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Lee, Kwan Yin
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
This project asserts that recent Sinophone narrative films — Ann Hui’s A Simple Life (2011), Anthony Chen’s Ilo Ilo (2013) and Oliver Chan’s Still Human (2018) — lauded for portraying domestic workers respectfully warrant ...
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Habib, Mushira
(University of Oregon, 2024-08-07)
My dissertation, “Thinking through the Affective Skin: Affective Literacy and Literary Orientations,” proposes affective ways of orientating our thoughts and skins to literacy practices, literary analysis, media consumption, ...
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Endalew, Yewulsew
(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)
How do literary and folkloric traditions of the Nile inform the region’s water politics? My dissertation answers this question by analyzing poetry and songs from Ethiopia, Sudan, and Egypt—three of the five countries of ...
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Sturgis O'Coyne, Laurel
(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)
Well into the late-twentieth century, monolingualism persists as an organizing principle for national community even as the intrinsic multilingualism of the Americas nourishes interconnected histories and political ...
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Lester, Jason
(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)
Experiments with China in American Modernity explores formulations of China within America’s early and interwar modernist period. I propose the concept of “transpacific experimentalism” to identify an emergent, sustained ...
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Lejeune, Nadège
(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)
Literature written in the French language has often been divided into a hierarchical dichotomy valuing French literature (written by metropolitan French authors) over Francophone literature (other writers writing in French). ...
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Okumu, Robin
(University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)
Feminist fiction has always entertained a delicate relationship with the utopian literary genre since the traditional definition of “utopia” as a perfect but imaginary place runs contrary to feminist struggle for concrete ...
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Nadalizadeh, Ahmad
(University of Oregon, 2021-11-23)
My dissertation draws together postcolonial theory, film and visual studies, and questions of aesthetics and politics in the modern Middle East. Looking closely at Iran in the latter half of the 20th century, I explore ...
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Larson, K.
(University of Oregon, 2021-11-23)
My dissertation examines the origins of so-called “Aesopian,” or covertly subversive, narratives. While scholars have focused on fables as prototypes for these narratives, my project addresses the role played by the Vita ...
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Ndakalako, Martha
(University of Oregon, 2021-11-23)
Borders of the Global Anglophone considers the radical possibilities of three post-independence Anglophone literary works by Black Namibian women—at the intersection of debates in global Anglophone literature, African ...
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Moore, Robert
(University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)
During the final years of the Qing dynasty, works from outside of China were finding greater and greater popularity among Chinese readers, due in large part to the fact that translators altered them significantly. I confront ...
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Crowson, Michelle
(University of Oregon, 2021-04-29)
This dissertation tracks the transformation of the merchant-class female poet, Kaga no Chiyo, from a minor supplementary position as a collected feminine object to an interlocutor and exemplar of post-Bashō poetics in ...
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Howard, Elizabeth
(University of Oregon, 2021-04-27)
This dissertation examines how oral folklore and supernatural elements open to view queer ways of imagining in works by French writer Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy (1650-1705), Scottish poet James Macpherson (1736-1796), and ...
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Smirnova, Daria
(University of Oregon, 2020-12-08)
My dissertation unites several aspects of Joseph Brodsky’s writing under the arc
of his development as a bilingual and transnational writer. I make the case that Brodsky’s
poetic sensibility was originally transnational, ...
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Pöllänen, Iida
(University of Oregon, 2020-09-24)
Scholarship in modernist literary and cultural studies tends to privilege urban spaces while excluding rural regions from mappings of world literature. Regional writing has been both effeminized as a genre and seen as ...
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Baumeister, Anna-Lisa
(University of Oregon, 2020-09-24)
The dissertation develops a new reading of the status of nature in the Sturm und Drang period of the 1770s, in texts by authors ranging from the early Goethe, Schiller, and Herder, to J.M.R. Lenz, Friedrich Müller, and ...
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Chunsaengchan, Palita
(University of Oregon, 2020-09-24)
My dissertation investigates the unexplored connections among cinema, prose and poetry in Thai history, extending from the period of the reign of King Chulalongkorn (1868-1910) through the decade following the Siamese ...
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Reid-Olds, Tera
(University of Oregon, 2020-09-24)
This dissertation examines the discursive practices of multilingual communities in the novels of seven contemporary women writers: Marie-Célie Agnant, Gabriella Ghermandi, Gisèle Pineau, Erminia dell’Oro, Assia Djebar, ...
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Myers, Bess
(University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)
This dissertation examines eulogies President Barack Obama delivered after instances of human-perpetrated catastrophe: violent events so cataclysmic that they rendered the rhetorical arena unsafe and thus impeded productive ...
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Germen, Baran
(University of Oregon, 2019-01-11)
Proposing melodrama as an aesthetics of victimhood, my dissertation examines the intermedial itineraries of notable feminist Halide Edib’s Vurun Kahpeye [Strike the Slut]. Originally serialized in 1923 and published as a ...
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