"1970's American Southern Rock was a musical phenomenon as unique, diverse, and dynamic as the politically and racially tumultuous region from which it hailed. This regio[...]

The scenarios above illustrate the kinds of computer-aided instruction that I have witnessed across my campus over the last year. Each scenario highlights the benefits an[...]

"With this project, I would like to reconstruct pragmatism as a valid way of looking at legal problems and of solving them, in particular, the current legal debate over r[...]

In Simians, Cyborgs, and Women, Donna Haraway defines a political organization by affinity which recognizes "permanently partial identities and contradictory standpoints,[...]

"Disturbing Memoir Outsells Literary Comfort Food at Starbucks," The New York Times reported on March 10, 2007. Ishmael Beah's A Long Way Gone, a memoir of the author's e[...]

The study of Afro-Asian relationships, often referred to as Afro-Orientalism, is a subject that is not widely discussed. This relationship is a cultural and often politic[...]

The four stories in this collection examine the effects on the individual of abandonment and dissolution of the family. The central effect of abandonment shared by all th[...]

This dissertation, Alchemical Fraud in the Middle Ages and Its Reception in Twenty-First Century Videogames, examines medieval criticisms of alchemy as they appear in Mid[...]

All My Ghosts is a collection of poems that looks to the past as a point of reference for imagination and speculation about death, loneliness, and hope. The collection is[...]

These stories explore the vulnerabilities of three distinct characters; each of them young and struggling with the isolation and loneliness that besets us when we feel li[...]

"Caroline Howard Gilman's novel is an early example of domestic fiction which sought to promote the authority of the middle-class woman. This paper explores the ways in w[...]

In this project, I explore Caribbean literature that contests the privileging of nation and diaspora community models, and instead presents the spontaneous and productive[...]

Aphra Behn, Delarivier Manley, and Eliza Haywood—The Fair Triumvirate– authored incredibly popular tales of seduction in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuri[...]

In different ways, American Lazarus and "Face Zion Forward" contribute to the growing body of scholarship about the circumatlantic movement of people and ideas in the eig[...]

Relying on the seminal gender theory of Judith Butler, the aim of this paper is to both compartmentalize and criticize elements of Orlando that can in turn offer greater [...]

In Early Modern England, Christian mysticism was often associated with religious "enthusiasm" and was, therefore, discouraged by the Church of England. Those with a tempe[...]

"What is the source of refreshment in nihilism?" T. S. Eliot asks in a 1950 interview with Leslie Paul. Although Eliot was perhaps speaking rhetorically, his question is [...]

This thesis asks questions of God and grapples with our limitations both mental and physical. It catalogs difficult moments, strange observations, and contends with how t[...]

This thesis posits an innovative framework for rhetorically (re)analyzing disability history in higher education by overlapping disability rhetoric with disability aesthe[...]

Oscar's views about Art for Art's Sake were the primary focus of "The Decay of Lying: A Dialogue," and "The Picture of Dorian Gray." Wilde believed that good art, real ar[...]

"In this dissertation, I expand our understanding of the dramatic audience, approaching this complicated concept through the playwright's representations of the audience [...]

I hit the top of the third flight of stairs, veered right down the hall, trying not to slip on the freshly waxed tiled floor in my 2-inch heels. The door was open, so I k[...]

What does it mean to remain optimistic under the conditions of late-stage Capitalism during the Anthropocene? This collection of stories begins with this question before [...]

This dissertation argues that the chivalric code and resulting "ethos" of chivalry creates a physical, religious, and social burden upon the medieval knights tasked with [...]

Before the Aftermath: A Pedagogy for Disaster Responsiveness examines how teachers of writing at the college level can respond to social, natural, or political disasters [...]