In this cross-cultural study, the author focuses on sites that have historically served as staging grounds for concentrating, displaying and/or broadcasting power--the household, the prison, and the detention and interrogation ...

My first chapter, an outline of the structure of sympathy in Adam Smith, Kant, and Locke, focuses on the philosophical and anthropological relation between sympathy and politics, principally as staged within the early-modern ...

In the period of transition from colony to independent nation-state, texts from both the United States and Bolivia used representations of indigenous peoples for the purposes of independence and nationalism. A comparison ...

In the Spanish Realist Novel, the portrayal of marriage from the female perspective has been one of subordination either through the wife's silence or her sacrificial nature as mother and homemaker. She has been in the ...

This dissertation is a study of the interpretive effects of so-called "clitic doubling" constructions in Spanish. Clitic doubling constructions are those in which a weak pronoun, cliticized to the verb, co-occurs in the ...

This dissertation investigates the language specific versus universal nature of perceptual cues. Perceptual cues to vowel quantity were investigated in a series of cross-linguistic perception experiments with native speakers ...

Sidewalks of Desire: Paradoxes of the Postmodern Flaneur in Contemporary Queer Fiction discusses the concept of the flaneur and analyzes the modes of appropriating this figure as the trope of writing queer sexuality. I ...

This paper is about "The Madeleine Effect," an interactive, multi-media story project, that is an artistic look at ways to incorporate a creative text based story in the linear format style of a novel into the game world. ...

This project brings together theories of media and information, the public sphere and economy to examine novels throughout the eighteenth century in the context of cultural anxieties about the growing social and commercial ...

This study is a comparison of monolingual speech errors made by Korean and English monolingual speakers, monolingual speech errors made by Korean-English bilingual speakers, and bilingual speech errors made by Korean-English ...