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Kemenik Natajsaj Qach’ob’oj Chirij le Xib’inel / Weaving to Remember Our Ghost Stories: A Queer and Trans Memoria Histórica of the Guatemalan Civil War

Creator:: López, Andrés C.
Abstract:: This dissertation is a memoria histórica of the Guatemalan Civil War that centers queer and trans Maya people in its imaginings. Using Maya backstrap weaving practices, “constellating” as defined by the Cultural Rhetorics Theory Lab, and ghost stories as a Maya-centered queer/trans rhetorical methodology, I argue for a shift from...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: put it. Gvgeyu. Thank you to my committee, Dr. Patti Duncan, Dr. Natchee Barnd, Dr. Ana Milena

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

Creator:: Saleh, Natalie K.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: you for your enthusiasm and encouragement. Thank you also to my thesis committee, Ana Milena Ribero

Translingual Science Communication: From Local Publications to the STEM Writing Classroom

Creator:: Werndli, Alexander J.
Abstract:: In order to assist WAC/WID practitioners and science writing faculty in incorporating translingual perspectives in disciplinary writing instruction, this study extends translingualism to language practice in the sciences by conducting a corpus study of Al-Awamia, a Moroccan agronomic journal. Mapping rhetorically significant changes across abstracts authored in English, French, and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: recognition: Dr. Ana Milena Ribero, Dr. Sarah Tinker Perrault, Dr. Vicki Tolar Burton, and Dr. Jacob Darwin

Feminized in Form, Non-Linear in Practice: Diaspora in Asian American Poetics

Creator:: Norris, Precious
Abstract:: Asian American poetry is often considered a subcategory of poetry centered on the poets’ backgrounds. However, this project engages with the complexity of Asian American identity and experience as they trickle down from the poets, to their works, to interpretations of their art. Thus, I contend that these poets’ engagement...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: my committee–Dr. Olson and Dr. Ribero–I am also thankful for your willingness to take on the extra

Toward More Intersectional, Coalitional Rhetoric: Working at the Intersections of Indigenous, Racial Justice, and Environmental Activism

Creator:: Metildi, Nicole
Abstract:: My thesis consists of two articles that address the ways in which rhetoric emerges from coalitions with unequal power dynamics within the environmental movement. The introduction provides context to help situate my articles within the current environmental movement. In my first article, “Constellating a More Intersectional, Coalitional Rhetoric: Lessons from...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I want to express my gratitude to my thesis committee members, Dr. Tim Jensen, Dr. Ana

Big, Black C%#K: Desire, Race and Masculinity

Creator:: Flenory, Emalydia
Abstract:: My thesis examines perceptions of power in relation to white and black masculinity in the United States. The introduction invokes the work of Mireille Miller-Young, Hortense Spillers, Vincent Woodard and Hiram Pérez as a foundation to ground my discussion of agency, consumption, desire, homoeroticism and the characteristics of the Mandingo,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: —Dr. Thompson, Dr. Ribero and Dr. Boovy—you all have supported my work and me as an individual in so

"Otherwise I hear riffs and drones": Sound and Decoloniality in Contemporary Latinx Poetics

Creator:: Diaz-Hui, Alexander
Abstract:: This thesis examines Latinx poetry in relation to the September 11th attacks and the reconfigurations of racial structures and the American empire that followed, most notably through the Department of Homeland Security and their agency Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). ICE politically characterizes immigrants as anti-American to perpetuate stereotypes against...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

James Baldwin's Pedagogy of Love: A Method for Transforming American Political Thinking and Pedagogy in the Academy

Creator:: Saleem, Ikhzaan
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: indispensable. To my committee member, Ana Ribero. Thank you for reading several drafts of my work and for

Curandera feminism : tracing the possibilities of healing institutional harm

Creator:: Buzo Tipton, Carina M.
Abstract:: This dissertation develops a framework for Curandera feminism, informed by familial healing practices, women of color feminisms, and institutional critique. My research centers my family’s generational Curandera practices. As I honor the call to be critical of the master’s tools, I seek possibilities for institutional change through Curandera feminism. Institutions...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: my entire committee: Dr. Qwo-Li Driskill, Dr. Ron Mize, and Dr. Ana Ribero, and Dr. Mehra Shirazi

When Water Follows the Path of Resistance: Implementing a Queer and Trans Pedagogy of Care and Love in My Composition Classroom

Creator:: Swets, Megan G.
Abstract:: This project blends personal narrative with scholarly work to recognize the interplay between these genre categorizations and to affirm the academic value of lived experience. Through this method, I play in the intersections of trans pedagogies, queer pedagogies, and pedagogies of love and care. By recounting how I blended these...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , Ana, Kristy, and Qwo-Li. Sarah, you pushed my thinking to new levels, made me realize that there is

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Kemenik Natajsaj Qach’ob’oj Chirij le Xib’inel / Weaving to Remember Our Ghost Stories: A Queer and Trans Memoria Histórica of the Guatemalan Civil War

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

Translingual Science Communication: From Local Publications to the STEM Writing Classroom

Feminized in Form, Non-Linear in Practice: Diaspora in Asian American Poetics

Toward More Intersectional, Coalitional Rhetoric: Working at the Intersections of Indigenous, Racial Justice, and Environmental Activism

Big, Black C%#K: Desire, Race and Masculinity

"Otherwise I hear riffs and drones": Sound and Decoloniality in Contemporary Latinx Poetics

James Baldwin's Pedagogy of Love: A Method for Transforming American Political Thinking and Pedagogy in the Academy

Curandera feminism : tracing the possibilities of healing institutional harm

When Water Follows the Path of Resistance: Implementing a Queer and Trans Pedagogy of Care and Love in My Composition Classroom

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