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Three Recitals of Repertoire for Wind Ensembles
(2020)
Three Recitals of Repertoire for Wind Ensembles features music from the last 250 years, including compositions written for chamber and full wind ensemble, brass ensemble, winds and strings, and winds and voice. Composers ...
Time Traveling through Asian Documentary’s Pasts and Futures
(2021-01)
This essay examines a very special event that took place immediately following the 2009 Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. The director of that festival, Fujioka Asako, stayed in northern Japan and held back ...
Summary of Three Dissertation Recitals
(2021)
Three dissertation recitals were given in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts.
The first dissertation recital was presented in Britton Recital Hall on December 15, 2019. The program ...
Powerful "Little Words" in Contact and in Context: Pragmatic Markers in Kweyol Donmnik, English, and French
(2022)
Pragmatic markers are multifunctional words or phrases that allow language users to express their attitudes and cognitive states and to organize and coordinate discourse. The forms they take and the functions they perform ...
Narrative Satire in Context: The Journey and Wisdom in West and East Europe
(2021)
This dissertation is a comparative study of satirical works from four cultural spheres of Europe. Moving among texts in English, French, Russian, and Serbian, I investigate the technical and creative characteristics that ...
Bridges to the Past: Orientation, Materiality, and Participatory Reading in Late Medieval England
(2021)
Bridges to the Past: Orientation, Materiality, and Participatory Reading in Late Medieval England explores the value that Sara Ahmed’s phenomenological theorization of “orientation” holds for thinking about the kinds of ...
Times of Stillness in Nineteenth-Century Narrative
(2021)
Times of Stillness in Nineteenth-Century Narrative argues that the representation of stillness in works of narrative fiction functions as a distinct mode of formal experimentation, one that British writers across the long ...
Stieglitz Groups: Race, Place, and the Essentializing Logics of American Modernism
(2023)
This dissertation offers a new interpretation of the second Stieglitz Circle (the loose group of artists whose key members – Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Paul Strand, and Georgia O’Keeffe – assembled around ...
Campesinos, Environmental Racism, and Ecotheatre: Toward an Inclusive Environmental Education Through BIPOC Storytelling
(2023)
Environmental education in historically White schools of education has typically emphasized science, outdoor, or STEM education rather than environmental racism, environmental (in)justice, or the environmental justice ...
Seleucia-on-the-Tigris, Revisited
(2022)
Ancient Seleucia-on-the-Tigris, located in modern Iraq, was a multiethnic imperial capital city in Mesopotamia. Founded by Seleucus I Nicator in the late fourth century BCE, the city was conquered by the Parthians in 141 ...