In this dissertation, I argue that the novel was the laboratory in which emerging theories of embodied cognition developed sensible forms for nineteenth-century American audiences. …
This dissertation argues for the interconnection of Black Diasporic and Postcolonial Studies through the frame of comparative diaspora. It does so by situating African American …
As a black feminist project, this dissertation contends that late twentieth-century black diasporic literature intervenes in debates about shifts in black communal formation in the …
This project evaluates the twinned discourses of globalism and humanitarianism through an analysis of the body in the postcolonial novel. In offering celebratory accounts of …
This dissertation argues that gothic conventions in antebellum fiction revise Enlightenment categories of the individual, sympathy, and the social contract for a cultural environment made …
This thesis endeavors to explore zombie humanization in greater depth by closely analyzing films that prominently feature zombies with advanced mental faculties. With genre theory …
This dissertation aims to explain the emergence of a set of vital, if unrecognized, realist imperatives in American literature and critical thought at mid-twentieth century. …
In African American and black diasporic literary studies, prominent critical conversations hail love as the foundation for racial cohesion. Without adequately attending to love as …
This paper explores the ambiguous parameters of Wolfgang Iser's "gaps" through the different narrative structures Brave New World and Pride and Prejudice. Particularly, the effects …
This dissertation brings together a range of manifestos, novels, memoirs, and artworks from the first half of the 20th century to trace the emergence of …
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 …
