<p> <i>Limited Sight Distance</i> is a poetry collection, written primarily between August 2012 and March 2014, while I was enrolled in the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at California State University, Long Beach. In addition to work produced during this time, it also includes poems I completed while a returning undergraduate, as well as others written outside the academic environment; all are intended to reflect both my experience and development as a poet. The subject matter of these narratives includes aging, betrayal, death, family, illness, loss, love, and work, as perceived from varying points of view. I have found that, in life, it is when we are unable to see beyond that which presents itself to us immediately, that our sight distance is limited.</p>

<p> During the past couple of decades, the topic of food and identity has become the subject of increased academic inquiry and scholarly pursuit. However, despite this increased attention, it is still more common to find interpretations of the food that appears in fictional writings than to find critical examinations of creative nonfiction works whose entire thematic focus is food. First-person food writings, like other forms of literature, are not only aesthetically pleasing, they have the power to evoke emotional and psychological responses in their readers. More specifically, ethnic American food memoirs and essays explore important twenty-first century questions concerning identity and the navigation of hybridity. </p><p> This thesis considers some of these questions through an investigation of three specific food-related acts in five separate literary works: Remembering in "Cojimar, 1958," from Eduardo Machado's book, <i>Tastes Like Cuba: An Exile's Hunger for Home</i>, and "Kimchi Blues," by Grace M. Cho; eating in "Candy and Lebeneh," part of Diana Abu-Jaber's <i>The Language of Baklava</i>, and "Eating the Hyphen" by Lily Wong; and cooking in Shoba Narayan's "A Feast to Decide a Future" and "Honeymoon in America," part of her food memoir, <i>Monsoon Diary</i>.</p>

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Germanic Studies, 2007. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-09, Section: A, page: 3876. Adviser: Claudia Breger. Title from dissertation home page (viewed May 8, 2008).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Germanic Studies, 2007. / Title from dissertation home page (viewed April 8, 2008). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-07, Section: A, page: 2962. Adviser: Fritz Breithaupt.

Thesis (M.A. 1979) from the Department of English, University of Adelaide.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1993. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [190]-207).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2007. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-07, Section: A, page: 2942. Adviser: Cary Nelson. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 201.211) Available on microfilm from Pro Quest Information and Learning.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2007. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-11, Section: A, page: 4704. Adviser: Robert Dale Parker. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 149-175) Available on microfilm from Pro Quest Information and Learning.

Thesis (M.A.)--Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, 1976. / Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 2849. Abstract precedes thesis as 2 preliminary leaves. Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [52-55]).

Undergraduate honors paper--Mount Holyoke College, 2009. Dept. of English. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 70-71).