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  • How the Portrayal of Women Characters in the Zorro and Robin Hood Stories Has Changed Over Time

    Creator:
    Rodriguez-Walmisley, Olga B.
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    This thesis explores how female characters in the Zorro and Robin Hood stories have changed throughout time, from beginnings until present day. I began my analysis by first researching whether Zorro and Robin Hood existed, and found that Robin Hood was most likely a real man who lived during the...
    Resource Type:
    Honors College Thesis
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    committee members, Caterina Tadlock and Professor Anita Helle, for all of your help, and most of all to my

  • Ecuador's informal sector : an analysis of gender and empowerment programs

    Creator:
    Ota, Brandy
    Abstract:
    Over the last 25 years structural adjustment programs have challenged Ecuador's ability to provide adequate social services and employment opportunities. In the wake of these policies, many women have turned to non-governmental agencies for possible solutions and assistance. Empowerment programs as a form of development work in particular have been...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    graduate school. To Anita Helle for agreeing to serve on my committee. A special thanks goes to Meg

  • The Death of (a story about(me))

    Creator:
    Hauck, Jayme E.
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    The first chapter of the graphic novel The Death of, which illustrates the opposition of a young girl to her stagnant environment through thoughts of creativity and death. Rendered in graphite pencil.
    Resource Type:
    Honors College Thesis

  • The Listening Cure: Theorizing Gender Fluid Performance through Katharine Hepburn’s Transatlantic Accent

    Creator:
    Dawson, Katherine
    Abstract:
    My mother named me after Hollywood icon Katharine Hepburn, but what made a working-class girl grow to love this posh celebrity so much? The obvious answer is that my mother aspired to be posh herself; but lack of money or sophistication were not the only things impacting her potential— there...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    pushed me to improve as both writer and researcher. Dr. Anita Helle and Dr. Nabil Boudraa, for advice

  • "We Share a Common Disinheritance": Subjectivity, Dispossession, and Antiblackness in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Paul Beatty's The Sellout

    Creator:
    Becker, Jade M.
    Abstract:
    Recent work in moral philosophy has displayed a renewed interest in ethics and ontology that consider the social constitution of the subject. However, these approaches to ethics, exemplified in Judith Butler’s work in Giving an Account of Oneself, often neglect the problem of antiblackness, which Afro-pessimist scholars argue operates at...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    . To Dr. Anita Helle, thank you for your enthusiasm in stepping into this committee on such short

  • Leslie Marmon Silko and the New Sincerity

    Creator:
    Lackey, Ryan W.
    Abstract:
    One reading of the post-postmodern literary period argues that as formal aesthetics have (re)engaged with ethics there has been a concomitant move to treat literature as a space of ethical potential. Adam Kelly has called this attitude, when combined with the appropriation of certain metafictional and postmodern techniques, the “New...
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    Masters Thesis
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    , and his thesis committee members, Neil Davison and Anita Helle. The author also extends his thanks

  • A rhetoric of transformation : the emergence of community literacy within composition studies

    Creator:
    Vega-Peters, Susan T.
    Abstract:
    Within literacy and composition studies, writing, as a social act, is believed by many to have the potential to effect change in and transform situations of injustice. Community literacy, as an emergent practice within composition studies, embraces and stretches this notion of linking literacy to social change. Community literacy also...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    . Anita Helle for sharing her own research, interest, and questions about community literacy; and

  • "Born of ourselves" : gendered doubling and the femme fatale in Vernon Lee's ghost stories

    Creator:
    Delf, Liz
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    This thesis examines the characterization of the femme fatale and the implications of this trope for late-Victorian gender and sexuality in the ghost stories of female aesthete Vernon Lee. In her treatment of the femme fatale figure, Lee both reinforces and complicates the image of the sexualized, often bestialized woman...
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    Masters Thesis
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    committee members Dr. Anita Helle and Dr. Tara Williams, whose advice and support have been a crucial

  • The folklore of daughters

    Creator:
    Bremicker, Heather
    Abstract:
    This collection of poems and essays is about the folklore of family and the shadowy imprint family myth can leave on its members. At the center of the argument is a struggle about coming to terms with these shadows from a speaker trying to find a sense of a self...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis

  • After we lost the wind

    Creator:
    Watterson, Jaclyn
    Abstract:
    My thesis is a collection of short stories in which I explore themes like loss, identity, and memory. The collection includes both short stories and short short stories, and through in-depth exploration of character and form, the stories here attempt to fit into a tradition of writers articulating the experiences...
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    Masters Thesis
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    for working so tirelessly as my major professor. Thanks also to Anita Helle, Susan Jackson