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Engl 211w: Intro To Nonfiction (Points Of Entry And/Or Exit Wounds), Heather Simon Jan 2023

Engl 211w: Intro To Nonfiction (Points Of Entry And/Or Exit Wounds), Heather Simon

Open Educational Resources

We will explore the notion of creativity as it pertains to new ways of engaging familiar topics and carving out frameworks for exploring uncharted territory. We will actively read and respond to works of creative nonfiction to enrich our understanding of structure, style, and language. Assigned readings will demonstrate how creative nonfiction can encompass a variety of forms (think: reportage, braided essay, erasure, visual essay) and draw from both research and experience to offer a unique perspective and elicit an emotional response. We will develop our own creative nonfiction toolbox through a series of reflections, creative exercise, and projects. We …


Set Wide The Window, Olivia Tristan Ramo Jan 2023

Set Wide The Window, Olivia Tristan Ramo

Senior Projects Fall 2023

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.


Blood Sugar: A Collection Of Essays On The Highs And Lows Of Diabetes, Annalisa Morganelli Aug 2022

Blood Sugar: A Collection Of Essays On The Highs And Lows Of Diabetes, Annalisa Morganelli

Honors Program Theses and Projects

As soon as I began working on this thesis project, I knew that I wanted this collection to focus on the different aspects of my life that have been affected by me having type one diabetes. The diabetic experience is one that has been underrepresented—and arguably, misrepresented—in popular media. The four non-fiction essays in my collection aim to add my personal experience to the existing literature, showing that while diabetics may have similar experiences, these experiences can also be vastly individualistic. Additionally, while I share my own stories, I explore the general chronic illness experience and how ableism and misunderstanding …


Proclivities Of The Common Southern Wasp, Paul Bryant May 2022

Proclivities Of The Common Southern Wasp, Paul Bryant

Creative Nonfiction MFA Theses

A hybrid collection of poems and creative nonfiction essays exploring the author's relationship with his father and the American South.


Stuck In The Middle: An Illustrated Essay On Covid-19 And Other Past Pandemics, Amanda Pszczolkowski Dec 2020

Stuck In The Middle: An Illustrated Essay On Covid-19 And Other Past Pandemics, Amanda Pszczolkowski

Honors Projects

The project is a visual essay, in a graphic novel-esque style, exploring how the coronavirus compares to other illness outbreaks of the past century and how the associated restrictions have impacted me at an individual level. The creative nonfiction essay intertwines historical perspectives as a way to inform, contextualize, and reflect my own experience with COVID-19. The project began with extensive research on illness outbreaks of the past century, current developments in the Coronavirus pandemic, and genre conventions of graphic novels and memoirs. The intent was to provide a cohesive whole that illuminates themes in the linguistic essay.


Unless The Lord Build The House, Alicia L. Maimone Jan 2020

Unless The Lord Build The House, Alicia L. Maimone

Honors Theses and Capstones

"Unless the Lord Builds the House" is a work of creative nonfiction about two years of my life as my chronic Lyme disease altered how I had to live and how I thought about my life . There are three major threads that I explore.

The first theme is about losing my old self. There was an old Alicia and a new Alicia, and I explore my frustration at losing the old Alicia. I explore this by talking about building. I see myself as a house under renovation, and I write about my struggle to let go of my past …


Symmetrically Significant: Essays, David Stephen Haydon Apr 2019

Symmetrically Significant: Essays, David Stephen Haydon

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This collection of personal essays explores the use of symmetry as a metaphor of normality in contemporary American culture. These essays use formalistic exploration to enter into a conversation with the reader regarding the body, sexuality, gender, and mental illness. Each piece aims to dismantle and explode the metaphorical significations of symmetry through the use of interdisciplinary research combined with memoir.


I'M Never Fine, Joseph S. Lezza Jan 2019

I'M Never Fine, Joseph S. Lezza

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

ABSTRACT

Title of Thesis: I'm Never Fine

Joseph S. Lezza, Master of Fine Arts, 2019

Thesis Directed by: Nelson Cardenas, Ph. D.

The University of Texas at El Paso, Department of Creative Writing

During the course of my father's fifteen-month battle with pancreatic cancer, and in its oceanic aftermath, I became both intimately and uncomfortably familiar with the phrase "I'm fine." It developed into a practical and efficient tool for bringing about a quick shift in subject whenever my family situation came under question by a well-meaning friend, trepidatious relative and even during an unexpectedly emotional phone call with my …


A Town Slowly Burned: Life And Death In A Small Louisiana Town, Victoria C. Bush May 2018

A Town Slowly Burned: Life And Death In A Small Louisiana Town, Victoria C. Bush

University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

When Tori Bush’s father died of chemical causes related to Agent Orange, she found herself obsessed with tracing dioxins, one of the main ingredient of Agent Orange in other American communities. She began to visit and interview residents of Mossville, Louisiana, a small town on the border of Texas, which has fourteen petrochemical facilities surrounding the town. The residents also had been exposed to dioxins. Grief and anger connected Tori to this story, but it is far larger—is the right to a healthy natural environment a part of our American citizenship?


Retracing John Muir's Thousand-Mile Walk To The Gulf, Chadwick N. Gilpin Jan 2017

Retracing John Muir's Thousand-Mile Walk To The Gulf, Chadwick N. Gilpin

Theses and Dissertations--English

In 1867, the budding naturalist and future father of our national parks, John Muir, embarked on his thousand-mile walk to the Gulf from Jeffersonville, Indiana, to Cedar Key, Florida. Almost 150 years later I undertook the same journey, retracing the wilderness advocate’s footsteps through the South to catalog all that has changed in a century and a half of progress, to try and better understand the inception of his environmental ethics, and to learn to see the world as he did, harmonious, interconnected, rejuvenating and imbued with a pervasive spirituality. The chapters of this thesis retell selected legs of that …


Crumbs, Joseph Giordano Jun 2016

Crumbs, Joseph Giordano

The Anthology

A prose story


Act Your Age, Not Your Shoe Size, Laura-Leigh Todd Jun 2016

Act Your Age, Not Your Shoe Size, Laura-Leigh Todd

The Anthology

A prose story


Chewing Gum, Rodger E. Bishop Ii Jun 2016

Chewing Gum, Rodger E. Bishop Ii

The Anthology

A prose story


Dévoiler, Rachel Burns Jun 2016

Dévoiler, Rachel Burns

The Anthology

A prose story


Six And A Half Years Of Roadkill, Chris Da Rosa Jun 2016

Six And A Half Years Of Roadkill, Chris Da Rosa

The Anthology

A prose story


Hypotheticals, Mirielle Smith Jun 2016

Hypotheticals, Mirielle Smith

The Anthology

A prose story


The Summer Kill-Off, Patrick Kay Jun 2016

The Summer Kill-Off, Patrick Kay

The Anthology

A prose story


The Tribal Blues, Josh Dunn Jun 2016

The Tribal Blues, Josh Dunn

The Anthology

A poem


More, Rebecca Jacobs Jun 2016

More, Rebecca Jacobs

The Anthology

A poem


Motet 5: Paschal Song, Alex Muller Jun 2016

Motet 5: Paschal Song, Alex Muller

The Anthology

A poem


Collage, Heather Bechtler Jun 2016

Collage, Heather Bechtler

The Anthology

A poem


Untitled Iv, Daniel Padgett Jun 2016

Untitled Iv, Daniel Padgett

The Anthology

A poem


Fossils In Wet Cement, Lora Caldwell Jun 2016

Fossils In Wet Cement, Lora Caldwell

The Anthology

A poem


Through And Away, Diego Segura Jun 2016

Through And Away, Diego Segura

The Anthology

A poem


To Be Come, Kaitlin Spellman Jun 2016

To Be Come, Kaitlin Spellman

The Anthology

A poem


Stacy's Couch, Carrie Dupre Jun 2016

Stacy's Couch, Carrie Dupre

The Anthology

A poem


Weimar Love Song, Mirielle Smith Jun 2016

Weimar Love Song, Mirielle Smith

The Anthology

A poem


Association, Patrick Bryant Jun 2016

Association, Patrick Bryant

The Anthology

A poem


Chi, Heather Bechtler Jun 2016

Chi, Heather Bechtler

The Anthology

A poem


Ill-Equipped, Rachel Phillips Jun 2016

Ill-Equipped, Rachel Phillips

The Anthology

A poem