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Watershed, Matthew Doyle

Robert Penn Warren Essay Contest

No abstract provided.

The Systems Of Life, Madeline Stephenson

Robert Penn Warren Essay Contest

No abstract provided.

Shakespeare's Blush, Or "The Animal" In Othello, Steven Swarbrick

Publications and Research

This essay examines how the rhetoric of animalization in Shakespeare’s Othello compels us to think early modern categories of race in connection with early modern discourses of “human” versus “animal.” Beginning with Shakespeare’s representation of Iago, I suggest that it is the potential for sameness conditioned by Iago’s counterfactual statement (“Were I the Moor, I would not by Iago”) that is most significant about his relation to Othello. From there I consider the overlap between the play’s representations of animality and black skin. Read in the context of Jacques Derrida’s reflections on animals, I consider the deconstructive value of linking …

On The Appraisal Of The Trope Of Rebirth In Maryse Condé’S I, Tituba, Black Witch Of Salem, Imen Mzoughi

Journal of South Texas English Studies

This paper aims to explore the complex layers of the trope of rebirth. It highlights the various levels on which the notion of rebirth operates in I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem by the Creolophone writer Maryse Condé (Guadeloupean, American and French). Indeed, Maryse Condé resurrects Hester Prynne, the protagonist of The Scarlet Letter written by 19th century American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne. In so doing, Condé entails her rebirth. From this vantage point, Condé puts into effect a reversal in the main character’s fate to requestion the status of women in 19th century Puritan American society, a status deliberately put …

Pulling Off The Mask: Junot Díaz’S Yunior And Reconstructions Of Adolescence, Beatrice Mendez Newman

Journal of South Texas English Studies

No abstract provided.

Contributors' Biographies, Monica Reyes, Imen Mzoughi, Sarah Foust Vinson, Susan Larkin, Beatrice Mendez Newman, David Aguilar

Journal of South Texas English Studies

No abstract provided.

Letter From The Editor. Rebirth. Volume 6, Issue 1., David Aguilar

Journal of South Texas English Studies

No abstract provided.

Jane Austen Meets The Gps: Place And Space, David Kolb

Sophia and Philosophia

When one reads Jane Austen’s novels, one finds that her heroines’ lives center around a beloved and comfortable home, in a local region including a small town, some neighboring estates, and local hills and valleys. It is a detailed and textured home area of nearby places reachable on foot or horse. One to three miles are walkable to a friend’s house or a favorite scenic hill. Beyond this region is no longer “home.” Fifteen or twenty-five miles can be distant.

Friends Of Musselman Library Newsletter Spring 2016, Musselman Library

Friends of Musselman Library Newsletter

From the Dean (Robin Wagner)

Library Receives 9/11 Commission Papers (Fred Fielding '16)

Library News

Digital Scholarship Fellows

From Paupers to Presidents

Fair Use Week

Reading About Race

Student Workers Save the Day (Nadia Romero Nardelli '19)

Life in the Fishbowl (Brittany Barry '17)

In Memory of Douglas R. Price; Former Aide to Eisenhower

Special Purchases

From the Piano Bench (Jay P. Brown ’51, Doug Brouder ’83, Julie Caterson ’84 and Mr. & Mrs. Michael Fiery)

Research Reflections: The Spirit of Gettysburg (Timothy Sestrick)

Gift of Art

Old Gettysburg Back to Thee (Jenna Fleming '16, Avery Fox '16, Melanie Fernandes …

What Do You Mean, "Practice"? Theorizing The Writing-Music Connection, Callie Elise Compton

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Researchers in the field of composition studies have frequently made allusions to musicians when they’ve discussed the role of practice in gaining skill. In doing so, however, they’ve risked making speculative rather than testable claims and separating composition studies from recent insights on practice from other disciplines such as education and music psychology. These fields, I argue, offer testable frameworks with which composition instructors and scholars can teach and study writing practice. Such frameworks are necessary because composition researchers need to supplement qualitative studies of writers and writing with quantitative data to generate replicable tests of teaching methods that may …

Ivy Leaves, Volume 91, Ivy Leaves Editorial Staff

Ivy Leaves

The 2016 edition of the Anderson University journal of art and literature, Ivy Leaves.

The names of the known editors for this issue of Ivy Leaves were Angel Hisnanick, Becca Naylor, Allyson Vaughan, Tquavious Johnson, Maris Mabry, Jenni Harris, Jessi Tallman, Tracy Spencer, Caroline Denton, Josie Maszk, Logan Hickey, Meredith Lyons, Jennifer Bowers, Sarah Grace Kivett, Alex Dib, Hollyann Lang, Matt Swank, Micah Peek, Ben Boerma, Tim Speaker, and Teresa Jones.

Defining Taboo: A Study Of The Life And Work Of The Brontë Sisters, Brittany Bell

UCARE: Research Products

Silence=Death: Gay Rights, Wuthering Heights, and the Outspoken Emily Brontë.
Conference paper focused on: • Non-Normative Gender and Relationship Roles • Gender Ambiguity and Role Reversal • Sexual Addiction -Destruction of the Body -Destruction of the Mind -Destruction of the Spirit

God is not a Feminist.
Journal Article focused on: • Battle against patriarchal convention • Feminism, Gender Inequality, and Class Inequality • Involvement of the Christian Church in all of the above

Ghosts And Angels In The House: Cecilia De Noel And The Search For Faith In The Late Nineteenth Century, Christine Sutphin

English Faculty Scholarship

The nineteenth century, so often thought of as the age of scientific theory, technological change, and realism in fiction, abounds with supernatural phenomena. While some readers and observers of culture could define practices and texts related to the supernatural as pernicious because irreligious or unscientific, others could appreciate ghost stories at least as imaginative entertainment resulting in pleasurable fear but not otherwise significant. However, these stories can be read as serious and profound explorations of the unknown and the moral, philosophical, and spiritual questions with which we continue to struggle.

Of all the ghost stories published during the period, perhaps …

Book Review: Staging Intercultural Ireland: New Plays And Practitioner Perspectives, Kathleen A. Heininge

Faculty Publications - Department of English

All scholars of world literature, especially those trained in the traditions of Western thought, must ultimately grapple with the question of privilege: In opening up a space for all voices to be heard, care must be taken to avoid coopting those voices. Academics must always be aware of our own motivations so that discussions of multi-cultural literature do not appear anthropological, mere examinations of other cultures from a worldview that seems ubiquitous but which comes from a place of unconscious-perhaps- superiority. Critics from Edward Said, in Orientalism, to Gayatri Spivak, in "Can the Subaltern Speak?" to Chinua Achebe in …

Ellen Burton Harrington. Conrad's Sensational Heroines: Gender And Representation In The Late Fiction Of Joseph Conrad. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. 173 Pp. Isbn: 9783319632964., Joyce Wexler

English: Faculty Publications and Other Works

No abstract provided.

Learning Support English, Jenny Crisp, Lydia Postell, Melissa Whitesell

English Grants Collections

This Grants Collection uses the grant-supported open textbook The Roadrunner's Guide to English from Dalton State College:

http://oer.galileo.usg.edu/english-textbooks/9

This Grants Collection for Learning Support English was created under a Round Three ALG Textbook Transformation Grant.

Affordable Learning Georgia Grants Collections are intended to provide faculty with the frameworks to quickly implement or revise the same materials as a Textbook Transformation Grants team, along with the aims and lessons learned from project teams during the implementation process.

Documents are in .pdf format, with a separate .docx (Word) version available for download. Each collection contains the following materials:

• Linked Syllabus
• Initial …

English Composition Ii, Lauren Curtright, Kathryn Crowther, Nancy Gilbert, Barbara Hall, Tracienne Ravita

English Grants Collections

This Grants Collection uses the grant-supported open textbook Successful College Composition from Georgia State University:

http://oer.galileo.usg.edu/english-textbooks/8

This Grants Collection for English Composition II was created under a Round Two ALG Textbook Transformation Grant.

Affordable Learning Georgia Grants Collections are intended to provide faculty with the frameworks to quickly implement or revise the same materials as a Textbook Transformation Grants team, along with the aims and lessons learned from project teams during the implementation process.

Documents are in .pdf format, with a separate .docx (Word) version available for download. Each collection contains the following materials:

• Linked Syllabus
• Initial Proposal
• Final …

The Shadow Of The War: Postwar Destabilization, Nostalgia, And Fragile Truth In The Works Of A. A. Milne, Sarah E. Johnson Labarbera

Masters Essays

No abstract provided.

The Prairie Connect Spring 2016, English Discipline, University Of Minnesota, Morris

The Prairie Connect (English Discipline Newsletter)

The Prairie Connect is the bi-annual English discipline newsletter.

Featuring the Faculty Feature: The Publishing Process with Chrissy Kolaya, Creative Writing: "When, With Autumn Hands, We Dig" by Joshua Johnson, Student Profiles: Brittany Grady and Dan Nicla, Alumni Profiles: Jessie Hennen and Don Lifto, Feature Story: One Degree, Five Paths to Success, and Student, Alumni, and Faculty News

White Trash Compactor, Jacob Heflin

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.

There’S An Identity Label For Me?: Perceptions By First-Generation College Students Of An Institutional Label, Curtis A. Green-Eneix

McNair Scholars Research Journal

Although first-generation college students (FGCS) have been entering universities in large numbers, and even with past quantitative studies to understand this demographic, a major percentage continue to drop out of college within their first two years. Past research has resulted in an overall picture of this demographic. This qualitative study explores: (1) how FGCS perceive their social identity in relation to a college community, and (2) how interacting with support programs, such as Boise State’s Student Success Program (SSP), shapes their understanding of support. In interviews with nine FGCS students, most of them did not know this first-generation label applied …

Talk About Writing: The Tutoring Strategies Of Experienced Writing Center Tutors Jo Mackiewicz And Isabelle Kramer Thompson New York, Ny; Routledge, 2015; $47.95; Isbn: 978-1-315-76859-5 (Ebk), David Aguilar

Journal of South Texas English Studies

No abstract provided.

Carson's Christianity And Environmental Crises, Andrew Wadsworth

Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism

No abstract provided.

Poetic Myths: American Nationalism And The War Of 1812, Amber Shoopman

McNair Scholars Research Journal

“The Star Spangled Banner” is one of the best known patriotic songs in the United States; however, most people do not know it originated as a poem during a much understudied, but highly influential time. “The Star Spangled Banner” is one of several poems that helped build unity in America during and after the War of 1812. This project analyzes early 19th century American poetry and the influence it had on building foundational ideologies of American nationalism. It focuses on the role poetry played in creating nationalistic myths by using primary texts to explore and analyze the different themes, words, …

Madness, Death, And Civilization: Non-European Women Under Patriarchy And Imperialism, Mengying Li

Masters Theses

In light of Wide Sargasso Sea, through which Jean Rhys intends to provide the madwoman Bertha in Jane Eyre with a voice and a life, this thesis attempts to reread Jane Eyre from a postcolonial perspective, arguing that both texts can be read as critiques of the cruelty and inhumanity of European civilization. After the English beat the Spanish at sea, and complete the First Industrial Revolution, it establishes the country as the greatest imperialistic power in the world. The need of labor, raw material, and new market leads them to develop colonies in remote areas like the Caribbean. By …

The Said And The Unsayable : Silence In Jane Austen's Sense And Sensibility, Mansfield Park, And Persuasion, Laura Evelyn Thurber

Theses, Dissertations, and Projects

No abstract provided.

How To Write About Writing, Monica Reyes

Journal of South Texas English Studies

No abstract provided.

Liberation, Renewal, And The Re-Imagination Of Self: Wild And Garlic And Sapphires, Sarah Foust Vinson, Susan Larkin

Journal of South Texas English Studies

No abstract provided.

Review Of In Their Own Words: Practices Of Quotation In Early Medieval History-Writing By Jeanette Beer, Elizaveta Strakhov

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Editors' Note, Chelsea Lee And Sarah Barlow

Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism

No abstract provided.