The Partition of the Indian subcontinent – into India and Pakistan in 1947 – was one of the crucial moments marking the break between the colonial and postcolonial era. My project is invested in exploring the Partition not merely in terms of the events of August 1947, but as an …
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The distinctiveness of this study lies in its being the first attempt to thoroughly examine the entire oeuvre of Dalia Ravikovitch--the 1998 Israel Prize laureate--by offering a reading that combines psychoanalysis, feminist theory, and trauma studies. The dissertation contains …
This project centres on the continuing relevance of the 1947 Partition of India in texts that engage with the national landscape of Pakistan. This approach proposes that Partition cannot be understood outside of a discussion of Pakistan, as Partition emerged through demands for …
Dick Grayson, also known as Nightwing and Batman’s first Robin, is an important but largely unexplored character within the Batman mythos in DC Comics. There has been much scholarship done on Batman, however, this scholarship fails to address the importance of Dick Grayson. This…
Three operas—and really, the heroines of three operas—take center stage in this dissertation: Charles Gounod’s Faust (1859), Ambroise Thomas’s Hamlet (1868), and Jules Massenet’s Werther (1892). I examine the representation of women’s trauma and suffering in each of these works …