Term of Award
Fall 2024
Degree Name
Doctor of Education in Curriculum Studies (Ed.D.)
Document Type and Release Option
Dissertation (open access)
Copyright Statement / License for Reuse
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Department
College of Education
Committee Chair
Marla Morris
Committee Member 1
John Weaver
Committee Member 2
Dan Chapman
Committee Member 3
Dennis Sumara
Non-Voting Committee Member
Paul William Eaton
Abstract
Weaving together Ernest Hemingway’s biography and literature with her own life, Tracie Nicolai analyzes the impact of Hemingway’s life and literature in the classroom and outside of it. War trauma is analyzed in relation to rape and its lasting effects, paralleling the impacts and the traumas that shape our philosophies and our lives. Nicolai explores how Hemingway wrote of war and his own injuries, and she discusses the distance evident between his own life experiences and his subsequent fiction writings. In separate vignettes in each chapter, Nicolai writes of her experience as a rape survivor and the lasting impact on her own life and teaching career. Using the foundation of Curriculum Studies and Trauma theory, and incorporating the work of DeSalvo, Doll, Morris, Pinar, and Sumara before her, Nicolai expands on our understanding of what it means to experience trauma, how writing one’s experiences can aid in healing, and, ultimately, how teaching trauma through literature in the classroom can positively shape our understanding and that of our students’ understanding of the world in which they live — and help them enact their own agency in the world.
Recommended Citation
Nicolai, T. (2024). So much courage: Hemingway, war, and rape.
Research Data and Supplementary Material
No
