ICLS Class of 2021 Senior Theses
We are pleased to announce The Institute for Comparative Literature and Society Class of 2021 Senior Theses
Simone Advaney (MedHum)
Title: ÒChoice,Ó Constraint, Competency, and Consent: An Examination of Permanent Contraception among the Puerto Rican Community and its Coverage in Academic Literature
Advisor: Rebecca Jordan-Young
Yosan Alemu (CLS)
Title: Fallen Flesh: Blackness, Poetics, and the Measure of the Wor(l)d
Advisor: Neferti Tadiar
Emilie Biggs (CLS)
Title: ÒEngendering Ecstatic PeaceÓ: Inside and Outside the House in Mid-20th Century Thought
Advisor: Thomas Dodman
Gabriel Garon (MedHum)
Title: Needling the Body Politic and the Politics of the Body: Reimagining Care in the Lincoln Detox
Advisor: Nicholas Bartlett
Ali Hassani (CLS)
Title: ÒAre We No Longer A Part of Time?Ó: The Antinomies of Modernity and the ÒOrientÓ in W.G. SebaldÕs ÒAmbros AdelwarthÓ and Tayeb SalihÕs Season of Migration to the North
Advisor: Mark Anderson
Midori Hosoda (MedHum)
Title: Art for Healing: Analyses of Pain and Identity in Performance Poetry by Artists with Sickle Cell Disease
Advisor: Rachel Adams
Nora Kushner Salitan (CLS)
Title: Feminicide in Mexican Federal Law: The Challenges of Legal Remedies for Violence Against Women in a Globalized World
Advisor: Amy Chazkel
Jennifer Lee (CLS)
Title: Cha Hak Kyung or Theresa Cha? The Linguistic Capital of Asian American Studies and the Transpacific Reception of DictŽe
Advisor: Denise Cruz
Liberty Martin (CLS)
Title: St. Alban: A short story and critical afterword
Advisor: Kaiama Glover
Dora O’Neill (CLS)
Title: Migration and Insurgencies in the ÒSemi-Periphery:Ó Tracing Transnational, Diasporic Practices in 1980s Berlin and Paris in the late 2000s
Advisor: Claudia Breger
Coco Ruan (CLS)
Title: Borrowed Strengths and Masked Anxieties — Female Homosociality in Yoshiya Nobuko and Lu YinÕs Prewar and Wartime Writing
Advisor: Tomi Suzuki
Claudia Szaflarski (CLS)
Title: Thinking City Futures: Planning Possibilities in Cyberpunk Fiction
Advisor: Mary Rocco
Zooey Deissler Ziller (CLS)
Title: Discourses of Mourning within Proust’s Ë la recherche du temps perdu
Advisor: Brian O’Keefe
