In the campaign to bring electricity to the American farm, the New Deal’s Rural Electrification Administration (REA) enlisted architecture to ideological and propagandistic ends. Though …
My work examines the ways in which modernist lyric poems activate specific ways of thinking through their formal and thematic engagements with time. One particularly …
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, …
In “A Critical Romance: Modernism Rewriting Literary History,” I examine the formative role of the romance in literary modernism’s work to think critically about itself …
This dissertation interrogates the complex operations of shame around homosexuality as they appear in early twentieth-century Anglophone writing. I argue that these operations do not …
The promoters, collectors, and artists in Düsseldorf and the transformations within Rhenish cultural, economic, and political identity made the turn-of-the-twentieth century a critical period for …
This dissertation interprets video games in terms of the theory and history of modernity, complicating the scholarly analysis of video games by examining continuities and …
This dissertation examines ekphrasis in literary modernism?the verbal representation of visual artworks. In modernist studies the relationship between literature and painting has long been conceived …