English Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: “After Disillusionment: The ‘Minor’ Idioms of Diasporic Life,” studies how diverse contexts of North American woman/queer of color subjects respond to and reimagine their shared …
Year:: 2024
Contributor:: Saili, Kiran (creator); Quashie, Kevin (Advisor); Kim, Daniel (Reader); Reichman, Ravit (Reader); Brown University. Department of English (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: American poetry; Aesthetics; Affect theory; media and performance; Contemporary Art; Contemporary Literature; black feminist studies; Asian Americans--Study and teaching; queer diaspora studies; woman of color feminisms
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Description:: This dissertation explores the role of autobiography in the work of four queer modernists: W.H. Auden, Gertrude Stein, Elizabeth Bishop, and H.D. While autobiographical elements …
Year:: 2017
Contributor:: van Laer, Rebecca (creator); Katz, Tamar (Advisor); Khalip, Jacques (Reader); Burrows, Stuart (Reader); Brown University. Department of English (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Modernism (Literature); Queer theory; Autobiography; Autobiography--Women authors; American poetry; Literary theory; Women's studies
Collection:: English; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: My dissertation, Leftovers: The Arts of Survival, Healing, and Gathering in the Afterfuture, attends to works by contemporary, primarily disabled, activist-artists in North America, including …
Year:: 2023
Contributor:: Rasch, Hilary D (creator); Quashie, Kevin (Advisor); Kim, Daniel (Reader); Gandhi, Leela (Reader); Brown University. Department of English (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Autobiography; American poetry; disability; Disability studies; Photography; English literature; Critical Race Studies; media and performance; Chronically ill; black feminist studies; Asian Americans--Study and teaching; Tattooing; Self-help publications
Collection:: English; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: Photo-Poetics brings together the study of photography and poetry that works in and theorizes the documentary mode. It intervenes in the genre of documentary poetry, …
Year:: 2021
Contributor:: Grandy, Claire (creator); Rooney, Ellen (Advisor); Khalip, Jacques (Reader); Smailbegović, Ada (Reader); Brown University. Department of English (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: American poetry; Photography; Romanticism; documentary
Collection:: English; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: In this study, I explore listening’s relationship to reading and its inflection through the materiality of the silent page. More specifically, I aim to understand …
Year:: 2020
Contributor:: Fung, Nicole (creator); Kim, Daniel (Advisor); Gandhi, Leela (Reader); Katz, Tamar (Reader); Smailbegovic, Ada (Reader); Brown University. Department of English (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Modernism (Literature); American poetry; Music; American literature; Narratology; American literature--African American authors; Listening; Sound; Reading; Postmodernism (Literature)
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Description:: A list of everything a novelist ate and drank for a year, a book of poetry in which each chapter uses only a single vowel, …
Year:: 2019
Contributor:: Sampson, Ian (creator); Swensen, Cole (Reader); Redfield, Marc (Advisor); Clayton, Michelle (Reader); Brown University. Department of English (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: American poetry; Digital media; Canadian poetry; Lyric poetry; Experimental poetry; Oulipo (Association); Perec, Georges, 1936-1982; Calvino, Italo; Bök, Christian, 1966-; Bergvall, Caroline; Bervin, Jen
Collection:: English; Theses and Dissertations

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