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  • Queering Ever After: Temporality, Magic, and Endings in Victorian Fairy Tales

    Creator:
    Damschen, Kalli M.
    Abstract:
    This thesis analyzes two Victorian fairy tales that feature queer endings, or endings that offer alternatives to the heteronormative fairy-tale tradition that idealizes heterosexual marriage and the biological family. In both George MacDonald’s The Wise Woman (1875) and E. Nesbit’s “The Island of the Nine Whirlpools” (1901), I argue that...
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    Kalli Damschen for the degree of Master of Arts in English presented on May 16, 2019. Title

  • Femslash Fanfiction as a Reparative Practice of Critique

    Creator:
    Johnson, Colleen E.
    Abstract:
    Ever since Henry Jenkins’ groundbreaking _Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture_ (1992), fan studies has slowly worked its way further into mainstream academia. However, particular practices and cultures of femslash fandom, and the contribution of queer women to fandom archives and circulation have, in many ways, been neglected. In...
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    Masters Thesis
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    , Kalli Damschen and Ruth Sylvester. Thank you both for always listening to me ramble about my work and

  • Socratic Enunciations: Renegade Speech, Counterfeit Enlightenment

    Creator:
    Mago, Bhisma
    Abstract:
    In this two-article thesis, I argue that an opposition to Eurocentrism may be articulated without ethnic or identarian determinisms but through a critical engagement with the categories of ethics and truth in a global frame. I build upon the work of Frantz Fanon and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak to accomplish a...
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    . Finally, Kalli, who has endured the past few months with me as I worked on this project. Thank you for