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Since taking root in Mexico at the beginning of the twentieth century, cabaret has flourished by enabling artists to communicate socio-political critiques in overt and covert ways to their audiences. Moreover, Mexican cabaret is a unique example of the nation's tolerance of diss…

This dissertation brings a visual culture and queer studies approach to the study of cinema’s role in discourses of belonging in Israel and Occupied Palestine. I argue that cinema and racialized discourses of gender, sexuality and ethno-nationalism play a key role in the denial …

In this paper, I will be exploring narratives of self-disclosing LGBTQIA+ individuals who grew up in the South or have lived here an appropriate amount of time. Through a qualitative approach, I collect stories from individuals utilizing semi-formal and informal interviews as we…

This thesis is an exploration of queer domesticity, queer possibility and intuition in historic house museums. It develops a methodological framework intended to intervene in archival, research, interpretive and institutional practices at these sites. Using the Elfreth’s Alley M…

This project proposes a means of rendering Jungian and post-Jungian anima and animus theories (animix theories) fully queer-compatible as a unified queer archetypal hermeneutic.

Food studies, though important and overflowing with new value and lenses, are still relatively new in academic studies. Even rarer still is the concept of using food studies as the lens through which one performs a literary analysis. This thesis focuses on doing just that. I wil…