My dissertation examines contemporary humanitarian media empowerment initiatives, arguing that their interventionist rhetorical strategies further exoticize their marginalized beneficiaries by mobilizing their alterity as a …
This dissertation maintains that Michel Foucault's concept of biopolitics holds a crucial significance for how we analyze character and subjectivity in postcolonial Anglophone literary studies. …
The dissertation explores how the disaster and its representations are closely linked to figures of madness and deviant sexuality in contemporary Chilean texts. I argue …
Metaphors of descent, birth, childhood, family, and reproduction are routinely applied to emergent technologies. This dissertation contends that in the second half of the 20th …
This dissertation explores the concept of 'narrative world' within the frame of the relationship between embodiment and writing. The first chapter looks at how Martin …
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 …
In my dissertation, I examine how pre- and post-colonial Tanzania has co-opted “local religious leaders” as an integral feature in broader biopolitical efforts to introduce …
Long before the degenerate art exhibition under the Nazis, German culture was concerned about the degeneration of music and the ill health effects of such …
911 calls in Rhode Island span a spectrum of severity, the most serious being emergencies such as major traumas, heart attacks, and strokes. However, alongside …
My dissertation examines the relationship between aesthetic forms and the governance of life. I argue that the materially reductionist accounts of persons in realist and …
This senior thesis project explores the complicated intersection of food and culture, diabetes, biopower, and identity. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in an endocrinology clinic …