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A Damn Short Prayer, Beth Jane Toren Mar 2020

A Damn Short Prayer, Beth Jane Toren

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

This poster presents a transcript poem created with murder tales in oral history recordings. Leveraging the creative arts of storytelling, transcript poetry and visual orality, the poster brings light and music to Appalachian storyteller voices in tales of shady murders.

The handout presents the poem with visual orality methods juxtaposed beside Standard English orthographic transcription, enabling a visual comparison, a link a video with graphic text and the original voice recordings, and brief readings about concepts and methods.


Migration And The Remains Of Us Empire, Richard Baldoz Jan 2020

Migration And The Remains Of Us Empire, Richard Baldoz

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

No abstract provided.


'Tomboy' Is Anachronistic. But The Concept Still Has Something To Teach Us, Lynne Stahl Jun 2019

'Tomboy' Is Anachronistic. But The Concept Still Has Something To Teach Us, Lynne Stahl

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

This article explores the tomboy trope in film and literature and the "taming" that characterizes it, framing both in relation to contemporary debates about gender and sexual identity as well as cultural anxieties around queer, trans, and nonbinary identity. Examining texts from Louisa May Alcott's Little Women to the 1980 film Little Darlings, the article argues that even while the term tomboy may be obsolete, tomboy narratives document processes of rebellion that hold continuing value.


With Media Fixated On The Terror, A Good Time To Look Again At Everyday Middle East, Wendy Kozol Apr 2018

With Media Fixated On The Terror, A Good Time To Look Again At Everyday Middle East, Wendy Kozol

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No abstract provided.


Is The Face Of Contemporary Feminism Too Pink And Too White?, Wendy Kozol Feb 2018

Is The Face Of Contemporary Feminism Too Pink And Too White?, Wendy Kozol

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Ahed Tamimi: Whose Symbol?, Wendy Kozol Feb 2018

Ahed Tamimi: Whose Symbol?, Wendy Kozol

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No abstract provided.


Looking At Trump And Kelly At Arlington Cemetery, Wendy Kozol Oct 2017

Looking At Trump And Kelly At Arlington Cemetery, Wendy Kozol

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Harvey Unprecedented? What About 2 Weeks Ago In Sierra Leone?, Wendy Kozol Aug 2017

Harvey Unprecedented? What About 2 Weeks Ago In Sierra Leone?, Wendy Kozol

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Importance Of Seeing The Trauma: The Video Of Diamond Reynolds And Daughter In The Back Of A Police Car, Wendy Kozol Jul 2017

Importance Of Seeing The Trauma: The Video Of Diamond Reynolds And Daughter In The Back Of A Police Car, Wendy Kozol

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Gag Order: Muting, Mortification, And Motherhood In Eminem’S “Cleaning Out My Closet”, Lynne Stahl Jan 2012

Gag Order: Muting, Mortification, And Motherhood In Eminem’S “Cleaning Out My Closet”, Lynne Stahl

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

No abstract provided.


What Killed Mcmurphy, Roger A. Lohmann Mar 1980

What Killed Mcmurphy, Roger A. Lohmann

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

Despite the generally optimistic and hopeful tone of organizational goals and public policy, the general record of residential treatment institutions, or asylums, and of efforts to reform them have been equally unsuccessful. In this paper, it is argued that the lack of success in basic institutional reform over much of the past two centuries is, itself, a part of the tragic cycle of institutionalization. A principle factor in the failure of reforms (the tragic flaw, as it were) is the naive rationalism, which forms the psychological and sociological basis of the dominant model of institutional life used by institutional officials …