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 …
The dissertation analyzes the destabilization of the human-animal divide in literary and theoretical discourse after the Holocaust. It demonstrates how the works of Theodor W. …
This dissertation inquires into discourses of ethics among the actors of international politics, and seeks to build an ethical practice that recognizes the interpretive powers …
My thesis examines United States intersex activist history from the 1990s beginnings of the intersex movement through present-day activism that harnesses social media and the …
This is a work in political philosophy that considers the metamorphosis of the subject as it seeks alternative modes of being through revolutionary alteration of …
Without diminishing the importance of political responsibility, the indispensability of collective action, or one’s need and desire to care about our collective future, the aim …
Abstract of "Indeterminate Reading with Foucault: Performing Critical Distance through Textual Analysis," by Jennifer L. Schmeyer, A.M., Brown University, May 2017. This thesis is an …
“Of Master and State” submits Western war power to a critical treatment that identifies liberal legalism’s war in form, its social process of unnameable war. …
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 …
This thesis attempts to shed light on the encounters between narrative and mysticism through a Kabbalist reading of a short story by Brazilian modernist writer …
This dissertation threads innovations in modernist literature, architecture, and design with the contemporaneous rise of the psychoanalytic clinic to trace a crucial tension across 20th-century …
“The Peripheral Metropolis: The City, Montage and Modernity” examines Latin American writers in the 1920s and 1930s who, in writing about Mexico City, Lima and …
“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 …