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Date of Award
Spring 2025
Document Type
Masters Project (Campus-Only Access)
Department or Program Affiliation
English
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
English
First Advisor
Heim, Stefania
Second Advisor
Warburton, Theresa
Third Advisor
Dietrich, Dawn Y., 1960-
Abstract
A work of speculative nonfiction for the stage, The Silent Zoo brings into conversation the loosely-related fields of extinction studies and affective ecocriticism. The play explores the relationships between the contemporary mass extinction event, humans' rapidly-escalating enmeshment with artificial intelligence, and grief. As the culmination of the project, the play will be performed with a live score for an audience at the New Prospect Theatre on June 12, 2025.
Type
Text
Keywords
extinction studies, affective ecocriticism, artificial intelligence, grief, theatre, interdisciplinary studies in literature and environment
Publisher
Western Washington University
OCLC Number
1525197119
Subject – LCSH
Mass extinctions--Drama; Ecocriticism--Drama; Artificial intelligence--Drama; Grief--Drama
Format
application/pdf
Genre/Form
masters theses
Language
English
Rights
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Recommended Citation
Tribble, Kelsey, "The Silent Zoo" (2025). WWU Graduate School Collection. 1418.
https://cedar.wwu.edu/wwuet/1418
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