Master of Arts, The Ohio State University, 1907, Graduate School

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Master of Arts, Miami University, 2024, English

The question of language in the British and French colonial contexts has been deliberated and examined extensively by postcolonial scholars and critical theorists over the course of the twentieth century with the rise of anticolonial and independence movements throughout the Global South. This thesis examines the status of the French language and its evolving legacy in the postcolonial Algerian context from both sides of the Mediterranean through the auto-fictional and autobiographical narratives of Assia Djebar and Leila Sebbar. Their writings are situated within a larger Algerian literary tradition of linguistic intervention and textual strategies that simultaneously displace and repurpose French as a colonial language in an increasingly multilingual and multicultural environment. At the intersection of postcolonial and Francophone studies, this thesis demonstrates how postcolonial articulations of selfhood and linguistic belonging in Algerian women's writing ultimately reject territorial claims over language, challenge the gendering of French and Arabic as maternal/paternal languages, and privilege subaltern memory and oral testimonies to resist historical and colonial erasure through counter-historiographies. This thesis considers the implications of the Francophone perspective on postcolonial engagement with language and identity formation within the context of global literatures in translation.

Committee: Anita Mannur (Committee Chair); Theresa Kulbaga (Committee Member); Mark McKinney (Committee Member) Subjects: Comparative Literature; Gender; Language; Literature; North African Studies

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2019, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures

The subject of this study is contemporary Saudi women's literature and art between 2005 to 2017. In this research, I examine a selection of novels written by Saudi women and paintings composed by Saudi women artists to discuss how women negotiate their individuality, independence and rights to personal decision-making. This research argues that Saudi women have used literature and art to transform the way their society thinks about women. Novelists intertwine love stories, a traditionally taboo topic, with social issues on which there is broad agreement, for example the critique of terrorism, thus hoping to mute criticism. Saudi women artists, on the other hand, focus on portraying women's faces and figures in ways that show emotion and reveal depth of feeling. The key themes in these novels and works of art contribute to the authors' and artists' goals. Both the novels and the paintings focus on depicting some intimate aspects of women's lives in order to create empathy and make their society think differently, thus act differently. This dissertation highlights the importance of including Saudi women's literature and art in discussions of world literature and arts. It contributes to our understanding of Saudi women's shared challenges and seeks to establish that although Saudi women struggle with some sociopolitical issues, as do other women throughout the world, they do not allow these obstacles to prevent them from having open conversations about their position within society. They create conversations by confronting the power structures that women face and using techniques that foster audience engagement. This research was designed to describe Saudi women's concerns as told through their own literary and artistic expressions, in hopes that it may also inspire women in other societies who may share similar social circumstances.

Committee: Johanna Sellman (Advisor) Subjects: Art Criticism; Art History; Comparative Literature; Literature; Middle Eastern Studies; Womens Studies

M.A. (Master of Arts in English), Ohio Dominican University, 2018, English

The Enneagram is an ancient typing system that has experienced a modern revival in 21st-century America. Its practicers use it to explain how people see the world, how they succeed and struggle in relationships, and how one can achieve spiritual growth. This study applies a thorough analysis of the Enneagram to evaluate classic American literary characters Jay Gatsby, Huck Finn, and Jean Louise "Scout" Finch in a new lens. It possesses the same emphasis Enneagram practicers have: how do these characters see the world, how do they succeed and struggle in relationships, and how do they grow?

Committee: Kelsey Squire Ph.D. (Advisor); Martin Brick Ph.D. (Committee Chair); Martin Brick Ph.D. (Other) Subjects: American Literature; Comparative Literature; Literature; Psychology

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 1967, Graduate School

Committee: Not Provided (Other) Subjects: Literature

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2001, Graduate School

Committee: Not Provided (Other) Subjects: Literature

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2015, English

In an age of infinite storytelling possibilities in traditional mediums as well as those heretofore unimagined, Latino narratives are exemplary for their use of intermediality. Intermediality is a way of understanding the relationships between two or more media either within a single text or artifact and/or in two or more texts or artifacts presented in different media. Intermedial storytelling transgresses media boundaries in order to engage both targeted and more diffuse audiences. The twenty-first century has seen the movement of a significant presence of Latinos into the cultural mainstream. Dynamic changes in demographics throughout the United States have served as a catalyst for the creation and development of works by and about Latinos, who have steadily gained recognition for their diverse roles as authors, artists, and ardent consumers of American culture. This demographic growth brings with it the opportunity and the need to study the rich and evolving traditions of Latino narrative, and to situate those traditions in the broader context afforded by Latino cultural production, including Latino contributions to visual culture. Manifold Imaginaries explores intermedial storytelling in literary works, television programs, and graphic narratives by and about Latinos. My analysis uses a working definition of “intermediality” that includes the mention and use of other media within a single text, as well as the ways stories are told and interpreted across media to engage audiences in strategic and transgressive ways that suggest diverse storytelling impulses and representations of Latinos. Thus in the first chapter I posit that Ana Castillo's novel So Far From God can be read as a Latin American telenovela and that, as such, the novel attempts strategic empathetic engagement with audiences familiar with the genre. In a different example, from my second chapter, I examine the 2013 FX television series The Bridge and consider how the show's “e-boo (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Frederick Luis Aldama PhD (Advisor); David Herman PhD (Committee Member); Jared Gardner PhD (Committee Member); Robyn Warhol PhD (Committee Member) Subjects: American Literature; Comparative; Ethnic Studies; Gender Studies; Latin American Studies; Literature

Master of Arts, The Ohio State University, 1971, Graduate School

Committee: Not Provided (Other) Subjects:

Master of Arts, The Ohio State University, 2007, Graduate School

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Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2022, Educational Studies

The internationalization efforts of the United States (U.S.) institutions have resulted in large-scale international branch campuses and overseas representative offices. In this case study, the university's global physical presence will be referred to from hereon as a Gateway Office. This qualitative study investigates a Shanghai Gateway Office (SGO) affiliated with a large U.S. university. The office has fostered a robust global community by cultivating relationships between the home institution and the network abroad. This study employs a conceptual framework comprised of three perspectives to investigate an economically, politically, and culturally significant bi-national organization known as the SGO in the higher education landscape. This study was guided by three sets of research questions in an exploration of how the SGO operates as a bi-national organization affiliated with a U.S. university: (a) how does it negotiate resources within and between the two nations? (b) how does it establish legitimacy within and between the two nations? (c) how does it navigate cultures within and between the two nations? Case study, based on constructivist paradigm, served as the primary methodology. Artifact analysis of office displays, document analysis of the annual report, audit reports, newsletters, and articles about SGO history and leadership; and eight semi-structured interviews with key participants who participated and engaged with the SGO over the past five years, comprise the methods of data collection and analysis. In conjunction with study of artifacts and documents, the data were processed using a narrative inquiry-led restorying approach. To this methodological blueprint, I have added a culturally significant insider perspective by utilizing Chinese concepts such as Guanxi and Mianzi. The case reports and extended discussions provided a rich and nuanced description of the SGO from the bi-national perspective and revealed that, (a) the SGO survives by re (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Tatiana Suspitsyna (Committee Chair); Mark Bender (Committee Member); Penny Pasque (Committee Member) Subjects: Asian Studies; Comparative; Higher Education; International Relations; Organization Theory; Organizational Behavior

BA, Oberlin College, 2018, Comparative Literature

Across the world, capitalist and neoliberal economic policies have trapped communities in chaotic cycles of boom and bust. bell hooks writes about this chaos of connected systems of economic and social domination, “this is what the worship of death looks like.” The aim of this project is to explore points of formal association between popular horror media, or narratives of fear, and the politically unconscious beliefs, dreams, and knowledges of subaltern classes that live and tell stories under a social order that demands either complicity or silence. These narratives of fear demonstrate how certain political discourses are, and have been, culturally unspeakable as collective experiences of trauma and violence. From Argentina, to South Korea, to Japan, studying narratives of fear gives us a point of access to the cultural process of integrating and narrating the previously unspeakable. These examples foreshadow dynamics discernible in modern Western narratives of fear, and thus I propose that the deeply traumatic class violence that underlies neoliberal order is emerging from a condition of unspeakability on a massive scale. To support these claims, I focus my analysis on conventions and tropes of modern horror media, in both narrative and formal terms. Works discussed include Halloween, the Scream franchise, World War Z (the novel), Get Out, Train to Busan and more. Bringing these works, in conversation with ideas from Jameson, Ranciere, and Gramsci, into a Crenshawian intersectional framework, this project presents a hopeful vision of class consciousness by reading horror in a new way.

Committee: Claire Solomon (Advisor); Patrick O'Connor (Advisor); Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón (Committee Member) Subjects: African American Studies; Comparative Literature; Film Studies; Literature; Political Science

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 1966, Graduate School

Committee: Not Provided (Other) Subjects: Literature

BA, Oberlin College, 2015, Comparative Literature

In the semi-biographical Capital Sur (2011), Spanish journalist Eduardo del Campo draws on experimental narrative techniques to portray his home city of Seville as he saw it in the 1990's: a barometer of Spain's social and economic crises. Here I compare modern translation theories to my own partial translation of this novel into English, which I place in the context of the U.S. translation publishing industry. I also show how the historical and cultural context of Seville influence the text's themes—including del Campo's critique of the hegemonic ways that countries such as the United States tend to exoticize Spain's culture.

Committee: Sebastiaan Faber (Advisor); Azita Osanloo (Advisor) Subjects: Communication; Comparative Literature; Composition; History; Intellectual Property; Journalism; Language; Literature; Mass Communications; Modern Literature

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2005, French and Italian

To examine how melancholy has been represented in French writing from the medieval period to the seventeenth century, this dissertation attempts to compare its depiction in literary works with contemporary original medical texts. The historical knowledge of the periods in question is used as a tool in order to seek to understand the literature, or literary discourse, in a fuller way, and to situate it more clearly in the evolving context of both medical and literary practices with respect to the concept of melancholy and its transformation. Melancholy appeared as an illness of the upper-class, and the writers of the thirteenth to the seventeenth century chosen for this study were writing primarily for this particular audience. In chapter one, the study of descriptions of melancholy and related states in the Roman de la rose, as well as fabliaux and nouvelles of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, suggests that humor and divertissement, or entertainment, are indispensable for the good health of human beings. Without them, people risk becoming melancholic. Chapter two explores how Montaigne, through his study of human nature and thanks to melancholy, discovers that mind and body need to be kept together at all times when portraying or studying man. If this is not respected, man can become a “fool,” which can lead to melancholy. Chapter three examines how for Descartes, melancholy is the illness which best represents man's weakness, its seat being the very union of body and soul. In chapter four, I argue that the medical and literary knowledge about melancholy discovered in the first chapters is synthesized in the comedies chosen. The authors studied here use melancholy to understand, define, represent, in other words, to figure human nature, and examine human weaknesses at a deeper level than does any other disease. This illness can be countered by “entertaining” the mind, and consequently can be treated with laughter and entertainment, which prove to be the best (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Sarah-Grace Heller (Advisor) Subjects: