Inspired by the Korean diaspora, gender, race, and the hyper-sexualization IN between investigates conceptual art practice reflecting ethnic and gender dynamics through narratives of race and sex. Touching on topics of racial oppression, sexual exploitation, and family abandonme…
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This collection of creative non-fiction essays is written from the perspective of a Protestant Christian church leader's daughter emerging into adulthood and independence. She labors to define her relationship with God, family, and friends and to determine the complicated, but p…
This collection explores various aspects of Indonesian culture. From remote government settlements off the coast of Sumatra to the urbanized and commercial beaches of Bali, these stories take a look at the complexities, differences and adjustments felt by people of both the East…
Anthony is an architect who idolizes Mid-Century Modern design. When he and his wife, Abby, move into a glass house in the suburbs, his obsession with order surfaces as his persona begins to shatter. On the simplest level, living together tests the couple's ability to cohabitate…
In this short novel, Ryan Moloney comes of age surrounded by mysteries, natural and supernatural. They include the identity of the priest he confesses to, the angels he hears singing in his classroom, his mother’s weeping in a fallout shelter, the fossil-hunting girl who discove…
Blasting at the Big Ugly is a first-person, non-linear novel with two major thru-lines. The first is the story of narrator Ethan and his comrades Jake and Brett as they run around an active mountaintop removal coal mine in West Virginia shooting off flares and evading capture to…
In 1972, the twenty-three-year-old narrator and her physician husband, married barely seven months, move to Malaysia to do research at the national leprosy control center. Sponsored by an American foundation, they will work at a British research facility. The day they arrive, th…
News from the Front chronicles the experiences of narrator/protagonist Griffin Keeping, a former soldier and veteran of the Afghanistan War, following his return home to Newfoundland after his release from active duty. Keeping suffers from a fractured psyche as a result of Post …
This dissertation presents a novel that focuses on an immigrant family that struggles to understand the tragic death of one of their own. Thirty years ago, ten-year-old Mina Zand, the youngest child of Iranian immigrant, died, presumably while attempting to climb a tall rock in …
My thesis is a set of four stories that explores the delicate bond between family members with special attention paid to the past's influence on the present. The settings range from a family kitchen in Rhode Island to an Amish house in upstate New York to a bustling street in Sa…
Dauntless is a series of dramatic monologues based on a common theme of stubborn endurance. It is divided into five sections of ten poems each, with the following titles: Outlaws, Invaders, Punks, Ghosts, and Monsters. The book begins with an address to the reader in the voice o…
Dans le foisonnement et la diversité de la production romanesque, l'écriture baroque semble être une manifestation de la culture moderne, dans le sens où la sensibilité de l'homme s'écarte de la vraisemblance pour se retrouver, face à l'écroulement des certitudes, dans un monde …
Description of Service investigates the breaks between the meta-narrative of aid-based (neo)colonial pursuits and the author's own experiences serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in the kingdom of Morocco. This investigation is patterned on the incommensurability of physical/text…
Ten Klicks South of Whiskey is a stage performance in three acts, consisting mostly of monologues from soldiers of various backgrounds. It follows the trials of 4th platoon, Delta Troop, 463rd Cavalry Squadron, a fictional unit that achieves a near-mythic reputation of heroism a…
Synopsis of linked short stories. It was 1948 and Manuel Souza was 15 years old when he left his family and the comfort of his village on Pico Island in the Portuguese Azores. With barely an eighth-grade education, Manuel arrived in the U.S., scared and unable to speak English. …
How We Bury Our Dead is a collection of poems that seeks to emphasize a speaker's grieving as he processes his Mother's dying with travel and self-alienation from family- a speaker who places himself in dangerous situations to displace rather than confront his feelings. How We B…
The project demonstrating excellence is a combined adolescent novel and contextual thesis. The novel is titled, The Eyes of Bast and is accompanied by a contextual essay on the novel itself. This essay discusses new-pagan understanding of communication as an interrelationship of…
When this true crime story began, the curiosity of the Toubous of the small town of Largeau was provoked by an unusual competition held between Ysbo Kadi and Ahmed Wagandou. This competition was held to win the hand of a young and beautiful Goran girl. For that reason, struggle,…
The title of this collection of poems stands as the paradoxical answer to the question of what blues and blindness has come to mean to the author. As elaborated upon in the critical preface, this same paradox also answers many questions generated in and by the poems in the colle…