This senior thesis project explores the complicated intersection of food and culture, diabetes, biopower, and identity. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in an endocrinology clinic …
“The World Before Us” demonstrates that black writers’ explorations of how textuality and visuality mutually mediate racialized identity began in the mid-nineteenth century, during photography’s …
This dissertation examines discourse about the experience of liturgical song (the repertoire now known as Gregorian chant) during the Frankish ecclesiastical reforms of the ninth …
This dissertation employs contemporary dress theory to reappraise narratives concerning the construction of normative gender roles that appear in Homeric, Classical, and Hellenistic sources. My …
This dissertation maintains that Michel Foucault's concept of biopolitics holds a crucial significance for how we analyze character and subjectivity in postcolonial Anglophone literary studies. …
This dissertation explores new gendered subjectivities that emerge as women negotiate tensions between "personal" and Russian neo-traditionalist national agendas. It is based on an ethnographic …
This dissertation focuses on contemporary Francophone, French, British, and Canadian novels that portray collectives, crowds, and communities in place of individual subjects. These texts shift …
This dissertation is a work of cultural sociology, focused on the relationship between social transformations and the racial self. Specifically, I examine the conditions under …
This dissertation brings together the work of a group of contemporary social theorists, art critics, and artists, including Slavoj Zizek, Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri, …
"'Inflamed by Daily Practices': John Cassian and Ethical Formation" is the first inter-disciplinary treatment of the ethical program fostered by the fifth-century Christian ascetic John …