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Fall 2015

Vigneux, Sylvie L

This thesis investigates contemporary representations of violence against Indigenous women in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. I argue that sensationalist representations of violence serve to distance readers from their own implication in systems of colonial violence and sever individual acts of...

Spring 2013

Stephens, Melissa R

This dissertation analyzes representational problems of black resistance and solidarity in the neoliberal age. Focusing on transnational black female protagonists in works by Paule Marshall, Jamaica Kincaid, and Michelle Cliff, I consider how they are imagined to resist and assist U.S.-Caribbean...

Spring 2022

Bogle, Cornel

This dissertation comprises a collection of poetry framed by an introductory essay that foregrounds the aesthetic, archival, and critical impetuses behind the work. Deploying techniques of erasure, found, and lyric poetry, the collection surfaces lyrical subjects and manifests aphoristic...

Fall 2017

Mulcahy, Monica Clare

Situated at the juncture of black periodical studies, periodical studies more broadly, the history of American journalism, and black women’s historiography, Professional Anxiety contributes to a growing trend in scholarship that explores black female journalists’ writing. This study considers the...

Spring 2010

Van Styvendale, Nancy

Recovery is a ubiquitous theme in Native North American literature, as well as a repeated topic in the criticism on this literature, but the particulars of its meaning, mechanics, and ideological implications have yet to be explored by critics in any detail. Other than natural/ized telos, what...

Fall 2022

Butchart, Megan Eileen

Between 1936 and 1945, white, queer, writer-activists Lillian Eugenia Smith and Paula Snelling co-founded and co-edited a small literary magazine from their home in Clayton, Georgia. Successively titled Pseudopodia (1936), The North Georgia Review (1937-1941), and South Today (1942-1945), the...