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…
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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…
In 1944, three decades before the start of the artisanal bread movement, H. E. Jacob published <em>Six Thousand Years of Bread: Its Holy and Unholy History</em> capturing bread’s cultural, political, religious, and technological impacts over time. In the introduction…
This thesis consists of a manuscript of original Creative Nonfiction essays and a critical forward that makes a case for the use of Zines in secondary language arts pedagogy. The foreword situates Zines as self-published, counter-culture magazines that utilize materiality in ord…
This collection is not just an examination of established behavioral patterns and lived experiences on behalf of the narrator that contribute to a negative affect and outlook on life, but also a push forward. It is an experiment in altering perceptions and circumstances—a subtly…
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…
As the title suggests, this thesis comprises several works of creative nonfiction. First, "Zen and the Art of Conquest" presents an incomplete narrative, in six chapters, that draws inspiration from Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974) and other trave…
Searching for Benny’s Grave is the memoir of a highly accomplished middle-aged woman who still yearns for the love of her ninety-year-old father—a former Nazi prisoner of war and veteran of three wars. The woman and her father are survivors. The narrator feels that her father re…
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 Red Suitcase: Hippies, Pinkos and Vagabonds is a creative nonfiction memoir about coming of age in the radical counterculture and Vietnam War protest movements of the late sixties/early seventies. It is also about leaving Massapequa, a Long Island suburb from which several o…
“Not Drowning but Waving: The American Junior Year Abroad” explores and describes study abroad amongst college students while also showing the historical roots of study abroad. This thesis seeks to understand the history and current issues in study abroad while also giving a lit…