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No full textThis novel is a comedy of manners which takes Jane’s Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice published in 1813 and sets it in contemporary Pakistan, 2000-2001. Mr. and Mrs. Binat have five daughters Jena, Alys, Mari, Qitty and Lady. They are all single and Mrs. Binat is desperate that, at the very least, the elder two who have long passed their marriageable sell-by-date, should get married by hook or by crook. Mrs. Binat is ready to do anything towards this end but her daughters have other plans.Master of Fine Arts (MFA)Englis
The Forgiveness Project
No full textThe Forgiveness Project includes a critical introduction that defines the author’s approach to the short-short form as well as an explanation of how historiographical metafiction can work to memorialize. The first section contains primarily short-short stories that address the themes of motherhood, small tyrannies, happy liars, caregiving and the clichés of grief. A collection of linked short stories follows, revolving around elusive forgiveness. On the night of July 17, 1977, Juanita Lee, a bridge tender in South Florida, was abducted by two men and executed in the Everglades to silence her opposition to the demolition of an Intracoastal Waterway bridge. Twenty-two years later her daughter, Jill, now a Washington D.C. lobbyist who views the world through the cynical lens of her life’s work, is confronted with a plea for forgiveness via an organization called “The Forgiveness Project,” representing one of her mother’s killers.Master of Fine Arts (MFA)Englis
Does optogenetic inhibition of hippocampal neurons influence intake of a noncaloric sweetener?
No full textThe Painter's Wife and Other Stories
No full textThe Painter’s Wife and Other Stories is a novella and a collection of short fiction focusing on the lives of women and men in the contemporary Western United States. In their exploration of Western life, the novella and short stories subvert the popular mythology of the West. The novella and stories are set in one of three Colorado settings: the city of Denver, the rural Western slope, and the mountain communities of the Western Slope. Beyond being linked by region, the stories are also loosely linked by characters. Characters from one story are mentioned or make brief appearances in others, reinforcing the idea of a people connected by community and landscape.Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)Englis
Groundwork // Notes from the Field
No full textGroundwork // Notes from the Field is a hybrid, two-book manuscript, consisting of one full-length memoir manuscript (Groundwork), and one full-length manuscript of poems (Notes from the Field).
The memoir is a queer coming-of-age story within the landscape and conservative sociological structures of the American South. It includes implied and direct critique of how domestic and sexual violence are wielded as a foundational aspect of compulsory heterosexuality, and the tenuous relationship between children and their parents. It chronicles events from my childhood through my early adulthood, focusing on the various institutional and familial structures that aided in obscuring the truth of my sexual identity. More specifically, the memoir covers my experience of childhood sexual abuse, my father’s loss of parental rights, my mother’s second marriage to a meth dealer, her addiction, my meeting my father’s second family, and frequent moves from house to house due to my mother’s employment and financial instability.
I utilize the vignette and braided narrative technique throughout the memoir manuscript. Vignettes are a formal decision made to reflect the fragmentation of memory caused by trauma, a textual element that represents my experience with Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD) on the page. The use of the braided narrative reflects the overlap of traumas between phases of my life, as well as the cyclical, often overlapping nature of academic and scholarly research and inquiry. This leads, often, to the repetition of themes and symbols across various sections of the memoir manuscript. I also utilize many medical, legal, and academic records throughout the memoir manuscript, creating an archival index that supports my narrative.
The poetry manuscript, Notes from the Field, serves as a verse-sequel to the memoir in which I further and more lyrically explore the process of actualizing my lesbian identity in adulthood, as well as queer history, desire, and community as I have experienced it. In this manuscript of poems, I chart my experience of recognizing, embracing, and living as a queer woman in the South.Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)Englis
Anecdotal Evidence
No full textThese fifty-six poems concern the way it was, the way it is, the way it will be when all of me is gone but poems. Although they now seem only transparent little notches on the air, if I'm lucky and hit the lottery, maybe one or two will strike a tree or rock or possum and somehow leave at least a tiny scar.Master of Fine Arts (MFA)Englis
Passing as a Desire for Whiteness in "Paris is Burning"
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Three Dinners in Richmond
No full textA creative writing submission, in novel form, on the divorce and subsequent life of Anne of Cleves exploring the constraints and techniques of literary historic fiction.Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)Englis
