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Alterity As A Mirror Of Identity: Primo Levi’S Self Representation In Other People’S Trades, Ilona Klein Jan 2024

Alterity As A Mirror Of Identity: Primo Levi’S Self Representation In Other People’S Trades, Ilona Klein

Faculty Publications

Primo Levi reveals much about himself in the fifty-one short essays of L’altrui mestiere (Other People’s Trades). This study analyzes L’altrui mestiere as the awareness of the “self” through the observation of “otherness” — other people, but also other living beings which are not human (mammalian animals and insects), others as minerals, and others as hypotheses, theories, writings, microcosmic or macrocosmic conceptions that Levi uses to weave a discourse of “alterity” as a mirror of “identity.” L’altrui mestiere’s narrative pattern revolves around contrasts and comparisons between the familiar and the unfamiliar, the canny and the uncanny, the …


Reflections On Williamson On Logic And Validity, Graham Priest Jan 2024

Reflections On Williamson On Logic And Validity, Graham Priest

Publications and Research

Over many years now, Tim Williamson and I have engaged in debates over fundamental issues concerning logic. On some things, we have disagreed strongly; on others, we have agreed.


Social Atomism And Its Problems – Metaphysical And Political, Graham Priest Jan 2024

Social Atomism And Its Problems – Metaphysical And Political, Graham Priest

Publications and Research

Social atomism is a view that informs much contemporary social thinking. Drawing on arguments from Marxism and Buddhism, I will argue that it is false, and explore the consequences of this for a number of issues, notably those related to the ideology of capitalism.


Grid Culture, Eliot Bates, Arseni Troitski Jan 2024

Grid Culture, Eliot Bates, Arseni Troitski

Publications and Research

In this essay, we provide our initial ethnographic research about lines, which at a superficial level can be considered a platform, but which is also synonymous with a community of 8800 users, and with 606k unique posts authored by these users that in aggregate constitute a discourse network (Aufschreibesysteme, see Kittler 1990). lines—as platform, community, and discourse network—is primarily designed to support the development, documentation and user-generated code efforts specific to a set of hardware synthesis-related objects (the two we will focus on are called Norns and Grid; we’ll discuss what they are and what they do through the subsequent …


Developing Students’ Post-Pandemic Global Competencies Through Sustainable Humanities, Thyra E. Knapp, Rebecca Weaver-Hightower, Melissa Gjellstad Jan 2024

Developing Students’ Post-Pandemic Global Competencies Through Sustainable Humanities, Thyra E. Knapp, Rebecca Weaver-Hightower, Melissa Gjellstad

Languages & Global Studies Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


(2024) Justus Buchler And The Community Of Query., Maughn Rollins Gregory Jan 2024

(2024) Justus Buchler And The Community Of Query., Maughn Rollins Gregory

Collected Papers of Maughn Rollins Gregory

Before he originated the field of philosophy for children, Matthew Lipman spent nearly twenty years teaching at Columbia University and its affiliated colleges under the tutelage of the American philosopher Justus Buchler. In those years Lipman’s scholarship focused on Buchler’s naturalist metaphysics, which was informed by Buchler’s scholarship on the philosophy of Charles Peirce. In this essay I relate Lipman’s relationship with Buchler, summarise Buchler’s theory of human judgement, and indicate key parts of that theory that influenced Lipman’s own theory of judgement and multidimensional thinking. I then discuss the pedagogical turn Buchler made with his theory, including his conception …


Ship Shaping: How Congress And Industry Influenced U.S. Naval Acquisitions From 1933-1938, Henry H. Carroll Jan 2024

Ship Shaping: How Congress And Industry Influenced U.S. Naval Acquisitions From 1933-1938, Henry H. Carroll

Harvey M. Applebaum ’59 Award

Studying shipbuilding politics across time can yield key insights into present-day shipbuilding acquisition reform issues, such as the effects of naval industry consolidation and potential “ally-shoring” of warship production on domestic political support for future naval funding. Past studies of naval acquisitions during the late interwar period often focus on how President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Navy Department prepared the nation for the beginning of World War II. However, Congress and the shipbuilding industry played an often-overlooked role in creating the political support needed to expand the Navy during the tumultuous late interwar period. Self-interested domestic interest groups were …


Applying The Normative Design Approach To Civil Engineering, Justin R. Vander Werff Jan 2024

Applying The Normative Design Approach To Civil Engineering, Justin R. Vander Werff

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

In 1986, the book Responsible Technology [1] was published as an important compilation from a number of thoughtful Christians engaged in technology and engineering in that era. In many ways, this book and those involved with it laid the foundation for what has become the Christian Engineering Society. A particularly valuable aspect of this work was that it laid out a biblically normative framework for doing engineering based on Herman Dooyeweerd’s modal aspects [2], fleshing out how the higher aspects such as faith, ethics, and justice should play an integral role in engineering development, even though we often have a …


Democratic Backsliding In The American States: The Case Of Judicial Independence, Meghan Leonard Jan 2024

Democratic Backsliding In The American States: The Case Of Judicial Independence, Meghan Leonard

Faculty Publications – Politics and Government

With ever-increasing gridlock and polarization at the national level, many new policy changes in the U.S. have come at the state level, including legislation that takes the form of democratic backsliding by restricting the right to vote, limiting free speech and expression, and gerrymandering state and federal legislative districts. A key component missing from scholarly discussion of federalism and the erosion of electoral democratic norms is the effect of federalism on the structure of institutions within the states, particularly on judicial independence. In this article, I examine the relationship between measures of democracy and introduction of court-curbing legislation in the …


Jerusalem, Mishmar Ha-Gvul St. A-9831, Rachel Waysman Jan 2024

Jerusalem, Mishmar Ha-Gvul St. A-9831, Rachel Waysman

Favissa: Past Archaeological Excavation Reports

In June 2024, a salvage excavation (Permit No. A-9831; map ref. 221120-36/634103-17; Fig. 1) was conducted in a residential building on a private plot at 5 Mishmar Ha-Gvul St. in the Ramat Eshkol neighborhood of Jerusalem, as part of a Tama 38 urban renewal project. The excavation, undertaken on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority and funded by Meshi Y. K. Construction and Development Ltd., was directed by N. Rom, with the assistance of N. Nehama (administration), S. Baley and A. Patchuro (supervision), S. Halevi and V. Vasman (photogrammetry and modeling), O. Zakaim (drafting), Y. Shalev and Z. Kanias (Jerusalem …


Retrospective Accessibility, Sally Brown, Nicole Fuller Jan 2024

Retrospective Accessibility, Sally Brown, Nicole Fuller

Art in the Libraries Retrospective: 2015-2024

This section of the WVU Libraries Retrospective includes a statement on virtual programs and accessibility.


Retrospective Exhibition Additional Initiatives Section, Sally Brown, Lemley Mullett, Michael Sherwin Jan 2024

Retrospective Exhibition Additional Initiatives Section, Sally Brown, Lemley Mullett, Michael Sherwin

Art in the Libraries Retrospective: 2015-2024

The section of the WVU Art in the Libraries Retrospective (2015-2024) includes a summary of the program's special initiatives.


Retrospective: The Beginning, Section 1, Sally Brown, Linda Blake Jan 2024

Retrospective: The Beginning, Section 1, Sally Brown, Linda Blake

Art in the Libraries Retrospective: 2015-2024

This section of the WVU Art in the Libraries Retrospective (2015-2024) exhibition includes the history of the Art in the Libraries Program, including the first exhibitions and the forming of the committee.


Intergenerational Practices Oral History Project, Christine Marks Jan 2024

Intergenerational Practices Oral History Project, Christine Marks

Open Educational Resources

In this multi-lesson segment, we developed an oral history project on intergenerational practices. We began the semester by framing writing as a conversation to emphasize the dialogical nature of all writing. To prepare students for the practice of deep listening, we discussed an excerpt from Danielle Ofri’s What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear, which highlights the role of the listener as co-creator of meaning. We also discussed the chapter “practice” from Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals, Yiyun Li’s short personal essay “Orange Crush,” and Lily LaMotte and Ann Xu’s graphic novel Measuring Up to …


Alexander The Lynkestian And The Thracians At Thebes: A Note On The Tale Of Timokleia, Sulochana Asirvatham Jan 2024

Alexander The Lynkestian And The Thracians At Thebes: A Note On The Tale Of Timokleia, Sulochana Asirvatham

Department of Classics and General Humanities Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

The Thracians are a well-attested part of the Alexander’s army in Asia. But when, exactly, did they appear in the king’s force? The question is prompted by the story of Timokleia of Thebes, which is found in Plutarch (Alex. 12; De mul. virt. 24) and Polyainos (8.40) and happens to be the only source for Thracian presence in the Macedonian army before the Hellespont. During the Macedonian destruction of Thebes in summer 335, Timokleia is raped by a Thracian or a leader of the Thracians. The story is evidently designed to ennoble the figures of Alexander and Timokleia as idealized …


The Kingdom Of God In Selected Christian Living Education Modules Viewed Through Jesus Of Nazareth’S Vision Of The Reign Of God, Romela D. Sanga, Ferdinand D. Dagmang Jan 2024

The Kingdom Of God In Selected Christian Living Education Modules Viewed Through Jesus Of Nazareth’S Vision Of The Reign Of God, Romela D. Sanga, Ferdinand D. Dagmang

Theology Department Faculty Publications

This article offers a study of Jesus’ Vision of the Reign of God as a foundation for the Christian Living Education Modules. Jesus of Nazareth’s ministry during the Roman Empire’s rule should be part of existing modules on God’s Kingdom as this would clarify the context of discipleship and ministry. Jesus, who lived and proclaimed God’s ruling presence, will be better understood and also grasped as a model if he is examined through historically-grounded studies, especially those written by Richard Horsley and other authors who are identified with the ‘Christology from below’ approach. Horsley’s scholarly studies could assist in a …


Queering The Tropics: A Cartography Of Tropical Materialism, Queer Ecology & Spectral Tropicality, Christian Jil Benitez, Gregory Luke Chwala, Anita Lundberg, S. N. Nyeck Jan 2024

Queering The Tropics: A Cartography Of Tropical Materialism, Queer Ecology & Spectral Tropicality, Christian Jil Benitez, Gregory Luke Chwala, Anita Lundberg, S. N. Nyeck

Filipino Faculty Publications

This special issue entitled “Queering the Tropics” explores how queering as a methodology and gender and sexuality as a critical rubric complicate the study of the tropics and conceptions of tropicality. It also engages with how the tropics as a worldly zone, and the notion of tropicality as simultaneously material and imaginary, reconfigure notions of queer sexuality. In other words, our aim has been to study how the tropical might queer queerness itself. This is to attempt to understand queer as a way to initiate and pursue critical encounters with the tropical world—indeed to begin queering the tropics. This first …


The Boy With The Pet Dog, Allan N. Derain, Christian Jil Benitez Jan 2024

The Boy With The Pet Dog, Allan N. Derain, Christian Jil Benitez

Filipino Faculty Publications

Set at the beginning of the hot season in the Philippines, when heat starts to crawl on skin, the short fiction “The Boy with the Pet Dog” (“Ang Batang May Alagang Aso”) stages an encounter between the titular character and a young man from the province who intends to work on his family’s farm. Queerness figures in the narrative as intimately entangled with class, and becomes articulable only through a language made possible by the tropics itself, in the form of butterflies coming out of chrysalises, brown bodies glowing with sweat, and swiftlets flocking mango trees. At the heart of …


Forgetting Stories From The Islands, Jeju And Calauit, Raymon D. Ritumban Jan 2024

Forgetting Stories From The Islands, Jeju And Calauit, Raymon D. Ritumban

English Faculty Publications

The traumatic experiences of people from peripheral islands are susceptible to mnemocide. Such erasure of memory is facilitated by “defensive and complicit forgetting,” which, according to Aleida Assmann, leads to “protection of perpetrators.” My paper reflects on the vulnerability of traumas from the islands to mnemocide by looking into [1] the massacre of communists and civilians on Jeju Island, South Korea in 1948 as described in Hyun-Kil Un’s short story “Dead Silence” (2017; English trans.) and [2] the eviction of residents and indigenous people from Calauit Island, Philippines for the creation of a safari in 1976 as imagined in Annette …


Research Bibliography For Philippine English (2008–2023), Kingsley Bolton, Priscilla T. Cruz, Isabel P. Martin Jan 2024

Research Bibliography For Philippine English (2008–2023), Kingsley Bolton, Priscilla T. Cruz, Isabel P. Martin

English Faculty Publications

The research bibliography presented here is intended to complement the earlier research bibliographies from Bautista on Philippine English (Bautista, 2004; Bautista & Bolton, 2008a). It includes 11 sections dealing with book-length studies of Philippine English, as well as book chapters and journal articles on such topics as code-switching, code-mixing and linguistic hybridization; critical linguistics; discourse analysis; language attitudes and intelligibility; sociolinguistic description; language policies; multilingualism and multilingual education; Philippine literature in English; Philippine English features; and summative perspectives. While the bibliography is essentially contemporary in orientation, this article also emphasizes the foundational contributions of earlier scholars in the field.


Queer Tropical Gothic: Parody, Failure, Space In Nick Joaquin’S “Gotita De Dragon”, Raymon D. Ritumban Jan 2024

Queer Tropical Gothic: Parody, Failure, Space In Nick Joaquin’S “Gotita De Dragon”, Raymon D. Ritumban

English Faculty Publications

The stories for children by Filipino literary master Nick Joaquin (1917-2004), when compared to his famous works, have received scant attention even though they are as masterfully written and thematically sophisticated. Out of Joaquin’s fifteen children’s stories produced between 1972 and 1983, “Gotita de Dragon” stands out for its queer tropical gothic turn. The piece is a parody of a pious legend about Saint Martha, where the titular character is on a quest to become “as big as a gothic dragon,” which subsequently renders him “in search of a virgin.” The narrative is built upon the failures of its masculine …


To Busan And Beyond: Mobilities Of Korean War Trauma, Raymon D. Ritumban Jan 2024

To Busan And Beyond: Mobilities Of Korean War Trauma, Raymon D. Ritumban

English Faculty Publications

The Korean War (1950-1953) leveled the peninsula, losing and displacing millions of its people. Hundreds of thousands of Koreans from North and South found themselves in refugee camps in Busan. This traumatizing event is carefully delineated in Yi Hochol’s “Far from Home” and Han Musook’s “The Fragment.” Through an analysis of these short stories using Kate Coddington’s theory of contagious trauma, the paper forwards that the trauma caused by the war spreads, compounds, and expands within the infrastructures—namely, freight cars and warehouse—that facilitate the movements of refugees. In “Far from Home,” during the outbreak of the Korean War, four North …


Laro Streetwear Fashion Minizine, Cyrell Faraon Jan 2024

Laro Streetwear Fashion Minizine, Cyrell Faraon

Student Research Design & Innovation Symposium

In my Editorial and Publication course, I had the incredible opportunity to design a fashion streetwear minizine. Throughout this project, I focused on creating compelling content for articles and advertisements, while also pushing the boundaries of design and incorporating innovative styles. By utilizing various design elements such as illustration, photography, typography, and layout, I aimed to showcase my understanding of visual storytelling and create a unique and impactful publication. This hands-on experience allowed me to express my creativity and explore unconventional ideas, ultimately pushing the boundaries of traditional magazines.


Exploring The Integration Of Ai In Counseling, Briana Seippel, Shauna Bienvenue, Jaime Beers Jan 2024

Exploring The Integration Of Ai In Counseling, Briana Seippel, Shauna Bienvenue, Jaime Beers

Student Research Design & Innovation Symposium

In the evolving landscape of mental health care, the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) has brought about significant shifts in the counseling landscape. This presentation explored the varied applications of AI in the counseling field, addressing its advantages, limitations, as well as legal, ethical, and multicultural concerns. Legal and ethical considerations highlighted the absence of regulations and standards for AI use and emphasized concerns for culturally sensitive applications that respect diverse backgrounds. The absence of regulations underscored the need for clear ethical and legal guidelines to safeguard client protection and confidentiality as well as to uphold professional excellence.


Driving Under The Influence In Ri Adolescents, Jadyn Torres, Jonathan Noel, Samantha R. Rosenthal, Kelsey Gately, Samantha Borden Jan 2024

Driving Under The Influence In Ri Adolescents, Jadyn Torres, Jonathan Noel, Samantha R. Rosenthal, Kelsey Gately, Samantha Borden

Student Research Design & Innovation Symposium

Background: Existing literature on driving under the influence during adolescence is sparse, especially for driving under the influence of non-medical prescription drugs (DUIP). This study examines the prevalence of driving under the influence of alcohol (DUIA), cannabis (DUIC), and DUIP, and examines the role of several potential risk and protective factors. Methods: This was a secondary analysis of the 2022 Rhode Island Study Survey, a cross-sectional survey of middle and high school students. Results: Among lifetime users, prevalence of DUIA, DUIC, and DUIP was 4.9%, 14.3%, and 16.9%, respectively. Current substance use, high individual risk perception, being non-White, and being …


Phenotypic Analysis Of Csld Genes In P. Patens, Kaitlyn Freeman Jan 2024

Phenotypic Analysis Of Csld Genes In P. Patens, Kaitlyn Freeman

Student Research Design & Innovation Symposium

The moss Physcomitrum patens is an attractive model organism, due to its small genome and dominant haploid phase. P. patens has eight genes that form a family known as the Cellulose Synthase-Like Ds (CSLDs). A previous study using global knockdown of the entire PpCSLD family by RNA interference (RNAi) showed a decrease in protonemal tip growth, indicating that PpCSLDs play a role in protonemal growth. In order to study the roles of specific CSLDs in P. patens development, triple knockout mutants for PpCSLD3/4/5 were generated by CRISPR/Cas9 mutagenesis. Plant cell walls help plants deal with osmotic stress. Therefore a salt …


Physcomitrium Patens Csld Functional Analysis, Henry Purnell Jan 2024

Physcomitrium Patens Csld Functional Analysis, Henry Purnell

Student Research Design & Innovation Symposium

Due to its small genome and dominant haploid life stage, Physcomitrium patens (formerly Physcomitrella patens) has become a model organism for studying plant genetics. The focus of this study was the Cellulose Synthase gene superfamily of P.patens, specifically the Cellulose Synthase-Like Ds (CSLD) family of genes. Previous studies into CSLD genes were preformed using RNA interference (RNAi) to preform a loss of function analysis on the entire PpCSLD gene family. The loss of function of the CSLD gene family resulted in inhibited protonemal tip growth indicating the CSLD gene family may regulate protonema formation. To further study the function of …


Protect The Kid Influencers, Taelyce Depina Jan 2024

Protect The Kid Influencers, Taelyce Depina

Student Research Design & Innovation Symposium

Since the days of Shirly Temple, Hollywood has been tasked with the care of children thrust into the spotlight. Hollywood is usually filled with kids being forced into adult situations, missing out on a normal childhood, and developing severe trauma because of fame despite the many laws protecting them. However, these laws have not evolved to protect the modern-day child actors, kid influencers. Kid influencers are children who perform in videos that are posted on social media platforms for millions of people to see. They earn money through sponsored posts and views rather than being paid by a single corporation. …


Harm Reduction And Common Sense, Ryan Koch, Evan Smarinsky, Jessica Tardif, Christina Vasquez, Erin Thompson, Ju Nyeong Park Jan 2024

Harm Reduction And Common Sense, Ryan Koch, Evan Smarinsky, Jessica Tardif, Christina Vasquez, Erin Thompson, Ju Nyeong Park

Student Research Design & Innovation Symposium

In 2022, over 100,000 people in the US died of drug overdose, with the majority of these deaths occurring without a bystander present. People who use drugs alone are at high risk for fatal overdoses. Sensors designed to alert responders to a potential overdose detect the reduction of micro-movements (e.g., respiratory distress) in single-occupancy bathrooms. Naloxone and harm reduction practices are commonsense implementations to reduce overdose deaths in our community.  Since January 2023, we conducted 70 structured surveys to organizations in overdose hotspots across eight townships in Rhode Island. Sites surveyed were categorized into food service, gas/service stations, housing facilities, …


Adversity In Childhood And Resilience Among Sgms, Katie Owen, Nicholas Matta, Emma Lipinski Jan 2024

Adversity In Childhood And Resilience Among Sgms, Katie Owen, Nicholas Matta, Emma Lipinski

Student Research Design & Innovation Symposium

This study will analyze data from the Health of Sexual & Gender Minorities Study (HSGMS) to determine if there is an association between adverse childhood experiences (ACE) and resiliency in sexual and gender minorities (SGMs). Understanding the impact of childhood adversity on resilience is essential for developing effective interventions, promoting mental health, and creating supportive environments that empower SGMs to overcome the unique challenges that they often face. Our hypothesis is that there will be a negative correlation between adverse childhood experiences and resiliency among SGMs. The HSGMS is a quantitative, cross-sectional study conducted via a digital survey hosted on …