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This thesis examines issues of female power and influence in sixteenth-century China focusing on how women and their roles were perceived in the changing social environment of the mid-late Ming dynasty. Using aspects of a New Historicist approach, information from contemporary l…

Bringing the Tiger into the Parlor: The Consumption of Exotic Objects in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel considers the ways foreign objects are exotified through consumption and display in the domestic settings of novels by Susan Ferrier, Benjamin Disraeli, William Makepeac…

Through the process of re-framing, re-sampling, and visually cropping, I explore post-vandalism, graffiti art and visual histories embedded in the ethos of surface. The multi-layered surfaces of my paintings reference the tension between the construction and deconstruction of fo…

Glitter is ubiquitous throughout our material world. Likewise, it has become prevalent in works of contemporary art. Despite the growing presence of glitter in recent art, scholars and critics have largely dismissed its significance as a complex material with a variety of signif…