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Queer Materiality: Freaks, Ghosts, and Madness in Victorian Culture and the Novels of Charlotte Brontë

Creator:: Kennedy, Tallon R.
Abstract:: This thesis offers a theory of queer materiality as a way of understanding the interconnectedness of freaks, ghosts, and madness in Victorian culture, and how these elements coalesce in Victorian literature to destabilize the knowable materiality of normative social structures and forms of embodiment, leading to the production of queer...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: approved: ______________________________________________________ Megan Ward This thesis

Mother Nature Branches Out: A Children’s Story Exploring Literacy Development and Social Change

Creator:: Ford, Erin E.
Abstract:: “Mother Nature Branches Out” is a children’s story that incorporates developmental concepts important for early literacy development as well as developing skills related to social change and environmental activism. Incorporating and teaching about climate change within the context of a children’s story helps to expand the lens through which children’s...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis
Full Text:: :_____________________________________________________ Megan Ward “Mother Nature Branches Out” is a children’s story that incorporates

Integrating Web2Quest technologies into multicultural education courses in Taiwan : a potential for globalization

Creator:: Lin, Limei Grace
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to investigate three research questions: (1) What are the attitudes and beliefs of the pre-service teachers and teacher educators regarding multicultural education, and how do the teacher educators prepare the pre-service teachers to meet the needs of diverse K-12 students in Taiwan? (2) To...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . Chris L. Ward, thank you for your investment in me both as a professor and as a research mentor. It is

Our “dead keep up the simple habits of the living”: Queer Digital Ephemerality in the Victorian Roman à Clef

Creator:: Snyder, Christin
Abstract:: Many queer scholars have made the turn away from orientations that treat Victorian queerness as either “lost” or “hidden.” Adding more complexity to literary theories which center practices of “revealing” queer artifacts, Sharon Marcus, for instance, argues queer encounters exist at the surfaces of Victorian literature. In addition, Anjali Arondekar’s...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: simple habits of the living”: Queer Digital Ephemerality in the Victorian Roman à Clef Abstract

Queering Ever After: Temporality, Magic, and Endings in Victorian Fairy Tales

Creator:: Damschen, Kalli M.
Abstract:: This thesis analyzes two Victorian fairy tales that feature queer endings, or endings that offer alternatives to the heteronormative fairy-tale tradition that idealizes heterosexual marriage and the biological family. In both George MacDonald’s The Wise Woman (1875) and E. Nesbit’s “The Island of the Nine Whirlpools” (1901), I argue that...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________ Megan Ward This thesis analyzes two Victorian fairy tales that feature queer endings, or

Technology in college classrooms : an action research examining the use of PowerPoint in ELL classrooms

Creator:: Zhang, Weiwei
Abstract:: This research looks at the use of PowerPoint as an instructional tool for teaching English language learners (ELL) who studied in a language program at a state university in the Pacific Northwest. The purpose of the research was to discover and to explore the perceptions of PowerPoint supported teaching and...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: : _______________________________________________________________ Chris L. Ward This research looks at the

"Pretty When You Cry": Feminine Melancholia in the Age of Social Media

Creator:: Hurwitz, Madeline
Abstract:: This thesis examines the internet phenomenon of the “Sad Girl,” a name given to young women who identify and present themselves as inherently melancholic people online. I position the internet community of the Sad Girl, which spans across three social media platforms, Tumblr, TikTok, and Instagram, within a larger history...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________ Megan Ward This thesis examines the internet phenomenon of the “Sad Girl,” a name given to young

Oregon’s secondary agricultural education teachers’ level of computer-based technology integration, perceptions of barriers to computer-based technology integration, and the relationship to learning styles

Creator:: Gardner, Reynold D.
Abstract:: The focus of this research was to examine the relationship between the Oregon secondary agricultural education teachers’ level of computer-based technology integration, perceptions of barriers to computer-based technology integration, and learning style preferences. Additionally the correlational analysis of the level of computer-based technology integration and the following demographic variables was...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: : Chris L. Ward The focus of this research was to examine the relationship between the Oregon

Our Moral Educators : Educational Debate and Representations of Teachers in the Mid-Century Victorian Novel

Creator:: Taylor, Corey
Abstract:: In this thesis, I read the teachers in four mid-century Victorian novels--Charles Dickens' David Copperfield (1850) and Hard Times (1854), Thomas Hughes' Tom Brown’s Schooldays (1857) and Charlotte Brontё's Villette (1853)-- within the context of mid-century English educational debate in an effort to explicate the ways in which these characters...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________ Megan Ward In this thesis, I read the teachers in four mid-century Victorian novels

"Its Own Sense of Verisimilitude" : The Lizzie Bennet Diaries As a Transhistorical Adaptation of the Semipublic

Creator:: Surface, Samara
Abstract:: The Lizzie Bennet Diaries is a multimodal adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, released from 2012-2013. As a media event, the show proved how effective transmedia storytelling can be, eventually winning an Emmy for Original Interactive Program. In creating an intensely immediate narrative world, the series adapted more than Jane Austen’s...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________ Megan Ward The Lizzie Bennet Diaries is a multimodal adaptation of Pride and Prejudice

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Queer Materiality: Freaks, Ghosts, and Madness in Victorian Culture and the Novels of Charlotte Brontë

Mother Nature Branches Out: A Children’s Story Exploring Literacy Development and Social Change

Integrating Web2Quest technologies into multicultural education courses in Taiwan : a potential for globalization

Our “dead keep up the simple habits of the living”: Queer Digital Ephemerality in the Victorian Roman à Clef

Queering Ever After: Temporality, Magic, and Endings in Victorian Fairy Tales

Technology in college classrooms : an action research examining the use of PowerPoint in ELL classrooms

"Pretty When You Cry": Feminine Melancholia in the Age of Social Media

Oregon’s secondary agricultural education teachers’ level of computer-based technology integration, perceptions of barriers to computer-based technology integration, and the relationship to learning styles

Our Moral Educators : Educational Debate and Representations of Teachers in the Mid-Century Victorian Novel

"Its Own Sense of Verisimilitude" : The Lizzie Bennet Diaries As a Transhistorical Adaptation of the Semipublic

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