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  • "Pretty When You Cry": Feminine Melancholia in the Age of Social Media

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    Hurwitz, Madeline
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    This thesis examines the internet phenomenon of the “Sad Girl,” a name given to young women who identify and present themselves as inherently melancholic people online. I position the internet community of the Sad Girl, which spans across three social media platforms, Tumblr, TikTok, and Instagram, within a larger history...
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    : ______________________________________________________ Megan Ward This thesis examines the internet phenomenon of the “Sad Girl,” a name given to young

  • Queer Materiality: Freaks, Ghosts, and Madness in Victorian Culture and the Novels of Charlotte Brontë

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    Kennedy, Tallon R.
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    This thesis offers a theory of queer materiality as a way of understanding the interconnectedness of freaks, ghosts, and madness in Victorian culture, and how these elements coalesce in Victorian literature to destabilize the knowable materiality of normative social structures and forms of embodiment, leading to the production of queer...
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    approved: ______________________________________________________ Megan Ward This thesis

  • An Evental Romanticism

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    Webster, Austin
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    The Romantic period sits in a liminal historical space when radically different ideas about the categories of past, future, progress, and change coexisted in popular consciousness. The French Revolution inaugurated the concept of an Event, something that appears to come out of nowhere, and that not even the most well-informed...
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    my thesis committee, Megan Ward and Neil Davison, both for their careful advice and enthusiastic

  • "Its Own Sense of Verisimilitude" : The Lizzie Bennet Diaries As a Transhistorical Adaptation of the Semipublic

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    Surface, Samara
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    The Lizzie Bennet Diaries is a multimodal adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, released from 2012-2013. As a media event, the show proved how effective transmedia storytelling can be, eventually winning an Emmy for Original Interactive Program. In creating an intensely immediate narrative world, the series adapted more than Jane Austen’s...
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    : ______________________________________________________ Megan Ward The Lizzie Bennet Diaries is a multimodal adaptation of Pride and Prejudice

  • Disciplining the reception of Darwin : the botanical and sociological work of Lester Frank Ward

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    Zimmerman, Katharine
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    The publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, truly a synthesized work of natural history, coincided with the emergence of specialized disciplines in the 19th century. This thesis aims to explore the relationship between the specialization of knowledge, in the form of disciplinization, and the reception of new...
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    Work of Lester Frank Ward. Abstract approved

  • Reasserting moral boundaries : representations of fame in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda

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    Foster, Emily S.
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    Celebrity culture is part of a long history of fame, but the modern celebrity individual came into focus in the nineteenth century. The first part of this thesis distinguishes modern celebrity – including its morality – from other types of fame, explores the intersection of celebrity and gender through the...
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    encouragement and critique, and for having faith in me even in the most dubious of moments; Megan Ward, for

  • Eaffective Ecopoetics as a Practice for Feeling a World in Crisis

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    Platt, Benjamin D.
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    Discussions of ecopoetics often seek to investigate how poetics as a form can be rendered more ecological, often in contrast to nature poetry. These conversations tend to concentrate on this generic contrast and the formal qualities of an ecological poetics. Ecopoetics as a field emerged largely as a response to...
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    scholar and writer. I want to thank the members of my thesis committee, Megan Ward, Kathleen Dean

  • Fostering a Multidimensional, Metacognitive Landscape Through Rhetorical Narrative Analysis

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    Breeden, Regan
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    Close reading has long been favored as an interpretative framework within those classrooms commonly united under the umbrella of English studies. This thesis explores the role of a particular brand of close reading—one often assessed through text-dependent questions—and critiques its centrality within assessment and curriculum materials for the AP Program...
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    thank Dr. Ehren Pflugfelder, Dr. Megan Ward, and Dr. Kristy Kelly for serving on my committee and

  • A Therapeutic Model: Yogacara and Psychotherapy

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    Trejo, Ricky W.
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    The Buddhist discipline known as Yogacara can complement the practice of Psychotherapy by virtue of the former’s concepts that allow individuals to examine their minds in a way that produces beneficial insights regarding one’s mental health problems. Yogacara contains the idea of a storehouse consciousness that is similar to the...
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    OF THE THESIS OF Ricky W. Trejo for the degree of Master of Arts in Applied Ethics presented on

  • “Missed the Best Months of the War”: Masculinity, Homosociality, and Empire among British Royal Flying Corps Interned in First World War German Prisoner of War Camps

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    Graham, Devon E.
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    This thesis focuses on performances of masculinity by British Royal Flying Corps (RFC) airmen in the charged landscape of the First World War prisoner of war (POW) camp. I examine how captive airmen coped with imprisonment by reasserting the familiar homosocial communities of pre-capture squadron life, particularly through practices associated...
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    academia. To Jeremy, your unshakable confidence in me steadies me through every obstacle. Thank you