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  • Falling Into Place: Relational Perspectives on the US Creative Residency Field

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    Baker, Jay A.
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    Falling Into Place: Relational Perspectives on the US Creative Residency Field is an Environmental Arts & Humanities thesis built around a research project called Creative Residencies and Expanded Senses of Community: Interviews With Artists & Residency Leaders. It’s an extended meditation on arts residencies via research, interviews, and experiential learning,...
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  • “I Can’t Believe I’m Marching for Reality”: Examining the Rhetorical Role of Science in the “Post-Truth” Era

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    Baker, Carlee A.
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    In the months preceding the 2016 presidential election and during the Trump presidency, rhetoric, composition, and communications scholars expressed an urgent concern about the threat that Trump and his political affiliates posed to the status of truth in political life (McComiskey; Rice; Harsin; Cloud). However, the conversations surrounding the discipline’s...
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    early 2000s. Sociologist James Hunter, writing in 1991, suggests that the culture war represented a

  • Feedback as Critical Care: An Antiracist, Feminist Praxis for Composition

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    Rowland, Olivia A.
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    Feminist compositionists have long argued for addressing the feminization of composition, or its association with low value “women’s work,” by revaluing caring labor (Enos; Heinert and Phillips; Tuell). However, this argument assumes that writing teachers’ care work is beneficial for all students and teachers. Focusing on responding to student writing...
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  • Solidarity’s Last Stand: Rudi Nussbaum and the Hanford Downwinders

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    Vitale, Anthony
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    The Hanford Nuclear Reservation drew public ire during the 1980s and 1990s when activist groups forced the declassification of 19,000 documents and discovered proof of accidental and intentional releases of radioactive materials into the environment. These releases had been kept from the public. Although many locals had for decades wondered...
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    approved Patricia Hoover, a Columbia River Downwinder suffering from a host of brain, thyroid, autoimmune

  • Deepening: Place Relationship in the Valley of Lake Creek, Oregon

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    McCumber, Elisabeth Carol Harvey
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    This is an IRB-exempt thesis exploring place relationship in the valley of Lake Creek, Oregon, at Triangle Lake. An interdisciplinary ethnography of place, it involves a synthesis of archaeological, historical, and ethnographic literature; an analysis of nineteenth-century Coos, Alseya (Alsea), and Kalapuya myth-texts from Native oral tradition; a history of...
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    . Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977), 1–46. 31. Gupta, et

  • Furthering Rhetorical Genre Studies Within the Context of Identity and Transfer in First Year Composition

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    Alfaqih, Jessica
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    Within composition studies, rhetorical genre studies (RGS) and labor-based grading (LBG) are engaged in similar projects that consider students not only as individuals but also as always part of a community; as such, both have worked to understand how students learn, how students value themselves and their work, and how...
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  • A Decolonial Option for Literary Criticism

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    Bhogra, Siddharth
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    The ongoing “method war” in literary criticism that has manifested as the impasse between Critique and Postcritique, which are identified respectively with paranoid and reparative modes of reading, raises existential questions about criticism in the face of its declining social value under neoliberalism. This thesis enters that impasse to suggest...
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    form as a feeling, however, is repair all that generative? Patricia Stuelke historicizes the

  • 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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    , metacognitive landscape. Rhetorical narrative analysis is an interpretative method built out of James Phelan’s

  • 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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    the degree of Master of Arts in English, presented on June 4, 2021. Title: James Baldwin’s

  • The Yellow House: Stories of Place, Space and Community

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    Gann, Tamara S.
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    This thesis is an IRB-exempt oral history focused on the non-profit Corvallis Multicultural Literacy Center (CMLC) in Corvallis, Oregon. The CMLC, formerly on 9th Street, was known to many community members as the Yellow House. The Yellow House was a dedicated community-based space where people of all cultures could come...
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