Trauma has become a hotly contested topic in literary studies. But interest in trauma is not
new; its roots extend to the Romantic period, when novelists and the first psychiatrists …

As one of the first to study refugee narratives in the context of late twentieth-century
American literature and Refugee Studies, this dissertation argues that literary …

This article blurs the boundaries of literature, agriculture, public history, grassroots political
activism, and public policymaking in order to problematize the current eco-cosmopolitan …

Philip Rieff (1966), Richard Sennett (1974), and Christopher Lasch (1978), among others,
have argued that the contemporary emphasis on self-discovery and personal growth …

Through the filters of postcolonial theory, environmental humanities, and digital humanities,
this project considers the capabilities and limitations of novels to galvanize action in …

The Doonerak anticline in the central Brooks Range, Alaska, exposes a package of Early
Paleozoic metavolcanic and metasedimentary rocks overlain by Carboniferous to Triassic …

Abstract Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres (1991) is best known as a novel that rewrites
Shakespeare's King Lear, transposed to a contemporary setting in the American Midwest of …

As society industrialized in the nineteenth century and jobs moved outside the home, a
figure which I call the absent/present father began to make his appearance in American …

As foreigners who inevitably change the communities they enter, refugees, who typically
materialize swiftly and in large, noticeable numbers, are often blamed fordisturbing the …

My dissertation explores strategies for survival primarily related to acts of storytelling, and
more specifically storytelling with the tacit agreement for measures of truth, what I refer to in …