Abstract and Keywords This manuscript explores topics in horror, gender and femininity, sexuality, psychological disorders, parasomnias, phobias and my biracial identity as well as a struggle with darker aspects of society. These pieces explore multiple psychological disorders such as parasomnias (specfically insomnia and sleep paralysis) and medical treatment, anxiety, and depression. Some pieces included also explore current issues with technology, specifically the exploration of the darknet and online child...

Introduction [excerpts] In 1893, a young nurse from Rochester, New York, named Lillian D. Wald, visited the slums of New York City's Lower East Side and experienced a "baptism by fire" that would change her own life and the lives of millions of others.... Wald wrote two accounts of her life and work at the Henry Street Settlement, which she founded as a result of her early experiences: The House on Henry Street (1915) and Windows on Henry...

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The intention of this manuscript is to explore through poetry the challenges and blessings of growing up in a strict Irish Catholic household from the late Eisenhower years through the Nixon years and everything in between.

Key Words: family, Irish Catholic, religion, politics, body, sin, shame, ekphrasis, childhood, adolescence, poetic forms.

Abstract The poetry manuscript is divided into four sections that each center around physical locations, music, love and interiority respectively. Most of the poetry is written in free verse, but some pieces are written in forms or as ekphrastic works related to music and visual art. This collection draws inspiration from Natasha Trethewey, Adam Zagajewski, and Meena Alexander among others. Keywords: Poetry, free verse, haibune [sic], New Jersey, exphrasis,...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection consists of theses written by students enrolled in the Monmouth University graduate English program. The holdings are primarily bound print documents that were submitted in partial fulfillment of requirements for the Master of Arts or Master of Fine Arts degrees.Students become eligible to pursue the Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) degree if they have obtained a Master of Arts...

Introduction [excerpt] Inventory of the Gone became a meditation-- or, more honestly, an obsession-- with the ever-complicated human experience of and relationship to loss. Loss takes many forms in this collection from death, to losing who you knew somebody to be to addiction, to losing the self and others to mental and physical illness, to the loss experienced through change, to the severing of relationships, etc. These poems attempt to find the right images and right words...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection consists of theses written by students enrolled in the Monmouth University graduate English program. The holdings are primarily bound print documents that were submitted in partial fulfillment of requirements for the Master of Arts or Master of Fine Arts degrees.Students become eligible to pursue the Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) degree if they have obtained a Master of Arts...

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This memoir encompasses Clark’s experiences as a transgender man with an evangelical upbringing. Spanning from his early childhood through his first year out of high school, Clark explores generational and religious trauma, as well as familial, platonic, and romantic relationships.

Keywords: Gender identity, religion, sexuality, grief, trauma, relationships

Abstract Songs to Sick Blood is a poetry collection that explores one family's experience of illness, loss, and rupture. These poems chronicle grief in its many forms: loss of a loved one, loss of wellness, loss of self, and loss of comfort. The poems' speakers look honestly and unflinchingly at their experiences to attempt to make sense of life's ebbs and flows in health, family, and happieness. Keywords: Poetry, loss, grief, grieving, death, illness,...

Abstract This thesis covers two of William Faulkner's novels, Sanctuary and Absalom, Absalom!, with current feminist, queer, and intersectional discourse in mind. Today, Faulkner's novels are widely recognized as problematic, but this thesis attempts to re-read such novels in a new light without giving too much credence to authorial intent. In other words interpretations of Faulkner are not suggested to be related to his original...