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Our “dead keep up the simple habits of the living”: Queer Digital Ephemerality in the Victorian Roman à Clef

Creator:: Snyder, Christin
Abstract:: Many queer scholars have made the turn away from orientations that treat Victorian queerness as either “lost” or “hidden.” Adding more complexity to literary theories which center practices of “revealing” queer artifacts, Sharon Marcus, for instance, argues queer encounters exist at the surfaces of Victorian literature. In addition, Anjali Arondekar’s...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: queer archives. Containing what Munõz calls “residues” and “traces” of queer histories, the roman à

Living Through Resistance : A Feminist Analysis of Bangladeshi Hijras and Gender Non-Conforming Identity Representation in Media Spaces and the Documentary Films, Call Me Salma (2010) and Are We So Different (2012)

Creator:: Abdullah, Abritty
Abstract:: This thesis offers a feminist perspective on the stories and representations of Hijra individuals and gender non-conforming communities in Bangladesh. It considers these stories for how they represent resistance to dominant gender normative discourses and cultural values in Bangladesh, and I explore how they figure both the struggles and survivals...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: (eds) p. 97. 4 chapter, Social Location of Hijras in Bangladesh. The chapter also includes the

In and Out of Touch : Fabricated Histories in Nella Larsen's Passing and James VanDerZee's Studio Portraiture

Creator:: Trowbridge, A. Hayley
Abstract:: Author Nella Larsen and photographer James VanDerZee are two of the most canonical figures of Harlem Renaissance studies, whose respective novels and portraits have been explored extensively, if separately, by scholars. Both Larsen's 1929 novel Passing and VanDerZee's studio portraiture of the 1920s and 1930s have been read in terms...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: practices that comprise them. Vogel, Freeman, and José Esteban Muñoz, for instance, call our attention to

A Queer Feminist Interpretation of Selected Narratives from the Mahabharata : An Analysis of Alternate Paradigms of Gender and Sexuality within the Epic

Creator:: Gharti Chhetri G. C., Sanju
Abstract:: Informed by feminist and queer theories, this thesis provides an alternate reading of selected narratives from the Hindu epic “Mahabharata”. By queering the narratives from the epic, this thesis highlights the existence of fluid notions of sexuality and gender present within Hindu religious texts. In doing so, the study aims...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , 1965, p. xix). The epic itself is about the victory of truth and the triumph of dharma over adharma

Decaying in Storage: The Closures of Three Nuclear Reactors in the Pacific Northwest

Creator:: Oney, Celia E.
Abstract:: People involved in a nuclear activity, whether they are developing it, benefiting from it, or opposing it, see inherent connections between various aspects of nuclear science and technology. This thesis investigates three nuclear sites: a university research reactor, a dual-purpose reactor that produced plutonium for the U.S. military and electricity...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: installation and use. Starting in August 1973, two members of the IPN’s staff, Vice-Chancellor Manuel Munoz

LGBTQ Latinx Student Activist and Leaders in the State of Oregon: A Preliminary Study

Creator:: Zayas, Minerva
Abstract:: In 2016, the Oregon Community Foundation reported that twelve percent of Latinx folks graduated with their bachelor’s and/or master’s degree compared to the 31 percent of White counterparts (Latinos in Oregon Report, 2016). While Latinx students continue to be the largest minority in the United States, Latinx students enroll in...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: experiences separately” (p. 1244). Vivian May (2015) describes having an “intersectional orientation” as a

Queering the Birthing Body: Coming Out Fatigue and the Medical Gaze

Creator:: Danna, Maria N.
Abstract:: Queer birthing parents in the Pacific Northwestern United States have multifaceted and variable paths when it comes to conceiving a family. With the innovations in assisted reproductive technology accompanying the wider acceptance and recognition of gender and sexual difference in mainstream society, a greater number of queer birthing parents are...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: explored. José Esteban Muñoz in his study Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics discusses how

Palynological Perspectives on Younger Dryas to Early Holocene Human Ecology at Paisley Caves, Oregon

Creator:: Saban, Chantel V.
Abstract:: The Younger Dryas climatic event is a global phenomenon associated with a 1,000 year return to glacial conditions during the late Pleistocene period between 12,800 and 11,500 cal BP. Because of its significant effects on paleoenvironmental conditions in some parts of the world, archaeologists commonly seek to assess whether the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Holloway 1983; Dolukhanov 1997; Fitzhugh et al. 2002; Kelly 2007: 35–37; Meltzer and Holliday 2010; Munoz

"Freedom from what?" : Iraqi women's narratives from the 2003 U.S.-led war

Creator:: Mohtashamipour, Sahar (Soudeh)
Abstract:: This research explores the experiences of Iraqi women during and after the 2003 U.S.-led war (2003-2011). The aim of the project was to provide an occasion for a group of Iraqi women to give voice to their lived experiences of war and to document these voices, adding their subjective perspectives...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: services provided by the state” (p. 21), which leads to poor health conditions for Iraqis. As many Iraqi

“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

Creator:: Graham, Devon E.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: not restricted to sexuality, but involves, Muñoz writes, a broad critique of “race, gender, class

“I couldn’t bring myself to say it” : challenging heteronormativity in teacher education programs

Creator:: Ollivier, Amélie G.
Abstract:: School is a hostile environment for many LGBTQ youth. Teachers participate, consciously or unconsciously, in perpetuating oppressive heteronormative expectations in the classroom both through the overt and covert curriculum. Yet, pre-service teachers are under-trained about questions related to gender and sexuality during their teacher preparation. This qualitative study explores the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Studies, 5(2) (1997): 177-193, p. 188. 10 Mann, Susan Archer. Doing Feminist Theory: From Modernity to

Current Use of Dietary Guidelines in Private Clinical Nutrition Practice and its Impacts on the Dietary Patterns of Office Workers in Mexico City

Creator:: Grabinsky, Lisa
Abstract:: For the last 30 years, the population of Mexico has grappled with overweight, obesity, and associated chronic diseases, such as type-2 diabetes and hypertension. To standardize care among healthcare providers and dietitians, an official nutritional guideline was published in the early 2000s, which included a non-modifiable food-based dietary guideline in...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: 2 canonical food guide, while accommodating the cultural diversity of Mexico (Muñoz Cano 2015

Failure as a Rhetorical Force in First-Year Composition

Creator:: Du Bose, Hannah L.
Abstract:: Recognized as a site of risk, innovation, and inspiration, failure is a growing area of multidisciplinary inquiry. My thesis draws attention specifically to the way composition studies approaches failure in order to ask: how can we implement failure pedagogies safely, and how do rhetorics of failure move toward social justice...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: noted by scholars such as Asao Inoue, alongside Gavin P. Johnson and Ryan Sheehan, digging into the

The Space Between: How We Understood, Valued, and Governed the Ocean Through the Process of Marine Science and Emerging Technologies

Creator:: Newton, Samantha
Abstract:: Ian Angell, in the New Barbarian Manifesto, said “A ‘brave new world’ is being forced upon unsuspecting societies by advances in information technology.” It would seem then, that technological advances happen automatically and have a life of their own. There is a logic to technological advancements that is outside human...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Pan, techo y libertad : women, gender and development in the Afro-Ecuadorian highlands

Creator:: Guerron-Montero, Carla Maria
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Training Community Health Workers in Oregon during a Public Health Crisis: Reflections on the Importance of Mental Health in Care-based Work

Creator:: Bompensa, Amanda A.
Abstract:: This ethnographic study addresses the concerns of Oregon based Community Health Workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through their shared perspectives on the importance of mental health and self-care, CHWs highlight the critical need to learn practical skills in their training in order to better support their communities. Recommendations made by...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Beyond Borders: Understanding the Interplay of Factors in Migration at the U.S.-Mexico Border

Creator:: De La Rosa, Sarah
Abstract:: This thesis explores the intricate issues surrounding migration at the U.S.-Mexico border, offering diverse perspectives and insights into its drivers, consequences, and ethical dimensions. Through three comprehensive papers, this research offers a nuanced analysis of the complex dynamics influencing the migration crisis. The first examines the historical and theoretical factors...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Muñoz, Michael Puma, David Wrathall, Richard Seager, Jennifer Nakamura, and Fabien Cottier) for

Producing possibility : glimmering alternatives in Willa Cather and Virginia Woolf

Creator:: Nipper, Sarah
Abstract:: This thesis examines alternative modes and forms of production in texts by Willa Cather and Virginia Woolf. Applying queer methodologies drawn from the work of Michel Foucault, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Lee Edelman, and Elizabeth Freeman, I show how Cather’s The Professor’s House and Woolf’s To the Lighthouse demonstrate and interrogate...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Queering Ever After: Temporality, Magic, and Endings in Victorian Fairy Tales

Creator:: Damschen, Kalli M.
Abstract:: This thesis analyzes two Victorian fairy tales that feature queer endings, or endings that offer alternatives to the heteronormative fairy-tale tradition that idealizes heterosexual marriage and the biological family. In both George MacDonald’s The Wise Woman (1875) and E. Nesbit’s “The Island of the Nine Whirlpools” (1901), I argue that...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Dinshaw and Carla Freccero. 4 Examples include José Esteban Muñoz, Annamarie Jagose, and Roderick

Traversing the city of blogs : pedagogy, performance, and public spheres

Creator:: Faris, Michael J.
Abstract:: In this thesis, I conduct an analysis of blogs in order to understand their potential use in the composition classroom with the goals of students writing for a public audience and developing their rhetorical and civic agency. I do so by exploring the potential for the blogosphere as a public...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Politics on the Nets: Wiring the Political Process, holds an optimistic view: [P]eople searching for

Advocates Empowered : Queering the Contemporary Movement Against Sexual and Domestic Violence.

Creator:: Shelton, Samuel Z.
Abstract:: While the contemporary movement against sexual and domestic violence has roots in radical, feminist theory and anti-state, community-based modes of resistance, over the past several decades, advocates and activists have increasingly turned to corporations and the state for support through the non-profit, prison, and medical industrial complexes. This acceptance of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: transformation – moving from the here and now to a then and there (Muñoz 2009). Queer, in this sense, assumes

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