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Essays on Fiscal Policy
(Georgetown University, 2021)
The central question when evaluating the effects of government spending on GDP, is whether the fiscal multiplier is greater or lower than 1, or equivalently, the direction and strength of fiscal spillovers. I study the ...
The Psychopathology of the Victorian Man: A Psychoanalytic Study of Masculinity in Late-Victorian Gothic Fiction
(Georgetown University, 2021)
This thesis explores the structural and psychic limitations of Victorian masculinity, which have been concealed and repressed at the time by dominant phantom ideals of the Victorian man as a stable and coherent subject. ...
Trusted Real-World Event Outcomes on a Blockchain: Staked Voting and Its Application to Distributed Gaming
(Georgetown University, 2021)
In 2008, Bitcoin was introduced to the public and became the first widely accepted fully decentralized cryptocurrency. Since the inception of Bitcoin, decentralized blockchain technology has been utilized across many ...
Towards More Privacy-Preserving and Practical Internet-of-Things Devices
(Georgetown University, 2021)
IoT (Internet-of-Things) devices have seen widespread deployment over the past decade. Since they enable home appliances to connect to the Internet, IoT services have made daily life much more convenient. However, on the ...
The Sample Complexity of Parity Learning in the Robust Shuffle Model
(Georgetown University, 2021)
Differential privacy [Dwork, McSherry, Nissim, Smith TCC 2006] is a standard of privacy in data analysis of personal information requiring that the information of any single individual should not influence the analysis’ ...
"Feeling Myself": Masturbation in Women's Coming of Age Novels
(Georgetown University, 2021)
“‘Feeling Myself’: Masturbation in Women’s Coming of Age Novels” analyzes the ways in which masturbation facilitates coming of age in The Color Purple (1982) by Alice Walker, Bastard Out of Carolina (1992) by Dorothy ...
Traces of Extremity in the Aftermath, a Collection: Haruki Murakami, W.G. Sebald, and Carolyn Forché
(Georgetown University, 2021)
This thesis reexamines the careers and works of three contemporary writers: the Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami, the German writer and academic W.G. Sebald, and the American poet, memoirist, and human rights activist ...
Obtaining the Self: Dual Identity as Resistance in The Handmaid's Tale and Know My Name
(Georgetown University, 2021)
This thesis addresses dual identity formation in survivors of sexual assault. When living in an unsympathetic environment, this thesis argues that identities imposed by external forces can be utilized as a protective ...
Unenclosed Forms: English Enclosure and the Ecological Imaginaries of Thomas Hardy and Virginia Woolf
(Georgetown University, 2021)
Building on contemporary scholarship in the environmental humanities and the rethinking of nature in the grip of ecological catastrophe, this project examines the late Victorian and modernist novel and explores how writers ...
Little Lies Everywhere: Untangling Truths in Twenty-First Century Maternal Fiction
(Georgetown University, 2021)
Lying mothers are having a cultural moment. The past ten years have seen the rise of books and television shows which center mothers who lie and keep secrets from their children, such as the wildly popular Bridgerton and ...