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Seduction, Serial Killers, and the Supernatural: Queering Sex and Gender in Turn-Of-The-Millennium Teen Horror Cycles
(Georgetown University, 2019)How do popular film cycles reflect, create, and counter the hegemonic culture of their time? This project takes up a moment of three overlapping teen horror cycles—erotic thrillers, slashers, and supernatural films—all ... -
Reading Revision: The Archival Imagination in Marianne Moore's Early Poems
(Georgetown University, 2019)In order to better understand Marianne Moore’s revision practices, my thesis examines Moore’s copies of Poems and Observations, which are currently held in the Rosenbach Museum and Library, as well as the unpublished and ... -
Pixelated Frontiers: Videogames and the Sublimation of Nature
(Georgetown University, 2019)Continuing a legacy begun with cyberspace’s metaphorical alignment with explorable “frontiers,” videogames (re)mediate environmental aesthetics and spatial experience. To examine this phenomenon, this thesis begins dissecting ... -
“The Façade of Impenetrable Mysteries”: C.S. Lewis, Literary Modernism, and the New Physics
(Georgetown University, 2019)In C.S. Lewis’s 1964 book The Discarded Image, he writes that the modern imagination contains “little of Einstein,” and yet in Letters to Malcolm, published the same year, he uses the new physics to facilitate contemplative ... -
The Novel of Unlearning: Education, Development, and Interracial Intimacies in Cold War Africa
(Georgetown University, 2019)Development, in terms of political and economic advancement, came to prominence post- World War II and in the Cold War era, establishing certain countries and cultures as “developed” and others as “underdeveloped” or ...
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