RSS 1.0English Language and Literature Electronic Theses and Dissertations (UMKC)
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The Lamb
(2024)The Lamb is a feature length screenplay about a teenage boy named Eddie Bluth who lives with his mother Janie Flores in a small Missouri town. He often visits his father Bobby Bluth who lives nearby and runs a small-time ... -
Content nausea
(2024)This hybrid collection of nonfiction essays and poems explores contemporary ways of being, neuroses, personal relationships, mental illness, and aims to pinpoint how these elements influence one another. I am interested ... -
And now for something completely different
(2024)This multi-genre thesis has been split into three parts. The first consists of nonfiction works that focus on moments in his life that had the biggest impact such as the birth of his two nieces. The second consists of at ... -
A normal interaction
(2024)A Normal Interaction is a hybrid collection of poetry and essays that grapple with themes of anxiety, consumption of the body, and relationships. Each section of this collection focuses on different kinds of relationships ... -
Tour of my bedside cabinet
(2024)This thesis, Tour of my Bedside Cabinet, is a collection of poems about the speaker’s relationship with religion, queer identities, and sex/BDSM. The collection is split into sections, each of which begin with a retelling ... -
Experiments
(2024)This master’s thesis is a speculative young adult novel that explores what you are willing to risk for success, for your tribe. I wrote Experiments to explore the lines between science and supernatural. To see how far one ... -
Joan de Mohun: a powerful courtier during the reign of Richard II
(2024)This dissertation examines English court culture and court politics through the life of Joan de Mohun (d. 1404). A member of the Burghershes, a socially aspirational family in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Joan ... -
The Nonstory and Other Stories
(2022)The following is a selection of my writing from 2018 to present. I consider the work I have completed during my years at UMKC to be a series of experiments in the short fiction form, and I believe that this thesis is a ... -
“It has already exposed you to some very impertinent remarks": Intertextual regulation of women from the early British novel to the twenty-first century screen
(2023)This interdisciplinary dissertation examines twenty-first century film adaptations of Jane Austen’s work as intertextual, intermedial products with roots in the early-British novel. Rather than being direct offspring of ... -
Beyond the Abyss: American Gaslight and Popular Literature
(2023)The mainstream feminist movement in the United States has struggled to include women of color and marginalized women. However, two constants emerge from the work of both white feminists and feminists of color: first, writing ... -
Forgive Me, Father, For I Have Sinned: The Dramatic Potency of Confession on the Early Modern English Shakespearean Stage
(2023)Though forcefully absent in its traditional practice by political and religious reformation, evidence of confession in early modern English drama remained and became representative of an exchange of power between dramatic ... -
Rubber Tummy
(2023)This hybrid collection of poems and essays explores hunger and desire through the lens of a ravenous woman. I wrote Rubber Tummy to grant women the freedom to talk about eating, sex, and indulgence outside the current ... -
Faculty Identity Development Through Story: A Narrative Study in a Higher Education Context
(2023)Many higher education faculty members are not trained to teach during their graduate study; thus, faculty development programs (FDPs) can provide systematic opportunity for teaching training. While FDPs are prevalent in ... -
Little Girl Gods
(2023)This master’s thesis, Little Girl Gods, is a collection of poems in three parts. The poems presented here aim to follow a speaker through young girlhood, adolescence, and early adulthood, where the speaker struggles with ... -
Mothers Making Meaning: An Exploration of Contemporary Ritual Practices Surrounding Childbirth
(2023)Many contemporary American women undergo one of the most intense identity shifts of their lives—becoming a mother—without prescribed ritual resources to navigate that transition. Lacking a common cultural script to follow, ... -
Sophomore
(2023)This is a collection of flash nonfiction, fiction and poetry. It is intended to speak to the “seconds” of life – the do-over-and-overs, the try-and-try-agains, the get-knocked-down-but-get-back-ups. It is intended to reflect ... -
Traumatic bodies and diasporic disaffection: a study of Iranian American literature in English
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2023)This study is an effort to name a condition that has been generally overlooked by most scholars in trauma theory. Trauma has been mainly defined as a specific bodily condition resulting from the infliction of intense and ... -
Fringes
(2023)This thesis is a collection of short stories that I have written throughout my time as a graduate student in the University of Missouri-Kansas City Master of Fine Arts program. These pieces were picked because, and I believe ... -
Poppy
(2023)Poppy has undergone numerous revisions which are reflected in the changes in title this work has experienced. Originally titled Sama Sam, meaning “I am alone” in Croatian, this script began as a story about a Croatian sheep ... -
Amazonian Vision: Representations of Women Artists in Victorian Fiction
(2023)This dissertation examines representations of women artists—writers, musicians, painters, and photographers—in nineteenth-century British novels and poetry written by Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George ...