Black Studies Beyond the Knowledge of Man constructs a critical genealogy of the U.S. scholastic formation of Black Studies, toward a new account of its …
Studies of Dante’s rhetoric and of Dante’s construction of his rhetorical authority in the Commedia have tended to follow one of two directions, either focusing …
Racial Technics is a cultural, historical, and theoretical study that traces how competing conceptions of humanity and human freedom have been articulated at the nexus …
This thesis argues for a critical return to and update of Critical Whiteness Studies' operative frameworks. I begin from the observation that the last sustained …
Abstract of "The Letters of Bernardo Tasso (1549) with an Annotated Translation" by Christine F. Andrade, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2011This is the first translation …
My dissertation explores the ethical, political, and historical significance of Dante's conceptualization of an illustrious vernacular language. By focusing on Antonio Gramsci's writings on Italian …
This thesis suggests a re-evaluation of Francis Bacon’s major writings based on biographical and historical evidence. I argue that Bacon’s lack of training in philosophy …
This dissertation offers the first paradigmatic study of Latin poetry written in colonial Latin America in the style of Virgil. The aim of this project …
