Title | Date | Views | Brief Description |
Composing Passionate Selves: Using Service-learning to Move Students from a Place of Conflict to a Place of Resolution |
2007 |
2157 |
While the civic side of service-learning is easily recognizable, the academic portion of service-learning remains somewhat unclear; however, we do know that service-learning can effectively facilitate the acquisition of knowledge. But the big questio... |
Keepin' It Real: The Black Male's (Dis) Ability to Achieve in Higher Education |
2007 |
6510 |
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the absence of disadvantaged black males in higher education and reduce their increasing presence in prison, the historical and cultural factors that contribute to that absence, as well as research that ... |
Decentering the Racial Paradigm: A Literary Analysis of the "Stubb's Supper" Chapter in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick |
2008 |
6351 |
This purpose of this thesis is to examine the way in which Herman Melville utilizes the minstrel stereotype not as tool subjugation, but as a means of empowerment and marker of identity in the "Stubb's Supper" chapter of Moby-Dick. By first contextua... |
Faith in the composition class : a pragmatic approach to common ground |
2007 |
2526 |
"In recent years, composition classes in universities across the country have focused more and more on social and political issues like race, class, and gender. At its base, this dissertation argues that religious belief should receive such a focus a... |
Actions in the affirmative : pragmatism, pedagogy, law, and the affirmative action debate |
2007 |
210 |
"With this project, I would like to reconstruct pragmatism as a valid way of looking at legal problems and of solving them, in particular, the current legal debate over race-conscious admissions policies at state universities. Throughout this project... |
Embracing the Took : kinship between Middle Earth and Sixties youth |
2007 |
2172 |
"The purpose of this thesis is to quash the reading of J.R.R. Tolkien's works as allegory, especially as allegory for the events of the turbulent 1960s, i.e. the Vietnam War, 1967's Summer of Love, the women's liberation movement, etc. By addressing ... |
The feminine erotic ; and Gen(d)re bending: ambiguity and sexual androgyny in Virginia Woolf's Orlando |
2009 |
14925 |
For this paper I propose an experimental application of Hélène Cixous's theory of écriture féminine to the erotic works of Anaïs Nin, particularly the erotic short stories written in the 1940s that are now found in her books Little Birds and Delta of... |
The souls of good folk: prophetic pragmatism as a pedagogy of humanity in the composition classroom |
2010 |
3259 |
This dissertation pinpoints empathy deficit as a major social issue in the United States and it argues that schools could help address this root problem by offering humanity training. As an example of how humanity training could be implemented in hig... |
(An)Other Way: Pragmatic Empathy as Response to Discursive Conflict |
2010 |
6199 |
This dissertation argues that pragmatic empathy, which is defined as the phase of communicative interaction where speakers respond as (an)other to common concerns, best articulates successful discursive encounters across cultural, political, and soci... |
From the Sticks: An Examination of Rural, Southern Literacies Within and Without the University |
2010 |
5672 |
This dissertation examines rural, Southern culture's strained relationship with academia, specifically as it relates to the composition classroom, which is the place where students are formally introduced to academic discourse and standard, "public" ... |
Towards consequence and collaboration in composition studies: theorizing collaboration after the social turn |
2011 |
3890 |
This dissertation argues that theories of collaboration in rhetoric and composition studies have for too long relied on social constructionist epistemology to explain what collaboration is and how it works, resulting in a widespread, if not tacit rel... |
Women's rhetoric(s) as a method for feminist pedagogy in composition studies |
2011 |
3463 |
In recent years, feminist pedagogy has shifted from a central position in composition to the margins of the discipline. This dissertation will argue that women's rhetoric in its scope and diversity presents methods of resolving what has become a tens... |
Hybridizing political criticism in the postcolonial African novel: magical realism as aesthetics of necessity |
2012 |
20055 |
This dissertation examines the use of magical realism as a device for political criticism in the postcolonial African novel as seen in the works of of Kojo B. Laing, Ben Okri, and Ngugi wa Thiong'o, namely Woman of the Aeroplanes, The Famished Road, ... |
Bodies of executive citizenship: embodied rhetorical performances of the presidency from Reagan to Obama |
2012 |
2478 |
This dissertation contributes to the recent resurgence of scholarship devoted to the American presidency by arguing that the role of the presidential body works as a singularly significant crucial point for notions of citizenship and national identit... |
Expanding the metaphor: a pragmatic application of hospitality theory to the field of writing studies |
2013 |
3754 |
This dissertation examines the relationship between hospitality theory and Writing Studies. Contemporary Writing Studies scholarship approaches hospitality through a traditional lens viewing it separately as either theory, practice or pedagogy for th... |
Let's just steal the rockets: 1970s feminist science fiction as radical rhetorical revisioning |
2014 |
3439 |
Feminist utopian writings from the 1970s included a clearly defined rhetorical purpose: to undermine the assumption of hidden male privilege in language and society. The creative conversation defining this rhetorical purpose gives evidence of a commu... |
Finding the feminist poetics of Anne Sexton AND The arrow, the sty, the spur and the blessing: desire in the poetry of W. B. Yeats. |
2014 |
11656 |
Anne Sexton described herself in a letter as "the woman of poems, the woman of the kitchen, the woman of the private (but published) hungers." I argue that because she wrote about taboo subjects and improper appetites she expanded the collective cons... |
Art and the Aesthetic of Graphic Novels as Seen in "The Picture of Dorian Gray" |
2014 |
5041 |
Oscar’s views about Art for Art’s Sake were the primary focus of “The Decay of Lying: A Dialogue,” and "The Picture of Dorian Gray." Wilde believed that good art, real art, is a “lie”—it should not be a reflection of life, but rather influence life.... |
Essentialism matters: silence, fear and the feminist dilemma |
2014 |
2810 |
The project of my dissertation is to define the problem of "Woman" in this contemporary moment, to examine responses to it from popular culture and academic feminist positions and finally to suggest methods for mediating those responses in order to g... |
“Commingled souvenirs and prophecies”: the hybrid reality of Stevens’s Aesthetic Ecology of Mind |
2015 |
1088 |
Combining close readings that highlight structural techniques Wallace Stevens uses to lead readers to see the world through his imagination with historical/biographical information and scholarship that provides context for their production, publicati... |
The breastfeeding woman? who are breastfeeding books really for? |
2015 |
739 |
Breastfeeding education takes place in a variety of venues. Through books, workshops, classes, one-on-one discussions, and websites, women are told why and how to breastfeed. One of the most long-standing and slow-changing areas of education is books... |
Challenging mis-education through effective communication: a study of the communication and miscommunication between White teachers and Black male students |
2015 |
2274 |
The purpose of this study is to explore the ways in which communication patterns between teachers invested in whiteness and black male students can lead to the success or alienation of black male students in the public school environment. As statisti... |
A return to the reader and their imagination: the forming of a referential world in order to establish meaning in a text |
2015 |
1314 |
The goal of this text is to reassert the importance of the imagination and the reader in the process of reading. It is my experience that the reader and text interaction has come to be dismissed as being too prone to individuation. Such a mindset com... |
The N-Word Manifesto: Interpreting Mark Twain via an Inspiration ‘Made in Germany’ |
2015 |
4095 |
How often during one's lifetime might they find themselves laughing at just having heard the “Other” calling them, nigger? Nonetheless, in the fall of 2007, seven years ago to be exact, a most profound encounter inspired me as none other had. I was c... |
Conversations : computer mediated dialogue, multilogue, and learning |
1996 |
1008 |
The purpose of this dissertation is to argue in favor of a "pedagogy of textual conversation," a pedagogy made possible in large part by electronic technology, by computer mediated communication. Informing the argument is a deep philosophical commitm... |
The rhetoric of advocacy in American nature writing |
1996 |
260 |
In this study, I examine how nature writers invest the non-human world with language in an effort to empower nature, and how, in the process. they subvert the prevailing views of humanism and scientific rationalism. I am most interested in the role o... |
Reuniting word and deed : negotiation for real peacemaking and authentic classroom writing |
1995 |
641 |
The issue at stake in this dissertation is the relationship between word and deed. The problem it addresses is the way in which categories of discourse undermine that relationship. It argues that discourse taxonomies divide word from deed because the... |
The transforming classroom : pedagogy for today and the future |
1996 |
1252 |
The central concern of this dissertation is the search for pedagogical theory that is appropriate for teaching in the complex environment of the undergraduate college classroom. The problems it addresses include the struggle to gain and maintain stud... |
Cosmopolitan pedagogy: reading postcolonial literature in an age of globalization |
2010 |
9979 |
This project extends debates about cosmopolitanism to the classroom by defining a cosmopolitan pedagogy that fosters students' ethical engagement with difference. By reimagining cosmopolitanism in a pedagogical space, I build a counter-hegemonic cosm... |