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  • Breeding the new woman : the eugenic discourse of motherhood in Shaw, Yeats, and Lawless

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    Tracy, Hannah R.
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    The popularity and pervasiveness of eugenic discourse during the modernist period in England and Ireland raised many questions about race, class, and gender. While Hitler's Nazi "experiment" ultimately demonstrated the consequences of implementing eugenic ideas, forcing eugenicists to abandon, or at least mask, their theories, the eugenics movement before World...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE ThESIS OF Hannah R. Tracy for the degree of

  • Failure as a Rhetorical Force in First-Year Composition

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    Du Bose, Hannah L.
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    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...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Hannah Du Bose for

  • "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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    Hannah, Rita, Ethan, Hayley, the Emily’s, Melissa, and more. To the graduate students from other

  • 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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    . Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ Evan M. Gottlieb The

  • Possessed : embodiment, circulation, & subjectivity in Robinson Crusoe, Roderick Random, & Rob Roy

    Creator:
    Schneider, Rebecca
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    A majority of eighteenth-century novels remain in regular print over two hundred years since their inception. Yet with the possible exception of Robinson Crusoe, they have largely fallen out of popularity, rarely appearing on "The Summer's Hottest Reading" lists or receiving celebrity endorsement. I consider Ian Watt's foundational study, The...
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    : ________________________________________________________________________ Evan M. Gottlieb A majority of eighteenth-century novels remain in regular print over two

  • Public Proof : Science Communication, Weak Theory, and the Nonrational

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    Snyder, Wesley M.
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    A 2014 Pew Research poll revealed large gaps between public opinion and scientific opinion over environmental and biomedical issues (Funk and Rainie). Similarly, a number of recent popular books have described a growing public mistrust in scientific expertise (Mooney; Storr; Specter). Why is it, then, that so much of the...
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    ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Wesley M. Snyder for the degree of Master of Arts in English presented on

  • Believing details

    Creator:
    Harrell, Anna M.
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    In this creative non-fiction thesis, the author reads her own life, suggesting that she believes in the details of experience and knows truth in and through experience even though the truth is not always clear. The first chapter includes several narratives from her childhood experience. In the second chapter, the...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Anna M. Harrell for the degree of

  • James Baldwin's Pedagogy of Love: A Method for Transforming American Political Thinking and Pedagogy in the Academy

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    Saleem, Ikhzaan
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    My thesis examines how the American identity is constructed through thinking shaped by deception and domination, as James Baldwin argues in the corpus of his work. I rely on the work of Eddie Glaude Jr., Sean Kim Butorac, and Joel Schlosser to forward love in Baldwin’s political vision as being...
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    method, as offered by Hannah Arendt, to demonstrate that Baldwin understands love to go beyond

  • When Water Follows the Path of Resistance: Implementing a Queer and Trans Pedagogy of Care and Love in My Composition Classroom

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    Swets, Megan G.
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    This project blends personal narrative with scholarly work to recognize the interplay between these genre categorizations and to affirm the academic value of lived experience. Through this method, I play in the intersections of trans pedagogies, queer pedagogies, and pedagogies of love and care. By recounting how I blended these...
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    fill them in with mulch to grow a more critical analysis. To my writing group, Hannah and Anna. From

  • Women's voices : the emergence of female identity in Bleak House and Little Dorrit

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    Van Ras, Tamara L.
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    Dedicated to recording, portraying, and indicting the social inequities that he witnessed in nineteenth century Victorian England, one of Charles Dickens' many concerns was the roles assigned to women both in the public and private spheres. The purpose of this thesis is to examine the narratives of Amy Dorrit and...
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    alternate visions of her destiny" (235). But, as Winter goes on to argue, while "[m]embers of the