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Description:: Much critical scholarship has considered the ways in which gender and gender expression contribute to Willa Cather’s novels. Much work has also considered Cather’s regionalism and its relationship to national literature and the values of the American middle west. My work in this paper brings...
Author:: Rucci, Jordan Willow
Keyword:: Gender, America, A Lost Lady, Willa Cather, My Antonia, and O Pioneers
GW Unit:: English
Degree:: M.A.
Advisor:: Sten, Christopher
Committee Member(s):: Seavey, Ormond
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Description:: In contemporary American culture, race, has multiple and contradictory meanings. In current American cultural discourses, race often brings to mind people who are not white, while whiteness remains unmarked and serves as a benchmark category—as if white is not a race. The second feature in...
Author:: Joubin, Alexa Alice and Orkin, Martin
Keyword:: Gender, Race, Critical race studies, and Race and gender
GW Unit:: English
Resource Type:: Part of Book

Description:: The introduction to this collection of multimedia essays on Maqbool and The Banquet argues that close examination of the films through a truly global array of appropriative strategies and cultural contexts can help combat the tendency to report on rather than analyze non-Western works and...
Author:: Huang, Alexa
Keyword:: Gender, Chinese cinema, Hamlet, Appropriation, Globalization, Bollywood, and Macbeth
GW Unit:: English
Resource Type:: Article

Description:: Homer’s Iliad has always held a fascination for me in the drama of its central heroes, particularly when it comes to Achilles. The original Greek text holds little back in its depictions of its heroes; Achilles wails as he rips off his clothes and in other moments of heroic redemption drags a...
Author:: Alpert, Margot E.
Keyword:: Gender, Homer, Masculinity, and Research Days 2018
GW Unit:: English
Resource Type:: Poster

Description:: This project seeks to develop a literary theory of trans discourse that better allows for the study of transgender prior to the coinage of identity terminology in the 20th century. By examining transgender as an array of genres of embodiment (based on Sandy Stone's genre theory from the...
Author:: Bychowski, Gabrielle M.W.
Keyword:: Trans Literature, Gender, Transgender, Medieval, Trans, and Middle Ages
GW Unit:: English
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Hsy, Jonathan
Committee Member(s):: Mitchell, David and McRuer, Robert
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Description:: Given the increased public enthusiasm for the genres of Horror and Science Fiction, as well as the renewed and ever-evolving interest in indie horror films (propelling them into the mainstream), there is a noticeable increase of public eagerness to consume films that toy with the ideas of anxiety...
Author:: AlFares, Fawwaz Abdullah
Keyword:: Disability, Gender, Science Fiction, Queerness, Horror, and Film
GW Unit:: English
Degree:: M.A.
Advisor:: Mitchell, David T. and Cook, Patrick
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Description:: This dissertation relies on scholarship on Saudi Arabia, as well as feminist and postcolonial theory, to explore how representations of Saudi women are constructed and deployed in the political sphere in both Saudi Arabia and the United States. It argues that these representations form the basis...
Author:: Al Haydar, Tariq Abdulmohsin
Keyword:: Saudi, Culture, Women, American, Nation-State, and Gender
GW Unit:: English
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Daiya, Kavita and McAlister, Melani
Committee Member(s):: Moshenberg, Dan, Khoury, Dina, James, Jennifer, and McAleavey, David
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

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