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Policing the boundaries of whiteness : monsters made in the USA
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation explores institutionalized racism in American culture that signifies through the Reconstruction era Klansman, the folklore of the Night Doctor, and what I...
Science frictions : science, folklore, and "the future"
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Folklore and science, along with the subject of the future which has slowly over time worked its way into the discourses of both, have a long, complicated ...
Of the burning
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
vicar in a multicultural black church in the Bronx (2005-07). The original archival research consists primarily of work with Johnson's manuscripts for his books God's Trombones (1927) and The Book of American Negro Spirituals (1925), accessed...
The education of a gambler's daughter
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The Education of a Gambler's Daughter is a creative dissertation that tells the story of a daughter trying to make sense out of the chaos that resulted ...
"One foot on the other side" : suicideality in contemporary African diaspora fiction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
, which while largely a product of Western medicine, neoliberal discourses of self-reliance and Capitalist "self-care" branding, has certainly been circulating globally for a number of years now. Thus, I expected this dissertation to be a discussion...
On poetry : the emergence and function of meaning
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
these differences, poetry seems to universally function as a tool for developing complex thoughts and for communicating those thoughts to others. Section II examines the rise of modern American poetry as a case study for how poetry as a genre perpetuates itself...
Leavetakings
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation is a collection of lyric essays about northern sorrows and friendships. These are preceded by a Critical Introduction which offers a ...
Sifting the Feminine Bones: essays
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Sifting the Feminine Bones: Essays is a two-part project of critical analysis and creative nonfiction that examines how literary, cultural, and social constructions of femininity and the ways in which they influence our ...
Rites of leaving
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
The school of Stoic philosophy traces its roots back to 300 B.C.E and thrived until the 4th century C.E, when it fell into decline and was ultimately assimilated into other systems of philosophy. It experienced a limited ...
Refrain
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Refrain is set in 1950s Larissa, TX, where the disappearance of four local girls catapults the town into crisis, forcing them to confront their complicity and disregard for Native American life. Told from multiple points of view, including...
Book of apparitions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
War II, Cubrilovic has exiled himself to a small sleepy town in Bulgaria. There, recuperating from gunshot wounds in a hospital room while trying to write his autobiography (thus a double act of recovery), he is confronted by ghosts--haunted by women...
As many roast bones as you need
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] As Many Roast Bones As You Need is a creative dissertation that combines the examination of grief and our connection to animals found in ...