Department of English

The Early Modern Species Translated: Understanding Species Adjacency in Early Modern Texts

Albrecht, Stephanie Elizabeth (Georgetown University, 2018)

This thesis explores attitudes toward nonhuman species in an effort to account for the acceptance of talking and reasoning animals in pre-Cartesian literature. It analyzes early modern Bestiaries and Shakespeare’s A Midsummer ...
Makings of the Body: The Role of Ontologies and Feminism in the Making of the Civic Body

Williams, Adonis (Georgetown University, 2018)

In this thesis my intention is to theorize the black female body in and around a black feminist tradition. I am specifically interested in tracing how black feminism has theorized the black female body. While my discussion ...
Game Studies for Great Justice

Phillips, Amanda (Routledge, 2018)

In this chapter, Amanda Phillips explores a range of strategies for implementing social justice in game studies scholarship.
Feet Down, New Planet: Exorbitance and Queer Futurities in The Well of Loneliness, Lesbian Pulp Fiction, and Radical Feminist Manifestos

Baker, Sally (Georgetown University, 2018)

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The Art of Ecological Selfing: Speculative Ecobildungsromane in Cloud Atlas and Never Let Me Go

Atherton, Hannah Mae (Georgetown University, 2018)

This thesis explores how contemporary clone narratives explicate human-made ethical dilemmas, and how the nonhumans seem to stay in the periphery even if they appear human-like. Central to this thesis is the idea of an ...