“Queer Correspondence: Form and Femininity in the Long Eighteenth Century” interrogates the role that the epistolary form played in the construction, representation, and discipline of female gender expressions and sexualities across the eighteenth century. Working from the perspectives of queer theory, formal analysis, and literary history, this dissertation argues that...
What does it mean for writing from the former French imperial territories of the Maghreb (Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia) to become Maghrebi literature? How does literature come to count as belonging to or appertaining to a particular place? Today, in the international spheres of the university and the literary market,...