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 …
This dissertation undertakes an examination of the role of monolithic national ‘ordinariness’ in the fin de siècle Bildungsroman. It offers a new reading of the …
This dissertation argues that depletive affective experiences engendered by reading are crucial for understanding the formal innovations of the Mid-Victorian novel. Unlike their 18th-century predecessors, …