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Behind Immaterial and Material Divides: East German Photography, 1949-1989.
(2016)
In 1950, Walter Ulbricht declared socialist realism as the official artistic method in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Using the implementation of this method in the East German art world as a starting point, this ...
The Sonic Dimension as Dramatic Driver in 21st-Century Pop Music.
(2016)
This dissertation proposes a methodology for analysis of 21st-century pop music, with a particular focus on songs released between 2011 and early 2016. One of the primary factors that distinguish this music from most other ...
Weak Feelings: Femininity, Affect, and Sexuality in Modern Fiction and Theory.
(2016)
Weak Feelings: Femininity, Affect, and Sexuality in Modern Fiction and Theory recuperates what I call “weak feeling” in the period during which libidinal desire was the primary mode of constructing gender and sexuality. ...
Fear and Threat in Illegal America: Latinas/os, Immigration, and Progressive Representation in Colorblind Times.
(2014)
“Fear and Threat in Illegal America” is a cultural studies critical discourse analysis of how Latinas/os are interpellated as “illegal aliens” as a mode of U.S. neoliberal social regulation by progressive public policy, ...
Iberian Atlantic Imperial Carcerality: Vestiges of Colonial Disciplinary Violence in Cape Verde, Equatorial Guinea, and Mozambique.
(2016)
This dissertation examines the literary and historical representations of prisons and concentration camps during the struggle for independence and the post-independence period in Lusophone and Hispanophone Africa. I ...
Buddhist Critiques of the Veda and Vedic Sacrifice: A Study of Bhāviveka’s Mīmāṃsā Chapter of the Madhyamakahṛdayakārikā and Tarkajvālā
(2016)
This dissertation examines two Buddhist critiques of the Veda and Vedic sacrifice that had long histories in Buddhist India, yet ended around the sixth century CE. The last document to inherit the critiques is the ninth ...
Sights of Racial Violence: New Media Technologies and Acts of Watching, Memory, and Legitimation.
(2016)
This dissertation explores the relationship between race, technology, and media cultures by examining the phenomenon of watching anti-Black violence in twentieth- and twenty-first-century American culture. Through selected ...
Jewish Paideia in the Hellenistic Diaspora: Discussing Education, Shaping Identity.
(2016)
While the integral role of paideia in Greek, Roman, and early Christian history has been widely recognized, the place of paideia in Jewish thought and the resultant influence on late antique Christianity, and thus on Western ...
Gender and Big Data: Finding or Making Stereotypes?
(2016-02-01)
Beyond CTRL+F: Text Mining Across the Disciplines Conference — Keynote Speaker: In his book Macroanalysis, Matthew Jockers argues that we have reached a “tipping point.” Now that we have so much data digitized, we can use ...
Hands on the Green Leaf Labor, Resistance, and Bittersweet Dwelling in Argentina's Yerba Mate Country.
(2015)
Hands on the Green Leaf is an ethnographic homage to the men, women, and children called tareferos (tarefer@s) who labor to produce yerba mate, the naturally bitter, green tea that is both symbolic drink and staple food ...