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Practical Magic: Magical Realism and the Possibilities of Representation in Twenty-First Century Fiction and Film
(2016-09-15)
Reflecting the paradoxical nature of its title, magical realism is a complicated term to define and to apply to works of art. Some writers and critics argue that classifying texts as magical realism essentializes and ...
Rethinking Resistance: Race, Gender, and Place in the Fictive and Real Geographies of the American West
(2016-05-10)
This project traces the history of the American West and its inhabitants through its literary, cinematic and cultural landscape, exploring the importance of public and private narratives of resistance, in their many ...
Strange and Unstable Bodies: Shifting Materialities in Early American Natural History Correspondence Networks
(2016-04-20)
This dissertation fills a gap in the study of early American natural history literature by investigating the representation of animal bodies within early American natural history writing and attending to the role animal ...
“THE GOD OF THE AGE”: RELIGION AND SERVITUDE IN THE WORKS OF AUGUSTA JANE EVANS
(2016-05-16)
Despite her widespread popularity in the mid-nineteenth century, Augusta Jane Evans and her novels went largely unnoticed for most of the twentieth century. It was not until Nina Baym included a chapter on Evans in her ...
Queering the Aftermath: Rethinking the Queer in Postcolonial and the (Post)colonial in Queer
(2016-05-13)
“Queering the Aftermath: Rethinking the Queer in Postcolonial and the (Post)colonial in Queer,” argues the necessity for a sustained dialogue between the fields of postcolonial studies and queer studies. The paucity of ...
Navigating Women's Cultural Representation Through Video Games in the Obama Era
(2016-12-20)
While the representations of women in video games have remained disappointingly negative since the 1980s, America’s political shift from the presidencies of George W. Bush to Barack Obama in 2007 had important cultural ...
THE WORLD IN THE SCREEN: HOW THE MOBILE DEVICE SYMBOLIZES TECHNOGENESIS
(2016-11-30)
The smart phone, or mobile device, holds a preeminent role in a technologically advanced society. These devices allow for connection, productivity, and distraction, and in doing so create new anxieties and underscore old ...
WHAT WAS THE MOCKINGBIRD’S SONG? REASSESING TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD THROUGH THE LENS OF GO SET A WATCHMAN
(2016-05-11)
The publication of Go Set a Watchman, a companion piece to Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, problematizes many of the accepted readings of the canonical text. This ‘new’ novel is actually the initial manuscript of the ...
Mitchell, Piers D., ed. Sanitation, Latrines and Intestinal Parasites in Past Populations. Farnham: Ashgate, 2015.
(The Medieval Studies Institute, Indiana University, 2016)
Malasree Home. The Peterborough Version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Anglo-Saxon Studies, 27. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2015.
(The Medieval Studies Institute, Indiana University, 2016)