Graduate Theses and Dissertations - English
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An American Tale: New Working-Class Literature at the Wake of the Taxi Medallion Crisis
(Georgetown University, 2022)In a broader context, this thesis was written to understand the compelling role of personal narratives. When there is a concerted effort to bring public attention to them, what can personal accounts communicate that ... -
Engendering Monstrosity: Feminine Monstrosity in Latin American Horror Films
(Georgetown University, 2022)My thesis examines feminine monstrosity in Latin American horror cinema. Using Barbara Creed’s definition of the monstrous feminine, I examine three forms of monstrosity as case studies to explore how representations of ... -
Scarred Women in the Works of Charles Dickens and Charlotte Brontë
(Georgetown University, 2022)My intention for this thesis has been to examine the physical scarring of select Victorian female literary characters in order to understand how they portray the historical and cultural causes and effects of the damaged ... -
“Wait…IS MY HAIR ACTUALLY CURLY?!”: The Curly Girl Method and the Racial Significance of White Women’s Hair Care
(Georgetown University, 2022)Our hair is loaded with racial meaning. Furthermore, the ability to drastically change the appearance of our hair with little effort makes it a “dynamic site of interpretation” (Biddle-Perry 1). This thesis explores the ... -
"A Madonna and a Woman of the World": Disrupting the Ideologies of the Angel in the House and the New Woman in Grand, Gissing, and Woolf
(Georgetown University, 2022)The Angel in the House and the New Woman were two opposing ideologies surrounding women in the late Victorian era. One described what might be considered the perfect homemaker, the other the perfect rebel. These notions ...
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