Beloved Communities: Relational Resistance in Contemporary Black Women’s Speculative Fiction analyzes contemporary novels of speculative fiction including Rivers Solomon’[...]

This dissertation focuses on the fiction of three women of color – Octavia E. Butler, N.K. Jemisin, and Nnedi Okorafor – who deploy and develop cyberpunk themes related t[...]

With loneliness on the rise, especially in a post-COVID era, humans are increasingly turning to artificial beings, either in the form of AI chatbots or robots, for compan[...]

This thesis argues that memoirs are sources of mental health advocacy and criticism of the medical-industrial complex, emerging from the memoirist storying their lived ex[...]

At the turn of the 21st century, a new type of show emerged that has changed the way we look at our TV sets. Prestige TV was a genre that roughly began in 2000 and ended [...]

This dissertation examines the fraught relationship between depictions and descriptions of time in Shakespeare's drama and the final years of Queen Elizabeth I's reign. [...]

Known in English as Wenefred, Gwenfrewy († ca. 650) was the primary female saint of medieval Wales. According to her legend, she was beheaded for refusing the sexual adva[...]

This paper uses the 2017 surveillance footage of the 42nd Street NYC subway bomber (Akayed Ullah), as a lens through which to challenge dominant literary scholarship conc[...]

This is a web resource devoted to William Blake's unfinished and unpublished poem "The Everlasting Gospel," taken from the pages of Blake's notebook, here called the Ross[...]

Members of a psychedelic rock band in 70s Lagos after the Nigerian Civil War grapple with the disappearance of their fellow band member and friend, Ejikeme, in a story de[...]

This essay uses Hart Cranes long poem The Bridge as a model for comparing the poetic conflicts of the machine age to those of the information age, and for illustrating th[...]

In the literary movements of Regionalism and Realism that emerged in the wake of the Civil War, Albion Tourge (1838-1905), Mark Twain (1835-1910), George Washington Cable[...]

RACE, SPEECH, IDENTIFICATION, AND IDEOLOGY: METHODOLGICAL INNOVATION AND INQUIRY Sociolinguistic studies of race and perceptions of speech are productive avenues of res[...]

This study begins with the premise that fictional texts are imagined worlds, worlds with which we can interact as participants, investing emotionally and psychologically [...]

The introduction explores issues of obsession, diction, argument, abstraction, and the via negativa in poetry. The essay defends the notion of the generic lyric, as prac[...]

Deep Video is a literary science-fiction novel in the vein of Philip K. Dick, Stanislaw Lem, and Haruki Murakami. In particular, elements are drawn from Dicks The Three S[...]

In a critical essay that accompanies the presentation to my committee of my first novel, Hapsburg, I discuss the evolution of American literary realism from the nineteent[...]

This dissertation reads John Ashberys poetry in the context of essayism and skeptical, pragmatic, and phenomenological philosophy. Essayism stems from Montaignes method [...]

In the nineteenth-century, worlds fairs offered scenes of mass spectacle in which the utopian possibilities of technological advances and empire seemed to promise limitle[...]

The Tuskegee Syphilis Study was a forty year study of the untreated effects of syphilis on more than 625 African American men. Most critics who deal with this study argue[...]

This thesis, (artificially) situated between two worlds fairs, explores the problems of electricity and subjectivity in Ralph Ellisons Invisible Man and E.L. Doctorows Th[...]

This dissertation explores Kristevas theoretical work on individuation, relationships, encounters with horror, and art and artisanship, as they are anticipated and dramat[...]

My dissertation, Caribbean Women Novelists: Courting Feminism, Constructing Nation examines how the female protagonists in the select novels of contemporary Anglophone wr[...]

This dissertation studies Anglo-American expatriates who address, or pointedly dont address, the Risorgimento and the Unification of Italy. I argue that the ambivalence [...]

The Hero as Woman of Vocation examines the ways in which Carlyles development of the notion of the Romantic individual (or hero) in Sartor Resartus influenced Elizabeth B[...]