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 …
Dark Trees: Regional Archives of Familial Intimacy, Lynching Violence, and Racial Reproduction is an archival, visual, and affective analysis of the extension of lynching aesthetics …
In “Improper Objects: Embodied Aesthetics and the Politics of the Pelvis,” I explore how artists and activists offer new frameworks for understanding race, gender, and …
This dissertation aims to explain the emergence of a set of vital, if unrecognized, realist imperatives in American literature and critical thought at mid-twentieth century. …
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 thesis works to clarify what an Adornean conception of Autonomous Cinema might look like through incorporating other theorists such as Aldous Huxley and Fredric …
Morris Karp Leopardi and the Symbol of the Renaissance: Poetry beyond Measurement Dissertation Abstract Chapter 1 The Conversation on the Renaissance at the Gabinetto Vieusseux …
This dissertation investigates the creation of “life,” meaning the transformation of a static into a dynamic organization, in what I call works of animation. Although …
My dissertation challenges both the assertion and dismissal of identity politics in the humanities through a queer-diasporic overhaul of the concept of "narcissism." Both the …
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 addresses the poetics and politics of "ambience" and "atmospherics" in contemporary culture. I am interested in how "ambient practices" often associated with the …
This dissertation reevaluates the history and legacies of the twentieth-century avant-gardes. Focusing on postwar cinema, I reconsider one of the avant-garde’s central preoccupations – the …
The purpose of this dissertation is to reevaluate the relationship between the aesthetics we call Romantic and the abstracting scientific procedures that have been underappreciated …
Alain Locke, the “Dean” of the Harlem Renaissance, is widely remembered today as a cultural figure rather than a political thinker. This dissertation aims to …
“The Poetics of Intervention: Art and Politics in Contemporary Latin America” explores the relationship between art and activism and politics and aesthetics in spaces of …
This dissertation examines the post-Enlightenment concept of aesthetic universalism as it figures in British art and literature of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. During the …
"Ugly Americanism" examines the intersection of aesthetic theory and early-twentieth-century literature, tracking how American authors and artists engaged the idea of ugliness in their work. …
“Unclaimed Language” examines the epistolary debates and philosophical tensions between Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno, focusing on their divergent understandings of language and literary …
This dissertation constructs a critical theory of language, translation, and self-translation from the resources to be found in the writings of Walter Benjamin and Theodor …
