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 …
My dissertation, Beyond the Poetic Principle: Psychoanalysis and the Lyric, intervenes in recent debates over lyric reading practices and proposes psychoanalytic theory as a compelling …
This dissertation is a study of structures, images and performance of fetishism as cultural and literary strategies in the theater of Nelson Rodrigues. It explores …
My doctoral dissertation focuses on representations of the family as a patriarchal institution in the works of two female writers: French author Marie NDiaye and …
This dissertation proposes the concept of a 'maternal education' as counterpart to both the established genre of the 'Bildungsroman' and the Freudian narrative of a …
SOAK is an intermedia performance suite that comprises three pieces – Soto, Soak, and Tsuchi. This is a ritualistic performance where I reexamine myself and …
This is a preliminary report of an ongoing study. Many theories of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) emphasize social deficits, which has led to certain views …
This dissertation threads innovations in modernist literature, architecture, and design with the contemporaneous rise of the psychoanalytic clinic to trace a crucial tension across 20th-century …
My dissertation examines the representation of paranoia in the work of several writers active in Argentina in the first half of the twentieth century. I …
This thesis, through a close reading of a selection of films by the director David Cronenberg (specifically: The Brood, Dead Ringers, Crash, A Dangerous Method), …