The "half-read" knowledge of classical and Celtic languages exerted a major ideological impact on the development of political and linguistic nationalisms in twentieth-century Ireland, Scotland …
My dissertation investigates connections between the family sphere and politics during the rise of Algerian nationalism through the French-Algerian War (1954-1962). Specifically, it examines ways …
This dissertation examines the critical anti-Zionist literary and cultural movement surrounding al-Jadid, the Arabic journal of the Israeli Communist Party (MAKI) in Israel/Palestine. This study …
This thesis is a complete translation of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (132 pages; 2019), an experimental prose autobiography by contemporary French writer Anne Savelli. Saint-Germain-en-Laye continues Savelli’s exploration …
The dissertation examines forms of cultural production that assimilated capture as an epistemological model in the modern period. The project looks to canonical works in …
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 focuses on contemporary Francophone, French, British, and Canadian novels that portray collectives, crowds, and communities in place of individual subjects. These texts shift …
My dissertation, Beyond the Poetic Principle: Psychoanalysis and the Lyric, intervenes in recent debates over lyric reading practices and proposes psychoanalytic theory as a compelling …
“Black and Balkan: A Comparison of Caribbean, African, African-American and Balkan History, Theory and Art” is a project on black and Balkan identities and an …
“Commitment as Traveling Theory: Politics in Modern Arabic Literature” studies the dialectical relationship between aesthetics and politics in the Arabic literary discourse during the second …
