This dissertation explores the role of autobiography in the work of four queer modernists: W.H. Auden, Gertrude Stein, Elizabeth Bishop, and H.D. While autobiographical elements …
A woman made of clay and spaghetti slowly dissolves in a warm bath; the speaker relates to desire, proprioception, and smartphones; a squirrel eats a …
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 …
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 …
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 …
This project confronts the term "convergence," which crystallizes a matrix of current cultural phenomena, from corporate consolidation to technical integration to user participation, that are …
KISSING IN THE BACKGROUND is an original screenplay about two queer students discovering their understanding of their identity as members of the LGBTQ+ community. The …
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, …
Abstract of Queer Times: Aesthetics, Performance, and Social Movements in South Korea, by Yeong Ran Kim, Ph.D., Brown University, October 2020 This dissertation explores the …
This dissertation uses ethnography and archival research conducted between 2016 and 2020 to explore the myriad ways Black LGBT activists construct communal political ideologies work …
"Temporalities of Desire" traces the intersections between poetry, performance, and temporality in the work of three Spanish writers from the first half of the twentieth …
“The Inhuman Renaissance” is a project in environmental history and literary analysis situated at the crossing of ecological and early modern science studies. In each …
This dissertation interrogates the complex operations of shame around homosexuality as they appear in early twentieth-century Anglophone writing. I argue that these operations do not …
This thesis analyzes female crossdressers in the Spanish and English seventeenth century as relational subjects marked by difference. Focusing on Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker’s …
This thesis investigates contemporary queer identity in the Maghreb and in Maghrebi diaspora in France through the works of Nina Bouraoui. It forges a queer …
Worldbuilding in Our World: Queer/Trans Oral Histories of Friends at the Table Fandom documents the experiences of six queer and/or trans fans of the actual …
