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

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

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

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

Description:
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 …
Year:
2018
Contributor:
Ahmid-Kargbo, Majida (creator)
Rodriguez, Ralph (Advisor)
Joyrich, Lynne (Advisor)
Alvarado, Leticia (Reader)
Brown University. Department of American Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
race
Gender
fat body
Queer theory
Digital media
abject
excess
sexuality
Collection:
American Studies
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From Hermaphrodites with Attitude to #EndIntersexSurgery: Intersex Activism, Resistance, and Critique of Medicalization

Description:
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 …
Year:
2021
Contributor:
Marciello, Matthew (creator)
Weinstein, Debbie (thesis advisor)
Davis, Denise (reader)
Brown University. American Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Social movements
Critical theory
Queer theory
Intersectionality
Archives
Gender studies
Identity politics
Intersexuality
Intersex Society of North America
Intersex
Medicalization
Hashtags (Metadata)
Twitter
Critical history
Intersex people
Collection:
American Studies
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Gay Engines: Imagining a Queer Development Platform for Video Games

Description:
If there are queer games, could there be queer game engines? "Gay Engines" uses queer theory as a means of intervention into the software platforms …
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Zegura, Cass (creator)
Pozo, Teddy (thesis advisor)
Tompkin, James (reader)
Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Queer theory
Games
Computer games
Game engine
Unity
Twine
Collection:
Modern Culture and Media
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Hope for the Hopeless: Loss, Disappointment, Critique

Description:
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 …
Year:
2019
Contributor:
Weatherly, William (creator)
Rooney, Ellen (thesis advisor)
Smailbegovic, Ada (reader)
Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Politics and culture
Critical theory
Bereavement
Queer theory
literary studies
critique
affect
Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939
Klein, Melanie
Brown, Wendy, 1955-
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940
Cvetkovich, Ann, 1957-
Crimp, Douglas
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky
Bidart, Frank, 1939-
Rankine, Claudia, 1963-
Collection:
Modern Culture and Media
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Indiscrete Media: Television/Digital Convergence and Economies of Online Lesbian Fan Communities

Description:
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 …
Year:
2010
Contributor:
Russo, Julie L. (creator)
Joyrich, Lynne (director)
Chun, Wendy (reader)
Rosen, Philip (reader)
Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
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
Collection:
Modern Culture and Media
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Our Kind of Seriousness: The Reintegration of Judgment in Contemporary American Culture

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

Description:
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, …
Year:
2017
Contributor:
Beach, Matthew Allen (creator)
Gould, Philip (Advisor)
Rooney, Ellen (Reader)
Egan, James (Reader)
Brown University. Department of English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
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
Collection:
English
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Shimmers of the Fabulous: Reinventions of Queer Life and Politics in Mumbai

Description:
In 2013, the Supreme Court of India ruled to reinstate the 1860 ban on sodomy, Section 377, which had been read down in an earlier …
Year:
2019
Contributor:
Horton, Brian Andrew (creator)
Fruzzetti, Lina (Advisor)
Singh, Bhrigupati (Reader)
Faudree, Paja (Reader)
Cohen, Lawrence (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Anthropology (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
India
Queer theory
Queerness
Fabulation
Social movements
Collection:
Anthropology
Theses and Dissertations
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Temporalities of Desire: Queer Relations across the Spanish Atlantic

Description:
"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 …
Year:
2019
Contributor:
Russell, Ian Matthew (creator)
Thomas, Sarah (Advisor)
Clayton, Michelle (Reader)
Whitfield, Esther (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Hispanic Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Queer theory
Caribbean Studies
Spanish literature
performance studies
Spanish poetry
Transatlantic studies
Cuban poetry
García Lorca, Federico, 1898-1936
Cernuda, Luis
Zambrano, María
Collection:
Hispanic Studies
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The Inhuman Renaissance: Naturalist Poetics and Forms of Life

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

Description:
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 …
Year:
2011
Contributor:
Groeneveld, Dominique D. (creator)
Herrnstein Smith, Barbara (Director)
Rooney, Ellen (Reader)
Katz, Tamar (Reader)
Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
modernism
models of affect
Shame
Queer theory
Collection:
English
Theses and Dissertations
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The Virtue of the Virago: Gender-Crossing Difference and the Social Life of the Early Modern Female Crossdresser

Description:
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 …
Year:
2021
Contributor:
Turner, Cal (creator)
Merrim, Stephanie (thesis advisor)
Hicks-Bartlett, Alani (reader)
Brown University. Comparative Literature (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Ethics
Queer theory
Feminist theory
Spanish American literature
Collection:
Comparative Literature
Theses and Dissertations
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Words are Savage Birds: The Violent and Liberatory Potential in the Works of Nina Bouraoui, in Conversation with Assia Djebar

Description:
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 …
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Arlington Boyle, Clare (creator)
Drumsta, Emily (thesis advisor)
Owens, Emily (reader)
Brown University. Comparative Literature (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Lesbians
Queer theory
Feminist theory
Feminism
Africa, North
Morocco
Bouraoui, Nina
Djebar, Assia, 1936-2015
Collection:
Comparative Literature
Theses and Dissertations
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Worldbuilding in Our World: Queer/Trans Oral Histories of Friends at the Table Fandom

Description:
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 …
Year:
2021
Contributor:
Collins, Finch (creator)
Joyrich, Lynne (thesis advisor)
Pozo, Teddy (reader)
Brown University. Modern Culture and Media (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Queer theory
Podcasts
Games
Fantasy games
Oral histories
Fandom
trans theory
Collection:
Modern Culture and Media
Theses and Dissertations
Worldbuilding in Our World: Queer/Trans Oral Histories of Friends at the Table Fandom
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