Thesiss

What or who is the modern subject? Are people sovereign, filled with passion, creativity, freedom and autonomy; or are we slaves, robots and automatons forever tied to the chains of civilization? It is very common to critique modernity. From the Frankfurt school to Foucault, man…

This study proposes that Leïla Sebbar and V. S. Naipaul, two widely-read contemporary novelists, intuitively understand Albert Camus' idea of revolt, using it to legitimate their non-essentialized, transcultural models of individual and collective identity. This dissertation vie…

The Specter of Extinction: Environmental Nihilism in British Science Fiction (1800–1945) argues that the history of British science fiction is inextricable from the career of human extinction as a concept. Charting literary depictions of human extinction through the end of the S…

The notion that intellectuals and ideas were primarily responsible for the 1917 Russian Revolution has fallen out of favor, among historians. Taking this historiographical trend into account, this study sought to find some other way to cast the legacy of the group of 1860's Russ…

This thesis theorizes the original concept of technologies of othering , and explores the forms such technologies have taken in the century-long oppression of the Kurds, who constitute the largest stateless nation in the Middle East. The research question asked was: by what meth…