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(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 ...
Staging American constraint: from containment to confinement post 1945
(2020-05-08)
An analysis of American plays from the mid-late 20th century, this study explores dramas representing and resisting social constraint on stage. It organizes its discussion around two primary forms of constraint understood ...
Indigenous Futurisms: Genre and World-Building
(2021-05-14)
This dissertation examines literary, digital, virtual, and multimodal texts and spaces in regards to genre and world-building in Indigenous futurist works. I argue that by studying different genres like speculative fiction ...
Counter-Storytelling Using Xicana Epistemologies and Rhetorics: Countering White Benevolence and White Ignorance in College Literacy Intervention Spaces
(2021-05-14)
Most of us who ask ourselves “What do students need in order to succeed in college?” genuinely want to help students succeed. However, because helping others is known to be a good thing, we often don’t look critically at ...
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 ...
Shakespeare, Authority, and the English Catholic Experience
(2020-05-08)
By the time Shakespeare’s plays first appeared on stage in the late-sixteenth century, the Elizabethan campaign against English Catholics had reached its peak. However, Roman Catholicism continued to influence the English ...
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 ...
Langston University: A History of Transformative Rhetorics at Oklahoma's Only HBCU, 1960-1970
(2021-08-05)
This project presents a history of rhetoric and writing instruction at Langston University, Oklahoma's only HBCU, from 1960-1970. It details the liberatory pedagogies practiced by Langston professors during the civil rights ...