This dissertation studies mechanisms of identity formation in the works of women in the French colonies of North Africa (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia). Informed by recent …
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 …
This thesis examines the interconnections of eugenics, domesticity, and the fortification of the American way of life in mass-market women’s magazines of the 1930s. Eugenic …
The Most Interesting Girl of this Country is the Colored Girl: Girls and Racial Uplift in Great Migration Chicago, 1890-1950, focuses on the relationship between …
As antebellum slavery’s organizing logic was spatial discipline, the elasticity of “geographies of containment” mapped the daily understanding of the institution of racial slavery in …
