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Episode 8: Chris Perkowski, Thomas Kenny Mphil

Communication Students Podcasts

Professor Tom Kenny speaks with Chris Perkowski, current student. Chris is a communications major specializing in media. Chris talks about his home town, family, and communication studies.

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Episode 7: Karenlyn Baron, Thomas Kenny Mphil

Communication Students Podcasts

Professor Tom Kenny speaks with Karenlyn Barone, alumnus and web editor with the Molloy IT department. Karenlyn talks about her background and what made her an atypical communications student.

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Los Papeles Del Infierno, Enrique Buenaventura, Carlos Gardeazábal Bravo

Global Languages and Cultures Faculty Publications and Presentations

Enrique Buenaventura (1925-2003) hizo parte de la generación de artistas que conectó al país con la modernidad estética mediante un lenguaje propio, vinculando su trabajo con el de los grandes creadores de las vanguardias teatrales. Buenaventura impulsó la renovación del teatro colombiano junto a otros dramaturgos como Santiago García y Carlos José Reyes. Una de las mejores muestras de la producción de ese periodo es Los papeles del infierno, un ciclo de piezas en un acto compuesto originalmente por La maestra, La tortura, La autopsia, La audiencia, La requisa, El menú y El entierro -junto a La orgía, la cual …

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Clamor, Nick Norwood

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Episode 6: Mike Mendez, Thomas Kenny Mphil

Communication Students Podcasts

Professor Tom Kenny speaks with Mike Mendez, alumnus. Mike talks about the changes to the communications program since he graduated in 2008 and how the field has moved from "jack of all trades" professionals to specializations.

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Ethics In Practice: An Anthology, 4th Ed., Hugh Lafollette

Faculty Books

The fourth edition of Ethics in Practice offers an impressive collection of 70 new, revised, and classic essays covering 13 key ethical issues. Essays integrate ethical theory and the discussion of practical moral problems into a text that is ideal for introductory and applied ethics courses. A fully updated and revised edition of this authoritative anthology of classic and contemporary essays covering a wide range of ethical and moral issues Integrates ethical theory with discussions of practical moral problems, and includes three essays on theory written specifically for this volume Nearly half of the essays are written or revised exclusively …

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International Encyclopedia Of Ethics., Hugh Lafollette

Faculty Books

Unmatched in scholarship and scope, The International Encyclopedia of Ethics is the definitive single-source reference work on Ethics for students, scholars and professionals. Featuring coverage of the major philosophical, legal, and religious traditions, and addressing the topics, movements, key figures and arguments in Normative Ethics, Metaethics, and Practical Ethics, this reference offers an unprecedented level of authority, accuracy and balance.

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Confronting The Spectacle Of The Other (Than Human): Posthumanism And The Convergence Of Art, Aesthetics, And Ethics, Matthew Lerberg

English Dissertations - Archive

This project argues that humans should recognize the intersection of aesthetics and ethics in literature, film, and art that use or represent nonhuman animals. Too often, the right of artists to express their "message" trumps the ethical obligations humans should have to nonhumans. In this scenario, the materiality of nonhumans becomes subjugated to their role as semiotic content--as signs not bodies. Generally, this process of signification ignores the rich entanglements of history, biology, semiotics, materiality, and shared places. Also, this process can lead to negative consequences for nonhuman animals. In order to address these issues I posit a theory of …

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Positioning First-Year Composition: Hybrid Learning For Student Engagement And Sustainability, Lorie Stagg Jacobs

English Dissertations - Archive

This study uses quantitative and qualitative methodology to describe, and analyze the use of social media to create a blended learning environment in the first-year composition classroom. Findings indicate hybrid courses foster retention-minded best practices, increase student engagement in course material, extend concepts and assignments beyond the classroom, and encourage critical analysis of multiple media, thereby supporting the development of a digital literacy. Furthermore, I argue seizing participatory culture as a teaching and learning frontier positions First-Year Composition at the forefront of college retention efforts and provides connections to STEaM endeavors, raising the status of the field generally, and suggesting …

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The Tool/Maker: The Bird, The Cage, The Radio, The Sea, The Rock, The Eye, The Space, Johnny A. Stein

English Dissertations - Archive

As street politics began to operate academically after the civil rights eras, academic turns toward socio-constructive theories dominated critical philosophies of the subsequent eighties and nineties (especially in the West). This paper examines the linguistic turn in light of a New Digital World Millennium that is the continuation of the Rise of Science that emerged in the 17th century. Material voices that were overshadowed by linguistic or terministically-centered philosophies are today more than ever emergent through tool use. The wireless revolution of the late 19th century has today created technological tools at hand that are deeply impressing the human being-in-the-world, …

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The Pedagogy Of Conclusions: From Rhetorical Ancestry To Modern Composition With A Research Study On Pedagogy In The Classroom, Sarah E. Visser

English Theses - Archive

The main focus of my thesis is to uncover what students know about conclusions (from current pedagogy, composition textbooks, questionnaires and classroom research). I analyze what instructors are taught about conclusions and how this advice is based in the teachings of ancient rhetoricians. Then I detail how conclusions are covered in American college textbooks. Seeing the need for instructor material to teach conclusions, the next chapter gives multiple lesson plans teaching students to compose stronger and livelier conclusions. In the next chapter, I summarize my research employing some of these lesson plans and analyze student texts created before and after …

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Art At The End Of The World: Bioart And Posthuman Ethics In The Anthropocene, Sean Farrell

English Theses - Archive

Bioart is a vital contemporary aesthetic movement that involves the use of animate matter (such as animal bodies or DNA) and is generative of productive encounters between theoretical methodologies of posthumanism, new materialism, and continental philosophy. I analyze this fruitful intersection of ideas in the context of the Anthropocene in order to excavate the possibility for a posthuman ethical encounter between the artist, the artwork, and the audience. I examine a wide variety of bioartworks by artists such as Eduardo Kac, Damien Hirst, and BCL; I also provide an in-depth analysis of synthetic biology and its productive potential within the …

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Chaucer's De-Colonized Custance, Rod S. Sachs

English Theses - Archive

Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale (MLT) contains several non-Western views, religious practices, cultures and laws. Most importantly, within the MLT readers can discover an alternative to viewing non-Western people as enemies. By role-modeling the simple law of good, Custance becomes a hybridized queen who holds disparate contexts together. This essay blends postcolonial theory with decolonial options to show how Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale presents a less dehumanized narrative than most scholarship maintains, especially when compared to Nicholas Trive's version of the same story. Rather than vilifying the common foes of Christian Western Civilization, Chaucer's Custance demonstrates a de-colonization of …

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The Little White Dish Of My Faith: Anne Sexton, The Body, And Spirituality, Elizabeth J. Barbee

English Theses - Archive

This thesis examines how Anne Sexton pits the body and soul against one another in her poems. Her work suggests that these two facets of being are more than just benignly and fundamentally different: they are enemies. Her speaker continually vilifies the body by suggesting that its superficial needs obstruct the more wholesome and essential needs of the spirit. The thesis demonstrates that spirituality is the most resilient theme in Sexton's work and argues against critics who claim that the body is Sexton's central preoccupation.

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'Schyre Leuez' And Cesspits: An Ecocritical Reading Of Land Use And Apocalypse In Cleanness, Katelyn Jaynes

English Theses - Archive

This thesis examines land use and apocalypse in Cleanness in order to investigate how land use participates in the construction of medieval social and political systems and how the apocalyptic destruction the land acts out functions to make us question the primacy of the human in medieval thought. While some critics have discussed land use in the Pearl-Poet's works, they often discuss land in allegorical religious terms or in theories of space and place, rarely investigating the land's vital role in the construction of social and political order or its role in the preservation or destruction of mankind. This thesis …

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More Than Just A Piece In Their Games: Agency And The Docile Body In The Hunger Games And Reality Television, Kathleen Denison

English Theses - Archive

In recent years, with the rise of social media and normalized forms of surveillance there has been an increase in the visibility of how female bodies are policed within Western society. As the fight for women's rights over their own bodies continues there has been an increase in the number of strong female protagonists in Young Adult literature, particularly literature classified as dystopian. Contemporary young adult (YA) literature is now filled with characters, such as The Hunger Games' Katniss, that are taking on corrupt social institutions that represent exaggerated versions of those we quite regularly encounter in America. As many …

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The Hip-Hop Academy: "Let No One Ignorant Of' Poetry "Enter", Danny Joe Rodriguez

English Theses - Archive

I intend to explore the conceptual relationship between classical rhetoric and Hip-Hop. I will argue that Hip-Hop music embodies principles of classical rhetoric and applies rhetorical strategies, creating a space for a rhetorically Hip-Hop education. I am not claiming that Hip-Hop artists consciously incorporate principles of classical rhetoric, but I am arguing that principles of classical rhetoric are present in Hip-Hop.

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The Great War On Film: Examining The Cinematic Variations Of Three Films On The 1916 Battle Of The Somme, Nicole Denae Yarbrough

History Theses - Archive

Propaganda has been an integral part of human history, and while the documentation of conflict through film began in the middle of the nineteenth century, it was not until the First World War that the production and distribution of war films as propaganda became a mass phenomenon. Moving images of the war proliferated in all Western countries at an unprecedented rate. This thesis explores the role of wartime propaganda films in Britain, France, and Germany during the First World War by assessing the achievements and missteps of cinematic variations on the 1916 Battle of the Somme. Although these films achieved …

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Negotiating The Sacred In Secular Writing Spaces: The Rhetoric Of Religion In American University Composition Textbooks, Myra Lee Salcedo

English Dissertations - Archive

This project demonstrates that religion comes into through the classroom door not only through the embodiment of students and instructors, but via the academy itself through the university composition textbook. Publishers provided lists of top-selling American textbooks that are inventoried and analyzed and mapped along a timeline to indicate the absenting and presenting of religion. A suggested negotiation for the intersections of writing and religion is to view religion as a discourse community as is described by Shannon Carter.

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A Study In Married Women's Rights And Repatriation In The United States, The United Kingdom, And Latin America: Citizenship, Gender And The Law In Transatlantic Context, Stephanie Anne Mcintyre

History Dissertations - Archive

During the first half of the twentieth century, the United States and Great Britain, fearing the dramatic changes occurring in the Atlantic world due to increased migration and threats from war, denied many of their female citizens their natural-born right of citizenship. What was the reason for stripping these women of such a precious possession guaranteed by law? They married non-citizens. Without due process, the women could not be deprived of their citizenship, so laws were put into place proclaiming that when a woman married an alien man, she would automatically assume his citizenship. Because women did not have independent …

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Fear Of "Unnatural Acts": Law And Sexuality In London, 1500-1800, Ashley M. Umphenour

History Theses - Archive

Eighteenth-century London experienced a prosecution wave attempting to eradicate sodomy from the city. Discovered and exposed to the public by journalists, the "public outing" of molly houses and their patrons made them a target for the newly formed Societies for the Reformation of Manners. Through the analysis of Society-produced pamphlets, newspaper articles, and trial records, this thesis will show that a rise in Protestantism in England after the Glorious Revolution, along with the changes to masculinity in Europe, led to the prosecution wave against London's sodomites. While the organizations would eventually dissolve, the fear and hatred they helped to promote …

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How To Make A Foreign Idea Your Own: Argentine Identity And The Role Soccer Played In Its Formation, Brandon Todd Blakeslee

History Theses - Archive

Since Spanish-speaking Latin America achieved independence from Spain the question has been whether to follow the North American or European example. Do the new republics embrace the Old World with its aristocracy or the meritocracy of the United States? To choose one, was to dismiss the other, or so the debate went. However, there are points of contact between the Old-and-New Worlds.Argentine soccer proves a potent example of something that is not wholly one or the other but a combination of both. Though developed exclusively in England, Argentina claims soccer as their national sport. A truly pervasive concept, all parts …

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The Potential Of Posthumanism: Reimagining Utopia Through Bellamy, Atwood, And Slonczewski, Jacob Aaron Mckeever

English Theses - Archive

In this thesis, I focus on posthumanist theory, utopia, and the evolving portrayal of technology in the novels of Edward Bellamy, Margaret Atwood, and Joan Slonczewski. The main argument of this thesis is that there is a posthumanist potential within utopia that can be seen as fermenting within Bellamy's Looking Backward as a way to eliminate social stratification, showing potentiality within Atwood's Oryx and Crake as a way to open up an other-than-human agency in the form of transgenic organisms, and becoming fully realized in Slonczewski's A Door Into Ocean through an all-female, alien civilization that is fully grounded in …

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A Labor Of Love: A Social And Literary History Of The Blue Cloud Quarterly, Bethany Ann Yardy

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This thesis will explore the literary and historical context of a small magazine publication entitled the Blue Cloud Quarterly. The first publication of its kind to focus entirely on Native American poetry, the BCQ played a significant role in shifting the canon of American literature towards diverse voices and experiences. Contemporary scholars have largely overlooked the publication's critical contribution, but its influence on the Native American literary resurgence of the late 20th century was profound.The BCQ was published during a time of intense change in the Roman Catholic Church both on a global and local level among the Native American …

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The Phoenix Rises At The University Of Chicago, Jeff Rasley

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Jeff Rasley’s essay “The Phoenix Rises at the University of Chicago” revels in the glory days of his old college football team, torn between the multiple goalposts of athleticism, social progressiveness and intellectualism.

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The Mutual Influences Of Law, Medicine, And Fictional Literature Regarding The Disposition Of A Somnambulist In Eighteenth And Nineteenth Century Literature, Meghan Self

English Theses - Archive

Somnambulism derives from the Latin words somnus- sleep and ambulare- to walk around, meaning a person appears to conduct waking actions, but is actually asleep. Classified as a disease, somnambulism raises questions of its possible causes and cures, as well as what constitutes the difference between the conscious and unconscious mind. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, medical physicians were beginning to explore somnambulism as well as other mental disorders in more depth than in previous years. It is interesting to note that during the time of medical research on these diseases, fictional Gothic writers were also beginning to incorporate …

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Continuing Narratives Of The Pharmakos: Trans-Ethical Perspectives Through The Liminal Performativity Of Material Agencies In Drug Genre Film, Audrey Haferkamp

English Theses - Archive

In American film and television, the drug user or producer is often associated with narratives of the pharmakos, or "scapegoat," seemingly serving to expel the contamination of American identity and ethics. By analyzing the critically acclaimed TV series Breaking Bad and Nurse Jackie, I examine how these popular culture series are influenced by, or influence, apparatuses involving drugs, New Materialist theories, and more broadly, ethical values. Specifically, I examine how these TV series deconstruct classic narratives and depict ethical relationships with the pharmakos through a New Materialist understanding of the liminal agencies between human and nonhuman matter. More specifically, I …

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Cord Of Empire, Exotic Intoxicant: Hemp And Culture In The Atlantic World, 1600-1900, Bradley Jahan Borougerdi

History Dissertations - Archive

Hemp is a genetically diverse plant that has been used by a variety of different cultures for different purposes over the course of thousands of years. Until the nineteenth century, though, most Europeans understood it to be the source of a durable fiber or a common medicinal seed. People living in exotic places that westerners monolithically referred to as the Orient, however, valued the plant for its intoxicating qualities, and the encounters that took place between these different cultures dramatically transformed the meaning of hemp in the English-speaking Atlantic from an important strategic commodity to a banned intoxicant. The transformation …

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Lustration Legislation In Eastern Europe And Its Meaning For The Western World, Yan Valerievich Vuks

History Theses - Archive

Lustration policies spread widely across Eastern Europe in the early 1990's after the fall of the Communism when most of the post-Communist states of Eastern Europe employed a strategy of purging the former Communists from the state apparatus with the help of `lustration' laws. The countries of Eastern Europe developed different approaches to lustration, and the practices adopted by Germany, Czechoslovakia and Estonia demonstrated a great degree of variety. The great influence of the lustration policy on societies of the Eastern European countries makes it necessary to rethink the very concept of lustration. The important issue of self-lustration expands the …

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Ghosts Of The Horseshoe, Heidi Rae Cooley, Richard Walker, Duncan Buell

Digital Projects

Ghosts of the Horseshoe (Ghosts) is a mobile interactive application that endeavors to bring into view--literally, on mobile micro screens (iPads and iPhones at present)--the largely unknown history of slavery at South Carolina College. It deploys game mechanics (i.e., ludic methods), as well as Augmented Reality (AR) and GPS functionality to generate awareness of and questioning about what otherwise seems ordinary: a grassy space at the center of a university campus. It organizes content into distinct but overlapping themes: (1) architectural ghosts (e.g., razed outbuildings); (2) human ghosts (e.g., un/named enslaved persons); and (3) the historic Wall delimiting the Horseshoe …

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Episode 8: Chris Perkowski, Thomas Kenny Mphil

Communication Students Podcasts

Episode 7: Karenlyn Baron, Thomas Kenny Mphil

Communication Students Podcasts

Los Papeles Del Infierno, Enrique Buenaventura, Carlos Gardeazábal Bravo

Global Languages and Cultures Faculty Publications and Presentations

Clamor, Nick Norwood

Faculty Bibliography

Episode 6: Mike Mendez, Thomas Kenny Mphil

Communication Students Podcasts

Ethics In Practice: An Anthology, 4th Ed., Hugh Lafollette

Faculty Books

International Encyclopedia Of Ethics., Hugh Lafollette

Faculty Books

Confronting The Spectacle Of The Other (Than Human): Posthumanism And The Convergence Of Art, Aesthetics, And Ethics, Matthew Lerberg

English Dissertations - Archive

Positioning First-Year Composition: Hybrid Learning For Student Engagement And Sustainability, Lorie Stagg Jacobs

English Dissertations - Archive

The Tool/Maker: The Bird, The Cage, The Radio, The Sea, The Rock, The Eye, The Space, Johnny A. Stein

English Dissertations - Archive

The Pedagogy Of Conclusions: From Rhetorical Ancestry To Modern Composition With A Research Study On Pedagogy In The Classroom, Sarah E. Visser

English Theses - Archive

Art At The End Of The World: Bioart And Posthuman Ethics In The Anthropocene, Sean Farrell

English Theses - Archive

Chaucer's De-Colonized Custance, Rod S. Sachs

English Theses - Archive

The Little White Dish Of My Faith: Anne Sexton, The Body, And Spirituality, Elizabeth J. Barbee

English Theses - Archive

'Schyre Leuez' And Cesspits: An Ecocritical Reading Of Land Use And Apocalypse In Cleanness, Katelyn Jaynes

English Theses - Archive

More Than Just A Piece In Their Games: Agency And The Docile Body In The Hunger Games And Reality Television, Kathleen Denison

English Theses - Archive

The Hip-Hop Academy: "Let No One Ignorant Of' Poetry "Enter", Danny Joe Rodriguez

English Theses - Archive

The Great War On Film: Examining The Cinematic Variations Of Three Films On The 1916 Battle Of The Somme, Nicole Denae Yarbrough

History Theses - Archive

Negotiating The Sacred In Secular Writing Spaces: The Rhetoric Of Religion In American University Composition Textbooks, Myra Lee Salcedo

English Dissertations - Archive

A Study In Married Women's Rights And Repatriation In The United States, The United Kingdom, And Latin America: Citizenship, Gender And The Law In Transatlantic Context, Stephanie Anne Mcintyre

History Dissertations - Archive

Fear Of "Unnatural Acts": Law And Sexuality In London, 1500-1800, Ashley M. Umphenour

History Theses - Archive

How To Make A Foreign Idea Your Own: Argentine Identity And The Role Soccer Played In Its Formation, Brandon Todd Blakeslee

History Theses - Archive

The Potential Of Posthumanism: Reimagining Utopia Through Bellamy, Atwood, And Slonczewski, Jacob Aaron Mckeever

English Theses - Archive

A Labor Of Love: A Social And Literary History Of The Blue Cloud Quarterly, Bethany Ann Yardy

English Theses - Archive

The Phoenix Rises At The University Of Chicago, Jeff Rasley

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

The Mutual Influences Of Law, Medicine, And Fictional Literature Regarding The Disposition Of A Somnambulist In Eighteenth And Nineteenth Century Literature, Meghan Self

English Theses - Archive

Continuing Narratives Of The Pharmakos: Trans-Ethical Perspectives Through The Liminal Performativity Of Material Agencies In Drug Genre Film, Audrey Haferkamp

English Theses - Archive

Cord Of Empire, Exotic Intoxicant: Hemp And Culture In The Atlantic World, 1600-1900, Bradley Jahan Borougerdi

History Dissertations - Archive

Lustration Legislation In Eastern Europe And Its Meaning For The Western World, Yan Valerievich Vuks

History Theses - Archive

Ghosts Of The Horseshoe, Heidi Rae Cooley, Richard Walker, Duncan Buell

Digital Projects