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 analyzes literary representations of Brazilian public works to explore questions about power and narrative. It explores how, from the 1900s through the 1970s, …
This dissertation examines the role of entertainment films in negotiating the meaning of national identity in interwar Hungary. Fragmented and traumatized by WWI and its …
We are often told that ours is a “late” age. Lateness—as in the “late work” or “late capitalism”—simultaneously suggests something that has survived beyond its …
This dissertation examines the early stages of South Korean nation building by focusing on how South Koreans responded to “American” democratic ideas. Although the United …
Laughter has a material history. In my dissertation, "Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes," I argue that comedy has haunted the emergence of cinema …