In progress at the University of Michigan and the National Museum of African American
History and Culture, this digital humanities project proposes a virtual writer's house-museum …

In this dissertation, I define documents of urgency as works which bear witness to grave
injustice and demand an immediate response. I examine three of the most compelling …

My project explores the connections between literature and visual art to re-enact and re-
imagine queer bodies of color in liminal spaces or porous passages as a means of …

This dissertation argues that the concept of “home” is a key site for negotiating twentieth-
century anxieties about individual and national identity. Taking up various cultural …

The life of James Arthur Baldwin (1924-1987) is full of mystery, difficulty and problems on the
account of racism and skin color. The racial problems and issues are not associated with …

Identity in this instance is ideological, but it is not viable in the context of African American
culture. The articulation of African American subjectivity in the context of dominant …

This chapter follows two narratives: that of the Thatcher Government and that of the theatrical
companies. With regard to the former, it examines the development of Thatcherism as a …