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Stranger Than, Anna K. Young
Stranger Than, Anna K. Young
WWU Graduate School Collection
This thesis examines the role of fiction, both speculative and contemporary, as a means of communicating shared experiences. It includes six stories with protagonists who deal with isolation, cynicism, and financial struggles. Incorporating elements of grief, friendship, and the horrors of minimum-wage jobs, this thesis demonstrates the importance of fiction in depicting the experiences of young, working-class people who navigate worlds both mundane and speculative.
Rhetorical Vulnerability, Sophia Brauner
Rhetorical Vulnerability, Sophia Brauner
WWU Graduate School Collection
Rhetorical vulnerability is a necessary, underlying condition for rhetoric. That is, in order for rhetoric to be meaningful or even possible, we must already be vulnerable to each other. This paper frames vulnerability as a rhetorical concept different from vulnerability as a way of being, a personality trait, and a modifier of actions and behaviors. I examine how vulnerability has shown up in rhetorical scholarship as approaches to rhetoric, in relation to desire, and as embodied and affective. I close by proposing a practice of embracing vulnerability which creates capacities to differently engage identification categories and to understand spaces not …
Words Might've Misshapened Me, Taylor Stafford
Words Might've Misshapened Me, Taylor Stafford
WWU Graduate School Collection
This thesis ( a collection of poems) examines the impermanence of relationships by way of romantic and platonic relationships, and familial relationships. In addition, the poems exhibit the process of healing that’s a result of these impermanent relationships which affect the self. Most importantly, the self that is explored within these poems and is layered in that through these entanglements, that I’ve experienced throughout my life, have created a wound inside of my flesh that presents itself as a Dragon. This Dragon is referred to as Dante. Even though there are poems throughout the collection that speak of Dante, not …
Love Pedagogy: Justice, Mattering, And Care In And Out Of The Classroom, Gabby Triana
Love Pedagogy: Justice, Mattering, And Care In And Out Of The Classroom, Gabby Triana
WWU Graduate School Collection
In my project, I develop a teaching practice called “love pedagogy,” which has no one definition or set of rules, but, rather, is an ongoing practice of justice, care, and community-building in education. I focus mainly on practices in the postsecondary writing classroom, but much of what I discuss can apply to other disciplines and education levels. Each of the four chapters focuses on a different practice that I see as key to loving students in the writing classroom; these practices include linguistic justice, discourse justice, radical care, and responsive teaching. To build a practice of love pedagogy, I draw …
I'M Sorry, I Love You, Jemma Everyhope-Roser
I'M Sorry, I Love You, Jemma Everyhope-Roser
WWU Graduate School Collection
“I’m Sorry, I Love You” spans the author’s childhood, utilizing both the author’s memory and the memory of familial oral tradition. ISIL is meant to be a compassionate portrait of the power literacy grants in developing resiliency, touching on adversity related to the neglect that results from being raised by parents with mental illness and substance abuse disorders. ISIL is not meant to critically approach these experiences but to offer an evocative, immersive, emotional perspective that invites others into the space of what this means. Technically, ISIL is a visual novel written within a visual novel engine that shares visual …
All Of This Will End, Sean Dolan
All Of This Will End, Sean Dolan
WWU Graduate School Collection
All of This Will End is a short story collection that pays tribute to the suburban gothic subgenre popularized by Shirley Jackson in the 1950’s. Also drawing influence from contemporary writers such as Kelly Link, Kate Folk, and Blake Butler, among others, the collection aims to deconstruct conceptions of normality – both in and outside of the American suburb – by planting subtle signs of strangeness across its ten stories. Although most of the work wouldn’t fall into traditional genre conventions, the collection borrows from both horror and science fiction, blurring the line between traditional realism and genre work. Much …
Cosmopolitan Culture Talk After 9/11, Chris Reid
Cosmopolitan Culture Talk After 9/11, Chris Reid
WWU Graduate School Collection
This thesis attempts to prove that 9/11 enshrined a troublesome critical ideology in America’s most vaunted book reviews and magazines. The ideology sometimes presented itself brazenly. In these cases, I follow historian Mahmood Mamdani in describing it as “Culture Talk” — a discourse that reduces history and politics (in this case, the history of Cold War U.S. involvement in the Middle East) to talk of culture or religion. At other times, however, this ideology wore the mask of “cosmopolitanism” — a loose jumble of ideas centered on the rejection of anything “tribal,” “premodern,” or “sectarian.” In reality, it is very …