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English Theses and Dissertations
This collection contains some of the theses and dissertations produced by students in the University of Oregon English Graduate Program. Paper copies of these and other dissertations and theses are available through the UO Libraries.
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Selcer, Leslie
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
QAnon’s umbrella conspiracy culture operates through a multi-scaled folk media infrastructure constituted by an array of distinct subcultures. Because QAnon offers a broad variety of online subcultures and corresponding ...
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Stephens, Jiesha
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
My dissertation, Obscure Pleasures: Ritual, Pain, and the Black Feminist Imagination, traces how twentieth- and twenty-first-century black women’s literature and performance generate ways of feeling, inhabiting, and embodying ...
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Jung, Junha
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
The interwar period was a time when the American community and the meaning of its membership were dismantled, contested, and demanded to be redefined through a series of events, such as the Great Depression, the Great ...
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Ecklund, Ashley
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
DISSERTATION ABSTRACTAshley Ecklund
Doctor of Philosophy in English
The Texture of Affect: Catastrophic Violence and the Matter of Knowing in Late Twentieth Century U.S. Literature
This project addresses affectivity as ...
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Thompson, Jalen
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
Framing my discussion in the 1990s and early 2000s, my dissertation—“A Counterhistory of the Ratchet”—explores what I term “the ratchet aesthetic” as both an aesthetic language that rejects the politics of respectability ...
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Nadarajah, Madhura
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
My dissertation, Silence, Intimacy, and the Other: Rhetorical Storytelling in Asian and Asian/American Feminist Writings investigates how Asian and Asian/American women have used storytelling as a form of discursive ...
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Hendrix, Raye
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
This dissertation examines the intersections of contemporary US American poetry and invisible, or imperceptible, disabilities, seeking to make necessary interventions in current poetic and disability studies. It focuses ...
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Brambley, Matthew
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
Contemporary trends in literary and cultural analysis are predicated on a reading practice that reduces their subjects to a binary dichotomy that can be summarized as a hegemonic-versus-subversive discourse where, in the ...
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Kerr, Mina
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
The First World War poetry canon has long been defined by the works of Anglo-Protestant, agnostic, officer class soldier poets. Though the hegemony of this canon has painted the war as a faith-destroying event, poetic ...
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McNeil, Melanie
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
This thesis examines supernatural personal experience narratives presented in “true horror” podcasts. Through content analysis, I investigate four podcasts featuring supernatural personal experience narratives and compare ...
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Elliott, Meghan
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
In this dissertation, I analyze how literature engages prosthetic embodiment and relationsthrough critical memoirs and speculative fictions that explore real and imagined experiences with
prosthetics. Using affect theory ...
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Mastrostefano, Stephanie
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
Scratching the Celluloid Frame: Women’s Labor as Technology in the Industrialization of Animation at Disney from 1928-1945 challenges the pervasive myth that women did not have a pivotal role in animation’s industrial ...
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Basaldua, Josiah
(University of Oregon, 2024-01-10)
Reading Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit’s understanding of the visual challenge to logocentric epistemologies presented by Caravaggio’s paintings in Caravaggio’s Secrets against their reading of Caravaggio in film, the biopic ...
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San Juan , Annalise
(University of Oregon, 2024-01-10)
This project uses fracture as a framework to analyze and visualize the devastation that settler colonialism has wrought on Indigenous communities, specifically through the history of Yaqui people, my ancestors. Utilizing ...
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Galentine, Cassandra
(University of Oregon, 2024-01-10)
My dissertation argues that studying literary representations of women’s labor helps us to understand the intersection of racial capitalism and environmental injustice. I examine how various twentieth-century working-class ...
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Beavers, Kaleb
(University of Oregon, 2024-01-10)
This paper considers how The Noma Guide to Fermentation is a microbiopolitical artifact that (re)produces certain values and characteristics associated with fermentation praxis. The Noma Guide to Fermentation is a significant ...
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Gekiere, Kathleen
(University of Oregon, 2024-01-10)
As horse trainers, a former child star and a mysterious UFO clash in the Agua Dulce desert, Jordan Peele’s Nope (2022), replete with nonhuman actors, presents a generative model for considering the possibilities and ...
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Hatay, Molly
(University of Oregon, 2024-01-10)
In this dissertation, I examine literary representations of Jewishness published between 1955 and 2021, after the perceived end of the transition of Jews into whiteness in the mid to late 1940s. Primary among these texts ...
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Preston, Sarah
(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)
Brand names, advertisements, and marketing strategies fill the pages of much contemporary ethnic American literature that engages with issues of environmental justice. In Toxic Entanglements: Advertising and Material ...
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Roethle, Christopher
(University of Oregon, 2023-07-06)
More than a hundred years after Whitman, vers libre, and the Imagist movement, many poets still have a remarkably indistinct understanding of what it means to write in free verse, as the form is too often defined by what ...
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