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Rural Geographies, Queer Youth And Metronormativity, Fenton Litwiller

Journal of Queer and Trans Studies in Education

In 1995 Weston articulated an oft recited story where queers move from persecutory rural geographies to the more accepting city. While Weston interrogated this spatial binary and demonstrated failed promise of the metropolis to deliver, particularly across intersections of gender, the urban flight narrative persists. Jack Halberstam (2005) used the term ‘metronormativity’ to illustrate the power of this narrative that influences a research focus on urban queers. This study contributes insights on how queer youth who live in remote Canadian geographies navigate and express gender and sexuality. Eight participants (12 – 24) attended an informal educational space, a genderplay workshop, …

Queer Of Color Critique And The Politics Of Epistemic Agency: Rural Educators Desettling Curricular Expectations, C.A. Langerud, Madelaine Adelman, Daniel D. Liou

Journal of Queer and Trans Studies in Education

The purpose of this research is to use queer of color critique (QOCC) as an analytical framework to explore rural K-12 educators’ epistemic agency. The research focuses on educators’ engagement with a national initiative by an advocacy organization to distribute LGBTQ+ and racially diverse books to K-12 schools. The analysis centers on the educators’ praxis of epistemic agency against settled expectations associated with including queer and trans People of Color’s (QTPOC’s) stories in their schools. Our findings on educators’ epistemic agency center on three areas of knowledge and activity. First, educators demonstrate their ability to be aware of their local …

“I’Ve Already Invested So Much Time, Effort, And Money Into This, So I Stay For Me”: A Case Study Of Paulina A First-Generation Trans Latina Rural Community College Student, Ángel De Jesus Gonzalez

Journal of Queer and Trans Studies in Education

While research continues to emerge on queer and/or trans (QT) experiences in higher-education, a paucity remains on the nuanced realities of those who exist at the intersections of identities, institutional, and regional contexts. Guided by jotería identity-and-consciousness, this intrinsic case study focuses on Paulina, a first-generation trans Latina rural community college student via queer pláticas. She informs ways that trans Latina students in rural community colleges exists and resists hostile ecological educational environments and in doing so generate queer futurities of rurality. Paulina’s jota-historia disrupts notions of QTs communities presence in rural spaces, rural spaces as synonymous with white, …

Rotating Along The Borderlands: Contextualizing Border Rurality Among Queer Transfronterizxs College Students, Carlos A. Fitch

Journal of Queer and Trans Studies in Education

Queer Transfronterizx students at rural higher education institutions experience an array of systemic and racialized inequities related to Queerphobia, residential nativism, and immigration challenges. Through a Critical Race Feminista Methodology (CRFM), seven Queer Transfronterizx college students engaged in testimonios and a Queer plática to shed light into the navigation of their rural higher education contexts and lived experiences. The findings note the collaborators’ experience of (1) endangered educational oases, (2) the dual identity isolation pertaining to Queer and Latinx belongings, (3) transborder hypervigilance emerged from border- crossings practices, and (4) a rural border flexibility that provides Queer privileges. Recommendations for …

A Trans Youth’S Encounters With Queerness In Puerto Rico, Gabriel T. Acevedo

Journal of Queer and Trans Studies in Education

This article explores the lived experiences of Pedro, a transgender youth from rural Puerto Rico, to examine how queer and trans identities are negotiated within contexts shaped by colonialism, Catholic traditions, machismo, and rural community life. Drawing on queer theory, Latinx studies, rural education research, and narrative inquiry, the study highlights Pedro’s voice through interviews, self-narratives, and reflections, positioning youth as knowledge creators rather than passive subjects. Findings reveal three interconnected themes: (1) the importance of educational relationships in fostering belonging and dialogue, (2) the disruption of normative expectations around adolescence, queerness, and urban migration, and (3) the expression of …

Introduction: Queering Rural Education, Leia K. Cain, Ty Mcnamee, Darris Means

Journal of Queer and Trans Studies in Education

In this editorial introduction, we situate this dual-journal special issue within the current legislative landscape targeting queer and trans people across North America in rural communities. We describe our collaboration with the editorial teams of the Journal of Research in Rural Education and the Journal of Queer and Trans Studies in Education to illuminate the experiences and perspectives of queer youth and adults in and from rural spaces. We then introduce the articles published in JQTSiE, which are organized into four interrelated themes: (1) Embodied Pedagogies and Spatial Navigation, (2) Institutional Structures and Resistance, (3) Community, Literacy, and Representation, …

Our Bodies Are Wild And Shimmering, Marcus O’Donnell Prof

Staff Scholarship - Australia & Dubai

The installation plays with the covering and uncovering of the saint’s body and the collision of the erotic and ecstatic in Christian iconography. Saints have always been active images –used to vividly imagine sacred narratives, to awaken emotions of love and devotion. However, the role of beauty, the body and the sensuous in this process is complex. In the history of art, we witness a desire to tread what Maya Corry calls the “line between licit and illicit loveliness,” which she acknowledges “was often so thin as to be indistinguishable”. Corry also shows that the will to embrace and navigate …

Our Bodies Are Wild And Shimmering (Music For Exhibition), Marcus O’Donnell, Colin N. Webber Dr

Staff Scholarship - Australia & Dubai

A note on the sound design: The Tracks draws inspiration from Marcus’ beautiful images that both reveal and conceal and explore the nexus of human and divine love.

The tracks are created in collaboration with AI tools, specifically Suno, Synthesiser V, Chat GPt and Claude. The lyrics are GPT, Claude and Google Translate versions of Richard Rolle’s The Fire of Love, rendered into liturgical Latin, Russian and Spanish, along with elements of canonical Mass lyrics. I chose to use musical styles that are found in ecclesiastical settings such as the 16th Century Catholic church, Medieval monasteries,

Russian Orthodox settings …

Our Man In Vietnam Gallery Guide, Sara Pezzoni, Darryl Ward, University Of Texas At Arlington

2026 - Our Man in Vietnam

Gallery guide for an exhibition from the Bob Schieffer Vietnam War Collection, 2026. Curated by Sara Pezzoni, exhibit and gallery guide design by Darryl Ward and Sara Pezzoni.

Racial Identity, Student Engagement, Student Satisfaction, And Persistence In African American Students Attending Predominately White Institutions, Antoinette Drakeford

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

African American college students attending predominantly White institutions (PWIs), such as Old Dominion University, face challenges, including experiences with microaggressions and limited engagement opportunities, which may affect their persistence. The purpose of this study was to examine whether racial identity and microaggressions moderate the relationship between student engagement, satisfaction, and persistence among African American students at a PWI. Cross’s theory of nigrescence served as the theoretical framework for understanding African American racial identity development. A quantitative, non-experimental design was employed. Data were collected from 50 African American undergraduate students using standardized instruments measuring racial identity, microaggressions, engagement, satisfaction, and persistence. …

A Better Imagination: Where Rubber Hits The Road, David J. Mulder

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

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Tolkien And The Mystery Of Literary Creation (2025), By Giuseppe Pezzini, Mitchell Kooh

Journal of Tolkien Research

Book review, by Mitchell Kooh, of Tolkien and the Mystery of Literary Creation (2025) by Giuseppe Pezzini

Dei Initiatives At Colleges And Universities Help Protect Religious Freedom, Mary J. Lomax-Ghirarduzzi

Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Publications

At the University of the Pacific and other colleges, DEI offices help provide religious student groups with access to space and resources while ensuring that their existence is welcomed, not grudgingly tolerated.

Heart Lessons For Creative Scholars: A Review Of Patricia Leavy’S The Artist Academic, Alexandra C. H. Nowakowski

The Qualitative Report

With The Artist Academic, Dr. Patricia Leavy offers creative scholars an actionable primer on listening to our hearts. It provides guidance on balancing critical reasoning and gut intuition with raw candor—and thus exceptional credibility. Leavy offers readers pearl after pearl from her own experiences in writing and publishing, bravely laying her own heart bare to impart the lessons in its scars. She writes with fierce humility, something I have come to associate with this author above all others, in coaching creative scholars on the building blocks of wise decisions at the intersection of analysis and instinct. After reflecting thoughtfully …

Underrepresented And Understudied: Exploring The Lived Experiences Of African American Women In Policing, Brenda Goss Andrews

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

African American women are underrepresented in policing and understudied in the research. Grounded in Collins’ Black feminist thought, whose theme seeks to empower Black women to speak in their authentic voices, this qualitative phenomenological study explored the lived experiences of 12 African American female officers from Midwest departments. It examined how the intersection of race and gender shaped their workplace realities. The purpose of the study was to gain perspectives from the participants on strategies to recruit and retain African American female officers. Historically, policing has been a gendered and hypermasculine profession, making it difficult for African American female officers …

"Uruk ... We Prefer 'Uruk'": The Representation Of The Orc In The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power, Robert T. Tally Jr.

Journal of Tolkien Research

In Tolkien’s legendarium, there are many complicated characters, vexed figures who combine aspects of what readers might think of as good and evil, but Orcs are, it seems, always and only evil. This despite the fact that Tolkien’s own writings provide ample evidence that Orcs, however loathsome they may appear, are nevertheless people, a “race” that like Elves, Dwarves, Men, and Hobbits maintains social orders and belongs to Middle-earth. The Amazon Prime show The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power offers a glimpse of Orc culture from within, as the audience is introduced to a mysterious new character, …

Betting On The Future By Re-Discovering The Past: History Of Hospital Infrastructure In Early Las Vegas And Southern Nevada, Aidy Weeks

Library Faculty Research

In the summer of 2025, the library director began reviewing resources available from the University Libraries Special Collections Portal to learn about early hospital infrastructure in Las Vegas and Southern Nevada. Using the keyword “hospital”, they reviewed 1,000 records to locate primary resources that could help tell the story of Las Vegas’s first hospital and Southern Nevada early history. In total, they located photos, oral histories, city documents, and newspaper articles, to help put together a timeline of which hospitals, current events, and key figures were critical in establishing a medical presence in Las Vegas and Southern Nevada. Information was …

Field Trip, Art Hill

Ontario Review

ART HILL of Birmingham, Michigan is the author of an essay on Malcolm Lowry which appeared in a recent issue of Canadian Literature.

Look To Thyself: Ignatow's Notebooks, Robert Leiter

Ontario Review

ROBERT LEITER is a free-lance writer and critic living in Philadelphia. His work has recently appeared in The Nation, Commonweal, Film Heritage, and The New Republic.

A True Lyric Poet: Marya Zaturenska, Robert Phillips

Ontario Review

ROBERT PHILLIPS, poet, fiction writer, and critic, has been book review editor of Modem Poetry Studies and has contributed essays and reviews to numerous periodicals. His books include Denton Welch, Aspects of Alice: Lewis Carroll's Dreamchild, and The Confes sional Poets. He lives in Katonah, New York.

A North American Vistion: Clark Blaise's Tribal Justice, Richard Hornsey

Ontario Review

RICHARD HORNSEY received his Ph.D. in Canadian Literature from the University of Alberta. His poems have appeared in many Canadian magazines including The Canadian Forum, Fiddlehead, and The University of Windsor Review as well as in Poetry Australia. His first book of poetry, Going In, was published in 1972 and he is currently completing a second. He teaches at the University of Windsor.

Five Poets From Five Countries, Tom Marshall

Ontario Review

TOM MARSHALL, poetry editor of The Canadian Forum, has published books on A. M . Klein and D. H . Lawrence. His third collection of poetry, The Earth-Book, was published last fall by Oberon Press. He teaches at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.

The Canadian Heorine As Survivor: Margaret Laurence's The Diviners, Gloria Whelan

Ontario Review

GLORIA WHELAN, also a former contributor, has published fiction and reviews in a number of periodicals including The Kansas Quarterly, The Literary Review, The Michigan Quarterly, and the Detroit Free Press. A collector of first editions of Henry James's books, she lives in Oxbow, Michigan.

Two Poems: Trying To Shovel Out; Snow Levels, Philip Legler

Ontario Review

PHILIP LEGLER is the author of two books of poetry, A Change of View and The Intruder. He is Professor of English and Poet-in-Residence at Northern Michigan University, and poems of his have appeared or will appear in Commonweal, Poetry Northwest, The Paris Review, and elsewhere.

Papa, Mary Gregory

Ontario Review

MARY GREGORY lives and teaches in Westchester County, New York.

Three Poems: Chicano Dropout; Not Knowing, In Aztlán; Now That I'M In Spain, Tino Villanueva

Ontario Review

TINO VILLANUEVA, who was born in Texas, is a Ph.D. candidate at Boston Uni- versity and teaches Spanish at Wellesley College. He has published in periodicals such as Caribbean Review, El Grito, Hispam erica, Revista Chicano-Riquena, and Magazín, and is the author of Hay Otra Voz Poems {1972). "Chicano Dropout" and "Not Knowing, in Aztlán" have been selected for a Houghton Mifflin anthology of Chicano literature.

Meridian, Kurt Brown

Ontario Review

KURT BROWN is currently editing poetry for Aspen Leaves, a literary magazine issuing from Aspen, Colorado, where he lives.

Two Poems: Friend; Sunup, Naomi Clark

Ontario Review

NAOMI CLARK has published poems in The Antioch Review, The Beloit Poetry Journal, The Malahat Review, The Far Point, and elsewhere. She teaches at San Jose State University in California.

The Drunk Tank Judge, Charles Bukowski

Ontario Review

CHARLES BUKOWSKI is the author of over twenty books of poetry and prose; the most recent is Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame: Selected Poems 1955-1973 (Black Sparrow Press, 1974), reviewed in the previous issue. He lives in the Los Angeles area.

From Desire To Decision (A Syllabic Synopsis Of A Short Story), Ken Stange

Ontario Review

KEN STANGE, a psychology lab instructor in North Bay, Ontario, edits Nebula Magazine and has poems published or forthcoming in The Canadian Forum, The Dalhousie Review, Event, Waves, and elsewhere.