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POLITICS OF THE (TEXTUAL) BODY : EMBODIED ISSUES OF GENDER AND POWER IN AIDOO'S CHANGES: A LOVE STORY, FAQIR'S PILLARS OF SALT, AND WINTERSON'S WRITTEN ON THE BODY
(East Carolina University, 2013)
This thesis explores the literary manifestation of patriarchal embodiment in several multicultural novels: Ama Ata Aidoo's Changes: A Love Story, Fadia Faqir's Pillars of Salt, and Jeanette Winterson's Written on the Body. ...
The Journal
(East Carolina University, 2015)
The Journal is the first of a two-part feature length screenplay about best friends, Raven and Isaac, and their journey to discover and understand their magical heritage while fighting to save the world from an ancient ...
The Things We Hear in the Nighttime & Other Stories
(East Carolina University, 2015)
THE THINGS WE HEAR IN THE NIGHTTIME & OTHER STORIES is a collection of five short stories and five pieces of flash fiction. The writing in the collection focuses on the ever-changing American identity of the 20th and 21st ...
Hierarchies and Communication : Analyzing Negotiated Power Relationships in a Small Software Company
(East Carolina University, 2013)
This dissertation examines chatroom data gathered over the course of approximately five months at a small software organization to determine whether the power hierarchy in such organizations diverges from the org chart ...
"The Tonic of Wildness" : Thoreau's Critique of Industrial Capitalism
(East Carolina University, 2015)
This thesis is a critical intervention in contemporary Thoreau scholarship. It argues against Ashton Nichols's application of his concept of "urbanature" to the writings and philosophy of Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau's ...
Quietus
(East Carolina University, 2015)
Quietus is a collection of three short stories dealing with themes of corruption, death, and loss. There are elements of psychological horror at play with the occasional emergence of humor, whether it is lighthearted or ...
An Argument for Writing Assessment Literacy for Multilingual and L2 Writers: Deconstructing Linguistic Bias
(East Carolina University, 2018-07-31)
College composition classrooms are becoming less monolithic as they linguistically diversify. When L2 writers are present in college composition classrooms, they are vulnerable to assumptions, and judgments about their ...
Constellating Identities and Workplace Genres in Writing Center Discourse
(East Carolina University, 2019-07-15)
This study investigates the ways in which blank, written workplace genres mediate relationships and identities in the writing center. Forms developed for scheduling and recordkeeping are part of everyday practices that ...
RHETORICAL LIFELINES: QUEER AND FEMINIST SURVIVAL IN RIYOKO IKEDA’S THE ROSE OF VERSAILLES
(East Carolina University, 2019-04-25)
This dissertation explores the rhetorical lifelines of queer and feminist survival in the adapted animation of Riyoko Ikeda’s The Rose of Versailles. Using an interdisciplinary approach, this study examines the rhetorics ...
Editorial Peer Review as a Content-Shaping Mechanism in Technical Communication Journal Scholarship
(East Carolina University, 2019-07-19)
Editorial peer review serves multiple functions in academic journal publishing including gatekeeping, quality control, and mentoring. As representatives of a discipline and its body of knowledge, peer reviewers evaluate ...