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Spring 2018

Tarraf, Zeina

This dissertation examines contemporary Lebanese cultural production and its shifting relationship to the everyday/ordinary as a site that unfolds in the midst of or in proximity to violence. I argue that attention to the ordinary is an effective mode through which to approach societies, like...

Fall 2018

Kerfoot, Brandon

This dissertation examines a series of case studies in the politics and semiotics of animal welfare, Indigeneity, and sovereignty in the Canadian Eastern Arctic from 1950 to 2017. Arctic animals such as seals, sled dogs, wolves, and polar bears often become the focus of Canadian animal welfare...

Spring 2018

Frost, Helen Dorothy

Since the election of a democratic government in 1994, South African print culture has been marked by a proliferation of rape narratives as sexual violence increasingly came to be understood as a social crisis. Although the majority of rapes in South Africa are intraracial and intra-communal,...

Spring 2019

Haynes, Melissa

This dissertation engages with posthumanist and postmodern theory, critical animal studies, and critiques of modern temporality and historiography to examine how insect figures trouble dominant understandings of historical time in contemporary Western literature, film, and art. It argues that...