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  • An analysis of social relationships at a development site in Kenya

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    Burke, Deborah A.
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    Both development and post-structuralist anthropologists have critiqued development. Development anthropologists are concerned that development does not take adequate account of the social and cultural factors of developing nations, while post structuralists question the ontology of development and assert that domination over developing nations is inherent in the concept of development....
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Deborah A. Burke for the degree of

  • Wendy Bishop : a feminist voice at the intersections of composition, creative writing, and ethnography

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    Rosman, Alice L.
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    Wendy Bishop's lively voice and scholarly contribution continue to resonate and be important in composition studies. Bishop--poet, scholar, feminist, teacher, ethnographer, and compositionist--sought to blur the lines between creative writing and composition. This thesis argues that in challenging the boundaries that exist between creative writing and composition, Bishop also challenged...
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    of Composition, Creative Writing, and Ethnography Abstract approved: Lisa S. Ede Wendy

  • Water over stones : Oregon watershed stories

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    Oberst, Gail D.
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    The 13 personal essays in Water over Stones: Oregon Watershed Stories explore the author's experiences in dozens of Oregon watersheds. Using the genre of the personal essay, the author, a fifth-generation Oregonian and amateur ecologist, writes about her life and family relationships in stories that are saturated with the waters...
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    Stories Abstract approved: Lisa S. Ede The 13 personal essays in Water over Stones: Oregon Watershed

  • Religion in the writing classroom : toward a pedagogy of possibility

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    May, Laura D.
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    In this thesis, I examine composition scholarship on the intersections of religious faith and writing pedagogy over the past twenty years, tracing the origins of compositionists' discomfort with religion and focusing on pedagogical approaches for working with religiously-committed students. In particular, I emphasize the way in which these approaches are...
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    tots at McMenamin‟s; Julie Bacon for helping me in a thousand “little” ways; Sara Jameson for her

  • Caught in the act : casting myself as a performing writer in rhetoric and writing studies

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    Dieter, Thomas Edward
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    The following thesis explores the potential for autoethnography to serve as an enabling method for developing a grounded understanding of literacy, performance, gender and sexuality. As autoethnographic writing insists that even the seemingly most personal aspects of a researcher's character are deeply embedded in larger political and sociocultural narratives, this...
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    : Lisa S. Ede The following thesis explores the potential for autoethnography to serve as an enabling

  • Chatting, cooking, curating : English language learners as sponsors of literacy in a multicultural literacy center

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    Saleh, Natalie K.
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    Drawing on Deborah Brandt’s “literacy sponsorship,” this thesis examines ways English language learners (ELLs) in the Corvallis Multicultural Literacy Center (CMLC) act as literacy sponsors, sharing their expertise in language, textiles, and cooking, based on nine in-depth interviews with ELLs at the center. The findings of this thesis are presented...
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    Deborah Brandt’s “literacy sponsorship,” this thesis examines ways English language learners (ELLs) in

  • Making the Shift: Narratives of Transfer from Planned Home Birth to the Hospital in the Pacific Northwest

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    Houtman, Leah S.
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    About 1% of U.S. births each year are planned home births (Vital Statistics Reports 2017). Of these, roughly 10% transfer to a higher level of care during labor (Melissa Cheyney et al. 2014), yet their experiences are rarely heard. Storytelling has long been used not only as entertainment, but as...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Leah S. Houtman for the

  • "Present fears" and "Horrible Imaginings" : Gothic elements in Shakespearean Tragedy

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    Appel, Ian S.
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    Gothic literary works are characterized as such by their ability to represent and evoke terror. The form this representation takes is varied; often terror originates in the atmospheric effects of settings, in the appearance of mysterious, supposedly supernatural phenomena, and, perhaps most significantly, in the behavior of villainous characters. Shakespearean...
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    privacy Copyright © by Ian S. Appel November 11, 2003 All rights reserved "Present Fears" and

  • Feeling through Language: Tracing Affect in Gendered Language

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    Moody, Jeana S.
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    This study looks at how gendered language circulates affect in order to coerce gender binary conformity. I analyze the ways gendered phrases like “sit like a lady”, “don’t be a bitch”, and “man up” communicate binary gender expectations within a U.S. context, and what they have to do with larger...
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    . Language is similarly performative like gender, meaning that it “function[s] to perform actions rather

  • Whisper Like Lovers: (Re)membering Story as Soul Retrieval, Susurrar Como Amantes: (Re)cordando Narraciones Como Recuperación del Alma

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    Fertig, Mateo Rosales
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    In their master’s thesis, Mateo Rosales Fertig offers the framework of a Curanderismx soul retrieval ceremony as a method of grappling with queerness and multiraciality in anti-colonial border and Chicanx contexts. From the legacies of Chicana, women of color, and QTPOC feminisms, they write out of the works and theories...
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    Castillo, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and Deborah Miranda, among others. Utilizing multiple methods of