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Narratology, Rhetoric, and Transitional Justice: The Function of Narrative in Redressing the Legacy of Mass Atrocities
(2019-03-05)This doctoral dissertation, Narratology, Rhetoric, and Transitional Justice: the Function of Narrative in Redressing the Legacy of Mass Atrocities, examines the extent to which the success and feasibility of human rights ... -
Stage Business: Britain's Neoliberal Theatre, 1976-2016
(2019-03-05)Stage Business examines contemporary British drama vis--vis the neoliberal economic reforms that have dominated British policy for the last forty years, attending to the material conditions of theatre production amid a ... -
A Poetics of the Contemporary Black Canadian City: Charting the History of Black Urban Space in Fiction and Poetry by Black Canadian Writers
(2019-03-05)This study analyses literary depictions of the Canadian city in representative contemporary (twentieth- and twenty-first-century) English-Canadian short fiction and poetry by black Canadian writers Austin Clarke, Wayde ... -
Liberation Textualities: Decoloniality, Feminism, and Aesthetics in Anglophone Caribbean and Indigenous North American Resistance Literature
(2019-03-05)Liberation Textualities recognizes the connections between personal, emotional, and spiritual writing by Anglophone Caribbean and Indigenous North American women and an expanded framework of resistance literature. I argue ... -
Properties of Desire: Performing Women on the Early Modern Transvestite Stage
(2019-03-05)This dissertation explores how stage properties contribute to the enterprise of depicting the desires of women on the early modern English public stage. It posits a trinity of female character, boy actor, and stage property ... -
The Language Revolution: Borderblur Poetics in Canada, 1963-1988
(2018-11-21)This dissertation examines the emergence and development of a radical node of Canadian poetic activity known as the Language Revolutionthat is, a movement concerned with the creation and proliferation of largely non-lyrical ... -
Sympathy for Strangers: Picturesque Aesthetics and the Politics of Feeling in the American Gilded Age
(2018-11-21)The middle class in both Britain and America has always been a precarious position, its vague economic perimeters and financial vulnerability making it uniquely reliant on cultural and aesthetic values to define its ... -
"The Skin of Another": Empathetic Dissonance in Twentieth and Twenty-First-Century Poetry after Crisis
(2018-08-27)This dissertation examines the representation of empathy in contemporary poetry after crisis, specifically poetry after the Holocaust, the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, and Hurricane Katrina. Through comparative ... -
Reading Speculative Subjectivities: The Second Generation and the Afterlife of Migration
(2018-05-28)This dissertation takes a transethnic, transnational, relational, and comparative approach to literature about the children of immigrants, the second generation. It argues that second generation is a distinct subject ... -
Cursed Companions: The Literary Representation of Jews in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods in England
(2018-03-01)Despite their expulsion from England in 1290, Jews continue to figure prominently in English literature. This dissertation explores how Jews are imagined in absentia in English literature between the late medieval and early ... -
Terra (In)cognita: The Practice of Place in Postwar Poetics and Beyond
(2017-07-27)In response to the spatial turn in critical and scientific discourses, this dissertation examines the reassertion of space and place in the work of Black Mountain poets Charles Olson and Robert Duncan, Black Mountain ... -
Poetry and the Canadian Public Sphere: The Public Intellectual Engagement of Pauline Johnson, Dorothy Livesay, and Dionne Brand
(2017-07-27)This dissertation examines the roles of Pauline Johnson, Dorothy Livesay, and Dionne Brand in the evolution of the public sphere in Canada, arguing that each of these writers has functioned as what we now call a public ... -
Reading the Superhuman, Embodiments of Multiplicity in Marvel Comics
(2017-07-27)The goal of this project is to identify, analyze and historicize the operation of embodied multiplicities within superhero comics from the postwar era using the example of comics produced by the Marvel group between 1961 ... -
"A Sudden Inexplicable Onrush of Affectionate Feeling": Subjectivity Beyond Limit in Cather, Larsen, Fitzgerald, and Woolf
(2017-07-27)A Sudden Inexplicable Onrush of Affectionate Feeling: Subjectivity Beyond Limit in Cather, Larsen, Fitzgerald, and Woolf explores reconceptualizations of subjectivity beyond the discursive limits of realism in Willa Cather, ... -
"Only Connect"? Literary Interventions in a Time of Cruelty
(2017-07-27)My dissertation,Only Connect? Literary Interventions in a Time of Cruelty, investigates how fiction and drama of the early twenty-first century focus on the social problem of cruelty, mainly defined as ignorance of, ... -
Her Constellated Mind: Jay Macpherson's Modernism and the Canadian Mythopoeic Turn
(2017-07-26)Mythopoeic versewhich relies on biblical and Classical myth, and often works to create moments of heightened apocalyptic vision and revelationwas the dominant poetic mode in Canada from the late 1940s well into the 1960s, ... -
The Holographic Self: Self-Representation and Logics of Digitality in Three Contemporary Narratives of Cosmopolitanism
(2016-09-20)This dissertation is an examination of the holographic self in three contemporary novels of cosmopolitanism. The holographic self is a concept I present which expands upon the cyborg to suggest foreground a self that ... -
Counterpublic Histories, Radical Queer Negativity, and Creaturely Life: Exploring a Literary Archive of Queer Spaces in New York City
(2016-09-20)My dissertation is a comparative study of David Wojnarowiczs Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration (1991), Samuel R. Delanys Times Square Red, Times Square Blue (1999), and Eileen Myless Inferno (A Poets Novel) ... -
Insinuated Bodies, Corporeal Resignification and Disembodied Desire in Novels by Jeanette Winterson
(2016-09-20)My dissertation examines the various ways in which the following novels written by Jeanette Winterson Written on the Body (1992), Gut Symmetries (1997), The.PowerBook (2000), and The Stone Gods (2007) interrogate and ... -
A Noble Mansion for All?: The Production of Difference in Selected Works By Mahesh Dattani and R. Raj Rao
(2016-09-20)This dissertation reads selected works of two queer Indian writers, Mahesh Dattani and R. Raj Rao, as sites of the production of difference in contemporary, fin-de-millnaire India. The literary analysis in this project ...
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