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Digital literacies and WAC/WID
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
This thesis defines digital literacies for an audience of educators who want to integrate digital literacies into their existing curriculum. In this discussion, I examine how discipline-based faculty encourage and support ...
Racist elevator inspectors, consumer-driven zombies, and the sardonicism that mocks them both in Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist and Zone One
(University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2016)
Concluding paragraph: "In finality, addressing The Intuitionist and Zone One's ultimate goals rely on one motivating factor: progressive justice. Incorporating genre elements into sardonic dialogue about the current racial ...
Reconstructing gender, personal narrative, and performance at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
This ethnographic study examines the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, a thirty-two-year-old, week-long event that features women performers and relies on an all female staff who produce the event for an audience of women ...
Selling you on flexibility : toward a flexible framework for reflexive administration of writing centers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
, this dissertation provides a historical view of the MU Writing Center's early adoption of online asynchronous tutoring via their Online Writery application, as well as a collection and evaluation of the pedagogical responses to 2020's COVID-19 pandemic in relation...
Science frictions : science, folklore, and "the future"
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
that lives on in the present. (And one that might even prevail into the time to come). This work is not entirely that story. But it is a part of it, presented here as it is in the interest of opening new channels of discourse between two areas of research...
Ordination
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
of July. It explores the tension between identities ascribed and identities achieved, especially in the context of religion generally, a fundamentalist Baptist parsonage specifically, and situates the author's own conflict with questions of faith and doubt...
Philanthropic tourism and artistic authenticity : cultural empathy and the western consumption of Kyrgyz art
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
research in Kyrgyzstan and at the Santa Fe International Folk Art Market. I begin with the question: what happens to traditions and to the people who practice them when they are actively mediated and placed for sale outside of their culture? It is my...
Illustrated editions : depicting the eighteenth-century British novel
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
, recognizing collaborations that not only speak to the culture of the period but also show the possibility of uniting word and image in ways that can lead us to productive, critical encounters just as they did in their own time. Considering creative...
Thinking locally : provincialism and cosmopolitanism in American literature since the Great Depression
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
Thinking Locally produces an account of twentieth-century literary history that counters the literary-historical over-reliance on wars as framing events. Eschewing the standard break between pre-World War II and post-World ...
On marvellous things seen and heard
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
literatures that presume to speak, and not speak, of sounds and silences. Structured as a triptych (I. Critical Introductions, II. Creative Body, III. Critical Conclusions), three essays serve to frame the hybrid Galerie de Difformité at the collection's core...