Press is a poetic manuscript and symbolic ode to the author's complex relationships with his beloved and the design element of typography. Titled Press in part for the definition of typography as well as the action of early ...

I have always been empathetic to beings other than humans. When I was a young boy, natural landscapes and wild animals captured my imagination. By taking me into the wilderness and nurturing my interests, my parents taught ...

This thesis examines the connections between 18th century epistolary literacy and 21st century digital literacy. I argue for the use of the phrase "networking literacy" as a term that captures the essential overlapping ...

With 73 percent of students now being classified as non-traditional in some way according the U.S Department of Education, it is clear that the student populations at the two year colleges as well as universities are no ...

Relying on the scholarship of Harriet Malinowitz, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Jonathan Alexander, among others, this thesis develops a theoretical framework that can inform curriculum designed for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, ...

Small Bird Movements follows the poet past youth to a budding awareness of feminist issues. The manuscript's four sections detail the structure of a bird feather, ending with the section Flight to illustrate this change ...

The poems in GATHER ME oscillate between the holy and the profane while seeking to deconstruct God and create a new system of belief. The poems also deal with a universal you and an I that can be split infinitely and ...

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This first section of a novel by the same name follows the Weisses, an American family in 1876 who own and operate a brewery in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, now a part of Pittsburgh. The novel is told by three point-of-view ...

This collection of short stories was written and revised between 2010 and 2013 during my tenure as a student in the M.F.A. in Creative Writing program at Colorado State University. Taken as a polished creative portfolio, ...