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Dear Reader, Good Sir: Birth of the Novel in Nineteenth-Century Bengal

Bhattacharya, Sunayani (University of Oregon, 2017-09-27)

My dissertation traces the formation and growth of the reader of the Bengali novel in nineteenth century Bengal through a close study of the writings by Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay that comment on—and respond to—both the ...
From Harem Girls to Jihadis: The Depiction of Muslim Women in Hollywood

Moghaddami, Maryam (University of Oregon, 2022)

Think Muslims in films or television and you may recall Tasneem Qureishi from Homeland or, more recently, Nadia Ali from Bodyguard. Or you may recall a completely different Muslim woman (if you even can come up with one). ...
Funny Business: Women Comedians and the Political Economy of Hollywood Sexism

Martinez, Diana (University of Oregon, 2017-09-27)

In the last five years there has been great public interest in Hollywood’s “gender problem,” namely its unequal representation of women in key creative roles such as director, producer, and studio head. Yet, in the long ...
Hear Me Out: Remediating Bodies through Digital Voices

Pang, Aidan (University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)

This dissertation examines the issue of vocal “ability” where “passing”—as male, as white, as straight, or as abled—is a site of daily conflict for many people whose voices belie their marginalized identities. This disparity ...
Postcolonial Cli-Fi: Advocacy and the Novel Form in the Anthropocene

Rochester, Rachel (University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)

Through the filters of postcolonial theory, environmental humanities, and digital humanities, this project considers the capabilities and limitations of novels to galvanize action in response to environmental crises. My ...
Primitivism and Contemporary Popular Cinema

Norton, Steven (University of Oregon, 2016-02-23)

This dissertation is a postcolonial analysis of four films: The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980), Dances with Wolves (1990), The Last Samurai (2003), and Avatar (2009). While previous scholarship has identified the Eurocentric ...
Ruling Aesthetics: Intermediality, Media Modernity and Early Thai Cinema (1868-1942)

Chunsaengchan, Palita (University of Oregon, 2020-09-24)

My dissertation investigates the unexplored connections among cinema, prose and poetry in Thai history, extending from the period of the reign of King Chulalongkorn (1868-1910) through the decade following the Siamese ...
The End of Modernity: Temporalities of Nation, Indigeneity, and the Anthropocene in the Contemporary Independent Cinema of the Philippines

Garcia, Rogelio Jr (University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)

This dissertation argues that the multiple temporalities of the subaltern, the indigenous, and the Anthropocene operate as critique against the homogenous developmental time of the postcolonial nation as constructed by the ...
The Melodramatics of Turkish Modernity: Vurun Kahpeye [Strike the Slut] and its Cinematic Afterlife

Germen, Baran (University of Oregon, 2019-01-11)

Proposing melodrama as an aesthetics of victimhood, my dissertation examines the intermedial itineraries of notable feminist Halide Edib’s Vurun Kahpeye [Strike the Slut]. Originally serialized in 1923 and published as a ...