Thesiss

An urgent agenda for human-computer interaction is to prioritize inclusiveness. Within that agenda, researchers are devoting attention to subculture practices that operate outside of the HCI mainstream to counter prevailing, sometimes harmful, mainstream viewpoints. However, by …

This dissertation delineates the intersections of transgression, law, inclusion and exclusion, self and Other, in Farid al-Din Attar Nishapuri's (1145-1221) treatment of class, gender, sexuality, and religion. I examine four sets of love stories that Attar used in his writings t…