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Houses Of Hospitality: The Material Rhetoric Of Dorothy Day And The Catholic Worker, Sean Michael Barnette
Houses Of Hospitality: The Material Rhetoric Of Dorothy Day And The Catholic Worker, Sean Michael Barnette
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation presents an analysis of the material practice of hospitality in the Catholic Worker movement during the 1930s. Dorothy Day (1897-1980), a radical Catholic social activist, co-founded the Catholic Worker movement in 1932, and one of the movement’s goals was to provide hospitality to poor and unemployed people. Day’s understanding of hospitality, and consequently the practice of hospitality at Catholic Worker houses, was shaped by Day’s experiences as a radical during the 1910s and 1920s, her conversion to Roman Catholicism, and her notions of gender; each of these factors led Day to understand hospitality as consisting primarily in materially …
Definitions Of Labor: A Study Of Working-Class Graduate Student Writing Instructors, Casie Janelle Fedukovich
Definitions Of Labor: A Study Of Working-Class Graduate Student Writing Instructors, Casie Janelle Fedukovich
Doctoral Dissertations
“Definitions of Labor: A Study of Working-Class Graduate Student Writing Instructors” presents six narratives of self-identified working-class graduate student writing instructors. Broadly, it explores their individual definitions of class and the pedagogical import of these definitions. Chapter One introduces the topic through radical reflexivity, as the researcher queries her own positioning in relationship to the working-class identity, before moving to detail methods and methodologies. Chapter Two provides a literature review beginning with early scholarship on Impostership Studies and moving through single-authored and collected working-class academic autobiographies. Chapters Three through Eight present the individual narratives of the participants. These interpretive chapters …