What We Mean When We Talk About Reading: Rethinking The Purposes And Contexts Of College Reading,
2018
CUNY Kingsborough Community College
What We Mean When We Talk About Reading: Rethinking The Purposes And Contexts Of College Reading, Rachel Ihara, Ann Del Principe
Publications and Research
This study illuminates faculty beliefs about reading by closely examining their attitudes toward assigned readings and faculty professional reading practice. Drawing upon interview data from instructors teaching in a range of disciplines at a two-year college, we suggest that conversations about reading would benefit from greater awareness of the various contexts and purposes for reading. Rather than talk about reading as something students either "do" or "don’t do", or do well or poorly, we draw attention to the ways that different purposes for reading shape reading behaviors for students and faculty alike.
Freedom And Formlessness: Ben Lerner’S 10:04 And The Affective Historical Present,
2018
Boise State University
Freedom And Formlessness: Ben Lerner’S 10:04 And The Affective Historical Present, Ralph Clare
English Literature Faculty Publications and Presentations
This essay argues, via Henri Bergson and Gilles Deleuze, that in distinction to a neoliberal notion of time that overlooks the present moment and past experience, Ben Lerner’s 10:04 posits the existence, in both its form and content, of a kind of freedom not imminent to or beyond the endless presentism and debt-mortgaged non-future of neoliberal time but one that is immanent to and within it. The novel does so by stressing the way in which the actual, lived present, if properly attended to, gives rise to a virtual future containing multiple potentialities that have yet to be realized. What …
Sink Hollow Volume 5,
2018
Utah State University
Sink Hollow Volume 5
Sink Hollow
During my time with Sink Hollow Literary Magazine, I’ve watched five issues go through the creation process. From the initial submission picks to final design edits, I’ve had the immense pleasure of seeing every volume bloom from nothing into powerful pieces of thought- provoking art. This volume, our fifth one as a team, is no different. The authors and artists we’ve chosen to give a home to, have come together to create a publication that fosters a unique personal awareness. The goal of any good art or writing should be geared toward cultivating a change in the reader or observer. …
Reverse Engineering The First Humanities Computing Center,
2018
University of South Florida
Reverse Engineering The First Humanities Computing Center, Steven E. Jones
English Faculty Publications
The Jesuit scholar, Roberto Busa, is often called the founder of humanities computing. In fact, starting as early as 1949, he collaborated with IBM to perform experiments using suites of punched-card machines. These punched-card data systems—with their plug-board setups, clacking machinery, and flurries of perforated rectangular cards—were developed for business accounting and tabulating, and adapted for government censuses, defense calculations, archival management, and information processing of all kinds. The first decade of humanities computing can more accurately be described as an era of humanities data processing—in the historically specific and contextually rich sense of the term. This essay describes an …
Community And Conscience Formation,
2018
Santa Clara University
Community And Conscience Formation, Phyllis R. Brown
English
The three Cs, competence, conscience, and compassion, are fundamental to Santa Clara University's distinctive identity as a Jesuit and Catholic university. However, a fourth C, community-and communities within communities-provides a context for conscience formation through dialogue and critical engagement not only with the academic subject matter of course work but also outside the classroom with the wicked problems facing humanity. This chapter will explore ways individuals and programs at Santa Clara University (SCU) invite students to experience communities in classroom and co-curricular settings that encourage dialogue, critical engagement, and social consciousness aimed at fostering the greater good. This engagement is …
“He’Ll Just Be Paul Newman Anyway”: Cinematic Continuity And The Star Image,
2018
University of Kentucky
“He’Ll Just Be Paul Newman Anyway”: Cinematic Continuity And The Star Image, William Guy Spriggs
Theses and Dissertations--English
Since performers first became credited for their on-screen work in the early twentieth century, stardom has been understood as a primary factor distinguishing cinema as a unique, discrete art form. Much of the work done by canonical film scholars emphasizes film as a continuous medium defined by relation, as well as the irreducible value of human presence in creating meaning that transcends the boundaries of film. These are important cornerstones of star studies, a subfield within film studies that interrogates how film performers accrue and project meaning and value. They also isolate continuity as a singular tool for developing approaches …
Creative Writing In Digital Spaces: Digital Story Book,
2018
University of Kentucky
Creative Writing In Digital Spaces: Digital Story Book, Christian Tipton
Oswald Research and Creativity Competition
Christian Tipton has been working with Dr. DaMaris Hill for multiple semesters now, and a majority of their projects emphasize making literature accessible for the digital generation. The Digital Storybook is a personal favorite of the two of them. This project combines the visual techniques of a traditional comic book with the contextual elements of free verse poetry. The aim for this particular project was to present poetry in a way that would capture non-traditional poetry readers and present the comic book genre in a way that would capture non-traditional comic readers.
Staging Uncle Tom's Cabin In Tehran,
2018
John Carroll University
Staging Uncle Tom's Cabin In Tehran, Debra J. Rosenthal
2018 Faculty Bibliography
As Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin traveled around the world, it was molded by the imaginations and needs of international audiences. For over 150 years it has been coopted for a dazzling array of causes far from what its author envisioned. This book tells thirteen variants of Uncle Tom’s journey, explicating the novel’s significance for Canadian abolitionists and the Liberian political elite that constituted the runaway characters’ landing points; nineteenth-century French theatergoers; liberal Cuban, Romanian, and Spanish intellectuals and social reformers; Dutch colonizers and Filipino nationalists in Southeast Asia; Eastern European Cold War communists; Muslim readers and …
Sharing Englishes & Social Media,
2018
Dyson College of Arts and Sciences
Sharing Englishes & Social Media, Catalina F. Florescu, Chloe Richards
Student and Faculty Research Days
This year-long grant-funded project examined the intersection of culture and class with use of the English Language, and explored the concept of multiple Englishes rather than one, monolithic, "correct" version of the language.
Dadless: Dead Dads In Hamlet And The Effects On Their Children,
2018
Dyson College of Arts and Sciences
Dadless: Dead Dads In Hamlet And The Effects On Their Children, Erin Diiorio
Student and Faculty Research Days
This research is a close look at the methods of grief as depicted by the children who lose their fathers in William Shakespeare’s classic, Hamlet. The goal is to track each child’s reaction to the sudden bereavement in a variety of physical and emotional manifestations. This has been done by first examining current literature on the text, followed by a review of historical context of the period in which the play was written, and finally analyzing each character’s behavior. In doing so, this research seeks to highlight the importance of the presence of fathers within Hamlet and provide insight …
Theology, Phenomenology, And The Divine In King Lear,
2018
Chapman University
Theology, Phenomenology, And The Divine In King Lear, Kent R. Lehnhof
English Faculty Books and Book Chapters
"In what follows, then, I would like to think through Levinas's ideas on transcendence and ethics in such a way as to map out a new pathway for approaching Shakespeare's great tragedy. As unorthodox as it may sound, I propose to shed light on the darkling religiosity of King Lear by turning-not to the theological doctrines of early modem Christians-but to the postmodern ethics of a twentieth-century Jew."
Gender, Geography, And Alterity In Shakespeare,
2018
Wayne State University
Gender, Geography, And Alterity In Shakespeare, Elizabeth Valdez Acosta
Wayne State University Dissertations
Largely informing my dissertation is my experience growing up and teaching in a border town. I grew up in a Mexican family where education, especially higher education is considered a luxury—especially for women. While my parents supported me as I continued my education, many women within the Mexican culture aren’t necessarily encouraged to go to college. And, if they do attend college, it’s not completely understood why. Adding to growing up with this way of thinking, I also grew up and currently teach in a border town, where many of the students who attend school in El Paso cross from …
Review Of W. B. Patterson, Thomas Fuller: Discovering England’S Religious Past,
2018
Cleveland State University
Review Of W. B. Patterson, Thomas Fuller: Discovering England’S Religious Past, Brooke Conti
English Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Of Neere Neighbors: Sacrament And Sociality In The Drama Of Islamic Conversion, C.1600-1640,
2018
Loyola University Chicago
Of Neere Neighbors: Sacrament And Sociality In The Drama Of Islamic Conversion, C.1600-1640, Stephanie Kucsera
Dissertations
This dissertation traces scenes of Christian-Muslim conversion across representative works by William Shakespeare, Robert Daborne, Philip Massinger, and Richard Brome to examine how the popular drama of the early seventeenth century participates in English political and ecclesiastical discourses about the meaning of interfaith conversion and its stakes for the construction and stability of late-Reformation English national identity. I argue that the structural and stylistic changes that define each drama’s distinct presentation of interfaith conversion may be understood as engaged in the still-evolving debates over the Church of England’s sacramental theology and ceremonial practices—the very ritual actions that could render the …
Fake News And News Anxiety In Early Modern England,
2018
Loyola University Chicago
Fake News And News Anxiety In Early Modern England, Richard David Macey
Dissertations
This work defines and analyzes the concepts of fake news and news anxiety in early modern England, arguing that fears about the dishonesty, abundance, and intrusiveness of cheap newsprint became key cultural concerns—concerns that find frequent expression in the literature of the time. Professional theater and commercial news came of age together in England, and the dramatic stage, itself a kind of news venue, proved a trenchant critic of printed news. Other academic works have examined connections between commercial news and professional theater, but mine is the first to examine the theater’s anxious preoccupation with fake news. This study focuses …
"We Were Framed To Fail And Die": The Ethics And Poetics Of Mortality In The Works Of Gerard Manley Hopkins,
2018
Loyola University Chicago
"We Were Framed To Fail And Die": The Ethics And Poetics Of Mortality In The Works Of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Brett C. Beasley
Dissertations
This dissertation is the first comprehensive analysis of the subject of mortality in Gerard Manley Hopkins's writings. Hopkins's writings on this subject are broad and varied: while still a student at Oxford, Hopkins became fascinated by martyrs; later, as a priest he would go on to write movingly about the deaths of parishioners in his care and would extol the virtues of soldiers, or "daredeaths" as he refers to them in one poem; finally, toward the end of his life, Hopkins became preoccupied with the role our own mortality plays in shaping our life, perspective, and choices. While previous scholars …
The User, The Reader, And The Pocket Cathedral: William Morris's Arts And Crafts Aesthetic And The Decorated Book,
2018
Loyola University Chicago
The User, The Reader, And The Pocket Cathedral: William Morris's Arts And Crafts Aesthetic And The Decorated Book, Brandiann Molby
Dissertations
In an expansion of Jerome McGann's claims for a "materialist aesthetic" as the defining feature of William Morris's Kelmscott Press books, this dissertation maintains that Morris's book designs are the fullest expression of an Arts and Crafts interpretive model that Morris established over his career as a designer and a craftsman and that decisively intervenes in traditional theoretical discussions of the distinctions between the visual and verbal arts. This dissertation demonstrates that Morris's book designs are predicated on the user's interpretive engagement with the material object to bring together word and image, form and function, and decoration and design in …
Art Of Documentation: Documents And Visual Culture In Medieval England (Book Review),
2018
Bryn Mawr College
Art Of Documentation: Documents And Visual Culture In Medieval England (Book Review), Jamie K. Taylor
Literatures in English Faculty Research and Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Lies, Puns, Tallies: Marital And Material Deceit In Langland And Chaucer,
2018
Bryn Mawr College
Lies, Puns, Tallies: Marital And Material Deceit In Langland And Chaucer, Jamie K. Taylor
Literatures in English Faculty Research and Scholarship
No abstract provided.
'No Home Here': Female Space And The Modernist Aesthetic In Nella Larsen's Quicksand And Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar,
2018
University of Central Florida
'No Home Here': Female Space And The Modernist Aesthetic In Nella Larsen's Quicksand And Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, Julianna N. Cherinka
Honors Undergraduate Theses
In her 1929 essay "A Room of One's Own," Virginia Woolf famously asserts that "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction" (4). This concept places an immediate importance on the role of the Modernist female subject as an artist and as an architect, constructing the places and spaces that she exists within. With Woolf's argument as its point of departure, this thesis investigates the theme of female space in two Modernist texts: Nella Larsen's Quicksand (1928) and Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar (1963). The respective protagonists of Quicksand and …
