Browsing by Department "Humanities"
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Academic and Pedagogical Reform of College Coaches
(2010)The issue that this paper addresses is how the college coach has abandoned the roles of educator and liaison between athletics and academics. The current era of college was examined using academic analysis, interviews with ... -
Arrested Development/Scrubs: Excursuses on the Use of Fiction
(2010)This thesis investigates two episodic television shows, <italics>Arrested Development</italics> and Scrubs, and attempts to establish why one succeeded with audiences and the other failed. Following the work of genre theory, ... -
“Art Is to Sacrifice One’s Death”: The aesthetic and ethic of the Chinese diasporic artist Mu Xin
(2021)In his five-year-long world literature lecture series, running from 1989 to 1994, the Chinese diasporic writer-painter Mu Xin (1927-2011) provided a puzzling advice for the group of emerging Chinese artists living in New ... -
Black Girl Ecologies: Manifesting Fabulations and Embodying Otherwise Possibilities of Southern Black Femme
(2021)This thesis research presents a choreographic enquiry into ways Black Americans, specifically Black femme inhabit their bodies and their entanglements to the surrounding environment. It asks the question of how Black girls ... -
Body Image, Ballet Pedagogy, & Flow/Yu: Pedagogical Recommendations to Mitigate Self-Objectification & Choreographic Processes to Move Towards Embodied States of Flow & Yu
(2021)Objectification theory, as delineated by Barbara L. Fredrickson and Tomi-Ann Roberts, posits that women are trained to view themselves as visual objects for consumption. The related term, self-objectification, describes ... -
Culinary Nostalgia and Fantasy: Dipping the Post-socialist China in Hot Pot
(2020)What is a hot pot? As a Chinese cooking method, prepared with a simmering pot of soup stock at the dining table, containing a variety of East Asian foodstuffs and ingredients, hot pot is not just one dish. This thesis is ... -
Cyclical Navigations: In the In Between (exploring Black memory through embodied storytelling)
(2022)Cyclical Navigations: In the In Between is a creative process-based interdisciplinaryinstallation and paper that conceptualizes storytelling as a practice of embodied memory recollection. This work focuses on viewing storytelling ... -
Dancing in the Squares
(2015)“Guangchangwu,” or what is literally translated as “square-dancing,” is a form of public dance that has been exceedingly popular, albeit controversial, in China over recent years. Most of the participants are elderly women ... -
Embodied Resonance: Using Movement Based Practice to Critically Engage Black Girlhood and K-12 Public Education
(2022)In the United States children spend anywhere from nine to thirteen years in school. During this time, children experience some of their most developmentally formative years of their life, which is often characterized as ... -
Gathering my people: movement-based relational organizing to dismantle white supremacy
(2021)Political organizing—the work of building relationships and capacity to execute collective action and bring about social change—is an embodied practice. It is learned by doing as people meet, in person or virtually, to hone ... -
Gentility in Drinking: Chinese Intellectuals and Tea/Coffee Culture in Republican Shanghai (1920s-1930s)
(2020)The coffeehouse emerged as an unprecedented popular leisure spot in Shanghai during the 1920s, which always conjured up an aura of western exoticism. Accordingly, drinking coffee became prevalent among elite men and women ... -
Henry James: Ethnographer of American Women in Victorian Patriarchy
(2011)This paper examines the social question: is 19th century women's identity socially determined or do 19th century women have the liberty to forge their own identities as they see fit? In order to answer this question, this ... -
Killing Me Softly in a Metropolis: Tales of Murder and Murderous Passion in Republican Shanghai (1911-1937)
(2021)The relationship between metropolitan cities around the world and tales of murder has encompassed the complicated nature of modern life, and such is also the case of Shanghai in the Republican era. The prosperity of the ... -
Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems: Reconciling the Myth of Killer Robots and the Reality of the Modern Battlefield
(2021)In the past two decades there has been a significant interest in the ethical and legal concerns surrounding the development of Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems (LAWS). These arguments are principally based on a killer robot ... -
Minor Mobilities: A Historical Analysis of Little Saigon through Oral History
(2022)After the Vietnam War ended in 1975 many Southern Vietnamese were displaced and forced to relocate. Many of those refugees settled into an area located in Orange County, California and for the past fifty years have worked ... -
Movement IS the Moyuba: Critical Orisha Dance Pedagogy
(2021)There is not enough space in this document to capture all that you have done in support of this work. -
Narrating Cats and Cat Lovers in Modern China: Animality, Subjectivity, and Media Space
(2020)This thesis examines cats and cat lovers in the intersection between the humananimal relationship and the cultural history of the nineteenth and twentieth century China and beyond. I argue that the presentation and representation ... -
Narrating China: Reading Li Ziqi and Fangfang from a Nationalist Perspective
(2021)This thesis is a study of the possibility and boundaries of narrating contemporary China, a country in which nationalism is one of the dominant ideologies. It revolves around the dichotomy—the hypervisibility and invisibility ... -
Politicalizing Art in Mao and Post-Mao Era
(2020)As Carlos Ginsburg pointed out, “What is much harder to reject in principle (but also as much harder and more laborious to achieve) is an analytical reconstruction of the intricate web of minute relations that underlies ... -
Quare Dance: Fashioning a Black, Queer, Fem(me)inist Aesthetic in Ballet
(2021)What can an intersectional lens that considers race, gender, and sexuality offer ballet in the 21st century? Historically, Black and Queer stories have been relegated to the margins of ballet history in service of Eurocentric, ...
