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DOI: 10.7274/25604640
title: (Re-)Writing History: Literature as Historiography and the Construction of an Anglo-Saxon Literary Imaginary

description: When the early medieval English past does surface in contemporary culture, it often does so with less than savory effects. Nationalist and white supremacist groups invoke Old English literature in their reading materials, far-right politicians ground their policies in “Anglo-Saxon” history and institutions, and academic historians make mainstream news headlines with contentious debates over abandoning racist terminology. One of the reasons why untangling the ideologically fraught narratives of this period has been such a tumultuous project is that narratives of national origin and identity are not simply “misappropriations” of history, but a manifestation of an orientation towards that history that is equally evident in much of the academic scholarship on the period. By attempting to critique one form of narrative while reifying the other, an epistemological crisis unfolds in which scholars attempt to prove the invalidity of certain historical narratives through the use of methodologies that are themselves based on those very narratives. This dissertation argues that the dominant narrative of the early medieval English past is one rooted in nationalist origin myths that posit a definition of Englishness reliant on race-based articulations of an “Anglo-Saxon” identity, and that this narrative is perpetuated just as powerfully through literature as through academic historical and political discourses. This Anglo-Saxon literary imaginary entrenches variations on a single narrative of racial supremacy as the only historically valid interpretation of the early medieval English past, suppressing any evidence or interpretation that may counter that narrative. Literary history is particularly situated to critique this imagined past because its interest is not on the veracity of particular facts, but the way in which narratives of the past are constructed in historical discourse.
DOI: 10.7274/25604640.v1
title: (Re-)Writing History: Literature as Historiography and the Construction of an Anglo-Saxon Literary Imaginary

description: When the early medieval English past does surface in contemporary culture, it often does so with less than savory effects. Nationalist and white supremacist groups invoke Old English literature in their reading materials, far-right politicians ground their policies in “Anglo-Saxon” history and institutions, and academic historians make mainstream news headlines with contentious debates over abandoning racist terminology. One of the reasons why untangling the ideologically fraught narratives of this period has been such a tumultuous project is that narratives of national origin and identity are not simply “misappropriations” of history, but a manifestation of an orientation towards that history that is equally evident in much of the academic scholarship on the period. By attempting to critique one form of narrative while reifying the other, an epistemological crisis unfolds in which scholars attempt to prove the invalidity of certain historical narratives through the use of methodologies that are themselves based on those very narratives. This dissertation argues that the dominant narrative of the early medieval English past is one rooted in nationalist origin myths that posit a definition of Englishness reliant on race-based articulations of an “Anglo-Saxon” identity, and that this narrative is perpetuated just as powerfully through literature as through academic historical and political discourses. This Anglo-Saxon literary imaginary entrenches variations on a single narrative of racial supremacy as the only historically valid interpretation of the early medieval English past, suppressing any evidence or interpretation that may counter that narrative. Literary history is particularly situated to critique this imagined past because its interest is not on the veracity of particular facts, but the way in which narratives of the past are constructed in historical discourse.
DOI: 10.15468/dl.jvww3v
title: Occurrence Download

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DOI: 10.7274/25706016
title: The Poetics of Fragmentation: Modernism and Theology in Twentieth-Century British and Irish Literature

description: This dissertation examines the fragment, placing in conversation twentieth-century literary and theological vocabularies for thinking through this vital concept. In so doing, it nuances two provisionally useful but limited models in literary scholarship. In the first, interest in fragmentation, especially among modernist authors, stems from a basically mimetic impulse. Faced with a reality in which God is dead and the world seems broken, art follows suit: prose imitates chaotic subjectivity, language disintegrates into syntactic paroxysm, narrative eschews linearity, all in pursuit of mimetic fragmentarity. The main literary alternative to this mimetic fragmentation is a conservative, nostalgic collector’s impulse: “these fragments I have shored against my ruins,” as T. S. Eliot writes. Lamenting the loss of a unified, religiously ordered imagination, modernity in this model is marred by rupture, disunity, chaos. All the poet can do is clutch at fragments and hope that is enough—in other words, to turn the fragment into the autonomous whole. This dissertation agrees that the twentieth century—war-torn and shorn of social, cultural, and epistemic certainties—was indeed the era of the fragment. However, it argue for a key group of authors the rest of this narrative falls flat. For them, art may be fragmentary but is never merely a fragment, mimetic, autonomous or otherwise. Rather it is a fragment gesturing beyond itself. Translated into a theological context, the fragment becomes a regulating principle for mediating ultimate realities, fragment (or part) paradoxically containing divine whole—or as Hans Urs von Balthasar notes, the Whole dwelling in the fragment. With this framework in mind, my dissertation traces this in-and-beyond, Whole-in-fragment orientation across a variety of authors, with individual chapters focusing on different ways the fragment has been understood in a literary context: as technique (Joyce), as theme (Eliot), and finally as a genre unto itself (Tolkien).
DOI: 10.7274/25706016.v1
title: The Poetics of Fragmentation: Modernism and Theology in Twentieth-Century British and Irish Literature

description: This dissertation examines the fragment, placing in conversation twentieth-century literary and theological vocabularies for thinking through this vital concept. In so doing, it nuances two provisionally useful but limited models in literary scholarship. In the first, interest in fragmentation, especially among modernist authors, stems from a basically mimetic impulse. Faced with a reality in which God is dead and the world seems broken, art follows suit: prose imitates chaotic subjectivity, language disintegrates into syntactic paroxysm, narrative eschews linearity, all in pursuit of mimetic fragmentarity. The main literary alternative to this mimetic fragmentation is a conservative, nostalgic collector’s impulse: “these fragments I have shored against my ruins,” as T. S. Eliot writes. Lamenting the loss of a unified, religiously ordered imagination, modernity in this model is marred by rupture, disunity, chaos. All the poet can do is clutch at fragments and hope that is enough—in other words, to turn the fragment into the autonomous whole. This dissertation agrees that the twentieth century—war-torn and shorn of social, cultural, and epistemic certainties—was indeed the era of the fragment. However, it argue for a key group of authors the rest of this narrative falls flat. For them, art may be fragmentary but is never merely a fragment, mimetic, autonomous or otherwise. Rather it is a fragment gesturing beyond itself. Translated into a theological context, the fragment becomes a regulating principle for mediating ultimate realities, fragment (or part) paradoxically containing divine whole—or as Hans Urs von Balthasar notes, the Whole dwelling in the fragment. With this framework in mind, my dissertation traces this in-and-beyond, Whole-in-fragment orientation across a variety of authors, with individual chapters focusing on different ways the fragment has been understood in a literary context: as technique (Joyce), as theme (Eliot), and finally as a genre unto itself (Tolkien).
DOI: 10.7274/26211119
title: Provocative Absences: The Affective Process of Recovery in Hyper-Contemporary Literature

description: This dissertation brings together three hyper-contemporary texts that share an interest in recovering the lives of women writers who have been forgotten, misunderstood, or left out of history altogether. Jenn Shapland’s My Autobiography of Carson McCullers, Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s A Ghost in the Throat, and Shola von Reinhold’s LOTE are representative of an emerging genre in contemporary literature that has its roots in the feminist literary recovery projects of the 1970s. Those early rescue efforts on behalf of women writers saw gaps in the record as provocations, and their response was to not only find figures who could fill those gaps, but to make them recognizable by well-established, institutionalized markers of literary value. Hyper-contemporary recovery avoids the distortive effects of appealing to “objective” value in the hope of achieving widespread recognition in two ways: 1) placing emphasis on material encounters, and 2) careful attention to process. In house museums and in archives, the authors and characters of these primary texts find opportunities for embodied rituals prompted by material encounters that offer proximity to their beloved subjects. This, unexpectedly, avoids the problem of treating those subjects like objects themselves—only useful insofar as they fill in certain gaps. Likewise, by centering the subjectivity of the researcher and describing the intricacies of their labor, each text brings recovery to a more human scale; emphasizing moments of recognition between researcher and subject that bring the latter into focus.
 This project departs from the usual form of the dissertation in order to replicate the self-reflective, process-driven form of hyper-contemporary recovery. Interchapters consider the connections between the form of the humanities graduate essay and the logic of the gap model, the importance of a writer’s room to their self-image and output, and reflect, in real time, on the desire for hyper-contemporary recovery to either fix or move on from the “problems” that seemed to limit earlier versions. Ultimately, this dissertation finds that hyper-contemporary recovery projects are just as committed as the second wave feminists to filling in historical gaps, but prefer to do so on a more intimate scale, using their own lives as material.
DOI: 10.7274/26211119.v1
title: Provocative Absences: The Affective Process of Recovery in Hyper-Contemporary Literature

description: This dissertation brings together three hyper-contemporary texts that share an interest in recovering the lives of women writers who have been forgotten, misunderstood, or left out of history altogether. Jenn Shapland’s My Autobiography of Carson McCullers, Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s A Ghost in the Throat, and Shola von Reinhold’s LOTE are representative of an emerging genre in contemporary literature that has its roots in the feminist literary recovery projects of the 1970s. Those early rescue efforts on behalf of women writers saw gaps in the record as provocations, and their response was to not only find figures who could fill those gaps, but to make them recognizable by well-established, institutionalized markers of literary value. Hyper-contemporary recovery avoids the distortive effects of appealing to “objective” value in the hope of achieving widespread recognition in two ways: 1) placing emphasis on material encounters, and 2) careful attention to process. In house museums and in archives, the authors and characters of these primary texts find opportunities for embodied rituals prompted by material encounters that offer proximity to their beloved subjects. This, unexpectedly, avoids the problem of treating those subjects like objects themselves—only useful insofar as they fill in certain gaps. Likewise, by centering the subjectivity of the researcher and describing the intricacies of their labor, each text brings recovery to a more human scale; emphasizing moments of recognition between researcher and subject that bring the latter into focus.
 This project departs from the usual form of the dissertation in order to replicate the self-reflective, process-driven form of hyper-contemporary recovery. Interchapters consider the connections between the form of the humanities graduate essay and the logic of the gap model, the importance of a writer’s room to their self-image and output, and reflect, in real time, on the desire for hyper-contemporary recovery to either fix or move on from the “problems” that seemed to limit earlier versions. Ultimately, this dissertation finds that hyper-contemporary recovery projects are just as committed as the second wave feminists to filling in historical gaps, but prefer to do so on a more intimate scale, using their own lives as material.
DOI: 10.15468/dl.mu9fje
title: Occurrence Download

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DOI: 10.7274/26082547
title: Heart of Flesh: Orthodoxy, Science, and the Soul-Body Problem

description: Science-engaged theological anthropology is currently dominated by a movement known as Christian physicalism, which considers evidence from neuroscience to have rendered the notion of a soul obsolete, even in theological discourse. This dissertation offers an Orthodox response to this movement in two ways. First, it suggests a new methodological framework for science-engaged theological anthropology that draws from Gregory of Nyssa’s insistence on the incomprehensibility of the human being and on a models framework inspired by recent work in the philosophy of science. In this framework Christian physicalism can be recast as an improper regulation of anthropological models since models that eliminate the soul can and should be used in scientific contexts without thereby entailing their usefulness in theological contexts. Second, this dissertation seeks to retrieve, develop, and defend a specifically Orthodox model of the human being: the holistic cardiocentrism inspired by the Bible but uniquely cultivated by the hesychasts.
DOI: 10.7274/26082547.v1
title: Heart of Flesh: Orthodoxy, Science, and the Soul-Body Problem

description: Science-engaged theological anthropology is currently dominated by a movement known as Christian physicalism, which considers evidence from neuroscience to have rendered the notion of a soul obsolete, even in theological discourse. This dissertation offers an Orthodox response to this movement in two ways. First, it suggests a new methodological framework for science-engaged theological anthropology that draws from Gregory of Nyssa’s insistence on the incomprehensibility of the human being and on a models framework inspired by recent work in the philosophy of science. In this framework Christian physicalism can be recast as an improper regulation of anthropological models since models that eliminate the soul can and should be used in scientific contexts without thereby entailing their usefulness in theological contexts. Second, this dissertation seeks to retrieve, develop, and defend a specifically Orthodox model of the human being: the holistic cardiocentrism inspired by the Bible but uniquely cultivated by the hesychasts.
DOI: 10.7274/26103637
title: Climbing the Cosmic Distance Ladder

description: This dissertation is a philosophical and historical study of the development of modern cosmic distance measurement, particularly during a period known as the 50-or-100 debate, from approximately the 1960s until 2000. Each chapter focuses on a strategy for building confidence in distance measurements during this period, chosen both for their philosophical interest and relevance to modern debates over the cosmic distance scale. Chapter 2 examines the challenge of constructing classification schemes that identify standard distance indicators. In particular, I focus on three distance indicators---type Ia supernovae, spiral galaxy luminosity classes, and H II region diameters---and argue that differences in the classification schemes are relevant to the success or failure in each case. Chapter 3 traces the evolution of type Ia supernovae from their use as standard candles to their reconceptualization as standardizable candles. I examine how the standardness of these objects was evaluated absent pre-existing standards. I argue that assumptions about the standardness of these objects were often built into studies of their standardness. Chapter 4 explores the role of multiple measurements, robustness, and consilience in the debate. In particular, I assess two methods developed for constructing and testing distance ladders with multiple measurements: Gérard de Vaucouleurs's spreading the risks method and Allan Sandage and Gustav Tammann's precision indicators method. I argue that these methods were not different views on the best way to incorporate multiple lines of evidence into a distance ladder in general, but reflected the participants' differing views on the quality and trustworthiness of available indicators and models. Chapter 5 assesses the use of cosmological models in the debate, highlighting varying views among participants regarding the role cosmological modeling should play in cosmic distance measurement. As a case study, I examine connections between the age of the universe and the distance scale.
DOI: 10.7274/26103637.v1
title: Climbing the Cosmic Distance Ladder

description: This dissertation is a philosophical and historical study of the development of modern cosmic distance measurement, particularly during a period known as the 50-or-100 debate, from approximately the 1960s until 2000. Each chapter focuses on a strategy for building confidence in distance measurements during this period, chosen both for their philosophical interest and relevance to modern debates over the cosmic distance scale. Chapter 2 examines the challenge of constructing classification schemes that identify standard distance indicators. In particular, I focus on three distance indicators---type Ia supernovae, spiral galaxy luminosity classes, and H II region diameters---and argue that differences in the classification schemes are relevant to the success or failure in each case. Chapter 3 traces the evolution of type Ia supernovae from their use as standard candles to their reconceptualization as standardizable candles. I examine how the standardness of these objects was evaluated absent pre-existing standards. I argue that assumptions about the standardness of these objects were often built into studies of their standardness. Chapter 4 explores the role of multiple measurements, robustness, and consilience in the debate. In particular, I assess two methods developed for constructing and testing distance ladders with multiple measurements: Gérard de Vaucouleurs's spreading the risks method and Allan Sandage and Gustav Tammann's precision indicators method. I argue that these methods were not different views on the best way to incorporate multiple lines of evidence into a distance ladder in general, but reflected the participants' differing views on the quality and trustworthiness of available indicators and models. Chapter 5 assesses the use of cosmological models in the debate, highlighting varying views among participants regarding the role cosmological modeling should play in cosmic distance measurement. As a case study, I examine connections between the age of the universe and the distance scale.
DOI: 10.7274/26241068
title: The Science of the Cross: Towards a Cross-Disciplinary Theology of Desire

description: This dissertation develops a method for a science-engaged theology (SET) of desire. Situated in both the context of a methodological debate in science and religion and the Catholic debate over homosexuality, it makes three interventions. First, it models a new approach to SET through a critical reconstruction of a method from classical Latin American liberation theology. Treating that method as a potential model for SET is the second intervention of the dissertation, since it has not previously been recognized as such. The result of its reconstruction is the dissertation’s third intervention, a set of guidelines for responsible theological engagement with scientific research on homosexuality.

After a brief introductory chapter, chapter 2 builds the case for a science-engaged approach. It draws on the history and philosophy of psychiatry to show that magisterial teaching on homosexuality already engages science, but unsuccessfully. The argument is that the act-centered moral theology the magisterium uses does not suit the ethical analysis of homosexuality, because that concept, within its historical and scientific context, is fundamentally a quality of persons, rather than acts. Clarifying magisterial teaching on this point requires SET, since the concept of homosexuality depends in part on a scientific paradigm.

Chapters 3 and 4 evaluate three models for doing science-engaged theology, the third of which comes from liberation theology. This third model stands out for combining the best features of the first two, as it dispenses with problematic assumptions about the unity of science, but does not dispense with fundamental questions altogether. SET has deliberately eschewed such questions, to its detriment, as chapter 5 shows.

Chapter 5 addresses Radical Orthodoxy’s critique of modern science, which puts the very warrant for SET in question, by arguing that the classical Catholic understanding of the analogia entis permits engagement. Chapter 6 articulates a positive warrant for SET, based not on the epistemic authority of the sciences, but rather on a theology of the cross, which radically calls all human scientia to humble reconciliation. Chapter 7 uses this theology of the cross to reconstruct the model from chapter 4, which ultimately grants too much faith and credit to scientific authority. The result of the reconstruction is a framework for theological engagement with scientific research on homosexuality that does not substitute a scientific grammar for a theological one. The conclusion to chapter 7 proposes that theologians engage the relevant sciences indirectly, through the mediation of history and philosophy of science, to better recognize both their own presuppositions and also the scientific “discovery” of sexual and gender identities as a historical novum that requires the development of doctrine.