In this project the status of literary artifacts in Edward Said’s theory and reading practice and his correlating conceptualization of agency is investigated. Previous scholars have identified an irreconcilable tension in Said’s ...read more
My dissertation explores the functions of chiasmus in Henry James's works. Focusing on The Portrait of a Lady (1880-81/1908), I will argue that James uses chiasmus at phrase level to ...read more
This PhD project has focused on a group of sketches, which were popular throughout Europe around 1840. The sketches, bearing titles like "les Français peints par eux-mêmes" and "Los Españoles ...read more
Historiography begins with narrations of the ancient Greek historians Herodotos and Thucydides on the Persian and Peloponnesian Wars, and subsequent historians tend to share their preoccupation with great actors of ...read more
Throughout Hindu imagery, we are confronted with demons dying at the hands of merciless goddesses. From the pan-Indian to the local level, this battle of the eternal adversaries endures, albeit ...read more
This postdoctoral project focuses on representations of Holocaust memory by authors of the second and third generations, and examines more precisely how the body serves as a vector for memories of ...read more
While Joan of Arc has been widely acknowledged as the patron saint of the suffrage movement, the influence of Boadicea on the movement has been largely unexplored. Boadicea, the historical Celtic warrior ...read more