By looking into the role of Blackness, or negritud, in nineteenth-century discourses of nation I seek to formulate a new understanding of Mexico's national identity, …
Inspired by a desire to foreground under-researched women Romantics of the German tradition, I perform careful close readings of a constellation of authors (Bettine von …
Abstract of “Manufacturing Advantage: War, the State, and the Origins of American Industry, 1790-1840” by Lindsay Schakenbach Regele, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2015 Manufacturing Advantage …
“One Nation, under Steam” examines the relationship between industrial infrastructure and state power through the nineteenth-century steam navigation industry. During the 1820s and 1830s, Congress …
This dissertation examines the paper-based artworks of the Neapolitan-American image maker Nicolino Calyo (1799–1884). As a drawing instructor, portraitist, topographical view painter, designer of book …
This dissertation examines the forms through which identification is courted and resisted in the novels of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy. …
This dissertation examines the forms through which identification is courted and resisted in the novels of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy. …
People throughout history and around the world have drawn on religion to frame and negotiate disaster phenomena. Recent research shows that these links between religion …
Abstract of “The Anatomy of Suspense: Rethinking the Victorian Bildungsroman” by Suzy Soomin Kim, Ph.D., Brown University, October 2023 This dissertation argues that the British …
Phrenology, the nineteenth-century practice of reading a person’s character from the shape of their skull, exemplifies “participatory knowledge,” a democratized mode of scientific exchange. As …
This dissertation examines literature produced in and about the transit zones of Panama and Nicaragua between the California Gold Rush and the opening of the …
This dissertation argues that nineteenth-century Americans built the preconditions needed for a mathematical economy to emerge in the early twentieth century. When Americans debated what …
What is photography? This deceptively simple question was foundational to the creation of photographic theory in the early 1970s, and has remained central to scholars …
