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"A Sea of Grief is Not a Proscenium": Claudia Rankine's Citizen and the Spectacle of Racist Violence in Cyberculture

Creator:: Lathos, Athena M.
Abstract:: In her 2016 article “Beyond Rights as Recognition, Black Twitter and Posthuman Coalitional Possibilities,” Pritha Prasad argues that the hashtag, one of the decade’s most omnipresent features of digital communication, functions as “a performative composing medium that not only demands relationality” and “call[s] for the recognition of both the Black...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: project. The terms “posthuman” and “posthumanism,” though often muddled in in the early years of these

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
Full Text:: , identity, and systems of regulation and power. I argue that, in doing so, these novels depict queer

Bleeding Assemblages: Translating Borders in the Bilingual Poetry of Irma Pineda Santiago

Creator:: Killeen, Shanna
Abstract:: This thesis examines the bilingual poetry of indigenous, Mexican poet Irma Pineda Santiago. In her work, she composes mirrored poems in Isthmus Zapotec and Spanish. I analyze the ways in which her work brings Zapotec and Spanish into contact with one another, demanding that readers acknowledge narratives of erasure that...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ”. These three parts work in conjunction, depicting the cycle of birth, life, and death. The poems in the

Willed Women : Female Bodies & Subversive Being in the Knight’s and Second Nun’s Tales

Creator:: McLemore, Emily C.
Abstract:: This project examines two understudied female characters from Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales who emerge as subversive figures by striving to maintain control over their bodies and being. Through my analyses of the Knight’s and Second Nun’s Tales, I reveal how virginity correlates with bodily autonomy for the narratives’ respective protagonists,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: between virginity and bodily autonomy for these female protagonists, as well as how they exercise agency

Accessing health care on the asexual spectrum : A feminist analysis of patient-practitioner relationships and compulsory sexuality in medical discourse

Creator:: Vanderzee, Vanessa A.
Abstract:: The LGBTQ population is widely recognized as an at-risk demographic—as a result ofstigma, studies report sexual and gender minorities experience elevated risk for depression,suicide, anxiety, and substance abuse, as well as greater exposure to sexual, physical, andinterpersonal violence (Logie 1244). Asexuality, a marginalized population traditionallyexcluded from the LGBTQ acronym, poses...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: spectrum, and with these medical discourses so central to my upbringing, I spent much of my young adult

Allocation in Health Care : Antecedent Conditions and Catholic Insights

Creator:: Hosford, Laura L.
Abstract:: This research was aimed at providing the foundation for changing standards of care in a critical care setting using Catholic concepts of respect for human dignity, subsidiarity, common good, and solidarity as a matter of social justice. I first unpacked the nature of ICU care and the inevitability of the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , 1626). Because I see these same types of cases over and over I also considered what these case types

Cosmovisions and Farming : An Investigation of Conventional and Alternative Farmers' Environmental Values along the Willamette River

Creator:: French, Melissa M.
Abstract:: Understanding which factors motivate farmers to adopt certain practices is an important part of helping to solve many agri-environmental issues. This study uses 19 interviews with farmers along Oregon’s Willamette River, a statewide producer survey, and select interviews with organizations and agencies active in the farming community to examine the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: environment. Although these values and beliefs play a role in shaping their praxis, their interactions with

Rational Madmen : Monomania in Hawthorne’s “The Birthmark” and Stedman’s “How Old Brown Took Harpers Ferry”

Creator:: Green, Paisley
Abstract:: In this project, I explore the use of monomania as a literary and rhetorical device that pathologizes deviance from certain norms—in this case, sexual and political norms— and allows for contradiction, dissonance, and reform. Using Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “The Birthmark” and Edmund Clarence Stedman’s poem “How Old Brown Took...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: anonymous author labels excessive libido, ideations of pregnancy, and gender fluidity as aberrant; these

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

Creator:: Foster, Emily S.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: celebrities (both for people), and two uses of celebrated (both for people). 2 A few examples of these

Nepantla Collaboration : Strategic Support for LGBTQ Populations

Creator:: Davidove, Addison E.
Abstract:: In this thesis, I deconstruct strategies of support for the LGBTQ youth of my home community,the Inland Empire. I call on Foucauldian understandings of discourse, knowledge, and power to analyze the existing support networks for LGBTQ youth in the Inland Empire. Gloria Anzaldúa’s theories of Nepantla and Nepantlera, and AnaLouise...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: LGBTQ inclusive classrooms, schools, and communities? These two questions act as guiding points that

ScholarsArchive@OSU

"A Sea of Grief is Not a Proscenium": Claudia Rankine's Citizen and the Spectacle of Racist Violence in Cyberculture

Producing possibility : glimmering alternatives in Willa Cather and Virginia Woolf

Bleeding Assemblages: Translating Borders in the Bilingual Poetry of Irma Pineda Santiago

Willed Women : Female Bodies & Subversive Being in the Knight’s and Second Nun’s Tales

Accessing health care on the asexual spectrum : A feminist analysis of patient-practitioner relationships and compulsory sexuality in medical discourse

Allocation in Health Care : Antecedent Conditions and Catholic Insights

Cosmovisions and Farming : An Investigation of Conventional and Alternative Farmers' Environmental Values along the Willamette River

Rational Madmen : Monomania in Hawthorne’s “The Birthmark” and Stedman’s “How Old Brown Took Harpers Ferry”

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

Nepantla Collaboration : Strategic Support for LGBTQ Populations

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