stereotypes: Anti-Racist Satire in Popular American Literature from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Mid-Twentieth Century
(2022-05-13)
This dissertation examines the satirical strategy that employs racial stereotypes to critique racism. I read the work of Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Charles W. Chesnutt, Dorothy Parker, and Langston Hughes and explore how this ...
Misogyny and murder: crime fiction by women from 1947-1959
(2022)
This project demonstrates that American women authors from 1947-1959 repurposed the crime genre to critique and engage with misogyny and sexism of the day. Hardboiled crime fiction, which was at its peak popularity in ...
Learning to Live a Rhetorical Life: A New Strategy for Teaching First-Year Composition
(2022-12-16)
Finding a Pedagogical Path to a Rhetorical Life: The received history of first-year composition (FYC) pedagogy seems to present itself in almost Darwinian evolutionary terms, first emerging from the swamp of Susan Miller’s ...
Deep in the heart of Texas: nostalgia's ethos in public discourse
(2022-05)
This project argues that nostalgia operates rhetorically as an argument of ethos and that its function within public arguments provides the field of rhetoric an opportunity to reimagine how ethos is produced within political ...