The "half-read" knowledge of classical and Celtic languages exerted a major ideological impact on the development of political and linguistic nationalisms in twentieth-century Ireland, Scotland …
My dissertation investigates connections between the family sphere and politics during the rise of Algerian nationalism through the French-Algerian War (1954-1962). Specifically, it examines ways …
This dissertation examines the critical anti-Zionist literary and cultural movement surrounding al-Jadid, the Arabic journal of the Israeli Communist Party (MAKI) in Israel/Palestine. This study …
This thesis is a complete translation of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (132 pages; 2019), an experimental prose autobiography by contemporary French writer Anne Savelli. Saint-Germain-en-Laye continues Savelli’s exploration …
The dissertation examines forms of cultural production that assimilated capture as an epistemological model in the modern period. The project looks to canonical works in …
This dissertation focuses on contemporary Francophone, French, British, and Canadian novels that portray collectives, crowds, and communities in place of individual subjects. These texts shift …
My dissertation, Beyond the Poetic Principle: Psychoanalysis and the Lyric, intervenes in recent debates over lyric reading practices and proposes psychoanalytic theory as a compelling …
“Black and Balkan: A Comparison of Caribbean, African, African-American and Balkan History, Theory and Art” is a project on black and Balkan identities and an …
“Commitment as Traveling Theory: Politics in Modern Arabic Literature” studies the dialectical relationship between aesthetics and politics in the Arabic literary discourse during the second …
"Constructing the Caribbean: Regional Discourse and Literary Practice on the Edge of World War II” examines how literary magazines in the Caribbean constructed the region …
This dissertation places risk and questions of ethics at the center of the naturalist novel of the nineteenth and early-twentieth century. Arguing against the conventional …
“Critical Fictions in Latin America” examines literary texts, published after 1950 in Latin America, that mimic the formal conventions of critical discourse. I argue that …
This dissertation traces the changing landscape of Lebanese fiction through a reading of novels from key moments in the country's recent history. It engages with …
“Economies of the Infinite” is a comparatist reading of Hegel and Borges’ ideas on the presentation of infinity, bringing to bear on these authors questions …
This thesis adopts a feminist lens to scrutinize the primary and secondary female characters in two seminal works of early modern tragedy: William Shakespeare’s Hamlet …
"Foreign Correspondences" investigates nineteenth-century print culture in Latin America and the United States through the lens of news. In the 1880s and 1890s, as daily …
This dissertation brings into focus the interactions of Renaissance English literature with foreign, especially classical, languages and cultures. The incorporation of foreign words into early …
This thesis places work by Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, and Samuel Becket side-by-side. This is done more specifically in relation to texts which exemplify progressions …
This thesis focuses on the tensions between fact and fiction—reportage, memoir and creative writing. It provides broad context and reconceptualizes the way that migrant narratives …
This thesis explores conceptions of emasculation—physical, literary, and socio-emotional—in three Roaring Twenties novels: José Eustasio Rivera’s La vorágine (1924), Phillippe Soupault’s En joue! (1925), and …
This dissertation studies how punctuation marks serve as instruments and symbols of modernism's historical self-awareness and produce seams and ruptures between and within literary writing, …
This thesis examines the uncertain ‘humanity’ of Asian female characters in Larissa Lai’s The Tiger Flu (2019) and Chi Ta-wei’s The Membranes (1995), queer post-apocalyptic …
This thesis analyzes power relations in the forms of asymmetries and hierarchies of gender and race. The analysis falls on three texts, Sor Juana Inés …
This dissertation considers the structural relationship between the example and the general principle that constitutes a given text as an example by analyzing a range …
The aim of this dissertation is to bring to light innovative ? and until recently, thoroughly ignored ? theoretical discussions of the concepts of "actuality" …
Translation of six short stories from contemporary Mexican author Luis Felipe Lomelí’s book Ella sigue de viaje which explores loss and the breakdown of relationships …
In sacramental confession, writes Michel Foucault in "The History of Sexuality", “one confesses, or one is forced to confess. When it is not spontaneous or …
This project seeks to revise understandings of nationhood and identity construction by locating a literary affect of movement in Singaporean literary production. Through the frameworks …
In this dissertation, I aim to historicize the early modern subject through an examination of the period’s concept of conscience. I trace the transformation of …
A translation of the Cambridge Songs from Latin and Old High German into English, with basic commentary. Includes music (in an appendix) where possible.
This thesis attempts to shed light on the encounters between narrative and mysticism through a Kabbalist reading of a short story by Brazilian modernist writer …
A ghost is haunting the eighteenth-century novel – the ghost of Lucretia, the chaste Roman matron who killed herself after being raped by Tarquinius and …
This thesis analyzes female crossdressers in the Spanish and English seventeenth century as relational subjects marked by difference. Focusing on Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker’s …
My dissertation examines the representation of paranoia in the work of several writers active in Argentina in the first half of the twentieth century. I …
This dissertation studies the way in which violent scenes come to structure entire works of fiction and cinema during the late twentieth and early twenty-first …
This thesis investigates contemporary queer identity in the Maghreb and in Maghrebi diaspora in France through the works of Nina Bouraoui. It forges a queer …