• "Speak American": linguistic discrimination against Latino residents of Garden City, KS 

  Colcher, Drew C. (Wichita State University, 2019-05)

  Carter (2014), Phillips (1998), and Zentella (1997) have extensively discussed the ways that linguistic discrimination functions to suppress the maintenance of minority languages like Spanish in the U.S. This study analyzes ...

• Book review: Poe's Silent Music 

  Bechtold, Rebeccah B. (JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV PRESS, 2018)

  That scarce awake, thy soul shall deem / My words the music of a dream," proclaims the speaker of Poe's "Serenade" to his love, Adeline [Works, 1:223]. In so doing, "Serenade," titled after a type of nocturnal music, ...

• Coaching through humanism 

  Lubbers-Payne, Mercedes (Wichita State University, 2019-04-26)

  Core learning theories such as Cognitivism, Behaviorism, and Humanism are not only applicable for educators, but may be used as a basis for effective academic advising. The importance of effective academic advising is ...

• Sacramental tempest: a return to literary mystery 

  Busenitz, Stuart S. (Wichita State University, 2018-12)

  Early modernity's rise during the seventeenth century in England created a shift in culture including literary artistic expressions. This paper proposes that the rise of modernity limited the communicative power of language ...

• Book review: The Bones of Paradise 

  Quantic, Diane D. (Western Literature Association, 2019)

  "It was midmorning in early May when J.B. Bennett crested the hill, stopped, and surveyed the little Sand Hills meadow where the windmill was slowly clanking in a wobbly circle" (3). This sentence opens Jonis Agee's novel, ...

• The Rose 

  Whitake, Carolyn (Stand Magazine, 2017)

• Developing a multimodal pedagogy 

  Wiley, Emma (Wichita State University, 2018-05)

  "Developing a Multimodal Pedagogy" explores the adaptation process of multimodal strategies into pedagogical practice. This research attempts to examine the relationship between multimodal assignments and creativity, and ...

• Blood (and other things) in the gutter: deconstructing McCloud's "pleasure in closure" for intersectional exploration 

  Allen, Jessica (Wichita State University, 2018-05)

  This research explores gutter theory in comics and graphic novels. While many regard Scott McCloud's theoretical work as the gold standard, others such as Theirry Groenstein, Theresa Tensuan, and Hannah Miodrag believe ...

• Establishing a stylometric baseline for micro-attributions of Shakespeare's apocrypha with 'On a day, alack the day' 

  Swaim, Chance (Wichita State University, 2017-04-28)

  With the digitization of the Early Modern dramatic canon nearly complete, the contemporary understanding of authorship is rapidly changing. Utilizing digital databases such as LION (Literature Online), which makes ...

• The Quietude of Conscience and the magnetism of sound: listening to Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables 

  Bechtold, Rebeccah B. (MIT Press, 2017-03)

  In :The House of the Seven Gables" Nathaniel Hawthorne employs a soundscape particularly attuned to the modern dissonances and spiritual soundings of antebellum America. His novel interrogates the impact of these ...

• Reconciling pragmatism and literary theory: Beaumont and Fletcher's The Maid's Tragedy and its ethics pragmatically considered 

  McKnight, Joshua Alan (Wichita State University, 2016-05)

  Seeking to find a way forward for literary theory in the face of the slow dissolution of the postmodern era, this research project draws from the philosophy of pragmatism and investigates a play with the purpose of ...

• Book review: Why we left: untold stories and songs of America's first immigrants 

  Bechtold, Rebeccah B. (University of California Press, 2016-09)

  North America in the seventeenth century was far from a "land of opportunity" to early Anglo-American peasant migrants, or so Joanna Brooks argues in Why We left: Untold Stories and Songs of America's First Immigrants. The ...

• What words have to say and the benefits of text analysis in adolescents 

  Crawford, Johnna; Connor, Francis X. (Wichita State University, 2016-04-29)

  In 2015 Researchers used text analysis software to examine the writings of six school shooters. Ultimately, the shooters' texts scored higher in the dimensions of Revenge, Narcissism, and Humiliation. In the past, the ...

• Middle-class identity and corporeal attachments in The Wide, Wide World 

  Dejmal, Rachel (Wichita State University, 2015-12)

  Early nineteenth century industrialization and capitalism stimulated growth in public labor forces and consumer markets. Though largely conceived as a male-centered history, industrialization upended the lives of women; ...

• The Victorian masculine woman in Wives and Daughters, Middlemarch, and Jude the Obscure 

  Bartlett, Christina Nichole (Wichita State University, 2015-07)

  According to Judith Butler, both today's progressive society and the industrialized British Victorian era use binary genders to create a system of heterosexual reproduction that ensures the survival of the species. In ...

• A black hole moved into the neighborhood 

  Gorman, Taylor P. (Department of English at Loyola University New Orleans, 2015)

  I took with me everywhere else I’d been before. I’d bought a house on a corner and dismantled it like a stage-hand. When I spoke, my voice sounded like everything. When my neighbors asked if they should be worried, I said ...

• Walden and A New Home, Who'll Follow?: Recovering Eve in nineteenth-century nature writing 

  Wynn, Victoria Leigh (Wichita State University, 2015-05)

  Canonization of nineteenth-century American authors often separates Caroline Kirkland's A New Home, Who'll Follow? and Henry David Thoreau's Walden into diverse literary genres. Although the authors wrote in different but ...

• You better watch out...: White myths and matrices of oppression in Invisible Man 

  Warren, Xavia (Wichita State University, 2015-05)

• Prankster narrative in Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 

  Dryden, Nick (Wichita State University, 2015-05)

  The opening lines of Ken Kesey's 1962 novel recall the title imagery and central metaphor of psychiatrist Frantz Fanon's 1952 book Black Skin, White Masks: [t]hey're out there. Black boys in white suits up before me to ...

• A revolutionary soundscape musical reform and the science of sound in early America, 1760-1840 

  Bechtold, Rebeccah B. (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015-10)

  American colonists initially encountered music in community settings, during worship services and public performances, as well as at dances and other social functions. The rise of singing schools in the 1720s and the growing ...

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