Thesiss

This research study used hermeneutic phenomenology to explore the lived experience of eighteen participants, who self-identified as having observed an interruptive symbol (image, art piece, song, poem or the like), that impacted the observer in some way. It focused on how the pa…

My dissertation develops a theory of “Multitude Modernism” by examining signal instances of what I call “democratic epiphany” in literary works by writers of color and leftist artists in the 1930s and 1940s, notably Richard Wright, H.T. Tsiang, Zora Neale Hurston, and John Stein…

In this dissertation, I study how ekphrasis illuminates ideas of selfhood and time in Hilda Doolittle’s (H.D.) (1886-1961), Frank O’Hara’s (1926-1966), and Elizabeth Bishop’s (1911-1979) fiction and poetry. I examine the porous boundaries between plastic (and sometimes musical) …