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"Among Waitresses": Stories and Essays

Description: The following collection represents the critical and creative work produced during my doctoral program in English. The dissertation consists of Part I, a critical preface, and Part II, a collection of seven short stories and two nonfiction essays. Part I, which contains the critical preface entitled "What to Say and How to Say It," examines the role of voice in discussions of contemporary literature. The critical preface presents a definition of voice and identifies examples of voice-driven … more
Date: May 2010
Creator: Hobbs, Jessica
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Breaking Outside: Narratives of Art and Hawaii

Description: This research examines the personal narratives of two contemporary non-native artists living and working on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. Issues related to narratives, power structures, artistic processes, insider/outsider dynamics, Hawaiian culture, island life, surfing, and the researcher's own experiences are woven together to formulate realizations surrounding alternative knowledge systems and the power of multiple or hidden narratives to the practice of art education.
Date: May 2013
Creator: Davidson, Allison B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries

[Drew Gaines at Heart of Mexico event]

Description: Photograph of Drew Gaines standing on stage at the Heart of Mexico event in Dallas, Texas. Gaines worked on the 'Life by Life' and 'Catching the Wind' stories from the project. The attendees are visible looking towards him and the projector screen next to him. On the screen is a photograph taken while in Valle de Bravo, Mexico.
Date: 2014
Creator: Clark, Junebug
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Yvonne Leow speaking on panel about web-based storytelling]

Description: Photograph of Yvonne Leow, the senior Snapchat editor at Vox.com, speaking at a panel about the future of storytelling on the web. Leow focused on the topic of Snapchat coverage of news stories like the Dallas Police shooting in July of that same year. The panel was held during the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference at the Hilton DFW Lakes Executive Conference Center, Grapevine, TX.
Date: July 23, 2016
Creator: Clark, Junebug
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.959490 -97.046365
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Gardens sign]

Description: Photograph of a sign at the End of the Oregon Trail Interpretive and Visitor Information Center in Oregon City. It is surrounded by flowers and reads "Gardens; Living History of the Oregon Trail; 'We pitched our tent...remaining at this camp for about one week, feasting on watermelons and good, fresh vegetables right from the garden, which are brought in by the Clackamas County farmers in great abundance.' E.E. Conyers on arrival in Oregon City, September 25, 1852.; Land brought the settlers we… more
Date: August 1, 2014
Creator: Stowers, Larry
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Oliver Blumer, Outrageous Oral]

Description: Video of Oliver Blumer, a chiropractor, certified acupuncturist, and functional and integrative medicine provider, speaking at Outrageous Oral. During his session Blumer speaks about his experiences in the Women's Chorus of Dallas, his transition from female to male, and his later advocacy and work for those in the LGBT+ community and the Transgender Education Network of Texas. Blumer was raised in Amarillo, moved to Philadelphia, and returned to Dallas, Texas in the '90s with his partner.
Date: October 15, 2015
Duration: 28 minutes 12 seconds
Creator: The Dallas Way
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 33.210113 -97.148993
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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"Goodness and Mercy"

Description: The stories in this collection represent an increasingly transcultural world by exploring the intersection of cultures and identities in border spaces, particularly the Mexican-American border. Characters, regardless of ethnicity, experience the effects of migration and deportation in schools, hometowns, relationships, and elsewhere. The collection as a whole focuses on the issues and themes found in Mexican-American literature, such as loss, separation, and the search for identity.
Date: May 2016
Creator: Craggett, Courtney, 1986-
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries

[Pickwick Abroad, table of contents and introduction]

Description: Photograph of the first page introduction to the Pickwick Abroad serial compiled in a book. On the left side is the end of the Table of Contents and on the right is the introduction to the story. The book is propped open on a white background and there is a clear band across the left-hand pages to hold them down.
Date: July 9, 2014
Creator: Dickens, Charles
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Household Words, Hard Times first page]

Description: Photograph of the first page of Hard Times in Household Words Volume IX. The end of another story, and the introduction to Hard Times, is on the opposite page. At the top is a quote from Shakespeare that reads "Familiar in their Mouths as Household Words." The book is propped open and has a white background.
Date: July 9, 2014
Creator: Dickens, Charles
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Household Words, Hard Times at angle]

Description: Photograph of the first page of Hard Times in Household Words Volume IX. The end of another story, and the introduction to Hard Times, is on the opposite page. At the top is a quote from Shakespeare that reads "Familiar in their Mouths as Household Words." The book is propped open on a black foam block and has a white background.
Date: July 9, 2014
Creator: Dickens, Charles
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Spines of Tennyson's works]

Description: Photograph of the spines of seven books by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. The majority of the books are bound in green cloth, with one in a tan material. The books are Tiresias and Other Poems, Idylls of the King, Harold, The Holy Grail & c., Becket, The Cup/The Falcon, and Gareth and Lynette. Two of the books have an anchor logo at the base of the spine, one reads Henry S. King & Co., and the other three read Macmillan & Co. All are likely the publishers of their respective books. Many of the tops and… more
Date: July 9, 2014
Creator: Tennyson, Alfred
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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“No Paper Cowboys”: Stories

Description: Equilibrium is paramount in the crafting of a story, and for every writer this sense of balance is different. The writer must manage a balance of showing and telling, of denotation and connotation, and forever strive to find the perfect word in both the denotative and connotative sense, so that the reader and writer can meeting in a living story—both in the ink on the page and the remaining white space.
Date: December 2015
Creator: Agnew, Bryn
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries
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The Golden Log

Description: Volume of popular Texas folklore, including information about unusual Texas place names, folktales about spiders, folktales about witchcraft, ghosts and superstitions, and information about early petroleum geologists. The index begins on page 167.
Date: 2017
Creator: Texas Folklore Society
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Press
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Singers and Storytellers

Description: Collection of popular folklore of Texas, including personal anecdotes about storytellers and singers, as well as folk songs, myths, and ghost stories. The index begins on page 295.
Date: 2017
Creator: Boatright, Mody C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Press

[The Making of Micky Mcghee]

Description: Photographs of "The Making of Micky Mcghee" by R.W. Campbell, held by UNT Special Collections. The third image shows the book opened up to pages 64-5. On the left page are the words "Carry On" next to a drawing of a soldier kneeling with a long rifle, followed by a bit of text. On the right page are the words "Miners and Miners" next to a drawing of a man holding a shovel followed by a few paragraphs of text. Image 1, pale brown book cover with the title at the top in an illustration of a man s… more
Date: November 3, 2016
Creator: Sylve, Joshua
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Durward Watson and Michael Kaufman, Outrageous Oral]

Description: Video of Durward Watson and Michael Kaufman speaking at Outrageous Oral. Husbands Watson and Kaufman share important moments in their relationship including how they met through the Turtle Creek Chorale group, and their early on-again-off-again relationship that led to a long-lasting relationship and eventual marriage in 2004 in Vancouver, Canada; the ceremony was held in Stanley Park.
Date: June 25, 2015
Duration: 14 minutes 48 seconds
Creator: The Dallas Way
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 32.810518 -96.811138
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Kathy Jack, Outrageous Oral]

Description: Video of Kathy Jack, a member of Caven Enterprises and organizer of the Dallas Pride Parade, speaking at Outrageous Oral. Jack was introduced by Michael Doughman, the announcer for the evening, who also spoke about the early history of the Pride Parade in Dallas and the funding group, the Dallas Tavern Guild, and it's Executive Director Alan Ross. During her session, Jack speaks about her experience in the world of gay and lesbian bars such as The Conference Room, High Country, The Unicorn, an… more
Date: September 17, 2015
Duration: 25 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: The Dallas Way
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 32.810518 -96.811138
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Evilu Pridgeon, Outrageous Oral]

Description: Video of Evilu Pridgeon, Grand Marshal of the 2015 Dallas Pride Parade, speaking at Outrageous Oral. During the session she speaks about her experiences attending college and later in the Dallas LGBT community and her volunteer work with OLCS during the AIDS/HIV epidemic and remembers when it was incorrectly labeled GRIDS (Gay-Related Immune Deficiency Syndrome). She shares stories of protests and traveling to marches and her time in the closet while teaching in the Dallas Independent School Di… more
Date: September 17, 2015
Duration: 30 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: The Dallas Way
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 32.810518 -96.811138
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Jake Mangum, Outrageous Oral]

Description: Video of Jake Mangum, a Project Development Librarian working on The Portal to Texas History at UNT, speaking at Outrageous Oral. During his session Mangum speaks about his youth and growing up with the label of different due to amniotic band syndrome that affected his hands along with being gay. He continues with the idea of labels but makes them his own as he recalls the moments when he and his partner decide to marry each other and adopt two daughters.
Date: October 15, 2015
Duration: 9 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: The Dallas Way
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 33.210113 -97.148993
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Edra Bogle, Outrageous Oral]

Description: Video of Edra Bogle, a retired graduate English Professor at UNT, speaking at Outrageous Oral. During her session she speaks of the five times she came out: to herself, to her mother, to friends, to herself physically, and finally to her job. Bogle shares these moments and her time spent earning degrees and remembering her long-time interest in a librarian.
Date: October 15, 2015
Duration: 31 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: The Dallas Way
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 33.210113 -97.148993
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Patti Fink, Outrageous Oral]

Description: Video of Patti Fink, Grand Marshal of the 2015 Dallas Pride Parade, speaking at Outrageous Oral. During her session she speaks about her experiences in the Dallas LGBT community and volunteer work with the Human Rights Campaign, the National Coming Out Project, and work with education programs for the police and fire department based around discrimination. At the end of the video Erin Moore, Patti Fink's partner, proposes while Fink, Kathy Jack, Chris Luna, and Evilu Pridgeon are standing on th… more
Date: September 17, 2015
Duration: 32 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: The Dallas Way
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 32.810518 -96.811138
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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