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Identity and home in three Caribbean authors
(2020-07)
The search for identity is a major theme in modern literature. It is particularly prevalent in societies that have historically been colonized where the colonizer has sabotaged the values of the colonized that are at the ...
Remembering Kin: Constructing Creek Tribal Sites of Memory
(2019-05-01)
This dissertation is a tribally-specific study of Creek texts, Alexander Posey's The Fus Fixico Letters, Joy Harjo's memoir Crazy Brave and Sterlin Harjo's documentary This May Be the Last Time, that focuses on manifestations ...
Crime scene of the mind: Prohibition, enjoyment, and the criminal profiler in film and television
(2007-05)
Scope and Method of Study: This dissertation traces the evolution of the FBI agent in American popular culture from the 1930s to the present day. Until the 1950s, the FBI agent's symbolic status as an elite moral crusader ...
Environmental discourse in Oklahoma: Examining rhetorical strategies in three case studies
(2021-05)
Despite the acceleration of climate change, figuring out ways to productively talk about it remains difficult in some places. So where do we begin? As rhetoricians, we believe that studying discourse provides insight. ...
Adventures in intercultural listening
(2006-12)
Scope and Method of Study: Introspective, exploratory study of how two American English teachers living abroad managed or resolved the cognitive, affective and socio-cultural challenges they encountered when listening to ...
Visionary
(1985-12)
My body is not something you can land on: Indigenous Feminisms in Erika T. Wurth's prose
(2019-12)
In their book Introduction to Feminist Thought and Action, Menoukha Robin Case and Allison V. Craig define Indigenous Feminism as centered around "cultural preservation and Indigenous sovereignty" (61). Specifically, Case ...
Speech act of greeting performed by Russian EFL learners
(2016-05)
The present study centers on interlanguage and cross-cultural pragmatics. It investigates semantic formulas in the speech act of greeting performed by Russian EFL learners. In particular, it compares the non-native speakers' ...
Collaborating Accountably: Interpersonal Antiracist Activism as a Site for Feminist Invitational Rhetoric and Writing Center Pedagogy
(2019-05-01)
This dissertation applies participatory action research and feminist ethnographic methods to study The Conversation Workshops, which teaches strategies for interpersonal antiracist activism using concepts from invitational ...