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A Wedding of Jackals is a creative dissertation in poetry. It follows a queer speaker who, after the end of his marriage, tries and fails to restore a relationship with his estranged father. In evaluating and moving through these...
Until Henry Li moved into the house across the road, Rose Gillespie didn’t have any friends. Her main relationships were with her parents, therapists, teacher, and caregivers, and the great burden of her life is that though she has the...
A Season in Hell with Rimbaud forms an allegorical travelogue that chronicles two brothers' mutual descent into hell. When the older brother runs off by himself, the younger brother begins roaming Hell's different landscapes in search of...
Set in rural North Carolina, BEWILDERNESS explores the current opioid crisis and the link between addiction and trauma, specifically PTSD and sexual assault. Narrating the story is Irene, a part-time food server who pairs a cynical...
The title for this collection comes from the last essay and is a reference to Saul of Tarsus’s conversion in the New Testament. Though as the last essay will reveal, I have experienced more of a reverse conversion in regards to my faith...
Telling the Bees is a collection of poems that approaches grief, confession, tradition, and community from a queer perspective. It uses a tradition Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier describes in his 1858 poem of the same name in which...
Originally Nothing is a poetry collection that traces the intersection of immigrant experience, place, obsession, distance, loss, and avoidance through a balance of lyric, narrative, minimalist, and serial modes. The book’s core second...
The Plum Queen is a historical novel submitted as a creative dissertation in fiction. It traces a complex, lifelong friendship between two women: Phoebe Eberhardt, the heiress to an agricultural fortune, and Lenore Foster, the brilliant...
This novel follows T-Mark and a cast of contemporary train hoppers who congregate in Gainesville, Florida. From the beginning of the narrative, T-Mark is haunted by a fatal accident he witnesses, and one of the people killed by the train...
This study reconsiders power dynamics and authorial style through a study of the structure of interruptions. By considering this everyday occurrence as an aesthetic phenomenon, literary critics can more fully understand the relationships...
This dissertation explores how digital methods reveal ways in which soundscapes and landscapes function in William Wordsworth's complete poetical works, Lord Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, and Charlotte Smith's collected poetry. My...
This dissertation is a mixed methods study of race, language, and writing using the racial equity gaps in student success data as a starting point for the conversation that calls the fields of Rhetoric and Compositions, Literacy Studies, ...
This thesis aims to trace the evolution of cognitive writing research within the field of rhetoric and composition from approximately the 1960s to the contemporary moment. While the "cognitive turn" is widely recognized as an influential...
Since their formation in 1965, the Grateful Dead have consistently captivated audiences, both young and old, on such a large scale that the Dead fanbase have their own, unique label and subculture. Though scholarship on the Dead and the...
In order to survive the perpetual abuse and subjugation of a White supremacist patriarchy, Black women have historical operated within the ideological framework of Black Feminist Thought. The onset of colonial expansion, along with the...
In Metamorphoses, Ovid outlines the progression of human generations as being made first from clay, then blood, then stone. The humans made from clay represented a leftover unity between heaven and earth, which had only recently been...
SEARS Family Portrait of the Artist is a memoir that depicts the author's recovery from molestation that occurred approximately from his age 5 in 1987 until his age 8 in 1990 at the hands of a family friend. The author narrates from age...
Sure Thing is a collection of short stories set primarily in Southeastern Wisconsin, in the fictional suburb of Forest Hills, south of Milwaukee. The stories take place between 2008 and 2018 and document the daily lives of the people of...
The Book of Alice embodies the tension between a desire to re-center Black women in the narrative of creation and the Bible's history of oppression. There are several questions guiding this completion of this project: first, what...
The Deaner is the story of Dean Hauser, a metalhead who becomes a cult celebrity after starring in a mockumentary based on an amped-up version of himself—The Deaner. After two years of fame he's at wits end, spiraling out of control. On...
A Suit of Paper Feathers engages landscape, gender, and time through ecopoetic lyricism and site-specificity. Families create syncopated mythologies from the psychic offal of hyperobjects. Rural voices interrogate issues of work and land...
The Punished Woman Collects Her Body is a collection of poems that center the queer femme's experience, featuring a speaker who quests to reassemble her body after trauma and to discover the self through her senses and intellect with...
The following collection of poems represent the author's best attempts are writing and cultivating poems which continue the creative tradition of the "Seriously Funny" as defined in the anthology of the same name, edited by David Kirby...
The poems in the dissertation 81st Division explore British colonialism and its legacy in Nigeria. The dissertation adopts various European poetic styles as a way of acknowledging European influences in Nigeria while breaking the rules...
The King of Ketamine is a thesis made up of 41 poems, through which I explore such themes as the prison system, child neglect, alcoholism, body positivity, death, love, and an array of other emotions. There are three sections contained...
My 21st Century Big Budget Apocalypse is a collection of free verse poetry which derives influence from the Romantics and 19th Century French prose poets. The manuscript's centerpiece is a long-form narrative journey through a post...
I urge here for a reconceptualization of such female protagonists’ embodiments of the trope of strong black womanhood that shows the benefit of troubling these rigid narratives of inclusion which have underwritten and, to wit, regulated...
With the theme of leaving home to return home, my dissertation starts with my memory of being born like a stranger in the extended family and growing up as an only child in Wuhan, the hometown’s history and current struggle examined...
My thesis contains one novella and two short stories about only children in China. My novella is woven around a Chinese only child with needles in her head. Not long after Fang left home for college, she meets a doctor who finds out that...
This manuscript of poems is a wandering through the last ten years of my life, but stretches back into childhood as well. It wanders, because I have wandered, but as I did, it wanders with purpose. The poems roam from work to travel, ...
Eli Harpo's Adventure to the Afterlife is a coming-of-age novel inspired by heaven tourism books such as Heaven is for Real. Eli Harpo's claim to fame is his father's book—Heaven or Bust!—which tells the story of Eli's journey to heaven ...
“Mississippi, Missing, Miss” is a book-length manuscript of poetry. The poems are a confessional, coming-of-age response to a highly-particularized Southern landscape. They examine that landscape by confrontation of religious hegemony, ...
Nature has long been a container for the desires of humankind and the stories we tell about nature are stories that render it transparent and passive. In his book, We Are the Weather Jonathan Safran Foer’s examines how eating meat is...
Newark Pastoral is a collection of fictional short stories that center on the African-American inner-city experience. This collection encompasses a number of themes and subjects including identity, religion, community, sex trafficking, ...
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