“Collective Housework: Post-1970s Feminist Media Cultures and the Crisis of Social Reproduction” examines feminist film and media interventions in the politics of social reproduction and …
The majority of consumer technologies come from the same few countries and companies that dominate the international technology market. Device Atlas, a leading provider of …
This thesis explores the usage of surveillance as a framework for dramaturgy and production in Yussef El Guindi’s BACK OF THE THROAT, produced by Brown …
“Crisis and Confidence” uses the sweeping transformation of post-1960s New York City to understand the broader economic and political remaking of the United States in …
The Return of the Contemporary seeks to frame debates about the semantics of our present through a hemispheric analysis of Latin American and Caribbean literature …
This paper is a companion piece to a multi-media performance titled Essential Tremors. The paper and Essential Tremors are formed out of shared research, language, …
Genealogies of Capture and Evasion: A Black Feminist Meditation for Neoliberal Times is a genealogy, reassessment and critique of the inheritances and investments of present …
During Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s nearly fifteen years in office, he was both celebrated as a revolutionary hero and vilified as an autocratic populist. The …
This dissertation is an ethnographic study of higher education reform in Ecuador under Rafael Correa’s government (2007-2017). I ask how efforts to redesign higher education …
"Postmodern Realism and the Neoliberal Imagination" argues that postmodern fiction’s primary engagement with the politics of neoliberalism is generic, rather than ideological. Neoliberalism, I suggest, …
This dissertation project takes as its focus the cultural discourses surrounding what has been called the contemporary crisis of neoliberalism, in which “the political” has …
This dissertation explores the changing terms of neoliberal culture that are affectively registered in our most dominant media form, television. I examine the affective texture …
