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Background: Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma (OSCC) is a life-threating condition accounting for 90% of all cancers in the oral cavity (with the majority of cases affecting the tongue). Early and loco-regionally oral tongue squamous cell carcinoma (OTSCC) is treated with surgical re…

This dissertation explores representations of Jewish women in the sixteenth-century academic drama, interlude, and public theater. The two main archetypal figures of the Jewish I identify, the authoritative matriarch and the alluring virgin daughter, draw on Old Testament figure…

This study examines the contents and the role of the Restoration and eighteenth-century serious dramas that stage the Orient, namely the Muslim Orient. Critics have analyzed the rise and the role of these dramas differently. For instance, Edward Said in Orientalism views Orienta…

This project is a genealogical analysis of democratic performance activism in the USA over the last century. By “democratic performance activism” I refer to those practices whereby artists use theatrical techniques to embody, inflect, or criticize the ideals and realities of Ame…

The early modern period is often associated with the emergence of the autonomous subject and the Protestant triumph of inner faith over outer forms. This dissertation complicates such a trajectory by considering how England's increased contact with Muslim “Turks” around the turn…

As a director and theatre artist, I want my creative work as a storyteller to illuminate myth. The beauty of myth transcends all cultural boundaries by revealing, through the art of storytelling, the universal within the particular, thus illuminating the foundation of our common…