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 …
This thesis locates the corporeal, (homo)erotic, temporal, and transnational tensions that give shape to a spectral presence in the works of three Latin American Neo-Baroque …
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 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 …
"Constructing the Caribbean: Regional Discourse and Literary Practice on the Edge of World War II” examines how literary magazines in the Caribbean constructed the region …
This dissertation places risk and questions of ethics at the center of the naturalist novel of the nineteenth and early-twentieth century. Arguing against the conventional …
“Critical Fictions in Latin America” examines literary texts, published after 1950 in Latin America, that mimic the formal conventions of critical discourse. I argue that …
This dissertation traces the changing landscape of Lebanese fiction through a reading of novels from key moments in the country's recent history. It engages with …
“Economies of the Infinite” is a comparatist reading of Hegel and Borges’ ideas on the presentation of infinity, bringing to bear on these authors questions …
This thesis adopts a feminist lens to scrutinize the primary and secondary female characters in two seminal works of early modern tragedy: William Shakespeare’s Hamlet …
"Foreign Correspondences" investigates nineteenth-century print culture in Latin America and the United States through the lens of news. In the 1880s and 1890s, as daily …
This dissertation brings into focus the interactions of Renaissance English literature with foreign, especially classical, languages and cultures. The incorporation of foreign words into early …
This thesis places literature from the previously divided Germany and the currently divided Korea side-by-side, using the German model as a cautionary tale when speaking …
This thesis places work by Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, and Samuel Becket side-by-side. This is done more specifically in relation to texts which exemplify progressions …
