Fever City: Memory, Truama, and Storytelling via Hybrid Writing Methods: a Creative Dissertation

Author

Samantha Moe, Illinois State UniversityFollow

Graduation Term

2023

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Department

Department of English

Committee Chair

Ricardo C. Cruz

Abstract

Fever City: Memory, Truama, and Storytelling via Hybrid Writing Methods: A Creative Dissertation is a hybrid novel examining Latinx and Chicanx hybrid writing methods, ghost stories, gastro-poetry, and images exploring Ecuadorian cuisine, trauma, memory, mental health, queerness, domestic violence, and love in the backdrop of a sixth New York City borough called Fever City. The dissertation includes a critical preface that theorizes how silent workshop models can and should be abolished and (re)created with trauma-engaged workshop methods supporting discussion groups and literate activity tracing in student assignments. The dissertation also includes a pedagogical chapter that explores hybrid writing in the creative writing classroom through a hybrid writing pedagogy.

Access Type

Dissertation-Open Access

Recommended Citation

Moe, Samantha, "Fever City: Memory, Truama, and Storytelling via Hybrid Writing Methods: a Creative Dissertation" (2023). Theses and Dissertations. 1691.
https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/etd/1691

DOI

https://doi.org/10.30707/ETD2023.20230711063202260184.999960