Award Date
May 2019
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
English
First Committee Member
Maile Chapman
Second Committee Member
José Orduña
Third Committee Member
Lynn Comella
Fourth Committee Member
Anne Stevens
Number of Pages
79
Abstract
This creative thesis project is a culmination of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing degree at UNLV. The thesis—titled Encyclopedia of My Body—was composed entirely during my graduate semesters at UNLV. As a hybrid collection book of poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction, it explores the different bodies that create and shape human people. Included within these bodies are of course the temporal, organic bodies human people inhabit; using my own body as the focus, I explore the intersections of gender, pain, and transness. This collection however seeks to trouble the idea of bodies, and therefore explores the bodies of relationships, of physics, of home, memory, and of time. Written under the supervision of Maile Chapman (committee chair) and José Orduña (committee member), my committee further includes Anne Stevens (English and Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethic Studies) and Lynn Comella (Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethic Studies). Their disparate subject and genre interests are meant to diversify the feedback received during this project’s composition, but with a particular focus on gender studies. This project comprises 72 pages.
Keywords
Body; Gender; Trans
Disciplines
Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | Gender and Sexuality
File Format
Degree Grantor
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Language
English
Repository Citation
Hastings, Alice, "Encyclopedia of My Body" (2019). UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones. 3609.
http://dx.doi.org/10.34917/15778445
Rights
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