Shakespeare's familiarity with and interest in the Bible have been studied in detail since the early twentieth century. J. A. Bryant, Richmond Noble, and Roy Battenhouse are among the prominent scholars who see in Shakespeare's plays biblical underpinnings and resonances. This tradition of scholarship, which has opened up wholly new dimensions, reveals that Shakespeare knew the Bible's doctrines and systematically assimilated its language and imagery in his plays. Although a great deal of sch...
Ahmed Muhammed Faleh Banisalamah.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Shafer, Ronald G. Committee members: Allyn Ricketts; Lingyan Yang.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2010.
English

Leadership has captured the interest of those in the realms of politics, history, business, religion, and recently, English language teaching. Still a relatively young field, little is known regarding influences, beliefs, and practices of TESOL leaders. This dissertation investigates leadership influences, beliefs and practices of leaders in TESOL, the field devoted to teachers of English to speakers of other languages. Rather than looking at instructors, teacher trainers, professors, materia...
Deborah Anne Sams.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Hayward, Nancy Committee members: Sharon Deckert; Lilia Savova.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2010.
English

The focus of this dissertation is to determine the extent to which African American students at a Historically Black College and University (HBCU) resist or appropriate the discoursal identities of the academy as they advance through a freshman composition course. Four students and their compositions, sampled to meet specific socioeconomic and learner motivation criteria, are studied during a semester of ENGL 101, a freshman composition course. Fairclough's Critical Discourse Analysis (2003...
Jason Richard DePolo.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Tannacito, Dan J. Committee members: Patrick Bizzaro; Bennett Rafoth.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2010.
English

This dissertation will sympathetically critique the avant-garde, investigating why it has failed to make a significant and lasting impact outside of the institution of art. With the post-WWI Surrealists as an historical starting point, I define the avant-garde as any person or group who uses aesthetic and artistic means to challenge cultural, political, and intellectual norms. But avant-gardes have failed, do fail, and will fail as long as they remain in the grip of Western patriarchy. I pr...
Kimberly A Socha.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Sell, Mike Committee members: Susan Comfort; Sj Miller.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2010.
English

In this dissertation, I examine how Wendell Berry, Leslie Marmon Silko, Linda Hogan, Arundhati Roy, Mahasweta Devi, and Abdelrahman Munif have made connections between socio-cultural and economic subtexts and environmental deterioration. These authors suggest that those who are connected to the earth-those who have the color of the earth-are still at the bottom of the sociopolitical ladder. These writers' contested terrains are not solipsistic, but ecologically far-reaching. They draw attenti...
Motasim O Almawaja.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Cahalan, James M. Committee members: Susan Comfort; Christopher Orchard.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2010.
English