Black Studies Program Awards 2016,
2016
Providence College
Acknowledgements And Call For Papers,
2016
Providence College
Strange Gospels,
2016
University of Mississippi. Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College
Strange Gospels, Emily R. Duhe
Honors Theses
This thesis is a collection of poetry and short stories dealing with different kinds and perspectives of strangeness, particularly with the concept of the Other.
Restraining Order,
2016
University of Mississippi. Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College
Restraining Order, Michael Martella
Honors Theses
This thesis is a collection of poetry and creative non-fiction that examines the intersection of place and environment with personal identity. Here are pieces written about sex, anxiety, beauty, death, masculinity, violence. But ultimately, this is a collection derived from and dependent on love.
Awakening,
2016
Syracuse University
The Plight Of The Angry Tweet,
2016
Syracuse University
Intertext 2016 — Complete Issue,
2016
Syracuse University
Forum Magazine, Fall 2016,
2016
University of Richmond
Forum Magazine, Summer 2016,
2016
University of Richmond
Moving Off The Education Conveyor Belt,
2016
Syracuse University
Moving Off The Education Conveyor Belt, Morgan Conover
Intertext
No abstract provided.
The Clock, Or Happiness Is Not Ready Made,
2016
Bridgewater State University
The Clock, Or Happiness Is Not Ready Made, Caitlin Westgate
Undergraduate Review
No abstract provided.
Ashley's Sister,
2016
University of South Carolina
Ashley's Sister, Christina Phillips
Theses and Dissertations
This nonfiction project is a memoir, constructed in sections, about my relationship with my sister with an intellectual disability.
Still Bridges,
2016
University of South Carolina
Still Bridges, Anna Barry
Theses and Dissertations
This memoir-in-essays tells the story of four generations of a family living in one place, Pittsburgh, as they navigate the rise, peak, collapse, and disappearance of the steel industry. In terms of the manuscript’s “situation,” the family must navigate the complex economic, ethnic, environmental, and social struggles that are inherit when living in a place for over one hundred years. The manuscript argues that family and place are so intimately connected that the two entities cannot be separated. Pittsburgh becomes part of the narrator’s family, a kind of gene that is embedded in all of its residents, and the family …
Slam Poetry: An Online Intervention For Treating Depression,
2016
University of Montana
Slam Poetry: An Online Intervention For Treating Depression, Spencer J. Ruchti, Mercedes Becker, Cara Mckee, Austin Herron, Alex Swalling
Undergraduate Theses, Professional Papers, and Capstone Artifacts
Given that depression is the “leading cause of disability worldwide,” and that less than 50% of people suffering from depression receive treatment, this study aims to provide support for a globally accessible depression treatment (WHO, 2012). The study conducted implemented an internet-based treatment for depression in which users were provided an opportunity to watch slam poetry videos related to mental health issues and write free responses regarding the content of the videos and their subjective experience of depression. Numerous studies provide support for the effectiveness of expressive writing, online mental health interventions, and slam poetry in particular for reducing symptoms …
"I Am Not Certain I Will / Keep This Word",
2016
Rhode Island College
"I Am Not Certain I Will / Keep This Word", Victoria Parker
Honors Projects
Contemporary American poet Louise Glück has published twelve books of poetry spanning almost fifty years from Firstborn in 1968 to Faithful and Virtuous Night in 2014, as well as one critically-acclaimed book of essays. Her work has received prestigious awards such as the Wallace Stevens Award (2008), the Pulitzer Prize (2003), and the Bollingen Prize (2001), and she was appointed the twelfth United States Poet Laureate in 2003. Glück’s poetry is often anthologized, as in the Vintage Contemporary American Book of Poetry and No More Masks: An Anthology of Twentieth Century American Women Poets, and taught in college classrooms. Despite …
The Call Of The Undertow,
2016
University of Akron
The Call Of The Undertow, Rebekah Bradford
Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects
Artist Statement
Prior to becoming a graphic design student, I was very interested in illustration. I wanted an opportunity to hone my illustration skills, focus on one consistent style of illustration, consistently draw the same characters, and practice writing. Creating a children’s book gave me the opportunity to do all of those things. And, after several semesters of work, it’s great to finally see The Call of the Undertow completed! I hope that you enjoy reading this story and looking at the images because I enjoyed creating it.
Traversing The East Coast In A Pair Of Converse,
2016
University of Akron
Traversing The East Coast In A Pair Of Converse, Laura A. Stall
Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects
They say the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. My journey began with a step in a pair of low-top pink Converse sneakers. In this creative nonfiction piece, I wrote about my journey through life through my shoes. In humorous and sometimes touching stories, I recount the people and events that I feel have shaped me to be who I am today, whether that is a good or bad thing. Every anecdote comes fresh with a pair of Converse sneakers. However, in the end, the story is not just about the shoes; it’s about the life …
Devising Performance & Queer Futurity,
2016
Brendan Leonard
Devising Performance & Queer Futurity, Brendan F. Leonard
Honors Theses
This project argues that devising performance is an inherently queer and utopian form. In response to recent political movements, such as Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter, which seek to stage dissatisfaction with the systems of late capitalism, I turn to devising performance as a site. Informed by the queer and performance theories of Jose Esteban Munoz, Lee Edelman, and Jill Dolan, I argue that devised theater allows us to process disillusionment, rehearse collectivity, and stage futurity. In conversation with Munoz, I define futurity as an imaginative site that considers what will follow what some scholars suggest will be …
The Appetizer And Other Poems,
2016
Claremont McKenna College
The Appetizer And Other Poems, Sam Blomberg
CMC Senior Theses
Thrust into a world of poetry, I’ve grown to embrace the poetic lens. Each topos, each trope, each rhyme, each cliché, each morning morning’s minion, each reduction to a state of almost savage torpor, each nightingale, each ode to an obscure, inanimate object, and every single Stella of the skies holds special significance hidden to the naked eye. Not insamuch as something undiscoverable upon ponderance. Rather, a way to contemplate the physical. The Ah, Sunflower! reaction. That is not to say that poets have a supernatural eyesight to certain beautiful images. My eyes do not see any more dandelion puffs …
Towards Romantic Syncretism: Liminal And Transitory Women In The Work Of Dante Gabriel Rossetti,
2016
Western University
Towards Romantic Syncretism: Liminal And Transitory Women In The Work Of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Michelle Bunton
2016 Undergraduate Awards
Throughout his career, Dante Gabriel Rossetti struggled with a poetic and visual synthesis of the ideal with the sensual, exploring and attempting to resolve the complex paradox of Victorian sexuality, a feat not easily achieved during an era of such fervent morality. Developing his own Romantic Syncretism, Rossetti presents a synthesis of multifaceted symbolism and allegory in his work, combining pagan and Christian themes to create a liminal space in which the divided natures of his female subjects, their object versus subject-hood, are unified. His approach to Christian symbology, via a fleshy and aesthetic representation of the female form, retains …
