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 …
This thesis examines the use of spirals and spiraling imagery, especially spiraling milk, in various texts and films. It will argue that the spiral, as …
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 …
“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 …
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 …
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 …
This thesis examines the uncertain ‘humanity’ of Asian female characters in Larissa Lai’s The Tiger Flu (2019) and Chi Ta-wei’s The Membranes (1995), queer post-apocalyptic …
This project seeks to revise understandings of nationhood and identity construction by locating a literary affect of movement in Singaporean literary production. Through the frameworks …
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 is a study of how literature, intellectual culture, and spirituality scripted the early encounter between English colonists and the Powhatan people of Tidewater …
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 explores the concept of 'narrative world' within the frame of the relationship between embodiment and writing. The first chapter looks at how Martin …
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 thesis focuses on the tensions between fact and fiction—reportage, memoir and creative writing. It provides broad context and reconceptualizes the way that migrant narratives …
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 …
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 …
This thesis analyzes female crossdressers in the Spanish and English seventeenth century as relational subjects marked by difference. Focusing on Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker’s …
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 …
A ghost is haunting the eighteenth-century novel – the ghost of Lucretia, the chaste Roman matron who killed herself after being raped by Tarquinius and …
This thesis investigates contemporary queer identity in the Maghreb and in Maghrebi diaspora in France through the works of Nina Bouraoui. It forges a queer …