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  • Climate-Change Infrastructure and the Volatilizing of American Regionalism

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    Malewitz, Raymond
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    This essay argues that changes in American energy infrastructure from carbon-based power plants to distributed, renewable energy networks precipitate changes in American literary regionalism. Examining recent regional fiction including Jay Tyrell’s Wind Army, Paolo Bacigalupi’s “The Tamarisk Hunter,” and Richard Powers’s The Echo Maker, I argue that stories of climate-change...
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    , 61(4), 715-730. doi:10.1353/mfs.2015.0050 10.1353/mfs.2015.0050 Johns Hopkins University Press

  • Roti and Doubles as Comfort Foods for the Trinidadian Diaspora in Canada, the United States, and Britain

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    Plaza, Dwaine
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    Using data collected from a non-random electronic survey of (N=116) Trinidadian origin men and women and data gleaned from a content analysis of roti shop websites on the Internet (n=80). This paper examines how the Trinidadian diaspora currently residing in places like New York, Toronto or London’s are influenced by...
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    -488. doi:10.1353/sor.2014.0021 10.1353/sor.2014.0021 Johns Hopkins University Press Version of

  • Schwarz-Bart, Levinas, and Post-Shoah–Postcolonial Gendered Ethics

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    Davison, Neil R.
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    This article examines the influence of Emmanuel Levinas’s philosophy on the ethical aspects of the life and work of André Schwarz-Bart. The essay is framed through recent re-interest in Schwarz-Bart’s collaborative works with his wife, Simone, as a bridge between Holocaust and postcolonial studies. The publications, arguments, and key points...
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    ), 767-795. Johns Hopkins University Press Version of Record http://cdss.library.oregonstate.edu/sa

  • Narrative Disruption as Animal Agency in Cormac McCarthy's The Crossing

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    Malewitz, Raymond
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    This paper asks whether animals can ever break out of anthropocentric value systems in literary narratives and, if so, what critical methods might be enlisted to reveal a literary animal’s independent agency. Examining the representation of a gray wolf in Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Crossing, it concludes that the animal’s...
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    ), 544-561. Johns Hopkins University Press Version of Record http://cdss.library.oregonstate.edu/sa

  • The Timing of the Research Question: First-Year Writing Faculty and Instruction Librarians‘ Differing Perspectives

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    Nutefall, Jennifer E. and Ryder, Phyllis Mentzell
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    Faculty and librarians agree on the qualities of a good research question. However, in an exploratory study, they differed on when students should develop their research question. While librarians stated that students should develop their question early, first-year writing faculty advocated for delaying the development of the research question. The...
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  • Beyond Peer-Reviewed Articles: Using Blogs to Enrich Students' Understanding of Scholarly Work

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    Deitering, Anne-Marie and Gronemyer, Kate
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    Undergraduate students are expected to find, evaluate and use peer-reviewed or scholarly literature, but they rarely learn about the process of creating new knowledge or the roles the literature plays in the work of scholars. A desired outcome of undergraduate education is the understanding that knowledge is created, evolving and...
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    –7. Academic Librarianship 28, 4 (July 2002): 202. 15. Gerald Graff, CT: Yale University Press

  • Rights Well: An authors' rights workshop for librarians

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    Wirth, Andrea A. and Chadwell, Faye A.
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    This article seeks to make a compelling case for authors’ rights training through emphasis on academic librarians’ dual roles as both authors and as liaisons to research and teaching faculty. Using the example of the Rights Well Workshop developed at Oregon State University Libraries, the article demonstrates the value of...
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    and the Academy, Vol. 10, No. 3 (2010), pp. 337–354. Copyright © 2010 by The Johns Hopkins University

  • Organizing for Digitization: a Survey

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    Boock, Michael and Vondracek, Ruth
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    How are academic libraries organizing themselves in order to engage in the content selection and digitization of local collections? Are libraries creating new positions or units, assigning responsibilities to existing departments, setting up cross-functional collaboration among existing departments, or using a combination of these strategies? Who holds responsibility for the...
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    State University Libraries 121 The Valley Library Corvallis, Or 97331-4501 michael.boock

  • Community Stories and Institutional Stewardship: Digital Curation’s Dual Roles of Story Creation and Resource Preservation

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    Kunda, Sue and Anderson-Wilk, Mark
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    Our institutions of record are facing a new digital knowledge management challenge: stakeholder communities are now expecting customized Web interfaces to institutional knowledge repositories, online environments where community members can contribute content and see themselves represented, as well as access archived resources. Digital curation can be used to address these...
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    Academy, Vol. 11, No. 4 (2011), pp. 895–914. Copyright © 2011 by The Johns Hopkins University Press

  • GDR Cinema as Commodity: Marketing DEFA Films since Unification

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    Heiduschke, Sebastian
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    For more than a decade, feature films produced by the GDR film company DEFA have been popular items in Germany. I analyze these films as commodities, arguing that this success by DEFA cinema needs to be read in conjunction with clever marketing strategies employed by the nonprofit foundation DEFA-Stiftung and...
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    Fisher and Brad Prager (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2010), 216–23; Martin Blum, “Remaking the