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Barbie Blues, Kettly Mars, Lynn E. Palermo

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Just Outside Of Comfort, Amy Neswald

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"Joy That Kills": Female Jouissance In Kate Chopin's "The Story Of An Hour", Mavis Chia-Chieh Tseng

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The Elliptical Short Story: "Re/Membering" Woman's Subjectivity In Luisa Valenzuela's Testimony "Other Weapons", Amanda Mcmenamin

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Notes On Contributors

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North America, Jennifer D. Keene

History Faculty Books and Book Chapters

"These demographic shifts are just one example of how considering North America as an entity during the First World War offers the alluring possibility of breaking away from the strictures of the normal nation-state approach to studying the war, presenting an opportunity to consider the war's regional and global dimensions. Uncovering the full scope of 'North America's War' requires evaluating Britain's dominant position in the global political economy, North America's contribution to the fighting, international relations within North America and how North American-based events and initiatives affected the course of the war and the peace."

Severan Marble Plan Of Rome Data Files, Justin St. P. Walsh

Art Faculty Data Sets

In its original state, the Severan Marble Plan of Rome, placed on the wall of the Temple of Peace between 203 and 211 CE, showed viewers the locations of buildings throughout Rome, and even the groundplan of each of those buildings. It is today an extraordinary piece of evidence for understanding the city in that time period, despite its ruinous state. It survives in over 1,100 fragments, representing only about 10% of its original surface area. To date, scholars have successfully placed only about 100 of those fragments with respect to the buildings they depict. Using GIS and CAD software, …

The Tallest Tree In The Forest, Jocelyn Buckner

Theatre Faculty Articles and Research

"Playwright and actor Daniel Beaty’s solo performance as Paul Robeson in The Tallest Tree in the Forest, commissioned by Tectonic Theater Project and coproduced by La Jolla Playhouse and Kansas City Repertory Theatre, was a tour-de-force biographical tribute."

Spectacles Of Reform: Theater And Activism In Nineteenth-Century America By Amy E. Hughes (Review), Jocelyn Buckner

Theatre Faculty Articles and Research

In Spectacles of Reform Amy Hughes advocates for “spectacle as methodology” (4), a means of interpreting spectacle in nineteenth-century melodrama, as well as a wide variety of other media, that rehearses and reforms concepts of citizenship and identity related to race, class, gender, and morality. Through this lens, Hughes seeks to answer the questions “where and how do activist spectacles appear before and beyond the theatrical encounter?” and “why is spectacle kept alive through reinvention, revision, and repetition long after the drama is over?” (5). Hughes traces her theory of the spectacular instant through three popular sensation themes of the …

Public Library, Brian Glaser

English Faculty Creative Works

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Patriotism Among Muslim American Opinion Leaders, Reem Abou-Samra

Wayne State University Dissertations

A significant degree of public opinion research has been conducted on Muslim Americans, but very little has focused on their perceptions. This study explores how opinion leaders address the question of patriotism, Americanness, hyphenated identities, and the implications of such a discourse. The study is confined to Wayne County, MI, because of the significant role Muslim Americans have played in labor struggles, local culture, civil rights, and their visibility. This study is significant because ongoing issues have triggered media attention on Muslim Americans and questioned their patriotism and Americanness, such as the "Ground Zero Mosque" debate, the "anti-Sharia" bill proposals, …

Assumptions Of Authority: Social Washington's Evolution From Republican Court To Self-Rule, 1801-1831, Merry Ellen Scofield

Wayne State University Dissertations

Washington City's political society was born in late November 1800, when the early republic moved its seat of government from Philadelphia to the banks of the Potomac. Washington's political elite, many of them accustomed to the urban pleasures of the nation's largest city, found themselves forming a proper society among boardinghouses, muddy roads, and half-built public buildings. A simple social hierarchy developed based on political position. Despite Jefferson's protests that the Court of the United States had died with the Federalist era, a republican court formed around him. His issuance of a set of social tenets, written after the Merry …

Review Of Rethinking The South English Legendaries, Gregory M. Sadlek

English Faculty Publications

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Eliza Haywood And The Narratological Tropes Of Secret History, Rachel K. Carnell

English Faculty Publications

Eliza Haywood’s novels and political writings are often considered in isolation from each other; however, there is a discursive thread that links her fictional and political works: her engagement with secret history. Across her career, in her novels as well as her political pamphlets and periodicals, Haywood deploys two important narratological tropes of the secret historian: the tendency to reveal the secrets of public figures while concealing the author’s own political position and the tendency to muse self-reflexively about the author’s own role as a writer of history. Haywood’s facility in deploying these dual narratological devices of concealment and confession …

Introduction, Chad Bauman

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

An Introduction to the edited volume, Constructing Indian Christianities.

The Inter-Religious Riot As A Cultural System: Globalization, Geertz, And Hindu-Christian Conflict, Chad Bauman

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

An analysis of Hindu-Christian violence, through the lens of Clifford Geertz's "Religion as a Cultural System."

Making E.T. Perfectly Queer: The Alien Other And The Science Fiction Of Sexual Difference, Brooke M. Beloso

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

In the wake of E.T.'s 1982 debut, film critics Marina Heung and Vivian Sobchack established that the enduring appeal of E.T. inheres in the dissolution of the nuclear heterosexual family over the latter half of the twentieth century and the film's “fairy tale” stand-in for the “mythology of family relations” that Dana Cloud terms “conservative familialism.” As Carl Plantinga puts it, E.T. offers a “virtual solution … to [a] traumatic problem.” Despite this, however, E.T. remains for many an inconsolable tragedy. Approaching E.T. from the perspective of the queer child who grows “more sideways than …

Monotheism, James F. Mcgrath

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

James McGrath's contribution to: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Ethics. , 2015. Print.

To Script Or Not To Script: Rethinking Pseudolus As Playwright, Christopher Bungard

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Christopher Bungard's contribution to Helios, 41(4).

A Blast From The Ancient Past: Using Digital Storytelling In ‘Roman Perspectives’, Christopher Bungard

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Christopher Bumgard's contribution to the CAMWS Annual Meeting: Waco, Texas. 2014.

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.

Auschwitz-Birkenau: A Memorial, Nichole Delasalas

OUR Journal: ODU Undergraduate Research Journal

In the 1940s, Nazi Germany was an unstoppable force spreading throughout Europe. Hitler’s agenda was to take control of Europe and make it part of his pure Aryan race. As a result of his actions and his “final solution”, many people suffered. The concentration camp of Auschwitz I was created out of an old Polish military compound for three main reasons. The first was to incarcerate real and perceived enemies of the Nazi regime and the German occupation authorities in Poland for an indefinite amount of time.¹ The second was to have available a supply of forced labor for …

Remembering Auschwitz-Birkenau: "Statistics And Images", Lauran Henderson

OUR Journal: ODU Undergraduate Research Journal

Up until recently, my holocaust education had been handed down to me through books and lectures. My vision of Auschwitz was represented by glossy black and white photos of shambling skeletons being led out of the maw of a wrought iron and brick monster, and to be honest, it is easy to confront a monster when it only exists in a book.

Sites Of Memory: "Hélène Berr’S Footsteps", Tonya Schmehl

OUR Journal: ODU Undergraduate Research Journal

To prepare for this trip I took Dr. Finley-Croswhite’s “Vichy and the French Holocaust” class as well as Dr. Bebber’s “Holocaust and Memory” class. I wanted to have a broad awareness of the subject before I traveled, and I felt both classes would (and have) enhanced my journey. So when we flew out I had a good understanding, not only of the Holocaust and what happened, but also some background of French history during this time period.

Reflective Insight: "The Legacy Of Holocaust Memory", Julius Lacano

OUR Journal: ODU Undergraduate Research Journal

To me, the Holocaust is the ever-present reminder of the reasons behind and the importance of the existence of the State of Israel. When in France I asked the panel of Auschwitz survivors on how they felt things were in France, a nation with a history of anti-Semitism. The answer from Ester Sénot was the most shocking and also the most telling. She said “Things today are as bad as they were in 1941.” This simple statement is one of the most powerful and somber statements I have ever heard. To feel that the state of Jews in France is …

Reflective Insight: "Emotional Metamorphosis", Robert Melatti

OUR Journal: ODU Undergraduate Research Journal

My professor asks: After seeing Auschwitz, how I continue on? How has going there affected me?

Starting with the second question first, perhaps the essence of the answer could be found in a comment that Cali, my granddaughter made to her grandmother a couple of days ago. “Grandpa seems sad since he came back from his trip,” she exclaimed. I really had not noticed any change and assumed that any uneasiness in my disposition had all to do with work and School Board and moving and the upcoming arena conversations that I am part of. It was my wife who …

Allied Unshackling: British, Canadian, And American Prisoner Of War Diplomacy During The Shackling Reprisals, 1942-43, Kiera Bridley

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

Prisoner of war studies have largely focused their research on the experiences of the men and women within their captor countries. Although some country-specific work has been done regarding prisoner of war policy, there has been a significant gap in research regarding prisoner of war policy during the Second World War. This research focuses on the convergence of prisoner of war policy and diplomatic relations between Great Britain, Canada, and the United States during the shackling reprisals with Germany from 1942-43. The shackling reprisals represented the first conjunction of the three nations in diplomatic relations with Germany over the issue …

Factors That Affect The Decision-Making Process Of African American Students, Marcella Genise Dial

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

There is only a 9 % representation of African American students on colleges campuses across the country compared to 72.9% of Caucasian students. There are many reasons that affect African American students' decisions to participate in higher education. Colleges across the country are making strides to recruit minority students. However, in order for colleges to increase their minority enrollment, particularly with African American students, they must understand the factors that affect African Americans students' decisions to participate in higher education. Personal, economic, academic, and social factors were examined to understand African American students' reasons for enrolling or not enrolling in …

Book Review: New Age Globalization: Meaning And Metaphor By Aqueil Ahmad, Susan H. Jespersen

Journal of Sustainable Social Impact

New Age Globalization examines interdependent and interconnected global society in terms of its structure, including both functional and process characteristics, with an underlying concern for global consciousness resulting in global social change for human welfare. The theoretical framework provides for analysis of history, culture, economics, demographics, political systems, conflicts, knowledge, and religions of regions throughout the world. This is a well-researched book with information on complex topics for the global researcher, corporate planning executive, human resource manager, and educator, among others seeking to understand social and organizational systems in our global world.