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Queer Images: Photographs of LGBTQ Americans
Title
Queer Images: Photographs of LGBTQ Americans.
Creator
Pratt, Charles, Barrios, Barclay, Hart, Sharon, Office of Undergraduate Research and Inquiry
Abstract/Description
Although LBGTQ people currently experience unprecedented visibility in American media and popular culture, those representations depict flattened images that reduce complex individuals into simplified and limited categories of identity. I created this documentary to blur and shatter the boundaries currently restraining the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, and queer communities through the production of theoretically informed photographic images. These pictures form a response to pop...
Show moreAlthough LBGTQ people currently experience unprecedented visibility in American media and popular culture, those representations depict flattened images that reduce complex individuals into simplified and limited categories of identity. I created this documentary to blur and shatter the boundaries currently restraining the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, and queer communities through the production of theoretically informed photographic images. These pictures form a response to pop culture tropes and misinterpretations of the LGBTQ community. In totality, I intend to pluralize and complicate notions of identity and bodies.
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Date Issued
2016
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005599
Subject Headings
College students --Research --United States.
Format
Document (PDF)
Ecoqueer: Moving Beyond Ecocomposition's Heteronormative Binaries
Title
Ecoqueer: Moving Beyond Ecocomposition's Heteronormative Binaries.
Creator
Hoover, Megan L., Barrios, Barclay, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description
An examination of ecocomposition reveals that despite being careful to embrace all humans, it is still operating from a heterononnative standpoint. This perspective has led to an exclusion of gay male writers from its place-based approach to the study of the production of writing. By including the work of gay nature writer James Schuyler, the boundaries of ecocomposition are expanded to include yet another way of moving beyond restrictive cultural dualisms. Schuyler's work shows that...
Show moreAn examination of ecocomposition reveals that despite being careful to embrace all humans, it is still operating from a heterononnative standpoint. This perspective has led to an exclusion of gay male writers from its place-based approach to the study of the production of writing. By including the work of gay nature writer James Schuyler, the boundaries of ecocomposition are expanded to include yet another way of moving beyond restrictive cultural dualisms. Schuyler's work shows that definitions of masculinity need to be expanded to include gay males, and also highlights how sexual identity and setting interact to produce various interpretations of the self in one's writing. An expansion of ecocomposition results in a truly liberatory theory and pedagogy, one that encourages interactions that promote of all kinds of writing by all kinds of writers.
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Date Issued
2008
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000929
Subject Headings
Human ecology in literature, Literature, Modern--Criticism and interpretation, Environmental literature--Authorship--21st century, Homosexuality and literature--United States, English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching--Social aspects--United States
Format
Document (PDF)
Mind the gap: buck angel and the implications of transgender male in/visibility
Title
Mind the gap: buck angel and the implications of transgender male in/visibility.
Creator
Stanic, Emilija, Barrios, Barclay, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description
This thesis explores the implications of visibility and invisibility of transgender people, their constructed bodies, and how these bodies are used for both personal empowerment and education. By using various gender theorists for support, I argue that the transgender male body obtains power through visibility. Despite the many obstacles transgender males face, putting their bodies in a space of visibility gives them both personal power and the power to educate others about their bodies and...
Show moreThis thesis explores the implications of visibility and invisibility of transgender people, their constructed bodies, and how these bodies are used for both personal empowerment and education. By using various gender theorists for support, I argue that the transgender male body obtains power through visibility. Despite the many obstacles transgender males face, putting their bodies in a space of visibility gives them both personal power and the power to educate others about their bodies and sexuality. In doing a study of the human body and the different definitions applied to it, I show how we, as a society, are restricted by gender binaries and how the transgender body serves as a gap between the socially-constructed terms. Ultimately, transgender people are able to break through these barriers by subverting the definitions and meaning of “male” and “female.”
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Date Issued
2014
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004334, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004334
Subject Headings
Gays in popular culture, Gender identity, Identity (Psychology), Marginality, Social, Sex change, Sex role, Transgender people, Transgenderism, Transsexualism
Format
Document (PDF)
Strap-on the Armor of God: Queer Christian Subjectivity and Struggle Against Power in Evangelical Christian Universities
Title
Strap-on the Armor of God: Queer Christian Subjectivity and Struggle Against Power in Evangelical Christian Universities.
Creator
Hudnall, Andrew, Barrios, Barclay, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description
This thesis examines the way several evangelical Christian universities (and evangelicalism more broadly) speak about and conceive of sexuality and gender in order to consider implications for their students. It argues that these universities consider nonheterosexual, non-cisgendered identities to be incompatibile with Christian identity and, consequently, grounds for denial of subjectivity. It analyzes the language of student handbooks and the universities’ rhetorical self-positionings and...
Show moreThis thesis examines the way several evangelical Christian universities (and evangelicalism more broadly) speak about and conceive of sexuality and gender in order to consider implications for their students. It argues that these universities consider nonheterosexual, non-cisgendered identities to be incompatibile with Christian identity and, consequently, grounds for denial of subjectivity. It analyzes the language of student handbooks and the universities’ rhetorical self-positionings and stagings necessary to maintain authority while engaging and exploring the lived experiences of several queeridentifying alumni—each of whom express feelings of “dehumanization” and cognitive dissonance. Finally, it considers how those subjected to messages of incompatible identities reconcile claiming both Christian and queer identities simultaneously.
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Date Issued
2020
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013472
Subject Headings
Evangelicalism, Christian universities and colleges, Gender identity, Sexuality
Format
Document (PDF)
CONSIDERING THE AFFECTIVE POTENTIALS OF THE EMOTIONAL APPEAL IN PERSUASIVE DISCOURSE THROUGH MULTIMODALITY IN THE FIRST-YEAR COMPOSITION CLASSROOM
Title
CONSIDERING THE AFFECTIVE POTENTIALS OF THE EMOTIONAL APPEAL IN PERSUASIVE DISCOURSE THROUGH MULTIMODALITY IN THE FIRST-YEAR COMPOSITION CLASSROOM.
Creator
Bain, Kimberly A., Barrios, Barclay, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description
In identifying ways to create inclusive spaces in the classroom, instructors should not be limited by singular modes of discourse to engage students. Particularly when teaching first-year students who seek to invent the university and claim their intellectual space within it, these considerations must be deeply integrated into the course curriculum and not seen as an extended project to be optional or added at the end of a semester. Rather, instructors must find ways to integrate multimodal...
Show moreIn identifying ways to create inclusive spaces in the classroom, instructors should not be limited by singular modes of discourse to engage students. Particularly when teaching first-year students who seek to invent the university and claim their intellectual space within it, these considerations must be deeply integrated into the course curriculum and not seen as an extended project to be optional or added at the end of a semester. Rather, instructors must find ways to integrate multimodal discourses in the first-year composition course as a foundation of learning. One way to do this is to engage students in multimodal practices of rhetorical appeals. This dissertation examines the theories and practices of emotional appeal, namely pathos, to construct meaning-making opportunities that transcend gatekeeping endeavors of singular modes of persuasion. Through the transmission of affect, students can be given the opportunity to affectively respond through various modes of discourse in applying emotional appeal to practices of persuasion.
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Date Issued
2024
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014381
Subject Headings
Education, Composition (Language arts)--Study and teaching (Higher), Curriculum change
Format
Document (PDF)