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The Martian Omnispace Revolution
(2020-04-01)In introducing his original novel, the author discusses the influences of horror authors Edgar Allen Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, and Stephen King, as well as other influences from movies and theater. He discusses the amount of ... -
“she answers, because going is where I was”
(2020-04-01)The author describes the process of creating an original poetry collection: “At the beginning, figuring out a structure for a 30-page long project was extremely difficult for me. I kept trying to start somewhere because I ... -
home / body : collected poems and essays
(2020-04-01)The author writes, “Initially, the goal of my SIP was to take the idea of brownness and dissect it. I wanted to write about what it meant and felt like to be brown from a small, conservative, and racially homogenous town; ... -
Digital Consciousness : A Reflective Methodology for Transcorporeal Affective Communication
(2020-03-01)At the very center of my theoretical work are the methodologies of three authors: Mel Y. Chen, Jean Baudrillard, and Jasbir Puar. By incorporating the framework proposed by Baudrillard for the “precession of the simulacra” ... -
“Crawling B(l)ack Panther” : The African Diaspora and the Narrative of Return
(2020-04-01)My SIP is fragmented into four sections: “Creeping into the Motherland: Black Panther and the Going Back to Africa Movement”, “Wakandan Homeland is This?”, “Killmonger and the Death of the Dream of Going Back”, and “Kiambere ... -
“The Language of Movement” : Exploring States of Mind Through Poetry and Dance
(2020-04-01)Poetry and dance are two of the most influential aspects of my life. In oscillations between different states of mind, poetry and dance have been constant, grounding methods of both expression and release of emotions. For ... -
“Depressed Autopilot” : a Collection of Personal Essays
(2020-04-01)This SIP took me far and wide. I found myself examining memories that had been tucked away for years and years. Throughout the process of writing, childhood memories of people and places popped up in my head over and over ... -
“A Life of a Daughter Through a Mother”
(2020-04-01)This project for me became a self-reflection on multiple events that occurred in my life thus far. It has become a way that I externalized my internal thoughts. The project gave me a reason to believe that informality of ... -
Stan the Re-Incarnate : A Novel
(2020-04-01)The author’s original novel follows the title character, Stan, on his journey to reunite and reconcile with the family he left on earth after dying and being sent to hell. The way he was to do this would be his designated ... -
Cyborgs, Big Tech, Big Data, Big Muscles: Artificial Intelligence in Popular Film
(2020-04-01)Cinema “intersects and interacts with other formations of public life, which fall into the areas of social and cultural history.” As such, it can provide a bridge between the histories of technological development, which ... -
Buried and Not : A Collection of Poetry and “Makers of Memory : A Critical Essay on the Poet’s Management of Cognitive Errors in Memory and Imagination”
(2020-04-01)Bodies. Dreams. Ghosts. Mirrors. Lakes. These are the things to which I have been and am still irresistibly drawn-- all of which oscillate suggestively alongside the reality of my childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood. ... -
Jalmukgaessimneeda : Korean Foods, History, and Eating Culture
(2020-04-01)During my summer in Korea, I kept a detailed journal about my meals and the various experiences I had regarding family and foods. From the start, there were some specific memories that I considered as potential stories for ... -
going into battle wearing sari : defining nepali womanhood one poem at a time
(2020)The author describes the inspiration for her collection of poem:, “for my Senior Individualized Project (SIP), I reached out to five Nepali women writers, Bartika Eam Rai, Bhrikuti Rai, Shradha Ghale, Ujjwala Maharjan and ... -
“she answers, because going is where I was”
(2020)Introducing her original prose/poetry creation, the author writes “ I titled this project she answers, because going is where I was based on two recurring themes in it. Firstly, it is the relations among the past, future ... -
A Clown, A Cannibal, and A Scholar do a Deep Study : A mastication of an alternative learning method in the Kalamazoo circus community
(2020)This project will produce knowledge to be passed on/generated within/for the Cirque du K community (in the form of journals and videos and embodied knowledge), knowledge to share with CES and other scholars about the ... -
“Lemonade Stand” : A Critical Analysis on Loving the Black Body in Beyonce’s Lemonade
(2020)Just two year after the release of Lemonade Beyoncé became the first Black woman to headline Coachella. Not only did she make history, but she was able to define who she was an artist. Lemonade allowed Beyoncé to define ... -
Another River to Drown in
(2020)The author presents an original collection of poems cultivated from experiences in Chicago working for the Newberry Library, working with the idea of deconstruction, and the belief in reincarnation. -
“Her Face Was an Open Wound” : Female Bodies as Sites of Pleasure and Destruction in Postmodern Horror Cinema
(2020)The author writes, “Being attracted to the stark intensity of its themes, I decided to explore horror. This genre is one of rampant polarization: the male and the female, the innocent and the evil, the violent and the ... -
"Stuck In-Between" : The Construction of the Tragic Mulatta in Classical Hollywood Cinema
(2019)Rather than creating a thesis that provides insight on the construction of blackness as a whole, the author ties an interest in the female experience and intersectionality to produce a piece that solely focuses on the image ... -
"Pieces of Home" : A Small Town Girl in Strange and Familiar Lands
(2018)The author explains the process of turning blog posts from her college years into an original work of creative nonfiction.
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