With its twisty serialized plots, compelling antiheroes, and stylish production, Breaking Bad
has become a signature series for a new golden age of television, in which some premium …

Aesthetic Modernism and Masculinity in Fascist Italy is an interdisciplinary historical re-
reading of a series of representative texts that complicate our current understanding of the …

The landmark Supreme Court decision in June 2015 legalizing the right to same-sex
marriage marked a major victory in gay and lesbian rights in the United States. Once subject …

Growing up in Birmingham, Alabama, a city that he loved, Jonathan Foster was forced to
come to grips with its reputation for racial violence. In so doing, he began to question how …

At the small liberal arts women's college where I teach, my popular course on the history of
sexuality in America is organized around two pivotal moments of perceived change, the …

There seems to be a more or less tacit agreement among literary scholars that, because
American literature has been clearly the preserve of white male views, genius, and power …

This dissertation focuses on a proposal for the formal modelling of a very specific
phenomenon of political communication usually called``dogwhistles''. A secondary …

This dissertation examines how historical events and representation of those events relative
to the wider historical context have allowed the media, opinion setters, and the ordinary …

Every day millions of children attend school and overhear homophobic epithets, experience
bullying and harassment, and feel ostracized from classroom discussions regarding their …

This dissertation describes four routine activities—seeing, working, touching, and eating—in
order to develop the concept of a social formation. An effort to elucidate the concept of a …