Current research fails to determine the underlying neurological explanations of peripartum mood disorder (PMD) and its many behavioral components. In particular, peripartum anxiety behavior has been found to have increased ...

I base my work on an idea of organized chaos. I make collages that are not meant to be a portrait of each city (as that would imply my power to give cities totalizing definitions), but rather, of my experience of examining ...

L’histoire violente de l’Algérie a toujours été une source de traumatisme chez les générations qui ont vu le jour après l’indépendance du pays en 1962. On peut en trouver l'évidence dans les textes publiés après cette date ...

Homero Aridjis, a Mexican author and environmental activist, explores themes of nature and its destruction in his poems and prose. I focused on a pair of his novels, "La leyenda de los soles" (1993) and "¿En quién piensas ...

Scholars have come to recognize over the last few decades that Apuleius’ novel, the Metamorphoses, must be allowed to enjoy multiple, coexisting interpretations. To that end, I demonstrate how a certain class of allusions, ...

This close reading of the Io episode in Ovid’s Metamorphoses encourages an interdisciplinary dialogue between classical studies and psychology by examining indicators of trauma in the character Io. Unlike previous studies ...

My thesis is a comparative analysis of two life narratives written by opium addicts in the nineteenth century: one from England and one from China. The goal of this thesis is to assess to what extent can writing capture ...

This thesis investigates how teachers in American schools are informed by their own education and experience when teaching students with linguistic varieties different from their own. In order to investigate this, I observed ...

China’s long and vibrant history allows for the longitudinal study of events in order to contextualize and understand certain occurrences. More specifically, it grants a greater understanding of China’s relationship with ...

In her 1978 neo-slave narrative Kindred, Octavia Butler utilizes the science-fiction trope of time travel to allow Dana, a Black woman from the 20th century, to travel to the antebellum South where she both witnesses and ...