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Gender, pedagogy, and werewolves: Duality in reading and teaching Quinn Loftis's Prince of Wolves
(2020-05-20)
For generations werewolves have been a symbol of an uncontrollable male desire, however, Quinn Loftis has changed the civilized-savage binary in her novel, Prince of Wolves, to suggest that in the wake of multiple rape ...
Alternate texts, alternate pedagogies: Autoethnographic research with graduate teaching assistants in an ESL environment
(2020-07-23)
The purpose of this thesis is to study the graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) who are instructors of record in undergraduate-level general education courses in the Department of English at the University of Puerto Rico ...
An analysis of gender representations in children’s novels by Frances Hodgson Burnett
(2007)
This thesis examines gender representations in three childrenís novels by
Victorian author Frances Hodgson Burnett. It focuses specifically on the construction and
representation of femininity in the novels Little Lord ...
Slavery and feminist rhetorics: Phillis Wheatley’s construction of communities through her poetry and letters
(2017)
This thesis explores the intersections of gender, race, rhetoric, life writing, and early black Atlantic literature. I argue that Phillis Wheatley, a literate enslaved woman of African descent, sought to combat the effects ...
The ripple effect: mirror images of Helen of Troy
(2012)
This thesis explores the concept of the uncanny as presented in three female characters that
mirror Helen of Troy, Geoffrey Chaucer’s Criseyde from Troilus and Criseyde, William
Shakespeare’s Cressida from the play Troilus ...
Learning by the numbers: Critical discourse analysis of representations of No Child Left Behind public law 107-110 in Puerto Rico
(2007)
The implementation of Public Law 107-110, No Child Left Behind Act
(NCLB) has far-reaching implications that redirect the course of education in
Puerto Rico by imposing policies through a process that has not been
...
Teaching William Blake's The Songs of Innocence and of Experience to university ESL students with reader-response and Freirian pedagogy
(2006-11-28)
This study examines the use of reader-response theory and Freirian pedagogy in
the teaching of selected poems from William Blake’s The Songs of Innocence and of
Experience to university ESL students in Mayagüez, Puerto ...
Towards a multidisciplinary approach on video game studies: A case study of Portal
(2012)
This thesis discusses how video games entered academia as an area of study and how Narratology and Ludology became the leading approaches. It discusses the benefits and shortcomings of each of them through a case study of ...
From Caliban to me: Postcolonial reading of Elizabeth Nunez’s Prospero’s Daughter
(2020-05-15)
This thesis project explores my alignment to nature and the Devil for empowerment as a racialized Other—the villain—in the Western imperial project, through Elizabeth Nunez’s Prospero’s Daughter (2006), a Caribbean reimagining ...
An adaptation of suggestopedia: Enhancing ESL learners’ motivation through music, relaxation techniques, and role playing
(2015)
This study demonstrates a research done with a group of English as a Second Language (ESL) ninth graders in Puerto Rico which integrated an adaptation of Georgi Lozanov’s teaching methodology Suggestopedia. The first section ...