English: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
The Hungry
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)This thesis is the first one hundred and thirty-five pages of a fiction novel entitled The Hungry. The novel employs a braided narrative structure that moves back and forth between a vampire’s history living in France and ... -
Migration of Text and Shift of Identity: Self-Translation in the Bilingual Works of Lin Yutang, Eileen Chang, and Ha Jin
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)This dissertation contends that self-translating authors, who translate their own works into other languages, serve as a locus through which to study the migrations and intersections of literature, language, culture, and ... -
Black Literary Suite: Reclaiming the Black Body: Women Writing Women
(University of Kansas, 2018-03-01)Acknowledging the primacy of physical violence against the female black body, “Reclaiming the Black Body” seeks to open up a new conversation through works that tells us a different story about agency and self-ownership, ... -
Mentorship at the HBCU: An Alternative Approach to Critical Pedagogy
(University of Kansas, 2017-08-31)Critical pedagogues across a multitude of disciplines continually search for effective pedagogical tools and practices that can efficiently create a student-centered empowering critical classroom. In the decades since its ... -
Rewriting the Formula: Exploring Student Engagement and Meta-Awareness in the “New Literacies Narrative”
(University of Kansas, 2016-12-31)This study examines students’ engagement and meta-awareness of literacy in a modified literacy narrative assignment, the New Literacies Narrative. The traditional literacy narrative (a short autobiographical essay describing ... -
Reading Romanticism: Keats, Embodied Cognition, and the Work of Affect
(University of Kansas, 2016-12-31)My dissertation argues that Romantic writers conceived of reading as an embodied social practice, understanding literary affect as a physiological connection between writer and reader. These writers turned the phenomenon ... -
Re-Placing the Prostitute: Ruth Hall and the Spatial Politics of the Streetwalker
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)In Fanny Fern’s 1854 Ruth Hall, the eponymous heroine encounters an opulently maintained brothel immediately after moving in to a third-rate boardinghouse in the slums. Rather than treating this as a marginal incident in ... -
We Too
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)A collection of poetry which explores the notions of global climate change, gay sex, and class war as speculative nightmarescapes of varying degrees of reality. The formal breadth stretches from metered quatrains to ... -
Writing and reading the individual : the development of personal narrative in the works of Defoe, Richardson, and Boswell
(University of Kansas, 1999)By specifically focusing upon the works of Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, and James Boswell, this study describes stylistic and content shifts that occur within narrative writing during the eighteenth century. A close ...
