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  • Courting Elizabeth : the virgin queen and Elizabethan literature

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    Zinck, Jaime
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    Sixteenth century Elizabeth I of England has long been a figure of interest to Renaissance scholars, and their work largely focuses on how her gender impacted the power, politics, and culture of her day. Many have perceived her to be a heroine whose ingenuity and determination circumvented the limitations imposed...
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    Approved: Richmond T. Barbour Sixteenth century Elizabeth I of England has long been a

  • A Decolonial Option for Literary Criticism

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    Bhogra, Siddharth
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    The ongoing “method war” in literary criticism that has manifested as the impasse between Critique and Postcritique, which are identified respectively with paranoid and reparative modes of reading, raises existential questions about criticism in the face of its declining social value under neoliberalism. This thesis enters that impasse to suggest...
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    trickster discourse. Elizabeth McNeil makes quite a compelling case for reading Almanac as a trickster

  • "We Share a Common Disinheritance": Subjectivity, Dispossession, and Antiblackness in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Paul Beatty's The Sellout

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    Becker, Jade M.
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    Recent work in moral philosophy has displayed a renewed interest in ethics and ontology that consider the social constitution of the subject. However, these approaches to ethics, exemplified in Judith Butler’s work in Giving an Account of Oneself, often neglect the problem of antiblackness, which Afro-pessimist scholars argue operates at...
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    : ______________________________________________________ Elizabeth Sheehan Recent work in moral philosophy has displayed a renewed interest in ethics

  • Socratic Enunciations: Renegade Speech, Counterfeit Enlightenment

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    Mago, Bhisma
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    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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    : ______________________________________________________ Elizabeth Sheehan In this two-article thesis, I argue that an opposition to Eurocentrism

  • Producing possibility : glimmering alternatives in Willa Cather and Virginia Woolf

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    Nipper, Sarah
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    This thesis examines alternative modes and forms of production in texts by Willa Cather and Virginia Woolf. Applying queer methodologies drawn from the work of Michel Foucault, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Lee Edelman, and Elizabeth Freeman, I show how Cather’s The Professor’s House and Woolf’s To the Lighthouse demonstrate and interrogate...
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    capitalist ideology. By joining a range of scholars such as Elizabeth Freeman and Carolyn Dinshaw, I’m

  • Abstract Aesthetics and Liberation Theology : Figurations and Invocations of Black Jesus in Early Twentieth Century American Literature

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    Dahl, Peter C.
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    This thesis invokes Black Jesus as an abstract figure in two seemingly disparate early twentieth century American novels and, in doing so, intervenes in ongoing debates about the ethical capacities of literature as means of grappling with difference. The Christ figure is a literary trope of waning importance in contemporary...
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    Literature Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ Elizabeth

  • You better work : negotiating race, sexuality, gender, and neoliberalism in plus-size fashion blogs

    Creator:
    Conway, Clare
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    Over the past decade, the explosion of social media has secured the Internet as a venue for political discussions of all sorts; as well as a realm of consumption and commodification. One population of women that has utilized social media in this way is the plus-sized fashion ("fatshion") community on...
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    Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ Elizabeth M. Sheehan

  • "Her Hypnotic Eyes" : Reading the Optical in Aaron Douglas’s Aspects of Negro Life and Nella Larsen's Passing

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    Barkley, Charles K.
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    This thesis examines two cultural productions of the Harlem Renaissance: Aaron Douglas's mural series, Aspects of Negro Life, and Nella Larsen's novel Passing. I read these works together because, more than their shared time period, they showcase an attention to the visual. Both Larsen and Douglas's works are concerned with...
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    : ______________________________________________________ Elizabeth M. Sheehan This thesis examines two cultural productions of the Harlem

  • The hand of humanity : Eliot's religious reformation in Middlemarch

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    Peake, Natasha C.
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    As the embodiment of the religiously unsettled Victorian Era in which she lived, George Eliot sought to discover a system of belief that would allow her to reaffirm and maintain her feelings of faith and morality. She believed that the subjective nature of traditional Christianity needed to be replaced with...
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    , George Eliot sought to discover a system of belief that would allow her to reaffirm and maintain her

  • Big, Black C%#K: Desire, Race and Masculinity

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    Flenory, Emalydia
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    My thesis examines perceptions of power in relation to white and black masculinity in the United States. The introduction invokes the work of Mireille Miller-Young, Hortense Spillers, Vincent Woodard and Hiram Pérez as a foundation to ground my discussion of agency, consumption, desire, homoeroticism and the characteristics of the Mandingo,...
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    : ________________________________________________________________________ Elizabeth Sheehan My thesis examines perceptions of power in relation to white and black