The aim of this dissertation is to bring to light innovative ? and until recently, thoroughly ignored ? theoretical discussions of the concepts of "actuality" …
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 …
"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 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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 dissertation focuses on contemporary Francophone, French, British, and Canadian novels that portray collectives, crowds, and communities in place of individual subjects. These texts shift …
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 …
“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 …
“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 …
"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 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 …
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 …
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 …
“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 …