This dissertation investigates how theatricality and performance enter into the scene of contemporary Asian American cultural production. I argue that Asian American artists and writers, …
Externalism in the philosophy of language and mind is often thought to be supported by a series of thought-experiments that probe everyday speakers’ intuitions. Nowadays, …
This dissertation recovers a body of early Cold War American cultural productions. These films, screenplays, novels, and other print media invoked interraciality in response to …
This dissertation interprets video games in terms of the theory and history of modernity, complicating the scholarly analysis of video games by examining continuities and …
The dissertation examines the lives and afterlives of Christ's body on the English stage as they relate to theories of representation, religious reformation, and embodiment. …
Since its inception and establishment as a field, research of gender in American politics has primarily focused on women that run for office, and subsequently, …
This dissertation studies the way in which violent scenes come to structure entire works of fiction and cinema during the late twentieth and early twenty-first …
Though there have recently been many examinations of ancient Romans' moral and aesthetic visual practices, Juvenal, the most vivid Roman verse satirist, has up to …