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Sponsorship, Reflexivity, and Resistance: A Cultural Reading of the York Cycle Plays
Kathleen M. Ashley PhD
Chapter in The Performance of Middle English Culture.
Theatricality as a cultural process is vitally important in the middle ages; it encompasses not only the thematic importation of dramatic images into the Canterbury Tales, but also the social and ideological `performativities' of the mystery and morality plays, metadramatic investments, and the ludic energies of Chaucerian discourses in general. The twelve essays collected here address for the first time this intersection, using contemporary theory and historical scholarship to treat a number of important critical problems, including the anthropology of theatrical performance; gender; allegory; Chaucerian metapoetics; intertextual play and jouissance; social mediation and rhetoric; genre; and the institutionality of medieval studies. JAMES J. PAXSON is Associate Professor of English at the University of Florida; LAWRENCE M. CLOPPER is Professor of English at Indiana University; SYLVIA TOMASCHis Associate Professor of English at Hunter College, City University of New York. Contributors: KATHLEEN ASHLEY, MARLENE CLARK, RICHARD DANIELS, ALFRED DAVID, RICHARD K. EMMERSON, JOHN GANIM, WARREN GINSBERG, ROBERT W. HANNING, SHARON KRAUS, SETH LERER, WILLIAM MCLELLAN, PAMELA SHEINGORN, PETER W. TRAVIS
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Macrophyte Structure and Growth of Bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus): Design of a Multilake Experiment
Stephen R. Carpenter, Mark H. Olson, Paul Cunningham, Sarig Gafny, Nathan P. Nibbelink, Tom Pellett, Christine Storlie, Anett S. Trebitz, and Karen A. Wilson PhD
Book chapter from "The Structuring Role of Submerged Macrophytes in Lakes", eds. Erik Jepsen, Martin Søndergaard, Morten Søndergaard, and Kirsten Christoffersen.
About this chapter:
Experimental manipulations of whole ecosystems can be a powerful test of ecological understanding. In particular, ecosystem-scale manipulations can evaluate basic ecological ideas in ways that complement comparative studies, models, and smaller-scale experiments (Carpenter et al., 1995a). From an applied perspective, ecosystem experiments can also give unique insights into what works at a scale directly relevant to managers (Kitchell, 1992). When management actions are coupled with scientific studies of the response of the ecosystem, learning may lead to improved management practices (Gunderson et al., 1995). Here we present early results of an experiment to test the idea that nuisance macrophytes can be managed to enhance fish growth.
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Feminism, Poetry, and the Church: Interview with Denise Levertov
Nancy Gish PhD
Chapter in Conversations with Denise Levertov.
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Families: The heart of transition
C Hanley-Maxwell, S M. Pogoloff, and Jean Whitney PhD
Chapter in Beyond high school: Transition from school to work, edited by F.R. Rusch & J.G. Chadsley.
Book description:
This text summarizes knowledge from research that focused on reforming secondary special education and high schools and makes recommendations for improving high schools' effectiveness.
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Anatomy of a Portfolio Assessment System: Using Multiple Sources of Evidence for Credentialing and Professional Development
Walter Kimball PhD and Susie Hanley
Chapter 12 in With Portfolio in Hand. Validating the New Teacher Professionalism, edited by Nona Lyons.
Book description:
This book suggests that portfolios can become a new kind of credential of competent and effective teachers.
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Accessing the Issues: Current Research in Disability Studies
Elaine Makas PhD, Beth Haller PhD, and Tanis Doe PhD
The chapters in this book are extended abstracts of some of the presentations given during the April 1995 annual meeting of the Chronic Disease and Disability Section of the Western Social Sciences Association and the June 1995 annual meeting of the Society for Disability Studies, both of which were held in Oakland, California.
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Methods for Assessing Children's Syntax
Dana McDaniel PhD, Cecile McKee, and Helen Smith Cairns
This book is designed in part as a handbook to assist students and researchers in the choice and use of methods for investigating children's grammar.
The study of child language and, in particular, child syntax is a growing area of linguistic research, yet methodological issues often take a back seat to the findings and conclusions of specific studies in the field. This book is designed in part as a handbook to assist students and researchers in the choice and use of methods for investigating children's grammar. For example, a method (or combination of methods) can be chosen based on what is measured and who the target subject is. In addition to the selection of methods, there are also pointers for designing and conducting experimental studies and for evaluating research.
Methods for Assessing Children's Syntax combines the best features of approaches developed in experimental psychology and linguistics that ground the study of language within the study of human cognition. The first three parts focus on specific methods, divided according to the type of data collected: production, comprehension, and judgment. Chapters in the fourth part take up general methodological considerations that arise regardless of which method is used. All of the methods described can be modified to meet the requirements of a specific study.
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![Is Pregnancy Necessary? Feminist Concerns About Ectogenesis [Book Chapter] by Julien Murphy PhD](https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/facbooks/1542/thumbnail.jpg "Is Pregnancy Necessary? Feminist Concerns About Ectogenesis [Book Chapter] by Julien Murphy PhD")
Is Pregnancy Necessary? Feminist Concerns About Ectogenesis [Book Chapter]
Julien Murphy PhD
Chapter from Sex/Machine: Readings in Culture, Gender, and Technology, edited by Patrick D. Hopkins.
More about this title:
How does technology influence gender roles? From personal computers and cyberspace to artificial wombs and sex reassignment surgery, technology has opened up the possibility that sex roles as well as the gendered notions we have of human identity are subject to radical change. This engaging anthology examines long-standing stereotypical associations of men with technology and women with nature and assesses the impact of technologies that have necessarily blurred distinctions between the sexes and altered traditional views of gender.
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Miscegenation, ‘Melaleukation,’ and Public Reception
Eve Allegra Raimon PhD
Chapter in Fear Itself: Enemies Real and Imagined in American Culture.
This collection contains twenty-seven new essays on American paranoia drawn from a range of disciplines, including American studies, film studies, history, literature, religious studies, and sociology. It's arranged by topic and largely in chronological order, explore manifestations of fear throughout the history of the United States. Approaching the topic from a variety of perspectives and methodologies, contributors to the collection explore theoretical constructions of fear, religious intolerance in early American culture, racial discrimination, literary expressions of paranoia, and Cold War anxieties, as well as phobias of the modern age and about the future. Together, these essays cover topics from nearly every period of U.S. history, offering a remarkable picture of the "nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror" that Roosevelt discerned as such a paralyzing threat on the eve of the Second World War, and which continues to haunt American culture even as we shape our perceptions of the future.
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Wrapped in Song, A Christmas Portrait
Robert Russell
The singers in the USM Chamber Singers represent the most outstanding vocal performers at the University of Southern Maine. Chosen through a careful audition process, the singers rehearse two and a half hours each week. Committed to choral excellence, these students have accepted a responsibility to musical distinction through a focus on warmth of tone, precise intonation, and the artistry of understanding the nuance of text. The Chamber Singers perform a diverse repertory centered on a cappella literature of the Renaissance era and the twentieth century. Robert Russell, professor of music and music director of Portland's Choral Art Society, is the director of choral music at the University of Southern Maine.
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'Their Terrors Came Upon Me Tenfold': Literacy and Ghosts in John Clare's Autobiography
Richard G. Swartz PhD
Chapter in The Lessons of Romanticism.
Moving beyond views of European Romanticism as an essentially poetic development, Lessons of Romanticism strives to strengthen a critical awareness of the genres, historical institutions, and material practices that comprised the culture of the period. This anthology—in recasting Romanticism in its broader cultural context—ranges across literary studies, art history, musicology, and political science and combines a variety of critical approaches, including gender studies, Lacanian analysis, and postcolonial studies. With over twenty essays on such diverse topics as the aesthetic and pedagogical purposes of art exhibits in London, the materiality of late Romantic salon culture, the extracanonical status of Jane Austen and Fanny Burney, and Romantic imagery in Beethoven’s music and letters, Lessons of Romanticism reveals the practices that were at the heart of European Romantic life. Focusing on the six decades from 1780 to 1832, this collection is arranged thematically around gender and genre, literacy, marginalization, canonmaking, and nationalist ideology. As Americanists join with specialists in German culture, as Austen is explored beside Beethoven, and as discussions on newly recovered women’s writings follow fresh discoveries in long-canonized texts, these interdisciplinary essays not only reflect the broad reach of contemporary scholarship but also point to the long-neglected intertextual and intercultural dynamics in the various and changing faces of Romanticism itself.
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Embodying Desire: Piercing and the Fashioning of 'Neo-butch/femme' Identities
Lisa Walker PhD
Chapter in Butch/Femme: Inside Lesbian Gender.
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Painting the Musical City: Jazz and Cultural Identity in American Art, 1910 - 1940
Donna M. Cassidy Ph.D.
Focusing on the work of John Marin, Joseph Stella, Arthur Dove, Stuart Davis, and Aaron Douglas, the author describes music as a cultural marker for American modernist painters who adopted the themes of the musical city, jazz, and the jazz musician to represent the urban scene. She explains how each artist took advantage to varying degrees of avant-garde music, fledgling audio technologies, and an emerging popular culture - moving easily between concert hall and nightclub - to experience and interpret urban dissonance and jazz improvisation. Painting the Musical City explores the complicated relationship between African American culture and modernism, showing how white painters such as Dove and Davis evoked the dynamism of African American music but "painted out" its black practitioners. Aaron Douglas, in contrast, represented jazz and the jazz musician as the embodiment of both racial and national identity in his painting Aspects of Negro Life: Song of the Towers, which juxtaposes the figure of a black saxophonist with the Statue of Liberty. By considering painters and composers together, by examining canonical modernists in relation to African American artists, and by showing how their images have resonated during the latter half of the century, Cassidy provides an enhanced reading of modernism, introducing themes of racial identity into the discussion of a distinctively American art.
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Reading Early Modem Books of Female Instruction and Conduct
Kathleen M. Ashley PhD
Chapter in Attending to Early Modern Women.
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Evaluating the Results of Multicultural Education: Taking the Long Way Home
Jeffrey Beaudry PhD and James Earl Davis
Chapter 15 in Multicultural Course Transformation in Higher Education: A Broader Truth, edited by Ann Intili Morey & Margie K. Kitano.
Book description:
According to a survey conducted in the early 1990s, over one-half of the 196 colleges and universities surveyed were already introducing multiculturalism into departmental course offerings. This thoroughly documented book was written to help instructors integrate multicultural content, processes, and strategies into their courses in order to meet the needs of a changing student population, and to better prepare students for effective functioning in a diverse society. The authors point out that the information in the book is relevant for homogeneous as well as highly diverse campuses because a transformed course provides a more comprehensive view of the discipline and better prepares all students for world citizenship. The two-dimensional model presented here identifies three levels of change (exclusive, inclusive, transformed) and four course components in which change can be applied: content, instructional strategies, assessment of student knowledge, and classroom dynamics.
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Using person centered planning to address personal quality of life
John Butterworth, D E. Steere, and Jean Whitney PhD
Chapter in Quality of life: its application to persons with disabilities, edited by R.L. Schalock.
Book description:
This volume summarizes current policies and programmatic practices that are influencing the quality of life of persons with mental retardation and developmental disabilities.
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Live Sex Acts: Women Performing Erotic Labor
Wendy Chapkis Ph.D.
Drawing on more than fifty interviews in both the US and the Netherlands, Wendy Chapkis captures the wide-ranging experiences of women performing erotic labor and offers a complex, multi-faceted depiction of sex work. Her expansive analytic perspective encompasses both a serious examination of international prostitution policy as well as hands-on accounts of contemporary commercial sexual practices. Scholarly, but never simply academic, this book is explicitly grounded in a concern for how competing political discourses work concretely in the world--to frame policy and define perceptions of AIDS, to mobilize women into opposing camps, to silence some agendas and to promote others.
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Experimental Syntax: Applying Objective Methods to Sentence Judgments
Wayne Cowart PhD
This original work provides a concise introduction to methods that linguists may use to describe patterns of sentence "acceptability" in speech communities. Experimental Syntax will enable an investigator with a well-formed question about a matter of fact-- relative to sentence acceptability--to design, execute, and analyze an appropriate survey experiment. The book examines variability and demonstrates a method by which an investigator can make principled decisions as to whether individual informants do or do not use a particular "dialect." Furthermore, this well-formulated book shows how to determine whether two or more informants who use atypical dialects are using the same atypical dialect. Experimental Syntax is recommended to researchers and professionals in linguistics who are interested in learning more about the methods available for dialect and sentence structure studies.
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Black No More: George Schuyler and the Politics of ‘Racial Culture'
Jane Kuenz PhD
Chapter in The Harlem Renaissance Re-Examined: A Revised and Expanded Edition.
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Theory, Practice, and the Millennium
Kathleen I. MacPherson
Walter E. Russell Endowed Chair in Philosophy and Education Lecture 1996-1998: Theory, Practice, and the Millenium
The Russell Scholar Symposium: Theory and Practice in Academia
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