This dissertation examines Caribbean women writers’ representations of Caribbean women’s growing consciousness of the potential for solidarity, as well as existing antagonisms, between African- and …
This dissertation explores the poetics of the nation that emerge in England in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. It demonstrates how some of …
In “A Critical Romance: Modernism Rewriting Literary History,” I examine the formative role of the romance in literary modernism’s work to think critically about itself …
This dissertation examines works by Richard Wright, Chang-rae Lee and Junot Diaz, as well as Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather films, and how they theorize …
This dissertation maintains that nostalgia played a formative role in animating several competing diasporic American nationalisms in the nineteenth century. Nostalgia is often dismissed as …
Actively writing from the mid-1800s until his death in 1881, Dostoevsky produced critically introspective works such as Notes From Underground, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, …
This dissertation focuses on the figures of the hoarder and collector in their various manifestations in early modern poetry and drama – from popular icons …
“Early Modern Rhetorics of Color” takes up how color, a seemingly superficial and utterly ubiquitous feature of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century writing, acquires ethical, ideological, aesthetic, …
Carly Rae Jepsen isn’t your average pop star, and "EMOTION" (written here on out as “Emotion” for simplicity’s sake) isn’t your average pop album. In …
This dissertation poses the “essentially shimmering” as a rubric for conceiving how perception and poetry engage materiality in its most evanescent and changeable dispositions. Think …
This dissertation examines innovative forms of memory and address that emerge from U.S. prison camps since World War II, the camp being a deployment of …
