<p>This thesis is a book length collection of poetry. Divided into five sections, the book </p> <p>follows a fractured self as it relates to romantic partnership, friendship, sexual trauma, political </p> <p>identity, and other factors. The first section introduces the different paradigms the speaker spends </p> <p>the rest of the book trying to understand her role within, exploring themes such as the ecstasies </p> <p>and let-downs of friendship, sexuality arrested by trauma and body-image, and anxieties about </p> <p>climate disaster and economic collapse. The second section grounds the speaker’s experience of </p> <p>dissociation in her college years. The third section continues to develop themes from the first two </p> <p>sections with an emphasis on the speaker’s relationship to language and its limitations. The fourth </p> <p>section, the only standalone sequence of poems in the collection, recounts a set of circumstances </p> <p>in which the speaker must reconcile her different factions of self during a crisis. The fifth and final </p> <p>section presents a speaker on the doorstep of acceptance of self, attempting to find stasis.</p>

<p>  </p> <p>This thesis is a book length collection of short stories. It features eight short stories, most of which generally fall into speculative and related genres, including quasi-historical fiction, ghost story, fiction of the weird, and others. The stories feature original characters as well as versions and send ups of figures from history, culture, and religion, such as Yiddish film actress Molly Picon, urban legend The Jersey Devil, the professional athletes of the National Hockey League, and religious characters Vashti and Esther from the Book of Esther. It deals with themes such as Judaism, diaspora, queerness, ecological and political collapse, isolation, coming of age, and the ability to understand oneself within the gaze of another.</p>

<p>A thesis involved with the coming of age of a young queer person.</p>

<p>A collection of short stories featuring surreal events and worlds showcasing interpersonal struggles in the backdrop of environmental issues.</p>

<p>This thesis consists of a chapbook length collection of poetry. </p>

<p>This was a creative endeavor undertaken to understand what it is to “create” literature. Stories vary in both theme and style. Each one attempts to engage the reader’s understanding of their own world.  </p>

<p>This creative thesis includes the first six chapters of <em>Aud of the Dead</em>, a novel that combines the genres of speculative science fiction, supernatural fiction, and dystopian fiction. The purpose of the novel is to provide an entertaining example of the soft science fiction genre where the plot exists for the characters, not the other way around.</p> <p><br></p> <p>The novel’s main protagonist is Aud, who was born on Earth in the year 2000. In the year 2024, Earth was invaded and subjugated by aliens called the Impixi. Years later, amid a successful Human rebellion, the actions of another alien species, the Architechs, left Earth in an apocalyptic shroud of toxic dust, vapor, and ash that would ultimately wipe out all life on the planet. But not every Human that died stayed dead. Millions of them became what would later be classified as a new sentient species, named “Anima” by the multigalactic scientific community. The former Humans, however, don’t believe they are a new species; they believe they are the ghosts, or “spectres,” of their living selves, and on their dead homeworld now called Quietus, they are essentially present-day Humans stripped down to the relentless pathos of the living dead. </p> <p><br></p> <p>The novel begins one hundred years after Earth’s apocalypse when the All Worlds War has come to an end. Aud is returning home from playing her part in the war when she suddenly finds herself responsible for an “Unquiet” called Ometa, a new Anima that was not born Human and did not die one century ago on Quietus. Ometa was an Architech in life, and now Aud must keep that epic secret while teaching Ometa how to navigate existence as an Anima. At the same time, Ometa teaches Aud how to overcome the limitations of living as the dead. </p>

<p>Description is in the abstract</p>

<p dir="ltr">With a particular focus on her twelve years of partnership with Ulay, the life and work of performance artist Marina Abramović are taken as ekphrastic subjects in a research-based poetics reflecting the author’s understandings of art, love and belonging. In dynamic movements of literary form throughout the manuscript, <i>Nude Imperative</i> makes a restless inquiry into the meaning of embodiment as a person in language, desire, and diaspora, the nature of relation between this individual self and the intimate other, and the limits of these human connections; the limits of love.</p>

<p>This project argues that industrial fires have the capacity to illuminate the complex entanglements (political, ecological, economic, etc.) of life in the era of industrial capitalism. It retells and reframes the stories of five such fires, each off which shines a light on the networks of social, political, technological, economic, and ecological relationships in particular communities at particular moments. It thus contributes to the interdisciplinary fields of American Studies and the environmental humanities, furthering our understanding of the unfolding experience of industrial capitalism in the twentieth and twenty-first century United States. It takes the form of a public humanities project and is produced for a popular audience, using journalistic, literary, historical, and other techniques to tell the stories of these fires. In doing so, I also hope to contribute to the expansion of public humanities scholarship and help foster a thriving and creative future for the humanities both in academia and beyond.</p>