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Autobiography's Queer Forms: Modernist Self-Writing from Auden to H.D.

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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 ...
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2017
Contributors:
van Laer, Rebecca (creator) Katz, Tamar (Advisor) Khalip, Jacques (Reader) Burrows, Stuart (Reader) Brown University. Department of English (sponsor)
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Modernism (Literature) Queer theory Autobiography Autobiography--Women authors American poetry Literary theory Women's studies
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Consciousness in the Manner of the Spaghetti Woman

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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 ...
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2018
Contributors:
Wippermann, Emma (creator) de la Torre, Mónica (Reader) Brown University. Department of Literary Arts (sponsor)
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Queer theory Photography Experimental poetry Smartphones Proprioception
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Desastre y Desvío: Narrativas de la Catástrofe en el Chile Contemporáneo

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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 ...
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2013
Contributors:
Marquez, Arturo A (creator) Ortega, Julio (Director) Mazzuchelli, Aldo (Reader) Epps, Brad (Reader) Brown University. Hispanic Studies (sponsor)
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Contemporary Latin American literature and cinema Chilean narratives post-dictatorship identity periphery Disasters Queer theory Biopolitics Group identity
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Excessive Visions(s): Multi-mediated Intimacy, Visuality, and the Body

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Some of us are “too much.” Too large, too thin, too freaky, too plain, too outspoken, too dark, too light, too old, too vulnerable. Some ...
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2018
Contributors:
Ahmid-Kargbo, Majida (creator) Rodriguez, Ralph (Advisor) Joyrich, Lynne (Advisor) Alvarado, Leticia (Reader) Brown University. Department of American Studies (sponsor)
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race Gender fat body Queer theory Digital media abject excess sexuality
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Indiscrete Media: Television/Digital Convergence and Economies of Online Lesbian Fan Communities

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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 ...
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2010
Contributors:
Russo, Julie L. (creator) Joyrich, Lynne (director) Chun, Wendy (reader) Rosen, Philip (reader) Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
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fandom fan fiction new media media Marxism online communities television studies The L Word Battlestar Galactica Law and Order queer networks fan studies media industry the closet Convergence Media studies Digital media Communism Internet Television Battlestar Galactica television programs Law & order (Television program) Queer theory Lesbians Labor Popular culture
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Our Kind of Seriousness: The Reintegration of Judgment in Contemporary American Culture

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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 ...
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2017
Contributors:
Actis, Andrea Camille (creator) Khalip, Jacques (Advisor) Nabers, Deak (Reader) Smailbegović, Ada (Reader) Brown University. Department of English (sponsor)
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Queer theory Affect theory American literature Feminism and literature Poetics Philosophy and religion--History of doctrines Critical Race Studies
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Out of Time: Sentimentalism and Temporality in Long Nineteenth-Century American Literature

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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 ...
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2017
Contributors:
Beach, Matthew Allen (creator) Gould, Philip (Advisor) Rooney, Ellen (Reader) Egan, James (Reader) Brown University. Department of English (sponsor)
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Queer theory Disability studies pain Affect theory American literature Sentimentalism temporality body Time african american literature Brown, Charles Brockden, 1771-1810 Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell), 1858-1932 Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937 nineteenth-century american literature Sympathy in literature Optimism exhaustion Historiography
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The Inhuman Renaissance: Naturalist Poetics and Forms of Life

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“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 ...
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2016
Contributors:
Swarbrick, Steven Robert (creator) Rambuss, Richard (Director) Newman , Karen (Reader) Kuzner, James (Reader) Wilson, Elizabeth (Reader) Brown University. English (sponsor)
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Early modern literature history of science ecocriticism poetry and poetics Queer theory
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The Spoils of Shame: Queer Affect in the Works of Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, Radclyffe Hall, and Virginia Woolf

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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 ...
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2011
Contributors:
Groeneveld, Dominique D. (creator) Herrnstein Smith, Barbara (Director) Rooney, Ellen (Reader) Katz, Tamar (Reader) Brown University. English (sponsor)
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theses
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modernism models of affect Shame Queer theory
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