• The Larger Stages: The 'Becoming Minor' of South African Theatres. 

  Planche, Jill

  ABSTRACT The Larger Stages: The Becoming ‘Minor’ of South African Theatres. By Jill Planche South Africa is layered with entangled histories that have created a fragile landscape of ambiguities where fractured memories ...

• The Cinematic Boogeyman: The Folkloric Roots of the Slasher Villain 

  McGuiness, Kevin

  This doctoral thesis complements earlier scholarship by Marina Warner concerning the Boogeyman as a figure representative of monstrosity and otherness by assessing these topics through an interdisciplinary lens. Employing ...

• The European Union and the Politics of Migration: An Interdisciplinary Examination of the Intersections of Migration, Citizenship and Statelessness 

  Williams, Paul

  In 2016, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) recorded that 5,096 people died attempting to cross the Mediterranean from North Africa to Europe. So far this has been the peak in the total number of deaths. ...

• Mediated Masculinities: The Forms of Masculinity in American Genre Film, 1990-1999 

  McDonald, Terrance H.

  This dissertation mobilizes Brinkema's radical formalism (2014) through Deleuze and Spinoza to read masculinities as forms. Specifically, I closely read Western films and masculine crisis films from 1990 to 1999 to map how ...

• A Rhetorical Model of Autism: a Pop Culture Personification of Masculinity in Crisis 

  Matthews, Malcolm

  ABSTRACT In my dissertation, I argue that significant rhetorical mechanisms are at work in the production and consumption of portrayals of autism in literature, TV, and film. My project is driven by a central question: ...

• Deindustrialization and Urban Regeneration: Nietzsche, Activism, and Organically Emergent Forms of Civic Engagement in Windsor/ Detroit 

  Yocom, Grant Kenneth

  The deindustrialization of cities represents a moment of cultural and political weakness and insecurity about what it means to be urban. Specifically, within Windsor and Detroit the traditionally rooted modes of production ...

• Globalization, Postcolonialism, and Science Fiction: Nomadic Transgressions 

  Kurtz, Malisa

  This dissertation seeks to establish science fiction as a critical framework for interrogating contemporary neocolonial structures. Specifically, I examine the ways an emerging subgenre of “postcolonial science fiction” ...

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