"Beyond Darwin: Race, Sex, and Hereditarian Science in American Literary Naturalism" explores the intersections among science, race, and sex in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literary naturalism. The project traces a cultural history of heredity the means by wh…
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The transition from feudalism to capitalism has undoubtedly been one of the most fruitful and complicated debates amongst economic historians in the 20th and 21st centuries. With the advent of global ecological collapse, there is a necessity to examine and theorize the movement …
In Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton, readers are introduced to a society that operates on strict gender expectations that any given person needs to play within their social status. It is through the characters of Job Legh and Alice Wilson that a naturalist mindset is examined to …
This research is an investigation on how movement practice embedded in the creative process from the very beginning can have a radical effect on the resulting performance. My exploration of the consequences of the use of movement as an integral part of the creative process has b…
The study of American literary naturalism frequently relies on a handful of defining characteristics—plots of decline, aesthetic realism, and an emphasis on the deterministic forces beyond human control, to name a few. These characteristics often play out against the backdrop of…
European assumptions and concerns have impacted the study of Arab musical manuscripts, from Marin Mersenne's earliest investigation in the seventeenth century to early twentieth-century comparative efforts. While topics such as Italian Humanism, Rameau's acoustic theories of sca…