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The Serengeti, Alan Michael Parker Jan 2015

The Serengeti, Alan Michael Parker

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 115-116


Why I Am Not A Painter, Alan Michael Parker Jan 2015

Why I Am Not A Painter, Alan Michael Parker

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 117-118


Overwinter, Keetje Kuipers Jan 2015

Overwinter, Keetje Kuipers

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 88


Little Offer, Dora Malech Jan 2015

Little Offer, Dora Malech

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 94-95


Six Camps, Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers Jan 2015

Six Camps, Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 127-132


The Ugliest Woman Sitting At The Bar, Richard Newman Jan 2015

The Ugliest Woman Sitting At The Bar, Richard Newman

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 114


Troubled Lawns, Alexandria Peary Jan 2015

Troubled Lawns, Alexandria Peary

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 120-122


Watercolor Painting Class, Jeff Thomson Jan 2015

Watercolor Painting Class, Jeff Thomson

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 151


What's Weft, Will Wells Jan 2015

What's Weft, Will Wells

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 158


Sanguinaria, William Wright Jan 2015

Sanguinaria, William Wright

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 163-164


Am I A Thief?, Gary Soto Jan 2015

Am I A Thief?, Gary Soto

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 143-144


Rose Red, Rose White, Catherine Staples Jan 2015

Rose Red, Rose White, Catherine Staples

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 147


Colonial Llorona, Christine Swint Jan 2015

Colonial Llorona, Christine Swint

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 149


Mountain Redemption / The Red Wolf: A Dream Of Flannery O'Connor, John Saad Jan 2015

Mountain Redemption / The Red Wolf: A Dream Of Flannery O'Connor, John Saad

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 199-206


Birmingham Poetry Review 42 (End Matter), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff Jan 2015

Birmingham Poetry Review 42 (End Matter), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 215-229


Review Of Eric Broug, Islamic Geometric Design, Carol Bier Jan 2015

Review Of Eric Broug, Islamic Geometric Design, Carol Bier

Textile Research Works

From the eleventh century C.E., Islamic geometric patterns have continued to evolve in complexity, contributing a distinct aspect of Islamic art and architecture that covers a broad geographic range and temporal spectrum. The underlying principles of these patterns are brilliantly explained in narrative and visual formats by Eric Broug, a Dutch design professional, self-trained and with an M.A. in the history of Islamic architecture from SOAS in London. Offering both an analytical and practical understanding of the construction of Islamic geometric patterns, this book is an unusual hybrid of scholarship and art, combining the qualities of a coffeetable bibelot and …


Something’S Happening Here: Popular Music Education In The United States, Bryan Powell, Andrew Krikun, Joseph Michael Pignato Jan 2015

Something’S Happening Here: Popular Music Education In The United States, Bryan Powell, Andrew Krikun, Joseph Michael Pignato

John J. Cali School of Music Scholarship and Creative Works

Although the number of opportunities to learn popular music in the United States continues to grow, popular music education (PME) programs remain exceptional at primary, secondary, and tertiary levels of institutionalized music education. This article provides insight into the unique characteristics of a number of PME initiatives currently operating in the United States. A historical background is established to provide context regarding the history of PME in the United States. Additionally, a focus on an expanding landscape for American PME is included, as is an examination of six specific initiatives that are particularly noteworthy. This review of popular music programs, …


批评是理性对话——艾布拉姆斯与他的文学批评观 (Literary Criticism As A Rational Dialogue: M.H. Abrams And His Theoretical Orientations), Junjie Luo (罗俊杰) Jan 2015

批评是理性对话——艾布拉姆斯与他的文学批评观 (Literary Criticism As A Rational Dialogue: M.H. Abrams And His Theoretical Orientations), Junjie Luo (罗俊杰)

East Asian Studies Faculty Publications

M.H. Abrams is known to Chinese readers as an influential literary critic of the Romantic Movement. This article, commissioned by Literature, a Chinese-language literary newspaper, introduces the theoretical orientations of M. H. Abrams, who passed away in April 2015 at the age of 102.


Audacious Translation: On Being Haunted And Getting Lost On The Way To Translating Spivak. A Reflection On Spivak’S “Translating Into English”, Susan R. Adams Jan 2015

Audacious Translation: On Being Haunted And Getting Lost On The Way To Translating Spivak. A Reflection On Spivak’S “Translating Into English”, Susan R. Adams

Scholarship and Professional Work – Education

In “Translating Into English” within An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization (2012), Spivak eludes apprehension, spurns comprehension, and resists neat translation as I, an American educator, attempt to make sense of what is meant by an aesthetic education as Spivak translates the act of translation. Caught and othered as a language broker in learning the double bind of translation, I find no answers, only new questions as I grope toward ways to conceptualize and to name this moment for translators and language educators: (1) What does it mean to be a translator?; (2) Can and should the convenient …


Luto 7-¡Aunque Mueras, Vivirás!, Marcos Kempff Jan 2015

Luto 7-¡Aunque Mueras, Vivirás!, Marcos Kempff

Crisis y luto

Luto 7-¡Aunque mueras, vivirás!


Teaching/Writing Workshop: A Critical Memoir Of Training Teacher Candidates In Developmental Composition, Chere Harden Blair Jan 2015

Teaching/Writing Workshop: A Critical Memoir Of Training Teacher Candidates In Developmental Composition, Chere Harden Blair

English Dissertations - Archive

I began by attempting to fill a gap I observed in the preparation of the novice teachers whom I supervised. I created a teaching apprenticeship program in order to give preservice teachers opportunities to enact the theories and methods of writing instruction that I had taught them. The more I read and researched, the more I uncovered important gaps in those theories and methods.Through narrative and critical self-study, I explore my own teaching life, my work with both struggling college writers and teachers-in-training, and my attempts to navigate the complex institutional forces that can frustrate innovation. Ultimately, I suggest that …


Constructing Mothering Performances: The Motherhood Ideal In Caldecott And Newbery Winners, 1980-2014, Dana Mccullough Brewer Jan 2015

Constructing Mothering Performances: The Motherhood Ideal In Caldecott And Newbery Winners, 1980-2014, Dana Mccullough Brewer

English Dissertations - Archive

This project examines representations of motherhood in Caldecott and Newbery winners from 1980-2014 and is informed by feminist literary theory, juvenile literary theory, and motherhood studies. While motherhood studies are evolving to consider egalitarian ideas of motherhood and multiple definitions of motherhood, many Caldecott and Newbery Medal winners present a traditional (and antiquated) motherhood ideal in which maternal figures tend to domestic duties and provide selfless nurturing of children. This objectification depersonalizes, essentializes, and stereotypes motherhood. Diverse mothering characters and practices do materialize in some texts but are often regulated by the motherhood ideal. In Chapter 2, I define the …


The Performing Mother: Maternal Ethics Beyond Embodiment, Charles Hicks Jan 2015

The Performing Mother: Maternal Ethics Beyond Embodiment, Charles Hicks

English Dissertations - Archive

The rich and diverse history of maternal thought is at once a response to the Western philosophical tradition's relegation of the maternal to the material abject, as well as a renegotiation of the maternal body as a site of empowerment capable of destabilizing the foundations of the symbolic economy. Understanding the material and historical conditions that subject these bodies and work to construct maternity, as well as their mediating position to authentic ethical activity, reveals that maternity offers a salient schemata for, not only viewing the fundamental operations of power, but the possibilities of ethical interaction. This study focuses on, …


Creating Myself: Friendship As Black Women's Liberation In Toni Morrison's Sula And Alice Walker's The Color Purple, India Renee Miles Jan 2015

Creating Myself: Friendship As Black Women's Liberation In Toni Morrison's Sula And Alice Walker's The Color Purple, India Renee Miles

English Theses - Archive

The talking book trope, begun in the era of and with the authors of slave narratives, firmly establishes a literary tradition for black writers that continues today. Contemporary authors employ this rhetorical device in order to prove the humanity of those of African descent, express a lack of familiarity with the dominant power structure that seeks to disenfranchise the Other, and to illustrate one method of entry into a hegemonic social structure. Toni Morrison's Sula and Alice Walker's The Color Purple fit into this trope, with varying degrees of success. In both texts, the relational mode of friendship between the …


Realizing The Virtual: Constructing And Embodying Cyberspace In Gibson's Sprawl, Matt Underwood Jan 2015

Realizing The Virtual: Constructing And Embodying Cyberspace In Gibson's Sprawl, Matt Underwood

English Theses - Archive

While the term “cyberspace” first appears in William Gibson’s 1980’s Sprawl series, it arises from a culmination of information and communication technology and cybernetic theory development spanning the majority of the twentieth century. Further, the notion of cyberspace has existed and functioned since the advent of language and tool use and has always reached a global population of users. The recent recognition of cyberspace and its coinage occur as a result of how contemporary technology allows for much more instantaneous and extensive interaction across rapidly increasing distances and user bases. All media and technology, meaning all cyberspace operations, serve as …


In Another Time With (An)Other Race: Representations Of Race And National Narratives In Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim And Fallout 3, Christopher M. Simpson Jan 2015

In Another Time With (An)Other Race: Representations Of Race And National Narratives In Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim And Fallout 3, Christopher M. Simpson

English Theses - Archive

The video games Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Fallout 3 provide simulations of systems of racial marginalization within the context of competing narratives of nation. By utilizing Ian Bogost’s concept of unit operations in concert with postcolonial theorists Edward Said, Homi Bhabha, and Gayatri Spivak it is possible to see how these games perpetuate discourses of the human Western Self and the non-human racial Other. Despite the limitations in the simulation presented in these games, they reflect how video games offer the potential for simulating real-life systems of discrimination and marginalization.


Direction Of The Musical: Hairspray, Craig Wrotniak Jan 2015

Direction Of The Musical: Hairspray, Craig Wrotniak

Graduate Student Projects

This project entailed the selection, background research and documentation, casting, direction, and post-production analysis of North Surrey Secondary School's production of Hairspray. Documentation includes research and analysis of the play, and an evaluation of the play as a production vehicle for the Drama and Theatrical Arts Department at North Surrey Secondary School.


Dress Rehearsal: Word Play And Narrative Construction In The Assembly Of Ladies, Nicola Blake Jan 2015

Dress Rehearsal: Word Play And Narrative Construction In The Assembly Of Ladies, Nicola Blake

Publications and Research

In the erotics of theater, words are (theoretically) corporeal. They are up there for public scrutiny. The mind's eye echoes the mind's ear. Words act. They are elements of the: scenic investiture affecting, synesthetically, light space rhythm pattern sound, but they also resound at the deepest level of the: mise-en-scene, through self time memory consciousness as well. Mere words, true. Problematic to the last breath of being. The: material elements of theater - like the: body itself - situate us.


Trauma For Everyone: How Ptsd Became The Malady Of Millions, Stewart Justman Jan 2015

Trauma For Everyone: How Ptsd Became The Malady Of Millions, Stewart Justman

Global Humanities and Religions Faculty Publications

Following the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, trauma experts feared that as much as a quarter of the population of New York City needed psychological treatment.  In the spirit of emergency aid, counselors offered Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD), a one-session procedure in which those in shock are encouraged to air their emotions and advised of symptoms of PTSD likely to appear in the future.  Evidence from controlled trials, however, suggests that CISD does not promote recovery and sometimes hinders it, presumably by cueing the symptoms of PTSD in the process of warning about them. …


Explaining State-Level Student Dropout Rates: The Impact Of Exit Exams And Public School Resources, Martin Battle, James C. Clinger Jan 2015

Explaining State-Level Student Dropout Rates: The Impact Of Exit Exams And Public School Resources, Martin Battle, James C. Clinger

Commonwealth Review of Political Science

This paper examines one key indicator of school performance, the dropout rate among the public school students at the state level from 1998 to 2002, using a. pooled, cross-sectional time series research design. In this analysis the effects of high stakes testing (i.e., exit exams required for graduation), funding levels, and other school resources are examined. The results ind.irate that exit exams have no statistically significant effects upon dropout rates. Per pupil expenditures do not seem to reduce dropouts and may in fact have a positive effect at the state level. However, the analysis indicates that high pupil to teacher …