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Pear Tree - (1st Place Winner), Bridget Yates

Goldenrod Poetry Festival

No abstract provided.

The Same-Different / Paradise Drive / Reveille / Love's Labors, David Mcloghlin

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 167-186

Editor’S Foreword: The Need For “Deep Engagement”: Robert Penn Warren, Malcolm X, And Ta-Nehisi Coates, Mark D. Miller

Robert Penn Warren Studies

No abstract provided.

The Edible Heart: Obliteration And Awe In The Poetry Of Barbara Ras, Eric Smith

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 18-27

Flinging The Apron And Tearing The Kerchief: Janie Crawford's Gestures In Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Madeline Elizabeth Celley

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In this thesis, I argue that in her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston demonstrates protagonist Janie Crawford's development through her use of gesture. As the narrative moves throughout Janie's life, she becomes progressively able to communicate her feelings and desires through the use of her body's movements. By depicting Janie's subjectivity as fundamentally embodied, Hurston indicates an awareness of the cultural oppression Janie suffers, linking her body to those of women in the past that suffered as slaves. She draws attention to Janie's body by relying on her gestures in order to emphasize the …

Precipitate, Erin Redfern

Bryant Literary Review

He had it in the bag.

He could have drawn

the string.

Leveraging The Methodological Affordances Of Facebook: A Model Of Social Networking Strategy In Longitudinal Writing Research, Jenna Sheffield, Amy C. Kimme Hea

English Faculty Publications

While composition studies researchers have examined the ways social media are impacting our lives inside and outside of the classroom, less attention has been given to the ways in which social media—specifically Social Network Sites (SNSs)—may enhance our own research methods and methodologies by helping to combat research participant attrition and build a community around a research project. In this article, we share some of the successes and shortfalls of using SNSs for research purposes, based on our own experiences using Facebook in the context of our writing program’s Longitudinal Study of Student Writers. Specifically, we present five considerations related …

Thinking Beyond Tools: Writing Program Administration And Digital Literacy, Jenna Sheffield

English Faculty Publications

Drawing on survey data from 70 Writing Program Administrators (WPAs), I describe how digital literacy is being theorized and practiced in a broad range of writing programs across the U.S. Because this study offers a glimpse of values and practices across programs with a variety of resources and challenges, the study results— which demonstrate in what ways WPAs value and are integrating digital literacies — can help other WPAs argue for resources, get ideas, defend practices in their own programs, or ensure that students in their programs will receive similar experiences as others across the country. At the same time, …

Biopolitical Education: The Edukators And The Politics Of The Immanent Outside, Roland K. Vegso, Marco Abel

Department of English: Faculty Publications

The article examines the relationship of biopower and cinema through the analysis of a specific film, Hans Weingartner’s The Edukators (2004). It argues that in the age of biopower, resistance to power cannot be conceived of in terms of a radical outside to power. Rather, biopolitical resistance must take place on the terrain of this power itself, that is, within the field of life. Therefore, what we call the “viral” politics of The Edukators must be interpreted precisely in this context. The film argues that the exhaustion of political paradigms inherited from the past century forces us to take the …

Parnassus 2016

Parnassus

The 2016 edition of the student literary journal, Parnassus, published by Taylor University in Upland, Indiana.

Nocturne: Starting Right Now, Tina Cane

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 54-55

The Lotus-Eater, Brandon Courtney

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 65-66

My Late Mother Tours The Egyptian Wing, Debora Greger

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 88-89

Rush Of Pulse And Song, Laura Van Prooyen

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 145

Birmingham Poetry Review 43 (End Matter), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 205-221

Vestibule, L S. Asekoff

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 45-47

The Power Of Form In Henry Medwall's Fulgens And Lucres, Vanessa Gerring

Undergraduate Review

No abstract provided.

Torment Of The Repressed: Race And The Gothic In Hannah Crafts' And Charles Chesnutt's Fiction, Sharrisse Viltus

Undergraduate Review

No abstract provided.

Sex On The Body: Representation Of The Queer Individual In Alison Bechdel's Fun Home, Samantha Correia

Undergraduate Review

No abstract provided.

Negotiating Gender And Sexuality In Contemporary Turkey, Jaspal Kaur Singh, Mary Lou O'Neil

Books

Turkey is often visualized as a modern nation-state having a perfect balance of Eastern and Western cultural mores and traditions within dominant ideological constructions and representations, but on closer inspection, one can detect conflicts and contradictions within various texts—particularly in regards to depictions of gender and sexual identity. Upon its foundation as a nation, Turkey embarked on a state-centered, elite-driven path toward modernization and Westernization while also seeking to produce a monolithic culture. At the time, it was widely believed that Turkey could not rank among modern,

Western countries without the emancipation of women. As a result of the founding …