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Collateral: Poems, Joshua Jon Robbins
Collateral: Poems, Joshua Jon Robbins
Doctoral Dissertations
In the lyric tradition of Gerard Manley Hopkins’ Terrible Sonnets and James Wright’s odes to the Midwest, the poems in Collateral interrogate the complexities of faith and doubt in middle-class America and present a witness compelled to translate suburbia’s landscapes and evangelical banalities into a testimony of hard truths. These poems explore the emotional exhaustion that accompanies language’s broken connection to ideal meaning and how both are unable to fully correspond to our lives. The manuscript is also an exploration of my own corresponding lyric struggle to reconcile what is and what should be, the personal and the political …
The Genius Of A Crow: Poems, Michael Jon Levan Jr.
The Genius Of A Crow: Poems, Michael Jon Levan Jr.
Doctoral Dissertations
Every age has its troubles, and ours is no different. Military conflict, economic uncertainty, environmental threats, and other serious global concerns shape how many of us greet every new day. These issues, however, are unacknowledged in a growing segment of contemporary American poetry. Too often, some poets neglect what is outside them and instead turn to producing work that is so focused on the poet’s interior life that no one besides the poet him- or herself can possibly enter. But contemporary American poets can find an important influence in postwar Eastern European poets who have risen from one of the …
Talk Me Down: A Selection Of Short Stories, Katie Elyce Freeman
Talk Me Down: A Selection Of Short Stories, Katie Elyce Freeman
Masters Theses
In Talk Me Down, Katie Elyce Freeman offers a selection of short stories that follows young characters in their pursuit for self-satisfaction. At times her characters are uncertain of their talents, at times wracked with guilt over immature mistakes; but their highly detailed, sensory worlds often deliver a needed coincidence, a sliver of light to lead their way.
Walking With The Wampus, Abigail Grace Griffith
Walking With The Wampus, Abigail Grace Griffith
Masters Theses
In Walking with the Wampus, Abigail (Abby) Griffith offers a collection of short stories that toe the slippery stream that runs between the shores of the fantastic and the mundane. Challenging preconceptions of what might be traditionally defined as “literary fiction,” Griffith’s stories are three parts surrealism to two parts metafiction. Fairy tales that come equipped with teeth and a twist, this collection introduces readers to a ragtag variety of characters, including: a girl who turns everything she touches to ice and the Devil who loves her, a kid cursed with a mother who just might be a goldfish, a …
Life Knots, Meghan Melissa Mcdonald
Life Knots, Meghan Melissa Mcdonald
Masters Theses
This collection of creative nonfiction essays is framed by M.M. Bakhtin’s concept of the chronotope, the concrete juncture of time and space. Chronotopes include technical relationships between those elements, as well as worldviews. Each essay examines a different thing or place as a chronotope, including maps, a well house, boxes, a dining room, periodical cicadas, and a sand dollar. All of the essays, however, share themes, including the search for unity (and for what actually constitutes unity), relationships between ways of knowing, and relationships between the personal, spiritual, environmental, and cultural. The essays span genres, from the personal and academically …
The Rainbow Connection: Theorizing The Efficacy Of Private Texts, Liz Rohan
The Rainbow Connection: Theorizing The Efficacy Of Private Texts, Liz Rohan
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
Texts written privately often find new contexts, new uses, if writers become mindful of Bakhtin’s notion of “great time.”
Gatekept: Inviting Creative Community Literacy, Shelly Sanders, B. Cole Bennett
Gatekept: Inviting Creative Community Literacy, Shelly Sanders, B. Cole Bennett
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
Creative writing becomes a vehicle for community outreach in a Writing Center setting, bringing together town and gown.
The Communally Focused Writing Center, Tom Truesdell
The Communally Focused Writing Center, Tom Truesdell
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
Can writing center administrators prepare student tutors to help transform faculty-student relations? Should they?
Connecting, Helen Walker, Carl Vandermeulen, Louise Morgan, Jill Moyer Sunday, Tony Mayo
Connecting, Helen Walker, Carl Vandermeulen, Louise Morgan, Jill Moyer Sunday, Tony Mayo
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
Connecting
Helen Walker - Trust, and Gaps
Carl Vandermeulen - Proverbs for Poetry Class
Louise Morgan - TJ, Whom I Like Very Much
Jill Moyer Sunday - History Lesson 101
Tony Mayo - Shawn
Queers, Cupid’S Arrow, And Contradictions In The Classroom: An Activity Theory Analysis, Heather Trahan
Queers, Cupid’S Arrow, And Contradictions In The Classroom: An Activity Theory Analysis, Heather Trahan
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
“Third generation” activity theory can help instructors support and also deal with gay romance in the classroom.
Renovating My Academic Administration, Elizabeth Vander Lei
Renovating My Academic Administration, Elizabeth Vander Lei
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
A department chair dons a hard hat and begins to see her position through the lens of spiritual rebirth and figured worlds—as a portrait of Calvin looks on.
Reflections On Accidental Testimonies And Spectacular Witnesses, Lavinia Hirsu
Reflections On Accidental Testimonies And Spectacular Witnesses, Lavinia Hirsu
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
When unplanned-for testimonies occur in class, how do instructors turn a disruptive moment into a teachable one?
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Writing Yogis: Breathing Our Way To Mindfulness And Balance In Embodied Writing Pedagogy, Christy I. Wenger
Writing Yogis: Breathing Our Way To Mindfulness And Balance In Embodied Writing Pedagogy, Christy I. Wenger
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
Breathing exercises constitute a method for helping students to attain a state of mindfulness in their writing—and their lives.
Book Reviews, Judy Halden-Sullivan, Lauren Dipaula, William Archibald, Noam Scheindlin, Martin Cockroft
Book Reviews, Judy Halden-Sullivan, Lauren Dipaula, William Archibald, Noam Scheindlin, Martin Cockroft
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
Book Reviews
Judy Halden-Sullivan - Paradigm Shifts
Lauren DiPaula - Price, Margaret. Mad At School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2011.
William Archibald - Thomas, Douglas and John Seely Brown. A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change. Charleston, SC: CreateSpace, 2011.
Noam Scheindlin - Vandermeulen, Carl. Negotiating the Personal in Creative Writing. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 2011.
Martin Cockroft - Wilhelm, Jeffrey D. and Bruce Novak. Teaching Literacy for Love and Wisdom: Being the Book and Being the Change. NY: Teachers College Press, 2011.
Outside The Box And Onto A Dusty Trail, Richard Leo Enos
Outside The Box And Onto A Dusty Trail, Richard Leo Enos
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
Archeological exploration has redefined research since this scholar became the Indiana Jones of rhetorical studies.
Even Administrators Have Souls, Paul Puccio
Even Administrators Have Souls, Paul Puccio
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
Faculty have a critical role to play if they want administrators to be more than unilateral decision-makers.
Jaepl, Vol. 18, Winter 2012-2013, Joonna Smitherman Trapp, Brad Peters
Jaepl, Vol. 18, Winter 2012-2013, Joonna Smitherman Trapp, Brad Peters
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
Essays
Douglas Hesse - Writing and Time, Time and the Essay
Liz Rohan - The Rainbow Connection: Theorizing the Efficacy of Private Texts
Christy I. Wenger - Writing Yogis: Breathing Our Way to Mindfulness and Balance in Embodied Writing Pedagogy
Lavinia Hirsu - Reflections on Accidental Testimonies and Spectacular Witnesses
Heather Trahan - Queers, Cupid's Arrow, and Contradictions in the Classroom: An Activity Theory Analysis
Shelly Sanders & B. Cole Bennett - Gatekept: Inviting Creative Community Literacy
Out of the Box
Richard Leo Enos - Outside the Box and onto a Dusty Trail
SPECIAL SECTION: Administration, Ethics, and Spirituality
Paul …
Telling The Truth As Wpa, Beth Daniell
Telling The Truth As Wpa, Beth Daniell
The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
After reflecting upon students, a writing program administrator looks hard at two other challenging situations and questions the truthfulness of her approaches to each.