Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
Portland State University
California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo
University of North Georgia
James Madison University
University of Dayton
St. John Fisher University
California State University - San Bernardino
Illinois Wesleyan University
Bridgewater State University
Digital Waves: Communicating Feminist Movements,
2023
Cape Breton Universty
Digital Waves: Communicating Feminist Movements, Shauna M. Macdonald
Feminist Pedagogy
Online learning provides opportunities for pedagogical growth and innovation. When tasked with teaching an undergraduate Gender and Communication class during a virtual semester (amid the COVID-19 pandemic), I sought ways to engage students through online technologies rather than working against or despite them. The Digital Waves (DW) assignment, one that asks students to research and then create digital representations of a particular “wave” of feminism, was one of several strategies I adopted; it quickly evolved into a favorite.
Recovering A Missional Ecclesiology: A Framework For Reviving Congregational Mission Within The Baptist Union Of Victoria,
2023
Abilene Christian University
Recovering A Missional Ecclesiology: A Framework For Reviving Congregational Mission Within The Baptist Union Of Victoria, Gayle Hill
Doctor of Ministry Theses
ABSTRACT This project is an intervention to develop a theological and theoretical framework
that will become the foundation for a future curriculum for recovering a missional ecclesiology for the pastors of the Baptist Union of Victoria (BUV). Despite mission being central to the overall vision of the BUV, declining numbers, the post-COVID context in Victoria, and an overarching post-Christian and pluralistic context have significantly challenged the centrality and functioning of mission across our denomination. The impetus of this project was the observation that our churches were floundering rather than flourishing in the missional space. Many chronic and acute provocations were …
Bruce Maddy-Weitzman, Amazigh Politics In The Wake Of The Arab Spring,
2023
Reed College, USA
Bruce Maddy-Weitzman, Amazigh Politics In The Wake Of The Arab Spring, Paul A. Silverstein
Journal of Amazigh Studies
N/A
Rhetorical Privilege: Entitlement, Control, And The Disruption Of Shared Discourse,
2023
Duquesne University
Rhetorical Privilege: Entitlement, Control, And The Disruption Of Shared Discourse, Marc Grandillo
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This project seeks to explore a concept that I call rhetorical privilege, an occurrence that develops within a particular population of individuals who exhibit an elevated sense of self, demanding exclusive accommodation or recognition for unearned accomplishment. Commonly known as entitlement, this mentality is often associated with younger generations that have been raised in an environment that engenders an attitude of control. Equipped with the misguided notion that all aspects of their lives may be personally determined, individuals carry this same assumption into communicative encounters. My contention is that the contemporary rhetorical speaker-audience relationship, understood to be built upon “a …
Failure Facing Pedagogy In First-Year Rhetoric And Composition Classrooms,
2023
Chapman University
Failure Facing Pedagogy In First-Year Rhetoric And Composition Classrooms, Karuna Minh Hin
English (MA) Theses
Failure in academia is commonly defined as not succeeding, missing the mark, or receiving a “below average grade or score” (Inoue 333). However, this perception of failure works to instill a fear in students that may last through their academic journey. Throughout a student’s academic journey, they are taught to operate within the binary of success and failure. “According to self-worth theory, in school, where one’s worth is largely measured by one’s ability to achieve, self-perceptions of incompetence can trigger feelings of shame and humiliation" (De Castella, Byrne and Covington 862). Teachers have attempted to address this problem throughout first-year …
Making The Political Personal: Consciousness Raising For The Contemporary Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist,
2023
Murray State University
Making The Political Personal: Consciousness Raising For The Contemporary Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist, Danica Fuerst
Honors College Theses
Consciousness raising (CR) typically refers to the specific small group practice pioneered by second-wave feminists, but as networked media gradually replaced the small group process, new forms that are descended from the original CR emerged. This thesis traces consciousness raising from it's origins in the late 1960s and early '70s, through third-wave feminism, to contemporary feminist uses. It analyzes the rhetorical effects and functions of CR from the perspective of Symbolic Convergence theory, considering the various media through which CR is practiced. Finally, using the understanding of CR and its functions that this provides, it analyzes how one specific contemporary …
Humanization Of The Refugee As The Modern Subject In Mohsin Hamid’S Exit West,
2023
Chapman University
Humanization Of The Refugee As The Modern Subject In Mohsin Hamid’S Exit West, Ani Gazazyan
English (MA) Theses
This thesis discusses the central concern of the global refugee crisis through the fictional novel Exit West by Mohsin Hamid. The novel tells the story of two protagonists who are portrayed as the modern subject that Hamid comes to humanize, which reflects on current society’s representation of the refugee as dehumanized or “the Other.” Hamid takes his readers on a journey that represents his characters as normal everyday humans that are forced into the process of refugeehood and displacement. Throughout this thesis, I discuss what makes the novel so unique in representing the modern-day refugee. In the first section titled …
Tell Me The Old, Old Story: An Educational Curriculum For Junior Week At Christian Youth Encampment,
2023
Abilene Christian University
Tell Me The Old, Old Story: An Educational Curriculum For Junior Week At Christian Youth Encampment, Justin L. Simmons
Doctor of Ministry Theses
The purpose of this project was to create a curriculum framework for the Junior Week of camp at Christian Youth Encampment (CYE) in DeRidder, LA. The initial step in this project was to develop information on the ministerial context of CYE by investigating its history and interviewing those who have experienced camp both as campers and staff. Next, an examination of theological and theoretical foundations was made, considering the history of narrative in the instruction of children both for Israel and the church. Also, the concept and practices of narrative and its usefulness as a pedagogical tool were explored. Using …
Falling Into The Rhetorical Black Hole: Navigating Language, Terms, And Rhetoricity In Madness And Disability,
2023
Utah State University
Falling Into The Rhetorical Black Hole: Navigating Language, Terms, And Rhetoricity In Madness And Disability, Taylor Wyatt
All Graduate Plan B and other Reports
Language enables communities to develop meaning and interpretations of words. Language practices and meanings can change through and with discourse among communities. This rhetorical thesis expands on Catherine Prendergast’s theory of the rhetorical black hole — a phenomenon where folks can find themselves without the means to operate rhetorically, as some audiences are unwilling to engage. I argue the rhetorical black hole is not a binary, and I call for further considerations of intersectionality in understanding the impacts of the rhetorical black hole. James A. Berlin’s New Rhetoric is used to demonstrate the meaning making power of terms and language …
The (Ir)Reverent Social Roles Of Religion In The Work Of James And Wharton,
2023
College of the Holy Cross
The (Ir)Reverent Social Roles Of Religion In The Work Of James And Wharton, Jannette Kazlauskas
The Criterion
No abstract provided.
What Is The Right Feeling? Keat's Poetic Representations Of Agentive Femininity,
2023
College of the Holy Cross
What Is The Right Feeling? Keat's Poetic Representations Of Agentive Femininity, Brendan Bonner
The Criterion
No abstract provided.
The Criterion,
2023
College of the Holy Cross
Bawdy Works: Vulgar Humor And Bodily Autonomy In Austen's "Mansfield Park" And Fielding's "The History Of Tom Jones",
2023
College of the Holy Cross
Bawdy Works: Vulgar Humor And Bodily Autonomy In Austen's "Mansfield Park" And Fielding's "The History Of Tom Jones", Sloane Larsen
The Criterion
No abstract provided.
The Gendered Shackles Of Clarissa Dalloway And Septimus Warren Smith,
2023
College of the Holy Cross
The Gendered Shackles Of Clarissa Dalloway And Septimus Warren Smith, Abigail Coburn
The Criterion
No abstract provided.
Tension In The Eye: Milton And Surveillance,
2023
College of the Holy Cross
Tension In The Eye: Milton And Surveillance, Joseph Abrams
The Criterion
No abstract provided.
Heurodis's Body: Reading "Sir Orfeo" With Three Significant Losses,
2023
College of the Holy Cross
Heurodis's Body: Reading "Sir Orfeo" With Three Significant Losses, Grace J. Bromage
The Criterion
No abstract provided.
Fated By A Fallen World,
2023
College of the Holy Cross
Ownership Is Power,
2023
College of the Holy Cross
The Exile Enigma And The Cycle Of Haunting,
2023
College of the Holy Cross
The Exile Enigma And The Cycle Of Haunting, Caroline Boardman
The Criterion
No abstract provided.
Awareness In Thomas Hardy's "The Darkling Thrush",
2023
College of the Holy Cross
Awareness In Thomas Hardy's "The Darkling Thrush", Caroline Coffey
The Criterion
No abstract provided.
