English Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: "Unbodied Fluids" is an experiment in thinking without “body” by way of three fluids that seem neither proper to nor separable from it: blood, vomit, …
Year:: 2025
Contributor:: Jackshaw, Scott (creator); Quashie, Kevin (Advisor); Smailbegović, Ada (Reader); Hilton, Leon (Reader); Brown University. Department of English (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: HIV/AIDS; Queer theory; Continental philosophy; Performance art; Feminist theory; Black Feminism; Contemporary Literature; Blood; Respiration; American poetry -- 21st century; Black Studies; Bodily fluids; Hemphill, Essex; Morrison, Toni; Athey, Ron; Fudge, Divinity; Vomiting
Collection:: English; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: Abstract of “Black ‘Ungendered’ Maternity, a Poetics: Creative Enactments toward Black Relation” by Tara M. Holman, Ph.D., Brown University, October (Defended June) 2025. “Black ‘Ungendered’ …
Year:: 2025
Contributor:: Holman, Tara M (creator); Abdur-Rahman, Aliyyah (Advisor); Quashie, Kevin (Advisor); Schneider, Rebecca (Advisor); Brown University. Department of English (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Gender; Photography; media and performance; American poetry -- 21st century; African American
Collection:: English; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: This project grapples with two questions broad and familiar in American literary studies: the difference that writing and speech make to language’s attributions—especially as these …
Year:: 2025
Contributor:: Preston, Katherine E. A. (creator); Quashie, Kevin (Advisor); Smailbegović, Ada (Advisor); Gandhi, Leela (Reader); Brown University. Department of English (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Literary theory; Canadian poetry; Lyric poetry; Poetics; Literary form; Subjectivity in literature; American poetry -- 21st century; Black queer poetics; indigenous poetry; aesthetic theory; Forms of address; Places of indeterminacy (Literature); Feminist poetry
Collection:: English; Theses and Dissertations

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