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Wild Horses
(East Carolina University, 2022-03-23)Wild Horses is a Literary Fiction novel that intersects with Queer and Indigenous Literature. The narrative is a close third point of view following the perspectives of primary protagonist, Amanda Sloan (Mara), her father, ... -
Women's Rights and Religious Bias in Dystopian Speculative Fiction: A Closer Look at Louise Erdrich's Future Home of the Living God and Christina Dalcher’s Vox
(East Carolina University, 2022-04-27)Speculative fiction provides a perfect vehicle to examine the state of women’s rights. Through the Intersectional Feminist lens, I consider the speculative projections within Louise Erdrich’s Future Home of the Living God ... -
The Humanization of 20th Century Europe’s Perpetrators: How Humanizing Our History’s Perpetrators Can Better Our Future
(East Carolina University, 2022-04-13)This thesis examines the need for the humanization of 20th-century Europe’s perpetrators, the Nazis, through literature. The purpose of this project is to make clear why the standpoint that Nazis were once ordinary citizens ... -
Changing Nature: Stacy Alaimo and Cary Wolfe at ASLE
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"Never Waste a Good Crisis": An Interview with Mary Mellor
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“The Ingenious Unravelling of Evidence”: Empathy, Extinction, and Wells’s The Croquet Player
(2019-09-01)While we are increasingly challenged to imagine a world without humans, we have also become increasingly attentive to the subject of empathy, in popular culture, the humanities, and the sciences. In The Time Machine (1895), ... -
TRANSHUMANISM, FRANKENSTEIN, AND EXTINCTION
(2018)Shelley's novel has been fertile ground for ecocritics over the last two decades. In Ecocriticism and the Idea of Culture (2014, 2016) I wrote about Frankenstein and culture's dialectical horror of nature. As a narrative ... -
A Handbook of the Mythological and Biblical Allusions in Lamb's Essays of Elia
(1935)The study is divided into two parts: the first deals with The Essays of Elia, and the second, with the Last Essays of Elia. The explanations are given in the order of the allusions in the essays. Those essays in ... -
Next Door
(East Carolina University, 2021-05-03)The following is a screenplay that tells the story of two African American teenage girls, Lena and Jada, whose lives are interrupted by the mysterious teenage boy, Owen, who moves in next door to Lena. Lena, plagued by ... -
To Love Me Too
(East Carolina University, 2021-05-10)My flash non-fiction practice is influenced by Randon Billings Noble and Jennifer Marie Brissett, while my imagery and interest in black diaspora is rooted in slave narratives, and African and African American literature. ... -
Manifestations of Tribalography in Indigenous American Literature: LeAnne Howe and Beyond
(East Carolina University, 2021-05-03)LeAnne Howe has contributed to interpretations of American Indian storytelling by coining the term "tribalography" as the stories that bring us together, American Indian and non-Native peoples, through the past, present ... -
A Study in Love
(East Carolina University, 2021-05-03)This thesis contains three original short stories all centered around the theme of love. Through this theme, I explored what it means to love yourself, love others, and love as it relates to Christianity.