This dissertation is an interdisciplinary study of how some feminists are exploiting the internet to their own political ends and, in doing so, are offering new models of what feminist history and feminist archiving is and does. Journalists, scholars, and others have critiqued t…
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This study explores the terms masculinity and manhood in the novels Moby Dick, Wieland, Uncle Tom’s Cabin and The Heroic Slave among others. The analysis of masculinity in the 19th century American novel will present the different perspectives of what masculinity is, and how it …
According to Lisa Guenther, critical phenomenology is primarily interested in elucidating quasi-transcendental structures, which refer to constitutive mechanisms that shape lived experience. Typically unthematized, structures such as heteronormativity, patriarchy, racism, etc. d…
The complexity of Hélio Oiticica’s Parangolés poses a challenge to art historians. The multiplicity of the Parangolés’ iterations coupled with their unclear history make them hard to define, and consequently hard to put in dialogue with other aesthetic practices. As a performanc…
The Stonewall Uprising which began on June 28, 1969 in New York City is seen by many as the watershed moment that launched the national and global LGBTQ+ movement as we know it today. Fifty years later, the University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts sought to commemorate Ston…
Queer history in Baltimore began long before the twentieth century. People who diverged from societal norms of gender and sexuality were always present in Baltimore’s history, and they can be seen through media representations and popular press of the time period. Even when repr…
Black, Muslim, and Gay/Queer Male Allies: An Intersectional Analysis of Men's Gender Justice Activism explores how intersecting privileged and marginalized identities shape men's efforts to reduce gendered oppression. While there is an increasing consensus among feminist scholar…
This thesis examines pain in performance art and, as the subtitle suggests, it addresses notions of bearing witness by examining art practices that cross the boundaries of performance art, social practice, illness, activism, and other forms of confrontation with the male body. B…
This practice-led thesis situates the experimental novella <i>Gaudy Bauble</i> within the context of interdisciplinary approaches to experimentation which cross the arts, humanities, literature and sciences. The novella and thesis develop a queer avant-garde poetics and writing …
This interdisciplinary practice-based thesis interrogates the term ‘operatic’ with particular reference to movement. It thereby aims to extract operatic movement from the practice of opera singers and investigate ways to transfer ‘operaticness’ into the bodies of non-singing per…
Examines the film's camp aethetic and its position in the history of independent film
Between 1924 and 1932 room was made in the German gay and lesbian publication house Radszuweit Verlag for gender expansive topics not having to do with sexuality. Specifically, these new sections and periodicals addressed the experiences of transvestites, the first collective id…
The main objective was to make recommendations that included creating a toolkit that further enhances Queer youth’s inherent power to navigate community organization and government spaces, thereby allowing them to reclaim their spaces by formalizing a third-place through space p…
This dissertation argues that social media constitutes a space for innovation on pre-existing forms of narrative resistance dating back to Chile’s military dictatorship (1973-1990), in which individual and group memory-work became a salient form of resistance. I argue that onlin…
This dissertation examines the relationship between queer geography and gentrification in Atlanta, Georgia. This relationship is intrinsically tied to issues of urban land valuation, sexuality, race, and the material reality of a sprawling urban area. Using data from thirty-five…
Queer people raised in Fundamentalist Evangelical Christianity (FEC) may struggle, or even fail, to integrate their sexuality with their religious upbringing. This phenomenological study looks at the lived experiences of queer people leaving FEC and how leaving has impacted thei…