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Organizing For Antiracism In Writing Centers: Principles For Enacting Social Change, Moira Ozias, Beth Godbee Oct 2011

Organizing For Antiracism In Writing Centers: Principles For Enacting Social Change, Moira Ozias, Beth Godbee

English Faculty Research and Publications

We move through the chapter in three parts. First, we define organizing and answer the question of whether we in writing centers should do this work by showing how we already are. Second, we identify guiding principles consistent with the aims of antiracism as well as the collaborative and dialogic pedagogies of writing centers. Drawing on cross-disciplinary research, we articulate three frameworks for organizing: (1) direct action organizing (Bobo, Kendall, and Max 2001); (2) a balance of strategies and tactics (Alinsky 1945; Mathieu 2005); and (3) a dialectic approach (Papa, Singhal, and Papa 2006). We find the most potential in …


Fighting A War You've Already Lost: Zombies And Zombis In Firefly/Serenity And Dollhouse, Gerry Canavan Oct 2011

Fighting A War You've Already Lost: Zombies And Zombis In Firefly/Serenity And Dollhouse, Gerry Canavan

English Faculty Research and Publications

This article explores the use of zombie imagery in two sf narratives created by Joss Whedon: Firefly (US 2002–3), Serenity (US 2005) and Dollhouse (US 2009–10). The translation of the zombie from its traditional horror-movie context to the far-future space opera of Firefly/Serenity and the near-future cyberpunk of Dollhouse reveals the zombie's allegorisation of the consequences of biopolitical governmentality and neoliberal capitalism. In both series zombies function as a figure for both the dehumanisation caused by state and market forces and the possibility of Utopian resistance to these forces.


Reading Tehran In Lolita: Seizing Literary Value For Neoliberal Multiculturalism, Jodi Melamed Sep 2011

Reading Tehran In Lolita: Seizing Literary Value For Neoliberal Multiculturalism, Jodi Melamed

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Preface [To Speculative Fictions, A Special Issue Of American Literature], Gerry Canavan Jun 2011

Preface [To Speculative Fictions, A Special Issue Of American Literature], Gerry Canavan

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Serious Extravagance: Romance Writing In Seventeenth-Century England, Amelia Zurcher Jun 2011

Serious Extravagance: Romance Writing In Seventeenth-Century England, Amelia Zurcher

English Faculty Research and Publications

Although little recognized as such, the 17th century was a period of great energy and experimentation in British prose fiction, particularly romance. After a brief review of the criticism that has shaped our understanding of romance in the last few decades, this article considers some of the particular problems and tensions defining prose romance in its last great heyday, the Civil War and early Restoration period. French and English romance writers attributed to romance the capacity to be a more flexible and persuasive mode of historical writing than history itself, a storehouse of ‘examples’ both fictional and historical with which …


Review [Of Peter West's Arbiters Of Reality: Hawthorne, Melville, And The Rise Of Mass Information Culture], Sarah Wadsworth May 2011

Review [Of Peter West's Arbiters Of Reality: Hawthorne, Melville, And The Rise Of Mass Information Culture], Sarah Wadsworth

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Amitav Ghosh And The Aesthetic Turn In Postcolonial Studies, John Su Apr 2011

Amitav Ghosh And The Aesthetic Turn In Postcolonial Studies, John Su

English Faculty Research and Publications

This essay explores the "aesthetic turn" in postcolonial studies in light of the literary works of Indo-Burmese author Amitav Ghosh. While a renewed interest in aesthetic theories is apparent throughout the humanities in the past decade, it is particularly striking in postcolonial studies, where it holds out the possibility of blending the materialist/historicist and culturalist/textualist strands of postcolonial scholarship. Recent studies by Deepika Bahri, Nicholas Brown, Ato Quayson and others have been enormously promising; this essay argues for bringing their Frankfurt School-influenced aesthetic theories into conversation with other theories of aesthetics. Particular attention in this essay is given to the …


Thrifting, Angela Sorby Apr 2011

Thrifting, Angela Sorby

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Woman's Building Library, U.S. Titles (Access Database), Sarah Wadsworth, Wayne A. Wiegand, Melodie Fox Jan 2011

Woman's Building Library, U.S. Titles (Access Database), Sarah Wadsworth, Wayne A. Wiegand, Melodie Fox

English Faculty Research and Publications

Long recognized as a cultural watershed and touchstone of modernity, the World's Fair held in Chicago in 1893 was also the site of the first large-scale international library of writing by women, the result of years of planning and cooperation by women's organizations in twenty-four countries around the world. This database contains bibliographic records for all of the items submitted to the Woman's Building Library by committees of women in the United States. The foundation of the database is a shelf-list of titles that was prepared onsite in 1893 and preserved long after the original collection was disbanded. With support …


The Golden Age, Angela Sorby Jan 2011

The Golden Age, Angela Sorby

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


The Dissonant Bible Quotation: Political And Narrative Dissension In Gaskell's Mary Barton, Jon Singleton Ph.D. Jan 2011

The Dissonant Bible Quotation: Political And Narrative Dissension In Gaskell's Mary Barton, Jon Singleton Ph.D.

English Faculty Research and Publications

Religious language exerted multivalent force in Victorian society, as this case study of Gaskell’s novel Mary Barton, Chartist political protest, and the weaponization of the Bible in contemporary social struggle makes clear. Scholars have established that different classes read the Bible differently; but I demonstrate how Gaskell makes the Bible read in several different ways for the same reader. Gaskell makes Bible quotations dissonant through her use of character and narration, in order to challenge the boundaries of readers’ political sympathies. This study shows how any religious utterance escapes the control and political interests of any class—and how its conflicting …


Where The Evidence Leads: Teaching Gothic Novels And The Law, Diane Hoeveler Jan 2011

Where The Evidence Leads: Teaching Gothic Novels And The Law, Diane Hoeveler

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Refusing To Write Like Henry James: Women Reforming Realism In Fin-De-Siècle America, Sarah Wadsworth Jan 2011

Refusing To Write Like Henry James: Women Reforming Realism In Fin-De-Siècle America, Sarah Wadsworth

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


The Narrative Turn Against Metaphor: Metonymy, Identification, And Roger Boyle's Parthenissa, Amelia Zurcher Jan 2011

The Narrative Turn Against Metaphor: Metonymy, Identification, And Roger Boyle's Parthenissa, Amelia Zurcher

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


The Complex Past The Door: A Life Of James Liddy, Tyler Farrell Jan 2011

The Complex Past The Door: A Life Of James Liddy, Tyler Farrell

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Student-Generated Evaluation Criteria, Beth Godbee Jan 2011

Student-Generated Evaluation Criteria, Beth Godbee

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Germaine De Staël’S Corinne, Or Italy And The Performances Of Romanticism(S), Diane Hoeveler Jan 2011

Germaine De Staël’S Corinne, Or Italy And The Performances Of Romanticism(S), Diane Hoeveler

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Review Of Nonconformist Women Writers, 1720-1840, Part I, Christine Krueger Jan 2011

Review Of Nonconformist Women Writers, 1720-1840, Part I, Christine Krueger

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Teaching Raymond Carver Through Pacific Northwest Music, Angela Sorby Jan 2011

Teaching Raymond Carver Through Pacific Northwest Music, Angela Sorby

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


The Poetics Of Bird-Defense, 1860-1918, Angela Sorby Jan 2011

The Poetics Of Bird-Defense, 1860-1918, Angela Sorby

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


The Gothic Chapbook And The Urban Reader, Diane L. Hoeveler Jan 2011

The Gothic Chapbook And The Urban Reader, Diane L. Hoeveler

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.