My analysis is focused on the visual and sexual politics of the media coverage and public response to the military sex scandal commonly referred to as Abu Ghraib within a neoliberal context. The purpose of this project is to address a gap in current academic scholarship regardin…
This dissertation interrogates the ways in which fashion and the black body were reconceptualized and represented by the artists of the New Negro Movement, particularly in relation to consumption, visibility, performance, and sexuality. The search for self-determination, one of …
This dissertation investigates the relationship between Hollywood's seemingly overnight development into the nation's first mass culture industry and women's roles as industry workers, fans, and social critics in shaping and defining the sexual and racial politics of postwar Ame…
My dissertation investigates representations of interracial desire in South Asian British diasporic literature and film and in neo-imperial narratives of the 'war on terror'. Drawing upon theoretical insights from anti-racist feminism, decolonization and black British cultural s…