Abstract of (POST)-PARANOIA FROM HOBBES TO ARENDT, by Noga Rotem, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2021 Common responses to the seeming return of ‘the paranoid style’ …
This dissertation examines the relationship between literature, empathy, and human rights in historical and contemporary novels from the Americas. Paying particular attention to racial injustice …
“Decolonial Dreamwork: Spectatorship, Affect and Indigeneity in Performance” analyzes the use of performance art, dance and theater to consider the problem of colonial inheritance in …
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 …
“Military Medicine, Morale, and the Affective Management of Men in the Early Twentieth-Century United States,” argues that the US Army was a critical social-scientific laboratory …
My dissertation attends both philosophically and historically to the affect of seriousness in contemporary American culture. It focuses specifically on expressions and performances of seriousness, …
This dissertation examines sentimentalism, the body, and time in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American fiction, focusing in particular on the work of Charles Brockden Brown, …
This dissertation examines the ongoing movement histories of settler colonialism, focusing on the problem of white-settler spectatorship in 21st-century Canada. It frames white-settler spectatorship as …
This dissertation evaluates how the advent of digital technologies have implicated film and media studies in recent debates over the legacy of critical theory and …
“Presencias en el desierto, ausencias en la nación” focuses on literary and visual representations of indigenous populations in Argentina from 1830 through the 1880s, revealing …
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, …
