Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Discipline
-
- Arts and Humanities (70)
- Social and Behavioral Sciences (62)
- Comparative Literature (58)
- American Studies (54)
- Education (54)
-
- Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (53)
- Other Arts and Humanities (53)
- Reading and Language (52)
- European Languages and Societies (51)
- Film and Media Studies (49)
- Other Film and Media Studies (48)
- Rhetoric and Composition (48)
- Television (48)
- Theatre and Performance Studies (48)
- Library and Information Science (8)
- Engineering (7)
- Engineering Education (5)
- English Language and Literature (4)
- East Asian Languages and Societies (3)
- Modern Literature (3)
- Philosophy (3)
- Science and Mathematics Education (3)
- Teacher Education and Professional Development (3)
- American Literature (2)
- Curriculum and Instruction (2)
- Digital Humanities (2)
- History (2)
- Jewish Studies (2)
- Life Sciences (2)
- Medical Education (2)
- Keyword
-
- Comparative literature (23)
- comparative literature (23)
- Comparative cultural studies (9)
- Cultural studies (9)
- comparative cultural studies (9)
-
- cultural studies (9)
- Literary theory (8)
- literary theory (8)
- Ecocriticism (7)
- Feminist studies (6)
- Gender studies (6)
- feminist studies (6)
- Diasporic, exile, (im)migrant, and ethnic minority writing (5)
- Gender (5)
- diasporic, exile, (im)migrant, and ethnic minority writing (5)
- gender studies (5)
- Comparative humanities (4)
- Culture and technology (4)
- Electronic literature (4)
- New media and the study of literature and culture (4)
- Processes of cultural production (4)
- comparative humanities (4)
- culture and technology (4)
- new media and the study of literature and culture (4)
- processes of cultural production (4)
- Book history and culture (3)
- China (3)
- Comparison of primary texts across languages and cultures (3)
- Culture and sociology (3)
- Culture theory (3)
- Publication
-
- CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (67)
- Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-Based Learning (8)
- Against the Grain (7)
- First Opinions, Second Reactions (5)
- Education and Culture (4)
-
- Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research (J-PEER) (4)
- The Journal of Purdue Undergraduate Research (4)
- Writing Center Journal (3)
- Purdue Journal of Service-Learning and International Engagement (2)
- The Journal of Problem Solving (2)
- Artl@s Bulletin (1)
- Claritas: Journal of Dialogue and Culture (1)
- Global Business Languages (1)
- IMPACT Profile Directory (1)
- Journal of Aviation Technology and Engineering (1)
- Journal of Human Performance in Extreme Environments (1)
- School of Engineering Education Faculty Publications (1)
- The Purdue Historian (1)
Articles 31 - 60 of 114
Full-Text Articles in Entire DC Network
Ecocriticism And Persian And Greek Myths About The Origin Of Fire, Massih Zekavat
Ecocriticism And Persian And Greek Myths About The Origin Of Fire, Massih Zekavat
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In his article "Ecocriticism and Persian and Greek Myths about the Origin of Fire" Massih Zekavat argues that some contemporary ecological biases are rooted in ancient thought. Further, Zekavat argues that the study of mythology is relevant to the understanding of culture and ecology thus assisting ecocriticism. The investigation of man/woman, culture/nature, and human/nature binary oppositions conveys that Greek and Persian myths are mostly anthropocentric and androcentric. Zekavat postulates that one way to revise contemporary ecological conceptions is to study myths to shed light on the mind and context of their creators and believers, their representation of natural phenomena, and …
Situating A Badiouian Anthropocene In Hagiwara's Postnatural Poetry, Dean A. Brink
Situating A Badiouian Anthropocene In Hagiwara's Postnatural Poetry, Dean A. Brink
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In his article "Situating a Badiouian Anthropocene in Hagiwara's Postnatural Poetry" Dean A. Brink discusses the ecological dimension of the poetry of one of the founding voices in modern Japanese poetry, Sakutarō Hagiwara (1886-1942). Brink argues that Hagiwara developed a poetics characterized by engagements with nonhuman organisms and actants to situate the materiality of these actants in ways that diffuse the binary of "language" and "nature" and present a postnatural relationality that Bruno Latour describes. Drawing on the recent work of Alain Badiou, Brink explores materialist alternatives to representationalism—including the Lacanian triangle of the imaginary real and symbolic—by emphasizing human-nonhuman …
Wu's The Man With The Compound Eyes And The Worlding Of Environmental Literature, Shiuhhuah Serena Chou
Wu's The Man With The Compound Eyes And The Worlding Of Environmental Literature, Shiuhhuah Serena Chou
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In her article "Wu's The Man with the Compound Eyes and the Worlding of Environmental Literature" Shiuhhuah Serena Chou discusses Mingyi Wu's novel in the context of ecocriticism's transcultural turn. Chou presents an overview of the cultural milieu in which Wu rises onto the world literary scene and proceeds by examining the problematics and potentials of ecocritical studies' transnationalization. Chou argues that while Wu's desire to understand the local through the vocabulary of the global, his readership reveals a sense of ecocosmopolitanism. The globalized local or localized global in Wu's novel reveals a cosmopolitan sense of the world and the …
Ecocriticism And National Image In 舌尖上的中国 (A Bite Of China), Mingwen Xiao
Ecocriticism And National Image In 舌尖上的中国 (A Bite Of China), Mingwen Xiao
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In his article "Ecocriticism and National Image in 舌尖上的中国 (A Bite of China)" Mingwen Xiao examines the multi-faceted contents of the popular 2012 television series. Instead of exhibiting delicacies made by professional chefs in luxury restaurants, A Bite of China displays local food and dishes made by ordinary people. By focus on every-day food preparation, the show constructs a performance where class, ethnicity, gender, age, and other social markers are blurred and the geographically and ethnically diverse ways of food preparation and consumption appear as a cohesive Chinese culinary identity. Xiao argues that A Bite of China plays a role …
The Urgency Of Ecocriticism And European Scholarship, Simon C. Estok
The Urgency Of Ecocriticism And European Scholarship, Simon C. Estok
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In his article "The Urgency of Ecocriticism and European Scholarship" Simon C. Estok argues that there continues to be unduly disproportionate attention within ecocriticism on US-based scholarship and proportionally less on ecocriticism from other parts of the world. Estok focuses on European ecocritical work written in English and published by Rodopi in recent years and argues that this work attests both to the urgency and resolve of European ecocritics. Estok looks at some of the primary contributions of twelve books published within the past ten years by Rodopi in order to show the importance of bending our ecocritical ears, to …
Japanese Poetry And Nature In Borson's Short Journey Upriver Toward Ōishida, Shoshannah Ganz
Japanese Poetry And Nature In Borson's Short Journey Upriver Toward Ōishida, Shoshannah Ganz
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In her article "Japanese Poetry and Nature in Borson's Short Journey Upriver Toward Ōishida" Shoshannah Ganz shows how the limited focus of research on Roo Borson oversimplifies the poetry and ignores the tradition that Borson is aligning her work with both in form and content: classical Chinese and Japanese poetry and their perspectives on nature. Further, Ganz explores the ways in which Borson's poetry overcomes intuitively the binaries of East/West, human/non-human, and the further binaries within the human/non-human created through representational language. Ganz contextualizes Borson's work within the master/disciple lineage of Chinese and Japanese tradition and explores how Borson …
Bibliography For Work In Ecocriticism, Zümre Gizem Yılmaz
Bibliography For Work In Ecocriticism, Zümre Gizem Yılmaz
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
No abstract provided.
The Systemic Approach, Biosemiotic Theory, And Ecocide In Australia, Iris Ralph
The Systemic Approach, Biosemiotic Theory, And Ecocide In Australia, Iris Ralph
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In her article "The Systemic Approach, Biosemiotic Theory, and Ecocide in Australia" Iris Ralph summarizes an argument in defense of disciplinarity ("openness from closure") that Cary Wolfe makes in What is Posthumanism? She also comments on an implicit argument that Wendy Wheeler makes in The Whole Creature: Complexity, Biosemiotics and the Evolution of Culture. As Ralph argues, Wheeler's implicit claim is that biosemiotic language, which humans share with other biological beings, connects human animals and nonhuman animals on moral and affective grounds. Ralph summarizes Wolfe's defense of disciplinarity that literary and cultural studies scholars who engage with the "question …
Impact Profile: Tech 120-Nathan Mentzer, Jason A. Ware
Impact Profile: Tech 120-Nathan Mentzer, Jason A. Ware
IMPACT Profile Directory
This profile highlights the course redesign and transformation of a foundational first-year course in Purdue University’s College of Technology. The faculty involved in this redesign were focused primarily on accomplishing two things with the course transformation. First, faculty recognized that the initial course objectives focused on students learning general skills that are taught throughout the University – career awareness and study skills. The goal with the course redesign was for students to learn skills that are unique to the fields of study within the College and for students to experience a student-centered pragmatic approach to teaching and learning. Second, faculty …
Students’ Perceptions Of And Responses To Teaching Assistant And Peer Feedback, Kelsey J. Rodgers, Aladar K. Horvath, Hyunyi Jung, Amanda S. Fry, Heidi Diefes-Dux, Monica E. Cardella
Students’ Perceptions Of And Responses To Teaching Assistant And Peer Feedback, Kelsey J. Rodgers, Aladar K. Horvath, Hyunyi Jung, Amanda S. Fry, Heidi Diefes-Dux, Monica E. Cardella
Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-Based Learning
Authentic open-ended problems are increasingly appearing in university classrooms at all levels. Formative feedback that leads to learning and improved student work products is a challenge, particularly in large enrollment courses. This is a case study of one first-year engineering student team’s experience with teaching assistant and peer feedback during a series of open-ended mathematical modeling problems called Model-Eliciting Activities. The goal of this study was to gain deep insight into the interactions between students, feedback providers, and written feedback by examining one team’s perceptions of the feedback they received and the changes they made to their solutions based on …
The Potential Of Deweyan-Inspired Action Research, Jody L. Stark
The Potential Of Deweyan-Inspired Action Research, Jody L. Stark
Education and Culture
In its broadest sense, pragmatism could be said to be the philosophical orientation of all action research. Action research is characterized by research, action, and participation grounded in democratic principles and guided by the aim of social improvement. Furthermore, action research is an active process of inquiry that does not admit separation between action and reflection or theory and practice. This paper considers the potential of action research informed specifically by Deweyan pragmatism as a mode of inquiry. The pragmatic question of the usefulness of this approach to research in the social sciences is explored.
Controversial Issue Instruction In Context: A Social Studies Education Response To The Problem Of The Public, Thomas Misco
Controversial Issue Instruction In Context: A Social Studies Education Response To The Problem Of The Public, Thomas Misco
Education and Culture
This paper focuses on the primary problem of the public, as advanced in The Public and its Problems, which Dewey described as the need to improve “methods of debate, discussion, and persuasion” for the purposes of “perfecting the process of inquiry” (Dewey, 1927/1954, p. 208). I first situate these modes of communication as a central problem within Dewey’s conceptualization of democracy. I then argue that controversial issue discussion and milieus matter for the extent to which the public’s problem can be resolved. Finally, I address the ways in which China struggles with reflective inquiry relative to controversial issue instruction …
Rewarding Multitasking: Negative Effects Of An Incentive On Problem Solving Under Divided Attention, Mareike B. Wieth, Bruce D. Burns
Rewarding Multitasking: Negative Effects Of An Incentive On Problem Solving Under Divided Attention, Mareike B. Wieth, Bruce D. Burns
The Journal of Problem Solving
Research has consistently shown negative effects of multitasking on tasks such as problem solving. This study was designed to investigate the impact of an incentive when solving problems in a multitasking situation. Incentives have generally been shown to increase problem solving (e.g., Wieth and Burns, 2006), however, it is unclear whether an incentive can increase problem solving while attentional resources are divided. Participants were either given an incentive or not and asked to complete incremental and insight problems while either in a dual-task or single task condition. After solving the problems participants were given a surprise memory test. Results showed …
Effects Of Cover Stories On Problem Solving In A Statistics Course, Travis Rex Ricks, Jennifer Wiley
Effects Of Cover Stories On Problem Solving In A Statistics Course, Travis Rex Ricks, Jennifer Wiley
The Journal of Problem Solving
Does having more knowledge or interest in the topics used in example problems facilitate or hinder learning in statistics? Undergraduates enrolled in Introductory Psychology received a lesson on central tendency. Following the lesson, half of the students completed a worksheet with a baseball cover story while the other half received a weather cover story. Learning was assessed using a quiz that contained two kinds of items: computation and explanation. Measures of baseball knowledge and interest in baseball were collected. The results indicated that overall the students performed better on computation items than explanation items. The weather example led to better …
From The Reference Desk: Reviews Of Reference Titles, Tom Gilson
From The Reference Desk: Reviews Of Reference Titles, Tom Gilson
Against the Grain
No abstract provided.
High And Low Computer Self-Efficacy Groups And Their Learning Behavior From Self-Regulated Learning Perspective While Engaged In Interactive Learning Modules, Harry B. Santoso, Oenardi Lawanto, Kurt Becker, Ning Fang, Edward M. Reeve
High And Low Computer Self-Efficacy Groups And Their Learning Behavior From Self-Regulated Learning Perspective While Engaged In Interactive Learning Modules, Harry B. Santoso, Oenardi Lawanto, Kurt Becker, Ning Fang, Edward M. Reeve
Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research (J-PEER)
The purpose of this research was to investigate high school students’ computer self-efficacy (CSE) and learning behavior in a selfregulated learning (SRL) framework while utilizing an interactive learning module. The researcher hypothesizes that CSE is reflected on cognitive actions and metacognitive strategies while the students are engaged with interactive learning modules. Two research questions guided this research: (1) how is students’ CSE while engaged in interactive learning modules? and (2) how do high and low CSE groups plan and monitor their cognitive action, and regulate their monitoring strategies based on their CSE level? The research used a mixedmethods approach to …
Gender Differences In The Consistency Of Middle School Students’ Interest In Engineering And Science Careers, Marsha Ing, Pamela R. Aschbacher, Sherry M. Tsai
Gender Differences In The Consistency Of Middle School Students’ Interest In Engineering And Science Careers, Marsha Ing, Pamela R. Aschbacher, Sherry M. Tsai
Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research (J-PEER)
This longitudinal study analyzes survey responses in seventh, eighth, and ninth grade from diverse public school students (n = 482) to explore gender differences in engineering and science career preferences. Females were far more likely to express interest in a science career (31%) than an engineering career (13%), while the reverse was true for males (58% in engineering, 39% in science). After controlling for student and school demographic characteristics, females were as consistent as males in their science career interests during the three years of the study but less consistent in their engineering career interests. Knowing an engineer significantly …
In Pursuit Of Education’S Highest Aim: Reimagining Education Through A Spirituality Of Communion, Thomas Masters
In Pursuit Of Education’S Highest Aim: Reimagining Education Through A Spirituality Of Communion, Thomas Masters
Claritas: Journal of Dialogue and Culture
Teachers, students, and all other stakeholders in education share a common purpose that is realized through two specific objectives: to teach individuals and to build community. This might seem a utopian goal, particularly given the circumstances found in contemporary classrooms and schools. How can education be reimagined, given the many constraints that make change difficult? Our research has revealed an approach whereby teachers, students, administrators, professors, and parents can construe the many challenges of education not as problems to be solved but as opportunities to live within the inherent tensions and to transform the reality around them. This paper explores …
World War I Volunteer Nursing, Megan L. Schmedake
World War I Volunteer Nursing, Megan L. Schmedake
The Purdue Historian
In spite of the hardships of World War I, women volunteered as nurses out of patriotism and because of their desire to fulfill their traditional roles as caregivers. Due to the thousands of women who volunteered as nurses throughout the war, the idea that war was primarily a male experience was challenged. Many women made a conscious effort to support the war, and they pushed for equality by seeking to share the same wartime experiences as men. Women experienced the gruesome conditions of war alongside men and learned the best surgical practices of the time by assisting doctors. Because of …
The Librarian In Rowling’S Harry Potter Series, Mary P. Freier
The Librarian In Rowling’S Harry Potter Series, Mary P. Freier
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In her article "The Librarian in Rowling's Harry Potter Series" Mary P. Freier discusses Hermione Granger's skills as a librarian and researcher which lead to the defeat of Lord Voldemort. In each novel in the series, Hermione's research provides the necessary information for the solving of the mystery. Throughout the series, Hermione proves to be the only character who can use books effectively without putting herself or others in danger. Hermione begins the series as a child who loves the library, but does not always know how to use it effectively, while Madam Pince begins the series as a stereotypical …
Time, Photography, And Optical Technology In Nabokov's Speak, Memory, Tetyana Lyaskovets
Time, Photography, And Optical Technology In Nabokov's Speak, Memory, Tetyana Lyaskovets
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In her article "Time, Photography, and Optical Technology in Nabokov's Speak, Memory" Tetyana Lyaskovets discusses how Vladimir Nabokov narrates time in his autobiography by invoking photography and optical instruments. Photography and optical technology function in Speak, Memory as metaphors and probe the limits of chronological time. Nabokov portrays time as personal and reversible time that collapses the past and the present and allows one to glimpse the future. Because this temporal collapse is not possible physically but, as Nabokov believes, can be achieved through one's will, he engages optical technologies which provide a spatial form for his project to …
Motherhood And Sexuality In Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Amanda Kane Rooks
Motherhood And Sexuality In Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Amanda Kane Rooks
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In her article "Motherhood and Sexuality in Flaubert's Madame Bovary" Amanda Kane Rooks examines the narration of relationships in Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary between Emma's role as mother and her sexuality. Rooks argues that this narrative relationship provides a space where the association between the oppressions of motherhood and women's sexuality can be better understood. Further, Rooks posits that Flaubert's narrative condemns the nineteenth-century Western predilection for constructing a relationship of mutual exclusivity between motherhood and sexuality, while it exposes socially sanctioned performances of motherhood and sexuality as allied, perverse manifestations of the same repressive ideological system.
Postcolonial Studies In The Twenty-First Century: A Book Review Article About New Work By Ashcroft, Mendis, Mcgonegal, Mukerjee And Carrera Suárez, Durán Almarza, Menéndez Tarrazo, Alejandra Moreno
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
No abstract provided.
Translation As Relation And Glissant's Work, Sandra Bermann
Translation As Relation And Glissant's Work, Sandra Bermann
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In her article "Translation as Relation and Glissant's Work" Sandra Bermann proposes that in today's complex world of migration, war, and globalization, translation among languages and cultures is everywhere evident. Indeed, as citizens of the twenty-first century, we inevitably think in and through translation. Yet we have only begun to explore its contemporary modes of operation, its challenges, and its promise for study. Bermann suggests ways to think about translation — its difficulties, as well as its promise. Looking first to some traditional views of translation, Bermann then turns to particular ways in which it might be recast in terms …
Review Article About U.S. Comparative Literature Journals Published In 2013, Miaomiao Wang
Review Article About U.S. Comparative Literature Journals Published In 2013, Miaomiao Wang
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
No abstract provided.
Postmodernist Poetics And Narratology: A Review Article About Mchale's Scholarship, Biwu Shang
Postmodernist Poetics And Narratology: A Review Article About Mchale's Scholarship, Biwu Shang
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
No abstract provided.
Arab Women Writers As Revolutionary Orators And Catalytic Agents Of Emancipation, Safaa S. Nasser
Arab Women Writers As Revolutionary Orators And Catalytic Agents Of Emancipation, Safaa S. Nasser
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In her article "Contemporary Egyptian and Palestinian Women's Writing as 'Committed Literature'" Safaa S. Nasser discusses the role of Arab women writers whose works were harbingers of the Arab Spring of 2011. Nasser's analysis demonstrate that the majority of Arab women writers acted as agents of feminist action and social change through their critique of patriarchal, phallocentric domi-nation and through their call for a secular sensibility. Their works demonstrate the symbiotic relation-ship between political, national, and feminist struggle for equality between genders. To exemplify this revolutionary perspective, Nasser analyzes texts by Nawal El Saadawi, Ahdaf Soueif, Salwa Bakr, Saki-na Fuad, …
Queering Masturbation In Lorde's Life And Writing, Eric Sipyinyu Njeng
Queering Masturbation In Lorde's Life And Writing, Eric Sipyinyu Njeng
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In his article "Queering Masturbation in Lorde's Life and Writing" Eric Sipyinyu Njeng discusses masturbation in Audre Lorde's life and works to signal an important aspect of her oeuvre often neglected in scholarship. Lorde stands out among prominent queer queens by demonstrating theory corporeally thereby going beyond mere theory and positing her body as a space of complex sexual passions. When Judith Butler speaks of gender as performative rather than embodied, Lorde theorizes and foregrounds this in her works and self and celebrates a sexual matrix that ranges from heterosexuality to homosexuality to auto-sexuality. Lorde places masturbation between the binary …