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Fall 2014
While studies in Renaissance childhoods, literary and historical, are becoming more prominent, this work has failed to distinguish between children and adolescents, leaving youth, as such, largely unexamined. My project attends not to the children of early modern drama, but to post-pubescent...
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Spring 2021
“Beyond Empathy: Reading, Bearing Witness, and Testimony” is focused on the audiences of testimony, exploring the relational and ethical imperatives encompassed in audiences’ engagement with creative forms of testimonial accounts. Deeply rooted in colonial trajectories and grounded in...
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Fall 2011
In her writing, Canadian poet Erín Moure combines challenging formal experimentation with keen social and political awareness; Moure, indeed, insists that words and ideas always affect social practices. Accordingly, Moure offers a poetics of protest that reveals and mourns oppression and...
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Fall 2020
In my thesis, I extend the idea, introduced by Vivian Sobchack in "Toward a Phenomenology of Non-Fictional Experience," of documentaries as a mode of reception or 'way of watching' rather than a 'cinematic object,' or set of conventions or qualities, to the mockumentary genre, arguing that the...
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Black Internationalism in Trial: The Specter of Marcus Garvey, Legal Modernity, and the Foreclosed Futures of Modern Justice
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In America, the rise and fall of the Black Star Line Steamship Corporation has been regularly associated with an intransigent boom and bust narrative. Why is it, then, that the Bureau of Investigation was so intent on bringing the company’s founder to trial if the black financial venture was...
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Spring 2012
This dissertation explores breast cancer experiences by predominately contemporary American women that are creative interventions into, and re-visions of, experiences in medical and therapeutic environs as well as culturally produced post-surgical bodies. During diagnoses, surgeries and...
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Fall 2014
This dissertation examines how bogs are represented in Irish literature and culture between 1890 and 2010. Bogs – a type of wetland topography similar to mires or fens – are visually deceptive, physically volatile, and conceptually elusive. Bogs sprawl across Ireland and are often associated with...
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Fall 2018
This thesis examines representations of debt and obligation in works of Caribbean Canadian literature published between 1997 and 2007. It uses these representations to discuss the relationship between postcolonial, global, and diasporic approaches to cultural studies. These disciplinary...