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ORCID 0009-0002-8886-418X (Knaub) Document Type Article Publication Date 2026 DOI 10.1155/crdi/8021905 Publication Title Case Reports in Infectious Diseases Volume 2026 Pages 8021905 Abstract Mycobacterium marinum is an acid-fast bacterium (AFB) associated with exposure to water and aquatic species. When inoculated, infection can result in nodular cutaneous lesions. In the absence of detailed his…

Document Type Article Publication Date 2026 DOI 10.1002/wer.70313 Publication Title Water Environmental Research Volume 98 Issue 2 Pages e70313 (1-11) Abstract Although hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) is the leading technology in converting wet biomass into bioenergy, the treatment of its toxic-laden aqueous phase wastewater presents a major challenge on its path toward commercial viability. This…

Document Type Article Publication Date 2026 DOI 10.1016/j.ridd.2026.105233 Publication Title Research in Developmental Disabilities Volume 169 Pages 105233 Abstract Purpose Physical inactivity is a health concern for children and adolescents with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) as it directly increases their risk of developing various health problems. Evidence on differences in accelerometer-…

Document Type Poetry Abstract Four poems by Amanda Tai: "Kabbalah"; "Rescue"; "Alchemy"; and "an attempt at a bio that turned into a not" Repository Citation Tai, Amanda. "Poems." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 10, no. 4, 2010, pp. 1–2. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol10/iss4/20

Document Type Article Abstract The task of narrating our memories is a difficult and virtually impossible undertaking, especially since it is often those moments we cannot recall that, in the end, may prove be the most formative. In this paper, I look at what it means to narrativize reminiscences of the televisual viewing experience, as banal encounters that nevertheless shed light on the fragmen…

Document Type Article Abstract This paper offers a comparative analysis of the autobiographical narratives of contemporary African American female ministers and seeks to highlight how they both inscribe themselves in the tradition of spiritual testimonies by Black female preachers initiated in the 19th century and bring up womanist insights into the emotional conditioning of women within church c…

Document Type Article Abstract [First paragraph] Thank you very much to Karen Bennett, Larry Rinder, Sherry Goodman, and the rest of the staff at the Berkeley Art Museum for helping make this event happen, which is designed to introduce you to the issue of 2nd Avenue Poetry (2ndavepoetry.com). I recently edited an issue of poetry---not only a poetry issue but also full of multimedia including vis…

Document Type Article Abstract E. P. Thompson used the Confucian trope of “rectification of human names” to summarize the major themes of his work. Such rectification has both political and scholarly ramifications that extend to poststructuralist debates over historical discourse (Ranajit Guha’s meditation on the method of Subaltern Studies, Hayden White’s theory of rhetorical universalism); orga…

Document Type Article Abstract Editor's Note: "This essay, which presented as his own work, was actually lifted almost entirely from chapter 7 of Bob Cannon's book Rethinking the Normative Content of Critical Theory: Marx, Habermas, and Beyond (Palgrave, 2001). We would encourage readers interested in this topic to read Cannon's book." Repository Citation Pangilinan, Rafael D., and Bob Cannon. "H…

Document Type Article Abstract [First paragraph] In the late twentieth-century, General Mills, one of the largest producers of baking products in the U.S., changed the image of one of its marketing icons; that icon was Betty Crocker. For almost a century, the company had used the image to promote their baking products and cookbooks. The image, from its inception had been of a white woman, sometim…

Document Type Article Abstract For Lacan, the gaze is not on the side of the subject; it comes from the object, staring back at us, disrupting our comfort zone within the symbolic. I argue that Abbas Kiarostami’s extraordinary film Close-up is the model of the gaze (as opposed to vision) that is socially disruptive. I bring Seminar XI on the gaze with the Seminar VII on ethics and show that most …

Document Type Article Abstract First paragraph It is now well documented that Germany and Austria have struggled to come to terms with their catastrophic recent pasts and to recast their national identities from the tarnished faces with which they emerged from the Second World War. What now needs to be considered is the conundrum currently faced in these countries as extreme right groups become i…

Document Type Article Abstract This article examines Yamina Benguigui’s film Inch’Allah dimanche (2001) to probe questions of gender and nation in the context of transnational migration. An analysis of the historical drama, which recounts an Algerian family’s reunion in France during the 1970s, reveals how the migrant homemaker must negotiate her symbolic role as “bearer of the nation” in relatio…

Document Type Article Abstract [First paragraph] John Rodden, in his analysis of the rhetoric of narrative in 1984, argues that the characters in the story are secondary to the narrative, which itself participates in and provides support for larger cultural myths (155). Though Rodden discusses overtly fictive literature, the same can be said for the simulacra of reality TV: a genre of television …

Document Type Article Abstract Through an analysis of an exhibition by the art collective "et al," this essay explores questions of the document, documentation, and documentality in reference to questions of "extraordinary rendition" and "the state of exception" in relation to the United States’s responses to the bombing of the World Trade Center in New York. The ontology of the document in the p…

Document Type Article Abstract By exploring the recent novels of Afro-European writer Jamal Mahjoub, the author considers questions of exile, audience, and postcolonialism. Mahjoub, he argues, is an important writer because he addresses questions of identity through traditional literary forms such as the travel narrative and a lens of existentialist humanism which is more radical in postcolonial …

Document Type Article Abstract [First paragraph] While war and conflict have always been present to some extent throughout history, since the September 11, 2001 attacks in America there has been a rise in overseas conflict and troop deployments under the banner of ‘The Global War on Terror’. For the Australian public, these conflicts take place overseas in the far reaches of the Middle East, a pl…

Document Type Article Abstract This article, by exploring an interesting and noteworthy event (a 1989 clash over identity and accusations of racism between Living Colour and Guns N’ Roses) which spanned multiple venues (from radio to magazines to the concert stage, when both bands opened up for the Rolling Stones), challenges the way scholars read and use cultural artifacts as texts, thereby crea…

Document Type Article Abstract This autobiographical narrative, which spans from Fez-Barringten’s childhood in the Bronx until the present, uses impressionistic shifts and the author’s own drawings to explore what it means to have a passion for cities and social space, thus simulating the effects of this passion on the level of form. Repository Citation Fez-Barringten, Barie. "Urban Passion." Rec…

Document Type Contributors Abstract Information about contributors to articles in volume 10, issue 4 of Reconstruction. Repository Citation Ouellette, Marc. "Contributors." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 10, no. 4, 2010, pp. 1–4. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol10/iss4/2