This documentary short film is about a now 30-year-old transgender man telling his story of growing up queer in a small Arkansas town, from being outed as a lesbian in high school, to ultimately being accepted as a trans man by members of his military and biological families. Be…
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Recent studies highlight the critical movement to consider Eudora Welty's work as political in nature. This dissertation represents an effort to add to that trend by asserting that Welty, while adhering to the principles that she sets forth in her essay “Must the Novelist Crusad…
This doctoral dissertation, Pushing Limits of Language: Ethics and American Literature, focuses on the way 19th-century (and some 20th century-) American literature relates itself to ethics. I define the term ‘ethics’—using The Hebrew Bible, essays from Ralph Waldo Emerson, as w…
This thesis examines the haunted house trope in contemporary American Southern Gothic literature, specifically with regards to Mormama by Kit Reed and Little Sister Death by William Gay. I examine a brief history of the Southern Gothic to establish how the genre has moved into c…
The following paper examines the aspect of control in a non-fiction writer’s life. Is the ability to write in the non-fiction genre one of the greatest forms of control over one’s own life? How are southern writers like Dorothy Allison, Janisse Ray, Carson McCullers, Alice Walke…
Civil War Reenactment has become a popular pastime for the past fifty years. Thousands of people done Civil War era clothing, march on national battlefields in military units, and fire muskets at one another in order to celebrate the men who fought and died at these battles. The…
The queer community underwent immense challenges and victories throughout the mid to late twentieth century. One of the avenues in which the community chronicled these challenges and victories was through independent newspapers, magazines, and other varying publications. My thes…
Just Trash is a creative dissertation comprised of four personal essays that take on various questions of identity and empathy that arise when a non-binary bisexual woman grows up in a Southern evangelical, working-class home, an environment that is politically, religiously, reg…