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Charles W. Bolen Faculty Recital Series: Kimberly Risinger, Flute; Paul Nolen, Alto Saxophone; Katherine Lewis, Viola; Adrianna Ransom, Cello; September 17, 2017, Kimberly Risinger, Paul Nolen, Katherine Lewis, Adriana Ransom

School of Music Programs

Kemp Recital Hall
September 17, 2017
Sunday Afternoon
4:00 p.m.

Guest Artist Recital: Derek Brown, Saxophone; September 13, 2017, Derek Brown

School of Music Programs

Kemp Recital Hall
September 13, 2017
Wednesday Evening
7:30 p.m.

School Of Music Faculty/Staff Newsletter, September 2017, School Of Music

School of Music Faculty/Staff Newsletter

Accomplishments and news from the faculty and staff of the School of Music at Illinois State University.

Faculty Recital: Justin Vickers, Tenor; R. Kent Cook, Piano; Geoffrey Duce, Piano; September 1, 2017, Justin Vickers, R. Kent Cook, Geoffrey Duce

School of Music Programs

Center for Performing Arts Concert Hall
September 1, 2017
8:00 p.m.

Jury Recognition, August 28, 2017, School Of Music

School of Music Programs

Kemp Recital Hall
August 28, 2017
Monday Evening
7:30 p.m.

La Giuditta And Other Selections: Daniel Shuetz, Countertenor; Patricia Foltz, Piano And Harpsichord; David Gresham, Bass Clarinet; Judith Dicker, Oboe D'Amore; August 27, 2017, Daniel Schuetz, Patricia Foltz, David Gresham, Judith Dicker

School of Music Programs

Center for the Performing Arts
Sunday Afternoon
August 27, 2017
3:00 p.m.

2017 Illinois Shakespeare Festival Program, School Of Theatre And Dance

Illinois Shakespeare Festival

40th Season. The Theatre at Ewing. A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare. Shakespeare's Amazing Cymbeline by William Shakespeare. I Heart Juliet by Q Brothers Collective.

Images Of Women In Refugee Drama: Eve Ensler’S Necessary Targets And Ellen Mclaughlin’S The Trojan Women, Kaitlyn Tossie

Theses and Dissertations

In the past ten years, a critique of the conceptualization of refugees in Western mass media has emerged as a developing discourse in response to post-20th century genocides. Photographs in mass media of wailing refugees began to appear in the early 1990s when reports of the Bosnian genocide appeared in the United States. These images, and the stereotypes that surround them, contribute to the universal depiction of refugees as weak. Though the way in which theatre comments on this conceptualization of refugees has largely been ignored, theatre has a unique ability to comment on, reflect, and create a culture that …

Over The Ropes: Boundary Play In Professional Wrestling, Ethan Ingram

Theses and Dissertations

Within the anthropology of performance, scholars have traditionally considered theater, spectacle, sport, and ritual performances in terms of the discrete boundaries of space and time that separate these events from daily life and in terms of the disparate roles that demarcate performers from audience members. Professional wrestling, a popular performance genre in the American Midwest, exhibits features that challenge these boundaries through the collaborative construction of the event by performers and audience members. Audience interaction is an essential part of wrestling performances, characterized by routine and contextually understood behaviors that performers can process as evaluative feedback. Moreover, during wrestling matches, …

My Beloved Man: The Letters Of Benjamin Britten And Peter Pears Ed. By Vicki P. Stroeher, Nicholas Clark, Jude Brimmer (Review), Justin Vickers

Faculty Publications - Music

No abstract provided.

Enabling Pain, Enabling Insight: Opening Up Possibilities For Chronic Pain In Disability Rhetoric And Rhetoric And Composition, Hilary Selznick

Theses and Dissertations

In the dissertation “Enabling Pain, Enabling Insight: Opening up Possibilities for Chronic Pain in Disability Rhetoric and Rhetoric and Composition,” Hilary Selznick argues that pain is rhetorical, accessible, and communicable to those without the lived experience of chronic pain. Additionally, she argues for the necessity of considering chronic pain as a disability and not merely as a symptom of a disability. In order to make these arguments possible, Selznick crafts a political-relational-rhetorical methodology that challenges restrictive models of disability and theoretical and commonplace assumptions that pain is resistant to language. Specifically, Selznick’s methodology, which combines disability scholar and activist Alison …

Considering The Body: Sexual Agency And Material Selfhood In Alex As Well, Karlie Rodriguez

Theses and Dissertations

In this thesis, I examine the tensions between intersex embodiment and trans* identity, intersex children and their parents, and the intimacies that come out of these relationships – which, I argue, are ultimately queer. Using queer, trans*, and intersex theory, as well as feminist new materialisms, I highlight the ways in which the imbrications of the material and the symbolic are presented in Alyssa Brugman’s contemporary Young Adult novel, Alex as Well. The goal of this analysis is to encourage a separation from binary thinking and explore the possibility of nonbinary identifications in literature – more specifically, literature with intersex …

Canvases Of Representation: Addressing The Cultural Politics Of Black Male Superhero Identity In Graphic Narratives, Danielle L. Cochran

Theses and Dissertations

Canvases of Representation: Addressing the Cultural Politics of Black Male Superheroes Identity in Graphic Narratives is an analytical literary mixtape dedicated to Black male superheroes Black Panther, Luke Cage, and Black Lightning. Cochran draws out how superheroes play a role in the socio-political, identity, and cultural representations Black identity. The work argues that what is not just the symbolic/cultural destruction of the Black image in popular culture but how such representations provide a template for how the Black body is actively managed, controlled, surveilled, and contained in the material world. Examining these figures through the blended genres of Afrofuturism, film, …

School Of Music Faculty/Staff Newsletter, May 2017, School Of Music

School of Music Faculty/Staff Newsletter

Accomplishments and news from the faculty and staff of the School of Music at Illinois State University.

Believing Mary Karr, Stephanie Rae Guedet

Theses and Dissertations

Believing Mary Karr examines how belief, represented in the memoirs of Mary Karr, works in our contemporary moment. This examination is supported by the argument that our identities and the stories we tell about them are always constructions of belief, and that these beliefs are ultimately relational, enacted in the intersubjective relationship between writers and readers of autobiography. This dissertation provides the fields of both rhetoric and life writing studies not only an awareness of how ideas about belief—how beliefs about belief—have already shaped our scholarly imagination but also the possibilities a rhetoric of belief can offer to future conversations …

We Will Never Die: The Jewish Presence On Broadway During World War Ii, Sally E. Parry

Faculty Publications – English

This paper was delivered at the Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, held in San Diego, CA on April 14, 2017.

( Re ) Claiming History And Visibility Through Rhetorical Sovereignty: The Power Of Diné Rhetorics In The Works Of Laura Tohe, Jessica Marie Safran Hoover

Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation investigates the intricate intersections of code switching, trickster discourse and rhetorical sovereignty in the scholarship of Diné author Laura Tohe, as Tohe operationalizes survivance and alliance in complex ways, ways that “actuate a presence” in the face of ongoing attempts to render American Indian peoples absent from American rhetorical, literary, and geographic landscapes. Existing research in American Indian literatures and rhetorics often focus on the need for reclaiming rhetorical sovereignty. Yet, little work has been done to emphasize connections between the use of code switching, translation, and trickster discourse in order to give visibility to past and contemporary …

Harvest, School Of Theatre And Dance

Programs - Theatre, Dance, and Film

By Manjula Padmanabhan

Productions took place April 14, 15, 18-22, 2017

1776, School Of Theatre And Dance, School Of Music

Programs - Theatre, Dance, and Film

Music and lyrics by Sherman Edwards

Productions took place March 3 - March 5, March 7-10, 2017

The Heresy Of Love, School Of Theatre And Dance

Programs - Theatre, Dance, and Film

By Helen Edmundson's

Productions took place March 31st. April 1st-2nd and April 4th-8th, 2017

Spring Dance Concert, 2017, School Of Theatre And Dance

Programs - Theatre, Dance, and Film

April 27–28 at 7:30 p.m.
April 29 at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
April 30 at 2 p.m., 2017

Listing of shows for the 2016-2017 season

Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead, School Of Theatre And Dance

Programs - Theatre, Dance, and Film

By Tom Stoppard

Productions took place February 17th, 18th, 19th, and February 21st-25th, 2017

Red Note New Music Festival Poster, 2017, School Of Music, Carl Schimmel, Roy Magnuson

Red Note New Music Festival

The RED NOTE New Music Festival at Illinois State University is a week-long event which features outstanding performances of contemporary concert music.

Red Note New Music Festival Composition Competition Announcement, 2017, School Of Music, Carl Schimmel, Roy Magnuson

Red Note New Music Festival

The RED NOTE New Music Festival at Illinois State University is a week-long event which features outstanding performances of contemporary concert music.

School Of Music Faculty/Staff Newsletter, April 2017, School Of Music

School of Music Faculty/Staff Newsletter

Accomplishments and news from the faculty and staff of the School of Music at Illinois State University.

Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter, Vol. 25, No. 2, The Sinclair Lewis Society

Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter

“Sinclair Lewis Conference 2017: Lewis in Business and Politics”

“Sinclair Lewis’s Romantic Role-Playing: Reading the Lewis Correspondence to Marcella Powers (1939-1947),” by Constance M. Perry, St. Cloud State University

“Lewis’s Problems Are Still Our Problems,” A Review of Sinclair Lewis and American Democracy by Steven Michels,” by Ralph Goldstein, California State University-Los Angeles

“‘Publicist in Fiction’: Sinclair Lewis’s Use of Rhetorical and Newspaper Style Forms in Babbitt,” by Narine Zakaryan and Ann Yeganyan, Yerevan State University, Armenia

“Roger Forseth, Acclaimed Lewis Scholar, Dies”

“The Many Lives of Floyd Dell,” by Ted Fleener, Waterloo Community Schools (retired)

“It Can’t …

The Snozzle Factory, Jeremy Michael Lampe

Theses and Dissertations

The "Snozzle Factory" is a sculptural installation that includes glass, clay, metal, wood and cast paper. It is a representation of an imaginary factory that produces objects that are to be determined by the viewer. The portrayal of time, decay and movement are the primary goals of this installation. It is my attempt to transport the viewer to a different world.

The Third Coast, Catherine Jane Davis

Theses and Dissertations

The Third Coast is a photographic exploration of the vernacular landscape of the US Gulf Coast. Stretching some 1,600 miles from the mouth of the Rio Grande in Texas to the Florida Everglades, America's southernmost shore is vast and complex. The region is a patchwork of both the natural and built environments, a tangled combination of history and geography, culture and ecology that reflects an intimate and ever-evolving relationship between man, land and sea. The Gulf Coast resists tidy hierarchies or easy classification. Rather, the rhythms of the region comprise its own syntax, a way in which seemingly dissimilar locations …

Sunday Dinner, George Dominic Barreca

Theses and Dissertations

ABSTRACT

Archeology often evaluates social class through the symbolism and refinement of ceramic pottery. Recording undecorated and decorated vessels placed within a spectrum, determines a social economy through the Ceramic Value Index. Austere, robust earthenware is usually considered peasantry or lower class whereas fine, opulent porcelain is categorized under the vessels of aristocracy or affluence. I am interested in utilizing this historical method to consider use, decoration, and value through the lens of the contemporary working class.

In my work, I employ simple molds and hand-building techniques to define a process that relates to the “economy of means” found within …

Seeking The Invisible, Alexis Bragg

Theses and Dissertations

Seeking The Invisible is a photography portrait series which explores the internal context of those suffering from invisible illness. This body of work examines the interior worlds of those often stigmatized as “outsiders,” and those who seek to be acknowledged beyond their illness. When one is told of another’s physical malady with no visible indicators of a problem, skepticism or outright disbelief is an unfortunately likely response. By asking my subjects “What would a portrait of your life look like?” I sought to observe the interior world of this subset and empower my subjects as something more than their illness.