Saving Alicia is a creative thesis written to explore the possibility of incorporating some non-fictional concepts of neurophysiology into a work of fiction. The initial component presents the historical and contemporary context in which such a work is written along with an analysis of the writing techniques employed by other writers in the field. It sets out the aim of the subsequent creative composition. The second, and major, component of this thesis is a work of fiction. A story is developed in which the protagonist, a young woman, revives her deceased mother's neurophysiological research work in the hope that it will help her brain-damaged niece, Alicia, recover. For this she is dependent on two men who were her mother's colleagues. As they compete for her attention, while pursuing their own conflicting goals, the protagonist maintains her determination to keep her mother's work going. She has no prior knowledge of neurophysiology and, so that she can understand the research, she is keen to learn some of its basic concepts. Woven through the story of Saving Alicia are descriptions of neurons and their physiology. This is presented to the protagonist through the mouths of the two researchers. In this way, the non-fiction is interspersed with the fiction.

The thesis contains two components, providing both a creative and critical exploration of the relationship between the subject and place. The creative work, Reaction Time explores how its characters seek particular settings that will affect their sense of place and belonging in certain ways. The critical essay, “Wide Open Roads: Landscape, Environment and Belonging in Twentieth Century Outback Narratives”, explores how the knowledge of the political and cultural conditions of place are produced as affecting the subject’s personal relationship to place in late twentieth century outback narratives. / The creative piece, Reaction Time, tells the story of Joel who is returning to Australia after the death of her mother. Joel and her sister have never been able to reconcile their fierce, academic mother of the past with the trivial, domestic self she became in the years after her sudden retirement to her rural Tasmanian home. Throughout the story Joel finds she is trying to realise the grief of losing of a mother she never completely understood, while also dealing with her feelings of alienation both in her mother’s home in Tasmania, and in Melbourne, where the spectre of old relationships she left behind long ago maintains her sense of unease in a place she once thought of as home. / The essay, Wide Open Roads analyses three novels published toward the end of the twentieth century to examine the way the characters’ relationships to place and landscape are constructed. It argues that the outback, couched in its newfound cultural role as an untouched, pristine pilgrimage point for spiritual journeys, has come to be considered a ‘sacred’ space for all Australians. Using ecocriticism and postcolonial theory as a theoretical framework, the essay discusses how, while late twentieth century outback narratives constructed characters whose desire to traverse the outback, or sense of attachment to it, was deep, the convergent social influences of environmentalism and Indigenous land rights and a growing postcolonial consciousness have propelled writers to depict more problematic and complex relationships with place than were evident in past outback narratives.

This collection of personal essays and short stories explores women's relationships with their own bodies and shifting identities. My characters and I long to become the “correct” version of ourselves, but struggle to realize that there is no easy solution when it comes to accepting who we are. Some of us feel confused and fearful as our old homes and selves disappear or transform, and some are able to find excitement in the possibility of a new beginning. All are searching for home, love, and self-acceptance. / Graduation date: 2012 / Access permanently restricted to the OSU Community at author's request

Thesis [M.A.]--Columbia University, 1899. / "Reprinted from the Conservative review of March, 1900." Bibliography: p.39-40. Also available in digital form on the Internet Archive Web site.

Thesis (M.S.)--Ohio State University, 1984. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 157-158). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center.

Thesis (M.A.)--Ohio State University, 1984. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 71-73). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center

Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2005. / Title from title screen. Kay Beck, committee chair; Edward J. Friedman, Kathryn H. Fuller, committee members. Electronic text (124 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed Apr. 17, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 108-124).

Everything She Does For You is a collection of original short fiction involving themes of love and loyalty. The stories center on characters living in the fictional town of Eastland, Maine. This collection culminates two years of creative experimentation as a fellow at the University of Miami. The current copy reflects my interest in fabulist and realistic fictions as well as my growing fascination with my state of origin, Maine, and the city in it that I know best, Portland.

Thesis (DLitt (African Languages) -- University of Pretoria, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 141-152)

Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2003. Graduate Programme in English. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 351-366). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/yorku/fullcit?pNQ99150