There are many instances in scholarly writing and pop culture in which transgender identity is invoked as a metaphor for the fragmenting, decentering, and virtualizing effects of digital media and technologies, contributing to cultural tropes that imagine transgender people as u…
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Staging the African explores how the practice, production and staged performances of West African-derived dance and the West African dancing body emerged within the context of the West African Independence and African American Liberation Movements of the 1960s. Through the revie…
The state uses public funeral practice and large-scale national mourning as an opportunity to affirm cultural and sexual norms as state values, as evidenced in state and military funerals. My dissertation, "Queering U.S. Public Mourning Practice: Funerals, Performance, and the C…
Each September states and their representatives converge at the United Nations to mount an annual show with a global audience. In international institutions one finds many species of theatre, but that appellation should not be taken pejoratively. Placing the work of the United N…
This dissertation explores the reconfiguration of Syriac Orthodox liturgical tradition among Aramaic-speaking Christian refugees in the Netherlands. Under the pressures of Dutch integration policy and the global politics of secular recognition, the Syriac liturgy is rapidly losi…
A framework of corporeal analysis posits that the physicality of the performer can be construed as a primary analytical parameter in a work. This dissertation seeks to set up such a method of analysis largely through anecdata and autoethnography with the aim of eliciting a deepe…
Throughout Billy Graham’s career, the evangelist sought performative manners to ensure that he would not be perceived as another “Elmer Gantry”, or huckster preacher out to win money, fame, and favor. Graham’s intent was to grow a ministry that would form a new performance parad…
This dissertation asks how conceptions of race have informed popular cultural expressions in post-independence Morocco. Further, how have these expressions helped shape Moroccan modernity? What does an analysis of the history of the Gnawa in Morocco tell us about changes in Moro…
This dissertation is an ethnographic and socio-linguistic study of new Egyptian theatre, in which members of a generation coming of age in a time of post-socialist globalization stage questions of identity in alternative dramatic genres and performance spaces to those of progres…