Trigger Warnings And A Pedagogy Of Trust,
2023
Chapman University
Trigger Warnings And A Pedagogy Of Trust, Morgan Read-Davidson
English Faculty Articles and Research
"As the director of both the creative writing and rhetoric and composition programs at Chapman University, a mid-sized private university serving 150+ majors as well as 1000+ general education students, it has now become a common and expected occurrence to have both students and contingent faculty come to my office expressing anxiety over course content. While the larger conversation about difficult content and trigger warnings is not new, the sudden need for urgently scheduled meetings with me did not begin until the COVID-19 Pandemic and our move to remote instruction. This seems to coincide with the increase of online and …
The Eye Of The King: Screenplay Adaptation As A Craft Tool,
2023
Liberty University
The Eye Of The King: Screenplay Adaptation As A Craft Tool, Nora Annette Graves
Masters Theses
Adaptation studies typically focus on a screenplay’s fidelity to its original text within the constraints imposed by the new genre. This thesis approaches adaptation as a craft tool: a rich source of fresh authorial insight into characters, settings, and plotlines. Experimentation, not fidelity, is the goal of the self-adapter; adaptations are valued and deemed successful based on the new levels of complexity they uncover or add to an ongoing story. The author’s screenplay adaptation of her original novel, The Eye of the King, served as a case study for testing the value of adaptation as a writer’s craft tool. Re-telling …
How A Balanced Christian Message In Film Can Inspire Christ-Like Transformation,
2023
Liberty University
How A Balanced Christian Message In Film Can Inspire Christ-Like Transformation, Makayla Marrin Jacobs
Masters Theses
This thesis will attempt to examine the need for a balanced Christian message in film and how everyday acts of the Christian faith can inspire Christ-like transformation within society. This thesis will also explore the importance of developing faith and spiritual disciplines through the creative screenplay, All Hail the Hoodlums. Throughout history, living as a faithful Christian and practicing spiritual disciplines can appear to go directly against society’s natural flow as belief in a Creator oppose man’s selfishness and sinful nature. Seemingly, society at large currently projects that believing in a Monotheistic and Triune God and having a deep personal …
Lady Of The Joust: Defining And Classifying Flat Character Arcs,
2023
Liberty University
Lady Of The Joust: Defining And Classifying Flat Character Arcs, Rachael Michelle Varner
Masters Theses
Character arcs outline the growth or development a character experiences throughout a narrative. Of the three major types—Positive Change, Negative Change, and Flat—the third is often glossed over or ignored in academic settings. The Artist Statement addresses my experience writing a novel when I did not understand what Flat Arcs entailed and thus failed to recognize why my protagonist resisted the more popular Positive Change formula. In the Critical Paper, my analysis of texts dedicated to the craft of character arcs revealed that there are no consistent criteria by which to define or categorize them. Nevertheless, my research suggests that …
Monsters - In My Office!?,
2023
College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University
Monsters - In My Office!?, Pheron Antonio Xane Collie
Celebrating Scholarship and Creativity Day (2018-)
An average man, Sam, begins to notice something strange about the world around him. He struggles to adapt, believing that he's having a psychotic trip, eventually learning the truth about the hidden world that lurks in plain sight.
Because The World Hasn't Ended Yet,
2023
Dartmouth College
Pileated Woodpecker, Audubon Plate Cxi,
2023
Dartmouth College
From Mônadenok,
2023
Dartmouth College
Winter Morning,
2023
Dartmouth College
Living In The Wilderness: Another Year,
2023
Dartmouth College
Living In The Wilderness: Another Year, Robin Chapman
Appalachia
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Kintsugi Trail,
2023
Dartmouth College
Snappers,
2023
Dartmouth College
A Peak Ahead: Risks, Decisions, And Adventure,
2023
Dartmouth College
A Peak Ahead: Risks, Decisions, And Adventure, Christine Woodside
Appalachia
Looking ahead to Summer/Fall 2023, the journal planned to publish stories on an 800-mile bicycling and kayaking loop in New England, an essay on the connection between whitewater rescue techniques and keeping young people safe, and a literary essay on walking in Scotland.
Books And Media,
2023
Dartmouth College
Books And Media
Appalachia
A literary essay on the term “white death” when it means avalanche, by former University of Alaska Anchorage creative writing program director David Stevenson. Reviews of: The Naturalist's Companion: A Field Guide to Observing and Understanding Wildlife, by Dave Hall; This Wild Land: Two Decades of Adventure in the Shadow of Katahdin, by Andrew Vietze; Tangled Roots: The Appalachian Trail and American Environmental Politics, by Sarah Mittlefehldt; Imaginary Peaks, by Katie Ives; Don't Sing to Me of Electric Fences, by Dave Seter; Dammed If You Don't, by Chris Kalman.
Valley And Skyline Sketches,
2023
Dartmouth College
Valley And Skyline Sketches
Appalachia
Memories of a Franconia, New Hampshire childhood, by Gayle Greene. A college student tries to reconnect with his father in Lone Pine, California, by Dylan Campbell. The sight of a badger trailside brings up memories of Stacy Allana Clark’s recently departed uncle. Skiing in Mount Washington’s Tuckerman Ravine brings up years of memories for Douglass Teschner.
News And Notes,
2023
Dartmouth College
News And Notes
Appalachia
A $1.1 million federal grant funds extensive trail work on the Franconia Ridge in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, to be led by the Appalachian Mountain Club’s Trails Department and the White Mountain National Forest. Excerpts of the latest Mount Washington Master Plan, written by representatives of government and businesses in the area, outlines the Cog Railway’s plans for a hotel high on the mountain. University of New Hampshire researchers discuss huge increase in hiking after the COVID-19 pandemic.
In Memoriam,
2023
Dartmouth College
In Memoriam
Appalachia
Poet, essayist, Appalachia contributor and former Connecticut deputy environmental commissioner David K. Leff, by Christine Woodside.
Alpina,
2023
Dartmouth College
Alpina
Appalachia
Among the many updates on mountaineering in the greater ranges: More information on a Denali climber who in May 2021 called for a rescue he did not need. Clint Helander and Andres Marin climb Shaft of the Abyss on Golgotha in Alaska. Among many “firsts” on Everest in 2022, Lucy Westlake, 18, becomes the youngest American woman to summit. Polish mountaineer Marek Raganowicz climbs a new route on the North Face of Polar Sun Arm on Baffin Island. Three climbers achieve a new route on Cerro Torre in Patagonia. Reviews of eight mountaineering films, including Infinite Storm (Bleecker Street …
Accidents,
2023
Dartmouth College
Accidents
Appalachia
Reports of rescues and accidents in New Hampshire’s White Mountains during the cold weather and pre-meltout months of late 2021 and winter/spring 2022. The editors describe the role the mind plays in planning and executing hikes. Two incidents of poor planning complicated by medical conditions in the Franconia Ridge area are examined. A hiker slips on the Fishin’ Jimmy Trail. In April, a skier suffers a long fall and multiple injuries in the Great Gulf Wilderness. Cardiac trouble plagues a guest at Carter Notch Hut in March. A hiker falls long and hard while trying to take a photo on …
Letters,
2023
Dartmouth College
Letters
Appalachia
Musings on the good and bad of cell phones in response to Stephen Kurczy’s “Do Cell Phones Belong in the Mountains?” Summer/Fall 2022). An ALS sufferer’s moving response to Rachel Curtis’s piece on losing her hiking partner to ALS (“Preparing: A Wrong Turn, a Dangerous River, and an Absent Partner”). Thoughts on problems of trail apps.
