Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "Identity"
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Americans on Paper: Identity and Identification in the American Revolution
(2013-10-18)The American Revolution brought with it a crisis of identification. The political divisions that fragmented American society did not distinguish adherents of the two sides in any outward way. Yet the new American governments ... -
Debugging the Digital Self
(2023-05-08)The goal of this project is to make sense of what our increasingly digital world means for what and who we are, and the epistemic and moral implications thereof. In doing so, I present a theory of “digital self-making ... -
Imaginary Lands: Ethnicity, Exoticism, and Narrative in the Ancient Novel
(2013-08-21)This dissertation is centered around two related questions: How does literature contribute to the creation of identity? How does narrative locate individuals in the world? It studies how both individual and ethnic identity ... -
Mapping the Amazon: Territory, Identity, and Modernity in the Literatures of Peru and Brazil (1900-1930)
(2014-06-06)My dissertation proposes a comprehensive study of the politics of representing the Amazonian territory in literature and culture. Using the context of the Amazonian rubber boom (1879-1912) and its aftermaths in Peru and ... -
The Sons of Remus: Memory, Community, and the Construction of Local Identity in Roman Gaul and Spain
(2013-03-05)This dissertation explores the relationship between social memory and the formation of community and individual identities in the Roman provinces of western continental Europe. While contributing to the burgeoning interest ... -
The Dynamic Nature of Leader Identity Development
(2023-06-01)Leadership is complex: at its core, it deals with influencing and developing unique individuals in unique contexts. Equally complex is the construction of leaders’ identities and how they are developed. Existing research ... -
The Voyage and The Grammar of Identity: Imagining Collectivity in the Early Colonial Period
(2022-05-13)In this dissertation, I employ digital corpus analysis, close readings, and analyses of the material book to show that readers—from sixteenth-century Portugal to eighteenth-century Britain and the early nineteenth-century ... -
Who Built Nations in Eurasia? How Writers, Artists, and Professors Shaped Beliefs about National Identity
(2022-06-06)For many, national identity is deeply felt and politically powerful. Yet at the same time, these same peoples may hold ambiguous, agnostic, or even antagonistic views towards national sovereignty. Nationality often exists ... -
Writing Amrika: Literary Encounters with America in Arabic Literature
(2014-10-22)My dissertation, Writing Amrika: Literary Encounters with America in Arabic Literature is an examination of this cross-cultural literary encounter primarily through fictional prose written in Arabic from the beginning of ...