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). ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...