"Filming Forster focuses upon the challenges of producing film adaptations of five of E.M. Forster's novels. Rather than follow the older comparative approach, which typically damned the film for not being "faithful" to the novel, this project explores the interactive relationsh…
The Modernist Art of Queer Survival explores an archive of modernist archive of modernist literature that conceives survival as a collective enterprise linking lives across boundaries of race, time, class, species, gender, and sexuality. As social Darwinism promoted a selfish, c…
My dissertation examines acts of seeing and looking in the late colonial and newly postcolonial societies of twentieth-century South Asia and Ireland. It argues that such acts are instrumental for maintaining, resisting, and destabilizing the dynamics of power existing between r…
This dissertation concerns the relation of the English female body to national representation in narratives about the British Empire from the mid nineteenth to early twentieth century. Chapters on English fictional and historical writings about the Indian Mutiny of 1857; E. M. F…
Forster and Cavafy were both working out of the tradition of western Hellenism. Hellenism served Forster primarily as a vehicle, for literary expression. He was sensitive to the West's appropriation of Greece, as his early interest in the figure of Gemistos Plethon shows. Cavafy…
A significant aspect of Britain's colonial policy in India was to present itself as an improved and consequently desirable alternative to Muslim imperialism. This political strategy was in harmony with the traditional rivalry between Islam and the West, and Anglo-Indian discours…