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Reincarnations
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)Abstract to Reincarnations Reincarnations blends Confessional influences, ecopoetic and ecofeminist perspectives, and poetry of the occult. Through this unique mixture of theory, I have attempted to make a connection between ... -
Drawing the Lines: Indigenous American Ledger Drawings and the Decolonization of Rhetorical Knowledge Spaces
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)This project explores the transrhetorical conversations that take place between the material presences of ledger art across three discursive spaces. Ledger art is a visually-based narrative art form of expression that ... -
At the Corner of Policy and People: Engaging with the Transnational Activity System of Women’s Rights in Germany and Senegal
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)This project utilizes ethnographic research methods (interviews and participant observation) and generic activity system analysis to explore transnational women’s advocacy in two countries (Germany and Senegal). By ... -
Content, structure, and style in Thomas Carlyle’s Past and Present
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Provocative Eloquence: Theater, Violence, and Antislavery Speech in the Antebellum United States
(University of Michigan Press, 2019)In the mid-19th century, rhetoric surrounding slavery was permeated by violence. Slavery’s defenders often used brute force to suppress opponents, and even those abolitionists dedicated to pacifism drew upon visions of ... -
Review of Will Bishop, Pinstripe Nation: The New York Yankees in American Culture
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Native American Presence
(Cambridge University Press, 2018-11)In this contribution to the Hawthorne in Context volume, Laura Mielke considers the appearance of Native American characters and cultures across Hawthorne’s tales and novels. In particular, she traces how his use of ... -
Fall Ball at Lyons Park
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Interview with Elizabeth Schultz Focused on Her Teaching and Experiences at the University of Kansas (1967-2001) and Beyond
(Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, 2018-12)Dr. Elizabeth Schultz talks about her academic work, post-academic writings, and experiences both abroad and at the University of Kansas. Her stories of life studying and teaching topics like Melville, English, and history ... -
Continental Breakfast
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)A collection of poems investigating the impact of junk capitalism on identity, place, desire, and religion. -
Do You Feel This? The Story of a Voice Lost and Reclaimed
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)Do You Feel This? The Story of a Voice Lost and Reclaimed is a memoir about learning to navigate the chaotic landscape of disability, shame, sexuality, faith, family, identity, and finding one’s own voice. Following a ... -
Seven Anglo-Saxon Riddles and Other Stories
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)Seven Anglo-Saxon Riddles and Other Stories is a collection of original short fiction structured around a series of seven riddles. These riddles are loosely based on the Anglo-Saxon riddle tradition of early medieval ... -
Like Kansas
(University of Kansas, 2017-12-31)Like Kansas is a collection on confessional and performance poems. The poems consider the historical perceptions of black womanhood and the black female body. I discuss that history in connection with my current experiences, ... -
Language in the U.S. and the Law: A Corpus Analysis of the Language of Language Policy
(University of Kansas, 2017-12-31)The aim of this thesis is to study the textual positioning and portrayal of English and other languages in U.S. language policy and to see what implications that positioning and portrayal has for understanding possible ... -
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The Effects of Informal Training on Graduate Teaching Assistants’ Response Beliefs
(University of Kansas, 2017-12-31)As recent studies have shown (Ferris, 2014; Reid, Estrem, & Belcheir, 2012), formalized types of pedagogical instruction may be less effective on new instructors than previously thought. In new instructors continuing to ... -
90 Years Later: Bartolomeo Vanzetti's Letters Reconsidered
(University of Kansas, 2017-12-31)90 years after Sacco and Vanzetti’s infamous executions, it is time for a fresh look at their letters and a new edition of them. Although the most recent edition of Sacco’s and Vanzetti’s English letters, The Letters of ... -
Epigenetic emergence: reading for growth in Jane Eyre
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-12-21)The potential for an intervention by epigenetics into cultural theory and literary analysis has been a topic of recent inquiry from several directions. However, these approaches sometimes too easily align epigenetics with ... -
The Made Man and the "Minor" Novel: Erewhon, ANT, and Empire
(University of Indiana Press, 2017)Bruno Latour has identified the “great novel” as a site for revealing the complex nature of agency in the Anthropocene. As it traces cause and effect through numerous, interrelated events, the “great novel” reveals a vast ... -
Movement: Piece by Piece
(University of Kansas, 2017-08-31)Movement: Piece by Piece is a hybrid genre novella that weaves together historical fiction, free verse poetry, and epistolary narratives to provide a counter historical account to critical perspectives of The Great Migration ...
