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 …
The dissertation analyzes the destabilization of the human-animal divide in literary and theoretical discourse after the Holocaust. It demonstrates how the works of Theodor W. …
This dissertation explores the ways in which three modernist poets—William Butler Yeats, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Wallace Stevens—used elements of poetic form, such as rhythm, …
“Foundational Futures” is a comparative study of nationhood as conceived by Indigenous nations and Latinx communities. It follows storytelling traditions among Latinx and Indigenous authors …
My dissertation is an exploration of the lives of trailblazing women who travelled across what I call the “plantation zone” and how they produced knowledge …
Abstract of "Indeterminate Reading with Foucault: Performing Critical Distance through Textual Analysis," by Jennifer L. Schmeyer, A.M., Brown University, May 2017. This thesis is an …
This dissertation comprises close readings of poems and prose texts by four poets: Paul Celan, Nelly Sachs, Aimé Césaire, and Charles Reznikoff, along with several …
Legal personhood – the foundational concept of most current legal systems – is unravelling, particularly in relation to animal life. A new legal regime is …
This dissertation studies a series of encounters between literature and technoscience from 1880 to 1914 in both Britain and China. It examines the rise of …
This dissertation is a study of how literature, intellectual culture, and spirituality scripted the early encounter between English colonists and the Powhatan people of Tidewater …
Jean Terrasson’s 1731 novel “Sethos, Histoire ou Vie tirée des Monumens anecdotes de l’ancienne Egypte,” follows the ancient Egyptian prince Séthos through his education, his …
This dissertation examines the discourses and silences around blackness in the ever-shifting frontier territory of the United States, arguing against narratives that figure the West …
This dissertation explores the concept of 'narrative world' within the frame of the relationship between embodiment and writing. The first chapter looks at how Martin …
Seeking to derive a set of “autobiographical strategies” for humans living in the era of ecological catastrophe and technological upheaval, this dissertation examines the role …
“The Peripheral Metropolis: The City, Montage and Modernity” examines Latin American writers in the 1920s and 1930s who, in writing about Mexico City, Lima and …
“The Poetics of Intervention: Art and Politics in Contemporary Latin America” explores the relationship between art and activism and politics and aesthetics in spaces of …
My dissertation re-examines the role of literature in the nation building process of Brazil and Argentina via contemporary debates on the relationship between aesthetics and …
This dissertation examines literature produced in and about the transit zones of Panama and Nicaragua between the California Gold Rush and the opening of the …
This dissertation constructs a critical theory of language, translation, and self-translation from the resources to be found in the writings of Walter Benjamin and Theodor …
This dissertation seeks to investigate how a philosophical approach to stupidity is deployed both in French Theory and in the work of four 19th-century writers. …
