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Beyond the trauma hero: the discourse of American war fiction from the Global War on Terror
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
The recent US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, the last major theatre of war for post 9/11 veterans, marks a turning point for the United States. This new period of relative warlessness allows the nation to reflect on ...
"This land is my land" : authority and landscape in American women's nonfiction, 1843-1903
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] "Thus, the arc of my dissertation—from a landscape that is local and familiar to one that is vast and often incomprehensible—suggests that women confront ...
Selling you on flexibility : toward a flexible framework for reflexive administration of writing centers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Training tutors has historically been and continues to be one of the most important, as well as the most labor- and time-intensive needs that directors of writing centers are called to address. As technological advancements ...
"An island of nymphs" : Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Victorian women's classical education
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
This dissertation seeks to frame Elizabeth Barrett Browning as one of the catalysts in favor of tertiary education for women in Victorian England. By examining her poems and activism relating to classical studies, as well ...
Fathoming
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 5/1/2024] Fathoming is a mixed-genre collection that uses personal essays, poems, and photographs to interrogate and meditate upon the concepts of home, responsibility to place, climate change and climate ...
Eighteenth-century sensibility and the subversive female body
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
Eighteenth-Century Sensibility and the Subversive Female Body argues that bodily actions of sensibility (i.e. feminized actions, such as trembling and fainting) were employed to subversive effect by women writers of the ...
A sociophonetic study of Cape Girardeau, Missouri English
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This paper explores speech patterns of participants from Cape Girardeau, MO. Cape Girardeau Missouri is located just south of St. Louis along the ...
Inner meaning almost expressed : a return to agency in T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land and Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
This essay focuses on both a response to a crisis of agency in the modern world. T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland and Virginia Woolf's Mrs.Dalloway explore the relationship between a fractured relationship to meaning-making and ...
Bury the key : a book of houses
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 5/1/2025] Bury the Key: A Book of Houses is a book-length work of creative nonfiction that engages with implicit cultural beliefs in houses as stable, somewhat permanent, and a clear boundary between the ...
"Futures possible": reading for realism in contemporary literary genre fiction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
This thesis reads three contemporary novels, Colson Whitehead's Zone One, Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice, and Lydia Millet's Mermaids in Paradise in relation to literary realism. What is so novel about this approach is ...
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 ...
The freedoms of B. Kumasi
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
I have long been concerned with what the United States of America owes its citizens. My mind is preoccupied with identifying gaps between the violent disparities endured by Black and marginalized communities and the rhetoric ...
Brain catalogue
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
Brain Catalogue is a creative dissertation that combines comics and nonfiction. Specifically, it deals with the type of nonfiction often called the essay. It is an experimental autobiography that is broken down across four ...
The Monstrous Ordinary : the erasure of the women of Weird Tales and the implications for monster theory
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 12/1/2024] My dissertation offers a new approach to monstrosity, called the Monstrous Ordinary, which articulates monstrosity not as something new, different, or aberrant, but originating from the normal, ...
The anxiety of authorship among women fantasy writers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
This thesis applies Gilbert's and Gubar's feminist theory evident in The Madwoman in the Attic to the male-dominated, gender biased fantasy genre that works to support and embolden evidence of an existing "anxiety of ...