Date of Award

5-2023

Degree Type

Thesis

Degree Name

M.F.A.

Degree Program

Creative Writing

Department

English

Major Professor

Anne Gisleson

Second Advisor

Randy Bates

Third Advisor

Justin Maxwell

Abstract

This essay collection blends the scientific with the personal to explore human life through an oceanic lens. The collection is divided into five sections, corresponding with the five pelagic zones of the ocean: Sunlight, Twilight, Midnight, Abyssal, and Hadal. Each section contains two essays, which explore that ocean zone and the corresponding depths of personal experience. Through this structure, readers can delve deep into reflections on family, ecology, and humanity’s long-standing relationship to the sea.

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The University of New Orleans and its agents retain the non-exclusive license to archive and make accessible this dissertation or thesis in whole or in part in all forms of media, now or hereafter known. The author retains all other ownership rights to the copyright of the thesis or dissertation.

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