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Apricot City
No full textAfter the death of Liz Avelar’s father, her distant half-brother Daniel returns home with his mysterious new wife Caroline in tow. When the three learn that Liz’s father has cut Daniel out of the will, Liz begs the two to stay behind and help her run the family apricot and walnut orchard. Set in Sunnyvale, California in 1968 at the tail end of the valley of heart’s delight and the start of Silicon Valley, what follows is a California gothic tale about mothering, trusting, haunting, and being home.Master of Fine Arts (MFA)Englis
Destinations: A Novel
No full textDestinations is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)Englis
Double Bind
No full textThis dissertation is a collection of poetry that examines the intersections of white feminism, rape culture, and the internet—and particularly complicity within those intersections. How my subject position as an educated white woman navigates and is complicit within this network of issues is the driving question of Double Bind. This complicity informs both the title, taken from Gregory Bateson’s sociological theory coined in the 1950s, and the collection’s dominant form of the couplet. This dissertation engages with contemporary feminist theory, the insidious concept of self-care, and the political capital of white womanhood. In doing so, these poems replicate and complicate my own history of feminist thinking and confront the contemporary moment’s increasingly commodified feminist movement.Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)Englis
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No full textThis is a novel about girl named Hennepin Barksdale.Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)Englis
The Map of Innervations of the Superficial Flexor Muscles in Abdomen of Procambarus clarkii
No full textEverything and Nothing
No full textEverything and Nothing is an exhibition of auto-biographical narratives embodied by immersive installations of intermedia assemblages. I display compositions of my personal documents and accumulated ephemera allow their audience to inhabit my experience in a way that evokes multi-dimensional sensation. Through nuanced engagement with media, personal accounts, vision, interpretation, and memory. Everything and Nothing is not a self-indulgent tell-all and certainly not an act of bravery for the sake of showmanship. My relentless exposition of information and exhaustion of access to memory is necessary in order to see beyond it. My seen to its furthest extent makes absence observable. A phantom-limb suspicion catalyzed an excavation of selfhood and being, done in the hopes of generating what my observable absence articulates with its abstraction. The work defies social conservatism and appropriateness to give form to unknowable abstraction.Master of Fine Arts (MFA)Art and Desig
Triad
No full textAlison, the protagonist, is a 21-year-old cello student from Northwest Ohio who studies at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. Although she comes from a conservative Methodist upbringing, Alison has turned away from her beliefs and entered into a polyamorous relationship with Luke, a graduate student at the University of Cincinnati, and his wife Cheryl. Through this relationship, Alison has been able to explore her nascent bisexuality and enjoy the affection she has been denied by her reticent mother and absent father. While the members of the triad hold lofty principles about openness and trust, the practice of that relationship—and its ever-shifting unwritten rules—fail to live up to their ideals.Master of Fine Arts (MFA)Englis