Melissa Schrift
Biographic Data
| ID | 208319 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melissa Schrift |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melissa |
| FAMILY NAME | Schrift |
| SIGNATURE | SCHRIFT M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Osama’s body
Some criminal bodies are so saturated with social and political meaning; they achieve an afterlife of symbolic desecration that is both public and celebratory. While the West has a legacy of public execution and bodily display as spectacle, these events were typically meant to be sombre platforms for redemption and moral instruction. Indeed, the abolishment of public execution occurred within the rhetoric of a civilising, modern Western society t…
Life after death
This volume explores the cultural meanings of the criminal body in the West through interdisciplinary frameworks. Authors situate the criminal body at different historical junctures to examine its
Mental Illness, Institutionalization and Oral History in Appalachia
This paper is an attempt to redress the limited rendering of institutional workers through the narratives of individuals who worked as psychiatric attendants at Southwestern Virginia Mental Health Institute (SWVMHI). Despite a wealth of literature on the history of mental illness and the establishment of asylums, descriptions of the work and lives of psychiatric attendants are rare. In this paper, oral histories among former psychiatric attendant…
Angola Prison Art
Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola holds a biannual Arts and Crafts Festival featuring handmade work by inmates. In addition to introducing innovations into vernacular prison art forms, Angola inmates find enormous value in creating works that embody or mimic the everyday images and goods so readily available in the outside world. Such work involves layered acts of appropriation, allowing inmates to sustain a social integrity that, to some de…
The Angola Prison Rodeo
This article examines Angola prison rodeo as a form of tourist performance and ritual. It argues that rodeo capitalizes on public's fascination with criminality through spectacle of animalistic inmate others subdued by a progressive penal system. essay introduces notion of institutional tourism in relation to polities of representation. (Tourism, performance, prison, spectacle, representation) ********** Every Sunday in October, thousands of peop…
Revolution Remembered
Icons of Femininity in Studio Cards
W omen M entoring W omen
During the 1990–91 academic year, the authors conducted research in China—one as a professor, the other as an undergraduate student—while participating in a university exchange program. They explore the process of mentoring—the learning that occurs between student and teacher—as the barriers distinguishing the roles dissolve through the process of exploring research questions in China
The Telling and the Tale
Melissa Schrift, an undergraduate student at Appalachian State University when she won the SAS 1991 Undergraduate Paper Competition, spent most of the 1990-1991 academic year teaching English and conducting research in Northeast China.
The Angola Prison Rodeo
This article examines Angola prison rodeo as a form of tourist performance and ritual. It argues that rodeo capitalizes on public's fascination with criminality through spectacle of animalistic inmate others subdued by a progressive penal system. essay introduces notion of institutional tourism in relation to polities of representation. (Tourism, performance, prison, spectacle, representation) ********** Every Sunday in October, thousands of peop…
Icons of Femininity in Studio Cards
Revolution Remembered
The Telling and the Tale
Melissa Schrift, an undergraduate student at Appalachian State University when she won the SAS 1991 Undergraduate Paper Competition, spent most of the 1990-1991 academic year teaching English and conducting research in Northeast China.
W omen M entoring W omen
During the 1990–91 academic year, the authors conducted research in China—one as a professor, the other as an undergraduate student—while participating in a university exchange program. They explore the process of mentoring—the learning that occurs between student and teacher—as the barriers distinguishing the roles dissolve through the process of exploring research questions in China
Icons of Femininity in Studio Cards
Revolution Remembered
The Angola Prison Rodeo
This article examines Angola prison rodeo as a form of tourist performance and ritual. It argues that rodeo capitalizes on public's fascination with criminality through spectacle of animalistic inmate others subdued by a progressive penal system. essay introduces notion of institutional tourism in relation to polities of representation. (Tourism, performance, prison, spectacle, representation) ********** Every Sunday in October, thousands of peop…
Angola Prison Art
Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola holds a biannual Arts and Crafts Festival featuring handmade work by inmates. In addition to introducing innovations into vernacular prison art forms, Angola inmates find enormous value in creating works that embody or mimic the everyday images and goods so readily available in the outside world. Such work involves layered acts of appropriation, allowing inmates to sustain a social integrity that, to some de…
Mental Illness, Institutionalization and Oral History in Appalachia
This paper is an attempt to redress the limited rendering of institutional workers through the narratives of individuals who worked as psychiatric attendants at Southwestern Virginia Mental Health Institute (SWVMHI). Despite a wealth of literature on the history of mental illness and the establishment of asylums, descriptions of the work and lives of psychiatric attendants are rare. In this paper, oral histories among former psychiatric attendant…
Osama’s body
Some criminal bodies are so saturated with social and political meaning; they achieve an afterlife of symbolic desecration that is both public and celebratory. While the West has a legacy of public execution and bodily display as spectacle, these events were typically meant to be sombre platforms for redemption and moral instruction. Indeed, the abolishment of public execution occurred within the rhetoric of a civilising, modern Western society t…
Life after death
This volume explores the cultural meanings of the criminal body in the West through interdisciplinary frameworks. Authors situate the criminal body at different historical junctures to examine its
Sociology (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Criminology (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works)