This dissertation will identify and evaluate a new category of transatlantic, twentieth-century literature by showing the influence of speculative writing on three intersecting critical categories: modern literature, apophatic mysticism, and philosophical pessimism. Historically, the idea of negativity has been approached by focusing on its relegation to one or another discipline. However, I will describe an innovative mode of negative writing that engages in an interdisciplinary type of inte...
Brad Baumgartner.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Sell, Mike Committee members: David Downing; Nicola Masciandaro; Eugene Thacker; Todd Thompson.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2015.
English

In this qualitative research study, the author investigated the pragmatic experiences of five Saudi graduate students as they were pursuing their Master's degrees in English in one American university. The author used narrative inquiry (Clandinin & Connelly, 2000) to co-construct the five participants' narratives in terms of sociality (type of interaction), temporality (time of interaction), and locality (place of interaction) dimensions. The study recalled the students' past experiences in S...
Fahad A Ben Duhaish.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Park, Gloria Committee members: Michael Williamson; Marjorie Zambrano-Paff.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2014.
English

The concept of double consciousness may prompt people to think of how W.E.B. Du Bois used it in his discussion of the African American's divided psyche as a response to American racism. However, However, Toni Morrison (1992) acknowledged the value of the scholarship on the effects of racism on the servant's mind, but she urged scholars to also engage in an exercise of that would help theorize what racism does to the mind of the master. This dissertation is a part of the current conversatio...
Jean-Paul Konda Ntusi.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Watson, Veronica Committee members: Mike Sell; Todd Thompson.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2015.
English

The present research explores the phenomena of women who ride as motorcycle passengers. The perspectives and experiences of women motorcycle passengers are documented through a two-staged qualitative research design supported by quantitative frequencies. The purpose of this research is to describe experiences and perspectives of women motorcycle passengers for use in developing hypotheses. A total of thirty-one participants and 107 survey respondents took part during the seven-month data coll...
Ginger L Bucher.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Hirt, Mary Jane Kuffner Committee members: David Chambers; Wanda Minnick.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2015.
English

The primary purposes of this study were to investigate the concurrent validity of the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function (BRIEF) with respect to the Woodcock-Johnson III Tests of Cognitive Abilities (WJ-III Cog),examine both teacher and parent ratings of working memory of at-risk students, and investigate parent and teacher differences in the ratings of male and female students. More specifically, this study examined whether the BRIEF rating scale can capture and accurately asses...
Ray M Milke.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Staszkiewicz, Mark Committee members: Lynanne Black; John Garruto; Joseph Kovaleski.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2014.
English

Although ontology has permeated discussions of early modern literature in recent decades, the related philosophical branch epistemology has received little critical attention in literary scholarship. However, epistemic foundations such as knowledge acquisition, confirmation, and conference, continuously influence the generation of ideas and textual production. This thesis locates the relationship between biblical exegesis and epistemology as crucial to the analysis of early modern English tex...
Angela Aliff.
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Advisors: Orchard, Christopher Committee members: David Downing; Michael Williamson; Adrian Wisnicki.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2016.
English

This dissertation explored the ways faculty report that they use writing in their fashion education courses at a publically funded post-secondary institution. This project also examined faculty beliefs about how writing will equip fashion students for their careers in the professional world. In order to accomplish these research goals, the researcher used a qualitative, single case study methodological approach. Multiple forms of data were collected and analyzed including focus group intervie...
Elizabeth Sara Whitehead.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Williamson, Michael M. Committee members: Sharon Deckert; Brian Fallon.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2015.
English

This study explores the experiences of multilingual writers in an Intensive English Institute (IEI), English for Academic Purposes Program (EAP), composing short personal-narrative-based books. The short books consist of three components: a narrative chapter, a research chapter, and a foreword composed by a peer. The short book writing pedagogy, borrowed from the work of Dr. Claude Hurlbert and adapted to the EAP context, allows multilingual writers to compose work that is centered around the...
Maria Houston.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Hurlbert, Claude Mark Committee members: Sharon Deckert; Gloria Park.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2014.
English