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The Oracle of Stamboul is a novel-in-progress about a preternaturally intelligent little girl who changes the course of history. Born on the outskirts of the Ottoman empire at the end of 19th century, Eleonora Cohen follows her father to Stamboul, overcomes adversity, learns abo…
Living in multiple worlds has forced me to view the world using multiple lenses. From my adoptive parents, I am from three distinct communities: Native America, Arab America and America. From my birth parents, a world of the unknown, the unspoken. The title, RELATIONS, becomes t…
A work of fiction inspired by the life of Yang Nai-Pieng, a chef who left China in the 1950s shortly after the People's Republic was established. As Yang traverses the high seas, the halls of an American embassy, the palace of the last Iranian Shah, and finally, an Arizona cattl…
The Starsplitters, a historical and literary fiction, highlights cultural prejudice, gender inequality, and a struggle for autonomy, absolution, and forgiveness in northern New England. A mysterious letter summons Helen Starbird and her granddaughter Laramie to a dying mill town…
Alma moves to Mexico City in pursuit of an ancient seed variety that she hopes will solve a series of mysterious dreams that have been haunting her. But she doesn’t get far without being followed by the dark spirit of the Windigo, the Ojibwe spirit of excess. When Alma starts wo…
This submission is comprised of two parts: a creative thesis titled Viaduct and a critical thesis titled 'Trauma and Representation in Three Irish Novels'. While each is designed to stand independent of the other, over the past four years of writing and research there has natura…
No Easy Way Out: A Memoir of Interruption is a collection of personal essays examining themes of race, the body, violence and desire as it seeks to examine and interrupt inherited, normative understandings of work, art, beauty, love, and belonging. An illness narrative that foll…
This collection of poetry is divided into three sections. Section I, arranged in loose chronological order, focuses on family/relationships; some are based on actual experiences, others fictionalized in part or whole. The poems in Section II, arranged in a similar order, were ge…
Voice-Over: Violent Serene (A Novel-Essay) is an intertextual study, in narrative form, of the intimate relations between persons and such cultural objects as written and filmic works. Crossing the genres of fiction, memoir, and textual analysis, this work explores how queer fir…
Soft Palette is a collection of poems in four sections. Interested in sound play and intricate lyricism, the collection’s voice attempts to carefully attend to every turn of phrase. Poems appear in both free verse and set forms such as the sonnet and ghazal. This collection is i…
Mills al-Hajwiri, the quintessential tinkerer, nutty professor, and center of attention, manufactures a ridiculous machine. The only journalist gullible enough to respond to his invitation is Cairo Matsumoto, a Japanese-American woman who writes for the Athena Daily in San Jose.…
«Dans l'ombre des platanes» est une thèse de création littéraire qui comprend deux parties distinctes. La première partie, intitulée «Dans l'ombre des platanes» (p.17 à 177) et composée de récits et de poèmes, est divisée en douze épisodes qui relatent l'intériorité de deux femm…
This thesis is a novel set in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in the spring and summer of 1987. Having lost his job, his girlfriend, and his rock band, twenty-six-year old Sam Whittier has reluctantly returned home from Silicon Valley to rest and caretake the family home, built in 1890s by…
This dissertation is a combination of a critical essay and an original collection of poetry. The essay examines the tradition of the elegiac lyric as either an act of private mourning or a public ceremonial ritual. It traces the two predominant elegiac traditions in Western cult…
My Banishment is the story of Vega Nassad, the daughter of Syrian-Lebanese immigrants, who on the day of her husband Elias's death in 1956, is banished from her family and hometown on suspicion of poisoning Elias to be with her lover. Vega has fallen in love with Orlando, the fi…
This dissertation examines how literature (especially works related to “faith”) can help Christian Chinese Indonesians overcome grief or loss when other kinds of help, such as American-style “counseling” or “therapy” or books on grief and loss, are not readily available. The stu…
Each of the characters in this novel searches for something: identity, connection, healing, “place.” Anata returns to Southern Illinois on an orphan train to look for her mother. Instead she finds a makeshift family in a judge and his grown son, slowly starving in an empty mansi…