Abstract of “Anagram––Atithi––Anarchy, Sub Rosa, German Imperialism” by Miriam Rainer, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2022 How to live together in the afterlife of a German …
My dissertation, Leftovers: The Arts of Survival, Healing, and Gathering in the Afterfuture, attends to works by contemporary, primarily disabled, activist-artists in North America, including …
This dissertation undertakes an examination of the role of monolithic national ‘ordinariness’ in the fin de siècle Bildungsroman. It offers a new reading of the …
My dissertation explores a plurality of politico-ethical ideas of three anticolonial thinkers in the early and mid-twentieth century: M.K. Gandhi, B.R. Ambedkar, and M.N. Roy. …
“Race After Identity” examines multi-ethnic literary interventions into discourses of racial difference and politics of identity formation. Central to this study is the tension between …
In this study, I explore listening’s relationship to reading and its inflection through the materiality of the silent page. More specifically, I aim to understand …
Anticolonialism is trapped in an impossible logic. The opposition to colonialism becomes the means of its persistence. Independence from British rule through the Partition of …
Anticolonialism is trapped in an impossible logic. The opposition to colonialism becomes the means of its persistence. Independence from British rule through the Partition of …
Anticolonialism is trapped in an impossible logic. The opposition to colonialism becomes the means of its persistence. Independence from British rule through the Partition of …
My dissertation explores “Unspectacular Violence,” namely, the registers of anti-queer and racialized injury that fall beyond narratives of individual brutality. To that end, I explore …
Untimely Forms is a study of the problem of autonomy in the novel after postmodernism. Recent literary theory has criticized the idea of aesthetic autonomy …
