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  • Of tales changed to other forms : an analysis of the traditions and future of Ovidian adaptations

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    Moy, Shaleena
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    Not only does the publication of Ovidian adaptations online increase public awareness of Ovid, but it also offers new material for research and pedagogical purposes. Consequently, in this thesis, I explore both the historical tradition of Ovidian adaptations, specifically adaptations of Ovid's Orpheus tale, and the modern presentation of Ovidian...
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    :  ________________________________________________________________________  Rebecca Olson    Not only does the publication of Ovidian adaptations online increase public

  • Femslash Fanfiction as a Reparative Practice of Critique

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    Johnson, Colleen E.
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    Ever since Henry Jenkins’ groundbreaking _Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture_ (1992), fan studies has slowly worked its way further into mainstream academia. However, particular practices and cultures of femslash fandom, and the contribution of queer women to fandom archives and circulation have, in many ways, been neglected. In...
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    approved: ______________________________________________________ Rebecca Olson Ever since Henry

  • Gender, genre, and the canon : teaching Aemilia Lanyer

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    Jurgens, Jeremy
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    Traditionally, Renaissance studies have neglected or overlooked the contributions of early modern female poets, many of whom produced lively, engaging, and highly creative work despite the limitations imposed on them by a rigidly patriarchal society. In my thesis, I examine the life and work of Aemilia Lanyer, a 17th century...
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    : _____________________________________________________________________ Rebecca Olson Traditionally, Renaissance studies have neglected or overlooked the

  • Monsters in the mirror : literary reflections of mentally and physically deformed humanity in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene

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    Bromley, Michele Joy
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    Monstrous beings, or distortions of nature, were a tangible object of fear in the medieval and early modern eras. Aristotle, as a precursor to the scientists and magical practitioners of the twelfth century or the barber-surgeons of the sixteenth century, understood monsters to be human or animal beings deformed by...
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    : ________________________________________________________________________ Rebecca R. Olson Monstrous beings, or distortions of nature, were a tangible object of fear

  • The role of competition, community, and priority in the discovery of the tau lepton

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    Swanner, Leandra
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    This study examines the interactions between the scientific communities of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL) and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in the discovery of the tau lepton by physicist Martin Perl between 1973- 1977. Perl became interested in searching for heavy leptons through positron-electron collision experiments using the...
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    skepticism over the existence of a third generation of matter, see Martin L. Perl, “The Discovery of the Tau

  • Picture this, imagine that : the literary and pedagogic force of ekphrastic principles

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    Pajak, Zachary E.
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    My thesis is comprised of two articles, titled "Interpreting Britomart's Encounters with Art: The Cyclic Nature of Ekphrasis in Spenser's Faerie Queene III," and "Picture This, Imagine That: Teaching Visual Literacy in the Disciplines." The purpose of my first article is to argue that Edmund Spenser uses ekphrasis in his...
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    : _____________________________________________________________________ Vicki Tolar Burton Rebecca R. Olson My thesis is comprised of two articles, titled

  • The adorned and the adored : issues of sympathy and ownership in Victorian literature

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    Schmuhl, Emily J.
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    This thesis is comprised of two articles that examine sympathy, material culture, and ownership in Victorian literature. In the first article, I explore the figure of the heiress in the Victorian literary tradition, focusing on Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Charles Dickens's Great Expectations. George Eliot marked the heiress figure...
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    guidance; to Dr. Rebecca Olson and Dr. Richmond Barbour, my committee members, for all their patience and

  • More than an Accommodation: Teaching in the Remote First-Year Composition Classroom

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    Goicochea, Andrea R.
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    This thesis evaluates the contact zone of the remote composition classroom and offers mediations for leveling the authoritative powers by fronting disability studies in pedagogies. The purpose of this thesis is to create pedagogies from disability scholarship and real teaching experiences that can be implemented in the remote classroom to...
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    would also like to thank committee members Drs. Rebecca Olson and Ehren Pflugfelder, who created space

  • On the Rhetorical Disability of Students with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Rhetorical Approach to the Trauma-Informed Teaching of College Composition

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    McDowell, Amanda J.
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    Composition scholars who have written about trauma have typically focused on creating classrooms that are conducive to healing and learning. In doing this work, however, they have considered neither how PTSD nor other people’s responses to it can impact one’s perceived rhetoricity in the college classroom. In other words, they...
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    committee – Rebecca Olson, Anita Helle, and Tim Jensen – without whom I wouldn’t have survived this

  • The influence on Manchu women of changes in social institutions and the sinification of Manchu Society

    Creator:
    Fang, Jin-cai
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    Gender relations as well as the social situation of Manchu women have long been ignored in studies of the cultural evolution of the Manchu. By setting the discussion of Manchu women in the context of cultural adaptation, this study reintroduces gender and women's problems into the research on the Manchu...
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    . Rebecca Warner for kindly serving as my committee members. My appreciation is also extended to James C