In a global asylum system that is increasingly hostile to refugees, queer Middle Eastern refugee narratives undeniably do political work. In this thesis, I examine three overlapping discursive sites—testimony, popular news stories, and memoir—where queer Middle Eastern refugee n…
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There are many instances in scholarly writing and pop culture in which transgender identity is invoked as a metaphor for the fragmenting, decentering, and virtualizing effects of digital media and technologies, contributing to cultural tropes that imagine transgender people as u…
The Book and the Box takes a new approach to understanding the relationship between the rise of television, the history of twentieth century fiction, and the shifting definitions of authorship in the United States during a period in which large media conglomerations began acquir…
Objects and artifacts are potent signs of cultural values, and in popular media they are often used as external signs of racial identity. This dissertation investigates how certain objects and settings come to be identified as characteristic of particular racial groups, and how …
This dissertation employs the method of critical discourse analysis to investigate the relationship among discourse, power, and knowledge in U.S. news coverage of the "honor killing" of Noor Faleh Almaleki. Building upon Western European research on "honor-killing" news coverage…
On December 8, 2009, The New York Times published an article detailing the future plans for an Islamic-related community center and mosque, called Cordoba House, to be built several blocks away from Ground Zero in Manhattan. Several months later, conservative blogger Pamela Gell…
Both loved and loathed, Disney occupies a contested position in contemporary culture. This dissertation argues that examining American audiences' varied and contradictory responses to Disney challenges our most basic assumptions about the roles of media institutions, content and…
The works presented here constitute an examination of the impact of new media technologies (focusing on social media) on the practice of journalism, with an emphasis on integrating empirical and sociological research. The use of a combination of content analysis, interviews and …
The primary focus of this thesis is on representations of Germany and Germans in the sports pages of English newspapers from the mid-1950s to the mid-1990s, when EURO 96 generated press coverage that prompted much comment and criticism, both in England and in Germany. Studies fo…
This thesis is focused on American gay male comics and queer alternative comics. I argue that the field of gay male comics production is dominated by two key genres: gay porno comics and gay ghetto comics. The conventions and characteristics of these genres help to construct and…
This research examines Vietnamese in London, focusing on identity formation and community networks through transnational activities. I argue that ‘the transnational’ is a ‘subset’ of migrant categories, and that Vietnamese transnational identities depend on the measurable activi…
This dissertation asks how comics allow us to rethink the imagination and representation of the world and its inhabitants. I argue that by making questions of translation visible, comics provide tools to rethink world literacies. Rather than utilize comics to create a more unive…
My dissertation project focuses on the history of cybernetics and aesthetics as a key site for the comparative study of cultural exchange between Arabic and American cultures. I argue that the emergence of cybernetics in the post-WWII era provided an infrastructure for a synthes…
Both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have developed diametrically opposed national narratives and identities that are both predicated on the concept of victimization. These narratives have developed into simulacral narratives as the result of the nature of their develo…
The visualization of space has been central to the history of Beirut, which is also a vitally important node in the landscape of Arab media. This study critically examines the historical relationship between media technology and urban space in Beirut to critically reflect on vis…
This thesis examines the mediation of the nation-state as a dimension of the diasporic experience of place. It focuses on the consumption of mass-media about Israel or originating from it by people residing outside of the country. I understand this mediation to take place contin…
Histories of digital media, software, and computing are inseparable from histories of queer and transgender life. Stored in Memory: Recovering Queer and Transgender Life in Software History situates visual media like video glitch art, the computer’s graphical user interface, vid…
This dissertation argues that network television was a vehicle for the promotion and enactment of female intellectualism in the US during the period directly following World War II. Beginning in the late 1940s and throughout the 1950s, network television included among its offer…
This dissertation examines the genealogy and history of the black box in architecture from the late 1940s to the late-1970s, focusing on architects, designers, and artists in the United States. Through an examination of the work of Will Burtin, Pulsa, and Doug Michels this disse…