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Ephemeral Arrangements: Materiality, Queerness, and Coalition in U. S. Modernist Poetry

Bellew, Paul (University of Oregon, 2014-10-17)

This dissertation searches for a body of queer modernist poetry while at the same time attempting to rework the definition of “queer.” In chapter I, I use a reconceptualization of queerness not as an abstract, theoretical ...
Gender and Time

Burke, Megan (University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)

This dissertation examines how gender and temporality are co-constitutive of one another and what temporalities underlie the actuality of gendered life. I weave together the insights of feminist phenomenology and feminist ...
The 'monstrous Other' speaks: Postsubjectivity and the queering of the normal

Adkins, Roger A., 1973- (University of Oregon, 2010-06)

This dissertation investigates the cultural importance of the "monstrous Other" in postmodern literature, including novels from Sweden, Finland, and the United States. While the theoretical concept of "the Other" is in ...
Queer Kinships and Curious Creatures: Animal Poetics in Literary Modernism

Hoffmann, Eva (University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)

My dissertation brings together prose texts and poetry by four writers and poets, who published in German language at the beginning of the twentieth century: Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929), Franz Kafka (1883-1924), ...
Resistance (Un)Bound: Switching Up BDSM’s Position in Critical Philosophies

Ogawa, Benjamin Ryo (University of Oregon, 2015-06)

This undergraduate honors thesis sets out to explore possible intersections between fields of Feminist, Queer, and Frankfurt School Critical theory and the potential value in reconsidering the critical framework of bodies ...
Signifying the Childish Adult of Horus Gilgamesh’s Awkward Moments of the Children’s Bible

Omuro, Jonathan (University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)

This project focuses on Horus Gilgamesh’s Awkward Moments of the Children’s Bible, Vol. 1 (2013), an adult picture book that parodies the Bible by illustrating biblical scriptures with child unfriendly images of gore, sex, ...
The sound of silence: Educators managing and reproducing heteronormativity in middle schools

Heffernan, Julia I., 1967- (University of Oregon, 2010-12)

Recent national studies indicate that well over three quarters of sexual and gender identity minority high school students are subjected to verbal and physical violence related to their gender identity or sexuality. An ...
The Queer Uncanny: Reframing the Gothic Moving Portrait Through the Discourse of Animation

Oakley, Tess (University of Oregon, 2022)

This paper establishes a new critical term which I call “the discourse of animation” in order to understand the uncanny as a queer sensibility instead of simply a revival of past “primitive” desires or repressed fears, ...