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Radicalizing Food: Navigating the Radical Fault Lines of our Local Food Systems—on Farm, at Market, & Online

Creator:

Bennett, Laura E.

Abstract:

Mainstream local food systems focus on environmental and individual health, but labor is out of sight and out of mind. We begin with a story that introduces the immigrant in the room, the locavore’s blind spots, and the need to move beyond mainstream environmentalism and embrace social justice. In the...

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Masters Thesis
Extending and Visualizing Authorship in Comics Studies

Creator:

Brown, Nicholas A.

Abstract:

This thesis complicates the traditional associations between authorship and alphabetic composition within the comics medium and examines how the contributions of line artists and writers differ and may alter an audience's perceptions of the medium. As a fundamentally multimodal and collaborative work, the popular superhero comic muddies authorial claims and...

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Masters Thesis
Casting Call: A Female Actor's Struggle to Stardom

Creator:

Schiller, Dawn S.

Abstract:

In the era of #MeToo, we have learned more about the plight of women in Hollywood as they seek employment as actors. While the recent public conversation about gender and sexualization in Hollywood is robust, few peer-reviewed academic articles examine the actor’s personal experiences of gaining meaningful employment in television...

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Masters Thesis
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,...

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Masters Thesis