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Ztc Eng 151 Syllabus: College Writing, Nicolette Guida May 2025

Ztc Eng 151 Syllabus: College Writing, Nicolette Guida

Open Educational Resources

This syllabus provides a curriculum for an introduction to research writing. In this course, students develop introductory skills for academic research writing, work on critical thinking and analysis skills, and build an awareness of the rhetorical situation both in texts read in class and in their own writing. This course focuses on the impact that culture has in shaping behavior and life experiences. Included course texts are centered on the exploration of the different cultural groups that people occupy and the specific cultural norms, values and beliefs for each of these groups. This is zero textbook cost (ZTC) course, so …


What We Don't Say Out Loud, Antwan Bowen May 2025

What We Don't Say Out Loud, Antwan Bowen

Master's Projects

What We Don’t Say Out Loud is a collection of original short stories that explore themes of identity, race, family, queerness, humor, and emotional vulnerability through the lens of Black and marginalized voices. These narratives blend literary realism with elements of magical realism, satire, and personal essay to reflect the emotional truths and unspoken complexities that shape everyday life. Central to the collection is a commitment to portraying characters in their full humanity, often resisting trauma-centered tropes in favor of layered, internal storytelling. From the raw, personal account of Black fatherhood in “The Best Day and the Worst Night,” to …


Red Strings: A Collection Of Creative Works, Natalie Gumm May 2025

Red Strings: A Collection Of Creative Works, Natalie Gumm

Honors Theses

This thesis is a collection of creative nonfiction and poetry exploring different aspects of my identity, including my passions, appearance, sexuality, and the places I’ve called home.


Art In Itself: The Vision Of Three Female Mississippi Artists, Jane E. Thomas May 2025

Art In Itself: The Vision Of Three Female Mississippi Artists, Jane E. Thomas

Honors Theses

This thesis is a collection of longform, narrative-style journalistic profiles on artists in Northeast Mississippi. These artists include Carol Roark from Enid and Hannah McCormick and Coulter Fussell from Water Valley. Each profile highlights an individual artist’s work, from her background, inspirations, process and distinctiveness as a creator. These profiles required studio visits and extensive interviews, as well as secondary interviews with clients, gallery owners and art curators. An overarching theme between the three artists is their ability to recognize artistic potential in their immediate surroundings; Roark paints landscapes from her own backyard, McCormick paints scenes from everyday life and …


When The Siren Sounds, Madelynn H. Morgan May 2025

When The Siren Sounds, Madelynn H. Morgan

Persimmon Creek

Growing up being the daughter of a fire fighter was not easy. I had a very absent father growing up, and this was due to his work in the fire service. Through this reflective essay, I discuss what growing up as a first-response family was like, and how it has shaped me into the adult I am becoming.


Scramble, Jillian M. Canady May 2025

Scramble, Jillian M. Canady

Persimmon Creek

Scramble is an exploration of resilience and the human experience, this essay centers around one powerful word, intertwining memories of family, struggle, and personal growth. It reflects on the choices we make and the messiness of life, capturing the enduring spirit that drives us to keep moving forward. Through storytelling, this piece invites readers to ponder the complexities of existence, revealing how a single word can encapsulate our deepest struggles and triumphs.


Hold It Against Your Bones: On Love, Duty, And Letting Go, Lisa Pilar Cowan May 2025

Hold It Against Your Bones: On Love, Duty, And Letting Go, Lisa Pilar Cowan

Theses and Dissertations

Hold it Against Your Bones is a series of eight linked essays on grief, duty, and letting go. They cover the author's experience of being in the care-taking role for both her mother and her children, the journey of accompanying someone as they die, and the space that is left after care taking duties subside.


Arrow Rock, Spring 2025, Full Issue May 2025

Arrow Rock, Spring 2025, Full Issue

Arrow Rock

No abstract provided.


Untethered And Unraveled: Isolated Motherhood In The Liminal Stage, Ashton K. Wronikowski May 2025

Untethered And Unraveled: Isolated Motherhood In The Liminal Stage, Ashton K. Wronikowski

All Theses

In examining Kate Chopin’s The Awakening alongside anthropologic theories of liminality, this paper examines the becoming women traverse as they transition between various social roles: girl, woman, mother. Edna is a maternal character attempting to unweave herself from her roles as mother and wife, and she finds this desire to go backwards to the freedom she experienced as a girl is proven to be impossible. The unmooring of her psyche and her subsequent suicide is indicative of a failure, not of her own accord, but in the social preparation and support she receives within her new identity. Social anthropologists further …


Book Review: Local Signs And Wonders: Essays About Belonging To A Place, Susanna R. Smith May 2025

Book Review: Local Signs And Wonders: Essays About Belonging To A Place, Susanna R. Smith

Georgia Library Quarterly

Book Review of Local Signs and Wonders, by Richard Rankin


Sidewindings, Jeff Marvel May 2025

Sidewindings, Jeff Marvel

Graduate Thesis Collection

A memoir cataloguing the impacts of my late-onset Type 1 diabetes diagnosis at the age of 26, in which I attempt to realize the ways in which my sense of self, and sense of the world around me, has been altered or disfigured by this hardly-visible disease.


Oaxaca Stories Along The Way, James E. Gaasch May 2025

Oaxaca Stories Along The Way, James E. Gaasch

Trade & Scholarly Monographs

View the world of a local photographer... a market vendor... a painter... an academic... all through the eyes of an author who has fallen in love. This is not the simple infatuation of fairy tales, but the real love that comes from appreciating the whole. It comes from the beauty of a city and the hearts of its populace...


My Family’S Hands, Natalie Mckenzie May 2025

My Family’S Hands, Natalie Mckenzie

Gandy Dancer Archives

No abstract provided.


This Body, This Place, Moon Khan May 2025

This Body, This Place, Moon Khan

Gandy Dancer Archives

No abstract provided.


Budded, Elianiz Torres May 2025

Budded, Elianiz Torres

Gandy Dancer Archives

No abstract provided.


The Stillness We Share, Mia Paone May 2025

The Stillness We Share, Mia Paone

Gandy Dancer Archives

No abstract provided.


Credentials, Audrey Ickes May 2025

Credentials, Audrey Ickes

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

Audrey Ickes is a Senior English-Writing major and History and Communications double minor. Flip to page 31 to see the rest of her credentials or page 23 to find out why she writes whether she likes to or not.


Literature As A Tool For The Introduction Of Mental Health To Children, Kira Ott May 2025

Literature As A Tool For The Introduction Of Mental Health To Children, Kira Ott

Undergraduate Honors Theses

In childhood, literature is a quintessential learning tool, so it is imperative it is used in the introduction of mental health. Around the ages of seven to nine children begin to become aware of their own needs and comprehend others' perspectives (Short et al., 2017, p. 13). At this time non-fiction books can be used to present information when it is organized, accessible, and informative (Short et al., 2017, p. 13). This can be effectively paired with fiction which can help contextualize abstract ideas, and develop self-monitoring skills (Gunawardena, 2023; Short et al., 2017). Mental health, which encompasses thoughts, feelings, …


Queer Hope And Asexual Desire In Nella Larsen's Passing And Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse, Jeremy Buckner May 2025

Queer Hope And Asexual Desire In Nella Larsen's Passing And Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse, Jeremy Buckner

Graduate Theses and Dissertations (2019 - present)

This project examines Nella Larsen’s Passing and Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse together as queer artifacts in hopes of shedding new light on how race and sexuality can be reexamined across national modes of thinking. Although these writers’ backgrounds provide them with different bodies of knowledge, Larsen’s Irene and Woolf’s Lily have much more in common than might first appear. For one, even if racialization is more explicit—and presents more of an obstacle—for Irene, race is an important factor for both characters. Additionally, Irene and Lily both express profound discontent with marriage, Irene in her marriage to Brian and Lily …


Dedication Apr 2025

Dedication

PULSE: A Student Publication of Literary & Artistic Works

No abstract provided.


Meet The Pulse Editorial Board Apr 2025

Meet The Pulse Editorial Board

PULSE: A Student Publication of Literary & Artistic Works

No abstract provided.


In Lectio Divina, David Ting Com 25 Apr 2025

In Lectio Divina, David Ting Com 25

PULSE: A Student Publication of Literary & Artistic Works

No abstract provided.


Pulse, Vol. 4 Spring 2025 Apr 2025

Pulse, Vol. 4 Spring 2025

PULSE: A Student Publication of Literary & Artistic Works

No abstract provided.


Letter From The Editors, Anvitha Soordelu Com 27, Dean Chien Com 27 Apr 2025

Letter From The Editors, Anvitha Soordelu Com 27, Dean Chien Com 27

PULSE: A Student Publication of Literary & Artistic Works

No abstract provided.


Letter From The Designers, Nathan Ngo Com 28, Natalie Kalpakyan Com 27, Qiuyi Wang Com 27 Apr 2025

Letter From The Designers, Nathan Ngo Com 28, Natalie Kalpakyan Com 27, Qiuyi Wang Com 27

PULSE: A Student Publication of Literary & Artistic Works

No abstract provided.


The Twelve Steps Of Emily, Emily Chick Apr 2025

The Twelve Steps Of Emily, Emily Chick

Master's Projects

The methodology of this project aims to showcase the complex overlapping of Kavan and my life through the lens of Affect Theory, and memoir. My goal is to tie together our lives through a kinship that is rooted in historical resonance and explained through the relationship of emotion and behavior analyzed in Affect theory. I want to pull my audience through a troubling reality, dealing with the active decision to forget or remember our past, and how we behave moving forward based on such a decision. My other motivation for choosing this style is to showcase the growth of my …


A Scholar At The Round Table: The Academic Influence Of Professor Raluca L. Radulescu, Brenda L. Schurrer Apr 2025

A Scholar At The Round Table: The Academic Influence Of Professor Raluca L. Radulescu, Brenda L. Schurrer

Honors Capstones

This research biography explores the academic contributions of Professor Raluca L. Radulescu, a leading scholar in medieval and Arthurian literature. The project examines her role in connecting traditional and contemporary literary analysis, focusing on her scholarship's influence on political, gender, and manuscript studies. Using a literary-historical methodology, I analyzed Radulescu’s major works, including The Gentry Context for Malory’s Morte Darthur and her chapter in The Routledge Companion to Medieval English Literature, supplemented by secondary sources such as reviews and dissertations citing her research. The study emphasizes her interdisciplinary approach and her impact on reinterpreting medieval texts for modern audiences. Findings …


"Integrating The Seven Stages Of Conocimiento With Nahuatl And Ralámuri Wisdom In Kosmic Feminism: My Creative Writer Identity.", Hilda Yaneth Sotelo Dr Apr 2025

"Integrating The Seven Stages Of Conocimiento With Nahuatl And Ralámuri Wisdom In Kosmic Feminism: My Creative Writer Identity.", Hilda Yaneth Sotelo Dr

Journal of Creative Writing Studies

This paper explores the intersection of Kosmic Feminism and the seven stages of conocimiento as outlined by Gloria Anzaldúa, integrating Indigenous wisdom from Nahuatl and Ralámuri traditions. It examines how decolonial thought, feminist theory, and creative writing can be transformative tools for personal and communal healing. Drawing on personal experiences rooted in the borderlands of Ciudad Juárez-El Paso and Rarámuri heritage, the author blends Anzaldúa’s framework of conocimiento with Indigenous perspectives to offer a critique of patriarchal systems and a vision of holistic, cosmic resistance. The seven stages of conocimiento—awakening (El Arrebato), liminality (La Nepantla), commitment (El Compromiso), healing (La …


Alembic Cover 2025, Lily Spiegel Apr 2025

Alembic Cover 2025, Lily Spiegel

The Alembic

"Moonlit Providence"


Volume 103, Number 1 - Spring 2025, Providence College Apr 2025

Volume 103, Number 1 - Spring 2025, Providence College

The Alembic

Cover Photo: Moonlit Providence by Lily Spiegel