Graduation Year
2026
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree
Ph.D.
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
Degree Granting Department
Language, Literacy, ED.D., Exceptional Education, and Physical Education
Major Professor
David Allsopp, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Lyman Dukes, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Jennifer Wolgemuth, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Jessica Van Cleave, Ph.D.
Keywords
Conversations, Post-Qualitative Inquiry, Post-Structuralism, Theory
Abstract
This dissertation thinks with post-qualitative inquiry to explore how inclusion, disability, and hospitality move through spaces in higher education and how their meanings shift between policy, practice, and personal ethics and dispositions. Using Derrida’s notion of hospitality and Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of the Body without Organs, this study presents the consideration of how university spaces welcome students with disabilities and how feelings of belonging, receiving, and acceptance are produced within those spaces. Rather than viewing inclusion and disability as fixed concepts, this research considers how language and personal ethics continuously reshape their meaning through interactions and affect.
This study engages university policies, conversations with faculty and staff, and one classroom observation to map the movement of inclusion, disability, and hospitality.
This dissertation considers that hospitality operates as a languageless movement that resists fixed definition and exists through affective and relational moments. Thinking with hospitality as movement rather than a structured practice, this study calls for continued post-qualitative inquiry into how higher education spaces move beyond a fixed identity of inclusion and disability towards a more open ways of welcoming others.
Scholar Commons Citation
Bobak, Alycia M., "Hospitality as a Languageless Movement: Mapping the Interconnectedness of Inclusion, Disability, and Hospitality" (2026). USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/etd/11245
