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Moving Femininities: Queer Critique and Transnational Arab Culture.
(2015)
Moving Femininities focuses on three diverse and eminent figures of Arab femininity: the Golden Era Egyptian belly dancer Samia Gamal (1924-1994), the pan-Arab storyteller of The Thousand and One Nights, Scheherazade, and ...
"Out of This Confusion I Bring My Heart": Love, Liberation, and the Rise of Black Lesbian and Gay Cultural Politics in Late Twentieth Century America.
(2015)
This dissertation investigates themes of liberation and love in post-civil rights Black LGBT literary cultures. Tracing love as a political trope in African American literary history, I demonstrate how it operates as a ...
Decolonizing Sexualized Cultural Images of Native Peoples: "Bringing Sexy Back" to Native Studies.
(2012)
Co-Chairs: Andrea Smith and Nadine Naber
My dissertation analyzes how Native peoples are “queered” through the logics of sexuality and colonization by making Natives appear sexually aberrant from white settlers and therefore ...
(Play)Grounds for Dismissal: Ninas Raras in Transborder Children's Cultural Studies.
(2013)
This study instates the child as a unique, and often evaded, category of analysis. I investigate children's literature, television, and short films produced across México, the United States, and Canada that challenge ...